Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1912 — MAKES AN ACCEPTABLE GIFT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAKES AN ACCEPTABLE GIFT

Case for Dollies Need Not Be Expensive, but Will Bhow the Work of Loving Hands. One could not make a more acceptable gift to an engaged or married girl friend than a doiley like tbe one Illustrated. Purchase some crepe paper or cretonne at a pretty pattern, and about two and one-half yards of one and one-

half inch'wide ribbon to match, and cot out two ploeor of thick cardboard about two inches across. Cover one side of cardboard with paste, lay the crepe paper over it, and stretch It Quite tight acmes. Cat It sway all around, leaving about an Inch for turning over. Paste the other aide of cardboard and proas the edge of crop# paper on it Then

cut out a round of white paper, rather smaller than the cardboard, and place it so that It covers the edges of tbe crepe paper. Before allowing the paste to stiffen, slip one end oi the ribbon (which has previously ben cat in four equal lengths) between the white paper and the card board, and press firmly. Place an other end of ribbon exactly opposite Repeat instructions on second piece of cardboard, then press both under weights. The ribbons in bows at each side If you use cretonne the lining.of each circle should be 'cream sateen and the cretonne is sewed to the sateen, not pasted as the paper is.