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of the child Of two or less, or sewing
sets with fine needles and delicate
designs quite out of place for the little
girl under nine, who should not be de-
voting her eyesight to such fine work
The toy which is complete in Itself
and offers no entertainment posSibili-
ties except to look at it and admire its
ingenuity. is doomed to destruction. AS
soon as the novelty of turning the key
and watching it perform has died a
natural death, the only possible next
step is to tear it to pieces to see how it
goes. If parent can reconcile himself
to seeing mechanical toys destroyed
they will at least have served the pur-
pose of teaching the child some of the
workings of physical laws, and will not
have been entirely wasted. Toys run
by electricity may be immensely help
full to boys old enough to be curious
about electricity, but the parent is more
often entertained by them, than the
smaller child too young for such in
terestS
An extravagant toy for the young
child Is the worse possible choice. An
appreciation Of toys must grow up nat
urally by gradual stages from the
simplest to those Of greater completely,
perishability and entertainment value
In that way only will the child's educa-
ton in their use keep pace with them.
If the toy is unsuited to his age or APP
probation it will end on the scrap pile
and serve only to educate the child in
carelesSneSs and destructiveness.
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Handkerchiefs In
Sets, Lovely Gifts

Here is a lovely gift to make for a
friend for Christmas.
If you want, of course, you can buy
it. And it was something in the shops
that made me think of it as possible
homemade gift.
A set of a dozen-or six-handker-
chiefs.
In the shops they come in boxes, six
or twelve to the set, all the same design
but in different colors; or all the same
color but in different designs.
For instance, a fine linen handker-
chief with rolled edge and printed,
deep border in white with back
ground of color-gray, beige, peach,
apricot. lavender, deeper mauve, pale
blue, bright blue, pale green, dark
green, brown and corn color.
Any combination of 'colors, of course.
If you make them, you can buy col
ored linen and embroider the hand
kerchiefs all in white, with a little
wreath surrounding the initials. Or
you can choose some more ornate en-
broidered design if you wish.
Six, or even three. such handker-
chiefs handmade and dainty are a
lovely gift.
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Children of Same
Family Dress Alike

Brother and sister still dress alike.
The custom is such an appealing
one that it will probably last long
time.
Even rather big children are some
times dressed alike. The nine-year-old
boys have knicker suits of tweed made
of the same material as their small
sisters frocks. If the children ride,
their riding habits are of the same
general cut and the same fabric
But it is with the little children that
this sister brother dressing is more
usual-and easier for the mother of
moderate means to carry out. While
the boys are still in washable fabrics,
sister and brother are dressed in
matching linen or cotton. Later on the
small boy wears blue serge shorts with
white poplin shirt, the small girl blue
serge skirt with white poplin blouse.
And in the Summer they both dress in
white linen-perhaps both in Knockers or
in crash or pongee.
1t is picturesque fashion, and for
the very small children it is espe-
cially suitable. There is danger of
inflicting it on the boy who has out
grown it, in his own estimation.
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THE DAILY
HOROSCOPE


Conflicting planetary aspects will be
strong tomorrow, according to aStrology
1t is time when the early bird should
be especially lucky.
The forenoon is especially favorable
to the pushing Of educational matters
and should benefit students as well as
teachers.
Writers continue to prosper under this
government Of the stars which presages
SUCCESS for editors and publishers as
well as authors.
All constructive or progressive matters
should benefit.
structures that will set new standard
of architecture and these benefic aspects
also affect interior decorations.
Houses and stores will take on a new
gorgeousness and SumptuousneSS, 1t is
prophesied. Public places of all sorts will
reveal the sort of beauty and luxury
once monopolized by palaces, the seers
prophecy
Astrologers point out that the United
States gradually will reveal the sort of
splendor that once distinguished the Old
World. only it will be distinctive, be-
longing to the era of supreme achieve
mentS.
Women will reflect in their dress the
extreme richness of attire that CORE
spends to the spirit of the times.
While fashions will be reactionary
they will be also artistic according to
the modern standards, it is forecast.
Feminine charm is to be cultivated
Assiduously in 1929, when girls will gain
new distinction and when beauty will
be desired even more generally than in
the past.
Copyright. 1929
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Furniture List for Bedroom

Here is a list of furniture that will
really be needed for a bedroom for
two:
Two matching beds.
Two pieces with drawers for clothing.
A room occupied by two children may
have two matching chests Of drawers
without mirrors. For husband and
wife. there may be q bureau and a
chiffonier, or chiffonier and a chest
of drawers with some sort of dressing
table arrangement. For two older
girls there may be one large chest of
drawers and two dressing tables, and
for two older boys two chiffoniers.
AT least two chairs.
e A small stand to be placed between
the beds to hold electric light or
eandlestick, books, etc, is desirable. If
you do not provide this then it is a
good plan TO have bed light attached
TO one or both of the beds.
A good-sized chest is a great con-
venience If you have room for it. Ex-
ira bedding. pillows, ETC., may be kept
in this.
A long glass is a great convenience.
If you have no room for pier glass you
can get door with q mirror on the
bedroom side. Doors of this sort in
stock sizes may be bought from whole
sale makers Of woodwork and inside
trim.
A small bookcase is desirable-where
room Is at q premium this may be of
the hanging sort.
For older children a desk Of some
sort Is desirable, though If two persons
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that almost every parent makes at some
time or another and wishes ruefully
that he had known better.
Most children have not too few but
too many toys, for the number and
grandeur of the children's toys increases
the parents self satisfaction. A toy
must represent something to the child
who uses 1t and If he throws down one
and picks up another and finds still
another, dangled in front of him he
acquires case of mental collie that
SourS the whole collection upon him.
No wonder he casts them to the four
winds. They mean less than nothing
to him. They might just as well be
80 many Jumps of COAL.
Not only does the average child suf-
fer from indifference, due to undesired
wealth of toys from which to choose,
but among them will probably be toys
quite unsuited to his age. OF what use
is it to give little girl of two years
breakable doll, or any toy of perish
able qualities? Heavy handed as most
two-years-olds are, she is going to hate
the doll because she can't play with it.
A little careleSSneSs on her part and the
doll is dropped, a cracked head or
broken arm the price she pays for hav-
ing been so needless.
A particular toy is developing to
child only when 1t is presented at an
age when its stimulus will have some
influence upon him. The child under
Is months, let Of us say, will hardly
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Sisters Need
Separate Rooms
BY ALLENE SUMNER.

The woman next door is thoroughly
exasperated," as she puts it herself,
with her 16-year-old daughter, Betty
Lou.
IT quite agree with Bernard Shaw
that the whole process of education
originated with the plain parental de-
sire to get the offspring from under
foot" she bluntly states. Now if some
body would only devise something to
keep them from underfoot the other
three months of the year, there'd be
really workable system!"
The woman is half joking, of course,
but the fact remains, as again she puts
it herself. that II Just don't know what
to do with Betty Lou Summers. Shes
too old to content herself with just
playing, as she did when she was
smaller, and she posters me constantly
for excitement.
Fright now she's decided that she
simply must have a room of her own.
She declares that she won't share
Edythe'S room another minute. And
she's bound on painting up the attic
and painting up some old furniture and
dragging it up there. AS If two sisters
couldn't share room together!"
1t seems strange that woman in
telllgent enough 10 read SHAW cOuIu III
almost the same breath prove herself
sufficiently unintelligent to have no UNI
derstanding of 16-year-old girls per-
fectly natural insistence on her own
room.
And instead of being annoyed at the
idea of Betty LOUIS interior decorating
urges she should have been delighted
at this form of sublimatlon OF Betty
Louis energies.
But listen to Betty LOUIS side of the
story Edythe, the older sister, is a
college junior, and by right of her
seniority Edythe assumes that the room
in question is hers only, and through
sufferance and her own divine grace
Betty Lou is permitted to sleep there.
It's Edythe's class pillows and pen
nants that adorn the room. It's Edythe
| friends in silver picture frames who
perch about on desk and dressing table
and chest. And it's Edythes atomiZer
and powder box and creams and amber
comb and mirror and brush that adorn
the dresser top.
| But Betty Lou fixed I'D her attic!
was called in to see 1t the other night
and it wasn't at all hard to oh-and-ah
most enthusiastically and sincerely.
| / could have Rugged the child in her
enthusiasm. OF course, she should have
her own room and should have had it
| long before her mother got sensible.
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Beds Once Placed in Main Hall,
Humber Folk Slept on Floor

Bedrooms as we have them today
are of comparatively recent origin.
In the Middle Ages most humble
families lived in a one-room shelter
which was but little improvement over
the hut of a savage. In the Middle
Ages in England the well-to-do free
holder had more spacious quarters, but
still very rude indeed. His ham or
home consisted of number of rude
buildings within a wall of some sort.
The principal building was his heal or
hall. and this served for general re-
ception room, dining room, banquet
hall, conference chamber, lounge, etc.
Guests as we'll as servants shared this
with the householder as sleeping room
by night.
For the women there were various
small buildings called "burs," from
which word was later derived the word
bower" These rude, small, one-room
structures were connected with the
main hall.
Less important members Of the house
hold simply lay down to sleep on the
floor, using rushes for a mattress and
their cloaks for bedding. Mattresses,
which were articles of luxury. were
first placed on the floor and later raised
on wooden frames, which were the early
prototypes of our modern bedsteads.
In the castles of the late Middle
Ages these bedsteads were sometimes
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of enormous size and highly orna-
mental. Such a bed. hung with rich
material, and placed in the great hall,
served as a resting place for the lord
of the castle. d.
This conspicuous placing of the bed
was not new thing however, because
in the early days of Rome the master
and mistress slept in a couch in the
atrium or main room of the house.
and even in later days when special
sleeping apartments were provided this
marriage bed-merely a symbol-re-
manned In the atrium. 81 7.e
In Egypt, India. Babylon, Assyria,
Persia and other warm countries bed
steadS were used at very early date.
1t was especially necessary that the
sleeper should be raised from the
ground or floor on account of the
prevalence of poisonous insects and
snakes. The earliest Greek beds con-
sisted of wooden frames, laced across
with straps of leather. Blankets were
laid across this, but stuffed attfesses
were unknown until later time. ~
In European countries in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries the custom Of
holding receptions in bed-practiced by
kings, queens. important mobiles and
royal favOriteS-brought with it the use
of most elaborate and gorgeous bed
room furniture. Bedrooms we're virtual
reception rooms and it was necessary
to have adjoining dressing rooms where
the homelier articles of furniture might
be hidden.
Very large beds were usual during
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
in most parts of Europe Two or three
persons might easily sleep in such beds.
But throughout the continent single
beds have been used almost exclusively
for long time. The use of double
beds. as we know them still in this
country. is of English origin.
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Gift Clothes Holders Find Favor
BY BETSY CALLISTER.

T rs time to get busy with our Christ
mas lists and to make our Christ
mas gifts.
L And one thing that you can be
sure will find favor with your
friends is something to hold clothes.
Bag, box or basket, whatever it is, If
it is designed to keep ones finery in
presentable condition it is sure to be
an acceptable gift.
The shops, perhaps, have more in
teresting things Of this sort than ever
before There are boxes for shoes and
stockings, for hats, gloves and lingerie,
in every shape, size, color and material.
And, If you wish to make these con-
tainers, there is just as much variety
to choose from. You can make simple
muslin slips to put over frocks. They
are attractive made of figured dimity
or some other thin print. Or of sateen
in solid color Or. if you wish to be
extravagant. of pongee. They should
by all means be made Of washable
fabric.
These slips can be made to fasten
down the front or else at the sides,
with snapper fastenings. A hole is
made at the top, bound with ribbon,
through which a hanger holding the
frock is slipped So the frock, COW
veniently hung away out of the dust.
A set of three slip covers is a most
attractive gift. You can get the same
design in three different colors in some
light print-pink, lavender, blue, for
instance; or pink, yellow and green.
The hangers may be covered in match
ing color. You can make knitted COW
ers; or if you can't do that, you can
cover the hangers with pad of cotton
batting. scented with sachet, and then
covered with ribbon. Or you can uss
enameled wood in different colors.
A hatboX covered with decorative
paper or with cretonne is another at
tractive and acceptable gift. One with
one side letting down is especially use
full for it can be placed on a closet
shelf and left there. and the hat taken
from it and returned to it without
difficulty.
Shoe bags containing compartments
for eight or ten pairs of shoes, and
made to hang on the inside of
closet door, are especially useful where
space is limited. Where space is not SO
limited and shoes can be kept in rows
on shelf, some women use little
cretonne bag for each shoe-bags
marked in pairs, so that mating shoes
can be easily classified and kept in
order.
Copyright, 1929
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have to occupy the same room 1t is
usually better plan to provide place
for study, letter writing, ETC., in some
other part of the house.
A luxury item In bedroom furnishing
Is the lounge or chaise Tongue for day
time resting
A carpet that entirely covers the bed
room floor has something to be said in
its favor. 1t gives the room look Of
completenesS-does away with any pos
Sible effect OF confusion that might re-
suit from an arrangement of large or
small rugs. Besides, the floor entirely
covered is actually quiet. A great many
decorators almost always suggest all
over carpets for the bedrooms for just
this reason, and you will find them in
many very well furnished houses.
Still for the woman who must do or
supervise her own houSework the all
over carpet has decided disadvantages
in the bedroom. Dust gathers so quickly
under beds, especially when the blan-
kets are not especially new and are in
clined to fluff off little. With the bare
floor this dust may easily be picked up
with dust mop in the daily cleaning
Of the rooms.
Beds must be moved, of course, when
lIlLS UUSG ID 10 DC TAKEN up IFOIn carpet
with broom or vacuum cleaner. So as a
matter of convenience it is a good plan
to use rugs in the bedroom so that the
space beneath the beds is left bare.
One fair sized rug for the bare space
Of the room with a number of scatter
rugs-to place beside the bed, before
the bureau. etc.-may be chosen.
Very attractive results may be gained
by the use of the linoleum type of floor
covering in bedrooms, and this is es-
pecially desirable in children's rooms
There Is quite fad now for painted
floors. and nowhere are they more at
tractive than in the bedroom. If the
floor is old all cracks should be well
filled, and the floor should be made
smooth and even by a coat of founda-
ton paint Then it should be covered
with solid colored floor paint, and after
this is dried given good waxing.
Black floors are attractive where the
other colors employed are cheerful
enough to counterfeit its gloom. Green
soft old blue, brick red, brown have al
| been chosen with good effect.
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Toys are for the moment assuming
an exaggerated position significant of
the season. and between the prodigality
of the toy departments displays and
the insistent plea of Mamma, what are
you going to buy me for Christmas?"
the parent is in a dizzy whirl OF in
decision.
It isn't enough just to lay in a vast
store Of toys that two days later will be
filling the ash can, but to use simple
measuring rod for good toys and make
note of some pitfalls that are to be
avoided
The business of play is serious mat
ter with child. and he must have toys,
for the lack of then cannot be replaced
by anything of equal value to his
physical, mental and social develop
inent obviously. when a toy has such
a serious mission it should be chosen
seriously. Yet there are some mistakes
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Black Plates Used
On COlOred Cloths

This is important-and new.
For use with colored damask table
cloths, black glass service plates are
finger bowls.
And with these colored tablecloths,
white china is usually best chosen
Sometimes china in the same color
as the cloth, in matching. darker or
lighter shade. is good. But figured
china is usually not very effective with
the colored cloth.
Very often white china is used. And
then colorless glasses, with colored
stems, are also used. Like figured
china, the glass entirely of color looks
best on white tablecloth. But the
bit of color on the transparent glass
is effective In emphasizing the color
of the cloth
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Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

care for brooms, or toy sets of dishes or
any of the housekeeping toys, because
up to this time the child has no interest
in trying to be initiative Of her mothers
activities. But when she runs after
her, wanting to help make the bed,
longing to dabble in the dish water or
carry out the dishes, she is ready for
housekeeping toys and doll house of
her own
Toys which need an adult to explain
and manipulate them never arouse
child's interest. why don't you play
with your building toys?" mother is sure
to inquire anXiously after she has given
3-year -old Harry a complicated set.
Harry can't play with the building toys
at this age, except to look at some adult
put them together. The intricacies of
building toys are quite beyond his
capabilities, Just as are fish ponds be-
yond the abilities of the eye and hand
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White Lamp Shades Are in Vogue
Among Smart Interior Decorators

White is the newcomer among popu-
lar colors for lamp shades.
We have had white ground-glass
shades on our electric bulbs, and the
same sort of shades in PARKWAY days
when oil lamps were the newest thing
among light producers. But white
shades for our modern decorative lights
are new.
A few years ago, of course, the ala
baster electric lamp came into being.
And the present white shade is doubt
less a descendant of this alabaster lamp.
And that, of course, goes back to
Greece, when alabaster vases were used
to hold the oil that held the floating
wick that did duty as the incandescent
bulb of that day.
There is much choice of fabric for
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Handbags of Fur
Make Good Muffs

Handbags of fur, so made that there
is a little pocket for the hands, and
they thus become muffs as well, are
usually made of the shorter furs,
especially the sheep furs. These stand
the wear of handbags and muff COM
bined very well. Sometimes there is
an actual muff Snapped cylinder of
fur, with little clasped pocket on
one side for the handbag. Sometimes
there is a big fur handbag, with handle
and metal frame, with a little pocket
on the back for the hands.
Whichever way they are made, they
are attractive and provide for their
two uses quite efficiently.
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these new white shades. Some of them
are of alabaster-thin and translucent,
letting through a soft sufficient light.
The base of lamp with an alabaSter
shade is likewise of alabaster, so that
the whole thing gives an effect of glow
ing, pearly wilderness.
Some of the new white lamp shades
are made of parchment paper, dead
white and heavily shellacked, but still
as white as skim milk. They are placed
on lamps of white pottery or of pottery
colored in some rather thick pastel
shade of pink or blue or violet.
Velvet, too, is used for white shades
chiffon velvet drawn taught over a
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foundation of crepe de chine or thin
china silk. And sometimes finely pleat-
ed georgette is likewise used for the
white shade.
The smartness of white shades does
not mean that colored shades are out
of vogue. Finely pleated georgette is
used by interior decorators in carrying
out any color scheme. Undecorated
parchment shades. sometimes slightly
tinted with an even rubbing of some
soft brown, are always in demand.
Decorated parchment maintains its
place. And one of the very newest
sorts of lampshade is made of metal
a thin sheathe of silver that though
it cuts off much of the light behind
1t, nevertheless sparkles and glistens
most cheerfully.
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Lollards were a body of reformers
who, under the leadership of Wyclif,
were subjected to cruel persecution in
the reign of Richard II.