Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1918 — Some Good Things For the Christmas Stocking [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Some Good Things For the Christmas Stocking

SQME philosopher or other said long ago that we do not appreciate that which we do not work hard to obtain and that we love more the people whom we do for than we love the people whb do most for us. If your best friend motors make her a cap, a la sunbonnet, out of some durable silky material that matches her motor coat. Stiffen the visor with buckram, line it with plaid silk and

use the rest of this for a banding that ties carelessly In front. . Smoking jackets, suspenders, bath mules, necktie and collar cases for travelers, knitted golf gloves, throat mufflers and tooled leather picture frames are some of the gifts you can make for the men in your family. Nothing “boughten” could compare with the joy furnished a youngster by these toys that daddy made himself. Pine or sweet gum wood are easily manipulated, and the delight enters with the gay enamel paint that daddy

so skillfully applies to the elephant’s howdah, the parrot’s wings and the sailor boy’s middy. Mother may like something new and attractive in the form of luncheon napkins made of one and a half yards of white linen (a good quality comes at 75 cents a yard) cut into six squares and bordered with a pibot Irish edge afte? merely rolling the edges. Or she may prefer a theater bag made of brocade velvet in any of the new colors and lined with a soft silk in contrasting color. They are made with a poeket in the bottom, either oblong or round, and the top has a casing through which gold ribbon is drawn. Now that patriotism runs high make hubby a red, white and blue pillow for

his morris chair. The cut suggests the embroidery done on a background of linen crash. A quickly made gift for a little girl and ohe which served to teach her a lesson of neatness is a set of ribbon rolls for her hair ribbons. Small pasteboard cylinders', such as are used for mailing purposes, are first covered with cotton wadding and sachet powder and then with silk or satin. The material may be plain or flowered, but must'be of a quality not to “run." ■ For the friend who boards a glass of homemade jelly or orange marmalade would be useful as weH as ornamental. Aepple jelly and orange marmalade can be made at the holiday season as well as In the summer, and then one can truthfully say on the little card of greeting that It was made expressly for the friend to whom it is sent