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Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 2

Get any of the undermentioned at the D.I.C. m \ JV Kt evening wear. Japanese Sunshades Kiddies. Grown-ups. Cretonne Sunshades. 8/6 each. MULTI-COLOURED RUGS, in Maori Art Design; pure wool, in soft combinations of tone, Blue, Mauve, Rose; 56 x 78. 35/ each. Pink & fflue Pearl Xylonite Set of Brush. Comb. Mirror. Tray. £3 17/6 the sot. Set with Powder Box. £4 10/. WORK BASKETS of plaited straw, also some gilded and pen-painted; square with lid or round with gnthering cord. Prices, 6/9 to 25/, Three in a box, WHITE LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, embroidered corners, 5/6 box. Coloured Paper Table Napkins Blue, Lavender, Primrose, Rose. Raphael Tuck’s boxes. 1/11 box of 50. ic«7m X, FISH KNIVES, best electro-plate nickel _ silver, in leather lined case. 42/6, 45/ per case. Others slightly more expensive. BROWN FIBRE HAT BOXES, check lined, round shape. 15/6 each. CHRISTMAS GARTER BONBONS, each containing a pair of rucked ribbon and beflowered Garters 1/6 each, or 8/6 box of 6. COMPENDIUMS OF STATIONERY, bright floral designed box; deckle edged paper and envelopes; extra large pad. Yardley’s Old English LAVENDER WATER. 6/6 to 16/6 bottle. 5/ each. fnjWff These for quite the For Toddlers ELECTRIC IRONS, Hotpoint. 35/. M.S. ELECTRIC IRONS, a light make. 22/6. MEN’S COLOURED SILK HANDKERCHIEFS, jazz, spotted, and checked designs. 4/6, 5/6, 6/6 each. 3/11,4/6, 5/6,6/6 each most important person in the house His Majesty the Baby LOVELY PICTURE TABLE MATS, 18 x 15, on mite Waterproof Damask. 3/6 each. WEE WHITE WOOLLIES. Hand-knitted Vests. WATERPROOF FEEDERS, with 8 picture nursery rhymes on each. 1/11 each. LITTLE MUSH. SHAPED SUN HATS, in Picture Print, Blue, Brown, Pink, Lavender. 4/6 each. FOB LITTLE TODDLERS’ SLIPPERS, sizes 3 to 8 ; Fawn hr Blue Felt, woolly lined, each with a fluffy yellow chicken on toe. 7/6 pair. 5/6. Hand-knitted Pilchers. 6/11. Hand-knitted Dresses. 17/6, 18/6, Hand-knitted Crocheted Jackets. 16/6, 18/6. TINY CREPE DE CHINE SHOES, Pink, Blue, or Cream, with fluffy fur edges and embroidered toes. 2/11 pair, ABSORBENT WATERPROOF FEEDERS, Towelling one side and Coloured Rubber. Erinoid Rattle Ring attached. 3/6 each. Animal Sponges I/6 each Si \{\ is , ©.A IBil r- v wg ■■V Si A*!i

The young man who had just returned from Africa fancied he was a great explorer, and was guilty of considerable exaggeration in his accounts of his travels. He was seated in the drawing room with a circle of admiring friends. " Yes,” he was saying, “and as I fought my way through the impenetrable jungle strange wild birds swooped down and attacked me, pecking fiercely at my head —“ Say!” broke in a sceptic. “They were woodpeckers!” Steeplejack; “Yesterday I fell off an 80ft ladder.” Friend (excitedly): “You might have killed yourself. “ Oh, no; it was only from the second step that I dropped.”-