The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-22


MANY pretty and useful articles that arr
fit for Christmas gifts may be made tina
are quite inexpensive, but will show the
good will and remembrance of the giver a:
well as something costly and elaborate, anC
are also within the reach of almost every
one if they have a little time and in
genuity.
A pretty Christmas trifle, new to me
may prove the same to others. The mat
rails are white wadding which comes il
delicate sheets, bit of pasteboard or thicl
paper and green worsted, plain or shaded
1t is mat for flower vase, cheaply ant
easily made. For a small mat, cut circu
lar piece of pasteboard five inches in diam
eter. cover the edge and one side with
bleached scrim or anything white; cut {
piece of the wadding seven inches in diam
eter, work it around the edge in button
hole stitch with the worsted; fasten this
and the covered board together with BLIND
basting, and this is the foundation of the
nat Next, cut thirteen rounds of wad
ding each i've inches in diameter and but
ton hole the edges of all with Worsted
folG one of these pieces fiat through the
centre, from pole TO pole, to borrow geo
graphical bSfHlS. uOW uldhG bll6 DOlCS ulSGl
mot lapI, fasten these poles side by side to
the edge of the foundation with the
worstec, also catch down the centre of the
equator towards the center of the founda-
ton. Lols5n the wrought edges and thus
there q e one within the other two shell S
or Gala cups facing outward. Repeat the
process with the thirteen rounds until all
are ut equal spaces around the edge of the
foundation. forming a cavity within the
I'M which tho will stand
II these directions are followed closely
the Result will be clear and correct. This
makes the oldest, daintest little mat, look
ing in its white and green-llke wax work
besprinkled with young grass, or woodsey
moss, that one can almost smell.
The same idea can be carried out as well
in other sizes, or in squares and other
shapes for lamp mats, etc, and can be fin
ished in other colors, losing, however, the
pretty effect which the greenery gives
Leaving to others who will do it better the
description of many lovely Christmas gifts,
of handiwork or purchase, let me suggest
two or three things which will seem queer,
but which on consideration Will seem ap-
propriate and which the reader may be
glad to use, wondering that he had never
thought of them before.
Give your photograph. chorus OF
startled voices says, "How egotistical.
Well not do that But think. Have you
not some dear friends in other towns or
states whom you do not often see, or others
whose loved faces you cannot see except
in that fair upper country where you hope
to meet? And is it strange but true, that
BY no fault on either side, but by unfortu
nate circumstances, you do not possess
their portraits which would give you COM
fort and pleasure untold, for your own in
SEPARATION and communion, and for showing
to others, saying with love and pride, ''See
my friends'' Very well, now take the
ease home. Y ou think with modesty that
nobody can value your plain Eneaments,
Swallowed forth on piece of paper. o, no.
But l say to you that IL is indeed certain,
lust possible, even highly probable, even if
YOU are not avery distinguished individual,
that some one would regard your photo
graph as one of the choicest, dearest treas
ures in the world, who has perhaps asked
you repeatedly for it, and you have care
lessly said, Eyes indeed, as soon as l have
some taken" And you have forgotten IT.
Now go and sit for your photograph, or
order some new ones printed, or hunt up
one in the house even if it is little bat
tered or anciqnt, and send it straightway
for Christmas present. Then see what
kind of letter you will get in return. You
will have made your friend happy and
found out how much your pictured face is
worth besides.
Give some money LOT Il CuTlSOLldS GOhCll.
SHOW shocking. What i'll TASTE" is the
next chorus 1 hear. True, other things
areusually bestowed, and as rule what
ever is sent or given at Christmas time is
far more acceptable than if it had been
chosen by the recipient, since 1t is the
giver's thought or choice or handiwork.
Yet money instead may be the very best
gift you can make next Christmas to some
one whom you are DESTROYS of remember
i,,r ~ ,,la Rnf he
not guess what may be the most crafty
ing. Not knowing the exact circumstan-
ces of the friend, study as you may upon
the choice of gifts, you cannot decide what
may suit his case. Then do the plainest
thing that proves the best. Send the
money you would have expended, and tell
him t. il vest to suit HIN sell be will get
what he wants and appreciate it.
There are many other occasions also
where money will be the most pleasing and
welcome of any thing. Be you rich or poor
you have some friend more needy than |
yourself He does not expect to have his |
purse replenished at Christmas, and prob
ably expects nogifts at all. You would like |
to both surprise, please and help him with |
a Christmas present. But he IS poor and |
proud none to his discredit He is reti-
cent. You apprehend that he is suffering
some need, but have no means of ascer-
tanning what it is. Now is your time
for sending ''money that answereth all
things" and no offense taken. At tn
peaceful time one does not stand so on GER
emory or on fancied propriety as at other
times, and really one is only sure at
Christmas that one can give money with
out resentment. But no one can refuse a
Christmas present let is be what it will.
Now, don't send nice picture or set Of
iewelry to the woman who does not know
which way to turn for calico dress for
herself, or for her children's supper.
Don't send an elegantly bound volume
containing the single poem illustrated,
80 why should the spirit of mortal be
to the struggling student who
needs new school book or
nair of shoes. Don't present your invalid
friend with gold-headed cane, whose head
and heart are harassed for the where with
ali 10 pay for his last bottle of medicine.
But send money to these people and be
blessed. To be sure, the little silver dime,
Or the tattered dollar bill, OF a post Office
money order for any sum, does not make a
snowy present, but money with real love
md lxindnessi in it sufficeth like the multi
tnde of loayes and fishes besides the sea
Three years ago l knew a Young lady b
who was in great depression at Christina
lime. chronic state it was growing to be.
rhe family was emineptly respectable and !
was not called poor. Nobooy suspected ;
hat the quiet self-denying girl was &C