The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-06
HOMEMADE CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
HALL VASE


|; Among the handsome things for a
han is deep porcelain vase, cylinder
shaped toS hold umbrellas and canes.
Imported ones cost from S25 to 500,
but any one with little taste and in
genuity can make one much prettier to
look at than these expensive ones, and
quite as good sorfar as utility is con-
,cerned, though with only small frae-
.tion of their cost-in dollars and cents.
Take a section ofearthern or stone sew
erage pipe, paint the inside some deli
cate color and the outside some con-
trasting or harmonizing color as suits the
thetaste. French gray, pale blue or green,
afaint blush or cream are good delicate
tints, and deep maroon, black, bronze,
bottle-green, good dark colors. Stand
it with the PROTECTING Joint at The bot
tom and paint y band of seal brown or
black near the top and bottom. After
IT is dry, clt. FROM acretonne handsome
clusters of leaves, flowers or other tlg-
ures and paste HEM on -theSase. When
dry again, cover with one or two coats
Of white varnish. Sometimes a piece OF
chintz cut in artistic fashion is used for
the bordering. The varlish covers the
edges of the figures 81, they appear
smooth andraised as do the ornaments
which are enameled on Chinese ware.
Set the vase in small tin pan which
has been paintedinside'a and outfso that
Il will not rust and which can be easily
emptied and cleaned and you have a
beautiful, useful and very cheap Orna-
ment.
A very pretty box can be made for a
bureau by taking a stiff paper-box u
inches long and three deep; fasten one
side of the lid TO the box, cover and line
with glazed blue muslin. Cover the
muslin with white narrow striped ma
terial; that which is very thin. On the
front and ends near the bottom sew box
pleated satin ribbon, which should be an
inch wide; and sew pleated ribbon on
the edge of the cover. Finish with a
bow fastened in the center on the box,
and loop extending above to open it
with. If you would rather hang it up,
cover the bottom and hang with ribbon.
IANDKERCHIEF-IIOL
A handkerchief-holder that is very
pretty is to take two pieces of card board
six inces square, one for the bottom and
the other for the top, Which is made to
open Ikea portfolio. Take piece of
blue ribbon two inches wide and fifty
inches long; gather both sides, line the
top and bottom with silk, and fasten
them together with the gathered ribbon.
When completed it will look like a port
folio. The ribbon is for the sides and
cardboard for the top and bottom.
F-NPooKEF PHOToGRAPH-HoLDE
Cut a strip of the leather five inches
wide and nine inches long, with one
end in the shape of the lap to an en-
velope; line it with brown silk and bind
with narrow brown ribbon. Fasten to
the straight end of the kid strip of the
brown silk long enough to hold side by
side half as many card photographs as
YOU wish to have the case hold; over
each side of this strip tack inch-wide
brown ribbonlat equal distances, so that
the upper and lower edges of the cards
can be slipped under this ribbon. Cards
can be put on each side of the brown silk,
folded up, the kid cover folded over like
an envelope and tied with narrow rib
bon.