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Show raQ)Lat are made C Jat Home p BHHHHHHaK S!f9?Hk HwHvHvHvJIHvHvHvHhLH HtHHHHHjHHHHwl My , )My'pHjMHMMteHj -jJ SINCE the fad for artificial fruits and flowers, used in dccoratlvo furnishings, Is growing, it Is worth whllo to learn how these pretty things arc mnde. Tho work, like other fancy-work, fancy-work, is more of a recreation than n task and puts bits of finery for tho house within reach of every one, besides be-sides allowing refreshing changes. In tho group of smnll furnishings pictured pic-tured nbove thcro aro two baskets mndo of paper rope ono filled with fruit nnd ono with flowers, both of them as lovely as those the shops havo to offer. At the bottom of the group n little telephone record book Is shown, mndo of black oilcloth and decorated with flowers, painted on with cither oil paints or scaling wax, and above It cardboard and tin boxes lacquered and decorated in the same way. Hu' The fruits, which may be M.H Jt any sort of basket or suitable diiH quire wire, crepe paper nnd SHr sealing wax for making them. igH0' f of cotton, wool batting or crPBetB""1 rolled Into the right size and finJH to a wlro stem, are cocred wlthkHsus ed scaling wnx, which Is drlnnolH the them ns It melts. They are tHV about to round them, the sIumB trolled whllo tho hot Is pllaoltHfclnl dipped In wnAar to cool them. sHL aro mndo by winding the lreBml strips of green crepe paKt or tHl ' paper. The gropes are mnde In siHfi d and .purple bunches In the m&H""" color tones. The small nppk-i reH two or three colors. After thetSJPfj mndo In ono color, and cooledfcHnli wiped dry and hits of other teHl droupped on It nnd blended InoH the small alcohol or other flamj jH for melting the wnx. H , Paper roses, shown In the bmiofBt, tho right, nro mnde In several l, 4 Those pictured of pink crepe paptriHunc merely narrow strips, rolled it JHachi edge and wound about the end tpHTrk wlro stem. They ure fastened to (HL l stem with tlo wire and set la b9J ncry foliage or In follnge bouibt tL. the paper. Hnv Rlack lacquer Is used for cotciB the tin powder and rouge Lor, andHb orcd wnx for simulating ribbon Hf( flowers on them, and the ielrpbwAf book is merely a length ot black cloth folded nnd painted on one imB"" A black silk cord binds Its learatH tho cover nud serves to suspend It. H"" |