A ping pong used in making a pincushion? Is there no decency left?
The other day I said that women used every sort of object they could get their hands on to make weird pincushions. This, and the wishbone pincushion, proves my point.
Pingpong Pincushion
The friend who is devoted to pingpong will be amused to find among his or her presents on Christmas morning the funny little figure shown in the sketch.
The body of the Chinaman is a sausage like bag stuffed with sawdust or emery powder. His robe is of flowered silk lined with plain silk like that which appears on the bands. His head is a celluloid pingpong ball, upon which features are drawn with India ink or painted with water colors. His cue is made of horsehair, which is glued to the top of his head. The head itself is glued to the body. Pins and needles are to be fastened in the robe.
Another fancy for pins is the doll pincushion. Choose an ordinary china doll, about five inches in height, with movable arms and legs and a sweet face and plenty of pretty curly hair. Dress the dainty little lady in her long clothes. Four strips of fine white flannel, 2 inches wide and 8 inches long must be carefully buttonholed round the edges then firmly fastened round the baby doll’s waist. Into these are placed needles, white pins, black pins, and safety pins. Then comes the baby’s dress, which is made of two strips of dainty ribbon about 3 inches wide and 10 inches long – one strip for the front and one for the back, held in position by baby ribbon. It is hung up by a loop of ribbon.
Source: The Estancia news. (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.), 25 Nov. 1904.
