Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — Birch Bark in Demand. [ARTICLE]

Birch Bark in Demand.

Birch bark is in great demand just now. The fad is to make boxes of the bark similar to the jewel cases of beveled glass. They are used for mouchoir cases, glove boxes, bonb >n boxes and jewel caskets. Most of these souvenirs are mementoes of some special occasion, and are all the more prized accordingly. Jack cuts the bark, and Dorothy’s dainty’ fingers fashion it into two pretty boxes. One is a long, narrow case, linedwith silk and perfumed; this is for the dear boy's gloves. Inside the cover are cut the initials J. D.. joined by a true lover's knot. The other box is square; there is no lining and no perfume in this one; it is for candies, and Jack has nobly taken upon hiihself the dvty of seeing that it is keptcontstantly filled, und only with Huylers best. Poor, misguided Ivor! Next summer ho Will be a wisei, but a very much poorer young man.—[Now York Advertiser