d better be all red. All
blue would look well with gold paper. But the colors may be varied
according to taste. If your friend is a brunette, you will find that
he or she will be most pleased with the red, while a blonde will
prefer blue.

[Illustration: A CATCH-ALL MADE OF PERFORATED PAPER.]

A WALL-POCKET OF SPLITS.

Splits, or cigar-lighters as they are sometimes called, are to be
had at any of the fancy shops. They are an inch wide and about seven
inches long, and come in various shades of brown and straw color,
and their flexibility makes it easy to weave them in and out like
basket-work. For the wall-pocket you must weave two squares, each
containing six splits each way, but one made larger than the other, as
seen in the picture. A few stitches in cotton of the same color will
hold the strips in place. Line the smaller of the squares with silk,
and lay it across the face of the other in such a way that the four
points shall make a diamond, touching the middle of each side of the
square. Fasten it to the wall by two of the splits crossed and united
by a bow of ribbons, and fill the pocket with dried autumn leaves and
ferns gracefully arranged.

[Illustration: WALL-POCKET OF SPLITS.]

SILHOUETTE LIKENESSES.

This is rather a Christmas game than a present, but will answer well
for either; and young folks can get much fun out of an evening spent
in "taking" each other. Each in turn must stand so as to cast a sharp
profile shadow on the wall, to which is previously pinned, white side
out, a large sheet of paper, known as silhouette paper, black on one
side and white on the other. Somebody draws the outline of this shadow
_exactly_ with a pencil; it is then cut out and pasted neatly, black
side up, on a sheet of white paper. Good and expressive likenesses are
often secured, and droll ones _very_ often. Try it, some of you, in
the long evenings which are coming.

[Illustration: DIAGRAM OF WALL-POCKET.]

A LEAF PEN-WIPER.

Your pattern for this must be a beech-leaf again,--a _long_ one this
time,--or you may trace the shape from the illustration. Outline the
shape as before, and from the model thus secured cut six leaves in
flannel--two green, two brown, and two red, or red, white and blue, or
any combination you like. Snip the edge of each leaf into very tiny
points, and chain-stitch veins upon it with gold-colored floss. Attach
these leaves together by the upper ends, arranging under them three
triply