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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! |

M

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

A

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

0

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

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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

of

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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