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Show Fashionable Handiwork of the Moment from Which the Christmas Gift H Crop Will Be Gathered WOMEN who entertain at cards ar-e now using 011 their card tables most attractive covels of linen, which add! greatly lo tho prettlnes of the fuuetiuu s setting and also have the practical ad- vantage of protecting the white glove of! thi! women from lHiing soiled by the green covert, with which most curd table tops are supplied. Tho linen covers nre made iu any color that accords with the decoration of the room lu which they nre to be used, thut is, they may be light gray linen, darker gray, natural line.11 color, deep tun 01 brown, oven blue und pink linen may be used,1 aud for some Wiry dainty roomt, the ivory! colored linen is possible, but. of cour&e, it must bo kept ivory when laundered, as' for this purpose a whito linen cover is too glaring. The covers are meant to he used with regulation folding card tables ami they uro made exactly to nt the top of the table or to turn under its ."ides just n little.' They an? equipped with curds., whjeh1 iuhj' he tied underneath the t:ili. al,dj there must be a suillcient number of these cords to keep the table covers taut and Straight, au nothing could be more annoy-j jing than lo havo the covers slipping while 1 the g.'iinc is going on. The covers ure embroidered In any way that appeals to the hostess, the fuvonto style of embroidery being the old fashioned fash-ioned cross stitch. The embroidured designs de-signs do not uppear on the cloth ns a whole, but simplv on the corners. There inaj be a device In each coiner or across one corner or on opposite corners. The most popular design for use on thco covers just at present is the double griffin, grif-fin, which is used only 011 one corner, liiu opposite corner in many cases bolng em-bioldcrcd em-bioldcrcd with the monogram of the owner, Otlici women piofer to use onl.v Iheir monograms on these covers, this is a himplu decora lion which has .sutllcieut dignity when done with elaboration to look well on a plco of lincu ueod fur this puipose. Whatever design is used it Is always a dignified one wrought lu lather severe colors, ns the effect should bo more stately and important thau tho designs used for towels or other uohdoirliii'ce. Cross stitch is as popular as over with women who care for handwork, the cni broldenug of towels iu the cross atitch designs being perhaps the most steadily popular of all the cross stitch work New cross stitrh designs arc souiewhiit heavier lluui those which were used last ear. they look quite like tho wool enilnoldcrj ralher than (he cross stitch work that clue sees ou old pieces. Swedish-wenvlug for towels Is a pastime pas-time which a great many women are veiy enthusiastic over jut at present, and 1hc results of this work nre so attractive at-tractive thut all women who have attained at-tained skill in it find their handiwork most acceptable to thalr women frlcndtt. The best grade of huckaback towelliug is used for thh purpose and threads nre drawn and the design vvoven or darned iu with mercerized cotton I bread. The pattern Is worked by weaving the threads in and nut of groups'of the threads of the towel, as is usually done in drawn-work, drawn-work, except that the Swedish tow el weaving j a. simpler process than niu.i ilrawnvvurk, since the newHe pasac di-roclly di-roclly in and out the groups of threads without going back to catch'the groups lightly together. Women who do not care for more fastidious work find that tho Swedish towel work is not ko tiresome tire-some to their ejes ns, the finer sorts of drawn work, hu-e making or Stltchery. A towel of this sort with a hand woven J bonier aud an embroidered monogram Is M a most acceptable gift, while a half dozen M pf these towels may well ho considered JA a alu.ibk as well us most attractive of- Making head obades for chadelabru or H tiny lamps is an attractive pastime of tho H momma which will probably vicld a neh H linn 0 1 of Christmas gifts. Tbu shades H ure made of a network of the Knuds. H huge beads being Interspersed with little H ones to make the design. Wheio tho H strand:, of small besds cross to make tbu H diamond, which h the c!sigu uf many H of these tiny shades, a large head is H I'llhleuod. The slinde is fringed with H heflds round tho bottom and lined with H 1 thin silk or muiinted on a colored paper H xhido or perhaps a ehliTou one. The bend part of the shade constitutes H a flimsy net which must he placed over H another shade, hut when they six prct- H itly made these bead -hndes repay the H trouble they have cost, fof I hey nic ex- H t remedy pretty. Crystal beads in two H .sizes, very small and iho large jewel- H like beads-, are most attractive. . 'itkvv IH may bu Ued over tolqtod liuile-ife pule IH iuk, pale yellow and pale blue nnd they H are ako most attrnotivo ovur t whllv H hade of satlu or chiffou or evdri of white H |
