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Show The lioyt' Stocking. ' Down on their knees, unmindful of the dirt, Tom, Joe and all the rest are happy playing marbles. . This is fun for the boys, but the stockings all out at the knees which greet the mother bring to her thoughts of mending and patching which but few enjoy. A writer in Go-dey's Go-dey's tells how these unsightly patches and darns mav ha avniileil hv lrniftinx . j ,.b new knees into the stockings. Unravel top and bottom of the rent until you have on each end a clear line of stitches, take up on a knitting needle the upper line; then pull tight the jagged edges on either side of the hole, and with a worsted wors-ted needle and wool just sew them over very lightly and neatly, This done, you have a space to fill up, and you proceed to knit the row you have ready on your knitting needle until you have a flap of knitting done the exact size of the hole. Then take up on another needle the lower low-er row of. stitches, and knit it together with the upper row, on the inside of the stocking, just as if you were fastening off the toe of a' stocking. Once more thread your worsted needle and sew the sides of the flap, on the inside, to the sewn over jagged sides of the rent, and, instead of au ugly darn, you have an almost al-most imperceptible repair. i |