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Show i "GAY GADGETS" Associated Newspapers WNU Features. JITTERBUG JOOLERY Lapel lunacies, goofy gadgets, knee-length knecklaces are fun to make out of everything ev-erything and out of nothing and they're fun to wear. Especially helpful when yon date a boy who hoards his con- ice? Make a row of little soldiers with your typewriter across the top of each page. Here's how you make each little soldier. First make a small "o" for the soldier's head; then just beneath it a capital "O" for his body. A capital "W" just beneath the large "O" makes his legs; and capital "X" in the middle of the capital "O" looks like cross straps. A diagonal line () makes a gun on his shoulder. Simple as XYZ, isn't it? Cute, too. SCRAP HAPPY Cut the designs out of any odds and ends of printed cotton materials. Flowers and little lit-tle figures are especially effective. Then paste one at the top of each page of stationery. versation. You can always get him started talking about your jitterbug joolery. Here are some bright ideas. Fish Flies (the kind dad uses when he goes a fishin') make slick lapel gadgets. Plant a miniature cactus in a colorful col-orful celluloid thimble. Hang it on your lapeL Punch a tiny hole in an egg shell; let the egg run out (eat the egg of course) then decorate the egg with a funny face to wear on your lapeL One girl sent us famous radio characters made out of egg shells with yarn hair and funny felt hats. Another Anoth-er girl decorated three eggs to look like Hirohito, Mussolini and Hitler and fitted them into grooves on a cardboard box with the slogan "Buy war stamps and smash these bad eggs." It boosted boost-ed the war stamp sale in her school. LETTERS PERFECT If you're saving all your money for war stamps yon will want to try ont some of these stationery tricks that make plain pad paper look like expensive, individual stationery. sta-tionery. TICKLING THE TYPEWRITER Want a suitable border for the letters let-ters you write to men in the serv- |