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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1900
Page
5
An article on ladies favorite Christmas gifts through handiwork trends. It highlights embroidery, painting, etching, and crochet, noting heavier embroidery works such as glove and handkerchief cases, pique borders, and monogrammed finishes. It offers practical sewing tips for a catchall bag and decorative edging.
The article describes a decorative single cloth glove case with naturalistic floral designs and matching ribbons. It suggests dresser scarfs, organdy or fine fabrics, a pillowslip style inner sleeve with stitching, a scented sachet pad of china silk, and a satin bow to secure it, suitable for gifts to ladies or gentlemen.
Instructions describe making a scarfpin roll lined with silk and filled with cotton, detailing belt and stitching placements, dimensions, and how to insert pins with heads toward the middle. The craft aims to produce a four inch by one inch tool roll tied with a ribbon.
Uniguut items and painted covers for books tablets and blotters fill exchanges of women’s work with color. Rough linen paper and big petaled roses or tall irises are popular designs. Comic subjects include garbed crickets frogs and birds with a La Fontaine calendar of watercolor fables. A school slate becomes a novel laundry slate.
A homemaking feature describes the bachelor’s blessing gift set sold in fancy goods counters. The small case contains cottons needles and needlebook, handy for traveling men who mend buttons. It suggests festive packaging ideas using holly colors, green boxes with red bows, and white boxes with holly-themed ribbons.
A theater listing touts the melodrama Human Hearts arriving at the Opera House on Friday December 21 as a refined pastoral drama. The article also advertises local deals including preserves, jellies, rockware, teapots, glassware, and farm loans, with notices from N F Kimball, Haas Bros, J B Otools, VAIL, and Ingram Press.
A reflective piece on rural generosity and the value of simple gifts. The narrator notes how country folk make use of available resources and how city residents might overlook such practical abundance. The passage ends with an inviting sense of continuation.
A list of literary titles and authors including Shadow of the Cordillera by Virginia Leila Wentz, Hicksack by John Boyd Clarke, A Doc Rosner's Cuarce by P. Y. Black, The Rep King by Georgiana Evans, Bullpoo Carney by W. A. Fraser, The Miracle of Lava Canyon by W. B. Porter, and Watch for Them.
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