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|| WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1951 tWide Variety in Yo [| THE DAILY TI MES-GAZETTE PAGE ELEVEN : tores Making Christmas Bright {With Home Decorations 3 One of the cheeriest customs of the Christmas season is ! your Yuletide joy with others by { decorating your home inside and outside. It increases the spirit' of ! everyone who visits you or merely passes by your home. Your Christmas decorations can | be simple or elaborate depending | upon your taste and yaur budget. Among the most effective dec- orations is dramatizing your front door so that Christmas season callers get a lft of spirits with your gay welcome before they en- ¢ ter your home. Rapidly becoming F| even more popular than the Christ- mas wreath is a spray of ever- greens highlighted with a gay | motif. | cut several {them together. To make such a spray, simply well-shaped, small evergreen boughs and wire or tie Then fasten your | decoration to the front of the | spray. You can use bright Christ- mas balls or pine cones in a clus- ver, or wrap & cane in red and white crepe paper to stimulate a | candy cane and place it diagonally i across the evergreens. Finish your spray with a big, gay bow of red i ribbon. DRAMATIZE YOUR DOOR If you have a front door of solid wood painted either red or white, it is very 'effective to tie wide ribbons around your door with a big bow, giving the effect of a big Christmas package. Or tie gay, little Christmas packages against a background of greens and hang on your front door. Whatever, type of decoration you choose, it's fun to have your front door say "Merry Christmas" to all who knock. Many gay outdoor effects can be achieved with Christmas lights. If you have an evergreen tree in your yard, string colored lights in it. Another lovely Yuletide decoration is to outline your door on your porch with Christmas lights. Your home will take on a lively holiday air. The possibilities for interior decorations are endless. All you'll need is holiday greens, and ber- ries, bright, red candles, a few Christmas figurines, and lots of imagination! It is fun for the whole family to make a tradition of decorating at hristmastime and eollecting and aving your decorations from year to year. Start with just a few and add to your supply each holiday seaspn. Your big, red candles will last for several years if they're wrapped and packed care- fully. INTERIOR DECORATIONS! Next in importance to your beautifully - decorated iree is the decorative theme of your mantel. The ideas for mantel arrange- ments are varied and novel. There is a great deal of simple dignity and charm to the ceramic figurines of the holiday season. You ¢4n arrange them with can- dles or Christmas berries in many lovely groupings. A large Madon- na head flanked by' candelabra, a grouping of choir beys; or 'the shrine effect using a Madonna and angel figurines and burning cand- 1és, all create beautiful effects. ' 0 MILLION GREETINGS The practice of exchanging the compliment of the season at Christmas time by means of greet- ing cards originated less than a - géentury and a half ago. But in hat time the custom has spread 0 many countries, and each Christmas millions of cards are sent through the post bearing good wishes . all over the world. The task of producing greeting cards is one which, in Britain, employs thousands of men and women throughout the year. One typical firm specializing in this type of work, founded in Dundee, Scotland, in 1825, has a staff of more than 1,200 and produces in the region of 50 million cards a year. A Lights of Christmas Father Christmas is lighting his candles again. They begin to gleam along the horizons of the mind and to illuminate the heart. Candles that symbolize the ancient Christ- mas joy will flame on alters and shine through storied windows, staining with ruby and gold and purple the drifting snow outside. Candles of eager expectancy, danc- ing and' sparkling in the eyes of little children. And love's own can- dles of sweetly solemn memory for those it knew in Christmases long ago. He is very courteous, Father Christmas--with friendly hand leading us all, young and old, the hurt-and the gay,-into the warm and glowing circle of his genial hospitality. But the greatest Christmas light of all is a song. Heard first by shepherds = who watched their flocks by night, it has been called the Angel's Song. It is more than that for 'suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of heavenly soldiers ... saying Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace, good will toward men," Heavenly soldiers singing--Peace! "Peace on earth to men of good will." Who can have peace save men of good will? How can nations have peace except as good will makes good neighbours? Ill will, wherever harboured, destroys hte peace of those who hold it. And so, in one version the song would seem to say that, as heaven is the abode of glory, earth will become the abode of peace when human- kind becomes the abode of good will. ' Vapours veil our vision and vex our souls, but time was when these vapours were thick clouds, sullen with thunder and terrible with lightenings; see them now, at- tentuated to a translucent mist. something is shining through. The universal Christmas is nearer than we think. Its nearness accents every contrast, as light makes darkness visible. The Lights of Christmas--morn- ing stars of a dawn before which even now the shadows flee away. BEGINNING OF THE NEW YEAR Various dates were used in dif- ferent countries, for the beginning of a year, but America followed the English custom of using the date of most early Christian countries-- about the beginning of the ecclesi- astical year. The Gregorian calen- dar, establishing January 1 as the beginning of the year, was adopted by England and her colonies in Of Christmas Gifts Seen In Oshawa S vila English Dinner For Christmas It's Christmas Day. Dickens is our guide. We accompany Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Pre- sent to young Bob Cratchit's home. Mrs. Cratchit, brave 'in ribbons, lays the cloth, Master Peter mash- es the potatoes with incredible vig- or. Miss Belinda 'sweetens up the applesauce. Bob, turning his cuffs up, compounds a hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons and sets it on the hob to simmer. At last the dishes are set on, and grace is said. It is succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs. Cratchit, looking slowly along the carving knife, prepares to plunge in the breast; and when she does, and when the long expected gush of stuffing issues forth, one mur- mur of delight arises all around the board, and even Tiny Tim beats on the table with the handle of his knife and feebly cries "Hur- rah!" There never was such a goose, Its tenderness and flavor, size and cheapness is the theme of univer- sal admiration. Eked out by apple- sauce and mashed potatoes it is sufficient dinner for the whole fa- mily. Indeed, as Mrs. Cratchit says, surveying one remaining bone they hadn't ate it all at -last! 'The youngest Cratchits are steeped in sage and onion to their eye- brows. And oh, what a wonderful pud- ding! Bob Cratchit regards it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs, Cratchit since their marriage. He proposes a toast: '""A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us." Whig¢h all the family re-echoes. "God bless us every one!" says Tiny Tim, the last of all, : Roast Goose Choose a young goose, 8 to 10 pounds in weight; singe, clean, cut off neck at body, wash and dry. Rub inside with salt and outside with salt and pepper and if desired a clove of garlic. Fill cavities loosely with stuffing; sew or skew- er cut surfaces together, fold skin back over neck and fasten with skewer. Truss and place goose breast-side-down in a deep roast- ing pan on a trivet. Prick skin well. Roast in moderate oven (350 degrees to 375 degrees) until tend- er, allowing for unstuffed, weight, 18 to 20 minutes per pound. When half done, turn breast up and fin- ish roasting. Baste often with drip- pings in pan or additional fat. A meat thermometer inserted into the heaviest part of the thigh will register 185 degrees F. when goose is well done. Place on hot platter and surround with creamed pearl mashed potatoes, cinnamon apples and garnish. Serve with a gravy made from 4 tablespoons each drippings and flour stirred until smooth with 2 cups of giblet stock UBLIC nay BERTIE TC ST ---- MAKE YOUR FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES HAPPY THIS CHRISTMAS WITH A LOVELY GIFT OF JEWELLERY FROM NASH JEWELLERS! 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Old English Plum Pudding % cup siftead all-purpose flour 1%; teaspoons salt 15 teaspoon grated nutmeg 14 teaspoon cinnamon 1-3 teaspoon mace 1% teaspoon ground cloves % pound seeded raisins % pound dried currants Y cup citron, chopped ¥ pound figs, chopped Ya cup candied orange peel, chopped V2 cup fine bread crumbs - 1 cup hot milk 14 cup sugar 4 eggs, separated 15 cup suet, ground 15 cup brandy. : Mix and sift together flour, salt and spices. Stir in fruits. Soak crumbs in milk 10 minutes, Beat sugar into well-beaten egg yolks and add suet and soaked crumbs. Stir into flour mixture. Add brandy and blend. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Turn into buttered. 132 quart mold, Cover and steam 3% hours. Yield: 12 portions. The person who starts doing physical exercises for any reason, whether for reducing, limbering up or for general health reasons, should keep to a regular routine. A daily dozen should be done {daily. It is not a good idea to overdo it--exercise should be tonic rather than fatiguing. nt; Toothpick Sti For Christmas Christmas comes but once a year, so why hurry away and write off another big Christmas dinner? It is best to prolong the merry oc- casion by some afternoon enter- tainment, Let's start with a few toothpick stunts. Place three toothpicks in a row. Can anyone change the position of the mjddle toothpick without touching it? (Move the third toothpick to 'the outer side { the first toothpick. The position of the middle toothpick is now changed.) Add five toothpicks to six to make nine Put the five tooth. picks down in a row so that they length apart. Then use the other six toothpicks to make the letter of the word "nine", How about lifting five \tooth- picks down in a row 'so that they little Jess than their.own length apart. Then use the other six toothpicks to make the letter of the word "nine." How about lifting five toothpicks by touching one? To do this you must cross two diagonally, lay the third on top at right angles to the table's edge, put the 4th and 5th horizontally under the ends of the diagonals and over, Yule Log Fire Adds Splendor It is generally agreed that the burning of the yule Jog was hand- ed down to English-speaking coun- tries by our Scandinavian ances. tors who, at the feast of the win- ter solstice, kindled huge bonfires in honor of their god Thor. In ars 'a England, the bringing in and burn- ing of the yule log on Christmas The Fura woe a weattu saremonw Eve Was -8--pratty.. oer nYs--The log usually included the root of a ponderous oak, which was drawn into the castle amid great noise and singing. The largest estates engaged minstrels to sing to the log, but where minstrels were not available, it was customary for each member of the family to take a turn in saluting the yule log with an appropriate song. 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