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Show Heart of the Giver in the Christmas Gift THINK a little while before setting out about the line in which the tastes of your friend run. You will save yourself a vast deal of tramping tramp-ing through crowded shops. Sleeveless sweaters are all the go for girls. Lay in a supply of becoming I , . i wool and, between knitting for the marines, make sister a beautiful slip-on, slip-on, with a tasseled belt. The picture gives a good model. Aprons, "like the poor, are always with us," and many women like nothing noth-ing better. Attractive designs in chafing-dish aprons, with perky little pockets, pock-ets, can be quickly and successfully made by even the girl who is not especially es-pecially clever with her needle. If you are clever handling tools you can make an elegant hand carved tab-oret tab-oret for cigars or a couch-side reading lamp as hubby's best Christmas gift. Use sweet gum wood and select a good design. Get . a carpenter to put it together to-gether for you and give it a coat of 6taln or shellac for finish. Little handmade handkerchiefs of colored linen are a novelty and very simple to make. Either a wide or a narrow hem is pretty, and it should be hemstitched. They should be twelve Inches square. In light pink, pale yellow yel-low or gray the linen comes In a fine quality at about 85 cents a yard. All sorts of cases are so convenient to keep tidy a top bureau drawer or to tuck in a week-end trunk. Raf- ! : - r : a. v v - n i ' s i .rtlil frl..i, T. nr . -i nV a I 1 fia or the Chinese straw that comes Bround tea boxes makes good material to fashion them out of. The one pictured pic-tured has a ribbon bow strapped by three quaint ribbon roses. A boudoir cap with a frill or ruffle is easy to make. It consists of a big circle cir-cle and the ruffle section. Or a bigger circle can be used and shirred three or four Inches from the edge to form the frill. This circle should measure about twenty-five Inches across, and this meosurement allows for a half-Inch beta around the edge. |