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Woman's World ««â- â- Â«Â«â- Â«â- Â«Â«Â«Â»Â»Â»Â» CITRON CAKE Of course fruit cake aUvaya laJvc the head posiuon during the holiday season nevertheless one can tire of such a rich ditt 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 k.^ep 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 â€" beat thorough- ly p.-'rair.. Cut in 2-3 cup milk alter- nately wii.h 1 1-2 cups more of flour â- 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 vv'hich has been very lightly floured. Bake in buttered and paper- ed 'oaf pan in a slow oven. It will take at least 2 hours to bake it. Battered and Tom Near this little lake stands a white hoii'?, with a lovely little garden, which never fails to attract admir- iv^ ijla'ices from passers-by. Th'^ garJen cotains two rose bushes, beds of clirysanthemums, morning glories and other flowers. As I looked at this house I wished that I could see the inside of it, but as tht was im- possible I just contented myself by picturing the inside. SWEDISH DISHES At noon on the day before Christ- mas. Sweden 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: Risgryiisgrot 2 '"ups rice '" J.-2 quarts milk 1-2 cup sujar 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. Servo with sugar, cinnamon and cream. This will make eight to ten servings. Herring Salad 1 salted herring 1 cup cooked beef 1 cup diced potatoes 1 cup diced cooked beets 1 CUT) diced apples 2 tablespoons capers 1-2 cup- diced cucumber 2 chopped hard-cooked eggs 1-2 cup French dressing. Soak herring for several hours. Clean, remove skin and bones. Cut into small dice. Mix with all oth^r ingredients and season with dressing. This will make eight to ten servings. Parsley Chicken 1 chicken 3-4 cup chopped parsley 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 bread crumbs, pepper and salt. Con- tinue until all chicken is used. Pour over it one quart water. Cover and coci; 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- Uy Mair M. Morsan »•»>»»>>>••••••â- >â- â- â€¢Â»â€¢â€¢â€¢' tion than ever, the kitchen cupbord can provide ingredients for delicious morsels. Here are recipes for just such occasions. Pineapple Taaties 1 1-2 cups grated pineapple 2 cups sugar 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. Ciround 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. PRALINES 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 soda. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Melt the maple sugar in a double boiler, then add the syrup, the but- ter, the corn starch dissolved m 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 deorees 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 2 cups brown sugar. A 1-2 pt. can of condensed muk. 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 \dd nuts and pour into well-oiled pans to cool. Cut in squares and serve on waxed or oiled paper. TROUBLES Tell your troubles one and all. Count tiiem 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 .â- Vnd along the way you'll meet Always one and sometimes two. Who've the right to envy you. Be your troubles what they may You can bear them anyway. You have strength and you have might You can stand and you can fight, Trouble cannot knock you flat, You're not handicapped like that! Pounding surf ended the career of anotlier old-umei- on a reef off the Mediterrean coast. Despite the use of the available anchors and chain tables, the high wind during a sudden gale swept the tiny craft ashore. All hands were saved. Sunday School Lesson THE CHRISTIAN HOME GOLDEN TEXTâ€" "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 PLACEâ€" 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 the Ephesians durins his first Roman imprisonment, A.l'- iil-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. ".\nd keeping watch by night over their flock." The fields around Bethlehem were those in which David tended his sheep when he was sum- moned to be annointed for the king- ship of Lsral by the prophet Samuel. There were also tJig fields of Boaz lu which Ruth gleaned. "And an angel of the Lord stood by them." An angel, the great archangel Gabriel had t'en sent from heaven to announce to the Virgin Mary the coming supernatural birth of Christ. "And the glory of liie 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 tie 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 life ^ 1*3^'@ 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 blessed lessons of Christmas. "For there Is born to you thi» day" Christ was born to and tor those shepherds to and for us. "In the city of David." In Bethlehem, near by, the birth city of the greatest Hebrew king, our Lord's ancestor according to the flesh. ".\ Savior, who is Christ, the Lord." All theology is in the nut- shell of ties.© three titles. Christ was the Saviour of men, the prophe- sied MebSiah, the one 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." Tiiey were to go to Bethlehem to seek the Messiah, and the angel gives thann 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 tihe 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 scorn of the poor. "And suddenly there was witi the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God. The sky wais part- ed as it a veil had been drawn aside and instantly the heavens were seen 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. ".\nd 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 â€" In the highest heaven â€" be glory. To men well pleasing to God â€" on earth â€" be peace. "And it came to pass, when the an- gels went away from them into heav- en." Our 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 obedience, and translate their miuUtry to us into service 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." Recall that Beth- leiem was not their home town. .\nd see this thing that is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known to us." Come and sea U written upon the goapel. There is Qo secrecy and no ooncealmeui ia it. "And they came with ba<ste." The«s jiAepberd lads animate the Christmas story with their racing feet, as a generation later two running dliacip- les the Easter narrative illustrating the demeanor of svery 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 tiie heart of a family makes bim seem to be so much more human, while it in- vecits family lite 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 tu make known to others. If we keep them to ourselves, we are faithless to a divine trust. "And all that heard it wondered at the things which were spoken unto them by the shepherds." No single incident recorded in human history has su gripped the imagination or compel! ^ the reverent awe of men the world over a» this wholly pictur- esque and utterly homely scene. "But Mary kept all these sayings pondering them in her heart." The wonderful things told by the siiep- herds were cot understood fully by the mother of Jesus, in spite oi 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 parente in the Lord." Obedience 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." Tihe sin of dis- obeixlence to parents is the basis and effectual cause of much ot the law- loisness and anarchy in home and in church and state. Our prisons and re- tormatoriet. are filled with spoiled children who were never taught ob- edience at bom J. "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 tie Jewish law this wad the first that had a promise attached to ir. 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 tie 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." The commandment which ordains that children should honor their fa- ther and .rr^tf'er holds the first place ia the second table. It comes e-ven before that commandment which pro- tects our Urea by forbidding murder. The dutiful obedience at chlldrea then is declaraa by God to be (be foundation ot all ooclal happiness and ot every social virtue. "And ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath." They are not to provoke them that they become ba4 tempered. "But nurture them In th« chastening and admonition ot th* Lord." WeynMJuIh's translation la: Bring them up tenderly with txw Christian training and advice. Amusing the Little Ones on Rainy Dajn 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 Jarge wooden beads and bodkin anH 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 given coarse canvas and thick silk or wool, or raffia and cardboard rings to make table mats or napkin rings. Plai^ticlne will amuse children of all ages and if a large sheet of brown paper is spread en the floor you need not worry about your carpet From about three or four years up- wards "cutting out" is an engrotsing 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 tie white paper used for kitchen shelves sewing It together in the centre, and filling the book with fi- gures etc, cut cut ot magazines. Children over six can spend a joy- ous afternoon making doll's house furniture out of empty match boxes. All that is needed beside the boxes is glue, a paintbox and seme white and brown paper for covering the ar- ticles. THE PAPERS OVERLOOKED HIM Tie papers overlooked him, for he neA-er beat his wife He never tried to rob a bank or take another's life, -^nd he wasn't very brilliant and he didn't try for fame. So there was no real reason for the pressi to print his name. The papers overlooked him â€" he was never deep in debt, He never slipped away from town , with all that he could get. He 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 â€" not the genius or tie crook. But the honest, normal average man the papers overlook. â-  â€" Anon Changing of the Guud ThrcuRh inur.ky fcj, blanketing London, emerges a romantic cati- alcade of Horse Guards cnroute to the Mall for the daily and color- ful Changing of the .liuard. 13 I \ AND \Eth By BUD FlSHtR T-BUT, M0T1,V GOlKijOOWN