The Archive · 1939

An Envelope Gift

When sending small gifts to the Home-{land at Christmas time large strong envelopes are useful. Such things as handkerchiefs, gloves, scarves, and stockings may be folded in cellulose wrapping, fastened up with ornamental adhesive tape, and then slipped into an envelope of the Tight size to hold them easily. In this way the things are packed quickly and safely. Dibsnseyeiope should be a eldressed before package is placed in it. A few adhesive lain buff colour of the envelope.

labels may be used to relieve

small things, such as Peking Jewellery, or any little gadgets put up in Bdventage, in strong envelopes. The pos flat boxes, may also be enclosed, with should be pushed right to the end of a 2 long a protective fold of corrugated pa

envelope, which should then be fast irren in the middle by means of two small clips slipped through both sides and Folded back. These clips hold the package in place in one half of the envelope and keep the other half flat for the address and the stamps.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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