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Show I HOME MADE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS Pretty Cap for Christmas Boudoir or breakfast caps are among the pretty luxuries that women delight In and every year at holiday time they flourish anew. It seems that they are more captivating than ever this year and It Is certain they were never shown la so great a variety of designs. There Is no end to the original and beautiful combinations of ribbon aud lace and tiny flowers, made of ribbon or chiffon, chif-fon, that go to make up this most fanciful headwear. Two of the prettiest of the new caps are shown in the picture and it is evident evi-dent that they are easy to make. At the top a cream-colored, silk lace is made into a small puff which Is merely mere-ly a circular piece gathered about the edge to fit over the top of the head. A frill of the same lace is sewed to the puff. Over this little lace cap a shaped piece made of ribbon or silk or satin Is slipped. It Is made of two pieces wide at the top and narrowing to a bridle under the chin, and is lined with silk. A narrow, corded piping finishes the edges, set between the out- side anil the lining. The bridle fastens with snap fasteners under a prim little bow of two loops. Millinery flowers are tacked on at the sides. The cap below is made of two wheels of fine net joined by a gathered band of satin ribbon, about five inches wide. The wheels are made of straight strips of net shirred together and edged with narrow val lace. This lace extends ex-tends around the cap. Baby ribbon is gathered and set about the wheels where the strips of net join and inside the lace edging. At the back a bow with long loops and ends is made of narrow ribbon matching match-ing the cap in color. Set for My Lady's Desk Just how attractive a desk set may be when it Is made of heavy, delft-blue delft-blue paper and ornamented with white flowers and black foliage, may be gathered gath-ered from the picture above. An oblong the size of an ordinary desk blotter is provided with two pockets extending across each end. They are fastened to it by means of black pa.s.sopnrtout binding which extends ex-tends along oil sides of the oblong. Two smaller oblongs are cut from the heavy blue paper, to cover an address book and two white blotters. Narrow blue satin ribbon Is used for fastening the leaves of the address book to its cover, and the two blotters to their cover. Then the covers are lettered. The flowers nnd foliage are cut from printed paper napkins and pasted down. They look exactly like stencil painting. This is n convenient and pretty set, which costs next to nothing to make. Pretty Table Decorations Table decorations ought to come in for much attention as Christmas gifts this year, for there is a fad for artificial arti-ficial flowers as centerpieces. And the dining room is not the only one boasting boast-ing beautiful touches of color in wonderfully won-derfully life-like flowers made of ribbon rib-bon or paper or bought from the milliner. mil-liner. As n centerpiece for a luncheon table ta-ble a little basket of ribbon roses srts In the midst of rose petals scattered over the cloth. Each rose petal, made of satin ribbon, Is a tiny sachet. In the picture three chrysanthemums are shown with sprays of preserved maidenhair ferns. These chrysanthemums chrysanthe-mums are in yellow and saffron colorings color-ings and are made of paper. They have wire stems wound with green fell-, k paper. At a little distauce they cannot '?e from the gorgeous real flower. At the right a small dark willow basket bears asparagus fern and a half-blown half-blown rose, together with two buds made of satin ribbon. This is the most elegant of artificial flowers for the table. A basket made of rose petals and a lace paper doily is shown at the bottom of the picture. The foundation is of pasteboard, with a handle of green silk-covered wire. The petals, which may be of either satin ribbon or paper, are glued to the foundation, which is a circular piece of cardboard. Millinery rose foliage and two buds either of paper or satin ribbon trail over the handle. The heart of every housekeeper will rejoice over such gifts as these. Gifts Every VVoman Likes A lemonade and a water server are among the pretty and easily made gifts that every woman will like to receive. ' At the top of the picture above, an attractive lemonade server is made of an ordinary set of tin muffin rings, to which the tinsmith has added a handle. han-dle. The server Is painted with white or blue or other colored paint and al- lowed to dry. Flowers or leaves cut from printed paper napkins are then glued to It at each corner, at the sides and along the center. Finally a coat of shellac is brushed all over the server. When this dries the server is ready for a set of thin glasses. A small basket makes tile water server, which carries a water bottle with a glass turned over its neck. The basket is first painted white and allowed al-lowed to dry. Then it is decorated witli a festoon of roses and leaves made of white sealing wax and tinted with paints the roses pink and the foliage green. Finally the basket Is varnished with shellac. Neckwear for Gifts Here are two pieces of neckwear made of ribbon. One of them is a generous scarf made of wide mole-gray satin ribbon, with stripes in brilliant colors running run-ning along the center At the front of the neck there Is a bow of plain, gray 1 1 ' satin ribliun narrower thun the othCk The scarf fastens with snap fasteners and is fliiis'hed with gray silk tassels. At the riL'bt a ribhon niiT is mnde of wide sntin ribbon. It is laid in double box ptrtils and sewed to a ner-kband stifTenf-d with crinoline. It fnfltena under a tie of velvet rlbboo. |