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or crepe paper, but if you use the plain 
white paper sack you can make a dress 
of tissue or crepe paper to put over the 
paper sack. Add a sash with a big bow 
in the back. The stiff paper sack will 
enable her to stand alone. For her bon¬ 
net cut a circle of white tissue paper 
using about three thicknesses of paper; 
it should be about six inches across. 
Using a needle and coarse white thread, 
gather the circle clear around about one- 
half inch from the edge, draw it up care¬ 
fully, and put over the bowl of the pipe, 
turning the edges back to form a frill 
around her face. You can make white 
tissue paper strings or just put a bow of 
white tissue at her throat. 
IIickorynut Dolls. —Choose large 
smooth hickorynuts; with a sharp knife 
whittle the point on the nut down so it 
will form the nose. Paint eyes and 
mouth on it; when dry glue firmly to a 
body made by rolling up a piece of old 
muslin three inches wide, into a roll not 
quite so large around as the nut, and 
sewing it smoothly along the side. Sew 
on tiny rolls for arms. Take a circle of 
muslin about eight inches across, gather 
all round the edge and draw up; slip this 
on the doll body, and draw up. It an¬ 
swers for an underskirt. Now you can 
dress it to represent an old lady by mak¬ 
ing a black dress (either silk or cam¬ 
bric) with a full skirt with plain waist 
and puff sleeves, and then make a white 
kerchief to fold over her shoulders. She 
can have a tiny white apron also, and 
with a pretty frilled cap will make a wel¬ 
come addition to any little girl’s doll 
family. By using fine wire you can make 
a tiny pair of eye-glasses for her, which 
add much interest to her looks. These 
dolls can also be dressed in any style de¬ 
sired. same as any other dolls. 
Clothespin Fairies. —Take a new 
white clothespin with smooth head; on 
it paint a face (or draw with pen and 
ink) on one side. Tut a little glue on 
top and back of head, and press into a 
piece of absorbent cotton. When dry 
remove the extra cotton ; this will leave 
it with a fine head of hair. Now take 
white tissue paper cut in strips half as 
wide as the clothespin is long, and notch 
one side in pretty pattern. This is the 
lower edge of the skirts. Gather the up¬ 
per edge, cut the strips different lengths, 
so that the first skirt you put on will be 
narrow, just fitting around the clothes¬ 
pin nicely, then put on another, making 
it a little fuller. Put on several skirts 
in this way making each one larger 
around until they set out well from the 
pin. Then take pink tissue paper and 
gather a very full skirt, and put on over 
the white ones. Cut a piece of pink paper 
three inches long, 1% inch wide, gather 
on both long sides and put on for a 
waist, tying one gathering thread around 
the neck, and the other around the waist. 
Puff out the fullness for the waist, put a 
belt of gilt paper on to cover the gather 
at the waist. Cut out a crown of the 
gilt paper and put on the hair. Cut out 
arms of white paper and put on puffs of 
pink paper over the upper ends of the 
arms for sleeves, then paste the sleeves to 
the dress waist, and they will look as if 
the sleeves were set into the waist. Next 
cut out two wings from stiff white paper, 
and by bending over the edges where they 
fasten to the doll it is easy to glue them 
in place. Now touch all along the edges 
of the wings and the bottom of the pink 
skirt with mucilage or paste, be very 
careful not to put on but a very little, 
then sprinkle with tinsel. Wherever the 
paste was the tinsel will stick fast and 
THE RURAL 
will sparkle and shine like stars. Sprin¬ 
kle a little on the hair also. Tie a length 
of black thread around the fairy to hang 
her up by and behold a glittering little 
lady who will call forth many cries of 
delight from the children. 
CORA HAMILTON. 
The Turkey Intrenched 
The picture shown herewith is taken 
from the New York Telegram, and will 
show the feelings of many housekeepers 
at Thanksgiving. When it came to talk¬ 
ing turkey it was found that the fine old 
bird was safe behind a pile of money 
—for a well-lined poeketbook was needed 
to get at him. To a farm woman with 
fat poultry always walking about the 
yard, waiting to step into the frying or 
roasting pan, it will be hard to realize 
what a luxury such a bird means to many 
city people in these times of boosted 
prices. 
“ Meatless” and “ Fatless” Days 
The German government has ordered 
that on Monday and Thursday of each 
week no lard, fat or butter shall be used 
in preparing meats, poultry or other 
dishes in any public dining places. Such 
food must be boiled. On Tuesday and 
Friday no meat of any kind except fish, 
can be sold raw or prepared ! The fol¬ 
lowing bill of fare* for a “fatless” day 
was presented at one hotel: 
Consomme. 
Tapioca Soup. 
Fried Eggs with Spinach. 
Boiled Codfish. 
Boiled Beef with Horseradish Sauce. 
Leg of Mutton, Caper Sauce, Vegetables. 
Cold Cuts. 
Caramel Pudding. 
Cheese. 
Here is another for a “meatless” day. 
Bed Cabbage Soup. 
Soup of River Crabs. 
Boiled Fish. 
Fried Eggs with Tomatoes. 
Salmon Croquettes, Mushrooms. 
Spinach, Mashed Potatoes. 
Lobster. 
Fried Sole. 
Mixed Tee Cream, Pastry, Cheese, Coffee. 
As for prices of food here is the bill of 
fare at a Berlin restaurant: 
Potato Soup . 10 cents 
Sago Soup . 10 cents 
Boiled Salmon . 30 cents 
Different kind of fish from 21 to 30 cents 
Rice with Apples with Brown 
Butter . 10 cents 
Mushrooms with Fried Eggs... 10 cents 
Carrots with Potatoes. 14 cents 
Spinach with Fried Eggs. 10 cents 
Succotash. 20 cents 
Salmon with Asparagus. 02 cents 
Stewed Fruit with Dumplings.. 21 cents 
Etc. 
Ephraim’s Christmas Experiment 
(Continued from page 140G.) 
“Those boys o’ your’n roped me in, 
Mainly.” 
Mandy found a seat on a bundle of corn 
while Ephraim held closely to his basket. 
Then for over an hour they watched the 
boys skate. 
Finally Lant said, “Let’s quit, Leon, 
and get off to bed, so we can get up early 
in the morning and get at that corn. If 
we just dig in we can get it all husked 
tomorrow, and then we can have the 
whole barn floor.” 
“Just as easy as pie,” agreed Leon, in 
utter disregard of his sore hand. 
“Yes, and we’ll have time to shin over 
and ask Fred and the girls to come,” 
“and the teacher too,” added Lant. 
“She’s got some skates, and she didn’t go 
home for Christmas.” 
“If it gets too cold for the girls out 
here,” said their mother, “they might 
come in the house and pop corn and 
crack butternuts.” 
Ephraim had been silent while they 
were all preparing to leave the barn. 
Now he spoke up as he fastened the barn 
door. 
“I see by the Record, that they are 
goin’ to hev an expert down to Chateau- 
gay all next week.” 
“Farm?” innocently asked Lant. 
“Naw. Roller skater,” answered his 
father. “A lady that kin do all sorts o’ 
fancy turns, and I was jest a thinkin’ 
—mebbe—’twouhl be a good plan to hook 
up some night an’ take yer ma down to 
see her.” 
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