Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-08

what could be found in the family scrap
bag. The leaves were cut just the size Of
a single page of The Star, folded four
times, and on them Is pasted nearly every
thing pastable. The funny election car
toons are given lots of space; then there
are picture cards of every size and device.
Some of the figures from bright-colored
fashion plates are cut out and pasted on
the page, with house from an illustrated
paper and trees from picture card.
There are several leaves devoted to q
fanciful arrangement of various kinds of
postage stamps. The book has forty pages,
al is sewed through the back with strong
thread, and has cover of slate-colored
drilling, with little Miles name stitched
on it in red silk. / spent nearly an hour
looking at the book after 1t was finished.
and 1 am sure that Mile will be very
happy with 1t.
Another kind Of scrap book has been
made for an old colored aunty, who Ia
learning her letters. 1t Is decidedly unique,
too. 1t Is made on white muslin, and such
a combination of literature and art never
saw before. The girls have cut large let
ters from advertisements In the papers,
and in this way made up the alphabet,
with pictures that have been clipped In
the same way, beside each letter to Illus
sc" and ball for "B." Easy reading les
sons of two or three letters they have Gull
ed from books Of childish nursery rhymes,
and pasted them in with tail and head
Oh SUNDAY school CdrQS- Inc DOCK
has ten pages-nine and half more than
poor old aunty will ever master-and Is
bound like the other in slate-colored drill
ling. For three little motherkins they have
fashioned three dolls. They got together
all the white suede and chamois-skin
gloves they could find and cleaned them
with gasoline. From these they cut cover
ings for doll bodies, the long wrists serv-
ing for the heads and bodies. and the mid
die fingers for legs, while two fingers were
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with wool. Then Portia drew features with
India ink, and the hair was made of yell
low ice wool knit in tufted stitch. They
were ten inches long when ready for their
clothes. which were as dainty and nice as
three pairs of dainty hands could make
them. Scrap bags furnished the material,
and with Dorothy's help the three were
dressed in one evening.
Clothes for the Children.
1 am sure they look enough sight prettier
than the whittled-out wooden peg doll that
Queen Victoria Cherishes as her very dear
est childish treasure. There were four
kicking, Growing babies to be provided for,
and at the request Of the girls / made
them four pairs Of bootees out Of thick
firm broadcloth, from a pattern / have.
They are not SO pretty, but they will keep
Jack Frcst from forty pink toes, and the
scraps LETT from my new gown will never
be missed. Lefty crocheted them each a
zephyr and yarn, and after making balls of
wool wrapped lightly with thread to hold
1t together, she crocheted the covers out Of
the various colored woods, and made tas-
sells for them to swing by.
pair of driving reins was made for a
restless little son of Erin, whose father
was killed in a mine last summer. A piece
OF drilling six inches wide and two yards
and half long was the material. 1t was
folded to an inch wide strip. and stitched
on both edges on the machine. Fourteen
inches of this was cut off and the ends
of the long piece Joined. then two feet
from the doubled end the piece cut of was
set into the strip on each side 80 as to
leave loop at that end for the head to be
thrust through. Portia saved a nickel from
carfare to buy three sleigh bells for 1t.
For this small boys sister, who Is nine
years old and bright little scholar. Rose
made a half dozen handkerchiefs out Of
the sash of a white linen lawn frock Of
hers. The sash had never been laundered
but once and made beautiful handker-
chiefs, neatly stitched in wide hens on
the machine and with tiny initial worked
In one corner. After making them. Rose
Numbered them herself. and / wouldn't be
this little girls mother, who has to make
her living over the wash tub and ironing
board, the girls each made an iron
holder. They cut the smooth tops from
over that several thicknesses Of an old
flannel petticoat and covered them with
blue denim from the scrap bag. loop at
enc corner was to hang II up by.
From the remainder of the flannel skirt
they got lot of nice big pieces fer old Mrs.
Markham, who has an everlasting mis-
cry" in her knees and uses quantities OF
flannel in wrapping them up. A little sick
ly slip of a girl. who cannot play as the
others do, will get a whole family of paper
dolls, painted in water coiors by Lefty and
dressed in crepe paper. For old uncie-but
there! 1 couldn't tell in half day all the
little things the girls have planned to
make, and those they have already made
for their people," as they call them.
Insignificant? Possibly. The intrinsic
value would be small indeed; but IL you
could buy these articles at their money
value and sell them for what they are
worth in tender. loving thoughts, self
denial, earnest application, gentle solicit
tude and genuine love CT humanity, you
would never have to speculate in sugar to
keep the wolf from the door. 1t Is not the
gift, but the giver and fhe spirit that
prompts his remembrance that should
render the present acceptable.
SONORA SARA.