Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1913 — Gift for Boarding School Girl. [ARTICLE]

Gift for Boarding School Girl.

Some"of the trlflea whlch the boarding school girl will appreciate when she leaves home for the, first time are writing desk fittings. Give her a package of large-sized blottlpg pads, a leather-encased ink bottle with a snap lid, a box with compartments for pens, ease pencil leads, postage stamp* baggage tags and a ball of

string or an inkstand composed of bottles for two colors of writing fluid and a third bottle for mucilage. You be very sure that she’ll welcome a brass memorandum pad with a chain-, attached pencil, a small leathei>covered pin cushion fitted with pins of various sizes, and a gunmetal pocket knife, with which to point her lead pencils. But whatever you do don’t forget to supply her with the newest thing in portable mothproof chests, which comeß in heavy pasteboard, is light fn weight, and can easily be transported in the boarding school trunk.