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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1959.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

STORIES FOR BOYS & GIRLS EASY

EASY TO KNIT SKIN DEEP

Way Out On A Limb!

-Knar! Decides Living in Trees Is for the Birds-

By MAX TRELL

46 VE'RE Roing to live in a tree! I know you think we shouldn't. But we're golog to do it anyway." suid Teddy, the Stuffed Bear.

Knarf, the Shadow with the Turned About Name, looked at Teddy in surprise. Steuding next to Teddy was another one of Knart's friends.

This was Hlawatha, the Small Sized Wooden Indian.

Hlawatha nodded. "Yep! Both of us are going to

live in a tree."

"What do you wont to do that

they?" he said.

"Yes," ank Kaart.

Teddy declared it 3305 very simple

All

"Birds live in trees, don't they?" said Knart.

If they like living in trees, I don't see why we shouldn't

Tarxan-Style

"Yep, that's right," said Ĥis- watha Teddy and I are going to live in a tree. If you want to come with us, you can live in a tree, too."

"What tree are you going to live in?" Knarf askid.

lawatha and Teddy painted to the big maple tree back of the house.

"All we have to do," said Texidy, in pick out one of the branches of the tree where we're going to live. I'm going to pick that big branch that sticks out over the lown,”

1liowo the zuld he wanted a branch higher than Teddy's branch.

By this time Knarf, declding he might as well join his two said he would live on friends, the branch midway between Teddy's and Hiawatha's branches,

To Each His Own

All the rest of that morning, the three friends busied them- selves building nests on their branches in the own private maple tree...

Teddy built a nest of straw and old newspapers.

Hiawatha made a very neat He lined nest of an egg basket.

it with bits of string and ribbon. Khart found an old umbrella and by turning it upside down,

Rupert and the Outlaws-12

After a time the voices cras, and, as nobody seems to be may ing, Rupert feits to edge away from the place that has given bini such a scare. However, his new direction brings him to yer morz of a dead-end in a piece of broken cliff, 17 I could only climb this

I might see over the top of the wood and get some idea where am," he says. He talks to himself in quite low voice, but he has hardly apoken when a grins Gigure in a sheepskin tukic and wearing long moustache appeara round the edge of the cliff. ALL RIGHTS RESERVEN

Teddy settled down in his mest for the night.

that is with the handle stuck straight up, mede himself quite a pleasant and roomy next.

"Are we going to sleep in our nests all night" Kuari asked.

"Of course," sald Teddy and Hiawatha.

So that night, Knarf and Teddy

und Hiawatha rettled themselves in their nests in the For a while I was quite tree, pleasont. They saw the lights in the house twinkle and go out. The Rains Came

But, suddenly, the moon and the lars, which had been shin- ing quite cheerfully, went out. The y led with dark clouds. It begun to rain.

"I'm getting all wet!" eried into Kлart. "I'm going back the house!"

Teddy and Hiawatha stayed in the tree for another hour or 50. But Anally they returned to the house, too, sunking we!.

Teddy shock his herd sadly,

The Birds don't seem to mind the rain. he said.

"I think you have to have feathers to enjoy living in a tree," said Hiawatha, sounding just as sad as Teddy.

But Knarf said:

"Maybe the Birds don't like the rain, either. Maybe they'd rather live in a house like we do instead of living in nests in the trees."

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KEF NO. 430063-

MAF NO.470002

The beauty of a VULCAIN watch can be compared with that of a fine jewel. The graceful feminine tines, the clean refined figures under the gleaming crystal combines In a harmony of truly feminine elegance and, of course, its reliability and accuracy are unquestioned.

SÓLE AGENTS: CASEY CO, LTD. 205 WING ON LIFE BUILDING, HONG KONG TELL 26559,

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Evening Jersey

Materials:

(0-6) oza. Sirdar Majes

tie 3-ply wool.

2 No. 9 and 2 No. 12 "Aero" Knitting Needles.

A cable neodic.

--Silver sequins and silver beads.

Sewing silk to match the wool.

Measurements:

To fit a 82 (34-36) Inch huat.

from Length

18 shoulder ins.

top of (19-192)

seart

4

ine.

Sleeve finished.

Tension:

8 sta, to 1 inch. Abbreviations:

K., knit; P, puri; sts. stitches; st. st., stocking stitch; fin. finishing; patt., pattern; rep., repeat; beg.. beginning; ins.. inches; cont., continue; foll., fol- towing;, rem. remain; alt.. alternate; a slip; s.n. spare needle, dec., decrease; inc., increase.

Where 3 figures are given follow the 1st for size 32, the 2nd for size 84 and the 3rd for size 86..

The Back And Front

(Both Alike)

Using No. 12 noodles cast on 104 (12-120) sts. and work in st.et. for 1 inch fin. after a P. row.

Change to No. 9 needles and work in the foll. potti-

1st row: K, al. 1, k. 1 pasz al. st. mek on to left hand needle and k. Into back of sl. Rep. from to last st., k.1.

2nd row: Puri,

3rd row! K.2.1.1, K.L pass sl. st. back on to left hand needle and k, into back of st. Rep, from to last 2 sts, k.2.

4th row: Purl.

Then 4 rows form the patt. Rep them until work measures 614 ins, from beg., ending wrong side of work Inc. 1 st. each end of next row and every foll, 4th row until there are 120 (136-144) sts, on the needle.

cantil

Bre 02 work. 4th row Cont.

until there straight

132 ina. measures

Ending (06-100) ata. on the needle. wrong side of work.

Cont. straight until work men- Shape Armholes: Cast off 4 aures 3 ins. from beg, ending sis. at beg, of next 2 rows, then wrong side of work. dec. 1 1. at each end of every Shape-top: Cast off 4 sta. row until 70 (80-84) ste. rem. at beg, of next 2 rows, then dec. Cast off.

1 st. at each end of every all. row until 03 (04-66) sta. mem. Cast off,

The Sleeves

Using No. 9 needles cast on 84 (88-92) sis, and work in tho 4 row of patt. as given for

The Cable Borders

The 'Neck Using No. 12

Back and Front, inc. st. euch needles cast on 11 sta, and work

end of 5th row and every foll. as follows.

1

1st row: K.8, p.1, k.2. 2nd row; K.3, p.8.

Rep. 1st and 2nd rows oned. 5th row: $1, first 2 sts. on B.n. and leave at front, k.2, then k.2 from a.n. sl. 2 eta, on s.n. and leave at back, k.2, then k.2 from ... p.1, k.2.

6th row: As 2nd row.

Rep. these 5 rows until strip when sightly stretched' mea- sures 30 (32-332) Ins. Cast off, The Sleeve Borders

By Clare Young IN Rose Laird that beauty

TO one knows better than

is only skin deep!

Rosie (as she insists on everyone calling her) is one of the world's foremost au- thorities on make-up and beauty,

Last year she was voted the most outstanding and hard-working woman of America. She is a con- stant globe-trotter, has met Europe's royalty, is on Christian name terms with America's society:

On a recent

visit to Britain

she held a press conference in her hotel suite. She bounded in. claimed a "Scotch on the rocks" and talked

with excitexily hardly a pause for two hours.

Yet Home Laird is 84 years. otu!

"I'm doing better work now than I did at 80," says this re- markable woman, "I don't know when I'll stop working-prob ably never,

Learn Tolerance

arc

"You

asked to retire much too early," she said

earnestly. "It takes from 40 to 00 to understand life and tolerance. Since I was 70 or 75

I have understood more and more the great difference be tween tolerance and under standing."

Mrs Laird was widowed at 40 -and she bullt cosmetics empire all by herself,

Her Advice

She herself is the best ad- vertisement her products could' have and doesn't hesitate to resort to the tricks of her trade to preserve her looks, even though she is now "eighty-four years young." She always wears make-up, but never too much.

For she has a deep hatred of make-up when used to cover up imperfections. "Don't father your face with foundation and . powder,"

she says strongly. CLEAN YT. A clean akin means fewer lines and fewer unsightly enlarged pores. Scrub your face."

"Nature," says Rosie, #never interfed us to grow old-we Clean your skin. grow old." simulate it, bring up the circu lation, sho adviesa. THEN use cosmetics. Correctly used, they will work wonders."

but for 9% (10-10%) ins. Cast skin oft.

.

To Make Up Press work with a hot iron over a damp cloth. Sow deeve shaping to hem at lower edges and sipstitch in parition. Decorate the borders with the

sequins, placing one in cuch cable and using a bead to attach each sequin, Join ends of borders and placing 'purl ridge

to neck and alcove edges new

all round neck and sleeve edges.

Work at given for neck border` Press PERNIS,

RED INDIAN FOOD

"CCUSTOMED to hard-

A

ship though he might have been, the North American Indian must

have thought at times that acorns and lichens make mighty poor fare

Starvation- was nothing new to Indian tribes, par- ticularly those in the Great Lakes region, but what the Indians ate when they couldn't hunt or fish has been of Interest to persons cut off from food supplies by accident or military

emergency.

A University of Wisconsin

The

probably

wha ROOT

THE ACORN PELIABLE IKEMAKE STAND-OF

noorns are scarpe.

"Remember," she says, "that make-up protects the skin. Don't Imagine that you're doing “your good by doing without make-up. You're only letting in the fumes and dust... clogging the pores. After all, it's the only face you're going to have!"

Lamps Favour

Leaves

Chicago.

TEW collections of

N lampe feature com-

binationa of metal and

In the far north, oaks and Wood, stone treated to look But here are like wood, and wood pro found the white sprUDO and ceased to look like metal. balsam fir, benealli whose Taube of Philadelphia branches grows to the caribou hines delicately

com- carved Italian

--a grest mossy delleney known | metal and wood. A morning as lichen which can be scratch-glory vine in white metal, anti- ed mut from beneath the now qued with gold, is the motif for in winter.

To the Indian and Jesuit It

a small, three-light fixture which

would it nicely into a 9 x 11-

foot room. It can be hung as a chandelier (565), or is availablé

was no delicacy, but it could keep life flickering during the long, bitter nights." One mia. as a 42-Inch table lamp, mount-

to

sionary said. "to make a brothed on an antique gold feat base and with a white silk shade it is only necessary to boll it,

(B107). and then occasionally stir make it resemble a black glue. One must close the eyes on first tasting it, and take care lest his lips stick together."

A three-candle light of us- sorted flowers carved from gold ormalue, a French bronze, can- be installed on an arma esa bang- |ing side light ($70), or hung as

a chandelier ($35).;

Chea Ltd. of Chicago perched

He observed that this was "the mythical god Pan on

to kind of foam or silme, like that stool, his pipes at his lipa, Vof analis,”

form a 50-inch table lamp in botanist, Mes Wilma Zickor, has

More recently.

white with biêhlights scientist antiqued Q gone through the transistions of

first dried and then ́ rosstad some of the earliest accounts of second to wild rice as a vaget- Whenever the Indians were analysed lichens and found that of gold leaf ($125); NGA)

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·Indian was able to wrest a destroyed by enemies

of honey, hominy, corn flakes, for a 'table lamp ($75), and for itving from laken, forests, and One missionary wrote in 1650 California India first re- cabbage, sugar, or soybeans, a floor lamp patterned, after an, prairies.

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thar grain."

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