The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-29
For the Coming Christmas.

Some people, wise even in this gen.
Grafton, have been at work all the sum-
ner, because there were times and
places when the bits of embroidery and
hne stitching could be so nicely tucked
in, and it was so comforting to feel that
one had start.
BED SPREAD One of these summer
markings was bed-cOver in scarlet and
white cotton squares, feather-stitch
together with scarlet and white floss.
You know bed-spreads are quite the
fad, nowadays. have been tod they
are made in orange and white, pink
and blue and white, in fact, the indi-
vidual taste can be consulted.
PRETTY Mover a blue lin
ing is spread square of coarse Brus.
sells net, through which runs coarse
strip like insertion. This is threaded
with ribbons, blue in color, ard fringe
Of the ribbon is tied in the edges of the
lace.
BRUSH AND COMB Box "A COM
mon box Of convenient SIZE can be
neatly covered with gray linen and
painted with spray upon The lid.
PAPER WEIGHT.-O of the pref
test paper-weigbts l ever saw was
lovely oval stone, gray-white, upon
which the most exquisite bunch OF for
get-me-nots was painted, and after
wards touched with vanish.
HOMEMADE HANDKERCHIEFs. -
Since fine, linen, lawn handkerchiefs
are again in style, you cannot compli-
nent friend more than by hemstitch-
Ing or drawing his or her initial, and
putting your own dainty work upon the
gift.
LAUNDRY BAa-Gray linen is al
ways the best material for laundry bags.
Make a yard long and forty inches
wide. Sew up the yard length nine
inches deep at each end and the ends
joined across, seam in the middle. A
towel ring is then slipped over the
opening, and the ribbons to hang it by
are tied to the ring. A border braided
In red or outline work in red floss upon
the linen is suitable decoration.
APRoNs.-Don't imagine aprons are
unwelcome gifts. Here you are mis-
taken. No one ever had too many
aprons. Here are some beauties. A
pTctIy lawn upIOu 10 tiiiuthcu WIFI Wluc
lace set in to form points. A ribbon
threaded beading forms the headings,
and hounce of lace is on the bottom of
the apron. The top is shirred on cords.
A bib can be added. The strings and
bow are of ribbon. A pink batiste apron
has five-inch lace ruffle about it, it
being rounded at the corners. The top
10 turned over an inch deep, and is
shirred four times over cord The
strings are of pink ribbon. A fine
white apron is edged with lace, and has
three rows of insertion with tiny bands
between, feather-sttched with white
cotton. The top is cut to point up
ward. Rows Of insertion are set in and
the space between tucked to make it
small enough to fit the waist. Bow
and partial belt Of ribbon.
PILLow-sHAM RACK. - This was
what Philip gave his mother some Two
years since. 1t still hangs beside her
bed, although mother utilizes it in other
ways since pillow-shams are no longer
used 30 generally. 1t was a piece cut
from an old broom-handle and
smoothed down, painted rich, dark
brown, and tied up with brown and
gold ribbons so that it would hang on
the wall by mothers bed. do not
think she will ever consent to its re-
moval. 1t seems to have its own mes
sage of love-. @. H., in Woman
kind.