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Show Home-Made Christmas j j Presents X Pretty, G?fts That You Can Make for Your X Friends at Slight Expense By JULIA BOTTOMLEY I A Novelty in Pans I . I Home-Made Toys WW wi if -V v - i " X - x - t "J I -l M 1 V Small palm-leaf fans, all decked out with pretty furbelows are among the novelties that have been brought out for Christmas gifts. These fans are first painted any desired color and then varnished. Then the edge Is bound with ribbon having a picot edge or with gold or silver braid or other fancy binding. A spray of millinery mil-linery flowers is tied against the handle, han-dle, on one side of the fan, and the handle wound with ribbon that is tied in a bow below the flowers. Or flowers flow-ers may be painted on the fan or made with sealing wax, as in the fan pictured pic-tured here. This sample is bound with silver braid and has a long tassel of silver tinsel besides a ribbon bow on the handle. It is pretty in turquoise blue, rose color, red, etc., with ribbon and flowers in colors that harmonize, and is easy to make at home. The perennial rag doll that appears ibis year is made of any ribbed goods as a ribbed stocking tinted pink. It is cut out by a pattern,, sewed and stuffed with cotton. The face and hair are the result of red, black and I white water color. The doll is then dressed up in blue cotton crepe and a blue stocking cap. A ball made from scraps of velvet Is a fine gift for a very little boy. It takes twelve pieces, m-isnring three inches across at their widest part to make it. They are sewed together, leaving an opening for stuffing with cotton, and the brighter the colors used the betler. Gifts Made of Paper A Fad for Flowers N , I ' 1 f j-H-i "'r T"J-". 'i i I At - There is a fad for artificial flowers to be used instead of natural flowers for household decoration just now and every home-loving woman will be sure to enjoy a gift of this kind. Small garden roses, nasturtiums and chrysanthemums chrys-anthemums are great favorites and these particular (lowers are cleverly made. They appear in baskets and vases as shown above and make a charming Christmas gift. Among inexpensive gifts that are at the same time elegant and worth while there are many little convenient conven-ient articles made of prettily colored, heavy paper. Telephone anc! laundry lists, small portfolios, envelopes in which to place memoranda, tc, are among them. Two articles made of bright blue mottled paper are shown in the picture. The envelope for recipes rec-ipes is made by folding a straight s-trip of the paper into a pocket and flap. The sides of the pocket are Tastened down with little bows of blue ribbon and the flap Is ornamented with a painted spray of flowers in pink. The lettering is done in black. A long strip of the same paper folded fold-ed over at each end carries one or more sheets of white paper on which a tehhone list is to be written. Small white squares outlined with black ornament or-nament it and suggest that this is a man's list. It is tied with a bow of blue ribbon at the top. i I Pretty Gift Cushions Little Wall Pockets Cushions were never so numerous or so beautiful within the memory of the oldest gift seeker as they are now. They are made for chairs, window seats, lounges, couches and the floor, of all sorts of cheerful materials. Here is a handsome specimen in which brocaded bro-caded and plain satiu ribbon are used and embellished with satin-covered cord and a cluster of roses and leavei" made of satin ribbon. "' x v s $ Christmas Slippers t N " X f ,3 d'vr two prutry v;ill pocki'ts to hniis lit'S-i.a? or on the tlri-wsing t:ih!e. iviitly lo hold wlintevor tlii'ir owners choose to put in them. Disks of Ciirtl-hounl Ciirtl-hounl covereil with jiiiyly printed rib-lion rib-lion make the frivolous ;nid duinty Koket nt the left, iind it is suspended by plain sniin rihbon th;it ends in small hows (it the sides. At the rljrht iwo heart-shaped pieces of cardboard fire covered smoothly with red satin and fastened together. The edtxes are finished with narrow pufliiig of rihbon, and the same ribbon serves to sus- i pend the pocket. This smooth and matter-of-fact affair is evidently in- I tended as gift for a man. Two hearts with tuit a single pocket tire 1 .(tiite meaningful. But one might use ' diamond, a spade or even a club to tuake a similar pocket, and anyone of them will hold a deck of cards, score cards, pencils and such things, or pins, j needles and thread for a bachelor, At the top is a gay little pair of ribbon slippers for the young girl. In the center there are eiderdown bedroom slippers for any member of the family, and just below a pair of satin bootees for baby, lined with plush or eiderdown and bordered with fur. At the bottom is a pair o( handsome bedroom slippers made of ribbon that will delight any wormi- |