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The Iowa Homemaker: Volume 1, Issue 9
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Is it an impertinent question to ask whether you have a hymn book in your home?
Is it appropriate? Is it suitable to the occasion? Do silhouette, color and line emphasize the good points of my type, rather than detract from them?
These are questions which t h e modern college girl asks herself about the clothes she wears. If each question brings an affirmative answer—then she is, indeed, well dressed.
At Christmas time ,one naturally thinks of home made sweets. Most families have their favorite kinds and as this season comes around, the family joins with holiday spirit into the preparation of crystallized fruits, bonbons, chocolates, salted nuts, popcorn balls and fruit cakes.
Backed up against the rugs and draperies in the window of a country town department store, was a display of crayon portraits, enlarged to life size from photographs and heavily framed in white and gold. A woman and a young girl were standing before it; the one faded, drab, and eager, with a momentary pink flush on her cheek, the other with a dismal cloud on her fair young face.
A bit of yarn, a piece or two of faded old gingham, a yard or so of unbleached muslin and lo-as though some fairy had waved her magic wand, the Christmas tree is turned into a fascinating bower from which peep characters of fairyland and Mother Goose fame.