Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1915 — ORIGINAL IDEA OF MERIT [ARTICLE]

ORIGINAL IDEA OF MERIT

Novel Gift That Could Not Fall to Give Delight to the Fortunate Recipient. „: />• . f. # A girl who is hailed among her especial friends &b the only original one fully lived up to her name and reputation by bringing to the last linen shower a most novel gift—and it was not linen. It was intended, however, for the lingerie chest and was the most novel and prettiest of sachets. Apparently, when the eager bride-to-be opened the little flowered, silk-cov-ered box, she saw lying in its silken depth a large creamy satin rose. When she lifted it for further examination a sweet aroma was diffused through the room and the rose was discovered to be nothing more than a number of petal-like bags of aachet attached to a central calyx disk by means of the smallest of gilt safety pins. The petals shaded from light cream at the outer edge to a deep pink in the center. The only original girl admitted to having used a “real rose” as her model, and . shaping the petal sachets accordingly. A clever little verse told the delighted recipient that one petal at a time might be removed and attached to any piece of lingerie she desired. The sachet used was a delicate rose, which had first been laid between thin strips of soft cotton and baked in a slow oven to make the odor more enduring and less pungent