Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1918 — Why Not Make Some Gifts This Christmas? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Why Not Make Some Gifts This Christmas?

TOO often the days immediately before,,Christmas are spent in worrying over the buying of gifts which the giver can but ill afford and which are going to people whom she cares little about? These are what we

call “duty” presents and of all gifts they give the least pleasure to the giver. So try to Qut yourself in your gifts this year. Begin early and knit the cherub a play suit. Nothing is so soft, so warm and so comfortable for robust children outdoors in early winter weather. For big brother get ribbon two and one-half inches wide, eight inches long; fringe both ends, then embroider initial in center or have gold letters put on. The band can be glued inside of his hat to indentify it. Father will need a new desk calendar and file for his office. So cover, a

form with leather, cretonne or any durable material and hang it by silk cords. Crimson is a suitable color '■qcheme. Apply an easily read calendar near the top center and with celluloid tabs index the lower part so daddy may fill his advance engagements in proper style. > For daddy and brother'a child can enamel gayly the handles of garden and carpenter’s tools. This adds an attractive touch to cold steel. For the children an ‘.‘evergreen pie” served at the Christmas breakfast table always causes great excitement. To make it fashion an immense pie’ dish of cardboard, paint it leaf green and cover thickly with sprays of evergreen. Put in the presents —all previously wrapped and labeled —and then put on the lid. The latter is shaped in cardboard and covered with nice evergreens. - ' ■ The wee baby makes a new appeal to out 6 gift instincts. Cover;.a downy square pillow with palest pink silk and

like the one pictured, cover this with fljlet lace and handkerchief linen in strips that are strapped with satin baby ribbon set off with two soft rosettes- A delightful carriage pillow Is this. ■ . ■ ’