Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1899 — A FEW GIFT SUGGESTIONS. [ARTICLE]

A FEW GIFT SUGGESTIONS.

Clever Fingers Can Devise Some Very Attractive Presents. Hat boxes, padded and perfumed and covered with flowered cretonne, or painted silk, are made by the beauty-loving maiden for her airy theater bonnets, her plumed hat and other perishable headgear. An odd penwiper has a cover of ooze leather, with a picture of a preternaturally wise looking owl writing a letter as the pokerwork design. The leather is cut to silhouette the head and tail feathers of the bird, giving an amusing and grotesque effect. Toys for men are not uncommon this season. Cigars and cigarettes packed in such perfect Imitation of real cigar and cigarette boxes as to deceive even an inveterate smoker are made of chocolate or peppermint. Big, business-looking pens, pencils and paperweights are made of sugar-paste and paper, and the most artful of spectacles, opera glasses and cases are made of isinglass, tinsel and candy-filled wood. A medicine case of coarse brown linen is bordered with a puffing of pink silk ribbon. The vials are held in place by a band of garter elastic covered with puffed silk and divided into spaces large or small enough to accommodate the bottles. One end of the linen case turns in and la tucked to form two pockets that are to contain court plaster, a tiny scissors, antiseptic cotton and a roll of soft linen. The little bottles are labeled with familiar names ammonia, arnica, quinine, ginger, camphor and other household standbys.