When one starts to plan things" with which children may be busy in thie months before Christmas—! then it is that one realizes afresh that Christmas is essentially ai children's holiday. The things they j can do! There are the hospitals. first, particularly the children's hospitals for who is better able to: minister to children than children?
Scrap books are wonderful fun to; make and the scope of their possibilities so wide that they will en-Gage the attention of both boys and girls from the baby to the "almost grown-up." I have seen scrap books that exhibited great skill and imagination on the part of their makers, containing as many departments as a book of knowledge—-flowers carefully pressed and protected by thin mica neatly bound} down round the edges, having along the sides careful descriptions written of the plant or flower and of the locality in which it had been found; designs for houses and fasminating glimpses of corner alcoves, sunny breakfast rooms, nurseries and what not; a kitten department} from which the faces of little fluffy balls peeped from baskets or
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