CHRISTMAS NEW IDEA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 114, 10 December 1908, Page 2

CHRISTMAS NEW IDEA.

■*■ In the Christmas number of 'The New Idea" appears an interesting interview with Alice Crawford, a gift"d Australian girl, wrillrii and illustrated by Miss Kathleen ITitshard, another clever young Australian, wlio is doing literary work in Louden. Other notable illustrated ari:cl< s are: "How Royally Spend 'i'heir I 'ln ist mas,"

"View Sara Lombard! Fur-el Melt.a," and "ile.w Leethoveu became Leaf." There is an an] >roj .ria !•• and useful talk, in which an expert ceek gives advice and recii es fei' many dainty dishes, suitable for the Christ mas season, and an equally valuable article, in which readers are shun n how ie make a large number el' uncommon Christmas gifts. On the notion side (heio is a ii excellent collection <d" i 'mustmas stories. Another chapter in a diverting story of a little boy named Lobbie. who was a constant problem ie his anxious mother, is given, an;! "The I'dirial ions of Four Australians in Japan" keeps up its brisk narrative. The usual departments dealimr with domestic, social, and artistic phases of life are all given a Christmas havour, and maintained in their usual siren:.'Mi; whlisl. the review of the fashions of the world ii admirably done. A feauire of the number that should 1"' mentioned is the Editorial eampnu.u for the New Year. It is announced that there is to be still another enlargement in the size of "The Xew baa" (without increase of price), of which inn main features will be tin Inchi'-ion of a sixteen-page fashion supplement, and th l number of rfee pat lores to be gLon with each issue wili Im' incia a-ed from three to six. Australiasian lile'-alure has certainly made womFrini /triers in the last ten years, for "The New Idea,'' as a sample of mugar.ino- mak ing for women, will compare will) the best, home and household mapasiues in (he world. The Christmas " New Idea" before US is pari icularly well worth the modest sixpence asked fei' ii.

Last month tin- total rainfall for Hamilton was :.'.i'i' inches. Rain (Vil on twelve day;;, the maximum rainfall b. in-- 1.0:: inches on the I 'Jth instant. The Toronto Mail, discussing Lord Roberts' warnioL'; to Uritain of the noressiiy of p:cjiari n;>; to resist a hind invasii it. liivy:; ('snada lo reduce expenditure en ho;- miiii is by a niiilion and siioiid thai am.iiui! in ihe purchase of foul' ends: :s i':. i~ ibe ,\ t lant le. thereby eli'ering a belle:' defeiiee for Hie coastal and river fronts.