Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-29
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| Written for The Evening STAR.
The giving of New Year souvenirs bids
| fair to grow into, the proportions of a fad
with the three charming maidens of the
Dash family. 1t is so chic, so Partisan and
| SO convenient to give gifts at the first Of
| the year instead of at Christmas.
| One of the Dash girls has spent part Of a
| year in Paris under the chaperonage of an
| elderly spinster aunt This period under
| the care of said E. s. A was a season of
| great development for the artistic Miss
| Dash. and when she returned to America
| under the quiet, old-fashioned roof of The
| Dashes she was filled with aspirations to
| be new prophet in Philistia.
The other two Misses Dash, who were
| humbly inartistic, followed in lowry ad
| mlralon the lead of the artistic Doroths a
| when she suggested that in dear cd
Paris Christmas is a holiday bur little
| noted by the CONNIE il faut white New
Year day is day of great festivities.
BesiGes dears, the delightful innova-
| ton on our part of maAing New Year a
high day will not only be very chic. out a
real economy, for alter Christmas is over
every one who means TO will have remem-
bered us. and we will know just for whom
to buy return gifts. We will also be be. ter
able TO gauge the value of the return pres
entS, said the worldly Dorothea.
The two inartistic Misses Dash were
aestheucally appreciative and approving;
therefore Christmas vas, as it were, stricn
ell from their calendar, and they devoted
themselves to preparations for celebrating
with Gallo elegance the saturnaiia of the
new year.
When High Art Spoke.
Now" said Miss Dorothea Dash. the
high-art member of the trio, "as the day Is
commemorative of division of time, what
more appropriate than that we should give
timely souvenirs.
Nothing" breathed Miss Daisy Dash and
Miss Diana Dash, both c.asping their hands
in an ecstasy of admiration. But what
sort Of Souvenirs would you call timely.
dear Dorothea?"
"Oh. calendars and things of that sort"
airily responded the gifted Dorothea. "Ca!-
endars are cheap after Christmas, and, be-
sides, we can make the handsome ones for
ourselves: Put on your buds. girls. and
We'll go for a stroll through the shops just
to see what we can get.
So. donning their outdoor garments the
three fair damse.s sailed out to view the
shops.
They paused first at the calendar counter
of MacSoakem & MacSoakem. where the
la test recherche designs in time schedules
are displayed in tasteful rows.
They are so unorignal," chirruped Miss
Horothea, passing by The cheaper ones in
orn and planting Herself, with an express
sion OF critical anxiety before selection of
satin bannere,s each of which was deco
rated with small painted scene depicting
some frolicsome and very decollete nymphs.
Underneath the picture and apropos of
nothing a record of the days Of the year
was printed on white satin
Saving and Artistic.
"Such a charming ideay' exclaimed Miss
Dorothea. I'VE can make these as we'll as
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it Two dollars and half was what the
merchant asked for each banneret
Then they passed on to a piece of col
ored cardboard on which appeared poker
chips, cigarette, a cigar a match. a poker
hand in cards. a coin to represent an ante
and small beer mug Tiled with the foam
ing beverage.
DoIothea enthused rapturously
Just the thing for Cousins Dick and
Charlie. You know very young men are
to tickted to have one pay a tribute to their
wickedness, and the boys would be hattered
10 receive one of these calendars. They
would be SO smart TO hang up in their rooms
at college! I'm sure we could make a
calendar for about II cents instead of pay
ing the dollar they want here
True for you, Doro hea." Hsped DANA
"but how would we manage the bar Of mu-
sic that is printed on the slip Of paper at
the head of the calendar?'
We could sketch the music in with India
ink: it would look just well as the print
ing. Besides, ! think 'There'll Be a Hol
Time in the Old Town Tonight would be a
better line than the one those calendars.
I'd Leave My Happy Home for You"
Perhaps 1t would" assented Diana:
more lndecorous as it were
For Dear Uncle John.
''Here's a darling calendar to copy for
dear old Uncle joint shreked Daisy in
delight. pausing before a combined tobacco
holder. pipe rack and calendar. The rack
was simple. piece of thick brown card
board was crossed by bands of brown
leather held In place by brass-headed clasps
which passed through the cardboard and
spread out on the other side as not to
be, easily displaced. Diana suggested that
instead of leather they could cut strips
from some of their old kid gloves in places
where the kid was unsoiled. y pouch for
tobacco made of brown canvas and lined
with silk was hung by a ribbon bow from
an ornamental head attached to the center
Of the board
With blase Indifference the trio went by
pickannny calendars, sporting calendars,
the literary and religious calendars Doro-
thea sighed her infinite WEAKNESS Of all
such hackneyed and commonplace devices
Really Original Ideas.
The three young ladies provided them
selves with cardboard, ribbon, water color
paper, etc. Then they went home, fairly
bristling with Importance. Their own de-
signs were not unoriginal One calendar
in the form of wheel was painted to rep
resent a cobweb. the pale gray of the back
ground being Hghtened by gold tints. In
the center a heart-shaped opening afforded
a frame for the face Of some fair friend
On the lower part of the cobweb painted
representation Of Father Time, calendar
adjusted in his hand. was entangled in
the mesheS of the web
For a cycling friend the calendar rep
resented a Wheel the spokes ingeniously
painted with gold and the twentieth CEN
fury girl seated the same. carrying q
streaming ribbon calendar
a calendar depicting the twentieth CEN
fury golf girl in very advanced toys was
prepared for another friend, and for COL
lege friend they prepared panel graced
with representations of their idea of the
twentieth century lawyer. doctor. politician
and business woman The sketches were
burlesaues showing the new woman at a
very advanced stage of development
"Stained Glass; Pillows.
From Harper's Bazaar
Take an ordinary long needleful Of any
shade Of wool, begin at one corner of a
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