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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
5
From Are Those You Make Yourself Some Pretty and Suitable Gifts describes simple crafts for Christmas presents. It explains making an attractive candle holder with pasted ruffles and a small crape paper shade, tied with a ribbon, using inexpensive brass frames and flowers for decoration.
Instructions detail crafting a blouse blotter cover and hanging card bag using cardboard linen velvet and muslin. Steps include sewing overcast edges embroidering violet designs painting cards and adding ribbons and pins for hanging or display.
A detailed sequence shows making a decorative candle holder for a woman’s dressing table using a tin candlestick crape paper tis sue paper baby ribbon and a dab of creativity. The steps include shaping the stalk wraping with crape paper trimming projections and layering crape to form a ruffle and base decoration.
A Ladies Home Journal piece advises using college colors to please hard to please male relatives with home made gifts. Suggestions include pocket letter cases customized with initials, and photo frames or items dyed in Princeton orange and black or Yale blue to reflect the recipient’s college ties.
An old fashioned guide describes knitting warm bedroom slippers for an invalid grandmother. Using German town wool and felt soles, follow a pattern to cast on 95 stitches, widen to 125, then shape to 44, sew sides, knit 24 across, and crochet a shell edge. The result is a comfortable house shoe meant for a grandmother by the fire.
The article notes numerous bag styles that are easily made by fair fingers. It mentions beggara as always present and highlights one novel item a heavy silk top bag with a third depth of new taffeta. It compares to new picture frames and wreath or festoon designs in taffeta.
The article describes a quaint decorative workbag with a festoon motif, silk paneling, blue ribbon with roses, and green pink schemes using rose hues. Details include a double cardboard bottom, pinked flannel leaves for needles, feather stitched velvet band, and a shirred top. It also outlines a letter holder using card board and plush with wild rose embroidery and a satin pocket. An opera bag for girls, made of velvet or plush, lined with silk, drawn with ribbons, and a ribbon loop for shoulder suspension.
Persistent health complaints such as dull headache pains in the body sinking stomach loss of appetite feverishness pimples and sores are cited as signs of impure blood. The advertisement claims Acker's Blood Elixir cures scrofulous or syphilitic poisons and guarantees satisfaction through every bottle sold by T Williams druggist.
Thackerville resident B. D. Blanton paid doctors over $300 in two years for a leg sore. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured it in one box. Ad notes piles cure for 25 cents. 3-4. also promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digesting all foods. Mentions upcoming W. B. Nankeville “Human Hearts” theatrical season.
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