Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-15
Vacation a Time Of Gift-Makin@
BY BETSY CALLISTER.


NJ ANY women make fair start
M on their Christmas gifts
WI while they are away on SUM
4 mer vacations. And from two
points of view this is good
/ idea For you save both time ana
! money. When Christmas draws near,
| with its big drain on your pocketbook
| YOU then have the serene feeling that
many of your Christmas gifts are not
only made. but paid for.
| The sort of gifts that one clever
woman made last year for Christmas
/ cost very little For she made them
/ from things she found and collected on
| her vacation--and she made them on
rainy days while she was mentioning
There were pine pillows, for one
thing She bought coarse, heavy linen
in lovely colors and embroidered 1t with
pine deSign--and then filled these en-
vclopes with pine needles to make sweet
and interesting pillows.
One of these pillows would really
make a lovely gift for anybody. lcr
1t is small and unusual, and can be
tucked away anywhere. You can, If
YOU wish, make set of half Cc3cn
for che gift Small pillows, to be
placed on the radiators, so that the
heat will bring out the lovely smell of
the pine needles
Another woman made many gifts cut
of pine cones-at the cost of paint and
wire. She got big cones and cut them
crosswise, so that she had a ilower-like
cross section consisting of tit Of the
hard core of the cone and six c. seven
of the petal-like outer segm2nts.
She painted these In bright colors
like zinnias--and they really looked
like zinnias. Bright red and orange,
in quicll-drying shellac.
The stems she made of heavy wire,
which she cemented on--not with
cement, but with modelling clay such as
one buys for children. A little bit Of green
clay holds wire stem and cone flower
secure, and does not dry out, but re-
mains good holding agent for months.
Then she made big punches of cones,
painted gold and silver and interesting
cclors, with long wire stems, thct were
really very effective placed In q high
vase.
A friend of mine brought me little
chicken made of small pine cone
from the famous French forest of
Fontainebleau. There are black paint
ed eyes q little metal beak and wire legs
and feet And this same little chicken
has been successfully copied. He can
be painted light yellow, or left in the
soft, dull brown Of some pine cones.
The metal beak Is bit difficult to
achieve, but again you can use model
ing clay. OF course, this may become
shapeless If the chicken takes fall
which he is likely to do on his wire
legs. But instead of the clay you could
form beaks of plaster paris. painting
them when they were dry and firm.
Some of the shops sell big parrots
made of huge cones from the South II
you could get the cones. you might
make the parrots Their heads and
tails are cut out of wood. In the mean
time, you might make some little ones
of smaller Genes, and fasten them to
appropriate rings to hang in windows
Hop pillows are another thing that
some clever women make for gifts.
They are said to induce sleep, and do
SO In a perfectly harmless manner. Just
before retiring place the pillow on the
radiator or somewhere else where Ii
may become quite hot and then slip
it into a small muslin case and then
place it on the bed beside the regular
pillow.
To make a good-sized pillow you will
need about four quart measures of dried
hops-which you may gather from the
vines and dry by spreading on paper in
the open for few days. Make pill
iowcase of cheesecloth about large
enough to hold the hops without tight
packing Sew this up and slip it into
another cheesecloth case-So that the
hops are contained in double thick
ness OF cheesecloth.
fCopyrirht. 1927