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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1956.
Hearty greetings
to all babies and special good wishes
to those in hospital. A Healthier, Happier,
Christmas and
Neto Year on
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AN IDEAL XMAS GIFT FOR CHILDREN.
HAVE FUN DECORATING YOUR HOME
These Easy-to-do Ideas Will Get You Started
TAKING home docorn- FIX UP THE HOUSE FOR XMAS! |
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tions is good group ex- tertainment,
so invite your puls to join you. You will "deck the halls"
not only
but you
will have a good
time doing it.
For instance, 1⁄4 cup salt and cup flour and 4 cup water will, if mixed well and heated over a slow fire until it is thick, make little snowballs that
can
be fashioned into real-looking knowines for the living room mantel or dining room lable. You
you 50 desire, make one bly snowball, sprinkle it with tinsel and place a Sunta
such snowball alop it. Two
can,
before the replace is a unique decoration and though logs may burn in the grate, these snow- balls won't melt.
Buy small bundles of greens and flip them into clusters about the size of your list. Then select a bright-coloured glass orna- ment and the to the greens. These decorations are most colourful on tie-back curtains or placed on either side of tall red candles.
You can personalise the orna ments by writing in the names
Use of your family.
BABY FOOD JAR, WITH
CANDLE INSIDE - DECORATE JAR AND
WRITE PERSONS
NAME ON ONE
SIDE
FOR PLACECARO."
STRING CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR A DOOR SASH
a single beed. The bead will look like a clapper though if you want something that setual- ly Unkles. you can use a tiny bell. Hold the ribbon clupper in place with gummed tape and the a ribbon on the top of the bell.
FLOUR, GALT AND WATER, MIKED WELL AND, HEATED, WILL MAKE REAL LOOKINO SNOWBALLS-
PAPER CUP BELL AS A SHADE-PULL
GAMALL BUNDLE-
OF GREENS WITH A BRIGHT DRNAMENT, TIED
AND PLACED NEAR A RED CANDLE.
POM POM DECORAT MADE FROM RED DRINKING STRAWG
of the Alze
an opener a white
paint that has an oil base, take small pointed brush and write Mom, Dad, Mary, John and baby
ball. Sprinkle on each
with tunsel while the paint dump and allow the proper time for drying.
A different use for the little bunches of greens
paint white the small fire that baby food cornes in, the All with these bunches of greens and place the miniature pols
You can take the same paper cup, stick in a pair of wooden spoons for wings. press
two spoons together for a head, add yellow wool hair and you have an angel.
Sometimes Mother has several an amoli purre mirrors from die window sills for decoration or carded pocketbooks. Paint snow the table for Christmas scenes On there mirrora and favours.
Some boys and girls frame in a cireutor or square even hang these little pola upon paper dolly, dunending on the their trees, looping vno pipe shoe of the muror. The mirror stem cleaner about them und
snow scenes can be grouped an another cleuner stern to hold wall pictures near a wreath of then.
green,
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Icaves a a smooth edge.
INGENIOUS GIFTS FOR YOUR
PARENTS
WOULD
you like to make a different gift for mother for Christmas? Then make her a terry-top. iu a little
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terry-top cap that she can use when she has shampooed her hair or put it up in pincurls. They are also very useful if she has given herself { home
because permanent they are not as bulky and heavy to wear ns a large bath towel or turban.
HEAD AND
BODY ON
"PEAGANT WOMAN PIN-CUGNION
TERRY
STITCH TWO SIDEO
CLAY
WHITE
TOP"
YARN HAIR
TWO WACH- CLOTHS
TACK CORNERS-
"BRIM
ICA CREAM STICK -
FILL BAG WITH COTTON
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enough to hold emery boards, easily seen among other hangers all nie, bobby pins, nail polish in the closet. Drill two holes at and a clasp.
an upward angle on either side Your peasant-woman may be of the hook, measuring to mnie You will need two good-
have the distance sized washcloths, in her stuck with pins and, at the same sure you
time, hold the articles that properly spaced. Draw a black- favourite colour, and needle cutter up a dressing table. bird's Inco around
each holo and thread.
For your dad, make a fancy nited out with eyes. Glue two banger
his wardrobe. short pegs where the holes aro Place the two cloths to Take
ordinasy wooden and paint yellow for a bill. The gether. Starting at the top coat hanger and point it a bright hanger will be a handy item for
sketch, yellow in order that it ean be bells and lea. corners, as in the now with very fine, stitches, down one side. If you are old enough to use the sewing machine that is even better, but if not do it carefully by hand.
tight
Start
al ngain the top and sew down the other side.
Feld back the open side about one inch and catch it up with one OF two slitches at each
by the way, is most useful for
wills #111 hiding
Christmas morning.
Collect in cans used for frozen orange juice, See that the tops have been re- moved with
that
faint rome
of them
red. some green,
while and red or green.
Punch leave the others allver. holes in the bottom so that clapper may be luseried, Use small Cristmas tree balls for clappers.
some
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Tie the bell to a short plece of red string and the other end to grens or the tree. Let the of clapper hang part way out the beit so that the bald shows. This can be crtanged by adjust- ing the length of the string be- tore tying the bell in place.
corner to make a brim.
If you make a while terry-top embroider mom's initials on it in
The Homely
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Is
Chosen
N that Christmas night
nearly 2,000 years ago, there lived a little donkey in Palestine near Nazareth.
He was gemie, kind and pallent--but he was not pretty. His ears were too big, his cont Are you making
pincushions was too ehaggy and his tall was for Christmas? This
peasant- tad tufty. woman
pincushion has a real gift-shop look.
One
IT'S VERY UNLIKELY THAT AN LINIMPORTANT CREATURE LIKE ME WELL BE CHOSEN FOR BUCH AN IMPORTANT. MISSION
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Suddenly he heard a clear voleo that seemed to come from
He thought, too, of the strong and steady ox.
St John, the son of the man Construct the aged face of who owned him, loved Homely brown modelling clay, making One very much and talked to him as a good friend. John had a jutting chin and long nose. Place the head on an ice cream led him out to graze on this stick. Shellac the entire head wondrous night of strango hop- when dry and add while yarn penings on earth and in the sky. hair. Model an upper body of No one paid any attention to the same clay, chest, back and Homely One, but he felt cager arms, Shellac. While the shellac and happy. is drying, sew a coloured blouse Save empty baby food Jars and stitch a black kerchief to tle Spools can be painted with if your front door has a panel and candie stubs. Decorate Jars over the white yarn hair. faces or gay designs and attack of glass, cut construction paper with paint or nail polish. Use
The
Cut two circular pleces ed
leaves and other shade-pulls. An- the size of the glass, copy a re- stars, holly
The Homely One wished with other ornament
for a
shade- ligious picture in small squares, Christmas patterns on one side scrap goods and sew together a long way off. Then his heart all his little heart that be, too,
about pull is 12 red drinking straws then cut not the portions that of the jar. Write or print the leaving a round opening
the size of a quarter on the topgan to beat faster and more might have some great talent. eut into three peris, bunched will met mar the design and name or initial of a guest
joyously, for the voice belonged
"But," he said to himself, "I back together and tied tightly in the paste the
with bright- member of the family on the side. Full the
with to the Archangel Michael. He have nothing much to offer. I Place middle,
collon. A light and most ul- coloured tissue paper. You will other side and stick stars around inside the cotion filller and sewe
the figure
was telling all the dumb
am the very Itast of God's tractive Christmas pompom! have a fair copy of a slained
animals of God about the birth creatures. I am not worthy Ask Mother to
Cut tightly in place.
en of a divine Child in Bethlehem, An inverted paper drinking glass window.
so great a task." String Christmas cards on a
melted wax in the bottom
the width of the pin- and how they of apron, cup is a third shade-pult
would all servo for a door
the jar and stand a candle stub cushion sean, gestion. Punch a tiny hole on red ribbon.
and place five pockets Him, each in his own way. In it.
In the rpron, simply by adding the top (the bottom of the cup Cards can also be mounted on a
another Light the placecards just be-
square in this case) and place a ribbon square of red cardboard or on
of goods and There was a long silence be- sides
Then, in a crystal voice the of hand-made fore you sit at the table
a
for stitching
In
the Angel spoke again. compartments fore inside on which you have placed both
These cardboard screen. The screen. Christmas dinner.
pockets should be big Homely One stood very still and Archangel spoke to him: "You, bowed his head as it in prayer, lo donkey, are chosent You are meek and gentle, and lowly Then the voice of the Angel of heart. It is you who shall came again and said: "Now this carry Jesus on all
Hi jour- Babe from Heaven, born in neys"
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THEM ALL
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Bethlehem, must very soon go on the first of three great jour neys. One of you animals will have the great glory of carry-, ing Him on His travela."
The Homely One thought of the royal-looking Hon. He thought of the camel, the switt ship at the desert; and the cle- phant, who was one of the most powerful beasta in the world.
The Uttle Homely One
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so happy that his heart was full of peace and good-will toward ali God's creatures, When John came to got him from the graz- ing lands, the knew that tho avde to carry Mary and Joseph and tho chid Jesus away to safely. The Homely One was ready to begin the fight into Egypt,
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