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a "or colors.' * "the"thickness of the book, Cut the _ oilcloth one half inch bigger than the Woman's World « . By Mair M. Morgan : PRESENTS Christmas is just around the corner -and many are faced with the problem of the season's offerings of goodwill. Here are a few suggest- ions. For instance oilcloth novelties take only a jiffy to fashion, cost al- 'most nothing and are smart prac. tical gifts. . AY Designs may be painted with lac- quer, enamels or artists' oil colors, They may also be appliqued by hand with buttonhole stitch (big stitches always) or done with the sewing machine, To transfer designs to oilcloth lay the pattern on the right side of the material, trace with a blunt object no thicker than a pencil point (a crochet hook is excellent), press just hard enough to make a slight in- dentation on the surface of the oil- cloth without cracking or cutting the finish, Go over these indentations with a soft pencil again being care- ful not to cut the painted surface. For sticking oilcloth to wood or other surfaces, use either flour paste or liquid glue. Card Table Cover Use dull or glossy art baize with an embossed finish in black or colors, Measure the card table, cut the material four inches longer and wider. Cut a rounded piece out of each corner Turn back a quarter inch fold all around and bind with bias tape adding elastic to each corner {uv slip over the corners of the table and hold the cloth firm. Score pad covers made to match are unusual, ; If you have a card table with a worn top, undo the corner screws, stretch ofleloth over 'the entire sur- "- face and' replace 'the side boards. It "also may be decorated. 'T'élephone Book Cover *» Use pebble finish oflcloth .in black " Measure: each 'cover -and book measures from top to bottom and ten inches longer than the meas- urements of covers and thickness. Fold five inches on either end for pockets, bind with gold braid, ribbon or 'silk-bias tape. Add a cord and tassel The cover shown in black with the design done 'in. gold 'with touches. of red and green Chinese lacquer. - The tassel and cord also carries out these colors, Wall Rac ; Use a thin board 'one-quarter inch thick and fifteen inches long by three and one-quarter inches wide. Shape the top corners. Allow one-inch on all four sides when cutting the -oilcloth for lapping: Paste the oileloth on the board. At the back paste a strip of heavy. paper to cover the edges of the| oileloth, The tabs are fastened with, covered thumb tacks. Wall Pocket One piece of plain oilcloth - ten inches by six inches for the back, two shaped plain pieces measuring six inches wide and four inches. at the: highest point, two strips of ging- ham pattern oilcloth measuring three inches by six- inches with a rounded piece cut out of each at the. top. Bind tops of the two gingham pieces and the two small plain pieses." Arrange 'the plain and ging. ham pieces of 'the "back" alternate- ly. Sew the. bottom of the first ging- ham piece for the first pocket. The bottom of the second gingham piece and 'the one marked "receipts" should meet and are sewn to the "back" to form the second pocket. The third pocket is formed by the decorated piece. Bind all around with checked bias tape. Rule Holder Cut three 'pieces of gingham pat- tern oilcloth each measuring four inches wide, one sixteen inches long, ono ten inches long and one six inches long. Bind the tops of the two smaller strips. Lay the six '| the Lord will pass judgement upon Se a Ba oan a La od of the sixteen inch strip and sew across the bottom to form a pocket. The ten inch strip forms the second pocket, Bind and add the tab for 'hanging. Slip a twelve inch rule in- to the bottom pocket, a new tape measure and a pencil into the top packet. ¢« & = An oilcloth apron is both practical and pretty. Use any pattern you de- sire. Make it of any design or color you choose, Bind the edges and add tapes to' tie straps instead of but- toning them. * A child's' bib with a pocket will please the wee tot and help the busy mother. A cover for the high chair tray to match the bib is also worthwhile. Chair pads add a decorative note to the modern kitchen. Cut pieces of coarse felting the size of the chair and two pieces of oiléloth measur- ing one-half inch wider all around. Add tapes to tie the "pad" to the chair legs and bind all about with strips of plain oilcloth or wide bias tape. Tie backs for bathroom or kitchen curtains made of plain colored oil- cloth are pretty.- YOUR LIST Of course, by now you have made your Christmas list and no doubt "A Book" is placed opposite at least three, Here are a few of the sea- son's offerings. For those who love the sea, "Pitcairn's , Island," by Charles Nordhoff and .James .Nor- man Hall, will meet every require- ment. E. Phillips' Oppenheim's new novel, "The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent," has every element of mystery-and menace, and is the "thrill lovers" meat. "For adventure, a tale of men who "lived. dangerous- ly, '#Tents 'in Mongolia," by Hen- 'ning Haslund, will" appeal to" those 'who * like first "hand - accounts of man's battle with "the 'élements. Warwick Deeping is always depend- able and niany are his followers. In "The Man on the White Horse," you have him at his best. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON 'SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON .... . "THE CHRISTIAN AS TEACHER GOLDEN 'TEXT -- "Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth, TIME AND PLACE -- The passage from Matthew is the conclusion of the Sermon on:the Mount, spoken on Kurn Hattin, a hill west of the cen- tral portion of the Sea of Galilee, at midsummer of AD. 28, the second year of Christ's ministry. The pas. sage from the Aots relates an event which took place at Ephesus in Asia Minor, A.D., 53, when Paul was in the midst of 'his third missionary tour, and before the Apostle began his long work of three years in that city, "Everyone therefore," Therefore implies that 'the parable which fol- lows is an elucidation of what pre- cedes, the. picture of that day when the lives of men, "That heareth these words of mine," It is an indication of Christ's diety that in his mouth they seem perfectly natural, and merely in accordance with his exalted charact- ter, "And doeth them," Hearing is never enough. Unless obedience fol- lows the hearing, our listening has been in vain, "Shall be likened unto a wise man," A man of prudence and sagacity, a man. of practical know- ledge. There is much book learning that does not meet the test of actual experience. "Who built his house up- on. the rock." Palestine 'is a stony country, A great rock ridge runs north and south through the. land, and on {t the soil is very shallow, The one solid foundation for hum- an character has been abundantly «| ainst it with on great crash. The: staff of one of the leadi trousseau of Prince George's: bride, reproducing the sound, Ln 8 To Princess marin a. ng Paris ateliers at work on two evening gowns, part of the his person, grace, "And the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house," The prolong. ed rainless weather is suddenly bro- ken up by the season of rain and of storm, "And it fell not; for it was found. ed upon the rock," A man who takes Christ for his pattern, Christ's tea: chings for his principles of life is a man whose _life is safe and who shall endure. ie "And everyong that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not." How much of our héaring is describ- od ir these stern words of the Great Teacher! "Shall be likened unto .a 'foolish man.' When 'Clirist says 'Thou tool!" it behooves men 'to look well to their going, for they ate facing the his word, his work, his 'wrong way. "Who built his hquse up- on the sand." He bullt {t'in some of water in the rainless season, but a rushing torrent as soon as the rains come, "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house," The house on the rock could stand the gale; and the house on the sand went down ag- "And it fell; and great was the fall thereof," That there are houses of faith being bullt which grip the rock and which no storm can overthrow, we know of with a glad assurance, "And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words." The Ser- mon on the Mount occuping three chapters of Matthew, "The multit- udes were astonished at his teaching, How strange and marvellous it must have seemed to the people to whom it came absolutely fresh and new; "For he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes." While Jesus taught with authority, the scribes taught by authorities a very different thing, ..'Now a certain Jew named Apollos. His name was a shortened form of Apollonius or Apollodorus, "An Alex- andrian by race." He was born in Al- exandria the great city of northern Egypt.' "An eloquent man," A man of cul- ture, the word expressing both thought and its expression in: werds, "Came to Epheusu," He was a trav- elling philosopher and lecturer, "And he was mighty in the scriptures." That is, of course, in the Old Tepta- ment, for the New Testament had not yet been formed" and for the most part had not been written, "This man had heen instructed In the way of the Lord," The Greek verb suggests that this {instruction may have been oral, and hence that no written Gospel had yet circulated in Alexandria. "And being fervent in spirit." A quality greatly honored by Paul, who possessed it in. its perfec- tion see Rom, 12 : 11, "He spake and taught accurately the things concern- inch strip two inches from the top proven to be the Lord Jesus Christ, ing Jesus," Accurately that is, as far wady, or dry bed of a stream, No sign as he went, but not fully, "Knowing only the baptism of John," This dif- tered from that of the apostles main. ly in these respects; first that theirs recognized a Messiah who had come and, secondly, that it, was attested by the extraordinary gifts of the Spi rit, "And he began 'to speak boldly in the synagogue," In the synagogue of Epheusu, where Paul began his prea- ohing setting forth Jesus as the Mea- siah, the Lamb of God who would take away the sin of the world, "But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him. He preached .the gospel of repent. anca from sin with wonderful power and he could prove with unanswer. 'able logic that Jesus was the Messiah But. of the supreme glory of Christ. fan experience Which comes in the witness of the Holy 'Spirit in one's' own soul to 'the forgiveness of sins, he had never heard. ably they Mads' iia an IA of their home, where Paul had been, so that they. could have a better chance at him, "And expounded to him the way of God more accurately." It would have been no easy task to take in hand a man of Apollo's intell¢ct- ual attainments and independence of oharacter, and lead him on to the views more generaily held among the .Christians, But Priscilla and Aquila undertook the difficult task and suc- ceeded in it. "And when he was minded to pass over into Achaia," The southern part of Greece, containing Athens and Corinth, "The breihern encouraged dim, and wrote to the disciples: to teceive him," He could not have cho- sen a place more suitable for his work as Corinth was a centre of commerce it was a town also of great Intelldct- ual activity, "And when he has come, he helped them much that had bellev ed through grace." They helped him and he helped them! A noteworthy instance of Christian reciprocity. "For he powerfully confuted - -the Jews, and that publicly," The unbel- leving Jews of Corinth had trled to drive Paul out of the city and had indeed succeeded in driving him out of the synagogue, but only-to set up his own church next to the synagog- ue, Now in Apollos the Jews found an antagonist equally staunch,-. one who did not mince matters. "Showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ." All Bible teachers have much to learn from Apollos, He studied the Scriptures and made them the basis of all his work. He was ready to learn from others, even from those far inferior to himself in natura] ab. flity, He was full of energy and fiery zeal, He was bold and courageous, He combined logic with grace, He was profoundly helpful, TRUE LOVE This fellow loves work, To you I'll confide It. Me loves it so well He can sleep right beside it. Duchess of York Uses Modern China for Tea You are wrong if you imagine that guests who go to tea with the Duchess of York are asked to sip from helr- loom china, writes a woman corres- pondent in a London dally newspaper The Duchess {8s modern. in many things--and especially In the ar rangement of her home, She believes nohing i8 more charming than the de- signs and especially the colorings of modern china so the Mo teasets that are used on alternate days in "her drawing room at Plcadilly are exactly the same type that you could buy for yourself in any up to date china shop, The grander of the Duchess of York teagets- is tinted in palest peach, The cups have gold handles and round the rims a dellcaty scroll design in gold forms a deep band, The other set is of ivory with white jonquils appearing like stars against its. deep bands of springtime green, It strikes a very joyous note, Armchair for Baby On Bicycle Trips Ifuddersfield, Eng. -- Do not leave the children at home if you want to go cycling; take them with you--is the advice given to parents by Mr, and Mrs, Frith of Huddersfield, whose two children aged 6 and 3 respective. ly, are also keen cyclists, Baby sits in a glorified armchair in between father and mother, on thelr specially constructed bicycle made for two and a half,-But, to tell the truth Baby's Inclined to be just a litle bit jealous of Junior who has a bicycle all to himself and who fs 'very proud of having ridden from Bridlington to Huddersfield, some 60 miles in one day, All the same, the Friths say Baby gets in some private practise at home on the kiddie car, and will soon be graduating to a real road tricycle, Then it won't be long before the en- tire family are awheesl, Ellen Wilkinson Blames Her 'Stupidity' Miss Helen Wilkinson former M.P, was fined $10, in Police Court at Bain Tree Eng., for driving an unlicensed motor car, It was stated a policeman stopped the car and found the Road Fund Ticense bad expired a month pre. viously, When asked for an explana- tion, Miss Wilkinson said 'I suppose it is the stupidity of us women," Gerald Denham, solicitor who ap- peared for Miss Wilkinson explained that Miss Wilkinson had been abroad and when she returned a great deal of important political work awaited her and she forgot about her license. The Chairman of the court mentioned that Miss Wilkinson was fined for a similar offence at Sleaford, Lincoln- shire, in May last year, i Amateur Talkies Perfected in Paris Paris -- Amateur cinema operators will now be able to produce talkies, thanks to the machine recently per- fected here by two brothers MM Hen. ' ri and Plerre Perreau, * Tolano-Cinema {8s a simple mach- ine which records sound on ordinary diske, from which it can almost be immediately repsoduced again. The speed of the turntable on which the disk {s placed can be synchronized to the speed of the amateurs movie ca. . mera and may be varied between 20 and 120 turns a minute, The machine Is equipped with an amplifier which ' can be used after a very small ad. justment either for recording or tor Cold Hands Won't Mean Warm Heart Chicago -- That old saylhg that cold hands indicate a warm heart may need revising this winter, with muffs back in style, Muffs, whicrh have been edging In for the past few sea. sons are booked for a big winter, They are In both fur and fabric, One of the very newest styles Is the muff of silver fox skins, Several ver- AMUSING ANECDOTES OF THE FAMOUS POSTERITY It is interesting to know that F, Marion Crawford was bitterly dis. appointed when he found he could never be a great tenor like Jean de Reszke. He had a fine voice, but not good enough for that. Which is just as it should be--remember- ing "Mr. Isaacs" and other fine novels he subsequently wrote,' Mrs, ! Elliott feels the same way about it, "Today,"she says "what remains ~of all the labor that adored tenor (de Reszke) lavished on his art? A tradition among musicians, perhaps (he lived before phonograph), while Crawford is re- membered as he prophesied in that boyish boast to his sister: "The trace of my earthly footsteps shall not be effaced in eons." But {8 Crawford read today-- 25 years after his passing on? * - LJ The friendly spirit shown by London shopkeepers is proverbial. Not long ago Mrs. M. V. Hughes went into a little grocer's shop. "Before I could demand my pac- sions were seen in which two or more skins were used, as though thrown over the arm, the skins form a big pliable, muff that adds luxury, elegance and gives warmth. Then there is Schiaparelli's amus- ing long and narrow dachsmund muff, So many different kinds of fur are boing used that it is no trick to get a muft to match the fur coat. Some of the new winter fur coats are being shown with matching muffs, After Rain The clouds are broken up in azure isles, : And archipelagoes of lights from trees Dance with their shadowdslets on green leas, In liveliest pattern; barns and slates and tiles Are watersheds of silver; the road smiles From every whitened stone bared to the breeze, And the bright river is seas, Wherg yacht sails Youn, to ronal © snowy piles (Giddy with light and laughter, sheeted into the land reels, In spangled orchards waggish robins twinkle And mimic the red apples the drops sprinkle, The sheltering yeoman shoulders his great scythe blithe, And boys run forth with winglets at their heels. --~QGeoffrey Johnson Good Old Chelsea! Two old ladies of Lincolnshire have just had the surprise of their lives. Deciding that they would like to buy a motor-car, they looked through their family treasures to see what they could sell. They came across a piece of old Chelsea china which had been in the family for years and sent it to be sold by auction. Having some idea t=. it, ryight be rather: valuable, they placed a reserve price; of £100 upon it. To their amazement the ornament turned out to be the work of a fam- ous French artist named Boubilliac, pieces, one of which is in.the Victoria and Albert: Museum. The dealers bid eagerly, and the old ladies received! £3,160 for it. Western Co-eds Want Girls' Smoking Room London, Ont.--The question of sex equality is being carried a further. by co-eds at the University of Western Ontario. They ave asking the board of governors to set aside a girls' smoking room so that they may enjoy the weed without "surreptitious methods". The men students have a room for smoking and the girls have decided that they are entitled to the same convenience, Mut! AND JEFF-- FF DEFORE WE START REHEARSING : [352 GIRL OF THE GAY NINETIES! I WANT 0 GET THAT. CERTAIN SOM INTO your WALK SOND ACTIONS = 'You TO ETHING ££] LV Er ETS SILLY \DEAY GONNA GOR You ATT ~You RUNT = S AND YOURE You HERE iD You THE \SH! re, a, vy 0 Pe" RRR saci TR RTs MY ak, S----y Trade Mark Boy. 0. 8 Pa Offs = By BUD FISHER COME UP T SEE ME SOMETIME, DARK AN' HAN'SOMES Running vertically . graceful As though a fishing rod, and ambles | part of a valuable group of three Yod stage' ket of candles," she says (in "Lon- don At Home") "the harassed wo- man looked up at me and said: 'Oh, do tell me what I can have for din- ner! I have had steak and haddock- so often that my husband is getting unpleasant about it." : +. ew " The story. goes that Queen Vic- | toria was once heard knocking at | Princo Albert's locked door. He asked, "Who is there?' and she ro- plied "the Queen." Again and a- gain he asked the same question But "Your wife, and the door was opened. - L * and she made the same reply. finally she answered, Albert," JUSTICE Jurors in the county of Limerick oners tried by them, declares Serge ant A. M. Sullivan (in "Old Ive- land: Reminiscences of an Irish I, S."---~King's Counsel), At the end of a very bad stabbing case, the us- ual verdlet having been returned, Justice Adams said to the accused: "Michael, I have now to discharge you. These 12 gentlemen on my left say that you are not guilty, Take a good look at them, Mike, so that you may know them again, for if you treat any one of them the way you treated the prosecutor in this case, you will not get.one hour's imprison- ment from me, even if you are con- victed. of it." EA * . PERILS OF A TEACHER In his Inspiring autobiagraphy -- published since his passing on -- the Rev. William IL. Barton, noted preacher and Lincoln authority (and father of Bruce Barton), re- calls that as a young man he taught school 'way back in the Tennessee mountains. "Well. do I remember," he writes, "the day when Emmeline Berry, hav- ing swept the floor, stood before my desk with arms akimbo and the pap- hip and said: } "Teacher, you want to look out for Sue. She's. trying to spark you. | And Sue sparked the last teacher, and she told. ' t LJ * . * | "Emmeline took one step nearer, and said: "Teacher, if I was to spark teacher, I wouldn't never " the tell no- [ "I rather think," adds Dr. Barton | with a chuckle, wy could have tra. ed Emmeline with her black eyes, but she never sparked no teacher while I was teaching there, nor did Sue Taulbee." LJ * * The schoolhouse was a big build ing, and on the day that Dr. Bar- ton took up his duties, one of the trustees addrecing the pupils said, der this building, and {its full of fleas. I've got 'em on me now. Now all you boys and girls when you come back from ree-cess, you 'bring big bundles of pennyroyal and put down on this floor, and tromp it when you go and come, and keep fresh pennyroyal on the floor, till these here fleas are druv out." Oh joy! * * LJ SMOKING RECTOR Charles Kingsley, as rector of Eversley was walking with the fu- ture Archbishop Benson on a com- mon in a lonely part of the parish when the author of "Westward Ho!" suddenly said: "I must smoke a pipe," went behind a furzebush, and after feeling for some time, pro- duced a pipe. had a cache of pipes in various parts of the parish for such exigencies, «ee William Morris and Dante Gabe riel Rossetti loved pipes, Browning cigars; but Swinburne hated tobac- co. "James I," he once said, "was a knave a tyrant, a fool, a liar, a co- ward. But I love him, I worship him, because he slit the throat of that blackguard Raleigh, who ine vented this filthy smoking!" oe -- oh, re ~ the day of the - . were dead against convicting pris. aw broom in her hand on the right "The hogs has been sleeping un- - It turned out that he ' gg ye a wm A -- Von a «A WPI oo JF AYE 43 RLY UN 0) a