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PAGE EIGHT THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1951 Home No Holiday Personals "Christmas comes but And when it comes, Mrs. Christmas guest, Mrs. R. Buttle, of Camp Petawawa. son Street, spent ith relatives at Columbus. Mr. William Spry, Nassau Street, spent Christmas with his mother, Mrs. Mary Spry, Springbrook. Mrs. David Dalton, Charles Street, spent Christmas week-end with her son, Mr. Delbert Dalton and Mrs. Dalton and family in Toronto. Miss Isabel McLaughlin is spending two weeks in Bermuda with her parents, Colonel and Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kempf spent Christmas in Hamilton as the guests of Mrs. Joan Salisbury and Mr. Walter Kempf. Mr. and Mrs. A. Prd. Kingsdale Avenue, as a Christmas guest, Mrs, Pritchard's father, Mr. Edwin Ryder, of Rochester, New York. : Mr. and Mrs. Neil C. Fraser, Jones Avenue, had as their guest at Christmas, Miss Margaret Fyas- er of Galt. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bentley, Jar- wis Street, had as Christmas Day guests Mr. and Mrs. William Bentley and sons, Whitby. Miss Julia Drummond, who is teaching in Toronto, is home for the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. E. Drummond, Connaught Street. Mr. Lawrence Keay is spending his Christmas vacation at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Keay, Gliddon Avenue. Mr. Roy Jones, a student at Queen's University, Kingston, is home on vactaion with his mother, Mrs. Parry Jones, Brock Street East. Christmas guests with Mr. and Mrs. Percy Davidson at Zion were Mr. and Mrs, L. H. Moffatt and Paul, Walmer Road; and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Down of Ebenezer. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Doyle of Cleveland, Ohio, were Christmas weekend guests of Mrs. Doyle's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mc- Diarmid, Alexandra Street. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Frolick, have their son,, Mr. Wiliam Fro- lick, a 4th year law student at To- ronto University, home with them for the holiday season. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. O'Brien and children, Dianne and Bobby, Wil- liam Street East, spent Christmas [1 Harry Buttle, John Street, once .a year it brings good cheer' with Mrs. O'Brien's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Cahill, in Lon- don, Ontario. Mr. Robert "Red" Rutherford, Charles Street, left by TCA last evening for Louisport, Newfound- land, where he will be delivering mail by helicopter for the next four months. Mrs. A. G. Rey- a of Elmvale, and M. Reynolds and The Rev. nolds and family, Mr. and Mee, C. family, oO during the Christmas the home of Mrs. A. Division Street. Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Fox, Street Kori, had ss their ests their son, . Fox, x is a Public School seach be er at St. Catharines, and 2 daughter, Mrs. Alfred Gervais, Mr. Gervais and son, Terry, of Toronto. Mrs. William Murray, Mr. and Jism) ek Simcoe Christ- Mrs. Sr Mrs, Floyd MacInnes, all of , and Mr. and Mrs. Fred man and son, Keith, of Toronto. Beth Mr. and Mrs. Ira Travell, and Bruce, were Christmas guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stew- art Rodman, Scugog Island. Other guests included Mr. and Mrs. Or- and Charles, and ille Ashton els Qlarold Ashton, OF | Happy Smiles Mean That Santa Paid A Call on Christmas Eve | BARBARA JANE AND GARY JOHN KENNEDY. children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Kennedy, of Whitby, formerly of | daughters MONICA ANNE AND FRANCES MARIE JOHNSON of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Johnson ,Warren Avenue. One Oshawa. Barbie, who is seventeen months old, and Gary John, who is apg a half years old Monica Anne and three years old Frances Marie six years old, are ghe grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs, Edward Irish, of H Oshawa, are the granddaughters of Mrs, T, J. Cottenham, of Oshawa. | ~--Photos by Hornsby Studio. ire and Douglas, of Enniskillen, ny E. C. Ashton, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Beech, Janice and Bonnie, of Maple Grove, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Ashton, Larry, Denis and Doris, of Blackstock, Mr. and Mrs. william Bragg, of Bowmanville, and Mr. and Mrs, Stanley May and Bill, of Toronto. ents of the YWCA who a out of town were Miss Ruth Mitchell, at Pickering; Miss Beulah Jones, Bobcaygeon; Miss Merla Vaughan, Guelph; Miss Eileen Doubt, Owen Sound; Miss Carmel Leahy, Peterborough; Miss Constance Watt, London; Miss Helene Gaudion, Trenton; Miss June Alichin, Bowmanville; Miss Sally Todd, Bowmanville; Miss Rose Ann Paquette, Ottawa; Miss Kay Conboy, Beleville; Miss Kay Tink, Hampton; Miss Helen Bowers, Nestleton; Miss Barbara Bruce, To- ronto; Miss Peggy Cotton, Peter- borough; Miss Georgie Parrington, Fenelon Falls; Miss Cris Friis, Lon- don; Miss Velma Kimble, Bobcay- geon; Miss Louise Kostue, Je and. Happy New Year Everyone! During the holiday season when the home is garlanded with color- ed electric lights on wreaths, mantels and the Christmas tree, informal entertaining seems to fit any occasion. Buffet meals can be most successful when planned informally. Buffet parties are easy to plan and they are prob- ably the favorite of the men. The buffet table should have continuity - in arrangement so that the guests may wait on them- selves as they move along the side of the table. If the room is small, push the table against one wall and place your flowers and candles against the wall rather than in the centre. Decorations will then provide an attractive back nd for your serving dish- es. Stack plates in one or two piles at the end of the table and the silver in parallel or V-lines on either side of the plates. Next to these place the napkins folded in a relatively small shape. The dishes of food are arranged ac- cording to their shape and color. However, bowls of sauce mixtures should be placed at the edge of the table for ease in serving. Many hostesses feel it lends a gracious touch to ask a friend to preside over the main dishes. In any event she will do well to designate a hostess to pour tea or coffee or serve punch from a side table. - All of this brings us to the most important point of the food itself. 1 New Year's Eve Buffet Hot Consomme - Cheese Squares Cold Sliced Turkey. and Ham Cranberry Sauce or Jelly Jewel Salad Hot Buttered Rolls Pickles, Olives, Celery Sliced Fruit Cake Holiday Cookies Coffee - Punch 2) Scandinavian Buffet Sardines, Smoked Oysters Stuffed Eggs, Shrimps Corned Beef, Cured Meats . Potato Salad, Relishes «ye Bread - Poppy Rolls Cheese Tray Danish Pastry Coffee TAKE A TIP + Keep the instruction leaflets and guarantees packed with the electrical equipment given to you for Christmas. Read them care- fully and shen file where they will be available for reference. 2. If there are no directions | mew electrics ap- | cherry powder. pliances, 'phone or write to the manufacturer. 3. Be sure to wipe off new equipment with a slightly damp cloth. Never immerse electrical units in water. 4. Season a new electric waffle iron with salad oil; it is then not necessary to re-season. 5. Preheat the electric table broiler for 5 minutes before toast- ing food. 6. Do not use plastic or thinly covered extension cord for heating appliances; attach the recom- mended heating cord. 7. Be wary where an extension cord is placed. It should never be laid across a doorway or in the path of traffic. 8. Never use a frayed or defec- tive extension cord. It is wiser to purchase a new one since winding electric tape around a cord for a heating appliance slows down the heating of the unit. 9. Never overload any one cir- cuit. 10. Replace a blown fuse with one of the same number of am-' peres as marked on the end of the one to be discarded. It is usually 15 amperes unless it is a fuse for the electric oven. 11. Never stand on a wet floor when you are reaching into the main fuse box. 12. Keep a supply of lamps on hand so that there may be light from any socket. REQUESTED RECIPES Festive Punch 2 cups sugar 2 cups water 10 cloves 1 tbsp. cinnamon 1 tbsp. ginger 32 cup lemon juice* 2 cups orange juice % tsp. peppermint Green coloring Green cherries Boil sugar and 'water for 5 mins, Add cloves, cinnamon and ginger; cover and let stand until cold. Add fruit * juices, strain, color green, add peppermint. Let stand for 1 hour in electric refrigerator; serve (1 part punch to 2 parts ginger ale) with ice. Garnish with green cherries. Serves 12, Two Tone Salad 1 package lime jelly powder . 1 cup canned pineapple pieces 1 package cherry jelly powder 1% cup grapefruit sections 1 cup pear, cubed Dissolve lime jelly according to |f : directions. When partially set, fold in pineapple. Chill in electric refrigerator. Meanwhile dissolve Fold in pear. Chill until partially set; then pour over firm lime jelly. Leave in refrigerator about 3 hours. Serves 6 to 8. Pecan Tarts Ys cup butter or substitute 3, cup brown sugar 3 eggs Ya cup flour 15 tsp. salt 1% cups corn syrup 2 cups broken pecans 12 tsp. maple extract Cream butter and . sugar, add beaten eggs, then flour, salt, syrup, nuts and extract. Line tart pans with pastry, put a spoonful of mix into each. Bake in electric oven of 40 degs. for 10 mins., then reset heat control to 350 degs. and continue baking about 15. mins, Gracie to Marry Radio Repairman Isle of Capri, Italy (AP)--Gracie Fields said today she will marry Abraham Morris AlberBvich, a 48- year-old Romanian radio repair- man. Her friends were so surprised you could have knocked them over with an aspidistra. The popular British comedienne made the announcement to friends at her villa on the Marine Piccola, on the southern side of this island. Gracie, who will be 54 next month, said she had met Albero- vich when she sought someone to repair her radio. "I deliberately tampered with the radio set, just to have Abra- ham come up to the villa and repair it," she said. "this went on until he saw that nothing was wrong with the set and asked me if I would marry him." The marriage will take place in Capri's cathedral early in Feb, - ruary. Gracie said she plans to become a Roman Catholic before marrying. | Monty Banks, her second hus- band, died in January, 1950. Her first husband was the late Archie Pitt, London theatrical manager. LUNAR MAGNET The tide-producing power of the moon upon the earth's surface is more than twice that of the sun. Scintillating! i Sheath dress of imported cotton lace literally dancing with hand | For Open House on New Year's Eve A GALA BUFFET FOR YOUR FRIENDS . ring in the new . .. with a gala open house. Send out the word to your friends and neighbors today. Tell them Ring out the old . . to come help you usher in a brand Of course, you'll want plenty of food,on hand--festive food as gay as the occasion. But you'll want food 'that can be served with the minimum of effort throughout the evening. So why not plan a buffet table built around a giant punch bowl of foamy egg nog and featuring a variety of tempting canape spreads. Have pickles and olives, too, and midget pickled onions . . . heaping dish of fresh shrimp with a zesty dunking sauce. . whether they come at nine or one .. . helping themselves to any of the flavorful spreads given below. Just Your guests . . be sure you have an assortment of wheat wafers, salted butter thins, and, if you like, potato chips. DRIED BEEF SPREAD 4 ounces dried beef, ground 3 tablespoons tomato ketchup 4 teaspoons prepared mustard 1 3-0z. package cream cheese, softened 1 teaspoon milk With a fork, combine all ingredi- ents and blend well. Or for varia- tion: substitute ¥4 cup mayonnaise for cream cheese and milk. PICKLE-CHEDDAR SPREAD 1. pound processed sharp ched- dar cheese 3 tablespoons chili sauce 3 to 4 tablespoons pickle juice % cup finely chopped processed dill pickles or genuine dills Have cheese at room tempera- ture. Beat with electric mixer or rotary beater or mash with a fork until smooth. Blend in chili sauce and pickle juice. Stir in chopped pickles. Another popular spread can be made in short of a jiffy by simply blending cream cheese with enough milk to bring it to a spreading consistency, then adding chopped pickle processed dills, cross-cust sweets, or even fresh cucumber pickle. Or pep up softened cream cheese with a. dash of Worcestershire sauce and a touch of onion juice. It's downright delicious. Here's the recipe for a shrimp sauce with plenty of zig and tang: NEY YEAR'S EVE SHRIMP SAUCE 1 teaspoon dehydrated horse rad-sh rehydrated in 1 tea~ + spoon cold water 10 minutes. % cup chili sauce 1 cup tomato ketchup 4 teaspoons lemon juice Few drops Tabasco sauce Ys teaspoon salt v Combine all ingredients and mix well. Chill. Serve with any sea- new year, and a will enjoy crackers on your tray . . . saltines, food. And in case you've been wondering how to do it, here are are directions for writing the 1952 on your bowl of egg nog as shown in the picture attached. The numbers are made by sprinking ground nutmeg on top of the egg nog through a stencil. To make the stencil, use a circle of cardboard slightly larger in diameter than the top of your punch bowl. Print the numbers 1-9-5-2 in the centre of the card- board; then cut them out with a razor blade or pointed scissors. When you are finished, you will want the circle of cardboard to be intact except where the numerals have been cut out. Be careful when you cut out the nine that you leave the centre (which would ordinarily fall out when cut around) connected to the body of the cardboard with several narrow strips. After you have finished making your stencil, lay it over the top of the filled bowl and | gently sprinkle nutmeg through | the open numerals. When you buy meat from your butcher, ask him to put in the "trimmings." You'll find them useful and economical in make ing soup ahd flavoring vegetables. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE 'HOME NURSING COURSE! ® Register by Phone 3-8243 @ Total of 12 Lectures '@® Tuesdays 8 to 10 p.m, at the Nurses' Training School ® INSTRUCTRESS--MRS. O. D. FRIEND, R.N. ® REGISTRATION FEE $1.00 ® BOOK AND BANDAGES INCLUDED German Spinster Runs Campaign in W. Zone Against Re-Armament By RICHARD KASISCHKE Bonn, Germany (AP)--A plump, motherly - looking spinster, the first woman to head a political party in Germany, is a front - rank leader in the tight against rearming + Western Germany to share in Europe's defence. Helene Wessel, 53, brunette and bespectacled, heads the Catholic Centrist party. It nas nine seats of 410 in the West German parlia- ment. Frau Wessel (women in public posts in Germany usually are cal- led Mrs., whether married or not, was. tormerly a social - 'welfare worker, She said in an interview shat | she believes "a state must have | power and it could have an army,' but she doesn't want any soldiers for the West German state. A Catholic and non - Communist, Frau Wessel feels that 18 million Germans in Soviet - occupied East Germany are held as "hostages'" by the Russians in the cold war. She and Dr. Gustav Heinemann, former minister of interior in the West German government, are leaders of an organization called the "Emergency League for Sav- ing the Peace in Europe." frau Wessel says she is for 'keeping the door to the east open' 1or continued negotiations with the Russian - zone Commun- In rulers for unifying the: coun- ry. "I am afraid that the rearming of West Germany would close. our doors to the east," she says. "Worse, I fear that rearming would provoke the Russians to such an extent that a third world war should be inevitable. We Germans have suffered enough. We don't want to be a battlefield again," But she concedes that "if the Kremlin wants to start a war it probably won't even attempt to produce a pretext." TEN, TONS OF TURKEY FOR CHRISTMAS DINNERS Montreal -- How would you like to sit down to a Christmas dinner made up of 1,400 turkeys, weighing about ten tons," accompanied by like amounts of stuffing and cran- berry sauce; and then top that off with a few tons of plum pudding made from a centuries old English recipe. That may seem like a lot of turkey and pudding but it is not so much when divided between all the dining cars on the Canadian Railways, and travellers over the holiday season will make short work of it. In case any traveller finds he has had enough turkey for the time being, each diner will also carry about 18 pounds of steak; 12 pounds of lamb chops; 10 pounds of veal chops; 60 pounds of roast beef; 10 pounds of ham; 20 dozen eggs; 15 pounds of broilers; and 10 pounds of pork loin. Want to buy, sell or trade? A Classified Ad, the deal is made. Bn slimmest and smartest this Fall! Slenderize the Collette Way New Reducing Equipment Has Been Added COLLETTE BEAUTY SALON DIAL 3-9511 FOR APPOINTMENT sewn pearls and rhi | 12th Night Customs Prevail in England Old Christmas Day, or Twelfth Night (January 6th), has its own celebrations. In Devonshire in the south of England, famous for its aple-cider, the custom of "Charm- ing the Orchards" has been handed down. Local farmers and their men go to their orchards after dark on Twelfth Night, carrying guns and a great jar of cider, with a large piece of toast or cake floating in it. No gun is considered to be too old, if it is able to hold the priming, and the more noise it makes the better. When the party reaches one of the largest apple trees, the farmer addresses it while the guns are dis- charged. The cider is then handed round, and the sop of cake eaten, care being taken that a good-sized piece is left in a fork of the tree for the robins, for if 'this is left undone the charm has no effect. Finally the men return to the farmhouse to drink more cider and to tell tales round the fire until morning. Like many old supersti- tions, this custom was founded on a practical belief: the shot was sup- posed to tear the bark off the tree and to quicken the fruiting in a similar manner to the English technique of beating a walnut tree. Other Twelfth Night customs in- clude the cutting of the Baddeley cake. The comedian Baddeley in 1795 left, by his will, money to provide cake and wine for the performers at Drury Lane Theatre, London. The cake is cut on the stage an- nually with much ceremony. Finds Women Keen In Civil Defence Vancouver (CP) -- A woman member of Vancouver's Civil De- fence Board has found that women are keenly interested in civil de- fence. The only woman member of the local board, Mrs. Ethel Stead sur- veys all women's organizations in the city to determine how best they can fit into the defence set-up. Ever since she was employed by the board Mrs. Stead has been slipping unassumingly into a key position in the plan, She has a flair for organizing and plenty af experience to do an able job. For seven years she was Brit-| ish Columbia president of the Independent Order, Daughters of the Empire, with 3500 women under her direction. As treasurer of war savings stamps sales during the war she reaped more than $100,000 from 40 downtown build- ings. Besides her civil defence work, she is on the executive board of the Community Chest, educational secretary of the IODE, and execu- tive member of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, not to mention active membership in other women's groups. '""Women are interested in civil defence, I've foond," she says. "They are extremely keen on tak- ing their plage -- and there will be a place for them in all phases of civil defence." Young Accessories To Sew For Evening i An evening hood and matching bag are little luxuries that any young sewer can make and keep within her clothing budget. This set combines marquisefte ond taffeta in equal parts with a sprin- kling of star-shaped sequins. The hood features an off-the-face cuff and a soft round collar of taffeta. The drawstring bag, circular at the bottom, turns back into a petal-shaped cuff at the top. If you would like directions for making this EVENING HOOD AND BAG, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the Needlework Department of this paper requesting Leaflet No. E-1708. 3 NTEREST TO WOMEN -~ ~~, Youngest Lad a"Board Rings Sixteen Bells On New Year's Eve The Royal Navy tries to assure that as many as possible of its ships are in harbor on Christmas Day. For the unlucky ones on patrol or on passage--and there are a good many this year in Korea and elsewhere in the Far e best that can be expect- ed is 'Sunday routine," with work reduced to a minimum. Festivities have to wait till hare ° bor is reached. For the Navy in harbor, the big event of the day is "Captain's nds,"" when the Commanding Officer of each ship, attended by his officers, goes the round of the whole ship, greeting his men and being offered hospi- taliy by them on each of the gaily decorated mess decks. He is preceded by the youngest boy in the ship, dressed in the uniform of the ship's senior petty officer, the Master at Arms (or Police Chief of the ship). Men are allowed to wear improvised fancy dress on that day and may even 'impersonate' the captain. The youngest boy has his hour of glory again on New Year's Eve when he "rings out the Old and rings in the New'--with 16 bells instead of the traditional eight whieh mark the end of a four-hour period at sea. 'First-Footing' is Ritual With Scottish Families "First - footing" is visiting in the early hours of New Year's morning. The "first foot" is the first person (other than a mem- ber of the household) who crosses the threshold after midnight, and then the appearance of the first fi indicates the kind of luck the household will have during the year. It is important that the first foot shoudd be well-favored: a well- set-up dark man is the prime favorite, and next to him a come- ly fair woman. It is important too that they should be people of good repute. An empty-handed first foot signifies poverty and priva- tion, so first footers invariably carry handsel, which may be any- thing from an orange (rather scarce in the Scotland of 1951) to a bottle of whisky (almost zon- existent as it is all exported to North America). After greeting the family, the first foot pours out a glass of whisky from the bottle he carries, and this must be drunk 'by the head of the house, who, in turn, pours out a glass for each of his guests, . The table is spread with a big round oake of shortbread and Black Bun -- a rich mixture of fruits, almonds and spices, moist- ened in brandy and enclosed in pastry crust. The shortbread is a descendant of the Yule bannock, which was baked between sunset and sunrise on Christmas Eve in honor of the Nativity. Black Bun is the ancient Twelfth cake, The greater the number of first footers, the more highly honored the household. : The most notable survivals of the ancient Yule fires are the Burning of the Clavie at Burg- head, in Moray, and the Festival of Up-helly-a in Shetland. In Ler- wick a full-sized, gaily painted replica of a Norse galley, mounted on iron wheels and manned by Vikings in winged helmets and coats of mail is dragged through the town by torchlight. The ves- sel is brought to the water, a bugle call is sounded, and, with tumultuous shouts, 400 or 500 burning torches are flung into the - galleys. As the ship burrs, a traditional song, "The Norsemen"s Home," is sung. 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