Zurich Herald, 1934-12-06, Page 3-o-.*-,,.• -- -G+.a-o.0 a ,.
lay Nair M. Morgan
PRESENTS
Christmas is just around the
coiner and many are faced with the
problem of the season's offerings of
goodwill. Here are a few suggest-
ions. For instance oilcloth novelties
take only a jiffy to fashion, cost al-
most nothing and are smart prac-
tical
raytical gifts.
Designs may he painted with lac-
quer, enamels or artists' oil colors,
They may also be appliqued by hand
with buttonhole stitch (big stitches
always) or done with the sewing
machine.
To transfer designs to oilcloth lay
the pattern on the right side of the
material, trace with a blunt object
no thicker than a pencil point (a
crochet hook is excellent), press just
hard enough to make a slight in-
dentation on the surface of the oil-
cloth without cracking or cutting
the finish. Go over these indentations
with a soft pencil again being care-
ful not to cut the painted surface.
For sticking oilcloth to wood or
other surfaces, use either flour paste
or liquid glue,
Card Table Corer
Use dull or glossy art baize with
an embossed finish in black or
colors. Measure the card table, cut
the material four inches longer and
wider. Cut a rounded piece out of
each corner Turn back a quarter
inch fold all around and bind with
biaq tape adding elastic to each
corner Lu slip over the corners of
the table and hold the cloth firm.
Score pad covers made to match are
unusual,
If 'you have a card table with a
worn top, undo the corner screws,
stretch oilcloth over the entire sur-
face and replace the side boards. It
also may be decorated,
Telephone Book Cover
Use pebble finish oilcloth in black
or colors. Measure each cover and
the thickness of the book. Cut the
oilcloth one half inch bigger than the
book measures from top to bottom
and ten inches longer than the meas-
urements of covers and thickness.
Fold five inches on either end for
pockets, bind with gold braid, ribbon
or silk bias tape. Add a cord and
tassel.
The cover shown in black with the
design done in gold with touches of
red and green ,Chinese lacquer. The
tassel and cord also carries out these
colors.
TVall Rcw7
Use a thin board one-quarter
inch thick and fifteen inches long by
three and one-quarter inches wide.
Shape the top corners. Allow
one inch on all four sides when
cutting the oilcloth for lapping.
Paste the oilcloth on the board. At
the back paste a strip of heavy
paper to cover the edges of the
oilcloth. The tabs are fastened with
covered thumb tacks.
Wan Pocket
. One piece of plain oilcloth ten
inches by six inches for the back,
two shaped plain pieces measuring
six inches wide and four inches at
the highest point, two strips of ging-
ham pattern oilcloth measuring three
inches by six inches with a rounded
piece, cut out of each at the top.
Bind tops of the two gingham
pieces and the two small plain
pieces. Arrange the plain and ging-
ham pieces of the "back" alternate-
ly. Sew the bottom of the first ging-
ham piece for the first pocket. The
bottom of the second gingham piece
and the one marked "receipts"
should meet and are sewn to the
"back" to form the second pocket.
The third pocket is formed by the
decorated piece. Bind all around
with checked bias tape.
Rule Holder
Cut three pieces of gingham pat-
tern oilcloth each measuring four
inches wide, one sixteen inches long,
one ten inches long and one six
inches long, Bind the tops of the
two smaller strips. Lay the six
inch strip two inches from the top
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of the sixteen inch strip and sew
across the bottom to form a pocket.
The ten inch strip forms the second
pocket. Bind and add the tab for
hanging, Slip a twelve inch rule in-
to the bottom pocket, a new tape
measure and a pencil into the top
pocket,
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An oilcloth apron is both practical
and pretty. Use any pattern you de-
sire. Make it of any design or color
you choose. Bind the edges and add
tapes to tie straps instead of but-
toning them.
A child's bib with a pocket will
please the wee tot and help the busy
mother.
A cover for the high chair tray
to match the bib is also worthwhile.
Chair pads add a decorative note
to the modern kitchen. Cut pieces of
coarse felting the size of the chair
and two pieces of oilcloth measur-
ing one-half inch wider all around.
Add tapes to tie the "pad" to the
chair legs and bind all about with
strips of plain oilcloth or wide bias
tape.
Tie backs for bathroom or kitchen
curtains made of plain colored oil-
cloth are pretty.
YOUR LIST
Of course, by now you have remade
your Christmas list and no doubt
"A Book" is placed opposite at least
three. Here are a few of the sea -
.son's offerings. For those who love
the sea, "Pitcairn's Island," by
Charles Nordhoff and James Nor-
man Hall, will meet every require-
ment. E, Phillips Oppenheim`s new
noel, "The Strange Boarders of
Palace Crescent," has every element
of mystery and menace, and is the
"thrill lovers" meat. For adventure,
a tale of men who lived dangerous-
ly, "Tents in Mongolia," by Hen-
ning Haslund, will appeal to those
who like first hand accounts of
man's battle with the elements.
Warwick Deeping is always depend-
able and many are his followers. In
"The Man on the White Horse," you
have him at his best,
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON ..... ....
THE CHRISTIAN AS TEACHER
GOLDEN TEXT — "Give diligence
to present thyself approved unto God
a workman that needeth not to be
ashamed, handling aright the word
of truth.
TIME AND PLACE — The passage
from Matthew is the conclusion of
the Sermon on the Mount, spoken on
Burn Hattin, a hill west of the cen-
tral portion of the Sea of Galilee, at
midsummer of A.D. 23, the second
year of Christ's ministry. The pas-
sage from the Acts relates an event
which took place at Ephesus in Asia
Minor, A.D., 53, when Paul was in the
midst of his third missionary tour,
and before the Apostle began his long
work of three years in that city,
"Everyone therefore." Therefore
implies that the parable which fol-
lows is an elucidation of what pre-
cedes, the picture of that day when
the Lord will pass judgement upon
the lives of men, "That heareth these
words of mine." It is an indication of
Christ's cliety that in his mouth they
seem perfectly natural, and merely in
accordance with his exalted charact-
ter, "And doeth them." Hearing is
never enough. Unless obedience fol-
lows the hearing, our listening has
been in vain. "Shall be likened unto
a wise man." A man of prudence and
sagacity, a man of practical know-
ledge. There is much book learning
that does not meet the test of actual
experience. "Who built his house up-
on the rock." Palestine is a stony
country. A great rock ridge runs
north and south through the land,
and on it the soil is very shallow.
The one solid foundation for hum-
an character has been abundantly
proven to be the Lord Jesus Christ,
Princess Marina's Trousseau
The staff of one of the leading Paris ateliers at work on two evening gowns, part of the
trousseau of Prince George's bride, Princess mann a.
his person, his word, his work, his
grace.
"And the rain descended and the
floods came, and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house." The prolong-
ed rainless weather is suddenly bro-
keu up by •tlie season of rain and of
storm.
"And it fell not; for it was found-
ed upon the rock." A man who takes
Christ for his pattern. Christ's tea-
chings for his principles of life is a
man whose lite is safe and who shall
endure.
"And everyone that heareth these
words of mine, and doeth them not"
How much of our hearing is describ-
ed in these stern words of the Great
Teacher! "Shall be likened unto a
foolish man.' When Christ says 'Thou
fool!" it behooves men to look well
to their going, for they are facing the
wrong way. "Who built his house up-
on the sand." Ile built it in some
wady, or dry bed of a stream. No sign
of water in the rainless season, but
a rushing torrent as soon as the rains
come,
"And the rain descended, and the
floods came, and the winds blew, and
smote upon that house." The house
on the rock could stand the gale; and
the house on the sand went dcv:a ag-
ainst it with on great crash. "And it
fell; and great was the fall thereof.'
That there are houses of faith being
built which grip the rock and which
no storm can overthrow, we know of
with a glad assurance.
"And it came to pass, when Jesus
had finished these words." The Ser-
mon on the Mount oceuping three
chapters of Matthew. "The multit-
udes were astonished at his teaching.
How strange and marvellous it must
have seemed to the people to whom
it came absolutely fresh and new;
"For he taught them as one having
authority, and not as their scribes."
While Jesus taught with authority,
the scribes taught by authorities a
very different thing.
"Now a certain Jew named Apollos.
His name was a shortened form of
Apollonius or Apollodorus. "An Alex-
andrian by race." He was born in Al-
exandria the great city of northern
Egypt,
"An eloquent man," A man of cul-
ture, the word expressing both
thought and its expression in words,
"Came to Epheusu." He was a trav-
elling philosopher and lecturer, "...and
he was mighty in the scriptures."
That is, of course, in the Old Testa-
ment, for the New Testament had not
yet been formed and for the most
part had not been written.
"This man had been instructed in
the way of the Lord." The Greek verb
suggests that this instruction may
have been oral, and hence that no
written Gospel had yet circulated in
Alexandria. "And being fervent in
spirit." A quality greatly honored by
Paul, who possessed it in its perfec-
tion see Rom, 12 : 11, "He spoke and
taught accurately the things neern-
ing Jesus," Accurately that iSlas far
as he went, but not fully, "Knowing
only the baptism of John." This dif-
fered from that of the apostles main-
ly in these respects; first that theirs
recognized a Messiah who had come
and, secondly, that it was attested
by the extraordinary gifts of the Spi
rit,
"And he began to speak boldly in
the synagogue." In the synagogue of
Epheusu, where Paul began his prea-
ching setting forth Jesus as the Mes-
siah, the Lamb of God who would
take away the sin of the world. "But
when Priscilla and Aquila heard him.
He preached the gospel of repent-
ance from sin with wonderful power
and he could prove with unanswer-
able logic that Jesus was the Messiah
But of the supreme glory of Christ-
ian experience which comes in the
witness of the Holy Spirit in one's
own soul to the forgiveness of sins,
he had never heard.
"They took him unto them," Prob-
ably they made him an. inmate of
their home, where Paul had been, so
that they could have a better chance
at him. "And expounded to him the
way of God more accurately." It
would have been no easy task to take
In hand a man. of Apollo's intellect-
ual attainments and independence of
character, and lead him on to the
views more generally held among the
Christians, But Priscilla and Aquila
undertook the difficult task and suc-
ceeded in it.
"..a.nd when lie was minded to pass
ever into Achaia," The southern part
of Greece, containing Athens and
Corinth "The brethern encouraged
him, and wrote to the disciples to
receive him." He could not have cho-
sen a place more suitable for his work
as Corinth was a centre of commerce
it was a town also of great intellect-
ual activity. "And when he has come,
he helped them much that had believ
ed through grace," They helped him
and he helped them! A noteworthy
instance of Christian reciprocity.
"For he powerfully confuted the
Jews, and that publicly." The unbel-
ieving Jews of Corinth had tried to
drive Paul out of the city and had
indeed succeeded in driving him out
of the synagogue, but only to set up
his own church next to the synagog-
ue. Now in Apollos the Jews found
an antagonist equally staunch, one
w+ho did not mince matters. "Showing
by the scriptures that Jesus was the
Christ." All Bible teachers have much
to learn from Apollos, He studied the
Scriptures and made them the basis
of all his work. He was ready to
learn from others, even from those
far inferior to himself in natural ab-
ility. He was full of energy and fiery
zeal. He was bold and courageous. He
combined logic with grace, He was
profoundly helpful.
TRUE LOVE
This fellow loves work,
To you 1'11 confide It.
He 'eves It so well
He can sleep right beside It.
Duchess of York Uses
Modern China for Tea
Amateur Talkies
Perfected in Paris
Paris — Amateur cinema operators
will now be able to Produce talkies,
thanks to the machine recently per,
fected here by two brothers MM Hen-
ri and Pierre Perreau,
Tolano-Cinemais a simple mach-
ine which records sound on ordinary
diskc, from which it can almost be
immediately rep•hoduced again. The
speed of the turntable on which the
disk is placed can be synchronized to
the speed of the amateur's movie ca-
mera and may be varied between 20
and 120 turns a minute, The machine
is equipped with an amplifier which
can be used after a very small ad-
justment
djustment either for recording or for
reproducing the sound,
You are wrong if you imagine that
guests who go to tea with the Duchess
of York are asked to sip from heir-
loom china, writes a woman corres-
pondent in a London daily newspaper
The Duchess is modern in many
things—and especially in the ar-
rangement of her home. She believes
nohing is more charming than the de-
signs and especially the colorings of
modern china so the 'vo teasets that
are used on alternate days in her
drawing room at Picadilly are exactly
the same type that you could buy for
yourself in any up to date china shop.
The grander of the Duchess of York
teasets is tinted in palest peach, The
cups have gold handles and round the
rims a delicate scroll design in gold
forms a deep band.
The other set is of ivory with white
jonquils appearing like stars against
its deep bands of springtime green.
It strikes a very joyous note,
Arnmhair for Baby
On Bicycle Trips
Cold Hands Won't
Mean Warm Heart
Chicago — That old saying that
cold hands indicate a warm +heart may
need revising this winter, with muffs
back in style, Muffs, whicrh brave
been edging in for the past few sea-
sons are booked for a big winter.
They are in both fur and fabric.
One of the very newest styles is the
muff of silver fox skins. Several ver-
sions were seen in which two or more
skins were used. Running vertically
as though thrown over the arm, the
skins form abig pliable, graceful
muff that adds luxury, elegance and
gives warmth.
Then there is Schiaparelli's amus-
ing long and narrow dachsmund muff,
So many different kinds of fur are
being used that it is no trick to get
a muff to match the fur coat. Some
of the new winter fur coats are being
shown with matching muffs.
Huddersfield, Eng. — Do not leave
the children at home if you want to
go cycling; take them with you—is
the advice given to parents by Mr.
and Mrs. Frith of Huddersfield, whose
two children aged 5 and 3 respective-
ly, are also keen cyclists.
Baby sits in a glorified armchair in
between father and mother, on their
specially constructed bicycle made for
two and a half. But, to tell the truth
Baby's inclined to be just a litle bit
jealous of Junior who has a bicycle
all to himself and who is 'very proud
of having ridden from Bridlington to
Huddersfield, some GO miles in one
day.
All the same, the Friths say Baby
gets in some private practise at home
on the kiddie car, and will soon be
graduating to a real road tricycle,
Then it won't be long before the en-
tire family are awheel.
Ellen Wilkinson
Blames Her `Stupidity'
Miss Helen Wilkinson former M,P,
was fined $10, in Police Court at Bain
Tree Eng., for driving an unlicensed
motor car.
It was stated a policeman stopped
the car and found the Road Fund
'license had expired a month pre-
viously. When asked for an explana-
tion, Miss Wilkinson said "I suppose
it is the stupidity of us women,"
Gerald Denham, solicitor who ap-
peared for Miss Wilkinson explained
that Miss Wilkinson had been abroad
and when she returned a great deal
of important political work awaited
her and she forgot about her license,
The Chairman of the court mentioned
that Miss Wilkinson was fined for a
similar offence at Sleaford, Lincoln-
shire, in May last year,
After Rain
The clouds are broken up in azure
isles,
And archipelagoes of lights from trees
Dance with their shadowdelets on
green leas,
In liveliest pattern; barns and slates
and tiles
Are watersheds of silver; the road
smiles
Fromm every whitened stone bared to
the breeze,
And the bright river is sheeted into
seas,
Where yacht sails lean to mirrored
snowy piles
Giddy with light and laughter, the
land reels,
In spangled orchards waggish robins
twinkle
And mimic the red apples the drops
sprinkle,
The sheltering yeoman shoulders his
great scythe
As though a fishing rod, and ambles
blithe,
And boys run forth with winglets at
their heels.
—Geoffrey Johnson
Good Old Chelsea!
Two old ladies of Lincolnshire have
just had the surprise of their lives.
Deciding that they would like to buy
a motor -car, they looked through
their family treasures to see what
they could sell. They cane across a
piece of old Chelsea china which had
been in the fancily for years and
sent it to be sold by auction. Having
some idea that it might be rather
valuable, they placed a reserve price
of £100 upon it.
To their amazement the ornament
turned out to be the work of a fam-
ous French artist named Boubilliac,
Part of a valuable group of three
pieces, one of which is in the Victoria
and Albert Museum. The dealers bid
eagerly, and the old ladies received
£3,150 for it.
Western Co-eds Want
Girls' Smoking Room
London, Ont.—The question of sex
equality is being carried a stage
further by co-eds at the University of
Western Ontario. They are asking
the board of governors to set aside a
girls' smoking room so that they may
enjoy the weed without "surreptitious
methods". The men students have a
room for smoking and the girls° have
decided that they are entitled to the
same convenience.
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