A Sixpence-halfpenny Stall

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7847, 8 July 1911, Page 13

A Sixpence-halfpenny Stall

THE sixpence-halfpenny stall is sure to be a very popular one at a bazaar, and as the trifics that furnish it cost next to nothing to make, all tho money that is taken is clear profit. It is not very easy to think of dainty odds and ends that can bo made cheaply, but perhaps tho following hints may be serviceable to those who are at present working for bazaars. Silk Buttons

are constantly wanted for blouses, dresses, and coats. Buy wooden button moulds —they cost from a penny to fourpenco a dozen, according to size—cover them neatly with any odd .scraps of silk or ribbon that you may have by you, and stitch them on to cards in sets. Three or four largo buttons will ,bo enough for C]d, while you might give eight or ten of the smaller ones. Veil Pins

aro very dainty little things, and it Is a good, idea to have them, in different shades to go with various veils. Buy ordinary small steel pins—a penny tho paper or sheet—dip them carefully in melted sealing wax, so that it coats around their heads. Smooth off the wax with your damp fingers till it makes a neat little ball ’over the head of each piu. A pennyworth of pins and a half a dozen sticks of different coloured wax will give you materials enough to make quite a large supply of these pretty things.- Stick them on cards in sets, and you will find that they sell readily at the card. A Hanging File

is a useful thing, which keeps bills and papers most conveniently out of the way. buy a child's wooden hoop stick, which costs a halfpenny; also four fair-sized screws, ending in hooks, and a yard of narrow ribbon or silk cor’d. Paint the stick with enamel in any bright colour. Chip a groove around each end, tie the ribbon into the groove, finishing it with jrretty hows, and leaving a loop in the middle by which the stick is hung up. The file looks quite nice as it dangles from a nail against the wall, and is very convenient to use. A Paperweight Doll is quite original and pretty. Buy a penny doll, cut off its legs, and fit its head and shoulders on to the neck of a small medicine bottle which has been filled with sand or earth. Cover the bottle neatly with a scrap of dark material, and then dress the doll, giving it a skirt long enough to reach down to the table and hide the bottle. A little maid-ser-vant or nurse is easy to dress in this way, or an early Victorian belle, with a wide skirt, well stiffened with featherbone. Icoks quite charming. Book Plates ■; are things which are very much in favour just now. and the girl who is clever at drawing can make them quite easily. Buy plain white labels with gammed backs. Decorate each with a little pen-and-ink drawing or water-colour painting. Letter neatly at the head, “This Book is the Property of ” and then leave a line of space for the owner 'to write the name. A couple of these, put in a nice envelope, will sell readily at Gld, for many people who cannot afford to have a specially designed plate like something distinctive to stick Inside the covers of their pet books. * # BANNISTER HILL TTp Banister Hill did you ever go? Sometimes I go fast, sometimes I so But whether I like it or not, each night I have surely to go, at candle light, XJp Banister Hill. At the top stands nurse with impatient f— CO; She always waits in the very same place. And never a chanco sb© gives me to look At the long, long way my little feet took Up Banister hill. Oh. how can a little boy like to go Tin Banister hill? But it’s fine, I know, "When morning comes, and I’m washed and dressed. To play I’m on horseback and r’ding my best Down Banister hill! I stand by the side of my shining horse. Take one look, ahead at the long straight course— And then up I jump! I slip and I sMde, And off like a flash of lightning I g'ide Down Banister hill. —'■Children’s Magazine.”

No man has any right to expect \ to live differently to-morrow irom ) the way in which lie is living to- j day. What he chooses to-day he > chooses for to-morrow. What he > overcomes to-day he is overcoming \ for to-morrow. What he yields to > to-day -he is still more likely to j yield to to-morrow. Yet most of us S live as though we did not believe I this, and wo try hard to persuade \ ourselves that wo. are safe in so \ living. , ■ j

A WONDERFUL FOUNTAIN One of the natural marvels of Franco has but recently been ‘ made generally known. It is the fountain, or source of the Coulomp, a small river in the department of the Basses-Alpes. Out of a mighty limestone wall about 4000 feet high springs a fountain of water, yielding even in the driest times about 300 gallons per second, and forming a full-born river, which begins its career with a series of leaps aggregating 100 feet of descent. It is thought that the water must pass under the mountain by subterranean channels at least a mile in length.

# Pay what you owe, and you’ll know what you own.—Franklin.