KNICK-KNACKS AT BAZAARS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue IX, 2 March 1895, Page 212

KNICK-KNACKS AT BAZAARS.

I HAVE seen a number of pretty things of late, such as paper knives in wood with hie Satanic Majesty on the top ; pincushions fashioned like pigs, the body formed of kid to hold the pins ; queer china heads used as lamp shades and to bold nightlights ; and a good light for smokers in the form of a street lamp. Various china treasures, sueh as orchid vases and other flowers, in varied colonring ; matchboxes of all kinds, the pendant china ones bright in tint; large satin cushions, with real Howers upon them ; and every variety of china salt cellars, formed of flowers, are dainty. A brush stand, supported by an upstanding bear ; peasant boys holding aneroids, owls forming candlesticks ; all kinds of bottles for liqueurs, spirits, and scent, some covered with a gold lattice- work of cord or narrow ribbon, are all good ; w bile the jilg ini bottles painted with various flowers are most dt corative. For gentlemen there are tobacco jars with heads of birds, such as cocks and cockatoos, and pipe racks discovering the most curionsly carved faces, grotesque in the extreme. Mend stands are surmounted by rollicking bnrghers, and a large wicker ship forms a flower stand for the centre of the table. A goodly show of Hungarian china always proves attractive, it is gay in its colour. Some of the pieces are fashioned like bamboo or like lace, viz .pretty figures dressed in silk and satin trimmed with lace, all in the biscnit china. SOMETHING NEW. A good many pretty articles are made now by embroidering flowers on holland or silk, cutting them out and then appliquing them in patterns on silk and satin, and some of the newest embroideries are worked on one coloured material laid on another, so that when the flowers are thickly worked in silk, the upper stuff is cut away and the under tint appears ; this is particularly pretty for table runners. I sold well at a bazaar some lead pencils, with the lead set in the wood in the ordinary way, but, by means of a slide at the side, the point could be pnlled down, so that it was protected in the pocket. Norwegian tapestry was a successful feature on our stall, and the advantage of it was that, bright in colour, it could be worked in small pieces and subsequently joined. Tussore silk, embroideied with Japanese designs in gold, is applied to a variety of purposes, and is known as Nangaeaki embroidery. BEDROOM PINCUSHIONS. Some of the prettiest are small square cushions covered with silk, and then with fine thread Madeira crochet; the whole set on a square of cardboard much larger, and covered also with the same coloured silk. This gives great solidity to the cushion. A pretty mode of trimming an ordinary square cushion covered with embroidery or silk is to carry the frilling up and down it, but not on the edge only, emphasising the points with ribbon bows. AQUATIC TENT. An aquatic tent which shall show forth fishing, boating and swimming appurtenances would be popular at a seaside bazaar. Fishing lines, rods, reels, nets, baskets, flies, hooks, sinkers, floats, and all the thousand and one trifles which the true angler considers as necessaries of his art, will find ready sale. Yachting caps, tiny imitation canoes and oars, oarlccks. and any and everything which psrtains to a ‘ life on the ocean wave ’ should have their corner in the aquatic stall. Photographs of the champion college crews, and flags and bunting will make the stall attractive both as decorations and articles of sale. One corner of this booth might be devoted to the exhibition and sale of the photographs, if they could be secured, of the feminine crews of the boat and canoe clubs A small tent should be devoted to golf. It may be made gay with the golf flags, and among the articles to he sold should be balls, ball-cleaners, putters, drivers, cleeks, hole cutters, hole rims, tees, clnbs, niblicks, cases, and gloves. Score cases and golf manuals will also find purchasers, as will bags of all sorts.