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Show Hand-Craft Beads and Trinkets Ebvovovovo"ovoJovovov A MONO women there are those gifted gift-ed with amazingly Ingenious minds, hnd they are. always exercising this gift on the most commonplace materials ma-terials turning them Into things of beauty for themselves, their homes, nnd their friends. Within the Inst j ear or so some one of them discovered-that colored sealing wax might be substituted for pnlnts, and u little lit-tle alcohol llanio for u britdi, and nil sorts of pretty furnishings and trinkets trink-ets made by such simple means. Fadeless Fade-less bouquets, of flowers, fashioned of " paper tajio nnd coated with the wux rf In different colors,, b'loom n Wises, also painted In beautifully blended col- J ors wax providing the color and a flnme providing tho brush. Very handsome beads nnd ornaments are made of tho colored uux. Several Sev-eral colors are used together for making mak-ing them. Tho wax Is softened over a llame and molded round u knitting needle. Drops of melted wax In other colors worked into the bends give the most beautifully blended color effects. ef-fects. These bends ore made In nny shape nnd size desired and strung on small silk cord in the color prevailing in tho beads. Thoy can bo inndn to Batch or harmonize wltii costumea according to individual taste, and each strand may differ from every other strand. Tho necklace shown at the middle of the three pictured Is made. In this way. with Invendcr heads showing Hecks of rose and gold strung on n lavender silk cord. Knots In the cord keep the beads from slipping, slip-ping, nnd the strand Is finished with un oruamont. The necklaces at ench side are made of colored paper and glnss beads. Col-ered Col-ered advertising pages cut from mngu-sines mngu-sines provide the paper, which Is cut Into Jong, slender triangles. The, length of tile bond is governed by the width of the base of the triangle, Placing the Imso of the Irlnngle on a kiHttlng needle, the paper Is wound .tlglith l nnd evenly nround the needle, the pointed end fustened down with I n bit of mucilage. The bentl Is then dipped lu clear shellne, strung on n string, nnd allowed to dry. When a HUfllelenl number of beads have been made they nre strung with very small glnss bends. conmom it vmwH tmnu UNton |