ATTRACTIVE BOOK-HOLDER

Northland Age, Volume VIII, Issue 26, 16 February 1912, Page 2

ATTRACTIVE BOOK-HOLDER

Take a firm piece of natural-col-loured linen, thirteen and one-half by nine inches. Baste in the two long sides and turn edges of short sides. Two narrow strips wrapped around heavy twine ten and one-half inches long are sewed to the short ends for handles. Cut two pieces nine by two and three-fourths inches for pockets, stitch hems in one of the long sides, and turn the other edges in. Baste these pockets on the long piece and stitch all the way around as shown by the dotted line in the illustration.

A spray of holly or other conventional design and the initials may be embroidered or stencilled on the front. This holder is not only convenient for carrying a book to the library, but is also h indy for a guide-book when travelling. It may easily be made larger to hold a couple or more volumes. The idea embodies an excellent type of present. THE CHEMISTRY OF THE COW. "The modern student knows nothing at all—nothing a t all !" exclaimed Professor Blow, who was blowing himself blue before the junior chemistry class. The students agree that it was so. "Take such a simple, familiar, wellworn, unpretentious little word as oxide," pursued the puffing professor. "How many of you here can define it 7" He glared round the room, and picked out a small youth who was on the point of dozing. "Why, I don’t believe you can even name me an oxide ?" The sleepy one woke with a start, and jerked out : "Leather !" "Leather, sit !" roared the professor angrily. "And what, pray, may leather be an oxide of?" "Why, sir," retorted the boy— i "why, oxide of beef, sir !" One morning a group of labourers were discussing the peculiar articles used by men in prehistoric times. One man said he always wondered why stone coffins were used for dead people. "Bedad !" exclaimed Pat. "Don’t yez see, a stone coffiin would last a dead man all his life." The tranquility and happiness of life consists in being satisfied with one’s condition —Nabi-Effendi.