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Show B2W T9 FIAKE I Here Is it chance for all the girl readers of Our Young Toll a pige and I am sure there must bo a great number of them to make branches 'of beautiful artificial floiveis, and all so simply and of such commonplace materials ma-terials that ou will wonder whs the Idea waa not thought of years and years ugo Now the blossoms that sou see. In tho pkttito aio made ot nothing hut egg shells! Think ot It Just pltcen of etg shells liken haphazard from the bieak-fast bieak-fast table and fastened lo a dried twig with sealing vvix' This U something that sou ull cin do nnd enslls Mind Sou the scraps of egg rhell must not be cut loose or broken Into shape Indeed In-deed It sou attempt to fashion the pedis In this in inner you wont meet with iny Miceess nt fill When vou aie teady to go to work first pioiuo a small delicate twig It makes no difference whether It Is a green or a dried one although care should be taken to have It (.laceful lu form and fasten It In a firm p sltlon on sour table near a heap of I roken egg shells Ihen beside these place a llhhted candle and a largo pleco of cullnr; vvix All sou hnvo to do now Is to melt ono end of sour healing wax In the cnndle (lime th n diop some o It on the twig and before it hardens thrust three or four pieces of egg shell Into It, so that these will look like th petals of a lovels white blossom If sou prefer you mis, nfter diopplng the sealing w ix on tho twig, allow It to Inrden, nnd then heat the sharp points of four pieces of egg shell, and slow Is push thev Into the sealing wax Be sure to hold them in position until the wax hardens at,iln or they will droop of their own weight Jsow this Is iractlcalls all there Is to the making of these egg-shell blossoms The test of It, such as the arranging and group-Ins group-Ins of the flowers, Is simply a matter of t iste Do not think for i moment this work icqulies un excrt or evin one having considerable knowledge of flowers, for It does not Evers man woman boy and girl wishing to make these beautiful beauti-ful blossoms mas do so without any difficulty whatever If your serai s of egg shell be nulte Jarre sour bloskoms will lesemble those of the beautiful dogwood, while If fairly small their resemblance to apple ap-ple blorsoms will bo veis striking In fact at a distance of a few feet im Itho spe'tottr these flowers look so much like ie.il ones that ngiln and again I have seen ) cople mistake them for siuli All try then and see whit sou cin do and tho results will both surprise nnd df light sou |