Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-11
Salt gake getuutrat.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER n. 1885
WHAT FAIR HANDS CAN DO.
Pretty Things Young Ladies Can
Make as Holiday Gifts for
Their Friends.

such time as 1 am having gettins
ready for Christmas" remarked society
young lady in the hearing of reportel
Tor the New York Mail and Express. 81
have begun early in order to have plenty
OF time. 1t is not because I have any
trouble in making pretty things fo,
Christmas gifts. It is the pin-money
have to look out for with which to buy
the materials. This year happy idea :
at least 1t seemed to me such--struck ME
1t was to begin early and make fancy
articles and sell them. With the pro-
ceeds l was sure could get more than
double the first outlay for my materials
and SO make enough money to get more
gifts than l could otherwise have done,
and make them much handsomer, too.
l found that there were several places
where one can place such work to be sold,
and the commission charged for selling
is quite small"
What did you make ?" was asked.
:" That is just what l was going to tell
you. l found that a number of nv
friends were at work in the same way,
and among the articles they were max
ing were lamp shades. So made one.
bought lovely bright shade of pink
almost se-colored-surah silk ribbon of
a light quality, and shirred it around the
top, Mother Hubbard fashion, for nv
lamp. The ribbon was about five inches
wide. On the lower and plain edge I
seWed strip of lace the same width as
the ribbon. The lace is cotton, some
thing the style of Oriental lace. The
edge must have ascallop or decided point,
the former being much the prettiest.
Then bought fine embroidery silk, the
shade of the ribbon, and tied it in as a
fringe all around the edge of the
lace. Vi course you can use any shade of
ribbon, as that is merely a matter of
taste. Either pale blue or green is very
pretty, only it must not be, of too heavy a
quality, else the light will not shine
through it sufficiently to give the desired
effect. The material for such shade
costs but very little, yet such such shades
sell for from S. to Sc apiece Then 1
painted most girls know enough about
decorative painting, you know, to paint
flowers at least. What l did next was to
make and paint several ornamental ban
ners for wall decoration. One way to
make these is to paint On piece of silk or
satin and line it, whichis something of an
undertaking, and to buy with it brass
rod and chain and fancy balls to hang at
the bottom of the banner. But instead of
doing this bought good quality of sash
ribbon, both silk and satin (silk is the
best, however, and painted bunch of
flowers in the centre. Then l fringed
out the edge and attached to the whole |
the very lightest banner rod and chain l |
could find. Why you haven't any idea
how much handsomer they are than the
ones made so stiff, and be- |
sides they are much less expensive. A |
white silk banner on which is painted |
pink wild roses is lovely. A pale blue
with purple and yellow pansies and a !
pink one with wild yiolets are also very |
pretty.
Another article the girls are making is |
l bureau set. A very handsome one is
made of a good quality of cream-colored
'crim, with the threads drawn about four
inches from the edge. All across the
ront of the bureau are eleven rows of
yros grain ribbon of orange color, run
,ut and in like darning, and having a
sort of checkerboard effect. All around
he edge of the cover is cream-colored cot
on lace. The lace is rather heavy pat
ern, and this is to be outlined in orange
silk. With the set is a pin-cush-
on to match, made of the rim, the drawn
work with the ribbon not to be exactly
lcross the center, but a little towards
me end. On the other end there should
,e a large bow of orange ribbon.
Around the cushion is lace outlined like
he lace of the bureau cover. Another
pretty as well as useful Christmas gift
or either lady or gentleman is blotter
or desk or wiring table use. 1t is made
# two pieces OF ribbon, each four inches
vide and three-eighths of yard long.
The ribbon is used as a cover. Within
his put four sheets of fine blotting
,aper the size of the ribbon and have the
dges pinked. Then put one piece of the
ibbon for the back and another for the
ront, tying them together at one corner
With narrow piece of ribbon. On the
utside or top covering, paint or en-
'roider simple, pretty design of flower
r figure-work and fringe out the free end
f the covering ribbon. An olive ribbon
nth pink wild flowers makes an ex-
remedy pretty blotter covering, as also
oes pink ribbon on which is painted
lue forget-me nots.''