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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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CHRISTMAS GIFTS. 
M ONEY is never too plenty with farm¬ 
ers and It is possible that a few 
hints concerning articles which can be 
made at trifling cost will be acceptable. If 
one can visit a city before beginning the 
work, the expense will be greatly lessened, 
as remnants of plush, silk and ribbons may 
often be bought very cheap. It Is well to 
add some sachet powder and a few sheets 
of wadding to the purchase, with sewing 
silk to match the goods bought, an I a few 
of the little bells and crescents and stars as 
well as tiny silk balls, all of which will be 
found useful. 
There is almost no limit to the different 
ways of decorating thermometer and cal¬ 
endar mounts. A pleasant variety is made 
by having a carpenter make a foundation 
from pine, beveling the edge. The simplest 
decorations are often the prettiest. A few 
autumn leaves with a little cluster of linden 
seeds, finished with a bow of ribbon, are ex¬ 
quisite if artistically arranged. The lovely 
gray pompons made from large thistle 
blooms are also very attractive, but to have 
these one’s thoughts must have been about 
them when it was possible to secure these 
dainty accessories. 
Gilded wish bones, tied with dainty baby 
ribbon, are very pretty to use on a match 
safe mount, using the tin egg shells which 
are found at all fancy stores, to hold tha 
matches. The whole may be suspended by 
a cord tied at the top with a bow and hav¬ 
ing the ends finished with gilded pigeon egg 
shells, or it may have a ring at each corner 
of the top, which is more secure but not so 
pretty. 
Photograph Box.—Have a glass cutter 
cut two pieces of clear glass 734 by 534 
Inches, two which are 734 hy 2)4 and two 
53 4 by 23 4 inches. Bind each piece with 
inch wide picot edged ribbon by holding it 
firmly on the glass, turning the corners so 
that they come together at a neat bias and 
fastening them securely with silk of the 
same shade. Fasten the bottom and side 
pieces together with invisible stitches and 
hinge the cover on in the same way. Paint 
the word “ Portraits,” on a bit of the ribbon 
in fancy letters and lay it diagonally across 
the cover, slipping the ends under the bind¬ 
ing and fastening them. Put a dainty bow 
of the ribbon at the corners and supply a 
loop at the front of the cover for raising it. 
Square boxes made in the same way are 
pretty for handkerchiefs or jewelry. A 
piece of quilted satin should be fitted in the 
bottom when used for such purposes. 
Collar and Cuff Boxes.— It is often puz¬ 
zling to know what to make for one’s men 
friends, but boxes for collars and cuffs are 
not difficult to manufacture and are 
very pretty. For the collar box, cut eight 
pieces of stiff pasteboard 434 inches long and 
2% inches wide. Cut them by a rule so 
that the corners will be exact, for the 
beauty of fancy work is destroyed if it lacks 
neatness of finish. Cover half of the pieces 
with plush and the other half with silk or 
satin of the same or a contrasting shade. 
Lay a piece of wadding over the pasteboard 
before covering and sprinkle it with sachet 
powder. Lay one of the plush-covered 
pieces with its wrong side against one of 
the others and blind-3titch them together. 
Cut four pieces of pasteboard, each 434 
Inches square. Cover one of them with 
plush and two with silk ; the fourth should 
be covered with silesia or linen, as it will 
supply the surface upon which the box will 
rest. Fasten these as you did the side 
pieces. Sew the four oblong pieces to the 
square which is used for the bottom. Be 
careful not to draw the stitches so tightly 
that the sides will draw. Fasten the sides 
together at their upper corners with bows 
of ribbon. Attach the cover to the box 
with ribbon hinges, and arrange ribbons to 
tie the cover to the box in front. Tne 
initial of the owner or his monogram, or 
the word collars may be painted on top of 
the box. A cuff box may be made in the 
same way except that the sides must be 
deeper. 
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When Baby wu tick, we gave her Castorla, 
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A pretty frame to accompany one’s 
photograph is made by first covering paste¬ 
board with plush in the usual way. Before 
sewing on the back take a piece of silk fish 
net (6aru over wine color is a pretty com¬ 
bination), fasten it across the top of the 
mount a little loosely. Draw It back to 
one side like a curtain and catch It invisi¬ 
bly midway between the top and bottom, 
then carry it back the full width and fasten 
the bottom like the top. Paint the name of 
the original of the photograph in fancy let¬ 
ters down the uncovered side, or paint a 
loose spray of forget-me-nots in place of the 
letters. Slip the photograph under the edge 
of the lace. A support for the back may 
be made by covering a whalebone and fas 
teuing it to the lining before It is secured 
to the face of the mount. 
If one paints prettily there is almost no 
limit to the uses to which celluloid may be 
put. Cut a strip five inches long and 134 
inch wide, cut the ends at some pretty 
angle, paint a spray of small flowers on it 
or letter it with “ Merry Christmas,” and 
you have a very dainty and inexpensive 
book-mark. 
Brush broom Holder.— The prettiest 
whisk holder I ever saw came to me one 
Christmas several years ago. It was made 
as follows: Two pieces of very stiff paste¬ 
board were used for foundation, one seven 
Inches across at the top, five at the bottom, 
and five inches long. The other cut in the 
same way, except that the top was rounded 
so that it was seven inches long in the cen¬ 
ter of the back. The back is covered on both 
sides with old-gold silesia. The front is cov¬ 
ered on one side with silesia and on the 
other with old-gold plush. A strip of elec¬ 
tric-blue satin 18 inches long and 534 inches 
deep is sewed together at the selvages, 
lined with crinoline and button-holed with 
yellow silk in 10 rounding scallops, which 
are afterwards cut out. A little design is 
worked in each scallop with the silk. The 
covered boards are laid so that the bottom 
edges are even, and fastened just enough at 
the top so that the satin frill can be put in, 
but with room left to secure it in the In¬ 
terior of the holder out of sight. The satin 
is laid on the back so that the center of a 
scallop is at the top, and it is fastened to 
the board at the corner of each scallop so 
that they lie almost plain against it and do 
not show the back, the fullness being taken 
up by a plait which begins at the corner of 
each scallop and deepens to the bottom, 
where It is fastened low enough down so 
that the fastening is out of sight. The 
frill lies over the front about 23 4 inches in 
the middle and a less distance at the sides. 
A bow of ribbon to match the satin is placed 
on the lower right hand corner after the 
two boards have been blind stitched down 
the side and edged with blue and gold silk 
and chenille cord. It is suspended by a 
ribbon. This would be exceedingly pretty 
if the part which is plush in my holder 
were cut from celluloid. 
The practical housekeeper will no 
doubt prefer a practical gift and the numer¬ 
ous tray cloths, carvers’ cloths and napkins 
are very attractive to her. One can buy the 
linen by the yard and hemstitch it daintily. 
Drawn work inside the hemstitching will 
Increase its beauty with less labor than 
many suppose. 
To hemstitch, cut the linen by a thread 
to the required size. Decide on the depth 
of hem desired and measure twice the depth 
to allow for folding the hem. Draw three, 
four or five threads according to the coarse¬ 
ness of the linen. Fold In the edge of the 
hem to a thread, then fold and baste the 
hem so that the edge just comes to the first 
drawn thread. Thread a needle, secure and 
hide the knot. Take three or four of the 
drawn threads over the needle and draw the 
thread through. Pass under the threads a 
second time, putting the needle through the 
edge of the turned over part of the hem and 
draw the thread through. This completes 
the stitch. If a corner is to be turned, baste 
across the top and down the side of the in¬ 
tersecting row of threads, and cut out a 
square of the cloth, leaving enough margin 
on each side to hold the hem. 
A Traveling Work Basket.— If mad- 
ame likes to have a little of the comfort of 
home accessories when she travels, make a 
work basket for her, which will lie flat in 
the bottom of her trunk or assume a more 
dignified position when my lady pleases. 
Cut two circular pieces from any suitable 
material, from linen to satin or plush, hav¬ 
ing one piece dark and the other light. 
Mine is 15 inches in diameter. Cut a six 
sided piece from stiff pasteboard 534 inches 
in diameter and three inches across each of 
the sides. Put a layer of batting over each 
side of the hexagon, sprinkle liberally with 
sachet powder, and put it exactly In the 
center between the pieces of cloth and 
stitch around it as close to the edge as pos¬ 
sible. Cut six pieces from the pasteboard, 
three inches wide at the base and 634 inches 
at the top, rounding the top a little. Meas¬ 
ure the space which these pieces will re¬ 
quire on the Inside of the basket, laying 
one opposite each sida of the hexagon, and 
indicate the space with a basting ’thread. 
Cut pockets from the material used for lin¬ 
ing for three of the spaces., bind on each edge 
with narrow ribbon. Have them wide 
enough so they can be laid in tiny plaits at 
the bottom and put a piece of elastic 
through the top so as to leave a little frill. 
Put these on alternate sections of the bas¬ 
ket and fasten in pi ice. Take another 
piece of the lining 134 Inch wide and as long 
as one of the spaces. Bind on both edges 
and stitch to one of the sections In such a 
way as to leave a space in the center for 
scissors, and on each side for papers of 
needles. Make a small cushion for one of 
the spaces, and fasten it in place with a 
strap of ribbon with a bow in the center. 
The remaining space should have a little 
pocket in the center for a thimble, with a 
piece of soft flannel on each side for tape 
and darning needles. When the spaces are 
all ready, baste the lining and outside 
neatly together and stitch from the cor¬ 
ners of the central hexagon to the edge of 
the circle, leaving just space for the paste¬ 
board stiffening. Slip these into place and 
bind the circle neatly with ribbon. Fasten 
pieces of ribbon about six inches long to 
each upper corner of each space, tie the two 
which are neighbors all around in neat 
bows, and the flat affair will be drawn up 
into as dainty a work basket as one need 
see. s. A. LITTLE. 
It is said that a woman who has been 
making careful Inquiry as to what kind of 
mothers they are who have been educated 
In the best colleges, reports that nine-tenths 
of their children survive infancy, a remark¬ 
able record, said to be equaled by no other 
class. This is Insufficient, taken by itself, 
but it confirms the common-sense expecta¬ 
tion. Women in the higher schools of our 
time are better instructed than formerly 
in the Item of health, and are required to 
take more physical exercise. 
A “Young Ladies’ Telephone School” 
has been established by the government in 
the city of San Salvador for the purpose of 
training young senoritas for service for the 
American Telephone Company there. This 
is a decided innovation, for work Is not 
considered at all good form by the ladies of 
Salvador, or of the other Southern Repub¬ 
lics. The first graduate of the school, 
Senorita Francisco Montoya, was appoint¬ 
ed telephone and check clerk at a branch 
office in the city a few weeks ago. A local 
newspaper points to this with pride, and 
recommends the young ladies of the Re¬ 
public to “ follow her example.” 
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