The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-19
But This Woman Made the
''CartWheeI' Answer All
The Demands.
HER ASSETS WERE MEAGER
BUT FROM RAILROAD FOLDERS,
SOAP PICTURES. CALENDARS.
CANDY BOXES. Erc.. SHE MADE
HER PRESENTS.

The story OF woman who had a
dollar TO spend for her Christmas
gifts. hut who made il stretch.
When she sat down TO begin her
Christmas presents she had the fol.
lowing assets, saved through the
year:
Railroad folders. containing some
good maps; soap pictures. and other
advertising pictures. advertising cal
endars for the coming year given her
by her tradesmen: advertising blot
tiers. old magazines. shoe boxes. laun-
dry boxes. candy boxes. pieces OF silk
and other cloth from her piece bag
holly boxes. cards and ribbon saved
from previous and more afflucnt
Christmases
Her dollar she invested in a bottle
OF mucilage. two large sheets OF gray
and one of holly red cardboard paper.
a package of possepartout tape.
sheet of sandpaper. a package OF tiny
Christmas cards. some tissue paper.
and narrow holly ribbon. two sheets
of "wadding." package Of waste
white paper. from the scraps" of a
printing shop.
These are the things she made: Dis
sected maps and picture puzzles for
the older children. made by pasting
maps and the larger advertising pic
lures upon cardboard. and then cut
ting them up in various fancy shapes.
Paper dolls. paper soldiers. paper
furniture enough to stock q dozen
doll houses. made by cutting from the
advertising pages of the magazines
the necessary figures and pictures.
pasting them upon cardboard. and at
taching tiny pieces Of cardboard at
| the backs for standards.
Shaving cases for the men OF her
| family. each made from a pad Of the
printers white paper. covered with
piece of red cardboard paper. the
whole punched with two holes at one
end and fastened with a tiny bow OF
holly ribbon and a cord to hang upon
a nail by the shaving mirror: May
you never have a closer shave than
these will give YOU
Match scratchers, each made from
a piece of cardboard. covered with
gray paper. bearing at the top a tiny
picture cut from a magazine or a
kodak print of some member OF the
family. and at the bottom a piece Of
sandpaper.
Desk calendars. made by putting
upon a passepartout bound sheet Of
gray cardboard supported by q card.
board standard. the calendar taken
from the advertising one. q picture
cut from the advertising calendar. or
from a magazine. and a tiny Christ
-. mas card.
. Book covers Of varying sizes made
, from gray covered passepartoVt bound
, sheets Of cardboard. and bearing eth
, er a prettily lettered sentiment. q
, Christmas card. or an appropriate pic
ture. One held a telephone directory
. of the numbers most used by the fam
lily, another was memorandum book
with its advertising cover removed.
: another an engagement book, still an.
other an address book all with their
, leaves made of the printers scraps"
: Others held her most priced cooking
recipes neatly written out. together
with some tested ones clipped from
the columns OF newspapers and maya
zines. and arranged in different book
lets. Chatting dish recipes For the
Sick Room Dishes for Children"
Still others held short stories de-
tached from the magazines. one q col
lection Of poems clipped from the
same source, and another large one.
, a collection of newspaper cartoons.
8 Sachet pads for bureau drawers and
L Nd
. scraps Of silk over wadding sprinkled
: with sachet powder, finished with an
embroidery stitch around the edge.
5 and tiny bow Of ribbon at one cor.
z ner