A HELPING HAND

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6544, 28 February 1928, Page 11

A HELPING HAND

( Someone in the family should be taken into the children’s confidence, so that she can start the little workers in the right way and help- them to choose gift schemes that will prove really useful to the recipients and yet not overtax little minds or fingers. Presents for daddy are generally really a problem, at least for the tinies. Older children could frame for daddy ' a picture in passe-partout, make him a silk handkerchief, design and paint him a calendar,, carve him a pipe-rack or an ashtray, if carpentering is their hobby,, or buy him a pack of cards, a book ,or one good cigar with savings . from the money-box. Even little people, however, could make him a penwiper out of little circles of cloth, buttonholed round and stitched together when finished, or an ashtray made of plaited paper mat with the corners tied together with ribbon, or a bookmark of fringed ribbons with a match-stick top and sealing-wax ends, or a plaited raffia serviette ring ,or a book-cover of net, canvas or linen,, sewn with big wool stitches in a contrasting shade. Many a daddy, too would welcome a fawn or grey wool scarf made on a wooden frame whiph he could wear under a trench coat or mackintosh.