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Inexpensive Holiday GC Soft Spice Cakes.—On Sere cup- ful of chicken fat, one-half cupful of brown sugar, one-half cupful of molas- ses, one-half teaspoonful each of ground cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and a pinch of nutmeg, one teaspoonful of baking-soda, one-fou! teaspoon salt, one-thir three-fourths cupful of id crumbs, mix the sements greased: gem ake in a|th bh. howe twenty-five minutes In a ho mo wee oven. ch Crullers.—Two eggs, one cup- fa at ranulated sugar, one cupful of |of bro gar, mash a water, oe aneayoonkie of Jard, one teaspoonful of salt, one ee ontul of ern cinnamon, one lavoring, bk needed an Keeps the crullers "er Ee eookies.—Take ee good cooky recipe, roll out and cut In rounds. Pre- pare, beforehand, a mixture sot chopped a Place spoonful 13 Seti bination of es fruit and. dough which is very: toot Hai, eaars eupful of molas- Canadien: Bs ee Sapna Cake. two cupfuls of hot one teas: pce oe 8, one cupful of cane - | ad spoonfuls of soda dissolved in one tea- spoonful of ‘hot water. Bake in two seats in a slow oven for an hour and uarter. Farmers Fruit Supra of dried apples over night in old water. Drain and cut nieces and simmer for t add a cupful of bu eaten, two teaspoonfuls of dry soda, - tbake. cold pe Cake.— three | ai bi one and one-half cupfuls of sour milk, a cupful each of sugar and chopped raisins, a little salt, gout cupfuls of|/corn, Bol flour, and spices td té Mix and bake in a moderate oven. Cocoanut Macaroons. one halt oir, ful of butter, one cupful of sugar, om milk, two cupfuls of p in ful each, add a ak ina 2 moderate oven until a light brown. ‘inger Snaps that snap.—One pint of sana one tablsepsdBnl of baking- di tablespoonful of tablespoonful of ground c! 1) One gece of ground oe ana ‘out 8 gh. t enough to make 7 stiff dou molasses fiyé minutes, sae N the fire and stir in the soda, fat, spices and flour. Set away to cool, then roll out thin, cut with a cooky cutter and Sugarless Suggestions For- Christmas. Tutti seat Balls- puffed rice or corn, 1 cup acedless raisins, 1 cup. stoned dates, 1 cup figs, % cup chop- meats, 1 tablespoon~chopped balls and allow to dry. Roll in shred- ded cocoanut. Popcorn Ball —1 cup syrup, 1 table- hopped can- | te: spoon Vinegar, 2 to 3 quarts of popped together the syrup and junoree until syrup herdens when ropp i {maple syrup, ¥ yrup or corn/syrup may be Peanut Briitle—1 cup white corn trestily’ Blasts Lesa ae ee the syrup, vinega: salt in (petechan ‘until a little ae in cold water fornis a goft ball. Put the pea- nuts and this syrup int i crack into pi wup Nougatines.—Boil 1% cups light-colored syrup and % cup water until it forms a firm ball when tried in I. aspoon vanilla or other flavoring and continue: erisiags ae mixture is near- ly_cool. up of chopped salted ondta Or waahldtise of ane: cuslron candied fruits and nuts. Spread dnl ae fi ee Serer care with and in ‘rectangular vatie By Georgene Faulkner, A Visit to Santa Claus Land. i upon a time there were two; Gada a little boy aya willie and es ‘a little girl named Anni Now, they could hardly wait oe ‘Saute ela to visit them, 60 ev said to} their mother; “Oh, ares How babs days until Christmas?” {i ‘The busy mother felt the days slip by all too rapidly, but the childre: counted the Ss and were very im-! At last they shouted in glee, d They hung up their stockings, and when ‘aoie mother yee to kiss them good-night id, “We are going j to wateh for Santa and maybe we will see pais come down athe chim: the Tene as she Sed out thelr wait “You must said Willie, “but now thi aus, are chee can we not help you in some wa: “yes, indeed!” said Santa Claus. “I am glad to have such good helpers will ee please go over to that garden ines a she corner and pull up some ee son Willie was pulling up tops | which grew just like turnips, beets and radishes. Then he Climbed a tree jand picked red See which grew. ike cherries, marbles, hich were like res and balls that ; were like apples and oranges. All this time Annie was helping Santa to pick dollies. There were large dolls with the dearest Mttle bon- nets on their heads, which grew like roses, and fhien thet were tiny dollies, turning up their little faces at Annie like pansies. ae esently Santa began to water ie Lee and suddenly every blade soldier, with his "ile “held high, while soldiers’ tents, like m 1d. go right to sleep and he will come all Ne rship one downstairs wintie| fe, “Say, Annie, Pa epy. I Me wish ca tru Flowers. Willie a a a trum: oe and played on'it: “Toot-toot-toot- eee is ‘Oh, but Link ar not, pick the toys,” said A: ‘e do not know who owns this 8 ae Just then the children saw the deher, He was - jolliest old x I] in ved, and his Sages hat! m in stmbie: Hie tals as ate as aD snow, | 01 ‘O8y. his ayn tinntaa like | ars, . ee children knew at once that this ardener was Santa Claus..~ He was ate down a c his sickle. He had a Jarge red sack at | his side and smaller bags near by, and | he was so happy that he sang as he | worked: In-my wonderful garden of to; Grows a crop for the good g boys. Candy, cake, sugar plums, Dolls, cannon. ee “1 re All grow in t toys. When pote ae | saw the. children ae ie sfonbed in surprise an@ said, “Ho- w did you tto children get in ere? ‘We Sicily do vot know, Mr Santa rb oats were in a lake nearby. Then they visited Santa’s big farm and saw horses. and leather cows and woolly lambs and all the toy a st real animals one would see and they just like the big ae a echante one ees, and they picked aber ce san candy tothe sugar Next Santé was working like oltter: wit We gaots, and he hintaied a ot 's house just as the clock struck “ihe reindeer were prancing and pawing outside, impatient to be off. Santa Claus pindiet his bi toys into if’ sl 3 ees eee ae Annie and they were liv: Sai ae eae them unto the Tha ie down, at lasi own went down, down the el they were it their ¢ own Tittle beds. The Sian was streaming into their eyes an their Hone was ¢alling verry Merry Christ- nd se their stocking: “hiesine a new dolly bia th rushed for soon Annie was id as was upon a toy trumpet. the oom stood a tall resins tree ‘trom the Christmas tree forest, with | toys eae from the een know wh id RS these toys. willie, itoy came garden of toys, for we nta. Claus.” game Pin an: S for All! Visht my Snowman, “Merry Crismus!” Si pe s her says he: says J, “what did you like best jour Chrismus tree?” hy! “You s’prise me,” Snowman. says. my Y Don't you truly know?” “Ho Wo!” says Snow- man, “Heaps n’ heaps of gsnowt’? With ‘gifts “for t cloak The Cloak for the Manger. She hung upon her mother’s knee In Bethlehem town that wondrous. morn, To tell how two had reached the inn And how their little Son ‘was bori “But they iets laid him in a stall; The inn was full as it sea pace Ah, let me ie jain. outgr ‘And wrap Him round; cold!” He at ta ae leaned upon her es knee, e little maid; her eyes were fair, ad howe'er dark the any might be Some sunshine lit her curling hair. Pe ae could not a AS nay, ae Se ers the: 2 “r will aS wwilth thee, dear," “And ask their pardon shout we err.” She took the littl And elt arlet mbed the hill to the Baby’s side. rough chinks the winter, whined That Se he her thanks, and The “dimpled Joy; grew To mother-measure as she knelt To touch his roseleaf softness too. the maid’s heart But her own mother read more close ‘The Babe's wide gaze, and reverently os a y with her cnaoens eyes. ince?” they aske The small maid sought her mother’s arms That later day when all was rife The Babe of Josep! How sere a Star mid-heaven and eign yh and his wife— Above ce manger ois He slept; How stats camels came that way, Their housings tinkling as they ae d, Him. “And my poor So faded was,'so mean a thing!” The mother smiled. “Ah, sweet,” she said, “Thou gavest ére thou knew’s King!” cloak her child be- if i sides, Christmas Out of Doors. Don’t forget the birds and the stat rels and the wild mice on Christm: Day, a if it is a igus! Christ. mas, This is one way of expressing the aioe will-to-all-idea, at feeling it yourself and of setting an example of it. If you live-in a town or in the real country near open fields and wood- lands you have a chance to show. kind- nei seekers of winter fare which, with ice covering green ee is often a terribly scanty far will be rep: aid for this many side storms and me, the north, east and we o cs shelves can be tacked t \a the ales of ties and Tonded’ with food for the squirrels and little aoe {from which the worst the wild mice to enter safely. Scat ered food bo in ‘are spots near the haunts of wild, will aid many a hungry thea eee en and b od The First ‘Christmas-Card. ot Bove = ee kind Father likes best | Ou Our hearts with Christmas cheer, good 3 Lord, AW Tads and mi ites i oir homes she well knew, they w ing | And sailor boys at s tree. I onere insted manger, San or wat TV. . ashamed. A big ler of te a xnife and a gun, A ie a or soldiers, and all these But snest ct ail Santa brought las al Senin cine oe me a_plate ang! A dal that says Mamma and eyen ‘A Look cs a pencil, a Christmas card. } natiq 6, prais ~ bri A set of. play dishes all shiny and But et of irae all, Santa brought feet tq ed Some Ane ee like Mamma’s and really true kid. Foi Santa Claus brought us a whole lot of as silv4 oys, | Th The very kind dearest to wee girls and _ ‘ e tion upg And we were excited, 9s ehildven Tho should be it Aa pe Spend sou naeaeetiee came '}] out into 4 pie all Santa's gifts that we Were the ‘dna he ee Daddy, and ‘other Dear, aceyay enya DELPHINA A Christmas Carol. * is ‘The winter night was fark and still, The village lay asle When the Baroni epherds watched their sheep: The sah Pa watched their sheep, Savers watched o’er Thee, her are ‘Mary held Thee to her heart, hood. And they sang jubilee. ye: Il. As now the Yule-log glows ee And winds without run wil We softly speak the blessed Naas They gave Thee as a child, They gave Thee as a ae good Lord; O winter winds, be s' O Christmas star, ahs ‘tows again On meadow and on hill: Calaalan patbar Miss W' By the time they were ee new home the Christ! was already in th) MI. has girle who lived in © sees ett look from Hersh above, [ment house and went e, Lord Jesu: school with Delphina wer fae hele caiatmss tree, yy salid the; to ‘Ge = Eocaies. Del, flushed, and she said not the Christmas plans of her me aS our Home with Chnstins loye; hearts with Christmas cheer; yy may wi © Mary's Soh, for her sweet sake Bo the day before Chrit at knoe! All eoeemmnd is blest; Addié and eke We praise name when first we ;Baronis’ door to ask if Delp wake, come over to Si their tree, yj, And when we go to rest: quickly through the nee wey And when we go to rest, good Lord, behind her. She / Our nightly thanks are given 36 ‘friends to see Mer sm For all good mothers—some on earth, And some with Thine in Heayen. SoS SA Simple Gifts for the Little Ones. ne or two suggestions of inexpen-| centre of the sky. sive gifts whch never fail to please | qian. any child, may help some one gropin ran i urprise ball may be the. sttamncon- sen sounded upon the Baronij child of any age. Take pale Delphina ran to ope it atil 4 bel a ball a bright colored fla and a oe id it. Start. w! a a new penn: the ae and e in a little toy. h e i {del ‘waldae there, al Delphina hung her here was no chance the string. toys will of course be governed oy ane amount of money you wish to If the child is old enough to att « or, crochet, worsted may be used instead jof string. A book which is kept in our “sick box" the box in which toys are kept 0 be used uns ee the Fae. are ten in bed, position Picks aay Buea 3 Cut from gui men, wome: iB scelostiu Ween eens ta fact that the head must be so va that it ean be cut from the body without spoiling the figure. Carefully | paste them in a book, aol page of which has had a vertical line drawn xactly through the ° page, and a horizontal line two inches Saving the sug; candies and in 'S & COM | excellent conse! ed | ‘There are all such as stuffed, A. Dobson. He it is over seventy years ago = Pbidued ofthe group distant friends, surrounded mas greenery, and sent it to nd, who showed it Aas The ecbyaie aay Dae copied | he idea sin | jal mbers, until } ction phd “aistribation and itmag-cards becamé a great international industry. But if the Christmas-card again comes into its pre- bpularty, itis to be hoped th at we che all no longer see. in s: print on so many sos of cards the in German en of peace and goodwill ny pri ated, mt home, orlet us go with- out them! Fy ic was a aie eros! from the top on each Page, When with mow askin on ope figure have the neck |), ; tbe. 8 neatly as Ae sible at}, of these two lines. bees “ateneelor et ee cut each pane | grotesque effects which jot joy from the youngster All children love to: dress’ up and play make-believe, so an inexpensive hang up their stockings for Santa Claus to fill, it is not always easy to think of small gitts that will fit in the stocking. Little girls aay delight in small fancy ne little girl found a set of stones in her bag, ——e had a age of colored cra in hers, eagan=a Siptte: ue “ae eee toni a box of faney beads from which the child could: make worderfal néoklaces and lets.” A hair ribbon will also tuck into a stocking, and any. ttle ein tg happy. to Ww hat 4 y will app: pure ve home salted nu! rt Baty: estes pret calm My Giradaie than in previous year it, no matter how small its denomina-| ‘79 candy orange oF grape-truif nate a wholesome substity alo free from dust all through the year |jegs than for its calls are a folding, shoe polisher which he could be alw y with him, recipes SEAN Christmas Day, 1918. Bars No, 1—One cupf granulated sugar, broken peanuts; stir constantly. unti i He shall come om ue showers Upon, the fruitful e: Ibve, joy. hope, tks flowers, Spring in his pur to birth re him on the ee shal Peace, the herald pan, ene while the sv is melting, as it burns easily, “_Twelve—Thirteen—Fourteen—Gee whiz! an’ 1 get helped last” Jastougtetah; From hill’ to. valley flow. Péanut Bars No. 2.—Shell and: