Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-02
TIM ELY TRIM K ETS
LITTLE PARTING GIFTS TO SPEED
A FRIEND.
Home-M Made Articles That Will Make
Gracious Memen-
tos.

With tourists fitting out of town and In.
and friends starting on 3aunts, long and
short this is the season when women feel
the need of little gifts for travellers. or
course, in hot weather they turn to the
shops for the farewell gift. 1t is too hot to
be industrious or ingenious.
If the traveller is ocean bound, an appro-
pirate gift is leather-bound book about
the size of ordinary address book, bear
ing the inscription, My Outgoing Trip and
Homeward Bound The pages are not
dated and the book is intended simply for
jottng down incidents or bright converse
lions, irrespective of date. Such a book
comes in various shades of leather-brown,
tan, red, blue, black and gray-and costs
about the same as the popular address
book. Another comparatively small record
book is inscribed Places Visited and Its
pages are indexed so that Its owner can
readily turn to the name of any city when
she wishes to recall pleasant memories.
Innumerable are the leather trinkets for
the traveler-collapsible drinking cups in
cunning leather boxes a wonderfully fiat
and compact case for carrying the manicur-
Ing outfit, and ink wells smaller than the
collapsible cups and holding a really good
SUPPLY of ink.
For the woman who carries luncheon
there is a receptacle no larger than small,
compact cigar case, which contains dainty
knife, fork and spoon, tea strainer and a
collapsible cup.
For Letters En- Route.
For travellers who like to drop letters en-
route comes a portfolio eight inches long
by five inches wide, leather covered, with
strap for the penholder on one side, and at
the top a small box for pens and stamps.
and leather mounted ink we'll On the in
side one compartment shows a pad of pa
per and the other a pad of blotters. The
outside of the portfolio is inscribed Just
Line" Given this and stock of stamped
envelopes, the correspondence fiend is
happy
For the traveller by sea there is nothing
nicer than a set of pillows for the steamer
chair, which should be made of some such
heavy material as denim or crash, which
Will Withstand sea air, and embroidered
Bon Voyage" These may be purchased
in the form of air pillows at rubber
stores where also may be found the silk
bathing suits. These come in all the COL
ors in which bathing suits are sold this
season--cardfnal red, green, blue, black
and whte-and are a real comfort to the
aquatic enthusiast who carries her suit
down to the bathing house each day
Women are learning the advisa bility of
carrying stfmulant of some sort when
travelling, and especially for their use
small TASKS in leather, mounted in silver
or made entirely of silver, are shown.
They come In half-pint sizes and even
Smaller, the latter being known among
men as the cocktail size
An inexpensive and very useful nresant
for woman is the combination money
and jewel bag, hung on a belt which is
worn under the dress skirt. The bag is
ten or twelve inches long, made from
strong gray channels, and has two com
partments, one for jewelry and one for
money; A smaller jewel bag made to wear
around the neck has special compart-
ment for rings, sewed in sections so that
no one ring rubS the other
Feminine Helps.
Any device for carrying powder is a well
come gift Comparatively few women wear
chatelaine. but little box with powder.
puff and mirror inside. which is a part of
the chatelaine outfit, could easily be hacked
into wrist bag. These tiny powder boxes
come in gold, silver, copper and art nou-
Veau, and hold a wonderful supply Of
powder. a convenient receptacle for DOW
oeS Is pult from chamois skin exactly on
the lines the old-fashioned housewife fur
nlshed to the soldiers. The end of the strap
or chamOs, which corresponds to the roIIad
pincushion of the housewife, is used for the
powder. 1t is perforated with holes no
larger than pin head. then turned up and
stitched in the form of a hollow sack. four
inches one way and three inches the other
This is filled with powder packed In very
ught, ana the end is sewed up with strong
everlasting. The round powder box thus
forms nucleus upon which the strip of
chamois is rolled and finally tied with a
strip of ribbon. Every time the channels
Is unrolled some of the powder sits out Of
the perforatfons and Is rubbed on the face
with the thinner part of the channels There
Is no decoration. the chamois being pinked
or cut in scallops around the edges,
Ii the traveller has a new bag. which she
is Quitting. neat. homemade gift is a
thin sachet pad for the bottom of the bag.
This should consist Of a single layer of
Waddng split to hold the fragrant powder,
then covered with finest silk or null as
space Is of primary value.