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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21
Forgotten Christmas Gifts

upward when the square is spread on
the lap. Now arrange the gathered edge
of the little bag, with the raw edge in.
on the place over the circle and use the
second circle to put inside of the bag
and cover up the raw edges.
Now featherstitch the circle on the
wrong side, taking the stitches care
fully through the big square and the
gathered edge of the bag and the lining
circle. Run ribbons in the casing and
take four ends of ribbon to the four
corners of the square-and dainty and
Inexpensive gift is finished.
For the young girl who spends many
week ends away from home, or for. the
school or college girl, trunk tray covers
are a delight. Make them of heavy.
rather coarse white or ecru linen, and
finish the edges with a two-inch hem,
featherStitched in color. Work mono
each cover. These covers, of course, are
for use on the trays that have no other
covers, or else for use to spread over
fragile clothes to protect them from
those above them.
There is another sort of protection for
travelling frocks. in the form of case.
1t is made of figured lawn and requires
three-quarters of a yard of material
forty inches wide or twice as much of
the narrow widths. Cut one piece of
seven inches long. Cut two pieces
twenty-seven inches long and twelve
inches wide
Hem one long edge of each of the mar
one with matching buttonholes, or fit
them with ball and socket fasteners.
Fasten the two pieces together and basic
them on the piece twenty by twenty
seven inches, making couple of pleats
in the upper, wider, buttoned section, SO
that it fits the narrow section. Then
bind the raw edges with ribbon, tape or
with strips of the material, and the
dress bag is finished.
Covers to put over the ends of blankets
are quickly made and useful gifts. They
are used on blankets that are not often
sent to the laundry. Very soft, fine
cheesecloth is the best material from
which to make them. Cut a strip of the
cheesecIoth little longer than the blan-
ket is wide and about twenty-four inches
wide. Turn an inch-wide hem all around
the cheesecloth and featherstitch 1t in
the color with which the. blankets are
bound or striped. These cheesecloth COW
ers are then doubled over the blanket
ten or twelve inches on each side, and
tackled into place.
There are patterns giving cross-stitch
designs that can be worked on innumer
able little articles for children. There
is one such pattern of the sort that is
ironed on the material on which it is to
be worked, which has thirteen motifs or
designs and three repeats Of each of
them. There is an eggplant design,
SiTdilt, d Cdi d HSi CilCnCAS, Sdii-
Gus sorts of tree and flower designs and
other things that interest children. Little
aprons for play hours can be made of
heavy linen or cotton, bound about the
edges, with colored tape, and then worked
in cross-stitch kittens. Bedspreads, car
riage robes or slrmber robes can all be
worked in the same way. Bureau and
table covers and pillow covers can also
be croSs-Stitched in some attractive ami
NAL design and will be sure to find favor
in childish eyes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21
MENUS FOR ENTERTAINING DURING
THE HOLIDAYS.

A HOLIDAY DINNER FOR GUESTS.
Table Observation-Disclosures holly or
pepper berries with runners Of pine to
chandeliers; poinsettias or the little
Christmas bluebird favors fastened on
each glass, and boutonnieres of holly ber-
ries tied with red ribbon and long pin
to fasten to corsage or lapel at each
Grapefruit with Maraschino Cherries or
Bar lie Due.
~ MINIS. Olives. Celery.
Turkey or Guinea Fowl, Drowned Sweet
Potatoes, Mashed Irish Potatoes,
Caulifower, Sauterne.
onnaise on Apple and Marasehino
or Preserved Cherries on top
of Mayonnaise.
Cheese Biscuit.
Mince Pie. White Grapes. Black Coffee.
A SHAKESPEARE CLUB SUPPER.
OLD ENGLISH STYLE.
Served from buffet.
Roast Beef and Baked Ham ON Trenchers.
Walnut Catsup. Chilli Sauce.
Bread in Wheaton Loaves and Rye.
Old English Fruit Cake.
English Cheese.
Big Rosy Apples.
Cider or English Ale.
FOR AN AFTERNOON TEA
Sandwiches-Cream Cheese and Olives,
Russian Sandwiches, Brown Bread,
Grapefruit Marmalade, Ginger
Sandwiches.
Grilled Almonds, Candied Dates and
New Year Cakes. Chocolate Chips.
Tea. Chocolate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21
VHE most simple gift receives an
added charm II it is put up in at

THE most simple gift receives an
added charm If it is put UP in at
tractive shape, and Is accompanied
by an appropriate verse, or a bright,
pleasant greeting. 1t is a simple matter
to wrap a gift I'm scarlet or white paper
and tie with scarlet ribbon, fastening
sprig of holly in the bows, and 1t Is very
effective.
Wrap books in scarlet and wind UNI
brellas and canes with strips Of white and
scarlet paper, Transforming them into
glass in scarlet paper. gather PIP on top
and tie. Then clip into poinsettia blooms
Wrap the saucer or plate in green paper
and tie the poinsettia blossoms on with
ribbon.
A box may be wrapped in white paper
only, or the inner paper may be white
with the outer wrapping scarlet. Gather
the ends up on top. clip into points and
frill out.
Plated tissue paper makes an effective
decoration for a box, and may be applied
in numberless ways with different colors.
The strands should be an inch and a
Quarter wide and the entire length OF
the sheet. They are crumpled by being
drawn through the hands, then pinned to
the edge Of a table by one end. the plait-
ing being done in the same manner that
straw is braided for making hats and
baskets. When thoroughly dry, unbraid
and fringe the ends, and trim to form a
feathery pompon, and finish with bows
of white tissue paper or ribbon. There
In almost no limit to the variety of ef-
fects that can be produced by combining
several different shades, or from two to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21
Materials of the Room
Harm0miz@ i'm Color Scheme

furnish or refurnish, and are going to
do the work OF 1t yourself, first get sam
pies OF paper. Then choose from the
samples two or three possible papers.
other hangings and get samples of win
dow curtain materials. Sift out these
samples until you have a few possibil-
tiles. Then match up your wall paper,
choose the combinations that go best to-
gether.
There are many factors that ought to
govern the choosing of the furnishings Of
room. Get good book on interior
decorating and read what 1t says about
the colors that look well in rooms having
different exposures. Notice the rooms in
the houses of your friends and II these
rooms have the same exposure that your
rooms have, notice the mistakes and the
good points in the way they are fur
nished.
After you have chosen the wall cover
ing. the curtains and the hangings you
would like-which must, of course. be
chosen as much in relation to the wood
work as In relation to the lights or to
each other-think about the furniture.
If you are using furniture you already
have on hand. see that it looks we'll with
the colors In the paper and the chintz. II
it doesn't change the paper and chintz.
This sort of sitting and sorting really
ought to construct In your mind a little
picture of the room as 1t is to be- II
you can sketch little. SO much the bet
ter Make a rough little sketch Of the
room at different angles, and map it all
out on paper before you buy even the
wall covering.
When you have decided which set of
samples you like best. it Is well worth
while. often. to buy yard Of the chosen
chintz and a roll Of the chosen paper
and to hang them in the room to study
them in varying lights.
This homemade picture Of the room you
are furnishing may not be so helpful as
the picture In the famous shops window,
but it will be helpful enough to save you
many restless minutes spent In a badly
furnished room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21
Some Holiday Advice.

HERE are some bits Of advice which
the woman who has the true holi-
day spirit In her heart should follow:
First. Finish UP all shopping as soon
as possible. There are always some last
minute purchases necessary. Some one
has been forgotten, or something neces-
sary for the tree or the stockings has
been forgotten. But sit down now and
make out list OF the things you know
about now that you need before Christ
Second. Don't plan to do more than
you can do without making yourself ILL.,.
II you feel nervous and rushed with work
to finish your Christmas gifts don't fin
ish them. Send letters or cards instead
Of the gifts you had planned to make.
Remember that you owe 1t to your fam
lily not to be ill or tired to the point OF
exhaustion or nervous on Christmas day.
Send your Christmas gifts as early as
you can send them. The attractive tags
that are now sold to put on Christmas
boxes to warn those who receive them
that the boxes are not to be opened until
Christmas can be used on the boxes sent
now. But remember that the expresSmen
and the postal clerks and carriers will
be overworked for the next few days,
and try to make their work easier by
sending your gifts early.
Order whatever you can from the
grocer as early as possible. Christmas
eve is almost a nightmare in most
grocers' shops. Much Of the ordering
could just as well be done a week before
Christmas as the day before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21
Posing Child for Photo Is
Always DifGicwlt Matter

with pictures in them to look at II he
Is interested in flowers, have flowers in
the studio. If the child is boy. get
him interested in discussion or ms
some new sort of base ball or racquet
and get absorbed in that. If the child Is
a girl and likes dolls, let her see new
or unusual doll.
Such simple devices soon get the
chiid's mind away from themselves
which is just what the photographer IL
after and which is just the thing he can
not do without the help of the older per-
son who brings the child to him.
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And the child must be in his usual
clothes-as gay and gorgeous as you
please, if he is used to them, but simple
if his habitual raiment is simple.
Let him wander about the studio until
his feeling of shyness induced by strange
surroundings has worn OFF, and let his
clothes be the clothes he is used to wear
ing and let his mind and attention be
fixed on something absorbingly interest
ing. and the child poses himself for his
picture
AS the photographer already quoted
says: "A child should never De poseo'
he should pose himself"
So much for general principles or
photogra phing children. Here are lew
concrete rules about the sort and color
of clothes they should wear.
For small boys any simple suit Is gooo.
The very small boy should wear 1resh'
becoming suit of white pique or linen.
The older boy should wear such a suit
as he wears to school, but 1t should be
clean and fresh He might wear some
other suit of which he is especially iona
"a riding suit or scouts suit OF any
other uniform he possesses
AS for little girls, the general opinion
of professional photographers IS that
they make the best pictures when they
are dressed all in white. Black shoes
and stockings, of course, may be worn
with white srocks, but black never takes
so clearly and the photographer has to
do more touching up to anything DlacK
that is photographed than to things IN
lighter colors.
Red and deep blue have the same effect
on the sensitive camera plate as black.
Pale blue lavender and light pink all
take practically white, and so II any
color is worn it should be one OF these.
Yellow is not good.
The styles of the day are good ones
for the photographer. He usually ap-
hors starch and stiffness, and the long,
graceful folds of soft materials which
even child's frock may have TO-DAY are
his delight Any soft, simple white lin
gerie or wooden frock will surely give
good results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21

TN making aLchovy sandwiches spread
slice Of freshly toasted, buttered
bread with strips of boned anchovies
Cover with a second slice of buttered
toast. Cut in triangles, arrange on let
tuce leaves and garnish with group of
capers, a thin piece of picked beet and
some picked onions.
Currant Jelly and Pistachio Sand
witches.
Between thin slices Of buttered white
bread spread a filing Of cream cheese
and currant jelly smoothly together.
Sprinkle the top of the sandwich with
ground pistachio nuts. The pink and
white of the filling with the green OF the
nuts make a pretty color scheme.
Brown Bread, Grapefruit and Pre-
served Ginger Sandwiches.
Butter slices of brown bread, then
spread with grapefruit marmalade mixed
with chopped preserved ginger. Put on
a top slice OF buttered bread and cut in
triangles.
Russian Sandwiches.
Chop olives fine and moisten with may
onnalSe. cut Dread In thin, narrow strips
spread one-half with chopped olives and
the rest with caviare. Press together in
pairs.
Among simple, easily made cakes and
CONNECTIONS that can be daintily boxed or
basketed and sent out with a card of
holiday greeting or served at afternoon
teas are the following:
Grilled Almonds.
These furnish a delicious bonbon.
Blanch and prepare in the same way as
for sailed nuts, emitting the salt and oil.
Boil one cup of graduated sugar with
one-quarter cup Of water until it spins a
thread, then throw in the nuts. Let them
cool in this strip, stirring occasionally
until delicate brown and the strip be-
gins to take on color, then take the pan
from the nre and stir the almonds rap
Idly until the strip turns to sugar ana
cnngS irregularly to the nut.
Nut Caramels.
Put a quarter of a pound of grated I'M
sweetened chocolate into a pan with four
ounces OF butter, one pound of brown
sugar. half cupful of molasses, halI
cupIui o! cream and half teaspooniui
OF vanilla Cook until brittle when
dropped into cold water, then ada al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21
A Dainty Handkerchief.

A DAINTY gift for little girl is q
box Of housekeeping handkerchiefs
seven In q box. one for each day. which
are sold for 20 cents. One Of the hand
kerchiefs is printed with q little coloreo
sketch of a small girl washing, another
shows her ironing. another baking. an
other marketing. Each OF them shows q
sketch suggestive of the activities of one
dav of the week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21
Sugges tions for
Some Things You
Can Make at Last
Minute, Easily and
Quickly, if You
Have Overlooked
Friends in Making
Out List of Holiday
Presents.

@VHERE are always some last
minute gifts that must be
made. either because the giver
of gifts has forgotten TO write
some name on her Christmas
st, or because she has failed to make
the gifts she intended to make earlier
christmas would not be Christmas to
most of us if there was not little hurry
and furry at the end.
Here are suggestions for few easily
and quickly made gifts that any clever
woman can compass without much trou-
0ie:
A knitting case is sure to be liked by
the woman who uses worsteds, whether
she knits or crochets. Its name is in
adequate, but the article itself is most
lseful.
II consists of a square of some sort of
muslin to spread over the lap to protect
the gown from fuzz and lint and to pro-
tect the knitting from soil. In the mid
Ole of the square is little bag to hold
the ball of worsted. When the knitting
Is not in use the four corners of the
square are folded over and either pinned
or tied with four ends of ribbon
To make the case, buy a yard of fig
ured lawn or muslin of some sort twenty
seven inches wide. Square it and from
The nine inches left cut a strip about
eighteen inches long and nine inches
vide Turn an inch-wide hem and
featherstitch ii. The material should De
reversible and the hem should be turn
ed over on the side of the material which
IS up when the square IS spread over the
lap. From the remaining material,
which should measure nine inches
square, cut two circles each four and
haAf inches square and turn under the
edges an eighth of an inch.
Seam the two ends of the long strip
Make a hem with a casing
for q drawstring in one side and gather
the other side Basic one circle in the
center of the big square on the wrong
side. making its edge with thread on
the right side-that is, the side that is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21

vHE goose is the time-honored
Christmas bird, even as the tur-
key is the Thanksgiving bird
And there are even more ways
of stuffing and roasting a goose
than there are ways OF stufiing and roast
ing turkey.
Before the stuffing. however, comes the
choosing. And this is an important part
of the preparation OF the Christmas
goose.
A goose is never fit TO eat after IL is
three years old, and is far better when
it is less than three. The young goose
has smooth, yellow legs. free from feath-
ers. It's breastbone bends easily, If the
goose is tender. as IL should be. IL the
feathers are left on the wings. as they
sometimes are, they should be sharp and
pointed in young bird. blunt in an old
bird. The windpipe I'm a young goose r.
flexible and easily moved between the
thumb and fingers.
The flesh. OF course. should be plump
and elastic to the touch. The feet should
have short, sharp claws, as the claws oil
an old bird are long and blunt
So much for the choosing. Next comes
the Stufing, and about this there Is =
good deal of difference OF opinion. The
Germans stuff geese with sauerkraut and
the geese q delicious flavor.
Some women put few pared apples
and onions In a goose and remove them
when the goose is cooked.
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Here Is an old recipe for stuffing the
Christmas goose: Season mashed pota-
toes with pepper. SAT- and butter. sage
and onion juice to make a savory stun
ing Fin the goose with this
Another old recipe calls for bread
crumbs. chopped apples. sage. onion Juice.
salt, pepper and a little butter
Still another etufiing il made in this
way: Cook four peeled and cored ap-
| pies and four onions in saucepan until
/ they are tender and then rub them
through a sieve. Add to them half \
teaspoonful OF sage. pepper. salt. half q.
| teaspoouful OF thyme and a cupful Of
mashed potatoes.
After the goose is stuffed. rub II well
with lard or sprinkle it thoroughly with
| flour. Put IL in a roasting pan. season
with salt and pepper. add half a cup OF
boiling water and roast, basting often,
| until Il Is tender. Cook the giblets and
chop them. Mix them with the gravy in
the pan In which the goose was cooked.
thtcken slightly, skim on the grease anu
/ serve as gravy.
Garnish the goose with watercress, and
serve with gravy. apple sauce and onions.
| II the goose Is old and tough put II In
| q potful Of cold water over the fire.
When the water boils remove the goose.
| Put an onion or two In IL and roast II
without stuffing.
Here is a way to cook goose with a dit
ferent sort of dressing from any OF those
vet described: Rub the goose the night
before 1t is cooked with salt. pepper. sage
and sweet marjoram. inside and out.
| Make q dressing the next day Of a hand
| full of. seeded raisins. the same amount
| OF currants. q cup Of chopped sour ap-
pies, a mealy boiled potato, some butter
| and bread crumbs to make enough to I'LL
the goose. Use no spices or other sea-
soning.
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To Keep Shoes Clean.

TWENTY-FIVE cents is the price of a
little continuance which any man
would appreciate-and there is no reason
why it should not find favor with busy
women. too. 1t is a shoe polisher which
can be carried about in the pocket OF
handbag.
1t Is a little strip OF lambs wool a
couple of inches wide and twice as long,
backed with a piece of leather. When
the polisher Is not in use, II is rolled up
with the leather side out, and clasped
shut with ball and pocket clasp.
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WORLD-FAMOUS department store
recently had an exhibit Of interior

a recently had an exhibit Of interior
decorative schemes that all stores
might well copy-in modified and much
simpler form. II necessary.
In the show windows of this store there
were displays of furniture, hangings,
rugs and ornaments. There were likewise
pictures Of interiors furnished with these
very furnishings. marble table in one
window stood in a beautiful hall. shown
in picture In the same window. A mar
BILE flower box stood under a window in
tapestry was used as a panel on the wall
by the side Of the stairs.
4
The flower box and tapestry were shown
In the window, and so were rich hangings
that were shown In the picture of the hall.
There were other windows in which other
groups Of furnishings were shOwn-One
Gothic, and one Japanese or Chinese.
And in these windows there were pictures
showing the actual use OF the furnish
ings.
or course, a display of this sort might
not be very useful to most Of us. It
would give US an idea of the beauty that
can be attained by the careful use Of
well chosen furnishings. But the rich
ness of the draperies. the expense of the
furnishings, would at once make the
whole exhibit seem rather like a fairy
story than a real lesson in interior deco
rating.
However, 1t was a lesson in interior
decorating, and a lesson that ought to
help every one who saw it.
We are prone, many of US, to look at
the furnishings we see in the shops just
as so many furnishings. We have diff
Guilty in imagining them a part of har-
honious surroundings.
OF course, 1t would be impossible for
every store to have pictures of real or
imaginary rooms furnished with the
chintz. scrim, rugs, chairs and pictures
that are sold in the store. But we our
selves can construct these pictures,
whether or not we know much about
handling a pencil and a brush.
To begin with, If you have room to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21
To Keep Fruit Cake Moist.

THE best and most simple way to keep
a fruit cake fresh and moist Is by
means of a fresh apple. When a large
cake is made, which is necessarily rich,
and consequently only small pieces serv-
ed at one time, it is a problem how to
keep it in the best condition. If kept
in a dampened cloth, as Is customary,
you are apt to forget to wet 1t from
time to time The apple must be remov-
ed as soon as il begins to wither and
new one put in the box.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21
To Clean Marab0u.

DEL1cATE marabou neckpieces and
- trimmings may be easily cleaned at
home. Shake the marabou very care
fully in warm soap suds of some good
white soap. Continue until the water is
soiled. and use clean suds until the mar
abou looks clean. Rinse well. Hang in
the sun or where the air will strike it,
and shake occasionally until dry. Dry as
quickly as possible.
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Gifts Atsractively Wrapped

six tones Of single color. BY VARYING
the positions and number Of the different
tinted strands a succession Of patterns
can be evolved.
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The new ''chlamyde" Is taken from the
Greek costume-a large square of net or
tulle black or white, weighed down all
around with jet or pearl fringe and with
a hole in the middle for the head. A
point falls over each arm, and the whole
is held by pearl or jet girdla
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21

You simply can't have too much color
In your handkerchief this season; greens,
reds, lavenders, yellows, browns and
blues are all in favor.
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For the Christmas Table
pound of chopped nut meats, either OF
one kind or mixed.
Cocoanut Cream Candy.

Melt in q saucepan two tablespoonsfuls
Of butter. then turn In one-half OF q cup
Of milk and q half cup Of sugar. Bring
to boil and cook twelve minutes. being
careful to prevent 1t scorching. Push to
the back Of the fire. add a third of q cup
of shredded cocoanut and q half tea
spoonful of vanilla, and beat until the
mixture is creamy. Pour or drop by
spoonfuls on to q buttered pan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21

VIE goose is the time-honored
Christmas bird, even as the tur-
key is the Thanksgiving bird
And there are even more ways
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21

PHERE are always some last
minute gifts that must be
made. either because the giver