The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-10-22

we'll 70 prepare Tor making it fully
three months beforehand, as the alb
sence oil even q few slips will delay the
whole. AS soon us the slips ale all
collected nndsin order, arrnnge them
SO that the day you presentsit will be
the outside slip. Then,take them to
the bQpkbinders and ask him to.
block, cut and glue them as he would
an ordinary memorandum pad.
The board at the back to which the
block is to be fastened or glued, is to
be about as large as those of the
Dickens or Shakespeare calendars one
sees at the holiday season. &
If one is artistic, it can be painted.
It can also be made OF channels skin,
china silk or fine cretonne and sateen
in delicate colors, with square cut
and a photograph OF the donor insert
ed. The block in this case would be
put at one side. 1t will readily be
seen what q pleasure a calendar OF
this sort would bring one, whose
friends are q part Of their life. To
the sick room what a blessing to be
greeted each morning with word,
bright, serious, comforting or inspir-
ing in the very handwriting Of the
absent! And then the grateful
thought is turned toward the giver!
1t is we'll worth all the trouble. Try
and see. -Household.
Clumsy Fingers.
cit is of no use my trying to sew"
said girl in her late teens; IT am so
clumsy with a needle. My stitches are
an inch long! Mamma does my mend
ing. She says when | do it myself my
things look so that she is ashamed to
let me wear them"
But if the mother were less self-sac-
rificing, it IS probable that a few
hours practice under her direction
would easily reduce those clumsy
stitches to a. respectfully small frac-
ton Of an inch in length.
Another young lady admitted, the
other day, with a laugh, that she al
ways darned her own stockings by
drawing the edges OF the holes togeth-
er with the thread, because weaving it
in and out as her mother did took SO
much more time and care
Girls Of this sort belong to the un-
trained or the lazy class. But the
Se~A SlOSo c0A q HO1OC C1o CO1lllllOll, duu
perhaps more exasperating.
ooh, Pm very sorry; but you know
| always was d butter-fngers," ex-
plains calmly the dreamy young per-
son who spills gravy in a lady's lap at
dinner, because she is passing the
gravyboat with her mind on the last
chapter OF a story, and does not not
ice that she is tipping it.
Presently she helps to butter, with
the same vague expression in her eyes,
and sends the bit which she attempts
to cut from the hard pat without
looking at it. flying across the table.
"Did it spot your dress?" she asks
her sister; ~ hope not; but, OF course,
I couldn't help it's flying off. I'm very
sorry" But the trouble is precisely
that she is not very sorry; at least,
not sorry enough to prevent the same
thing from happening again.
1t is worth while to remember that
there is such thing as being stupid
with ones fingers. There should be
direct communication between, the
hand and the brain; but some people,
with otherwise excellent brains, do
not seem to realize this fact, and al
low their hands kind of helpless lib
erty which works disaster among
bric-a- brac, and makes many simple
tasks absurdly formidable.-Youth's
Companion. ~~s-~--- s@