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Show GRANDMOTHER'S FRIEND. A Simple SewInT Device That Is ln genloua and Very Useful. Oraiidmothei s eves ate growing dim and sho Muds troublo In threading needles easllv Hero Is a simple device de-vice that may be oaslly made and ono which she will gieat'y appreciate as a Chrlstmns piesent First take an oblong pleco of wood nine Inches long and about one and threo quarters wide. Tho wood should bo half an Inch thick, so that the peg to hold tho spool of thread may bo driven llrmlv In Finish tho wood of base with a little blacfc-v alnut or cherry stain and varnish. Now select a narrow oblong pasteboard paste-board box, fill It with bran for tho cushion, and stietch n cover of cotton goods over It, lotting tho cotton pass under tho box at sides and ends, and sowing It strongly. A silk or blight colored woolen cover Is put o,-or this and the cushion Is finished with a ft 111 of lace or ribbon Glue the bo cushion on the wooden i base. Whenever grandma bus a ceiv I tain piece of hewing to do, sonio pair of brlcht eves can tit un tho cushion i with ii paper of needles the desired 1 sire, thieadcd with the silk or thread ginndma vv'-Iies to use without ui caking cak-ing tho thro d ' The needles are placed In an oven1 row In the cushion Ho sure the neodle-1 eves are all ciosswlse of the cushion,) Grindnia'i Friend. so the thread mnj pass tbiough them easily as g.-.indma takes a fresh needle. When one needleful Is exhausted, exhaust-ed, giandma Mleetsthe neodlo farthest farth-est from the spool. "holding It gently with thumb and rorellnger until shu has. with jt'.u other band, pulled as long a thren 1 as she wishes, then removes re-moves tho needle from cushion and breaks oft thread. Tho used needles are quilted Into cushion at ono side, icady for bright eves to tluead again some time This device Is also most useful for blind persons who like to sow. Place a spool of w to thread on one peg nnd tluead from It a row of needles Btuck In tho cushion. Put a spool of black thread on tl.o other, and thread a second sec-ond tow of n'-odles the thread passing through on the opposite direction. When icady to sew takei tho needlo farthest from the spool, draw gently away until a thread lc - enough Is In hand, then break, and when tho thread Is used quilt In tho needlo to bo threaded again, and uso tho next one. |