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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-12-15, Page 6OS AFRAID TO EAT IUOIOESTIOH SO BAP Miss J. Mathews, 154 North Bt.» Halifax, N.S., writes:—“For quite Borne time I suffered: from indigestion and w&s afraid to eat I suffered so, after. I teld my trouble to a friend and she told me how she used to suffer with the same thing and how © relieved her, so I took two bottles, and I will never regret the day I did as I am happy to say I can eat anything and not be bothered with indigestion after?'Put up only by The T, Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. Christmas Tree Hemlock Boughs The puu -A fragrance oi tho hem lock br.ngs Long thoughts of lingering, dreamy, summer hours. Of winsome brooks—green fields, red white with flower.-, ’Hushed bird notes, woodland's q.m i murmurings. Those hemlock branches bending with the weight Of brittle ice and heavy, crusted snow, Are warm and below, From winter's violate. green and wlnda and Why symbol ofare they mas tide? Because the heart is warm beneath the frost, springtime verdure lost, blooms anew and branches wide. Its It The neyer wholly spreads in the hearthope of Christmas warm glowing, Finds a bright green oasis in the dry And parching desert wastes, because close by Renewing streams of love are over flowing. Dressing Your Presents Have you ever noticed how* varied are the manners and methods in Which presents are packed The bulky plain brown papor fellows whiqh cpmo .through the post, resplendent with thick string am1 sealing wax, are, per haps, the most exciting, because .par cels which come through the post are, somehow or other, always more inter esting than those which are discreetly slipped on to one's plate ta*t breakfast time. j The presents which do not come by parcel post do not vary so much, per haps, but even they express care, or lack of it, in their wrappings. ; But nowadays there is no excuse for parcels looking dull or unexciting because they are packed at home and are given by hand. Even in the days when decorated labels were not avail able, when fancy papers and strings .were not procurable, many moticul- ously-mlnded people held and carried J out original ideas in the way of pre- ! seat-wrapping. { One girl who could never afford to s spend very much on her presents be- ; came quit famous in her little circle • of friends for the dainty way in which The Christmas Tree to millions of ’ she always packed her gifts.. Snowy children in Western Europe and . white tissue paper finished with scar- America is the symbol of rejoicing. No j Mt cord or narrow ribbon, and one of other altar of youth commands such . the small Christinas labels which are instinctive or loving adoration. i procured by the dozen at stationers’, But tho Christmas Tree has not al- j gave her gifts a very festive appear- enjoyed its sentimeutal domini-! ance. Anti sometimes, when the pre- >r the hearts of Christian nn- i sent was very small, she would finish Other peoples in dim antiquity j the parcel off with a tiny bunch of to trees but they ; violets, especially if that flower hap pened to be her friend's favorite. A pair of silk stockings looks far more expensive if placed in a fancy box. The same rule applies to hand- , kerchiefs, ties, or any little items (which make insignificant parcels I when simply wrapped in paper. And jif you have no fancy boxes by you, (you can very easily contrive some if you treat some ordinary cardboard boxes to coats of scrap wallpaper. Odd pieces of flowered wallpaper pasted on boxes give them a very (bright and decorative appearance; I cretonne is better still, ’but care must ‘be taken with the corners •.as, being i but paused; a light j firmer and mors difficult, -to handle ■ than paper, it is easier for the edges 1 and corners to look a little ragged and wa; on ove: tlons. owed allegiance lived in lands where the spruce and ( hemlock were unknown. The Egyp-1 tian;. held mammoth celebrations In the month corresponding -to our De cember but they centered their devo tions upon the palm. The palms of Egypt gave birth to a leaf-each month and the tree with its twelve leaves suggested the completed year. Maybe the palm was the forerunner of the Christmas Tree as we in Canada know it. Three thousand years later, the Ro mans celebrating iheir Saturnalia raised aloft a conifer as the sign of their joy over the winter solstice. 'Thousand* of such trees, garlanded whli their vivid decorations, set loose n flood of riotous rejoicing*. But Santa •Ciami was not of the Roman era, and .untidy. I Cio children. of that great Empire ‘ Sheets of colored paper can be used know nothing oi' the glorious fellow i instead of brown paper, but white tis- : sue paper is always best for Binall or I dainty gifts. Narrow scarlet ribbon can be bought very reasonably, but green and other colors look equally attractive, especially if they match your gift in some way or other. It is difficult to be original year af ter year in the choice of presents, but it is not so difficult to give them or iginal jackets. Many of us this year will not be able to afford a great deal for the pre-, sents of our nearest and dearest, but' you look very of that great oi’ the glorious Who with all his ponderous girth can suspend the laws of gravity, and every other natural law, crawl through tor tuous chimneys, lay his own tracks across the clouds, and make personal Visitations in a single night to per haps a hundred million babes, every one of whom, he cleverly identifies by name. It seems likely that the Italian tree custom was carried to Gaul by the le gions of Drusua in his campaign against the Germans, about 15 B.C. Certainly about this time -the Teutonic 8t. Nicholls made his appearance and hm remained with us ever since, one of the- priceless blessings and inspira tions of a large part of the human race. In the course of time, the English adopted the German Santa Claus, and th? symbol of the tree at Yuletide. It took four or five centuries for tho Church to fix December 25 as the date of Christmas, but ever since there has clung to the celebration of Christ’s birth the borrowed pagan rites of the R-omafr tree and the holly and mistle toe Of the Druids. A thousand years later, the excesses of Puritan rule in England banished the visible accompaniments of Christ mas Day, but so deeply was the cus tom ingrained in long generations of ■ the English that the passing of Round-! head rule found the old forms re stored. However, the imprint of Puritanism for many decades depressed the Yule- tide demonstrations of England and the American colonies. The resistless writings of Dickens and of Washing ton Irving in America revived the an cient proctics and there seems to-day | no threatening sign that the fine old ; custom of the Christmas tree will ever be taken from us either by tyrannical mandate or by the slothfulness of our imagination. I I can always make your present as if it has been packed with loving care. Where the Fruit Grows and Persia, The name is word “dacty- Dates, before When you buy your Christmas sup plies of currants, raisins, figs, Brazils, or dates, do you ever give a tho.ught to what they are, how they got their names, or where they come from? Dates, from Arabia grow on the date-palm, derived from the Greek los," meaning a finger, being pressed, look like human fin gers, and the resemblance still re mains in those you buy.. “Brazils” are from Brazil. They are the produce of a tre called the “juvia." They grow in a hard shell about the size and shape of a child’s head, and each shell contains about fifty nuts. Currants are a variety -of small grapes, dried. The name is our cor ruption of “Corinth”—where they grow- most abundantly. ■*> A good bank account may always be purchased on the installment plan. Not only is the truth often stranger than fiction, It is always stronger. • King of Kings sleep, celestial Child. , . . sleep; Who- hath been born nations cannot say, o o The ’ But Thy proud heritage They will become one day. —Alessandro Manzonl Locks Proud of It Green, fragrant, incense-bearing hem lock bough, Here in our homes—and those white hemlocks still, Snow-clad, austere, on some bleak northern hill—• winter’s heart are Christmas blos soming now! —Charlotte F Babcock. ........— And Glory Shone Around In pulsing far the Christ-; j storms in- I HAMISH __ __ The year-old reserve &rand champion steer, sold at $1.5G a pound -at the The night, like most nights of the Ro-val Winter Fair. He was raised by M. J. O’Brien Limited, Renfrew, Ontario; winter season in the hill country, was fe(l by Joseph Eaton; weighed 1,090 pounds, and was sold to Canadian Packing clear, crisp and sparkling with stars. , Co. for shipment to Pittsburg. The price is a record. . . . By the gate, hugging his mantle close, the watchman walked. . . . The midnight was slow coming to him; but at last it came. His task was done. . . . He moved towards the first, was breaking 'around him, soft and white, like the : maaii's. He waited -breathlessly. The : light deepened; things before invisi- i jble came to view; he -saw the whole field, and all it sheltered. . . . He looked up; the stars were gone; Obe light was dropping as from a window in the sky; as he looked it became a splendor; then, in terror, he cried. “Awake, awake!” , . . The men clambered to their feet. “What Is it?” they asked, in one voice. "See,” cried the watchman, • “the sky is on fire!” Suddenly the Ug'ht became intoler-.to allow, the handle ably bright, and they covered their right. eyes, and dropped upon their knees; then ... a voice said to them, “Fear not: for behold, I bring you Dolly’s Bassinet In preparing tne layefte for a Christmas baby doll for my three- year-old daughter, it occurred to me that a bassinet, was necessary. Accordingly, 1 bought a fifteen cent market basket with two folding hand les, just long enough for the doll to lie in. I placed four thicknesses of cotton batting in the bottom of the basket, with one thickness tacked ' around the sides with heavy thread. One handle I.arranged flat along the edge and the other upright for the hood; then a piece of pink satteen : was laid around the Inside of the bas- ■ ket and over the edges, with slits cut "1 to remain up- Christmas Magic word describing God’s surpass ing love,. Symbol >o£ His great gift from Heavfin above, Wonder of childhood, chief source of life's cheer, ■Charming and joyous still each, mel lowing year. Magic season of true hearts made strangely new, Filled with kindly thoughts of worthy deeds to do, Freed from enmity, all evil put away, Unpretending hearts where love of Christ holds sway. Was Bothered Banana Circle Cakn Use your favorite recipe for white cake and bake in two round layer panB. Whip one pint of cream and flavor with orange juice and sugar. Just before serving cover one layer with sliced bananas and spread with whipped cream, Place ‘the other layer on top and covor with whipped cream. Garnish wltQi circles of sliced bananas Tomato with With Her Heart Had Dizzy Spells Garnish wlfih Rud walmits. Spinach Onions •tomato and Glazed sauce, 1 cup cups canned. Chocolate Icebox Cake cream, 3 boxes chocolate In alternate layers in a 1 cup thick small glazed onions, 2 seasoned spinach, salt and pepper. Heap the spinach In the center of a serving dish and mawe a cavity in tho center. Pour the tomato sauce into this, then surround the sinacQi- with the onions that have ba&n boiled until tender, then glazed lu butter and sugar and seasoned v’ith the salt and pepper. Quick Vc pint snaps. Arrange shallow glass baking dish Chocolate snaps and sweetened and flavored whipped cream. Start with the crack ers, laying them close together to cover bottom of dish. Then spread generously with a layer of the cream, next crackers, and so on until mix ture is used, • leaving the last one cream. Garnish with- Chocolate sprinkles and place iir refrigerator for twenty-four hours. Brown Sugar Nut Cake ^iip butter or other shortening, 1 cup light brown sugar, 2 egg yolks, % cup milk, % cup flour, % teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder, % cup fine chopped pecans, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cream the butter and sugar togeth er thoroughly, Add the egg yolks beaten until light, Mix and Sift the dry ingredients;, add them alternately with the milk, Then add the vanilla and the pecans, and pour into a shal low loaf -cake .pan which has been oil-, -ed or 'butterod. / Bake in a moderate oven 35 or 40- mlnutes. When cool cover with brown sugar icing, w'hich is made as folio .vs: • * Mrs. Qlayton Boy, Milton, N.S? writes:—“A short time ago I wa4 greatly bothered with my heart, I could -not sleep and would have bad, dizzy spells, I also, became so run down. I could not do my work, but would just have to sit down. * "I spent a lot of money frying dif ferent medicines, but hone of them seemed to do me any good. At last my mother advised, me to take 1 i “After I had. taken, a couple of boxes I began to feel a lot better, go I continued their use, and to-day I am ir£ perfect health and. feel as well as 'Is did when I was a young girl. “I always recommend Milburn Hoart and Nerve Ellis to my friends as I feel that I, cannot praise them enough for what; ‘.they have done for me?’ Price 50c. a box at all dealers, or nailed direct on receipt of price by Tli» - ’ Milburn Co., Limited. Toronto, Ont. Yule-Tide Gifts Blessed Yule-tide, bring to us These fair gifts, wo pray; Clearer vision, strength to do Right from, day to day; Kinder hearts, more sympathy For all upon life’s way; | The edges were gathered and drawn (up snugly around the bottom of the basket; and another piece of sateen ■good tidings of great joy, which shall was shirred on the raised handle, and 'be to all people.” The voice, in sweetness and sooth ing more than human, and low and clear, penetrated all t-heir being, and filled them with assurance, Tgiey rose upon their knees, and looking worsliipfully, beheld in the centre of a great glory the appearance of a man, clad in a rob© intensely white. . . . Suddenly the light, of which he seemed the centre, turned roseate and began to tremble; then up, far as^ the men could see. there was flashing of white wings, and coming and going of radiant forms, and voices as of a multitude chanting in unison, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will toward men.” Not once the praise, but many times.—From “Ben-Hur.” by Lew Wallace. « ; tacked down to the basket edge. For the trimining, I joined two widths of dotted muslin,.hemmed narrowly on onto edge, and on the other an inch wide heading. A narrow elastic was run through the heading and the muslin slipped over the edge of the basket—an ar- • rangement which made it easily re moved for laundering. A like heading was stitched on the hood muslin, and a tape run through’ it. This hood ’ could be raised or lowered as desired —a feature that later seemed to fur nish considerable pleasure. Rosettes ; of pink and blue ribbons were tacked around the hood, handle and on a tiny pink satin comforter, hemmed with , blue French knots. A tiny pillow sov- I ered with a white pillowcase com pleted the outfit. Magic feet through ages past of sin and wrong, Brigh Star of Hope of future cen- ! turies long O Priceless Gift of Bethlehem's man ger King, Help all men thy Peace on Earth, Good Will, to bring. &————-3*———— Christmas Cradle Song Dr. Isaac Watts, author of “O God, our help in ages 'past,” was singularly unequal in his poetical output. I-Ie’ ! wrote such doggerel as “How doth the little busy bee” and “Let dogs delight to bark and bite,” and also the follow ing exquisite carol: — Brown Bugar Icing Boil -1 <cup of brown sugar with -1/3 cup of water until the syrup forms a' soft ball In cold wated. P.our very gradually info 2 stiffly/ beaten egg whites while ’ beating constantly. Continue beating and when light and fluffy add % teaspoon vanilla. Spread on top and sides offtcake and sprinkle with % cup .chopped pecans. DoctorY““You’ll liave to send for another doctor.” Patient—“Am I so ill as all thAt?”. Doctdf—“I don’t know how HL-you are, but I know you are the hian who cross-examined me when I appeared as an expert witness. My conscience -won’t let me kill you, but I’m hanged if- I feel like curing you.. Good day!”"’ ° Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. Sleep, my babe, thy food and raiment, House and home thy friends pro vide ; All without, thy care or payment, All thy wants are well supplied. Tenderness ,to, bind the wounds Of the sip’k and sad: s Wisdom to direct the feel Of the woait and bad; ‘Tears shetbtfor others’ woes; ’ Laughter.’to make glad. And net least o‘£ all thy gifts. Speech iiold, unafraid, •For our Ifttjie brothers dumb; Willing hands to aid , Every tv.eaJt and harmless thing By the Eather made Louella C, Poole. Eternal The star, that lighted Bethlehem Is young to-night; Time has., not dimmed its diadem Of shiping light. Time c-anno-t move immortal things To brevity; In a star's wide motions swings Eternity. —Fanny de Groot Hastings, ten for “The Christian Science tor.” <■ 4 Writ- Moni- Three Yuletides a Year There is one place where Christmas is kept three times a year—in the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem, the reputed site of the Stable of the Inn. The Roman, Greek, and Armenian-,. Greek bodies have each their respec tive section of the church, but their Christmas celebrations do not occur on the same day. The Latin Christ mas is celebrated at the Roman Cath olic altar on December 25th. Thir teen days later the Orthodox Easterns perform the Greek rite. Another thir- ten days later the Armenian Church keeps its own ceremonial of Byzantine Faith, Gifts O shepherds brought their gifts Him, (Christ dwell w'l us to-night) And kings cam - riumg from the dim Great, lands beneath tho eastern, s^ky, And patient ox and 4 ss stood by With wondering eyes and bright; And cherubin and seraphim Sang glory up the height. —Norah M. Holland, “When Half Gods Go.” Mr. Scing&r would persist in wear ing his suits until the last possible moment, with the result that ho found : himself continually inargument with I his wife. Strolling down a, fashion- j able thoroughfare one afternoon, they ! happened to pass a modern Beau I Brummei. “There!” exclaimed Mrs.! Ccringer, “Why don’t you dress like.; that?” "! am far too intelligent,” re-1 plied her husband proudly. At that ‘ moment Mrs. Seringor caught sight of a beggar and Ills wife in tho gutter. “Then tlmnk goodness your intelli gence isn’t increasing,” she snapped, “or.we should he like thoee poor peo ple.” .. A correction of a mistake in. <ing -recently^ stated” that “there excuse for mispelling.” Indeed I .Mrs. Sam Duggan, Scarth, Mau.. ! writes:—“Last fall I had a very hard i cough which became firmly lodged <jj I to I How much better thou’rt attended . Than the Son of God could be, When from heaven He descended, And became a child like thee!* >:« * * Lo, He slumbers in Hi^ manger, Where the horned oxen fed; . Peace, my darling, here’s no danger, Here's no ox anear thy bed! -<♦----- Will the various hued typewriters and telephones recently introduced, tend to make writings “and conversa tion more colorful? Mayst thou live to know and fear Him, Trust and love Him all thy’days; Then go* dwell for evor near Him; See His face, and sing His praise! Link by link, the chain stores seem to be tying up a lit of trade. The Spruce is the most beautiful of Christinas Trees. Have you thought of the gifts handed down from the Canadian Spruce to the people of Can ada each year. ’Scores of pulp'and paper towns live on a spruce payroll; hundreds of millions of dollars a year are poured into myriad homes of Canadian workers by the kindly hand of Spruce, mas Tree ground of father’s yellow-striped necktie. often do wo stop to think that the Tree itself is one of God’s mightiest benefactions to the Canadian people. We speak of the Christ as the decorative back- dolls and bugles and How my 'lungs. Your Bra WddsFs • fttonvay • Pane Syrup was rocommcnded taking it. “At that time me and I startedto ___ ____I could not get :my more than half an hour’s sleep at a time for the continual coughing, bat, now, I very rarely ever cough. “I have recommended *'Dr. Wood’s’ Norway Pin0 Syrup to many others.’’ Seo that you get uPr. Wood’s’’ when you ask fov it; P«t up in a yellow wrapper; three pmo. trees the -rado mark: prico 35c. a bottle, large faWily size 60c.; .put up only by Iho x. Milburn Co., Limited, loronto, OnL The. Inventor Has" Mutt Guessing.MUTT AND JEFF—By Bud Fisher. and they hid me so much good I took throe more, and they certainly are ex cellent pills. “I have recommended them to differ ent friends, and they all think they ate good. .< “My sister won't be without them in her heme?’ Milburn’s ver Pills ate 25c. a vial, st all druggists and dealers, or mailed direct frti receipt of prico by The T, Millwtq Limited Toronto, (On* RIPPING IP«A, BAH Jomg! 1 » "‘“I .MIuliM ' »'>»»■■'■■■ iMjmW SUFFERED FOR YEARS CONSTIPATION Was The Trouble Mrs. Wm. J. McCulloch, Woodstock, Ont., writes:—“I have.been a sufferer for years from constipation. “I tried everything I could think of but nothing seemed to do me much good. “After my first baby was born my husband got me a vial of / Milburn's oTH&fc CH Alft ONLY IT HAS A Push-button on th<~ RIGHT HANT> Slbc? Tok eoisoiu says THe- PusH-Button idga A CORKGft ALL You Gotta bo is Push THe BOTTOM AMb - AND CHAIR COLLAPSES AMD ^ecoKGs Plat! tHgn vuHew You Ain't qsjng IT You CAM SLID (T UNbeR. TH<5 Ber> OUT OF The