womarck world by mair m morgan cheese for company hostess f j water raisins shorten- envied by many 13 toe hostess wh r when unexpected company rrv th can sit down and ena a visit then in almost jfsoy a friendly an eye is able to ttsvjthe twinkling of prise of hergjjijwe delight and sur- wjpslilantaiks to serve delect- u4gesicfresnments such true hospit- embracesttrfeittiy and ease of entertaining is within the reach of all it is simply n matter of always being prepared by having on hand the necessary in gredients for a refreshing beverage either hot or cold to suit the oc casion a well filled cookie jar or cake box and the materials for mak ing appetizing sandwiches or other enticing tidbits undoubtedly the prepared hostess will have among the other good things in her kitchen one or more kinds of cheese for she realizes its possibilities and knows that with very little time and effort she can make a number of cheese delicacies for instance an assortment of crackers and cheese served perhaps with jelly olives or celery is merely a matter of arranging the foods at tractively and yet what is more popular or as an alternative any of the following recipes may be chosen they are quickly prepared and are sure to pleaso guests cheese bacon strips lightly toast thin slices of bread on one side only cut in strips about 3 inches long and one inch wide cover the untoasted side generously with grated canadian cheddar or processed cheese blended with butter sprinkle with pieces cf bacon cut very finely with scissors place under broiler until bacon is cooked salted crackers may be used instead of toast serve hot cheese squares cut fruit bread in squares about 1 inches blend together grated canadian cheddar cheese with suf- ficent butter to make a soft mixture spread the four sides and top of the bread squares with the cheese mix ture sprinkle with paprika bake in a hot oven or under broiler until the freese begins to melt serve hot open cheese sandwiches 1 cut white or brown bread into slices onehalf to one inch thick cut with cookie cutter into various shap es butter and fill with cream cot tage or canadian cheddar grated or with processed cheese blended with salad dressing garnish top of sand wich with chopped green peppers chopped nuts or raisins or whole nutmeats 2 cut bread into slices about onethird of an inch thick cut with round or diamond shaped cookie cut ter butter and make a fluting of cheese around edge of sandwich fill centre with jelly using black cur rant or grape jelly in conjunction with yellow cheese and using red jelly such as currant or raspberry alongside of white cream or cottage chsese note by using brown and white bread and yellow and white cheese an attractive plate of open sand wiches can be made very quickly rvi no eg and salt in sauce pan bring to the boiling point and boil three min utes cool when cool add soda dis solved in 2 teaspoons hot water beat well and add flour mixed and sifted with spices and baking powder mix thoroughly and add vanilla turn into an oiled and floured loaf- cake pan and bake forty minutes in a moderate oven the following icing uses no eggs and is soft and creamy icing one cup confectioners sugar 2 teaspoons powdered cocoa 2 dessert spoons cold cotfee infusion 2 table spoons butter vi teaspoon vanilla mix and sift sugar and cocoa cream butter and gradually beat in part of sugar add one spoonful of coffee vanilla and remaining sugar mix thoroughly adding coffee to make of spreading consistency spread the cake while it is slightly warm apple sauce cake add additional fruit to this recipe and you will have a very acceptable substitute for fruit cake this one wont keep indefinitely as the bona fide cake will but it will be better two weeks after its baked than when just taken from the oven one cup granulated sugar cup butter or other shortening 114 cups apple sauce 2 cups raisins 3 cups flour 2 teaspoons soda 1 tablespoon brandy v4 teaspoon salt 1 cup nut meats v4 teaspoon vanilla 1 tea spoon cinnamon vi teaspoon cloves vz teaspoon nutmeg vi teaspoon all spice use apple sauce sweetened as for the table cream shortening and sugar sift one cup of flour ever raisins and mix well mx and sift remaining flour with soda spici and salt sift several times to be sure the soda is evenly distributed through the flour add raisins to cup milk e cups flour tablespoon baking powder ivi teaspoons salt tablespoon ginger cream butter add sugar gradually milk and dry ingredients mixed and sifted put some of mixture on an inverted dripping pan and roll as thinly as possible to cover pan mark dough with coarse grater sprinkle with sugar and bake in a moderate oven before removing from pan cut in strips 4v4 inches long by lvs inches wide bice pudding 4 cups milk 13 cup rice v- tea spoon salt 13 cup sugar grated rind v a lemon wash rice mix ingredients and pour into buttered puddingdish bake 3 hours in a very slow oven stirring 3 times during first hour of baking to prevent rice from settling another rice pudding is made with 4 cups milk vi cup rice 13 cup molasses vi teaspoon salt vi tea spoon cinnamon 1 tablespoon butter bake as directed in first rice pudding recipe at last stirring add butter 45 per cent lost deposits 404 candidates forfeit 200 each 162 stevens men victims household hints to use up old lace curtains join the best parts together and dye them coffee color stitch them over an old sheet dyed to match your bed room color scheme and you will have an uptotheminute bedspread to tilt mirrors from the wall and so prevent drampness press two or three used gramophone needles into a large cork stick the points into the back of the mirror and let the cork rest on the wall when knitting childrens vests cast off at the shoulders when they outgrow them they can be length ened and the armhole made bigger by knitting a piece into the shoulder seam delicious cake icing may be made stirring orange or pineapple juice in to icing sugar until the mixture is thick enough to spread the secret of successful china re pairs is to have perfectly clean edges use a sparing hand with the cement and tie the pieces firmly to gether until the cement has hardened ottawa fortyfive per cent of candidates in the federal election lest their 200 deposits it is announced by jules castonguay chief electorial of ficer a total of 404 candidates out of 892 lost deposits the highest number ever recorded in a general election under canadian election laws every candidate must post 200 with the re turning cflicer he loses it if he does not poll half as many votes as the successful candidate the treasury therefore netted 80000 from lost deposits this election the record number of lest deposits was attributed to the presence of third parties in the field the recon- structionists for instance nominated 174 candidates and 162 of them lost deposits similarly the ccf lost s out of 119 deposits and social credit 23 out of 40 the returns shewed that every reconstruction and ccf candidate in toronto lost his deposit modernizing trees for the table heavy gain military shoes march along paris boulevards if i were to read much less an swer ail the attacks made en me this shop might as well close i do the very best i know how the very best i can and i mean to keep do against me wont amount to any thing if the end brings me out wrong ten angels swearing i was right would make no difference abraham lincoln easy on the budget these are the days when the cook rieeds to economize on eggs so weve gathered together recipes for egg- less cakes and in two cases milkless ones and puddings for you to refer to when youre in doubt abcut des serts inexpensive dishes prove a boon when the food budget is deplet ed and its bound to be that way sometimes riisin cake two cups seedless raisins 1 cup lrown sugar 1 cup water 13 cup shortening 1 teaspoon cinnamon vi teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon nutmeg vi teaspoon salt 1 teasnoon soda vi tetaspoon baking powder 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon vanilla you may use lard as shortening if you like creamed mixture and when blended in st the end if the end add remaining ingredients turn in- 1 brings me out all right what is said to an oiled and floured loaf cake- pan and bake one and onehalf hours friday dec 13 hulbert eggless chocolate cake one cup light brown sugar vi cup shortening 1 cup thick sour milk 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 tea spoon vanilla 2 squares baking cho colate and teaspoon salt melt chocolate cream shortening and sugar and add melted chocolate flour mixed and sifted with salt and soda sour milk and vanilla mix well and turn into an oiled and floured loaf cake pan bake in a moderate oven for forty minutes this cake makes a good desiort if cut in slices and served with hot fudge sauce to which walnut meats have been added or cover the cake with fudge frosting and sprinkle witth coarsely chopped walnut meats hot water gingerbread 1 cup molasses vi cup boiling wa ter 2v4 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda ivi teaspoons ginger vi teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons melted butter add water to molasses mix and sift dry ingredients combine mix tures add butter and beat vigor ously pour into buttered shallow pan and bake 25 minutes in a mod- crate oven chicken fat fried out and clarified furnishes an excellent shortening and may be used instead of butter sour milk gingerbread 1 cup molasses 1 cup sour milk 2 13 cups flour iv4 teaspoons soda 2 teaspoons ginger vi teaspoon salt vi cup melted butter mix soda with sour milk and add to molasses sift together remain ing ingredients combine mixtures add butter and heat vigorously put in shallow pan and bake 25 minutes moderate oven hard sugar gingerbread 2t cup butter ivi cups sugar deposits in banks take ad vance of hundred millions loans decreasing ottawa savings deposits in canadian chartered banks on oct ober 31 amounted to 1465301708 almost 100000000 more than on the corresponding date in 1931 ac cording to the monthly statement of the banks to the department of fin ance made public recently there was a 21000000 increase in deposits since last september so current account current account deposits also show ed a marked increase being up 35- 000000 in the month and more than s0000c00 as compared with oct ober 31 193j deposits outside canada were up about 6000000 in the month and more than 60c00000 in the year ac counted for in a large measure by the increasing deposits cf currency other than canadian in canadian banks which are shown in this col umn here is a novelty in table decoration for the festive season be tween the tall wiite tapers is a modernistic christmas tree of crushed cellophane tho cloth is as modern as the decorations it is of silt cellophane and rayon free press college editors fear danger of suppression in creasing a touch of variety in holiday decoration 39 new york with a call for de fense of freedom of speech and the press in colleges the keynote the association cf college editors in conference at the international house is organizing a clearinghouse to fur ther discussions of the social and economic problems cf th day in their columns a plea to uphold liberalism en the campus came from francis g smith jr president of the association and editor last year of the daily prince- tonian who told 75 attending repre sentatives from the newspapers of 25 eastern and southern colleges that university administrations today are more apt to suppress freedom of this press than formerly coincident with a healthy change in the undergraduate outlook during the last few years he said certain college newspapers have exerted a vital force on campus opinion through intelligent comment on american po litics and economics james a wechser editor last year of the columbia spectator another speaker denounced the attacks by patriotic societies and other conserva tive groups on radical demonstrations in the colleges asserting that it was the first indication of approaching fascism 1935 mode would lead in gold production quito a3 gay as the traditional holly berries are these unusual freelike pompoms but they grew in no grcenliouse they can bo easily made at home the modernistic pots are of spun aluminum theplants themselves were made from transparent drinking straws of cellophane moscow russia expects to he tho leading gold producer of the world by 193g it is now second only to south africa officials claimed tho socalled stakanoff sys tem of increasing individual output had already lifted gold production to 24 per cent more than last year and would make it possible to fill out the years planned production schedule a month in advance gold mining has been urgently pushed by american mining methods because of the need for gold in mak ing needed purchase abroad smart military slues are marching right along paris bouevards trying to keep up with the italoethiopian situation ethiopians may go bare foot but parlsiennes wear martial- looking shoes of brown black or navy kidskin which are trimmed with fine braid tiny gilt buttons and sometimes miniature military plast- rens the italian renaissance influence has been responsible for the glitter ing metallic sheen of afternoon slip pers considerable bronze has been shown while kid fabric or suede sliopers all have a narrow piping of gold or silver the numerous high and widetongued shoes some of which are slit in three sections are reminiscent of the italian comedies back to cave man days with tho new fur trimmed shoes for streel wear lowheeled oxfords with tie3 are seen in suede with insertions of leopard across the toes for after noon there is a pump in black kid with a tongue and heel of black brcadtail fur the parisian black and white is bolder and more pronounced this winter some black dresses have entire sleeves of white others havo mannish vestees of starched white linen similar to a mans boiled even ing shirt and others are trimmed with bibs of white feathers or beads to keep step shoemakers are making black and white shoes for winter wear and a pump of black kid has a collar of white lizard while the heels are piped in white have courage why should you fear one moment of the way when god has promised faithful hearts his guidance night and day why should you grieve or hold one anxious doubt when his sweet presence hovers near your going in or out dear heart he brave and patient and calmly tread your way his loving arms are ready to help you every day no matter what the battle if your faith keeps clear and bright though the clouds get black as mid night everything will turn out right bertram e nightingals rockwood ontario if youre coming to college only for booklcarning youre foolish a good encyclopedia will cost you one- sixth as much arl will contain coo times more than youll ever learn prof john erswine english col umbia univ theres appealing loveliness in the metal lame formal evening gown patterned for today it is accompanied by a smart little tailored jacket that will give allure for dinner wear when bare arms are expected its glamorous beauty make it perfect for almost anything ancr 5 oclock as cocktail hour bridge theatre and so on velvet or gleaming satin is squally lovely for this simple to sew ensemble it may be street length also style no 2940 is designed for sizes 14 16 18 years 36 38 and 40inches bust size 16 requires 3vi yards of 39inch material for evening length with 2 yards of 39inch material for iacket how to order patterns write your name and address plainly giving number and size of pattern wanted enclose 15c in stamps or coin coin prefer red wrap it carefully an ad dress your order to wilson pat tern service 73 west adelaide street toronto telephone girl the telephone girl sits in her chair and listens to voices from every where she hears all the gossip she hears all the news she knows who is happy and who has the blues she knows all our troubles she knows- all our strife she knows every time we are out with the boys she hears all excuses the fellows em ploy in fact theres a secret neath each saucy curl of that quiet demurelooking telo- phon girl if the telephone girl would tell all she knows it would turn half our friends into bitterest foes shed start a small wind that would soon be a gale and engulf us in trouble and land us in jail she could let go a story which gain ing force would cause half our wives to sue for divorce she would get all the churches mix ed up in a fight and turn all our days into sorrow ing nights now dcesnt it set your head in a whilr when you think what you owe that telephone girl fu manchu by sax rohmer the severed fingers the opium smokers alice lightce the chinaman said full up no room you come see he dived bohind tho curtain smith and i following ho ran up a dark stair tho next moment i fojnd myself in a room which reeled with opium fumes shool kit 1st under shoj yaav wn and roared my mala a eely o pipes scuml sevyy ey at inside an gtmme an smoke pipe you yf bow stokmf k4 t ail a4mm ha lamp on tho floor gr tho horrible place about tho walls of wmch wcro ten or twelve bunts one or two occupants sucted at their opium pipes but tho rest lay motionless drugged k taking the chance if you cut out of a line of traffic your chances of having an accident are multiplied by 25 if ycu drive over 40 miles an hour your chances of having an accident are multiplied by 50 if you pass another car on a curve your chances of having an accident are multiplied by 21 if you pass another car going up hill yourchanees cf having an ac cident are multiplied by 5 carelessness careless throwing of glass en the highways is becoming increasingly common people who are guilty of throwing on a highway any glass nails tacks or other material in jurious to motor tires make them selves liable for fines of from 500 to 1000 for first offence 10 to 25 for a second or subsequent offence and 25 to 50 for other offences and his permit or license may be suspend ed for any period not exceeding sixty days any offender caught at this sort of thing will find it a costly practice