Show bat arc ar C alty M making some bridge covers ol of colorful rayon you will be d delighted with them one cao can buy rayon S so 0 reasonably nod and it makes up benuta fully bavin having a silken sheen which never loses its luster no matter mailer bow many times it le Is laundered one can work out so many charming color schemes too such as sand with fill peach borders sliver silver gray with lacquer red black with crimson hydrangea with gold also grass green with gold of course isyou if you do not dot care to make them thein you can find them in tile the stores in these thes e very color combinations the main thing about bridge covers Is to be sure that clr are tile the kind that will stay put playing bridge on i table where here the cloth runs away the cards Is not exactly according to leoyle there are arc two ways of making these overs coers so that they will hold secure one way Is to attach tapes by which they can be tied to the table A better way because it Is much ginier however has been discovered that of fastening elastic straps across each corner instead of af tile hie usual tapes attach the strips of elastic across the corner as shown in the and there you tire eiith tit really truly honest tog trump covers trump because these bits afif elastic are the trick that wins iii of nf these covers make a clever bridge prize or christmas gift ti other lovely christmas present or ure to your own bridge party Is tile lamp shade shown in the sketch one was made of a parchment fluell with a novelty check ging gingham liam to in colorings and trimmed with a lir birder der ot of silk in the color of the predominating tone in in the ging gingham lium design until you try out on one 1 e of 0 these shades you liae hae no BO idea how effective it Is alith the light shining through elusively reflecting the colors and design of the lining through the parchment it la Is doubtful if you can buy one of the these e shades but they are very simple to make the ging gingham ham and parchment are glued together and tile the silk points glued on the outside before the shade Is seamed then the whole la is glued together tit in a neat flat but seam scam the best quality of transparent liquid glue should be used thinly spread on the fabric left a second and then glued to the parchment if tills this Is carefully done the glue hlll not the fabric |