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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-12-23, Page 7I" am ens Peri von tied litre to have these :i Shall we in later ages Club, the afterraeonr coffee whe;i „• Bards, orbit+lz must also be yell oiled, Celery and Nut Sandwiches vvi r the rue s A meaner tribute inning . e old friends unite; from Christmas Dee �zn3 pall until light yellow in calor; Fruited Ice Cream White Cake present at Christmas time, We offer novo de atlon-- to Netti• S ants Day, a round of re_Clear Tomato Soup.--Ceek together then twist in long strands, cut with Cocoa such a gatPei ing long remembered. "i While angel voices call-- union.. half ;n hoer, one can et toiaat�see, I To Christ, Who earl to Bethlehem, leo not pili an the gifts , the one mid etre-half quarts of soup stark, Who eame to save us all. tris laid tree. Save a small 1ahQ into well-ar.esl pans. When cool , 4 Gave homage to the Kin party serve, menu a eeemina elaboration which, 1?, C „ ap . gWith t hospitality always enough to handle. take u:. party, the meet' ag of the Holiday Parties, scissor. a ,e into th • e h • I'oA the children's party � 1 i s with t an old-fashione,l candy pull, Well lightly buy e galien of m:olaeees, a small_ ki Parana,,, she complained to him ..once4, camel back' to her as she climbed into bed. "I've noticed young ones anus does, about; as, you let 'em,- and grown-up humans aren't so much different." Well, she was going to see that they all did differently in "Burton Twp. Dist. No, 3," from now on: And the "all" included the teacher. A Christmas Caaroi, The gates of Heaven were opened, And choristers came forth To sing the °wondrous anthem Of "Peace ocd-will on earth"; To frightened shepherds watehini , Came tidings,_ strangely true, That Christ was born in Bethlehem -- And Christ was born for you. A:ro(tfd the Ch *istm .. Table Christnzgs holidays are looked for- ward to fora year, looked 'hack upon forat least six months --often for a life time. These ay. festal daysand Christmas Dinner. Clear Tonzzt' Soup Sticks Relish ever • gathering of` farad and of Dressing g toast Goose 5 8 g y Dre: sin .Apple Rings friends ..can bring delight to the soul Mashed Potatoes of each one present, Properly plan- ned hole unloose the bars and epee up each period of the''day to the spirit of joyousness. And at this more �: ` ^ � • . ,. ^ g h» Celery and Onion Puffs Pickled Sleets Jellied string Bean Salad s into "drops" and pack them 1 Celery And hint ;aandtiviches --iix Gxahant jE�afers l tine. th a at - of z in•elan with her t.ri e the celery � i 2 boxes, COVe::^:xg each layer.. finely chopped nuts and �y ,, i'irousana I lana I7zess ng the oiled paper. If sprinkle s.31ad dressing. Spread on very thin careful meal planning is essential, Pumpkin Custard with h Vv b 1 ped cream. tt with dry corn starch before' rounds of bread and put together as for plrysfcaans claim that ai%' the Coffee the nieces will be less apt 's-andv+iclzes. A brightly glowing star, lrolid3ys they have is 'heavy crash uf' Salted Nuts Raisins quarter pouid candy boy for each business clue to troubles folbov.i*�g or to stick tapether Fruited Ice Cream—Sprinkle each To Iced the wise men safely Gliristeiras evening, when the.fame rliild, a package ai` oiled paper and serving of vanilla ice cream with a To Bethlehem, from afar, accompanying iiuligestion. Teachers' •• we're nearly: I3c� 1 the molasses sloe*- Serve the children: •pr dread the iii st week in the New Y ear, ray conte in from s:eddit€g and skc.:- utter Sandwiches mixture of finely chopped candied Ilow humbly there they woes ed, .For c}ithe go beet; to school heavy ing and everyone is happily fired ly for half an hour, then add one- rage Bread anti B orange peel, citron and pineapple. Them starlit dreams came true- nothing tastes better than A. lunch ef. half teaspoonful (levcll , ofbaking Gingen Bread Baited pears In all antics given in the home, For Christ was born in Bethlehem— soda arci'listless. ' - Cream of I'ot4to Soup soda for each quart of molasses used, Cut the Sandwiches in fancy shape', p r And Ue was born for cu. Rhea the chi.d_cn crime home, we �,_ , „r, ,,,,,e Sandwiches brittle the decorations, lowers, pretty candle! y ] A star shone in the heavens --- d doubly ttractrve. plan a host of fe-ta1rites. the little . ,,• ; At the young people's g mise to the very- simplest Since lovely men and sages children's party, tFre y*gun peoples Cook es Hot 'Baked Apples isliver, ry- let bcii. until a sample twins ri they are ole y a when dropped in cold enit• cocain shades, attractive china and shining Christmas at District No. Three BY ALTA LAWSON LITTELL. above all the others when tial ening rolled round. i "Well, you know, Will just loves' music," Martha explained: "He hum- med tunes before he could talk, mother says, And he only has to hear a tune once to whistle it. Once whole father he, had a good year and was feeling hap py he drove us over to the Newton The teacher in •"Burton Twp. hist. she just had to stick it out and pay Christmas tree. Willie learned the. No, 3," hid her head ander t1u pillow; beak part of the money. Mother bad tunes there, anti an organ peddler and wept niieerabiy. The tears which' been so glad When she got a school who get dinner here last summer, she had been winking bael; all that right at home. They had expected gave him an old hymn book. He wretche;l day soaked clown through to spend all their holidays together, found the words in there. Didn't he Mrs. IIerry's sheet and into the and now the very first real one she sound fine?" Martha's tone held a feather bed unhindered, while the was stranded. Why, it wouldn't be wistful note. teacher revitiwed all her causes of Christmas without leather and the "He was wonderful." Teacher's woe. They began with the snow six o'clock service in the morning.' honesty was unmistakable, "It was vvl:;.l h she found .on her bed that morn- Iver since she could. remember they. better than the boy soloist at home ing, sifted through cracks in the had got up at five o'clock an Christ-� ,,There's niothex catling mea' Itiar- ebani'ber roof, continued with the mas morning, snatched u, peek. at that green wood fire wheal wouldn't burn stuffed stackiings, and then hurried in the schoolhouse stove, mounted to service in St. Mark's. It made the higher with the wanton and wilful in- day more Christmasy, that hour of :attention of ;Master William Merry*, song and prayer, the choir boys in son of her landlady and of the school their white surplices, their faees trustee, are climaxed: with the feet shining with holiday joy. Christmas that it wits Christmas Eve, she was without the Christmas carols would just eight miles from home and be worse than the oatmeal that morn couldn't get there for Christmas and ing without salt. mother, because everyone was too Through the gloom which enfolded busy with holiday festivities to take her, sounds from the outride crept her for just one day, rand "Burton in. At first faint and uncertain, she Twp, Dist, 3" gave its holiday vacs- told herself she was "hearing things." that at potato digging time. Then, as the notes grew stronger, she. ' The weeping grew into a regular threw off the pillows and sat up. small girl "Boo Iteo" as the teacher Somebody was singing Christmas reac'ned the climax, The idea of a carols. Who could it be? There commurt'ty being so mercenary, sown- was to be no celebration in the neigh - possessed of the finer feelings that borhood, she knew. She had wanted' they° wouldn't close their school a a tree at the schoolhouse, but ,all the week for Christmas and New Years, men were too busy to get one, and and then just eight miles from New- the board had decided against burn - ton, that eentre of culture and learn.; ing wood to heat the building. Yet ing. Over home the community someone was singing Christmas car - Christmas tree was being lighted and ols. Could it be that some of the soon the old church parlors would be choir boys from Newton -she sprang crowded with everyone she knew. She out of bed; at a hurried rap on her could see the church now; the lights door. eieauning softly through the yellows "Cali I come in teacher," fourteen- windows, ourteen windows, and the electric star they, year-old Martha Merry giggled excit- elwaya lighted on the cross on Christ-' edly. "It's Willie and the Barnes boys, Inas Eve sparkling on high. If she and Joe and Jack Lawton. Waillie's listened hard enough she might even been practicing them on this for a hear- the bells --but she pulled the month, and he was to scared you'd other pillow over her head for fear find out about it and wouldn't be a she would. 1 surprise, Don't they look killing?" She did hear, however, as she rais- Martha giggled on.. Teacher and ed her head to secure the pillow, gig- gling in the hall outside 'her door and Willie's -whisper, "Bush, she'll hear! you." What mischief was that young• hip up to now, she wondered. For: the past week he had seemed pos- sessed, and his spirit had spread to a half duxes of the other boys.- Every i «Hush,,, ieaeher�" was trying is a reply. time she lcwlced up they were look- drink it all in. Nothing St. Mark's "How could I ever think that bay Ing at her with broad grins an their choir hail ever done sounded so heave was hopeless," teacher mused as she faces. And that night as they went enly to her as those boyish voices took down her hair. "A boy who can whooping out, Willie had yelled at below. i sing like that, and apply:himself the group, with a Fiignlficant wink and "It came upon a midnight clear," enough to learn the words to all those nod in her direction, "Don't orget,' followed by, "While shepherds watch- songs and teach them to that bunch to -night at 8.80 sharp:' She sh nod ed their flocks by night,"and all the • could do anything."Teacher bad with premonition. If it was anything dear old Christmas songs even to her been trying hard to teach the three wine Merry was concerned in, she own favorite, "Noel," R's to those boys and she knew. felt sure something would be to pay. "Wh all he needs is to be inter - It seemed queer -that a boy could look Jesu, gentle babe, y, Sati'ioux, sweet and holy. ested." She dropped her brush, as - so much lake an angel and act so Bern. on Christmas night,tonished at her discovery, "Why, much lake a—a, well, net a bit angelic. In . a manger lowly. that's all they all need." She stared There might just aswell not have Shepherds cane from far,at the light as she went once more been any school all week, for all the p over the events of her one term. - ere done. Holiday making had per-: Guided by the guiding star. "I've , + Then in adoration I ve complained all the time that they sided the air, the aeheiext were ox- didn't behave and were not interest - cited and the teacher homesick.' Bringing their oblation, Though she ha.dn't eared it that. She Myrrh and frankincense and gold, ed, and that the parents were indif- ferent Sages, gifts unfold. ferent. And I've never done a single, was just plain. diecour sed over the school.- .IVo order, no school spurt pupil were at the open window look- ing down at the boys. "They've bor- rowed black skirts and middy blouses, tha 'turned to go, "I'm awful sorry so they'd look just like the real choir you couldn't go home for Christmas, boys. Of course, those black sleeves because I know you wanted to, but are. their coat sleeves, but Willie said; it's nice to have you here," she van - that would not show up at night." ished before •astonished teacher could 1 ' t ' a one tat,leseacei €•bopped orbon, Grf- or each gee at the brea,,l.fast tattle. h©If bay lora, Rix aA:,res, ane teaspoon Yuletide i t Give Father a small Holstein me, for celery :eel cirri once -half teaepoen i�uleiide Gifts. he just wild hese thoroughbred steak pepper horns, Strain end corse, v:itla you know; a china pip, bei l: for Don Bread Stier.. -.-tut stale bread in: aid who Joiee l the p g clue last' strips four or five mei cs long and spring; a little rolling -pin foe wise r one-half int 11 v;lde. Spread with triol.* who loves to cool;; and for another, ed butter and brown in the oven a beautiful blossom. Apple Rings.•• --Pare, core and thee o e-thiid ire tlsb'h seuie tart apple"» Chris #ni:,s ilreakfant, Piece the slice- iii rite raven rn the The Christmas breakfast elteuel ice; pan with the souse about tvfent;" at.iaetive and simple, the tab a sex; niitit:tes l,efore '«9e ring. They sbiould with the pre`tie.4 dishes. T}sere are. not ire t+w well cooked, so many t1nngs to tack over and the t"elery° and (inion Puffs,.—leek atia children are sci e.ccited earl kappa, we' qan ai , e,,3 colo and email iniena need rnly :simple l'ooal, st r•°:l j zst' unci ten ilei-. :1i h with a pint c.* n hare #hist „mei rehire. Aat.i two yzli? ;, r r: a lt,ill I'i dat Cereal eat vE,.ih dates ? 1' this:. t butter, 1 cap est t'at1'ee :l p' ir. i revere v re no auger re first washed earefel1 , th soul, over right nisei the next lieue all at Dice: Stir mall the mass in a covered casserole or leave the sstlden mf the pan end el ets,s earthen batu'g dish and belie l slowly to the spoon in ;t ball. Take from in the range oven or' in a fireless stove. add eggs oev' at a time, beat- cooker :for two or three hours. AU ing; grill cash one is thoroughly the sugar in the fruit is developed mixed.' Drop from the end of a spoon in rounIs on a greased baking Fheet car oiled paper, about two incises art. Bake one-half hour in a moil - oven. Cut Gil? tops of puffs, fill ith the ereamed vegetables. Wed String }deans.—Soak two Shall I pari heedless on niy way, Because I lack the rich inun's store, Or halt, with mournful face, and ray, '"I cannot give, for I am poor"? Not God forbid! %bat can I give? A thousand kindly words, a smile, That bright as gold niay shine and li; o To cheer a brother's weary utile. And I can give re per t, end true, Strong; praise'cft hint elle strives vain. Oh, I can give forgiv°enes�, too— And call my lost fcien�1 back again: My Gift. When Santa. Claus is hitching up The reindeers to his sleigh;, I'm going to bring a great big bag Of love to him, and say; "Dear Santa Claus, please take this bag. And on each Christmas tree, Tie just a little bunch of love Fast with a memory."" _ To you, dear friend, l wish the best Of all good gifts that are; Good health, and wealth, and fame, and love, The last most precious far. So search ye closely every branch When candles bright the tree, And you will find•my bit of love Tied with a memory. ' Anrep '.l lime i n. Sc•. ve in pefi's •real a :�4 is:. cup r, , p „ bc,ilirg water', 1 a lip flour, eggs. Put better ani i, long water in •a. z`ce ;an; ellen bellieg lame add the when it is cooked this way. ; Cereal cooked. in mills is delicious Use one-fourth water and three fourths milk and cook the cereal you morays do, A few dates cut fin and cooked re'.thi it give it an ideal flavor and you will net have to coax` tablespoons of gelatine in one- elf Bobby to eat it. cup of cold water, Add one pint of After breakfast, each one clears boiling water, three-fourths cup of his own pities., for mother and:the sugar, one-half cup of lemon juice. girls have dinner to prepare, and we' Pour green string beans in a mould, want then all to share in the pleas -Pour gelatine over. Chill and serve ures of the clay. with dressing. blessed thing to get anyone interested. ' children, •l s told The angels in chorus sweet:have sung Just moped and thought I was abused. High in the heavens this Child .hath no a mUit%on in the cl zl , Noel. Complained because I hadn't things a place heraaelifAnd nothing at all to warp Let earth's gladsome voice repeat gee to work with, and never made an ef- The throne of God the Fatih�er to with. To he sure thgy had the things Noel, Noel, fort to get anything.. And here's this grace; the school law compelled them song they swell; Noel. boy without even a tuning fork and Meekly and gently He watches his Piave, but the maps were made before we all, Neal." -- only an old hymn book, has taught sheep, it ,sialic Was minus half its gthose youngsters a half dozen hymns Blessed pare those whom this Shep- eurf aunf191ace, ' blitekboaardswere cracked, The serenade finally ended as in a month. And that `Noel' is the trend doth ,aid plasteer hung in tatters from the Willie admitted in response to the hardest thing tq sing unacooinpa7lied. keep. ceiling. No teacher could be expected prolonged handclapping of teacher to -get ood:work out of ehilda,:ennunde and,Maaaa.'thaa, that "they didn't know Mr. Brown says he always vvorlfis two gg g „ months' with the choir hays on it." such conditions, she toll herself. Yet ne more. . "Come an, fellows, let's go in and ` She piked up . her brush and began sing 'earl for your . mothers," he ales- to stroke her hair. "I'll bet you ;if I Bested to' his satelites, and the group put it up to Willie, we could get new trooped off, attains of "Silent Night," maps and charts and an up-to-date floating 'back as teacher closed,, the dictionary this winter. He'd just windowrevel In getting up a concert. Why /But where. did they ever learn. couldn't we? And if they got :inter- t'hem," she teemed to Martherwho had ested illthat I could use that as an lighted the IaRriap." incentive to get them. to study." Ideas "Will taught them to the boys," and plan's began to foe inulate. Martha, flushed` with pride was mil- "You big baby," she looked .sevex.'e- ing happily. ly at the girl in. the •mirror, "What "Yes, but where did he tleaen them?" were you crying for an • hour ago? Teacher had never before euoceeded in. This is a perfectly lovely district and finding out that Willie could learn the +;luktren and. -everyonein it are anything, though she knew he could grand." ...;, sing. His voice always rose elear The' remark of the trustee when • A Sermon on Christmas. Robert Louis Stevensoiis "Clnist- teas Sermon," with that famous para- graph beginning "To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to spend a little less," is known to all read- ers. If any criticism can lie against it, it is that it is not- .a sermon on Christmas, es the name would seem to indicate, but merely a sermon orig- inally preached at Christmastide. Below is a little sermon en Christ - 'ems which was written by that mas- ter of English prose the late Hamil- The Shepherd King. ton W. Mabie. It forms part of an introduction once prepared by him Shepherds., watching their hocks by night 'Saw a strange star shining and bright, 'Sent to guide them away to the spot Where the dear child Jesus was born to His lot. There with His rnothei• in a manger of hay Pure as the dawn the sweet infant lay; Angels, rich blessings had brought from above, Sent down from God to the Infant of Love. Lowly ° His dwelling and lowly His birth, Born to bear sorrow and shame on this earth; Bearing His burdens and bearing the cross; Counting the riches of this world as dross. she bad' heard. whispered• criticismsof herself, And the parents weren't a bit backward about telling how well the children had clone last winter.. If mother didn't expect her to stay and make good sahe'.d quit right then and there and want home .that very, night. But mother .had worked so hard to get her through the 'Nortnal To You and Yours. May Christnaiaas Day A blessing prove To you aan€] youes And all you Trove. • for a volume of Christmas pieces: The long line of Christmas fires glows like a great truth binding the fieeting generations into n unity of faith and feeling. When we Iight our fire we are one with our ancestors of a thousand years ago; we evade the isolation of bur time and escape its provincial narrowness; we rejoin the race from whose growth we have un- consciously separated ourselves; we open long -unused rooms and are amazed to find how large the house" of life is and how hospitable. It has hearth room for all experience and for every kind of emotion; for the thoughts that move in the order of logic; for the emotions that rise and fall like great tides that flow in from the infinite; for the vigor that is born of will, and for the power evoked by discipline. It is when the differ- ent ages, with their diversities of in- terest and growth, send their chil- dren to et together before the Christ- mas fre that we realize how wide life is and how. impossible it is far any age to compass it. The faith against which one age -shuts the door stands serene and smiling in the •centra of the neat age; the 'joy which are genera- tion deitiesitself lies radiant on the face of a later generation; the imagi- nation which the reign of logic in one epoch series into the melee -mess re- tells with full bands to be time master of it wiser period, ' Before the Christmas free that- for. two thoueandyears has sunt: into embers to blaze again into a great light act the end ef the twelfth mouth, men are not only reunited in the un- broken. nbroken. continuity of 'their fortunes but in the lvholenesa of their life; in then power of vision as well as of sight, .in their power of feeling as well as of thought, in their power of love as well as of action. This large hospitality of, the Christ - 1131119 fire, before which kings and beg- gars sit at ease and eery 'tureen Nulty finds its place, mikes room for every gift -and 'gime; for resser] with severe and -wrinkled face; far sentiment, tender and reverent of all sweet and beautiful things; for the imagination, seeing heavenly visions, and the fancy catching glimpses of quaint or grotesque or fairylike images, in the name; for poetry, sangs ing full-throated with Milton, or home- ly, familiar and domestic with the makers of the carols; for the story» tellers, spinning their fascinating tales within the circle of the embrac- ing glow; for humor, full of smiles or filling the room with Homeric laughter; for the players, whose mimic art shows the manger, the shepherds and the kings to suc.:essive genera- tions crowding the playhouse with the eager joy of children or with the sacred mammies of age; for the preachers, to whom the season brings a teat apart from the disputes and antagonisms of the schools and churches; for companies of children, impatiently waiting for the mysteri- ous noise in the chimney, and for greybeards recalling tad days and ways—Yule legs, country dances, waits singing undies. the frosty sky, stage -coaches bearing guests and hampers filled with dainties to country houses standing with open doors .and broad hearths for the fun and frolic,:= the tenderness and sentiment, the poetry and piety of Christmastide. , The Christmas Candles. The Christmas candies bairn and glow, And scatter starlight, every one; -' They never thought that they would -hate Such fun. They waited, lying -white in rove In a tight box upon the shelves. Frightened a bit perhaps (witt] knows?) Themselves; Until at lest, like .eherrybloonn,. They blossomed on our Christmas tat And, looking out around the room, Saw mei- Then let every heart keep its Christmas within, Christ's pity for - sorrow, Christ's hatred• of sin, Christ's care for the`weakes Christ's courage for right, Christ's dread of the darkzaessk Christ's love of the light, Everywhere, e'v'erywhere,. Christmas to -might: •