The Jersey City news., 1905-10-31
kMaS PRESENTS
tUOl.'aII Up ALREADY
asIaiay Girls Are Preparing to
Make Artistic Novelties
and The Shops Are Prepar-
ing Taeir stock.
HE HEART OF A MAN

WE'LL AS lT TLOOhS-GOOl' FL y
ESSENTIAL FOR INTERIOR
DECORATION.
Many young women are now earning a
little money by making artistic novelties.
Shop owners have begun already to pur-
chase their Christmas stock. and they
are only too glad to buy practical, hand
made articles from individuals.
One young woman makes all sorts of
odd noyefgies from leather. Her main
idea it to-evolye small articles which Will
earch the eye of the book lover. A book
cover for holding different novels is made
Of supple, light-colored leather and has
the simple inscription burned, "The Book
Issam Reading Three straight lines
onrned very close together outline. the
edges. Made from this same sort Of
leather is1a much smaller cover. inclosing
4 meiSrandunl book. On thi sis burned.
in letters of script type. Books | Have
Read" The two covers are strapped to-
gether by a band, of leather with nickel
buckle attached.
Less expensive is a book cover of
denim with frayed edges. Two leather
bands extend from top to bottom of the
inside of each cover for holding in the.
novel. On one cover is glued poppy
cut from leather and colored to contrast
harmoniously with the color of the
denim.
A memorandum to hang by the side G
the desk is built from long narrow
piece of leather. At one end is a small
notebook inclosea in leather flops, the
upper sone. Of ,Sthich is burned to show a
Japas8sg lady: Attached to the other end
is leather ring. \ narrow band of
leather across the upper part of the
strap holds pencil and Q silk japanese
fan.
Denim-eoyered boxes and oddly shaped
bags for dressing table and writing desk
promise to be very popular gifts this
coming Yuletide The prettiest Of flower.
ed denim should be chosen in making
these, and the edges must be vary neat
II finished TO render them salable.
4 Another girl, who has her own paint
box, is Illuminating notices for Christ
mas sales. She buys the notices printed
simply ON brown and white parchment
at 6ssiheaesale from the book dealers
In selecting them she chooses Inaxims
which especially to hsrself and
are out of the ordinary. The brown
parchment she Eliminates with gold let
tiers. White parchment backgrounds are
bright with many colors and always a
touch of black to set them off. Each
motto is carefully framed in passepartout
with little rings on the back by which to
suspend it.
Still another girl cuts figures with
pretty faces from recent fashion journals.
These She coIors delicately and dresses
IN stunning paper costumes. The clothes
are pasted TO the paper figures, and two
or three dresses for the same doll neees-
sifate cutting the same picture from sew
eral beepies of he journal. On paste
board card s-fastened the mother and
father with children of different ages.
Paper dolls of this sort do not bring a
great amount of money, but they cost
siittIe to make and are fascinating work.
p A mans heart is not the caflous east
iron piece of mechanism some women
have salloweds themselves to fancy it.
Underneath the strength mans dignity
must maintain there often throbs ten
der sympathetic, large and affectionate
feeling. The heart that lies nearest his
q
own fails to appreciate and knows only
half thefreason why he does and does not
the many things which go to make up
his life.
One man who, for some twenty years,
has borne his own share of the homes
burdens and those of his wife in addition
was receiving the sympathy Of a friend
who said to the wife: @Itis too bad your
husband has 50 little time to enjoy life
the ways that would mean the most to
him. The wife replied: ''oh, you know,
he's a. man, and doesn't mind, = She was
god woman, but her point of view was