American Agriculturist, October 27,1923 
289 
Use Wax For 
Pretty , Inexpensive Gifts 
Making Art 
- Indoor Plant Growing - 
Novelties 
New Patterns 
I F you want something suitable for a 
gift, for home decorations, or as 
means of earning a little pin money, it 
will be hard to find anything better 
than those little articles which are so 
quickly fashioned from sealing wax. 
Indeed even a schoolgirl can safely 
undertake the making of these articles. 
The greatest difficulty lies in the selec¬ 
tion of suitable colors. There must be 
harmony in this work as in anything 
else in the line of art. 
With an eye for color, you can easily 
choose the most suitable. If you want 
a set of beads for a blue dress, for 
instance, select colors which contrast or 
harmonize well with it. Use a little 
foundation of the work and as many 
blue for the decoration or for the 
contrasting colors as desired, making 
your beads gay or decorous as you 
wish. 
Beads, pins, buckles, brooches and 
hatpins are used for personal adorn¬ 
ment. Dainty trays, toilet accessories, 
curtain clips, vases and many other ar¬ 
ticles are turned into things of beauty 
by the aid of a little sealing wax. 
You will need a hot flame, something 
like an alcohol lamp, for melting the 
wax, a small penknife for shaping the 
flowers, a basin of cold water for cool¬ 
ing the wax, and small sticks of wax 
in different shades and colors. 
Have You Seen the New Curtain 
Clips P 
You might start with a pair of cur¬ 
tain clips, which make a good gift or 
can be used in your own home. They 
are also a good article to sell if you 
are interested in the commercial side. 
They bring a good profit at thirty cents 
a pair. 
Use the common snap clothespins for 
the foundation. Paint these a color to 
harmonize with the room they are in¬ 
tended for. If you are doing the work 
in large quantities they may be strung 
on a piece of string and dipped to 
hurry up the work. The paint should 
be thinned a trifle with turpentine if 
you are going to dip them. They must 
be left until entirely dry before begin¬ 
ning the wax decorations. First drop 
three large drops of hot wax at regu¬ 
lar intervals along the side of the pin. 
Use a light shade of the color desired 
for these roses. In center of these put 
one drop of a darker shade, and with the 
point of your knife shape these drops 
FOR THE GROWING GIRL 
A PRETTY dress 
for best or every¬ 
day is No. 1776, 
which is also very 
well adapted to a 
make over. It comes 
in sizes 6, 8, 10 and 
12 years. Size 8 re¬ 
quires 1% yards, 36- 
inch material, with 
114 yard contrast¬ 
ing. Price 12c. 
Order from Pat¬ 
tern Depart ment, 
American Agricul¬ 
turist, 461 4th Ave¬ 
nue, New York City, 
and be sure name, 
address and numbers are clearly written. 
to form a tiny rose in each place. Use 
green to make tiny leaves around the 
roses and your clip is complete. 
Yellow roses on blue paint, pink 
roses on light blue paint, dark red on 
slate, pink on silver or green, maroon 
on champagne, or white on blue or 
black, are some of the many combina¬ 
tions. 
Old Hatpins Made New 
Hatpin ends are quickly covered. 
Take a small ball of wax of the color 
you wish your foundation, and an old 
hatpin. Soften the wax over the hot 
flame and place on the head of the pin. 
Form into any shape desired, and when 
you have it nice and smooth dip it into 
the water to cool. If you have any 
pretty little button, bead or jewel, it 
may be pressed into the top of the 
warm wax before it is cooled and will 
have a perfect setting. 
Now take some contrasting colors 
and after heating a stick, touch lightly 
at different points on the wax founda¬ 
tion with each color. Warm over the 
flame and by turning the ball in differ¬ 
ent directions cause the wax to run 
around over the ball and form odd pat¬ 
terns. If you wish an oriental pin 
to match a blue hat, make a blue 
foundation and touch with silver, gold, 
jade, amber and bronze. As soon as 
the colors have run enough to decorate 
as desired, dip the ball into the cold 
water and harden. 
Other Possibilities for Wax 
Decorations 
If your pin tray is tarnished or old, 
give it a coat of thin hot wax and some 
dainty decorations and see how gay 
your dressing table will look. 
Make a pretty string of beads for 
that dark gown and everyone will won¬ 
der where you got them and want you 
to make them some. 
Use an old knitting needle to make 
beads. Cut off a piece of wax as large 
as you wish the bead and slip it onto 
the pin, which has been heated a trifle 
at the point. Hold the wax over the 
flame until it becomes soft and then 
mold into the shape desired. 
As soon as the bead is the desired 
shape it should be plunged into the cold 
water and hardened. Then decorate 
the same as for hat pins. 
An old brooch and belt buckle might 
be decorated to match a hatpin and a 
string of beads, and form an excep¬ 
tionally pretty and useful gift or make 
your old dress look like a new outfit. 
If you are careful not to get the 
foundation too warm, you can transfer 
an old vase into a thing of oriental 
A PRETTY EVERYDAY APRON 
A 1 
N attractive 
apron design is 
No. 1905, shown in 
the picture in fig¬ 
ured chintz. It is 
becoming as well as 
a protection to the 
dress beneath. No. 
1905, cuts in sizes 
36, 40, 44 and 48 
inches bust measure. 
Size 36 requiring IVz 
yards 36-inch ma¬ 
terial with 6 Vi yards 
binding. Pattern 12c. 
Order from Pat¬ 
tern Depart ment, 
American Agricul¬ 
turist, and if you 
send coins, wrap 
them carefully. 
Stamps are safer. 
Add ten cents if you 
wish the Fall and 
Winter Pattern An¬ 
nual. 
little every day has ruined many a col¬ 
lection. Before feeding be sure the 
plant is in good health, for a sick plant 
will be made sicker by more plant food. 
Neither is it safe to give plant food in 
solution when the soil in the pot is very 
dry, for the plant gets an excess of 
plant food with the extra amount of 
water it will draw up at once. The 
soil should be slightly moist at least. 
Few plants will stand a sour soil, 
and this is sure to result if the sur¬ 
face is kept wet by frequent watering 
even when the ball of soil may be so 
dry as to prevent root action. The best 
way is to soak plants up from below, 
setting the pots in two or three inches 
of water, just deep enough to make it 
come up to the soil over the drainage, 
and not deep enough to fill the soil so 
full of water that it will wash away 
as the water drains out. The soil should 
be soaked by capillary action as in a 
lamp wick, but this will be very slow 
if the water does not reach above 
drainage material, while if the water 
comes up to the rim, water is forced 
up into the soil and this is detrimental. 
For feeding, many prefer prepared 
plant food and should follow’ the di¬ 
rections. Ammonia is a good plant 
food for making foliage deep colored, 
FOR THE LITTLE BOY 
A CUNNING littl e 
suit for a boy is No. 
1123. It has straight 
trousers and a frilled 
waist, though the blouse 
may also be made plain. 
The pattern cuts in 
sizes 2, 4, and 6 years. 
Size 4 taking IVs yards 
36-inch material for 
waist and % yard for 
trousers. Price 12c. 
Order from Pattern 
Department and enclose 
10c extra if you wish 
catalogue. 
and nitrate of soda is another as good. 
Use a teaspoonful of either of these, 
to three pints of water at first and a 
quart later. Once a week is often 
enough and once every ten days at 
first. —Rachael Rae. 
Little girls’ wash dresses were worn 
with belts slipped around. My girls 
continually had the most of the dress 
toward the front. Now, I am cutting 
the belts in two and sewing them at the 
sides, in apron fashion, to keep the 
gathers back. They can be tied at the 
side or in the back. 
What Is This 
Dress Worth? 
Before you guess I want you to know that the 
dress sparkles with richest style—a duplicate in 
design of an expensive Parisian gown at a price 
you will hardly believe possible! 
By Virginia Castleton 
Visualize yourself in this beau¬ 
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touches of gifted French de¬ 
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my personal direction. 
Mannish type collar, 
tiny vestee (button 
trimmed) and cuffs 
of Serge. Soft all 
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with loose tie 
sash. The beau¬ 
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knife pleats all- 
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on all of the 
new impor¬ 
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for perfect fitting to 
types of figures— a 
clever feat of tailoring! 
Even older women may 
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And Now for a 
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ts such elegant style not 
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f postage when it arrives. 
, _ • v , % . - Try it on and then if you 
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Cam Of INTERNATIONAL MAIL ORDER CO. 
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\ FUMof PICTURES 
Made for oil or electricity. Hap 
long reel of pictures, show tick¬ 
ets. posters and full directions. 
money «. Just your name and address. 
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beauty, and as cold water is always 
used for flowers the wax would not be¬ 
come melted. 
It is surprising the many things 
which you will wish to fix up when 
you start doing waxwork. It is also 
surprising the number of your friends 
who will decide to have something of 
theirs fixed if you are willing to do 
it at a reasonable profit. 
A short advertisement should be in¬ 
serted in your local paper if you 
wish to secure orders, or arrange¬ 
ments might be made with a local store 
to exhibit some samples of your work 
and take orders for you.— Lelah 
Fowler. __ 
WATERING AND FEEDING 
H0TJSEPLANTS 
Watering is the most particular job 
about flower growing, and feeding is 
not far behind. Lack of an understand¬ 
ing of either of these is likely to cause 
failure—feeding from too much and 
watering from either too much or too 
little, 
*row good plants and 
3y rule. You have to 
pot of soil and see 
is needed. Dousing a 
You cannot 
water or feed 
examine each 
whether water 
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badness out, and delivers to 
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that has made White House 
Coffee famous. 1-, 3- and 
5-lb. packages only. Never 
in hulk. 
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Principal Coffee Roasters 
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