WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

“EASY” BIT OF SPARE-TIME WORK. If you want a little bit. of work to take up now and then during spare time, you will find this cushion cover the very thing, because you .won’t have to puzzle your brains over it. You need a yard of checked houseflannel, eighteen inches wide, which will only cost about sixpence. Folded in half, this will give you a cover eighteen inches square. Place a penny in alternative squares on the top half of the cover,

pencil round, and use the pencilled outlines as the foundation for the pretty floral embroidery. , Now you want all the gay-coloured scraps of wool you can get—and here’s a chance of using up the odd lengths in your work-basket. Work the flowers in orange, yellow, red, blue and lavender. Give some black centres, other yellow or orange. Leaves and stems are bright green. The three diagrams show three different ways of embroidering the blossoms. The first has daisy loop petals and a French-knot centre; the second has. a buttonhole-stitched wheel and a satin-stitch centre; the third is done in stroke-stitches and has three Frenchknots in the centre. All stems are worked in stem-stitch, and leaves in satin-stitch. When you have finished the embroidery, fold the material on the wrong side and sew up the two sides. Turn right side out, put in the cushion, stitch up the opening, and sew on a crochet wool cord, in one of the embroidery colours, as an edging. Wendy’s Dressmaker.

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THE PARSON WITH A NOTION. The parish church of Carlton-in-Cleve-land, North Yorkshire, has a fine peal of eight bells in its massive tower, and the story of their erection, as told by the vicar, Canon Kyle, is very interesting. He was informed that they would cost £7OO, a large sum to raise in a poor country district; but the vicar thought of the novel idea of asking several farmers to give a bushel of wheat toward the cost of the first bell. This was very popular; the money was soon raised, and the bell received the name of the "Wheat Bell. Then the villagers raised enough money to buy a second bell, now known as the Village Bell. Afterwards the children of the, village went round collecting and in due course provided a third bell, which became known as the Children’s Bell. The fourth bell was from contributions made by visitors to the village and received the name of the Stranger s Bell; while the other four, now known as the Thank-offering Bells, were provided as a general response of thanksgiving from the people of that widespreading country district Canon Kyle is known in the North Riding as the Farmer’s Parson; he will probably be known in future as the Eight Bell Man. A LOVABLE COUPLE. The inmates of one of Budapest’s Old People’s Homes are preparing for a rather touching festival. They have clubbed together to celebrate, in as fitting a manner as their more than slender means will allow, the golden wedding of two of the fellowinmates of the Homes. When, fifty years ago, the young stonemason Anthony Messinger led pretty Theresa Riczinger to the altar, life smiled upon them and they had many prosperous years together, years filled with happy toil. Then lean years came, but they took them cheerfully. Even when, grown old and destitute, they had to seek admittance in the Home, they did not grumble—nor did they give way to despair or feel that life had no more to offer them. When the authorities decided to erect a monument to four servants of the Home who had fallen in the war old Anthony Messinger came forward and volunteered to make one out of the remains of an old stone wall. “I may be old,” he said, “but I’m not too old to do my bit in honour of our heroes.” So he gathered together his failing forces, and, toiling early and late, achieved with his frail hands a memorial which all pronounced to be a work of art. How proud his Theresa was of him when the work was finished! He had shown that it is possible to rise out of the ruck even in an almshouse, for after his achievement he was treated with a new respect by all his little world; and his faithful wife shared in his glory. All of which explains in a measure the excitement over the impending anniversary; but one cannot help thinking that the real explanation lies in the fact that Anthony and Theresa are a very lovable old couple.