Evening star., 1928-12-16
Last-Minute Christmas Gifts
nv BETSY CALLISTER.

vt shows rare forethought to have
all vour Christmas shopping done
early. to have taken the last stitch
in the last homemade present
sometime before Thanksgiving, and
In have all your Christmas presents
wrapped neatly in paper, tied with
Christmas ribbon, two weeks before
Christmas.
you will have reason to pat yourself
on the back if you have anticipated
Christmas that way, but / really think
Won will be missing some of the tun.
out of consideration for the saiespeople
and our own peace OF mlno, most
actual purchases ought to be mace pc
fore the last pre-Chrlstmas rusn, put
there really is something rather les
tive about having to rusn around at
the last minute to get things ready
and to make some lasC-minute present
or two that have been overlooked be-
fore.
Two very attractive Christmas gifts
NAV he made from a half yard of yard
wide chiffon and about five yards OF
inch-wide footing and little pastel
coIored embroidery silk. Cut the chill
fon In half to form two 18-inch squares.
Carefully overland the footing around
the edges. rolling the chiffon as you
proceed and nitering the footing at
the corners. With the colored en-
hroidery silk work a tiny rosebud de-
sign on the four mitered corners OF
the footing.
This will provide two Oh the large
handkerchiefs which women ike SO
much for evening or formal afternoon
use. Fine lace may be used instead OF
the footing and white chiffon with
black lace or footing-or black chiffon
with white lace or footing provides the
new magpie effect that is considered
ySry smart.
If YOU can buy some inexpensive
wooden shoe trees these may be trans
formed into attractive presents at short
notice. It is sometimes possible to get
them for as little as 20 or 20 cents
pair. The wooden part OF the trees
may be gilded or lacquered some at
tractiye light shade-the metal strip
between should be wound with narrow
ribbon and a rosette or nosegay OF
ribbon may be placed on this ribbon
wound metal strip midway from either
end. Wooden clothes hangers may be
enameled or wound with ribbon to
make attractive companion pieces to
go with the shoe trees. Smooth-edged
tin boxes can also be attractively lac
quered.
II you are more of an adept at
cooking than fancy needleWork you
may find it convenient to make your
last-minute Christmas presents in the
kitchen Christmas cakes and cookies
can be made and delivered the day
before Christmas, packed daintily in
boxes lined with waxed paped, and tied
with holly ribbons.
The sketches give ideas for several
interesting Christmas gifts. You can
cake a bureau scarf from handker-
chiefs, dainty little soft cushion from
odds and ends of prints put together
in patchwork style; an apron of un-
bleached muslin with cutouts of some
gay cretonne fastened on with one
two-three stitch around the edges.
A handkerchief case can be made
of two strips of satin ribbon, four inches
wide and 16 inches long-16l2
to begin with, to allow for turn
ing under at the raw edges. The two
strips of ribbon are fastened together
with a catstitch or featherstitch and
are tackled over foundation handker-
chief case made of white silk or MUS
lin over padded sheet wadding strip
scented with sachet.
lCOnyrieht 1881