Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1911 — The HOME DEPARTMENT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The HOME DEPARTMENT

ONE’S OWN NOTEPAPER IDEA PARTICULARLY PLEASING TO THE CHILDREN. Hand-Painted Designs Easy of Accomplishment by Even the Very Smallest Members of the House- .. ■. \ hoM—-Pictures to Copy. When you were a child, did you ever have notepaper .all your very own? If so, you will appreciate the joy in the receipt of a box of paper and envelopes, with designs especially made and painted by hand. Children are very fond of colored drawings. When they can be combined with letter paper, the little sketches are doubly valuable. Here’s a collection before you. You will purchase notepaper that comes In small sizes, and by aid of a car-

bon paper trace the little suggestions here shown. Place the carbon between this sheet and the letter paper draw over the outline wtth a sharp pencil. There will be an impression left on the paper which will guide you in the coloring.. The little rose girl can be colored pink in the petals and 'green in the leaves. Make hair golden, the eyes blue, and color the cheeks a faint pink. , A long, oblong sketch is that which shows the sun peeping over the edge of a hill. Make Old Sol a bright yellow and the hill Line in the oblong and the features with.ink. Little sketches from magazines, newspapers, etc., will afford the working basis for your coloring. Watercolors or wax crayons will do the rest The work is fascinating and the results will speak for themselves. If you doubt it just try a set for your favorite child. Last is the long panel of flowers that should be drawn across the top

of the first page of the paper. Delicate shades of blue, lavender, pink or yellow should be used for coloring the blossoms and pale green will finish the leaves. - * These are merely suggestions that should point the way for other decorations.

champagne color. These, to case one be in mode, are worn with the latest gowns of pure white lace or tailored, as the cage may be. The scarf, too, which plaggs an Important part in the present costume, is of the same shade, and if belt to worn it to of this color. The hat, too, can be of the shade, or Its trimmings can show the fashion by their color. Crushed roses in the champagne tint are very pretty on a hat of the same pale tone.