The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-21
SOME ARE HARD TO PLEASE.
BUT N THIS LIST THERE ARE AR
EICLEs TO SUIT THE MOST
FASTIDIOUS.
SENDING GIFTS TO WOMEN.
A Good Rule Is, Never to Fail to-
Recognize Their Tai
ents.


woman in Sixth avenue car, but
I'm sure I don't know what to give
him for Christmas. He has everything
heart could desire. Do you know, he
has even solid silver chain to go
around his neck to hold his napkin up!''
MY" said the other woman. II sup
pose that's so. But there must be-
something he wouldn't mind having in
pairs!"
These people who seem to have "ev-
erything that heart could desire even
emitting the napkin tackle, are the
ones that worry anxious souls at this,
time of the year. To give them some
thing they don't mind having in pairs
and to have that something absolutely
inoffensive in color and design seems
the neatest way to cut this Gordian
knot, whether it is a man or a woman
who is entangled, says the New York
Herald
There is, of course, one unfailing rule
about sending gifts to women, though
this unfortunately applies more to
boughten gifts than to homemade
ones. This is, never to omit an oppor-
tunity Of recognizing the talents or
hobbies of the person concerned.
Menu cards of birch bark, especially
If decorated by the hand of an artist.
are capital presents to come to the
city from the country and better YET,
even because harder to obtain, is
| log cabin arrangement Of messy tWigs
in which maidenhair or even small
| lady ferns are growing, just as they
were when lifted from their native
| nook. A few bunch berries will give
! a touch Of needed color to this as we'll
a. "a cd no
similarly filled, and smoothed on the
bottom for steadiness' sake.
sACHETS GALORE.
Bureau drawer. and trunk sachets are
not new, remaining always the fae
comfortable pad about thirty-six by
! eighteen, but the delicious Delft pat
! terms of India silk are unusually
adapted to making them.
No woman can have too many
sachets, at any rate as long as they
| all contain her favorate perfume. a
new and very clever little sachet.
which can very well be made by the
score to scent ones friends trunks
and bureau drawers from beginning to
end is like rose A fat puff bali,
! about the size of an oak apple, is
! filled with cotton and perfume and the
/ joining at the top drawn as tightly to-
/ gethel as possible. On the little nib
4 W
gauZe rose in the very same color, the
dropping leaves making a very pretty
top to the affair. One has only to see
! the infinite variety of gauze roses now
sold for a few cents each to realize
! how cheaply and In how great variety
! an afternoon will bring forth these
sachets A round of silk seven or
| eight inches makes them large enough.
Spanish fans make very inoffensive,
even decorative catchalls in small
rooms where one would tramp all over
scrap basket The sticks are laced
with alternate red and yellow ribbons,
i each shorter than the other, SO that at
the end the sticks are close enough
| together to be tied with a rOsette of
| the two colors. A bit of hat wire sew
! ed on the inside edge Of the fan keeps
it open while it is hung from the long
! sticks in some corner or at the side of
a desk The big fans in gauZe and
silk, of delicate colors, may also be
bought very cheaply now, and are very
handsome affairs at the side of the
dressing mirror, adding to the air of
elaborate luxury which women crave
nowadays.
WORDS ON PIN CUSHIONS.
People smile and look superior now
| adays when anything is said about
napkin rings, but there is a way of
getting we'll ahead Of those people.
Everybody cannot have silver mount
| ed pin cushions, but everybody who
has a napkin ring can make two blue
| velvet or pink, or any other colored
velvet cushions, little larger than the
| ends of the napkin ring, stuffing them
! WE'LL but not too hard to be Stickable.
Sew piece of stout elastic to the part
Of one cushion, where the gathering
comes, pull the elastic taut through the
ring, getting some one to pull 1t out
!
cushion and then let go. The elastic
will pull the two cushions toward each
other and hold them so tight that they
will be firm and shipshape looking.
| From one side Of the ring to the other
feSten a loop of ribbon of the same
color to hang the cushion by, not for
getting what no woman needs to be
told, to remember to make perky
little bow at each point of fastening.
Another pincushion is just as much
OF a novelty. Take the ordinary round
satin cushion the kind with the
nese doll, of a size to look at home on
the cushion. Dress it in chiffon to
match the cushion, putting on 1t full
sleeves, a sash and yoluminous skirt,
which makes ''cheeses,1 as the children
say, all around it. Sew Ma demoiselle
Chrysanthemum fast festhe cushion,
and then tie her black hairsall on the
top of her head, with a tiny bow OF
baby ribbon of the same shade. The
straight sides Of the cushion afford
the place for the pins, though Miss Al
mond Eyes would probably not object
; to having her skirts ripped down
at intervals with diamond horseshoe
pins and similar trifies.
Another pin cushion, especially
/ adapted to stick pins, is an apple
shaped trifie, striped off in eighths like
: an orange with stout embroidery silk
A bias strip of velvet pink we will
say, is cut seven inches long and a
. trifle over three in width. 1t is joined
, on itself first, making a velvet ring
then one edge is slightly turned in and
: gathered just as tight as can be, the
edges being turned in. This little bag
is then stuffed hard, and the upper
edge also drawn as tight as possible
making funny little fiat ball. Through
) the center the sewing silk is strap
ped over the sides and up through
the middle, over and over, at ever
! distances from each other, until, as
: was said, 1t looks like a semi-orange
semi-apple fruit, done in pink Baby
) ribbon, with outstanding bows and
ends, makes a stem on top.
New pin cushions are not large, ever
| those intended for the ornamental cen
ter of a bureau. Some are heart
shaped, some are round, many are EN-
broidered, and others have ribboI
bows. One and all, however, have
frills of lace or silk, or both, gathered
on so that they stand up, instead o.
, falling, as frills used to do in the ole
times.
THESE APE TTSEFIIJ, TOO