Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-12

through the top to keep 1t in shape, and is
finished with fringe.
Another useful present that may be made
by the deft artist is a telephone slate Of
leather. 1t never wears out and is always
pretty. Use green tinted or buff leather
and stretch it over stiff slate of card
board or thin wood and put imitation brass
headed nails around the border. The nall
heads can be bought in packages for fam
cy work and sewed on with needle. Fringe
the bottom of the leather and decorate the
top with little etching or painting, past
ed or sketched on above the word .'Tele-
phone" Slit the leather in two double
rows down each side, and run narrow white
cards with the ends under the tiny straps
formed by the Sits. There should be two
rows of cards to a slate. The Sits should
be even and the cards all the same size.
These hold telephone numbers and names.
and can be slipped out and renewed with
out difficulty.
States can be made In hand-painting, en-
broidery or with any fancy work border,
and with narrow ribbons to hold the cards
in place.
They Like Fancy Things.
College men are particularly fond of dec
orations for their rooms. Pillows worked
in all the new and old stitches, provided
the colors are pretty, are acceptable to
them, as we'll as lounge covers with hand
some borders. Leather pillow covers are
excellent gifts. The stained and carved
and burnt ones are more serviceable than
those whose paint may wear off with use.
Picture frames are dear to college men.
Here the worker In wood has an opportu-
nifty to stain and carve beauties for hold
ing her own picture-perhaps-and the girl
who can paint silk and leather may
make I'D odd conceits in frames for pho
tographs and etchings, While the needle.
worker embroiderS wreaths and sprays OF
flowers upon linen, or does a frame In cross
stitch or Mountmellck, in high relief. and
has the dainty work fitted under glass and
framed, or merely bound upon the edges.
Places for photographs are arranged In
the centers of these frames.
Many men play cards; the Grandmother
is a neat gift to the card lover 1t Is OF
leather and fits around pack OF cards.
1t has a covered flap, is decorated on the
back and flap, and has cunning little leath-
er straps run through the cover and fast
ened with a buckle or clasp in front. A
tiny medicine chest is made IN the same
way, only one side of the lining consists
Of a silk pocket divided into several COM
partments for little bottles, just large
enough to hold home remedies that often
come into use.
His College Fans.
The college man likes college things
about him; q useful gift is an engagement
calendar made of little fans, decorated
In the college colors and flags. and which
may be mounted upon a cardboard back
covered with silk. The fans are sewed at
the bottom to the back of cardboard, and
each fan forms little pocket for holding
cards and memorandums of engagements
for that day of the week. These fans are
souvenirs of different colleges, and the
owner will no doubt want his own college
at the top.
A pretty file for letters is made by COW
ering the front of a shallow box with little
college fans in row and dropping the
letters in the box behind them
Small silk college flags are also decora-
tive as a border for a pillow or lounge
robe They should be basted and then
worked around the edge with chain or en-
should be worked in raised embroidery or
stem stitch.
SuSpenders are always welcome to a
man, and a handsomely embroidered pair
of suspenders can readily be made. Good
satin should be used for both outside and
lining, and the lining should invariably be
white. The loops and elastic portions are
purchased and put after the embroid-
cred bands are finished. A thin. stiff inter-
lining of stout quality will help to keep
the satin in shape.
Try the amateur photographer at Christ
mas with album, covered with a richly
wrought leather cover, one of dark
silk with an embroidered border, and see
how he likes 1t. And try the chess player
with square of soft leather, done in neat
squares of pale and dark brown-something
that he can roll up when he travels and
pin on any table. Most men have fads of
mas time, when new smoking jackets and
slippers replace old ones. and a man be-
gins his annual wonderment over the va
carries of the feminine mind when exer-
ciSed in the selection of Christmas pres
ents for masculine use.