South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-23
Goody Box

A practical gift for the college
girl is a goody box that. one may be
sure. will be a highly appreciated and
much used offering. College girls
the world over like 10 gather to-
gether 10 enjoy a few simple good
les. during that precious half hour
between the end of the evenings
study period and the lights-out bell.
Then il is that the box from
home, with its crackers and jam, and
cake and cookies, is brought out and
shared by its fortunate possessor
with her particular friends.
It is just because the family and
friends at home are accustomed TO
send her these boxes of eats as
she calls them, that Miss College Girl
needs a safe place 10 keep them in.
often they come we'll packed in
pasteboard boxes. but those boxes are
not always the best things 20 stow
the goodies away in before the
spread" or 10 protect the precious
remains Of the feast from midnight
raids of Mamie. the college mouse,
who shows great partility for such
food from afar. So tin box of some
sort is a real necessity to Miss Fresh
man and 10 her upper class friends
alike
A goOdy box that is soon going 10
one college girl in an excellent eX-
ample of the sort that cannot fail to
receive an enthusiastic welcome. Any
woman with a bit Of artistic ability
could make one like unto il, or SINH
lar for any other college girl.
The foundation of this particular
box is a cake tin, such as one may
buy in the kitchen store. 1t is ia
manned. because that is the way that
they come, not just plain tin. This,
unlike many of its kind, is square,
no - by 10 - inches and seven
inches deep. This is not only a
more artistic shape and size than the
more ordinary oblOng variety, but
will prove more convenient, as re-
CARDS arrangement, when there are
several kinds of goodies TO be slowed
away within it, 1t is well made, of
good, heavy tin.
and it is not intended TO be hidden
away under the couch like its un-
adorned pasteboard predecessor
was fitted up in a color scheme of
blue and yellow. The valance and
side hangings of the two big, sunny
windows are of cretonne with a
rather conventional, small flower de-
sign of blue, yellow, and orange, or
golden brown, on a white ground.
The stems, Of course, are green, thus
adding another vivid note. One
couch is a soft grayish dark blue, the
other, the roommate's, is of that soft,
golden brown, orangey tone.
First, the goody box was given a
coat of blue paint which matched, as
closely as possible, the blue of couch
cover and window hangings. Then,
at each corner of the upper surface
of the cover, there was painted a lit
tie Chinese fruit or flower design
no two alike-with the yellow,
orange and green predOminating. In
the center was placed the mono
gram in blue and green on creamy
ground. on each side of the cover
which is a trife over an inch deep,
was painted a long, narrow, con-
ventional motif, largely green, but
with a gay flower in the center and a
/ bud here and there. This cover was
attached TO the main box, with good,
strong hinges. on each side Of the
! box were two Of the flower or fruit
motifs, so arranged that one did not
/ see two alike at any one glance. The
front clasp, which is a rather clumsy
affair. in general, was painted blue.
and thus did not demand undue at
tention. Then a slender. blunt
pointed little piece of wood was
made with an oblong slit at the
broad, square end and painted blue,
also, to be used as a sort of staple,
and was attached by a braided cord
Of orange silk, thus giving
the whole fastening arrangement an
air OF distinction. The oblong han