The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-12-07

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Another one of his verses is good:
God bless all Sivers and their gifts
And all the giftless too,
And help them by whatever shifts
Their kindly Will TO do.
When seasons which our hearts ex-
pand
| our purses fail to fill.
y word or smile, a clasp of hand
Shall carry our good will"
Here is another thought for the
quotation book; IF, instead of a
gem or even flower, we could cast
the gift Of a lovely thought into the
heart Of friend, that would be Civ
ing as the angels give"
Can you imagine a Christmas gift
which is apt to do more good than this
quotation?
May every soul that touches thine,
BE it the slightest contact. get there
from some good,
Some little grace, one kindly thought.
one inspiration Unfelt before; one bit
of courage
For the darkening sky; one CLEAN Of
faith :"
How some christmas scrap Books"
would cheer little sick folks. Pictures
Of Santa, reindeer, chimneys, bells,
Christmas trees, etc.
Another little book which would
bring joy could be made of pictures
cut from magazines of Chinese, Japa-
| nese German, etc, children. The
cover bearing the words. The chill
dren of all countries wish you a
| Merry Christmas"
a Baby booklet would be novel.
| Mellins Food Babies or other babies
! could be utilized and on the cover the
words, The American Babies send
Christmas greetings
A little book with its leaves cut like
holly leaf-the cover one painted
green-with Christmas quotations
would be nice
or course we ought to make some
blotter pads, tying blotters with rib
bon and painting something pretty
| on the outside one
Then too, believe we oaght to
make Some needle books-I am GER
tain mother and auntie would appre-
ciate them. We will scallop some
pieces of white flannel and sew them
together. Then we will cut some card
board covers, paint a gold star on the
outside and the words:
"Christmas comes but once a year;
Christmas always brings good cheer"
On the other cover of another
needle-book we will paint posts and a
clothes line, then we will cut little
stockings, paint them in fancy de-
sign and paste them on the line, paint
ing clothespin on the top. Below
We will write:
May Santa f;ll to overlooking
Your stockings every Christmas
time"
The dear old gradmothers VIII ap-
preciate some pin-cushions-no, mat
ter If the stitches aren't very even
And grandfather. I'm sure would
treasure a pen-wiper made heart
shape with button hole edges. l am
| afraid he would think il far too beau
tiful to use
Then on raffia days, some of those
pretty boxes we have made could be
converted into handkerchief, collar,
and jewel boxes. Pin holders. needle
books. whisk broom holders, trays
tied with ribbon would be woven Just
full of love. | know.
We could have had some Jolly
times making match scratchers. \
back view of pussy-cut of heavy
cardboard. and a square of sand-pa-
per pasted on the middle Of pussy's
back would be funny. or, we could
cut a large circle of white cardboard.
and paint two gray pussies sitting on
a fence looking at the moon. AT the
lower right side we could paste a
square of sand paper. and right be-
low that paste a folded prism to hold
the matches. This would be useful as
! well aS ornamental.