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6 as Ligaen LATOR LA A Lr Fk SFL, {di LT ER ae (R20 CATA 5 REX _--_. -- SUSE - ooo Bn. ~ CITRON CAKE ~ Of course fruit cake .always take ihe head position during the holiday season nevertheless one can tire of such a rich diet'and the wise home- maker stocks the cake box with a variety. Try this citron cake recipe. It results in a delicate green, and tends to keep moist for weeks. Cream one cup butter with 1 1-2 cups sugar until it is so creamy 'it is nearly white; add 6 eggs one at'a time beating thoroughly between each addition, Sift in one cup flour and the grated rind of 2 lemons and add the juice of 1 lemon--beat thorough- ly again, Cut in 2-3 cup milk alter- nately with 1 1-2 cups more of flour which has been sifted with 1 tea- spoon baking powder. When all is well beaten and blended and creamy add 1 1-2 cups finely sliced citron peel which has been very lightly floured. Bake in buttered and paper- ed loaf pan in a slow oven. It will take at least 2 hours to bake it. Near this little lake stands a white house, with a lovely-little garden, which never fails to attract admir- ing glances from passers-by. This garden cotains two rose bushes, beds of chrysanthemums, morning glories and other flowers. As I looked at this house I wished that I could see the inside of it, but as tht wag im« possible I just contented myself by picturing the inside. SWEDISH DISHES At noon on the day before Christ- "mas. Bweden begin its long holiday festivities with a, luncheon (more like a. banquet really) following a pattern that has been traditional for centuries. There are wintery snow- drifts outside, and within open burning candles, a lighted festooned Christmas tree, and a table laden | with the best the kitchen has to of- fer. Some recipes are: 7 Ras Risgrynsgrot 2 cups rice 2 1-2 quarts milk 1-2 cup sugar 2 teaspoons salt 1 blanched almond ~ 1 .cinnamon stick Sugar Cream Powdered cinnamon, Wash the rice well, add milk, sugar salt, cinnamon' stick and the almond. Let cook slowly in a double boiler, stirring often, for about two hours. Add more milk if necessary to keep it from becoming too thick. Serve with sugar, cinnamon and cream. This will make eight to ten servings. i Herring - Salad 1 salted herring 1 cup cooked beef 1 cup diced potatoes - "Az 1 cup diced cooked beets 1 cup diced apples - 2 tablespoons capers 1-2 cup diced cucumber 2 chopped: hard-cooked eggs 1-2 cup French dressing. Soak herring for several Clean, remove skin and bones. into -small dice. Mix with all other ingredients and season with dressing. This will make eight to ten servings. Parsley Chicken 1 chicken 8-4 cup chopped parsley: hours, Cut boiler, can provide ingredients for delicious morsels, Here are recipes for just such occasions, Pineupple Tasties 1 1-2 cups grated pineapple 2 cups sugar N " 1-2 teaspoon salt 1-2 cup light corn syrup. Cook above ingredients together until soft ball forms when tested in cold water (or to 236 degrees F, on a candy thermometer). Drop by teaspoons on a greased platter. When slightly cool shape into balls with a spatula and place a nut meat or candied cherry on top of each. This will make fifteen to twenty candies, FRUIT JUICE CANDY 4 tablespoons orange juice, 4 tablespoons 'pineapple juice. Confectioner's sugar. Ground nut meats, Stir enough confectioner's sugar into the combined juices to mold well. It will require about six cups. Cut into fancy shapes and roll in ground nut meats. This makes about four cups of quick fondant. If the nuts will not stick to the fondant, dip candy first in a little fruit juice. - ---- BRALINES 1 cup brown sugar. 3 tablespoons corn syrup. 3 cups evaporated milk. 2 cups white sugar, 1 1-2. cups nuts. 1-2 cup water. Combine all the ingredients except the nuts and cook until a little drop- ped into cold water will form a soft ball. Add nuts and beat until stiff and creamy. Drop from the end of spoon on to oiled paper or an oiled 'dish or pan. This quantity makes about one and three-quarter pounds of candy. : MAPLE NUT CARAMELS 1 cup maple sugar. 1 cup milk. 1 cup chopped nuts. : 4 teaspoons corn starch. 1-2 cup corn syrup. 4 teaspoons butter. - 1-2 teaspoon Shae 1 teaspoon vanilla. Melt maple sugar in a double then add the syrup, the but- ter, the corn starch dissolved in 2 tablespoons of cold milk, the rest of the milk and the soda, and cook until the mixture forms a soft ball when dropped into cold water, or to 238 degrees on the candy thermometer. Stir. in the nuts and vanilla = and pour into oiled pans. Cut into squares when cold and roll in par- affin paper. RUSSIAN TAFFY 'brown sugar. os pt. can of condensed milk. 3-4 cup broken nut meats. 1 cup Mazola. , 1 cup corn syrup. 1-2 teaspoon salt. Cook all the ingredients, except the nuts, for about 20 minutes or until they form a soft ball when dropped into water, or to 238 de- grees on the candy thermometer. Add nuts and pour into well-oiled pans to cool. Cut in squares and serve on waxed or oiled paper. A » LER TROUBLES 1-4 cup bread crumbs 2 egg yolks 1 cup butter Croutons : Pepper and salt. Have chicken cut as for fricassee. Place in tight covered pan a layer of .chicken, layer of parsley, layer of read crumbs, pepper and salt. Con- tinue until all chicken is used. Pour over it one quart water, Cover and cock slowly until chicken is tender. Arrange chicken. on platter. Pour "well beaten egg yolks into the sauce, -stirring constantly, Do not let boil. Pour over chicken and garnish with croutons. This will serve six. SWEETS This is the season when the sweet tooth seems to crave more satisfac- Tell your troubles one and all, Count them over great and small, Pile your burden high and then Look among your fellowmen, Here's a crippled form and wan Here's a youth with both legs gone, 'Here's a blindman holding up For your kindly coins, a cup, Walk one block of any street And along the way you'll meet Always one, and sometimes two, Who've thg right to envy you, Be your troubles what they may You can bear them anyway, You have strength and you have might, wi You can stand and you can fight, Trouble cannot knock you flat, You're not handicapped like that! the Mediterrcan coast. ashore. All hands were saved. i Pounding surf ended the career of another old-timer on a reef of i Despite the use of the available anchors ar chain cables, the high wind during a sudden gale swept the tiny craft d Sunday School Lesson -- THE CHRISTIAN HOME GOLDEN TEXT--"Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among men in whom he is well pleased. The Lesson in its Setting. TIME AND PLACE--Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a village six miles south of Jerusalem perhaps on De: cember 2th B.C, 5, Paul wrote his letter to tho Hphosisns during his first Roman imprisonment, A.D. 61-62, "And there were shepherds in the same country," The country of Judea in which Christ was born. " "Abiding in the field' This might easily be in December for in that warm: climate the sheep could often be kept ,outdoors throughout the win- ter. "And keeping watch by night over their flock," The fields wo Bethlehem were those in which David tended his sheep when he was sum- moned to be annointed for the king- ship of Isral by the prophet Samuel. There were also thg flelds of Boaz in which Ruth gleaned, "And an angel of the Lord stood by them," An angel, the great archangel Gabriel had been sent from heaven to announce to the Virgin Mary the coming supernatural birth of Christ. "And the glory of the Lord shone ar- ound about them." These higher be- ings move in a realm of light which surrounds them always with splendor "And they were sore afraid." The presence of the supernatural produces terror {in mortals, who are filled with instinctive awe of the unfamiliar and dread of its power, "And the angel said unto them, Be not afraid." He who was born on Christmas day came that he might cast out fear. He introduced into our lifg a love of God and a love of man in the face of which fear cannot ab- ide. "For behold I bring you good ti- dings of great joy," /The church takes a word out of the Christmas message and makes it a description of all the Christian teaching, We preach the gospel, and gospel means good tid- ings. The universality of Christianity is one of the most blecsed lessons of Christmas, "For there 18 born to you this day." +birth- city of the - greatest shepherds to and for us. "In the city lof! David," In Bethlehem, near by, the Hebrew king, our Lord's ancestor according to the flesh, "A Savior, who is Christ, the Lord." All theology is in the nut- 'shell of these three titles. Christ was the Saviour of men, the prophe- sled Messiah the ong to whom all the - sacrifices pointed, the "Lamb slain from the = foundation of the world, the Atonement for our sins, "And this is the sign unto you." They were to go' to Bethlehem to seek the Messiah, and the angel glves them a token by which they may know him, "Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes," And wrapped closely around with the bands with which the Jewish people wrapped their new born children, "And lying in a manger." The man- ger of Bethlehem is the symbol of the world's neglect for the obscure its hardness to the necessitous, its storn of the poor. a "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God. The sky was part- ed as If a veil had been drawn aside and instantly the heavens were segn to be crowded with singing angels, the most wonderful sight ever seen by mortal eyes. "And saying Glory to God in the highest." In the highest heaven or in the highest degree. "And on earth peace among men in whom he is well pleased," The translation does not bring out the parallelism of the angel song which is; To God--in the highect heaven-- be glory. To men well pleasing earth--be peace. "And it came to pass, when the an- gels went away from tliem into heav- en," Qur angel ministers are but vis- itors whether they be clad in the sombre. garments of sorrow or the white raiment of joy. When they are gone we must turn the message they have brought into ohkedience, and translate their ministry to us into servicg for others. 'The shepherds said one to another," Naturally as they were talking over the wonder- ful experience. "Let us now go even unto Bethlehem." Tecall that Beth- lelem was not their home town, And see this thing that Js come to pass, to God--on Christ was born to and for thosewhich the Lord hath made known to us," Come and see Is written upon the gospel. There is no secrecy and no concealment in it, "And they came with haste," These shepherd lads animate the Christmas story with their racing feet, as a generation later two running discip- les the Easter narrative illustrating the demeanor of overy earnest char- acter in the presence of a new phase of truth. "And found both Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in the manger." The placing of Jesus in the heart of a family makes him seem to be so much more human, while it in- vesfs family life with the supreme sanctity. . "And when they saw it, they made known concerning the saying which was spoken to them about this child. Revelations are given us to make known to others. If we keep them to ourselves, we are faithless to a divine trust, no "And all that heard it wondered at the things which were spoken unto them by the shepherds." No single incident recorded in human &istory has so gripped the {imagination or compell « the reverent awe of men the world over as this wholly plctur- esque and utterly homely scene, "But Mary kept all these sayings pondering them in her heart." The wonderful things told by the shep- herds were not understood fully by the mother of Jesus, in spite of the words of Gabriel to her; but she treasured them nevertheless, turning them over and over through the years and they exalted all her life, "Children obey your parents in the Lord," Obedlence is the law of child- hood, and if the parents are in the Lord as expressed in the verses ab- ove, obedience is in a great part the child's religion, and that is to be practised in the Lord. "For this is right." The sin of dis- obedience to parents is thg basis and effectual cause of much of the law- lossness and anarchy in home and in church and state, Our prisons and re- formatories. are- filled with spoiled children who werg never taught ob- edience at homa, "Honor thy father and mother." What if the parents do not deserve honor? Even then the children are to honor parenthood In them. "Which is the first commandment with promise Paul meant that of all the Jewish law this was the first that had a promise attached to it, The promise was a national promise. It was not an as- surance that every child that obeyed his parents would escape sickness and poverty, would be prosperous, and would live to a good old age; it was a declaration that the prosperity and the stability and the permanence of the nation depended upon the re- verence of children for their parents, "That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth Tho commandment which ordains that childrenj should honor their fa- ther and mother holds the first place in the second table. It comes even before that commandment which pro- a a tects our lives by forbidding murder. The dutiful obedience of children then is declared by God to be the foundation of all social happiness and of every social virtue, "And ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath." They are not to provoke them that they become bad tempered. "But nurture them in the chastening and. admonition of the Lord." Weymouith's translation fs: Bring them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice, Amusing the Little . .Ones on Rainy Days Children of from two to six years old will love empty cotton spools that are painted different colors and a piece of wire to thread them 'on, or large wooden beads and bodkin and thread. ' Do not give children under six small beads to thread or wool work on fine canvas, The four or five-year-olds may be glven coarse canvas and thick silk or wool, or raffia and cardboard rings to make table mats or napkin rings, Plasticine will amuse children of all ages and if a large sheet of brown paper is spread on the floor you need not worry about your carpet From about three or four years up- wards "cutting out" is an engrossing | occupation, | The younger children will be quite content simply to cut up newspapers, but the older ones can make "books by folding newspaper, or, better still the white paper used for kitchen shelves sewing it together in the! centre, and filling the book with fi- gures ete, cut out of magazines, Children over six can spend a joy- ous afternoon making-doll's house furniture out of ompty match boxes All that is needed beside the boxes Is glue, a paintbox and some white and brown paper for covering the ar ticles. 1 THE PAPERS OVERLOOKED HIM The papers overlooked him, for he never beat his wife He never tried to rob a bank or take another's life. And he wasn't very brilliant and he didn't try for fame, So there was ng real reason for the press to print his name, The papers overlooked him--he was never deep in debt, He never slipped away from town| with all that he could get, Ho never made a million, never wrote a modern play, So there wasn't much about him that the editor could say, And the more I think about him it's the ordinary man : Who's the glory of the nation, and the strength of every clan, So I pay this tribute to him--not the genius or the crook, But the honest, nornial average man the papers overlook, --Anon alecade of Horse Guards enroute to vu' AND JEFF -- ful Changing of the Guard. 13 Chinging of the Guard Through murky fog, blanketing London, emerges a romantic cave the Mall for the daily and color- ! By f BUD FISHER FF, LWIRED THE GIRLS [BUT, MUTT, A EA THE ATLANTIC] T Bont ) GOING DOWNIE WAVE MY wo IP KE 2 MADAME? Wrenn : /) III LR 3 mir) dg - yuri SEAT, | Ny A x 0 srry, te GIRLS, T WANT YOU TO MEET NES we A QUTE! ) SOME SHOPPING, JENNY" WHO WiLL PLAY THE LEAD IN "THE GIRL . MISS JENNY? How Y WILL YOU HELP US Do [WED LOVE To Sve You - WE'LL NEEDPLENTY WATHED AD ADVICE - - - nl ~ AND HE DON'T AROUND TowN LIKE A LADY! The liner rides, a queen at ease, The pride of all the fleet; The challenge of the rising seas Shall find der armed complete. She lifts like yonder dreaming gully She all but takes the air! Ay lad, she'll pass a sonsie lass; How do the stewards fare? The staterooms shine like rooms of State, ; The promenades are gay, The ball room, lounge and gym await Our pleasure night and day, And so the daintles of the world-- The brew, the vintage rare-- Six meals a day to clicer our way; How do the stewards fare? There's room below for cask and case For crated stuff and bale; There's space for all that drives and serves For powder gold and mail.' Provide the racer, bull and pet With comfort and to spare, The beast well-fed enjoys his bed; How do the stewards fare? Gorham, Maine, U.S.A, --E,C.M The S noting of Pines Softer than silence, stiller than still air Float down from high pine-boughs the slender leaves, The ferest floor its annual boon re- ceives, : That comes like snowfall, tireless, tranquil fair, Gently they glide, gently they clothe the bare Old rocks with grace, Their fall a mantle weaves, Of paler yellow than autumnal! sheaves Or those strange blo#soms the witch hazels wear ° Athwart long aisles the pierce their way; . High up, the crows are gathering for the night; The delicate needles fill the air; the Jay Takes through thelr golden mist his radiant flight; sunbeams They fall and fall, till at November's close The snow-flakes drop as 8NOWS on 8NOWS. --Thomas Wentworth Higginson, lightly-- Opportunity They do me wrong who say I come - no more When once I knocked and falled to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door . And bid you wake and rise to fight and win, Wait not, for precious chances' pass- ed away, - Weep not, for golden ages on the wane, Each night I turn the records of the day; At sunrise every soul is born again, Laugh like a boy, at splendors that have aped; To vanizh joy be blind and deaf and dumb. . My judgments seal the dead past with its dead, never bind come, And a moment yet to Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep [ lend my arm to all who say "I can)" No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep But he might again, rise, and be a man OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS The unemployed are not the only ones who face a difficult Winter, The Winter birds have put in an appear- ance and it is reported already these feathered creatures are finding it difficult to secure enough to eat. Ex- perts say that unless the food sup-. ply is supplemented, they will starve to death. They should not be left to suffer, Too often do we forget the valuable service they render mankind. Right now they are poking their bills into corners and crevices and extracting the larvae of destructive pests, But this is not sufficient to meet thelr needs and to see that they are given a few crumbs from the table would be a real act of mercy ---costing us nothing at all.--Border Cities Star, QUEER WORLD The seven-year-old son of a Cyprus shoemaker has won the nick-name "Einstein" by his genius for mental arithmetic. Two questions he an- swered in 30 seconds were: How many hours have you lived? and How many farthings are there in £9 18s. 7%d.? The boys sells shoe-laces in the streets of Nicosia, Mr. W. Golightly, a Castleside (Co. Durham) schoolmaster, runs his own miniature Whipshade at home. Among his pets are a talking raven which: has collected large sums of money for charity, a tawny owl, a monkey, and a tame fox whish fol. lows like a dog. HY Jets ae ASAE