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Show WHAT FAIR; HASDS CAN DO. Pretty Things Young Ladles Can Make as Holiday Gifts for Their Friends. "Such a time as I am having getting ready for Christmas," remarked a society young lady in the hearing of a reporter for the New York Mail and Express. "I have begun early in order to have plenty of time. It is not because I have any trouble in making pretty things for Christmas gifts. It is the pin-money I have to look out for with which to buy the materials. This year a happy idea at least it seemed to me such struck me. It was to beein early and. make fancy articles and sell them. With the proceeds pro-ceeds I was sure I could get more than double the first outlay for my materials and so make enough money to get more gifts than I could otherwise have done, and make them much handsomer, too. I found that there were several places where one can place such work to be sold, and the commission charged for sellling is quite small." -. " What did you make?" was asked. " That is just what I was going to tell you. I found that a number of my friends were at work in the same way, and among the articles they were making mak-ing were lamp shades. So I made one. I bought a lovely bright shade of pink-almost pink-almost rose-colored surah silk ribbon of a light quality, and shirred it around the top, . Mother Hubbard fashion, for my lamp. The ribbon was about five inches wide. On the lower and plain edge I sewed a strip of lace the same width as the ribbon. The laco is cotton, some-thine some-thine the stvle of Oriental 1 edge must have a scallop or decided point, the former being much the prettiest. Then I bought fine, embroidery silk, the shade of the ribbon, and tied it in as a fringe all around the edge of the lace. Of course you can use any shade of ribbon, as that is : merely a matter of taste. Either pale blue or green is very pretty, only it must not be-of too heaw a quality, else the light will not shine mrougn 11 sumcientiy to give the desired effect. The material for : such a shade costs but very little, yet such such shades sell for from $5 to $6 apiece. Then I painted most girls know enough about decorative painting, you know, to paint flowers at least. What I did next was to make and paint several ornamental banners ban-ners for wall decoration. One way to make these is to paint on a piece of silk or satin and line it, which is something of an undertaking, and to buy with it a brass rod and chain and fancy balls to hang at the bottom of the banner. But instead of doing this I bought a good quality of sash ribbon, both silk and satin (silk is the best, however,) and painted a bunch of 1 flowers in the centre. Then I fringed out the edge and attached to the whole the very lightest banner rod and chain I could find. Why you haven't any idea now mucti Handsomer they are than the old-fashioned ones made so stiff, and besides be-sides they are much less expensive. A white silk banner on whicli is painted pink wild roses is lovely. A pale blue with purple and yellow pansies and a pink one with wild violets are also very pretty. Another article the girls are making is a bureau set. . A very handsome one is made of a good quality of cream-colored scrim, with the threads drawn about four inches from the edge. All across the front of the bureau are eleven rows of gros grain ribbon of orange color, run out and in like darning, and having a sort of checkerboard effect. All around the edge of the cover is cream-colored cotton cot-ton lace. The lace is rather a heavy pattern, pat-tern, and this is to be outlined in orange embroidery silk. With the set is a pin-cushion to match, jnade of the rim, the drawn work with the ribbon not to be exactly across the center, but a little towards on 3 end. On the other end there should be a large bow of orange ribbon. Around the cushion is lace outlined like the lace of the bureau cover. Another pretty as well as useful Christmas gift for either lady or gentleman is a blotter for desk or writing table use. It is made of two pieces of ribbon, each four inches wide and , three-eighths of a yard long. , The ribbon is used as a cover. Within this put four sheets of fine blotting paper the size of the ribbon and have the edges pinked. Then put one piece of the ribbon for the back and another for the front, tying them together at one corner with a narrow piece of ribbon. On the outside or top covering, paint or embroider em-broider a simple, pretty design of flower or figure-work and fringe out the free end of the covering ribbon. An olive ribbon with pink wild flowers makes an extremely ex-tremely pretty blotter covering, as also does a pink ribbon on which is painted blue forget-me nots." |
