The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28

pensiye one. Put iuto q bucket a pound
or more of alum, and pour gallon or
more of boiling water upon il. Place the
{ ee in such a position that the tips of the
bou h may remain In this solution for
some hours, perhaps over night. Repeat
the process until as msDy boughs are
tipped with crystals as will make the tree
very beautiful; or cut the twigs, crystal
ize them, and fix them again on the
boughs.
HOLIDAY GIFTS.
Among the holiday gifts displayed
this season draperies form a conspicuous
part, and are shown in greai variety, from
those with rich artistic embroidery that
makes them objects de luxe to other sim
pie yet tasteful trifies for people of small
means. Scarfs of soft silk, of Bengal sat-
ins, and gauzes are embroidered or deco
rated with In ter painting TO be used in
easel daaperies, or doubled in n soft mass
on one corner of a cabinet, or on a pict-
ure frame, or on the high OK of q chair
or sofa-not spread out smooth like
tidy. Long, narrow scarfs of plush or
of twilled silk or light India silks, irregu-
larly embroidered are for Dantel scarfs
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each end, or else they are festOoned near
one end, or they drop straight In front as
a valance. A square OF richly emcrOid-
cred cloth In couched work is to be placed
in tie center of a drawing room table
not to cover it entirely-while scarfs for
smaller tables are placed across to hang
down in front and back, making a est for
small pieces of bric-a-brsc, yet are not
large enough to hide all the pretty wood
of the table.
For the dining-roOm are lunch cloths
of white linen, bordered with drawn work
and fringe. Doilies of bolting-c;oth or
of sheer linen are wrought with lustruus
silks in gold or copper colors, in vines or
in solid Oriental block patterns, or else
they have tiny butterflies in natural colors,
or a spray of sea-weed, or flowers here ami
there, bluets, carnations, or daisies. For
the center of the dinner-table are white
linen squares richly embroidered in c0lors
Buffet covers are of white linen, with the
ends In Mexican drasn-work, or with the
Limoges embroidery alone, with cords
held by colored silks in buttOn-hole
stitches. Tray covers, buffet covers, and
seats for the middle of the table are in the
snowy cut work on white linen, with the
pattern button-hole stitched in white silx,
and the spaces between cut out.
Bags increase in variety and beauty,
and are used for touch of color In any
corner or on many pieces of furniture.
There are saddle-bsgs or double bags Of
Bengal satin-to hang as catch-aIls on the
gas jets, and there are bags of quaint stuffs
and rich brocsdes for wall-pOckets, long
knitting bags of plush or painted or EN-
broidered, reticules for fans or purse. bro
eaded bags for an opera-glass, plush bags
for photographs, and large party bags Of
India silk for holding extra things for
evening toileites. Double bags of gay
silk 6llei with orris powder are hung in
a room to give out fragrance. Sachet bags
of white linen with drawn-work and
fringed ends, or painted with flowers, hold
lavender, violet, rose, or heli.rope 20 per-
fume q drawer or chest of linen. Melon
shaped bags of cre.onne or Of India silk
are pretty cstch-aiis Wall pockets iJr