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Show ! FOR GIRLS TO MAKE MAKING HOLIDAY FAVORS. Your busy lingers may make these ijusi before it is time to help stuff the turkey and bake the pumpkin pies (The holiday table needs to be I full, but it also needs to be decorated, i So here are some favors that any girL Jean begin planning today. Caody Pumpkins ! Wrap souir sugar almonds in tissue paper and then bunch them in cotton: : bafing so that this package of sweets I ,)- pumpkin shape. Cover the whole I w ith orange crepe apor, winding It at the top with green rowing silk to make: I the pumpkin atom. Cut a leaf from! Ljfreen crepe papei and paste it near the stem. Stand one at each guest's J I place. An Indian. His body is a fig and his head is a prune lastened to the fig with a Toothpick. Tooth-pick. His legs and arms are made of raisins on toothpicks thrust into his body Fringe a bit of bright c;epe paper to make a feather that you stick1 I in his head with a pin. His face is carved in ihe wrinkled prune with a' sharp pen knife. The Pilgrim Paleface. This pilgrim may stand beside the Indian at each place. Hisl head Is a marshmallow fastened i by a toothpick to two or three other! ' marshmallows lha make his body ! Fop some corn and string the kernels' on fine wire to make his arms and legs. Drops ot melted chocolate willj do tcr his feature.-.-. Make him t tall, 'hat. and a long cape of black crepe j I paper. Making Log Cabins- The very small candy sticks are used 1 ; for this, or if you cannot find them us short, straight twigs. Beside each! plate build the sticks of candy up in log cabin fashion and stick a little American flag in the top. If you use, I the twigs, tie a bonbon to the flag be-I be-I fore you stick It in the cabin, or fill the entire cabin with small candies. Last Minute Favors. Cover candy boxes, snappers, or icei cups with orange crepe paper The ice cups may hold raisins and shelled nuts. 'Hollow rosy apples and fill with rals-, ins. almonds and dates. Even a bow! jof orange ribbon laid on the napkin, w ith a pin to fasten it to the guest's frock, will add to the table's beauty. oo |