s, which are always getting into disorder in a pocketless
basket. Between two of the pockets on one side, suspend a small square
pincushion, and on the other a flat needle-book hung by a loop of
ribbon. At the opposite ends, between the pockets, fasten an emery bag
and a sheath of morocco bound with ribbon to hold a pair of scissors.
Finish the top last of all with a quilling of ribbon, and you have as
dainty and complete a gift as any younger sister can wish to make, or
any older one receive. It will cost time and pains, but is pretty and
useful enough to repay both.

A FANCY WHEELBARROW.

This cannot be made easily by any boy or girl who is not already
acquainted with fancy wood-sawing, and to such the illustration gives
all the hint that will be needed. We would simply suggest that the
body of this barrow is about six inches long, that it is lined with
crimson silk, and that standing upon a dressing-bureau, writing-table,
or mantel-shelf, it makes a very pretty receiver of cards or
knick-knacks. Many beautiful Christmas gifts can be made by boys or
girls owning one of the little bracket-saws, which, with books of
directions, can now be bought in almost any hardware shop.

[Illustration: A FANCY WHEELBARROW.]

For further particulars on wood-carving, see illustrated articles in
ST. NICHOLAS, Vol. I., pp. 84, 215, 346, 592.

A SET OF TEA-NAPKINS.

There hardly could be a nicer gift for a girl to make for her mother
or married sister than a set of tea-napkins, with a large initial
letter in white, or white and red, embroidered on each. The doily
should be folded in four, and the letter out-lined in lead pencil in
the corner of one of the quarters. If inked very black on paper, and
held dry to the window behind the linen, the initial is easily traced.
The pattern is then run and "stuffed" with heavy working-cotton, and
the letter embroidered in finer cotton. Another nice gift is a long
fringed towel, with three very large letters in white, or blue, or
crimson, worked half-way between the middle and the side edge. Folded
over lengthwise, it is a convenient thing to lay on a bureau-top
or the front of a sideboard, and the large colored letters make it
ornamental as well. Patterns of initials can be bought in any fancy
shop. If desired, they can be bought already worked, requiring only to
be transferred to the napkin.

NAPKIN-BANDS.

Any of you who have mastered cross-stitch, and learned to follow a
pattern