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Show Ribbon Bags for Christmas . yf Mi Opera bags, handsome work bags and small ribbon bags that are so welcome with each returning Christmas Christ-mas are more beautiful than ever this year. For the art of weaving ribbons, which amounts to as much as paint-'ng paint-'ng when it comes to picturing flowers, leOms to have reached perfection. Woven and printed Dresden ribbons and the richest brocades are used for the various kinds of bags. The heavy brocades are used ior bags to be carried car-ried on the street, the flowered and gayly striped printed ribbons are chosen chos-en for work bags and the small toilet or vanity bags for carrying powder and powder puff, a small hand mirror, a little square of chamois and all the other little requirements which women wom-en find It necessary to have within easy reach all the time. The colors chosen for hand hags are soft and rich and the flowers shown in raised velvet against a satin background. back-ground. Eggplant and deep royal purple shading into black in the background, back-ground, blossom Into rich American Beauty roses in their natural colorings with dark green shadowy foliage melting melt-ing into the ground. Little rosettes finished with pendant ribbon flowers or little bows are used as a finish. Such a bag ia shown in Figs. 1 and 2. For Fig. 2 a lighter brocade is used, with woven-;n instead of raised flowers. flow-ers. But the design is gorgeous with gold thread woven into the design. The Dag is a trifle smaller and the corners of it are rounded. Narrow satin ribbon in the prevailing color of the bag finishes the sides with loops and furnishes the means of carrying car-rying the bag. Fig. 3 is a work bag made of gay Dresden ribbon with dark stripes sewed . to plain satin ribbon in the same color as the background of the Dresden. This bag is provided witl, a cardboard bottom covered with the ribbon and finished with hangers ol narrow satin ribbon and two rosettea of it. These Dresden and plain satin ribbons are inexpensive but beautiful. Fig. 4 is a very handsome bag in flowered ribbon in which black and gold are the predominating colors with touches of scarlet. It is made on a circular bottom like Fig. 3, but the lengthwise of the ribbon run around the , bag. It is hemmed at the top without a standing ruffle and rosettes of narrow black satin ribbon are set about it, four of them altogether. At the sides flower pendants made of the narrow ribbon hang from full rosettes. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. |