The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-19
HOW TO MAKE HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
Hints Of Inexpensive Presents, How to Make and
Where TO Get Them-A w ilsper About
Carriers, Stockings and Corsets.

where 10 Get Them-A w lisper ABOUT
Carriers, Stockings and Corsets.
While the holidays are joyous for the
men and jolly for the children they are
fraught with anxiety for the women,
who not only must anticipate the gas
tronomic wants of the household, but
manufacture and invent something for
everybody, regardless of age or sex.
The larger her connection the greater
her responsibility, and long before the
big cousin with the little mustache and
the new baby nephew have been thought
of poor mother is on the verge of dis
traction. While it is delightful essen
tial that all should be remembered, it is
by no means imperative that the favors
should tax the purse, And for the bene-
fit of those with whom economy is an
urgency the following suggestions are
submitted.
One Of the most effective and inexpen-
sive waste baskets can be devised for
less than so cents. Get a stout peach
basket from your grocer and cover it in
side and outside with any material that
is handy If intended for a room much
used, cover it again with some blue pa
per cambria, stretched on plain, Get
two yards of dotted muslin and have
the inner side put on in gathers and the
outer drapery laid in loose plating
Cover the connection around the brim
with o ruching of blue satin ribbon,
which can be purchased any place for
y cents yard, This design is exceed
ing pretty if the outside is covered with
silk cut in little cores to tit the basket.
Have Swiss tarletan or null lining, and
finish off with a band made of piece
feathers, such as duck, quail, or pea
cock. These baskets are frequently seen
in handsomely furnished libraries. sit
ting-roomS, aud chambers for waste pa.
per or a catch-all for the threads and
tooth-picks that are constantly appear
ing on the carpets. For different style
OF parlor receptaclegeta common paste
board box, such as shirts are sold in,
and after removing the edges roll the
cover in the form Of cylinder lacing
the edges together with piece OF cable
cord. Cut out circular piece for the
bottom and sew it in with the cord. Line
the entire inside and the outside Of the
base with some dark serge or cashmere
Get piece of coarse canvas, work in q
cross-sttcl 4ul border pattern having
different but harmonious colors iorevery
stripe. Use double zephyr as that is the
best for entirely covering the lines of
the canvas 1t will be well to select
black or dark wine color for the back
ground as the busting and sweeping
will tell on light worsteds, Fit this over
the box and finish tue upper and lower
edge with heavy black silk cord. II
desired for little scrap-bag put loop
OF the cord on one side and hang in the
corner near the machine.
For a housewife there are few offer.
ings from friend that will be more ac-
ceptable than sewing-apron. Use grass
linen, duck, or some similar stout goods.
being careful to select a gray or durable
brown, You can buy paper pattern
for l5c with full directions for making
and trimming. For the same tireless
worker two or three dainty dust-caps
will be appreciated. Cut the paper mus.
lin, which should not be Of a light color,
circular, about twelve inches in diane
ter, aud got the edge pinked. Run n
narrow casing two inches from the edge
and gather with fiat elastic.
A dozen kitchen aprons made of
brown Bingham, with bib and button,
will cost 80, and where is the housewife
that will not enthuseP Equally useful is
couple Of holders, wadded, quilted
and bound with good sized loop at
one corner, so as to secure 1t for ironing
day. We have seen a sample of this
kind OF work. The possessor received il
on her wedding day, aud the carefully
applied patches and the darns upon
darns was sufficient evidence that it had
been appreciated
No bathroom is complete in its APP
pointments until there is bracket with
pair Of toilet gloves on it. These ar,
knitted or crocheted with white ever
lasting braid, in mitten shape, larg,
enough to cover mans hand They
cost nothing but the time spent in max
ing them, aud any seven-year-old girl
or boy either, for that matter, can b,
shown how to make them. Ii the friend
ship is sufficiently intimate use the SAME
material and two knitting needles max.
ing q little square or rectangular piec,
of work for washrags. A collar or hand
kerchief bag TO hang near the toilet table
is less suggestive gift and handy
one, too. 1t can be made of graduated
pieces in tidy-cotton, crocheted in the
afghan stitch, decorated aud sewed TO-
gether with scarlet worsted or a cheap
or and equally sorviceable method Is L
crochet IN open work bag to a piece o
silver cardboard about six inches deep
with circumference to suit the tasto
One seen last week had been manufact
ured from pair Of fathers old duel
pantaloons. The bag, which was uset
for holding pieces Of soiled laces, meas
ured some twelve inches in depth, ant
the side cores were bound together witt
scarlet braid
An aiter-dinner apron for lady cal
BIO fashioned from any kind Of fine cot
ton goods rullled with deep embroidery
But these worn with a handsome toilet
when the lady whites away the tim
with some fancy.work, are made OF fin
bobinct heavily darned with floss o
linen thread. The runc is made of th
self same material and n larro satin hny