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above the shells becomes a neck. Now drill a hole in one side of a small
conical shell. Attach this to the top of the pipe cleaner. You now have the
figure of a comical man, with two large feet made from oyster shells, a body
made from oyster shells, and the legs and neck from the pipe cleaners. The
small shell on top is, of course, the head. Arms may be added by cutting a
pipe cleaner in half, and attaching to the neck at the juncture of the oyster
shells. A small brush and ten cents’ worth of paint will enable you to tint
your figures any color. Ash trays and a score of useful items may be easily
made in this way.

Tosdale Sisters Saw Paris on FancyPillows

T

HE Tosdale sisters had just finished college, and after the usual round of
parties had been given for them in their home town, they developed a bad
case of wanderlust. Somehow or other Helen and Mary Tosdale meant to
make some money for a trip.

There was one thing in which both girls excelled and that was sewing. Both
of them had made all their dresses and many of their suits and coats since
their high-school days. They knew colors and fabrics and they had style
sense. However, neither one of the girls had any desire to develop a
dressmaking trade. It would have to be some other type of sewing, they
decided. And then they hit on the idea of fancy pillows. The years of sewing
in the Tosdale home had resulted in trunks and boxes of both used and
unused fabrics and ribbons and edgings. After a check-up, they found they
would have enough for quite a number of pillows before they would have to
buy any new material.

That summer they worked over pillow designs and by November, they had
made several dozen unusual and beautiful pillows. Ribbons in matching tones
were woven together to make interesting squares; bands of contrasting
material were appliqued in modern effects; porch pillows were made of
sturdy chintz and cretonne, their edges bound in contrasting colors; fine
linens were daintily embroidered to fashion baby pillows of softest down;