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RERAMIC STUDIO 
SUGGESTONS FOR HOLIDAY NOVELTIES 
PYROGRAPHY 
SUGGESTIONS FOR HOLIDAY NOVELTIES 
Mrs. Maude Crigler- Anderson 
There are occasional calls in studios and a heavy demand 
in stores for low priced art novelties. This is especially 
true in articles required for small gifts. Many desire such 
work whose purses will not allow the usual cost. Your custo- 
mer may have too much artistic taste to purchase the usual 
novelties offered for sale in stores; cheap, shabbily decorated, 
rapidly executed. They demand something good though 
simple, yet at a price so low, one cannot afford to allow the 
time for proper execution. Much less can you afford to send 
out inferior work — for the price mark, which explains all 
things, does not follow it to its destination. Shall you lose 
all such orders, or give something for nothing? Gain the 
desired goal by economizing on the article itself, not 
the execution of the work. Make your novelties. Often the 
cost will not exceed three cents, for those which sell from 
twenty to forty cents in stores, when purchased ready to deco- 
rate. Material is used which would otherwise be wasted. If 
one employs several studio assistants, many idle moments 
may be profitably spent in their preparation — especially true 
when assistants are not sufficiently advanced to execute the 
difficult work of the studio. If one cares to take this up in 
earnest, a small outlay for materials will be necessary to 
begin. 
Purchase a supply of passepartout bindings, rings and leaf 
