Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-02
THE sTENoeRAPHERs' CHRIST
 MAS BOX,


 have been many splendid ideas for Christmas gifts mentioned in the, So- cial Corner. Perhaps the readers may be interested to learn how 1 have solved the Christmas present puzzle
 Nearly everyone nowadays wears jabots. or fancy collars. or one de- Scription or another-and no matter how old or young g. woman may be she always delights In fine flmy laces and dainty colors.
 It is easy in any of the larger de- partment stores to buy what are known as drummers' samples, and It was the,lace counter that afforded the incest range of Christmas gifts. At one store l was able to buy 20 pieces of the most exquisite flmy lace, Ia | about seven-lnch squares, for 20 cents, 1 two 10-cent punches. I carefully re- moved the small pasted tags and with mediumly hot iron pressed in the raw selvages Gas the lace was inser- tion bands, this left two beautiful bor- | ders).
 Then I gathered through the center | from the middle of each turned in edge. In Eome instances I used two I pieces of the lace, making 8 double | bow. The single jabots finished with a small tailored bow of pale lavender messaline, and the effect was delight l fully dainty. More I trimmed with l tiny lavender rosebuds, and on sev- | eral I placed large full roses in center | in order in each instance to cover the | gatherings 1n the center. In this man. per I made eleven beautiful jabots.
 l have also made some very pretty rose jabots. Before I learned the sim pleness of their making, always thought them to be quite a difficult task. and surely, judging from the prices charged at the stores, one would 1 imagine so. In all department stores there Is 8 ribbon of satin about two inches wide that retails for 10 cents a yard, and the range of colors is splen- did-fFom dainty creams to the richest of garnets. One yard Is sufficient for a beautiful rose jabot- I bought five yards, one each of cream, pink, hello, old rose and garnet. My next step was to go to one of the stationery stores and procure half & dozen flower heads | which cost s cents. Also two dozen | sweet pea cups at 8 cents a dozen Cut the yard of ribbon in eight pieces; place the satin sides of each strip to- gether and trim off the corners with O fine thread. Turn inside out, gather at the bottom and you have a rose petal, which sew on the flower head which has a wire stem about four inches long. Do this with six of the pieces, making six petals which when sewed against the f1ow',r head pre- sents the appearance ot many more With the two remaining pieces you are 10 make the "dangles." When buying the ribbon for the rose you will notice some baby rihbon about one-quarter of an inch wide. One quality can be bought at 1 cent a yard, but I would | T AA the 2-cent quality is well worth the difference. Buy four yards of this ir a grass green, shade. We have the rose itself all completed and now fol the finishing touches. There were tive small strips of the rose ribbon left Cut these into small pieces. Cornei exactly as you did for the larger pet als, excepting in this instance only one will be used. Cut the narrow greer ribbon in irregular lengths of iron four to six inches. Sew one end O the green ribbon to the small peta just> completed. Draw the other ent through sweet pea cup. Do this witf the other four-then fasten all five tC the large rose, and lo! and behold you have all ready a beautiful gif ] which will be delight to any girl ol woman. Of this am sure. for have given quite few and in each cas-, the recipient was delighted
 , The description seems long-mucI longer than the time that will actual
 ly be consumed in the making-foI four or five can be made in an hour.
 My Christmas, presents for th
 '-women folks" are aIIscompIeted. Tn cost has been ridiculously low-S1 il
 the total expenditure for q handsom gifts. This is what my Christmas bo. l; contains: Twelve lace jabots, five ros jabots, four lavender messaline bow (after trimming the lace jabots ther
 was sufficient material left for the lat ter). Here is the enumeration of m, } expenses: 20 cents for the lace, 5 ] cents for the five yards of wide rib bon for the large roses, cents for tn flower heads (one left over), 6 cent for the flower cups, s cents for marrow green ribbon and 25 cents for one half yard of lavender messaline. . I have been able to do this not be cause of unusual bargains in any on thing, for the above can all be ob tained at the above prices at any o our better stores. I am not exagrerA { | ing in the least when say were t , purchase the articles have describe, above ! should have to pay at the yer , least 50 cents for each.
 r hope these suggestions will prov | of benefit to those undecided abou Christmas gifts.
 THE STENOGRAPHER