The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1932, Page 34

6 THE DAILY.-ALASKA EMP Personal Tou ovelties By SIGRID ARNE WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, — The Christmas gift problem is simpler are filled with s suitable to v remembranc- are plen- be pur- chascd easily. The gl al apparent- 1y, have given extra thought this | }:eax to the home-made preseni. | Petit-point embroidery is cnaag_-‘ ing many Washington women this | year. Most of the embroiderers | are givi their friends seat and | foot-st covers for chairs which | they have stolen in to measure at | odd times. {0 make since the stores have| hundreds of patterns, some of them | with the central figure—the hard- | est work—done. The background | could be finished even in the short | time left. | One Washington woman is cover- | jng' 48 ordinary match boxes with bright paper. All it takes is the| paper, match boxes, & glue-pot | and some patience. Measure the | box, and with & pencil and rulerI lay out all the pieces of paper that will be needed. Then cut them and paste them on. The boxes add | an. attractive touch to the bridge table of the lucky person who re- ceives such a gift. The young woman who does @ good deal of entertaining may be happy to receive a maline bag to hang on her dressing table, filled with tiny powder puifs made of cotton died with bright ribbons. | And her guests will like. using them. The fortunate woman Who can| turn delicious fruit cakes out of ber oven should be busy right now, particularly if she has any hurried spartment house dwellers on her jist, It's a simple matter to buy the ingredients and make the cakes which last for months. Then there are always hooked rugs. Dozens of ‘Washington Wwo- | men are busily “punching” away ag burlap these last few days in | to give these bright, soft And this year they are not content with just making a hobked rug. ‘They are making rajsed flower and leaf patterns. Hurlap stamped with patterns and varn can be purchased readily for the rugs. Of course, there will always be mothers who help out Santa Claus That Gift Problem tire family ' ¥ woman who |{ These gifts are easy b e | e Solved; ch Easy Ones; Shown in Shops \Gupsonal Gifgs 2 2% WAE ! 5 & f : — / s it HAND MADE OGKED RUG W, Ns:o & F >, TCH C O 7 a1 3 NS ATTRACTIVE v ”4 \ o i ,////,/’; < D Pl ORDINARY MATLH BoXeS COVERED | WITH BRIGHT 704 */P5R MAKE “8av aTTRACTIVE B o T PROBLEM by making the favorite doll a new wardrobs of clothes. Fortunately this year there are sets of pat- | terns for several garments in one unvelope. The old trick of pulling colored threads through handkerchief squares is being borrowed: this year by a group that is making woolen scarfs. A rough, plain-colored woolen is bought, cut into scari jengths and then the ends are frayed. Colored woclen threads are pulled through for bright stripe or plaid patterans. —— - CHRISTMAS SHOPPING | HALTED | I want to do some Christmas shopping today dear,” said a fond wife, “that is if the weather is favorable. What is the forecast?” At the other end of the table her husband, consulting the pa- per, read aloud: “Rain, hail, snow | thunder; lightning and floods.” and patrons in: to merit your fa And we hop. N Merry Christmas Happy New Year We wish to express our sincere appreciation to our many friends for their support and patronage and hope that. we may continue STAR BAKERY JAMES SOFOULIS, Proprietor Merrie Christmas 8 has arranged to make you 2 all very happy. Wide-Awake Shoe Shop AL LUNDGREN this. community VOor. e Santa Claus MESSAGE BROUGHT BY A CYCLAMEN As usual, the man stood before the Christmas display in the flor- ist shop window. Instead Of pass= ing, he entered the shop. “He wished the cyclamen that was in | the window, he told Myra Gordonm, the owner. i He was Jack Corwin, an. aetor, the Christmas window touched Myra’s heart. offering a bill exceeding the value of the plant. “It's worth every- “I haven't seen her for three years. A misunderstanding separated us. Each year your cyclamens have bid- den me go back. I can't ignore their message any longer. I'm tak- ing his to her today. Merry Christ- mas” And he was gone before Myra could answer. Tanner Dillin. Who can. measure the effect of separated from his family, Myra!putting six”hundred pairs of fec! I had learned. The intense longing!into six hundred pairs of shoes and in, his eyes each year as he saw| Christmas joy into the empty live: of six hundred struggling boys It made Christmas the brightes: “Don’t bother about any change.”|spot' in all their years. It brought the vision of hope and gave nobler conception of the world thing to me.” Tt turned six hundred pairs of “It's my wife’s favorite flower,”|feet, for a time at least, into the he explained, a catch in his voice.| paths that lead toward success Many of them will reach the goa! ‘Those shoes, perhaps, will turn a score of boys, poorly born, away from a career of crime and give to the world a score of strong and helpful men. pulses. prompted by. the Christmas spirit have never been the urge to Joy filled Myra’s heart to think|indolence or crime. — William L that she had again selected a. cy-| Gaston. clamen for her window.—Blanche —_—————————— Classified ads pay IRE, SUNDAY, DEC. 18, 1932. . = 4 . [ e e b b e e b [k “* REAL SANTA CLAUS ** _— LR 3 FEET ARE IN This Christmas spirit is % % the real Santa Claus — a % * spirit that is universal—that |+ g sHuEs grows stronger with the | 4 years—that brings out the & best in us-—a spirit that is <)% ade up of kindly thoughts 4|+ Give the honors to the Christmas .~ ¥ t season. It has come to be a mora :_;: de:s.of:t“hauowcd_mfm— : i force—a civilizing influence of un- 1 s R 0 measured power. A western busi b : : ness man gave six hundred urchin of | theystreel & Christmas present” *© ¥ 4 ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥+ & + 44 of six hundred ir: oy red pairs of shoes. | pyye the Patp re rrosperity wnh‘ printing! Bt b b e B 3 CELEBRATIONS Three Christmases are cele- brated every year Church of Nativity at Beth- lehem: The first occurs in the Roman OCatholic section on December 25; later the Greek: Orthodox church holds § brations, to be those of the Armenian church in another 13 days. LR SR SR S 0 R SR IR 2 JREELERTR T I L Make Milli jons Think—ana Buy/! do B b B b * pa| - H in the . &/ * * * 13 days - ts ‘elebra- followed: by % * & * L . The unselfish im- CHAS. GOLDSTEIN &CO.INC. ALASKA AT JUNEAU THE SEASON'’S GREETINGS TRY A CUT OF “FR¥E’S” DELICIOUS BEEE Y and, kA .} o : Phione 38 Dor’t Forget the Famous “WILLAPOINT” OYSTERS For Your Christmas Dinners LOW PRICED % Pints-Pints-Quarts FRYE-BRUHN CO. PACKERS and PROVISIONERS Three Deliveries Daily ! GOOD CHEER and HAPPINESS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS JUNEAU DAIRY --6GO00D CHEER-- JUNEAU LUMBER TO ALL OUR JUNEAU FRIENDS MILLS, Ine. e With- Kindest Thoughts For a Most Merry CHRISTMAS And Every Good W Pro: THE COMING YEAR ish for Health and sperity Throughout