Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-30
WORK FOR HANDY WOMEN.
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/ Serge sofa blankets are warm anu
/ comfortable for winter uso. They may
ba orpamented with an outline OF APP
! plioue design, and have al ornamental
| edge in wool crochet. The lining may
be of Saline, sIlesia or lining silk.
A novel pin cushion for a young
mans room is made OF couple of 6riar-
wood pipes tied together with ribbon
and the bowls stuffed with velvet or
! satin. the color OF the ribbon. Into
these recepticles the scartpins are
thrust.
Embroidery upon towels should either
( be in white or the color Of the ends.
| Cross stitching Is suitable for fine buck
/ aback, both for initials and monograms.
! Upon fine toweling the satin stitch
/ should be used, and only white is 2d-
missiDle.
Pretty tobacco pouches are made by
entirely covering an india rubber pouch
| with ribbon 10 the club or college color
] of which the intended recipient is
member and making the initial OF same
/ on the front with the donors initials on
/ he back.
/ A narrow doorway is made narrower
by heavy hanging. An excessive use
OF curtains aud portieres diminishes tne
size OF room and produces stufy
feeling which Is not fancy by any
means. Hangipgs at once hold dust
aad prevent the free circulation OF air.
Pretty covers for dressers and bed
rosm couches or for teatabie that can
be washed are made from good quail
tv OF the blue and white checked linen
| used for drying glass and china. Sc
/ lect a piece of linen that has good sized
squares betweea the blue lines, and 10
/ each square emOroider a bachelor but
ton or other design in the same shade OF
| blue as the cross lines.
Opals show an almost equal improve
ment. The superstition that these
stones are unlucky is rapidly dying out,
| and they are gaining the place among
Jewels to which their beauty entities
! them. Merchants display exquisite
! samples OF Australian and Hungarian
! opals, which are better than the MeXl-
/ can varities. as they are harder and less
/ subject TO changes OF climate.
! Instead OF the conventional marquise
! design for ladies' rings the jewellers
have a setting OF gold incrusJed With
diamonds and resembling lacework, ADD
also another design for dinner ring
! consisting of smallcluster OF diamonds
extending only on one side Of the shank
| or frame OF the ring. One OF the themes
I now extensively utilized is the heur-oe-
| lis. Ladies rings are adorned with
this flower, each petal consisting OF a
pear-shape diamond, excepting the top
one, which is an opal or q turquoise.
Since the days of good Queen Bess,
when the galiants wore handkerchiefs
wrought and edged with gold, in their
/ hats, as favors from sweethearts, down
TO the present time, the handkerchief
! has ever been ga article OF the wardrobe
TO receive special attention. The hoi-
day handkerchief is at this season very
much in evidence In the shops aud shop
windows. All white handkerchiefs are
again tue ruling favorites, and vary
from cObWeb-like India lawn boTdered
With rare lace TO the sheer cotton
batiste with machine embroidered edges.
To make a pretty engagement calen-
dar take panel oil Chinese mating
and place in rotation down the calendar
little pockets, the size Of a large en-
yeiOpe, writing ON them in India Ink,
sepia or oils the day OF the week. Sew
the lower edge of these securely to the
| pack, fastening pieces of ribbon at each
side and to the back, thus giving plenty
OF room for letters, cards, etc. OEna-
ment at the upper left hand corner
with a bow of satin ribbon, suspend by
a loop of the same, aud decorate, II you
wish, with flowers, vines or geometrical
designs, painted In oils or worked In
rope silks.
Some OF the latter are remarkably
prett- and dainty, and answer every
| purpose for ordinary use. As the hand
/ kerchief rs now displayed thrust In the
front Of the bodice, drawn underneath
the belt or tucked within the wrist OF
the left sleeve. 1t must nave at least
| An elaborate border, even IL the fabric
is not of the finest. Hemstitched edges
are occasionally displayed, but they are
of the very narrowest order and show
either q tiny fieur de lys in each corner,
either 10 pale color or pure white en-
broidery, or else a delicate vine en-
broidered all about just above the hem.
In addition TO this there will be coca
| sionally the owners given name EN- =
| broidered across the corner.
The giraffe" initials, which some
seasons ago were popular ia hsndker-
chiefs, are now replaced by small letters
in script, and the given name or single
/ initials are preferred TO the monogram,
| except in gentlsmen's handkerehiefs,
where a common MONOGRAM is preferG-
bic. CoIored borders in delicate de-
| signs, and the very latest novelty from
| Paris, is white lined with hali-inch
! hemsIitched border, and in one corner
is a disk about an inch 10 diameter,
! worked in seed stitch, with the mono
gram in the centre. Two or more cOlors
| are combinedkin the disk, such as red
and blue, blue and brown. blue and vel
low, violet and purple, and so on. For
example, the MONOGRAM may be worked
in yellow cotton, surrounded by the
seed stitch in blue. The INVITATIONS
| are varied without number.
A charming little basket that might
/ we'll be called the travellers basket can
be made from heavy coiored men. II
Is so simple that any woman Gao make
II. and it is both convenient AID attract
i've when flashed. IL become dainty
little basket with pockets ier buttons,
thread and eli . needleWoHan' para
phernalIa when il is hung from hook.
snd Il lies perfectly lat when the string
/ is let out Hence Il Is easy . pack and
taxes up no room in trunk Tor which
reas0e Is is . travellers friend aud 50 de-
SERVES It's second mans. Heavy llnaa,
affhsf blue. old pink, o. Fero gre
ses ne best material q AZ. and