Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-02

ent that would delight any baby. at a cost of 25 cents.
 For little Frank( who had @ weekly | paper all his own, Mamma got a box just the right size to hold the papers. This was neatly lined with brown pa- per, and paDered on the outside to match the room. On the top was a cushion covered with red cretonne, tackled on with brass headed tacl1s This was cozy seat for the owner.
 Twenty five sheets of blottin~ aper which had been saved from writing pads were fastened together by little brass rings, the cover being dark green cardboard with the word Birds in gilt letters on the front. These let ters were cut from colored advertising cards, and the book was for Bruce to paste pictures of different birds, which he colored.
 Fred and his young wife had a quilt | of bright co1ors, lined with red calico and tied with yarn to match. Baby had a crib quilt of pink and white. lined and tied with pink, These two cost S1.10.
 For the young mother Grandma also knit pair of plain stocking feet with l short scanned legs of dark red wool, to I slip on when she got up with baby.
 For the girls, Mamma knit half squares of soft wool and crocheted a fluffy edge and long ends of the same. | Graciets hood was pale blue, and Rachie's hood was pale pink. These cost 20 ccnts each.
 For grandma mamma made 8 pock- ct of black silk, lined with yellow, to hold her glasses and knitting when she
 went visiting It was 15x10 inches when made and had drawstring of | 1aIa 1Ir 5rf1- IzAN b | worked on the front with yellow silk.
 Grandpa had a long kimona dress ing gown of heavy dark gray flannel
 cite, lined with red, and finished by a braided cord and homemade tassels of red wool This cost 1.30.
 Grandma knit papa a pair of her
 famous oid-fash1oned double mittens--
 black and red-at a most of 50 cents
 For mamma she knit of black wool l a pair of stocking feet with short rib bed tops. Aunt Lucy had hood, cut like a baby's bonnet, with a cape of
 black velvet lined with black silk with
 border of black fur and black ribbon
 ties.
 Uncle Lyman, who always had cold |, hands, had a pair of mittens made
 from a pair of past-use corduroy pants
 lined with pieces of a plush coat and
 finished with knitted wrists of brown
 wool
 Ernest had a pair of grandma's dou-
 b1e mittens-blue and gray, and little
 Miss Lulie had q coat and bonnet ot
 the same plush coat that lined the
 mittens, the bonnet lined with pale
 blue with ties to match. Alice and BesEie each had 6 center piece made from 8 hand-woven linen sheet embroidered in white linen; and Harry had a hem-5titched handRer- chief from the same sheet-woven by his grandmother.
 Aunt Martha had & knitted hood like black.
 Stella had one of Franks "snap. shot" postals of the family seated af
 Aunt Lucy's table Thanksgiving witl the words There was room for you one of the big sleigh loaded, and ont each of the Christmas table ant Christmas tree.
 Cousin Arthur's children had a bol of evergreen and scarlet berries. witt some winter pears and apples tucke, in aand on top was a pair of purt
 white goose wings finished ip blu, sateen and blue ribbon loops. Cousin Addie had a postal of tn : Spring in the Pasture" in autumn
 colors-the coloring done by littl 7 Bruce
 Aunt Nellie had The Brook il $ summer green.
 t The other grandpa" had & colore, 2 postal of Rachie on horseback witt 1 Bertie in her arms, and Frank an, $ his dog on ono side and Bruce and hi . cat on the other; and that grandma a had a picture of papa on a load % = l wood with Bertie in his arms and tn t other boys on either side. r Uncle Louis had a tobacco bag c G brown silk with a brown drag string }. and Uncle in yellow silk. s ETTA BARBER.