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JILL

Her Character

were

When Jill told you something, blue eyes sparkling, words tumbl- ing over each other, you inadvertently reduced to a state- of credulity, in spite of the still- small voice of common sense.

Jill would say, "I like things that don't tell you everything, and then you have to imagine what it's like."

As Jill neared five, her mother began to see the inconvenient side of this vivid imagination.

When Jill said that she had had lunch with the upper school, sitting next to her big brother Jack, no amount of disbelief or argument would shake her.

Was She Lying? When at breakfast she "Will you have a piece of

pointed out that there was: none

orange, Mummy?" and

on her plate, her insistence that Her Parents' Part

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 26, 1938.

And Her World Of Make- Believeco

whimsical attitude that she does not take it all too seriously.

A finale of loving twinkle, phrase indicating that they both know it is really a game, may be sometimes used to get Jill gently to earth.

your

For instance, comparing her non-existent orange with non-existent grape fruit will bring the game laughingly into its right perspective.

Indirectly, Jill's attitude to life will be improved by making it actually as satisfactory for her as can be. Balance up her feelings of inferiority and frus- tration by seeing that she has

for

Soon the family began to take concerned, the wish is often very things to do which give her sat- it for granted that "You can't pleasantly father to the thought, isfaction through a sense of believe a word Jill says,”

as when she imagines she is successful achievement and res- sharing the more grown-up life ponsibility. of her brother.

Needs To Achieve Some of these "tall stories" Many opportunities of doing it was a "hu ye one" made her

compensate her for her helpless- this will, no doubt, suggest them- mother fear that her mind was With a child of Jill's calibre ness and feelings of inferiority. selves to her mother in the rou- becoming deranged.

one thing is certain-lectures on Others may be a way of working tine of the home and through More than once Jill rushed out lying and punishments are mis- through violent feelings; taking her play and friendships. De- of the house to meet her mother placed.. Jill has no conscious in- pleasure in the creative power of finite channels

imaginative with some alarming yarn, full of tent to deceive. Imputing such words, or arise out of aspects of expression and make-believe, circumstantial detail, of an ac- motives to her will puzzle her, development and character more such as drawing, stories, poems, cident in the house during her and reproaches only make her difficult to trace.

games, acting, and dressing up, absence.

unhappy, with the result that Her mother rightly feels that should go hand in hand with Both relieved and distressed she will need more than ever her if this propensity were to per this. to find it untrue, she felt impell- world of make-believe as a re- sist it would bode ill for Jill's As Jill grows and learns to ed to lecture Jill on the conse- fuge from an increasingly un- future. The time factor and a write, read, and do more things, quences of lying. Jill's face comfortable world of reality, sensible attitude at the moment her need for day-dreaming will clouded and she shed a few mis-

should prevent this.

diminish and her flights of im- erable tears, obviously at sea as Jill is, after all, like the rest Her mother should join Jill in agination tend to confine them-- to what she had done to bring of us, only more naive, in her the game of make-believe, but selves to the more usual chan- all this about.

day-dreaming. So far as she is show her by an untroubled and nels.

Day-Dreaming

A Swiss Design In Knitted Lace

Lace mats look delightful beneath glass or for polished table tops. Here is an edelweiss design which is Swiss and is knitted.

needles.

on

four

A set of these make a delightful gift, and they have many decorative uses in the home.

EDELWEISS DESIGN

MATERIALS:

5 steel needles No. 18.

1 ball of white or tinted crochet

cotton No. 50,-

I crochet hook No. 4%.

Cast on 8 sts., on four needles

on each), and knit one row.

ABBREVIATIONS:

3.*** slip one, knit one, glip

first over the second one.

bknit 2 together.

needle.

knit 3 together.

the

pull cotton forward over

kknit one.

ROWS:

1st.d, k 1, repeat to end of row. 2nd. Knit to end of row.

d, a, k 1. Repeat to end of row.

28th.-Knit.

29th. d, k 3, d,

d, a. Repeat to

30th. Knit.

k 1, b, d, k 3,

of row.

31st.d, k 5, d, c, d, k 5, d, k 1. Repeat.

Knit 4 rounds, 1 round d, a, d, a. Knit 4 rounds, 1 round d, a, d, a. Knit 4 rounds.

Then make chain-stitching edge with the crochet-hook; take 3 sts. at the time with the crochet-hook off the needle, and make loops of 10 sts, each, all round the mat. The 2nd row of chain stitching-18 be made as follows :

Make the 10 sts for the loop and pull cotton through the first loop, each time, until you meet the be- ginning of the 2nd chain-stitch- row again.

21st.

Repeat

Take mat, clear the cottons at beginning and end on

wrong side (work.with needle up and down, not sideways):

a little 1 Lux and soak in sugar and water (two tablespoon- fuls of sugar to 1⁄4 pint of hot water) overnight. Let sugar melt first before you put in the mat.

Draw a circle on a clean bread or pastry board about 3⁄4 in. larger than the mat and insert a pin in Repeat every loop of the second chain-row. It must be even to form a perfect circle. Otherwise the circle will be Re- odd.

NOTE==H

thicker mat desired, as illustrated, use a heavi.

27th-d, k 1, d, a, k 3, b, d, k 1, crochet cotton.

18

3rd.d, k 2, repeat to end of row. 4th. Knit to end of row. 5th.d, k 3. Repeat to end of

rów,

6th Knit to end of row. 7th, k 4. Repeat to end of row. 8th Knit to end of row. 9th-d, k 5. Repeat to end of

row.

10th Knit to end of row. 11. — d, k 6. Repeat to end of row. 12-Knit,

13th, d; k 7. Repeat to end of to end of row.

14th

Knit.

15th.

k 8. Repeat to end of to end

row.

22nd

Knit

16th.

Knit.

23rd. d. 7 d. a,

17th

d, k-1,- a, k 6. Repeat to

end of row

end of row

24th-Knit

18th.-Knit.

19th

25th. d, a, k5, b,

peat to end-of-

26th-Knit.

row.

20th. Knit.