Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23

a frieZe in his room. 1t was his own idea
SO had two strips of very narrow blacf
picture moldinS put around the room
about three feet from the floor, with the
| inner edges arranged so they could hold the
cards. He gets lots of fun out of arrang-
ing and rearranging the frieZe; sometimes
geographical locality from which they
came; sometimes he arranges them In
groups according to subjects. 1t makes
an attractive decoration for the room and
| I'm thankful he has a frieze of postcards
| instead Of prize fighters and base ball
heroes
I've quite a good collection of cards from
Holland said the girl with piece OF
Mount Melck embroidery in her hand, and
I'm going to cut the quaint little colored
Dutch figures out and put them on candle
shades to use when the 'DutchTreat Club
l belong to meets at our house. l shall
use some eXQuisitely colored French cards
for lamp shade, outlining the figures with
a border of Vatican design done in water
COLOR
I'm going to mount my collection on
large sheets of gray cardboard and send
them to the missionaries out west, cutting
off, of course all writing. A missionary l
know asked me for Them saying that she
could use them as reward of merit cards
instead Of those little things with repousse
flowers and text that 1 used to get when
1 had been a good child and learned my
texts 1 shan't paste the cards on the card
board, but just slip the corners under strips
of paper put on diagonaly. The missionary
can leave a whole card full Of pictures with
a family single ones, as she chooses"
The woman who was making tatting looked
reprovingly at the girl who giggled.
Mine going to the hospitals''-it was
the college girl who said this, as she en-
broidered a Harvard fiag-'and I've already
divided them into two groups. one for the
children and one for the grown-ups In the
collection for the children I've put all the
cards with cats and dogs on them. l hap
pen to be awfuly fond of pets and SO my
friends are constantly sending me post
cards with dear dog and cat pictures on
them. 1 know the children will like them
I'm going to send along sheets of stiff pa
per, gray, blue and red. with Sits cut cor
nerwise in them SO that the corners of the
postcard be slipped under 1t will
amuse the little tots when they are getting
well, to arrange the cards on the sheets of
paper. I'm giving them other cards, too,
the brightest colored ones, for instance. The
collection for the grown-ups is made up of
the more attractive pictures of places or
copies of famous paintings. There's almost
nothing. you know. in the line of art that
one doesn't get reproduced on postcards
I'm using the ones that are sent to the
children" said mother who was knitting
scarlet reins for her four-year-old. Ito
cover nursery screen. It's three-winged
screen, and each child has wing. The
screen Is made Of green burlap tightly
drawn over a frame; strips of elastic pink
for one child, red for another and yellow
for the third, are fastened at the top and
stretched taut to the bottom; the strips are
the length of postcard apart. The elastic
is sewed to the burlap at intervals just
the width of the card and in this way holds
the cards perfectly. You can't imagine
how many stories such a screen can sug-
gest, and it's really fun to begin a story
seemingly remote from the pictures on the
screen and then suddenly surprise the child
by illustrating from the postcards. It's one
Of the best solutions of what to do with
the cards that know"
Now I know that I won't throw away
my bushel of cards." said the only idle
woman. I'D no idea that could use them
in so many ways"