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Show i .HINTS FOR BELATED GIFTS JBags and Aprons Are Easily and! Quickly Made and They Are Al- Mays Acceptable. Tor many weeks before Christmas jthe household Is busy with needle, crochet hook and tnttlng shuttle, fashioning fash-ioning Christmas gifts for fuuitly and friends. Hut, there nlwuys, are some Related gifts, that must be 'made dur-' ing the lust few days, for friends that fwe would like to remember. In such euses there is nothing more Iqulekly or eablly mnde than bugs and 'aprons, and one never can have too , many of either. Laundry bags, stock-' lng bags, dnrnlng bags, piece bags and 'bags for soiled handkerchiefs can bo ,ninde of clilntz or cretonne, and fancy (work bngs, .purse bags, and handkerchief handker-chief bags may be made of silk and ribbon. Several of these bugs can easily eas-ily bo made In an evening, and they .'are always acceptable gifts. fit And aprons ho woman ever had 1 X' Itoo many npron.1 A few yards of glng- m ham, percale and butcher's linen made i w, ." up Into aprons, which would not re- A' i quire more than a day to make a good f jsupply, would go a long ways as gifts IfijL -X" to busy house mothers. And caps, also. M At this time almost' every woman H wears some sort of cap when doing H her house work, and a neat, washable H cap makes an acceptable gift, and re- H quires little skill' in the making. And so with these practical and quickly B made gifts one may be able, to catch up tl with Christmas remembrances, even though belated until the last few days I before Christmas. |