Heel-less Bed Socks.

We women like bed-socks, or hot-water bags in winter. How about the men-folk? I think they'd rather give in to bed-socks than to hot-water bags. So, sister, wife or mother, if you have a cold-footed man in your home, get out your knitting-needles, even if you are not very good with them, and knit him a pair of heel-less bed-socks (which fit any size of foot) by the following simple pattern.

Materials required: Four ounces of four-ply wool; four No. 6 knitting needles with points at each end.

Cast on 48 st., 16 on each of 3 needles. Work, in rounds, in rib of k. 3, and p. 1 (i.e., 1st row k. 3, p. 1; 2nd row p. 3, k. 1), until 2 inches are worked.

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In the next round, make the holes for the draw cord as follows: ^* k. 2, wool forward, k. 2 together, repeat from ^* to the end of the round.

Work again in the rib until the work measures 20 inches from the commencement.

Then work the remainder in plain knitting, shaping the toe as follows:

1st Round.—K. 2 together at the beginning of each needle.

Knit 2 rounds plain.

Repeat these 3 rounds until only 24 st. remain. Run a thread through these st. and fasten off very securely.

With the wool, crochet a length of ch. and thread it through the holes at the top of the sock. Finish off each end of the ch. with a small tassel.