GIFT-TIME.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20483, 8 December 1934, Page 26 (Supplement)

GIFT-TIME.

The Right Thing for Each. Put on your thinking caps. It’s Christmas gift time and Dad, Mother, j * Sister and Brother will all be secretly • • hoping for some token of your love j ■ for them. j ] For 5s you can buy a pretty hall ; < plaque for Mother. She will love its j dainty picture ingrained on the gilt ! ; surface and its verse just specially lor her. There are also “ cheer-up ” hall j plaques to suit Sister, Brother and Dad and others hold sincere little messages { for friends. A little mfember of the family might give her Mother a novelty egg-timer to hang over the cooking stove. It has a gay poker-work picture above the sand-glass and this useful little reminder : “ Turn me up. Watch me run, When I’m finished, Egg is done.” Now we’ll see what the toilet counter offers. A flap-jack, so smart and new, for her purse (some are quite inexpensive). She might like a special gift box of her favourite powder, too, bvit you’ll find ever so many suitable gifts here, and all bright and dainty enough to give Mother a taste of the beauty and colour she loves. Now, what about a clothes brush and hanger for it—they’re ever so sweet and novel this year—a combination of beauty and utility. Have a look at them all! Mother has wanted some new mantelpiece candles for ages —well, why not get them to surprise her? The 1934 dressing-table ladies are quite exquisite too! Yes, you'll easily be able to buy something nice for Mother with your few shillings. Dad is the next on the list! Have you thought about some hairpomade for him ? He might be pleased to have it but—warning—don’t buy it if you know he doesn’t like using such things. Now, a pair of book-ends would be ? splendid—and there’d be no more exr cuse for mislaid books. ; Animal and ship designs he’d be sure to appreciate. These make me think of books. You could find out Dad’s favourite author, and then try to find a new book by , that writer. What about a best-suit handkerchief? 1 Of course, he’d be glad of one. Good-luck charms for the pocket, 2 novelty cigarette lighters, stud boxes . and neat ash trays—there are excellent , varieties of these. Now, who said Dad , was hard to cater for? , Brother enjoys handling a wallet or r pocket-book, so place these on your / list of “ possibles.” Some shops have wallets and notec books combined and they are indeed - very useful and attractive. Pens and pencils are always appreciated and Brother is forever needing new supplies. For two or three shillings ! you’ll be able to purchase an excellent a set of these. What carpentry tool is it e that Brother always bemoans the lack of? Ah! Now you really have your e thinking cap on. And, by the way, he , has a best suit and a breast pocket, e like Dad’s, too, hasn't he? a I know just the thing that Sister would find dandy and handy—a pair of sewing scissors in a leather holder of New Zealand design. It could hang on the wall and save her many -a scissors hunt.

Does she like beads? Well, you can choose some that will tone beautifully with her new frock. If it is just being made, what fun it will be to present her with the right kind of beads for it when she tries it on. Beads remind me of scarves—and a gay summer one ought to please her tremendously. Be sure to choose the colour she likes! Have you seen all the handsome little “ Where is it?” books. (Joke Box says it ought to be 44 Where are they?” books). They make jolly gifts, too ! Parasols and books also might be suitable. The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf, all in a box; Flip the Frog. Mickey the Mouse, Alice’s White Rabbit, and hosts of other film and storybook characters in toy form are ready for the little people of the family, and these would give them hours of fun and make-believe. Other quite novel little gifts are packets of assorted balloons, boxes containing six tiny sister dolls, and skittles in the form of merry wooden soldiers. Pussy rattles that really 44 Miaou would amuse baby and for small sister nothing could give more pleasure than a real little purse of her own. Keep all this under your thinking caps, and don't worry any more. There’s something to suit every one. Father Christmas sees to that! THE CHRISTMAS MISSION. How they all come tumbling in! Lovely dolls and gollywogs, Cuddley rabbits, round-eyed dogs. Pink and blue. Every hue, (Not a bit as they should be!) Oh! the sack is nearly full, Gaily-coloured picture books (Just the things for quiet nooks) Knitted toys And other joys. Made by Starlets, girls and boys. Gifts to cheer a saddened home. Dainty things for one and all. Toys of tin and c rt and ball. Starlet fingers Never linger. Helping others is our joy. (Original.) Dorothy Stanton.