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By VIVIAN BROWN
AP Features Writer
Make some Christmas angels
to sprinkle around your table.1
You can have ’em just as angelic
looking as the store-made kind—
and save money, too.
The following are directions
for making a fringed angel cen
terpiece, angel favors, candle
holders as worked out by Den
nison:
Materials: 1 fold each, blush
pink, white duplex and primrose
yellow crepe paper; lbox blue
lawyers’ seals and red gummed
dots, 1 spool wire, absorbent
cotton, paste, gummed paper
tape, silver doilies, red ribbon.
Head: Make tube of double
thickness pink paper 6 inches
deep, 6 inches in circumference.
Stuff with cotton and tie with
wire 1% inches from top and
bottom. Cut blue lawyers’ seal in
half for eyes. Red gummed dot
for mouth. Tint cheecks with
rouge.
Hair: Cut strip yellow paper
5 inches deep, 4 inches long.
Slash both top and bottom edges
into coarse fringe 1 inch deep.
Curl fringed edges over knit
ting needle. Paste hair around
back of doll’s head. Tie top curls
together with red ribbon.
Body: Roll a piece of outside
wrapper in which paper comes
into 8-inch tall cone. Fasten
edges together with gummed
tape. Brush paste over cone and
cover with pink crepe. Paste sur-;
plus neck crepe below doll’s
head, over top of cone.
Fringe: Fold white duplex pa
per in half lengthwise. Slash
folded edge into coarse fringe 4
inches deep. Draw straight edge
of top layer down 1 inch to make
edge curl up slightly. Paste or
stitch on sewing machine to hold
in place. Gather top edge. Paste
fringe in rows around cone,
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working from bottom up.
Arms: Cut across grain strip
of pink paper, 5 inches wide, 10
inches long. Stretch slightly. Roll
over small dowel stick. Paste
edges in place. Crush paper to
gether on stick. Slip crushed pa
per off stick and pull out slightly
for length of arms. Insert a
piece of spool wire and fasten at
each end to keep tube from
stretching. Paste arms in place.
Wings: Cut wings out of sil
ver doily. Pin in place. Book is
cut out of red mat or construc
tion paper.
To make angel favor proceed
as above. Except: Head is 3%
inches in circumference and 3Vz
inches deep. Hair is 4 inches
deep, IVz inches long.
Collar is made by slashing a
tiny silver doily from the outer
edge in to center. Overlap edges
forming slight cone. Insert sur
plus neck crepe below doll’s head
in top of cone. Staple or sew to
gether.
Cup is made by brushing paste
around a nut cup or ramekin,
covering with white paper. Allow
yz inch to extend beyond top of
cup. Paste edge of doily to top
of cup to hold doll in place.
. . . One American to another . . . wishing
you the greatest happiness of the season and
hoping your Christmas will be the merriest
and your New Year the most successful you
have known.
NEVADA
BAR
HARRY GABRIELSON, Prop.