"I think we ought to make those plain boxes the boys have made for the dresses a little prettier. Can't we ornament them in some way?" asked Ethel Blue.
"The made-over ones are all covered with fancy paper you remember," said Tom.
"I was thinking of the plain ones that are 'neat but not gaudy.' How can we make them 'gaudy'?"
"Christmas seals are about as easy a decoration as you can get," Tom suggested.
"Pretty, too. Those small seals, you mean, that you put on letters. A Santa Claus or a Christmas tree or a poinsettia would look pretty on the smaller sized boxes."
"It would take a lot of them to show much on the larger ones, and that would make them rather expensive. Can't we think up something cheaper?" asked the treasurer.
"I'm daffy over wall paper," cried Dorothy. "I went with Mother to pick out some for one of our rooms the other day and the man showed us such beauties—they were like paintings."
"And cost like paintings, too," growled James feelingly.
"Some of them did," admitted Dorothy. "But I asked him if he didn't have remnants sometimes. He laughed and said they didn't call them remnants but he said they did have torn pieces and for ten cents he gave me a regular armful. Just look at these beauties."
She held up for the others' inspection some pieces of paper with lovely flower designs upon them.