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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1912 THE TAMPA AILY TIMES ELEVEN In the World of Women Practical Holiday Suggestions It Couldn't Be Done. Someboody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied Helpful Hints. of it stains the mind. If you will include a steel crochet A love-thought without the deed is needle in the implements for use In better than a love-deed that Is not the sewing room you will have some-'born of thought. thing as good as any patent ripperj Thoughts are things.

Tou are ever invented" Simply catch the hook thoughts. The world -Is thoughts, mider the thread In the stitches or. Learn to deal with thoughts as with That "maybe it couldn't." but ht would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trac; bastings and pull them out in double- quick time. realities, and so to mold your life from within, and not to have it shaped bv the hazard from without.

of a grin On his face. If he worried, he did it. He started to sing as he tackled the This Maas store is filled to overflowing with practical suggestions for Holiday gifts gifts that are sure to be appreciated for their usefulness as well as their intrinsic value. THE PROBLEM of gift giving is made easy by a visit to this store. Every member of the family can be taken care of in a satisfactory manner.

LET THIS STORE help you with suitable suggestions. DO: YOUR SHOPPING EARLY. This store is at your service. Just 14 more shopping days until Xmas. BELOW ARE MENTIONED some extra special items for next week's sale.

noie is worn in jour carpci "Life," said Marcus Aurelius, "is rug. whip over the edges of the hole what our tnought makes and tne with yarn matching the colors in the appea, of HoIy WrIt the un rug; then, also with yarn, fill in the rignteous man forsake his thoughts." hole with very tight crocheted stiches, Dr Frank Crane in Woma.8 WorId using a piain stitcn; men over mis for December. work little loops of yarn tht will cor-: y- SOME EVENTS OF THE WEEK. respond' to the loops in the weave of the carpet itself. i Instead of using a wooden "egg" Christmas Sales.

thing That couldn't be done and he did it! Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that At least, no one has ever done it;" But he took off his coat and he tool: off his hat. And the first thing we knew he'd begun it. With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, Without any doubting or quidbit, He started to sing as he tackled the thingf That couldn't be done and he did it The ladies of the Tampa Heights dariujr, try putting the worn stocking Presbyterlan church heId a Chrlst. mas sale Thursday at the home of win ue auie 10 nuw u. f-rninlev TTlnrirt, n.n,m darned place will lie on your foot and fQr the Deneflt of their cnurch work.

can make it loose or tight as necessity The Ladies sQ reouires T. avenue Baptist church held a very When selecting a darning egg al- leasant and successful Christmaa sale htqvo ctat a n-hlta rno an that irhun mending black or colored stockings you will be able to see the work more Mrs. Robey, Palm avenue. The ladies of the Union Congregational church. West Tampa, held a plainly.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, There are thousands to prophesy failure; There are thousands to point out to When duplicates must be made in bazaar 'and. oyrfer supper Friday ev-any part of a paper pattern, instead the bazaar continuing through of Joing the work twice, use carbon 0 aj- you one oy one, paper and mark with a hard pencil, JThus your work is perfectly exact ani you. juu luii iiu riaiv ui i U1111115 iuc rial. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin Then take off your coat and go to it; Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing That "cannot be and you 11 do it Edgar A. Guest, in Detroit Free Press.

The best way to finish off a machine seam is to turn the material and stitch back for an inch. This does away with the necessity of tying the thread, which, if forgotten, often causes trouble in the finished article. Holiday Suggestions-From the Linen Section TABLE SETS Just 25 all pure Linen Table Sets; Cloths 2 to 3 yards and 1 dozen 20-inch Napkins values fl7 flfl up to $10.00 per set iUU LINEN NOVELTIES About 1,000 different Novelties, such as Embroidered Towels, Scarfs, Centers, Table Covers, all attractively boxed in Fancy Xmas Boxes. WAIST PATTERNS Just 100 Madras Shirt Waist patterns 2-yard lengths, in a nice Xmas Box, Each 0 SPECIAL SPREADS This makes an' appreciated Holiday Gift. Nice Marseilles Spreads.

Just 100 of them. CO Cf Hemmed or fringed ends, values $5, each vwiuU BED SETS Hemstitched Sheets and Pillow Cases, in Bed Sets of 2 Linen finished round thread Sheets and Pillow Cases to match in an attractive Box. TABLE LINENS Some 25 pieces, 72-inch all pure Linen Table Damask; all of our regular $1.25 quality; QQ" SHEETS About 25 dozen 81x90 Hemmed Sheets, CO Each Jwl HUCK TOWELS Some 100 dozen 18x36 Hemmed Cfl-Huck Towels; 6 for UUU PILLOW CASES Just 50 dozen 42x36 Hemmed Pil- 10-low Cases, each Desirable Silks and Woolens Specially Priced for This Holiday Season KIMONO SILKS Dainty patterns in Kimono and Pnp Drapery Silks in floral and Oriental designs, yard. 03 CREPE DE CHENES This is 40 inches wide pure Silk, extra firm quality; full line of shades, worth MQ $1.98 yard, now iPliHO FLORAL SILKS Pretty Floral Silks in dainty'designs for making Bags and other Fancy Work, TO 2g $1.25 SILKS AT 85c Extra special values 36-inch Black Peau de Soie, Satin Mesaline and Natural Pongee, flC worth $1.25, on sale at, yard OUU CORDUROYS and COSTUME VELVETS-We show all the leading shades in Corduroys and Costume Velvets. 0Q Yard 30C ALBATROSS Just 50 pieces of all Wool Albatross and Nuns' Veiling, in the most popular shades.

An Yard 4uC NOVELTY WOOL GOODS Included are Scotch Tweeds, Corduroy Welts, Wool Panamas and Cream Storm Cn Serges; worth 69c yard, now uliu SERGES, PRUNELLAS, ETC. About 100 pieces of 45-inch Serges, Prunellas, Beiges and Novelty Weaves, 0Q worth $1.00 to now yard 03U SHIRT WAIST PATTERNS-Tust 50 Hand Embroidered Shirt Waist Patterns, worked on best of sheer PQ materials. Special, each iJJfciDj Social Affairs. Mrs. Sheldon Stringer and Miss Barbara Parkhill were delightfully entertained by Mrs.

Gwynn at Brooks-ville this Mrs. Ernest Maas entertained the Ladies' Temple guild at hep home" on Hyde Park avenue 'Thursday afterT noon. Misses Frankle and MineTva Ham-blin were hostesses at a Mae and white kitchen shower Thursday afternoon at their home in the Suburb, complimenting Miss Alice Efland. Mrs. G.

C. Warren redHved her married friends Thursday afternoon to meet her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Henderson Warren, at the Tampa Yacht and Country club. In the evening the young society set was entertained. There was a meeting of the City Union Epworth league Monday even Sewing machines should be treated with great care if you would have The Significance of Knots.

Did you ever stop to think what a them last a long while nd do perfect wonderful part in the history of the work. After every two days of steady world this simple tying of knots has work, oil the machinery thoroughly, played? Of course, you remember th Dut be carefui to wipe away all super-most famous knot of all, the Gordian flUOU3 0n. Run the machine rapidly knot, and how Alexander the Great Dut steadily, without any thread, for untied it with his sword. five minutes after oiling. This will But older even than that, but not cause the oil to scatter and the super-so well known, is the story related by fluous drops can be wiped away ana Herodotus to the effect that Darius, none wilI be ieft tQ stain the material in crossing Istir on his Scythian you are workjng th.

expedition, left with the Greeks ap- ing at the Gary Methodist church. An interesting program was carried cut, and a large attendance enjoyed the' meeting. pointed to guard the bridge a thong When much machine work is to he with a number of knots in it. One done, fill several shuttles with cotton was to be undone each day. If Darius finer than used on top.

An ordi-did not return before the last knot nary shuttle will hold a great deal of The usual dinner dance was held at the Tampa Yacht and Country club was undone the forces were to ear fine cotton and you will not be an down the bridge and depart. noyed by having to stop and wind a These knots have been used as a bobbin when vou are right in- the Wednesday evening. DeLeon Temple, No. 6, Pythian Sisters, held the regular session Monday evening and elected officers to serve the ensuing year, besides other business. language.

The "gulpu" of the Incas of mjcifst of a long seam or a difficult bi Peru consist of a number of thongs 0f work. hanging from a top band, the mean- ing depending on the color of the Thoughts Make Character. SPECIAL REDUCTIONS IN STYLISH HATS Stylish Ready to Wear Hats, all this season's An interesting mothers' meeting of thong and the number of knots tied p0 D6 religious, let religious ideas in it and their order of arrangement. and imageg ve "entertained constantly Along in the middle ages witnesses in the mm. t0 become brutal, low to a document were known as noda- and sensuai keep letting such mind models, sold at $3.50 tores (knot tiers), because it was then pjctures show on your mental cin- TRIMMINGS Odd lot of Fringes, Ball Trimmings, Silk Bands and all overs, worth 50c to $1.50, to close OKn out at 4G BOAS, MARABOUTS, Etc.

White and Colored Boas, all lengths, made of Ostrich tips, Marabout, Down $2.98 to $5.00, reduced to the usage that wnen tney signed meir ema To make money, think money, names they should also tie a knot in To De generally despised, cultivate the string that was attached to tho saif'desDisine thoughts. And so on. ATTRACTIVE HANDKERCHIEFS Are Welcome Gifts. Ladies' Dainty Handkerchiefs, put up in pretty boxes, in plain and embroidered designs, from one to six in a box, from $1.50 T0 $2.50 EACH MEN'S LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS Neat H. S.

Handkerchiefs, in plain and initials. document Memphis Commercial- notice this in other people the W. C. T. U.

was held Wednesday afternoon at t'de home of Mrs. J. B. Moody, Nebraska avenue. Miss Starkweather, field Y.

W. C. A. secretary, addressed the meeting. The Tampa Woman's club met Thursday afternoon at the City Park club house, for the usual session.

Mra W. A. Adams had charge of the interesting program. Mrs. Frank Cooper had charge of the splendid Friday Morning Musicale program which was rendered at the Elks club Friday morning.

Tuesday evening at the Tampa Bay Casino, the Tampa Dramatic club Every person is attended by his bodyguard of thoughts, as a king is One lot of Ready to Wear Hats, that sold up $3.98 Another lot of Ready surrounded by his courtiers, or a general by his staff. Observe your Appeal. i Froi Hands of Far. Smart Parisiennes are wearing collarettes of fur combined with lace or velvet. These are wonderfully pretty and add just the correct touch to a acquaintances.

Take Miss Aye, sullen, senitive, sour girl, always look and Plaited Chiffon. Prices range OC UP ing for offense; she has few friends gown or coat suit. because she has few friend-thoughts; Trimmed Hats, val held a very interesting entertainvnent from Short strips of fur, just long enough when ghe enters the roQm you can for the benefit of the Old People's ues up to $12.00, EACH, $5.00 10c T0 50c SILVER DEPOSIT WARE Pretty Silver Deposit Candlesticks, Puff Boxes, Perfume Bottles, Ash Trays, Vases, Fruit Dishes, Salt Cellars and many other pretty articles in Silver Deposit and Sterling Silver at less than they can be bought elsewhere. STOCKING AND WORK BAGS About 50 pretty Stocking and Laundry Bags, worth 89c to PQp each DC FANCY GOODS Hundreds of Dainty Novelties, just the proper thing for simple gift-giving, at very reasonable prices. NECKWEAR AND RIBBONS All that is new and desirable in new Neckwear and Fancy Ribbons will be found in these sections all specially priced for Xmas giving.

now home. The program was made up of a little playlet, vocal and instrumental selections. Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bentley, Cardy to encircle the throat too small to use for any other purpose, are lined with white satin.

Pleated frills of lace are then stitched by hand on both the top and bottom of the fur band. Three hooks and eyes join the collarette at the side find a bow of rosette of lace with ends eight or ten inches long, conceals the almost hear wasp-thoughts buzzing In her head. Emma Bee, on the other hand, never meets you but you feel the force of the thoughts of cheer, fun, sympathy and goodness flying about like butterflies in her mind. In the cold eye of that old curmudgeon, Mr. Cee, you read money- street, the Philatheas.

Baracas and HAND EMBROIDERED UNDERWEAR Boxed For Gift Giving. Ladies' French Imported Hand Embroidered Underwear, put up in individual Holiday Boxes. B. Y. P.

U. of the First Baptist church held a most enjoyable Children's Hats, all un-trimmed shapes, AQn will be sold Children's Trimmed Hats, all new styles, will QOp be sold at 30C social, which was attended by a num fastening. Strips of fur one or two inches in thoughts, trap-thoughts and grab- ber of other members of the church. Miss Harriet Sherman, East Oak avenue, entertained a number of her friends with a charming miscellane FANS Ladies' Hand Painted Carved Ivory Stick Fans, put up in individual boxes, EACH $2.50 T0 $8.50 UMBRELLAS Ladies' Silk and Gloria Umbrellas, attractive handles of wood, gold and silver, Paragon frame, an excellent gift at attractive prices, $2.50 10 $12.50 ous shower, complimenting Miss width can be used effectively to bor- mougms. der a center strip of velvet or fur.

A In ounS ee you can easily dis-lavely combination is ermine and sap- cern th thoughts of dissipation and velvet. Stitch the narrow deviltry, while honor-thoughts and strips of white fur to the band of goodness-thoughts are just as plain velvet and border it with knife-pleat- in yunS Gee. ed frills of velvet or tulle. Use white It is not a man or woman you are patin to line the collarette and finish meeting; it is a thought-flock. the closine with a flat bow of velvet.

"fu yourself are but a thought- Frances Hester, who is to be married shortly to Mr. Charles Hofmann. The Important Holiday Sale of Tailor Made Suits decorations were very dainty and pretty and the charming honoree re ceived a number of lovely gifts from her friends. nucleus. Consequently there is noth- Perhaps you have a strip of mini $9i93 WE ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL SELL MONDAY 200 TAILOR MADE SUITS at CAS, SWISS AND I) Among them are Men's Wear Serges, Cheviots and Mixtures, navy, brown and black; none sent on approval Alterations extra.

100 Black Kersey Cloth Coats for ladies, sizes from QO 14 to 44; semi-fitting, full length $10 value, at. jJi30 three inches in width. If so, stitch it ing in this world you can learn that to a band of seal-brown' satin. Maks will conduce more to your happiness two pleated frills of the satin and and power than how to choose and stitch them to the top and bottom of reject thoughts, how to make some the collar portion. When the hooks your families and how to keep others and eyes have been attached to the outside the door.

ends, finish the closing with a plefcted And let me tell you something bow of satin caught through the cen- deeper yet; your thought-goodness ter with a buckle of pearl, cut steel and your thought-sin mean even more or jet. to you than your outward deeds. A Many women possess a worn set of sin committed is bad enough, but by furs which can, be cut into strips and openness it is already half cured, utilized in this manner. Small hats but-foul and wicked thoughts nursed with puffed crowns of velvet and in the mind poison the whole char-narrow brims fur are lovely when acter. And if you can oly sit and fashioned to match the collarettes.

think of kindness, courage and beau- Any woman would be delighted with ty, you are doing much to help along a Chrismas gift of a stunning collar- the world. ette. No thought is ever lost. The dye Just as Soon as "Pape's Diapep- sin" Comes in Contact With the Stomach All Distress is Gone. "Really does" put bad stomachs in order 'really does" overcome indigestion, dyspepsia, gas, heartburn and sourness in five minutes that Just that makes Pape's Diapepsin the SPECIAL SALE OF RUGS For One Week Only Coming at This Season of the Year, It Gives You an Excellent Opportunity to Make Very Acceptable Holiday Presents at Big Savings.

Bigelow Ardebil Wilton Rugs, 9x12, worth $65 CCC flfl $65. Special this week 403iUU Hartford's Oriental Saxony Rugs, 9x12, worth (TCC (ID Special this week vuOiUU Bigelow' and Hartford Royal Wilton Rug, 9x12, flQ7 rn worth $42.50. This week $JfiQU Bigelow and Hartford Body Brussells, 9x12, ffOQ flfl worth $32.50. Special for the week ipZuiUU Bigelow and Hartford Best Grade Axminster nn Rugs, 9x12, worth $27.50. Special this week.

Z'fiUU Hartford 2-Star Tapestry Rugs, 9x12, worth 011 7 $18.50. For this week only, each I'M 0 Roxbury Tap Brussells, heaviest Tapestry Rug MQ CO made, 9x12, worth $21.50. For this week lUiUU Hodges Kaba The oi'iginal fiber Rug, 40 patterns to 010 select from, 9x12, worth $13.50 Special this week. 1 1 Crex and Deltox Grass Matting Rugs, 9x12, plain flP nn and striped borders $UiUU Jap Matting Rugs, best quality, 9x12, at $3.90 Axminster Rugs, 27-inch 60, best quality, each $2.50 largest selling stomach regulator in the world. If what you eat ferments into stubborn lumps; you belch gas and eructate sour, undigested food and acid; head is dizzy and aches; breath foul; tongue coated; your insldes filled with bile and indigestible waste, remember the moment that Diapepsin somes in contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes.

It's truly astonishing almost marvelous, and the joy is its harmlessness. A large fifty-cent case of Pape's! $10.00 DRESS VALUES IN SERGE AT $5.00 A remarkable reduction that should attract all smart shoppers to our store Monday. All the popular shades and styles are represented among them. WAIST NEWS The approaching holiday season adds great interest to Waist offerings at thi3 season they become a necessity to the wardrobe of all well dressed women. Monday we offer: $7.50 CHIFFON WAISTS, in navy, taupe and OE brown, at PtU Beautiful MESSALINE WAISTS, solid colors and stripes, plain and fancy, long and short sleeves.

01 OQ Monday Pli03 FUR SETS A. complete line of Ladies', Misses' and Children's Fur Sets, in white Fox, Red Fox, Grey Wolf, Black and Brown Coney. Good values and prices reasonable. SWEATERS A full line of Ladies', Misses', Children's and Infants' Sweaters in all colors, SHAWLS AND SCARFS Complete showing of Scarfs, Shawls and Fascinators, in Silk and rnp TO CJQ Eft Knit. Prices www iPOidU There is any number of desirable articles in this department that will make very exceptional Xmas presents of special mention are both Robes, Silk Kimonos, Dresses, Suits, Fur Sets, Skirts, Waists, Sweaters, Coats, etc.

Diapepsin will give you a hundred dollars' worth of satisfaction or your druggist hands you your money back. It's worth its weight in gold to men and women who can't get their stom- aens regulated, it belongs in your SeeFessenden INSURANCE I 1 FIRE. INSURANCE II 5044 FRANKLIN STREET ff PHONE 83 Jg home should always be kept handy in case of a sick, sour, upset stomach during the day or at night. It's the quickest, surest and most harmless stomach doctor in the world. St.

PcterslHirs W. O. W. Elect Officers. St.

Petersburg, Dec. 7. The St. Petersburg lodge, W. O.

elected ffW officers last night. With the exception of the banker, all those elected were to replace former officers. The officers will be installed at the first meeting in January. The following is the list of officers. Herbert Beers, council commander; H.

M. Sims, adviser lieutenant; C. M. McBrian, banker; James Nelson, clerk; Waiter Williams, escort; Arnold Stiles, watchman; Fred Nichols, sentry; Lee Allen, captain of the degree team, which Mr. Allen is now selecting, and George Stiles was elected manager for three years.

XMAS SHOPPING BY MAIL Send to this MAAS Store for anything you want. Your order will receive as careful as if you paid the store a personal visit. Satisfaction TRY TAMPA FIRST Before sending away for your Christmas presents and apparel, see what Tampa merchants have to offer. We sincerely believe they 1 can do as well by you as any house in the country. Keep Tampa money at home.

i Rooms and apartments are being sought every day by hundreds. Advertise yours In The Times. Daniel Crwovaner el) It for leaa,.