The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-07
Graceful Gifts for
SfaY-af-Homes


for the friends at home; and if these
carry recollections of her stay at the
mountain or shore they are all the mora
welcome to the stay-at-home MANY
girls leave the gathering of these LITTLE
gifts until just before they return IN
town, when they pick them IN ar tho
/ curiQ shops and bazars found ar ever,,
resort. This is not only an expensive
way to remember the home folk but
as a rule, the shop offerings are any,
thing but artistic.
On the other hand, if the summer
girl will give little time each dav or
week to making gifts which are redo
lent of country life she will seo,,ro
peter results at a lower price If she
Is IN the mountain, where she can
gather birch bark she is indeed for
tunate for this dainty woodland fabric
readily lends itself to pretty articlae
Picture frames of various sizes can he
made and cards and tassels for haneN
! ing them are evolved from braided Or
| twisted sweet grass. If the summer
girl Is also camera fiend, she can fiIl
ehese frames with small photographs,
showing the attractive spots around
| her summer camp.
An Odd Paper Weight.
An odd little paperweight for fathers
| desk has for it's foundation a circular
| fiat box, such as face powder comes in.
| nlled with shot. Upon this foundation
| is built hut or tepee of birch bark in
| exactly the cone-shaped design of the
| indian Wigwam. A few dry. brown
twigs are run through the top of the
tent, as though supporting its sides.
indian characters or pictures may be
| burned or sketched on the outside of
the birch bark, and tiny china doll.
| dressed in Indian fashion, with a
| blanket and a bit of black horse-hair
| for wig, stands in the doorway of
| the wigwam.
Waste-paper baskets and small lar
| dinieres can be made of the birch bark,
| either by covering a peach basket with
| the bark or building an entirely new
| basket with the bark, a circular board
foundation and some pliable wood or
pieces of barrel hoops. The wood or
| hoops should be stained a soft woody"
| brown. The girl who wants to make
this sort of thing will find the young
men around the hotel only too glad to
lend hand and show their skill at
| carpentering.
| For n Calendar.
heart-shaped piece of birch bark
| is good foundation for a calendar.
and even If the year be six months
spent, new calendar is always well
come in the household A small print
ed calendar is pasted on the bark in
the center of the heart, and above it
are tackled sprays of dried grass, while
a cord for hanging it up is also made
of grass.
Napkin rings, hanging needle cases.
tlled with flannel, and match scratch
ers can be made from the bark COM
bined with sweet grasses, but gaudy
ribbon should not be used in trimming
them.
If the summer girl does not mind
carrying a basket on her return to
town, she can make for her friends a
number of fern dishes that are as at
| tractive as anything that can be
| bought in a city store. The pot is
made of tender twigs, which are woven
into rustic bowl or holders that looks
not unlike the Japanese fern bowls
| displayed in shops. They are soaked
| IN water and filled with the richest of
woodland earth. The crevices between
| the twigs may be filled with moss,
| Which will quickly attach itself to the
earth and spread over the surface of
| the twigs. Into this the girl plants a
| hardy fern, dug in the woods, with
plenty of the soil from its woodland
bed. After planting the ferns she puts
her gifts in a dark, cool place, such
as the cellar of the boarding house.
watering them regularly, and when
| she is ready to start to town the ferns
Will be growing finely.
For Sewing Set.
Medium-sized brown cones from nine
trees, bit of soft green silk-not the
glarlng emerald green so popular this
summer, but a Silvery woodland green
with baby ribbon to match, will work
into a pretty sewing set. One cone is
cut across the top and a green silk
pin-cushion is sewed on to it. This may
be gathered around the top of the cone
with a little ruffle, or the cushion may
be made separate and glued on to the
top of the cone.
Another cone is followed out slightly
in the center and lined with what looks
like a little padded pocket, and this
will hold the thimble. A third cone
may be followed more deeply for a
spool of thread but a prettier set con-
sisted of pin-cushion, thimble case
and a pair of embroidery scissors at
tached to ribbon which matched that
employed in trimming the cones
For the girl who can do burn leather
and woodwork there are two new de-
signs which will make excellent sum-
mer gifts.
one is a papOOse cradle of burnt
leather in imitation of the case in
which the Indian mother carries her
baby on her back. From the top of the
cradle stick the head of an Indian ba-
by image, which can be bought at any
of the resort bazars. A bit of leather
is used to hang up this odd little orna-
ment.
Reproduction of Dinner Bell.
more pretentious gift would come
appropriately from the girl who is
spending her summer on a farm or at
small country town. 1t is a repro
duction of the dinner bell seen on
many farms A hooded-house not un-
like a dove-cote, is reproduced in min
iature not more than a foot or fifteen
inches in hight This is burned in
some ianciful design, showing field
flowers or birds. and in the hood is
hung a cheap brass bell, TO which is
attached a long leather thong This
can be hung up i'm the hall at home
and used as a rising bell and will at
tract considerable attention.
The girl at the seashore should not
fail to collect shells for friends who
have aquariums. These should not be
the small. dainty shells, but rather
large ones. which will show up to bet
ter advantage in the water. If she
finds the shells are losing their color
after being packed for a few days In
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