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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1951.
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Pretty Pouch Purses
By VIOLET M. ROBERTS
The Attic Folk Have A Party P&O B.I. E&A
-A Strange Little Old Lady Started It All
By MAX TRELL
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JW, as you know," Christo- pher Cricket was saying Knart and Hauld, the shadow-children with the turned- about names, "stranger things happen during the night than ever happen during the day. Why this should be so I can't tell-and perhaps no one else can tell either. But let me tell you what happened last night after every
in the house was fast
made himself comfortable under the old stone fence. Knar? and Hunic Sat down quietly by his side. And after a minute or two of silener, during which Christopher thinking again of the thing that happened last night, he Dually began.
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little old lady came out
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of them quite worn and broken. Toys,' she said to them, 'you've
'No
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"It was raining last night and all been here a long time, too. a good deal cooler than it should 'We have,' they answered. have been at this time of the one ever plays with us year. So Instead of going out more. with my guitar and playing and she went from one to the other "And so." said Christopher, singing some songs as usually
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do, I crept into the house through of the old things until at last she a little crack in one of the win had spoken to them all. Then he dows, and made my way up the said. "My dear Old Things, we stairs until reached the attic. are all neglected and forgotten.
For "I don't know what is about But let us not be unhappy. an attic that I always like. May- this attic ja our home. Let us have be it is all the dark and hidden a party. Let us have company. corners. Maybe it is the old Let us have music and dancing. things that always find their way But all the Old Things now cried up into the atte: the old chairs, that they were alone and it was and old books, and old clothes, the middle of the night.
toys. everything old and almost forgotten, just left by themselves in the attic Someone Talking
Company Enough
ESCUE That empty cereal allows. for a half-inch seam. box from the waste basket Cut a rectangular piece of the and make it into В pretty same cloth 18 inches long and pouch-type purse to mutch your 10 inches wide. This allows for a favourite summer dress.
Half-inch searn
the bottom Use 1 ruler for
and a one-inch hem and ald Jermute and side measurements and draw a chair of the top for the draw string After the bottom and sides are sewn together. At the cut-
"AL this the little old
lady off cereat box carefully inside.
smiled. 'We shall have company The slip cover should fit "Or maybe," Christopher went enough. But first, my dear Old Snuggly
around the box, so if on, it is the quietness about an elves neatly and dust yourselves Things, you must arrange your- necessary adjust the seams,attle that I like so much.
But off. And instantly the old chairs making them more or less than be that as it may, when i got to all moved themselves around & one-half inch.
the attic late last night I heard all
talking.
books someone
drst i big old table. The old Hem the top end
stood and insert couldn't tell who it was on ac- shelves of an old bookcase. The themselves In lines on the a drawstring of cotton cord to count of the darkness. The voice old lamps lit close the purse pouch-fash.lon.
ald of the old
The came from inside one This purse is especially handy story books that the children tures hung themselves on the for taking to the beach. When haven't looked at for years and walls. The o.d it's sufled, take the box liner years. And then I saw a little old going again. Then the old broom out and wash and iron the slipjady with a enter. Put together again.
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It was she who was talk thing was spick-and-span and
to the party?" asked Knarf.
"But, Christopher, who came
Christopher anlled. "Finally
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a matching materialing. But exactly who she was I cozy. by the same dimension as for didn't know "AI Any Fit the box liner
rate. shc looked slip cover. inches between the slip cover and the around the attic at all the old (A box ap- lining and sew both materials things. Then she slowly started the old trunk lifted its hid
all the old clothes- proximately four inches in together in the top hem. Secure to walk around. She paused in
Father's clothes, Mother's diameter is about right, such the lining to the box by sewing front of one of the old chairs clothes, the children's clothes, as contains outmeal, cornmeal through the lining (from
Old chair, she said to it, you've Grandmother's the
and Grand and grits.)
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and they all danced and laughed Box of Toys
...until the morning light came "Then the old lady walked an- in and they all returned to their other few steps and paused in dark Ilitic, almost-forgotten front of a box of old toys, some places."
The Way It Began
WEDDING SHOWERS
By LEE PRIESTLEY ATRINA, the prettiest maiden in the Dutch village, had fallen in love. The lucky man was a handsome young miller without two coins to link to- gether because he gave away more grain to the poor than he sold to the rich.
Hans
Hollerhald, Katrina's father, knew the value of 凸 thaler, so he chose for his daughter's husband farmer who owned 100 pigs. That the farmer looked rather like his porkers and had manners to match made no difference to Katrina's father.
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Katrina took one shuddering look at the man her father had chosen to be her husband and put her pretty foot down, Flat She would marry her handsome penniless miller or to one.
von Hollerhald put his On an appointed day neighbourg
Hans big foot down, too. Flatter and friends gathered. "Like rain Katrinn would marry the pig out of
A clear sky," they owner or she would receive showered gifts on Katrina. ΠΟΥ one penny of her dowry, Linens, blankets, feather beds, What traditional sum of money pots and
pans, chairs that
and
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father gave to his tables, even fowls and farm daughter
at the time of ber animals were given to establish marriage. Here was a pretty the young couple. come-to-pass! Dutch girls de- So Katrina and her handsome pended upon their dowries
miller
had a better buy linens, cooking utensils and life than the dowry that her even furniture for their new stubborn father would not pay could have given her. Since But soon the neighbours heard that long ago time, dowries of the lovers' plight and re- have gone out of fashion but membered the miller's many bridal parties where friends kindnesses to others less for- "shower the
young couple tunate. They defermined to with gilts for their new home smooth the course of true love. grow more popular every year,
homes.
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