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coming weakened or the nerves wu-
strung, you will hind that
will regulate and stimulate the heart
and strengthen and restore tho whole
nervous system.
Miss Bertha A. Baker, West Jedeore,
N.S., writes:—" Three years ago I was
troubled with smothering spells, short-
ness of breath and sleeplessness.
A friend of mine who had used
Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills ad=
vsed me to try them, which I did,
tend after using the first box I felt
better, and since then I have taken
three boxes. $ •
I can highly recommend them to all
who suffer as I did."
Price 50c. a box at all druggists and
dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of
price by Tho T. Milburn Co., Limited,
Toronto, Ont.
Santa Claus, Pawnbroker.
The trade sign of pawnbrokers is
the familiar three brass basis. Few,
however, know that the ba'l1s have
Christmas origin, and owe their exist-
ence as a "loan" symbol to Santa
Claus or St. Nicholas, Russia's patron
saint..
He was a very rich young man, and
among his possessions were three bars
of gold, given to him by his parents
and treasured accordingly. One night,
dust before Christmas, he was passing
a nobleman's house, and through ;the
open window heard him tell his three.
daughters that misfortune had come
on him, and that the house and all in
it must be sold; and that they would
have to beg their bread in the streets.
Nicholas' heard was touched, and,
knowing that money would be refused,
he conceived the idea of secretly plac-
ing one of the bars of gold in the
house. This he did and it was found
and looked on as a gift from Provi-
dence. He left another bar the next
night, and was about to do the same
on the third night, when the nobleman
discovered him. Nicholas pressed him
toa accept the golden bars, and after
a time the nobleman agreed to take
'them as a loan, to be repaid when bet-
ter times -came.
The story—a legend, of course—
spread, and gradually those who Ient
money took the three bars as their
trade sign. Later they were changed
to the '`three balls."
The Oxen.
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the
clock.
"Now they are all on their knees,"
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in heartheide ease.
We pictured the meek, mild creatures
where
They dwelt in their strawy pen,
Nor did it occur to one of us there
To doubt they were kneeling. then.
So fair a fancy few would weavo
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
"Come; see the oxen kneel
"In the lonely barter' by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,"
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.
--Thomas Hardy.
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Grand Banks Cod Catch.
The total annual catch of cod on
the Grand Banks of Newfoundland
amounts to more than 200,000,000 fish,
and this steady drain has continued
for hundreds of years, yet the supply
shows no signs of dlminis•hing.
The most severe test of friendship
is whether it will stand a Ioan.
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joy the amusing
And if there is n
traditional Christmas dinn- ,
trre•helps make the day festiv
makes a bright and comforting com-
panion fora sick child or a lonely
person.
An imitation evergreen about eight
inches high can be obtained at a candy
and 'Christmas favor shop, or at the
novelty counter in a larger store.
Trees with tiny candles are more 'ef-
fective, but of course, must be lighted
with care, and the little flames blown
out before a package is taken from
the tree.
If the base of the tree is attached
to a small box, fill the hoe with heavy
nuts or candy. Streamers of tinsel
thread or silver paper make sparkling
decorations for the branches. "Snow"
and a silver shower may be bought
anywhere where Christmas decora-
tions are sold, but strips cut from tin-
foil, not necessarily new, or colored
paper, do very well and cost next to
nothing.
I If the tree is not in a holder, place
it in a box for convenient handling.
The heavier packages on the lower
branches, on opposite sides, of the
.tree will balance it.
Wrap everything. Cut small
squares from colored wrapping paper,
or bright colored scratch pad. Tie
these with colored string, knitting
silk, tinsel thread, or bits of narrow
ribbon. The brighter and gayer the
colors, the better, but if one has time
to work out color schemes, here are
two suggestions.
Packages wrapped in blue or pink
or white paper, and tied with silver
or gold thread, the white packages
ing ell pack
to loop over branches "o' tree
firmly.
In selecting gifts miniature size
and light weight are important. Sonie
suggestions follow for presents for an
inexpensive tree, Five cents worth of
peanuts or animal crackers would
supply many trees. Animal crackers,
etc., can be wrapped two together.
Large nuts may be wrapped in silver
or colored paper—making bright
spots on the tree. A handkerchief may
be folded as small as a postage stamp..
Everything on the list may be obtain-
ed at a five and ten cent store, an art
shop, or a candy and favor shop.
Crackers and nuts of course may be
obtained from the grocer.
Tiny calendars, colored thimbles,
arb gum, beads for stringing, beauty
pins, lingerie clasps, invisible hair-
pins, needles, paper clips, elastic
bands, water flowers, tiny wooden
tops, tiny scissors, dolls and dolls' ac-
ceeeories—these are just a few of the
things which may be placed on the
tree.
This same plan, of course, may be
elaborated upon as much as one wish-
es. Instead of the artificial tree, a
real tree, in a very, very small size
may be used. And gifts of more value
may take the place of the amusing
inexpensive gifts outlined above.
And where there are no-kiddies—or
where Santa overlooks bringing the
kiddies a tree— the tiny miniature
one will be doubly appreciated.
Christmas for the Birds.
Among other delightful traits of
the Scandinavian people is their cus-
tom in their Yule festivities of think-
ing not only of the happiness of their
little ones, bet of teaching these chil-
dren to bear in mind the happiness of
others and in particular of the ani-
mals about them. We have seen that
they never omit to provide the trusty
household nisse with his Yule dinner
of porridge. But they also remember
the birds. At the Yuletide season the
market -place of Christiania (now
Oslo) presents a very gay aspect,
filled as it is with spruce trees of all
sizes for the children's festival. But
there is a feature in the Norse Christ-
mas that I have not heard of in any
other country, in that in this market-
place there is for each Christmas tree
a Julefep, or little sheaf of barley,
each person who buys a tree buying
also a sheaf. Then, when the tree is
set up in the main room of the house
at Yule -tide for the bairns (born, as
they are called in Norway), the sheaf
of grain is fastened on the end of a
pole and put out in the yard for a
Christanas feast for the birds! If the
degree of civilization of a people can
be measured by its behavior to the
animals about it, then this custom
denotes in the Norsemen a very high
plane indeed.
Holly. Berries.
In some parts of . Ireland holly is
regarded as the special tree of the
fairies.
In Rutlandshire there is a super-
stition that it is unlucky to take holly
into the house before Christmas.
Holly is valued as a wood by cabinet
makers. It is white and hard.
Holly trees are grown in almost
every'part of the world. The leaves
on a holly in the Himalayas are from
eight to ten inches long.
The South American native drink,
mate, is made from the leaves of a
species of holly.
Holly has been popular for decora-
tions since the time of the Druids.
Ideas bring in nothing unless car-
ried out.
CHRISTMAS WREATHS AND DECORATIONS
BY FLORENCE TAFT EATON.
There is surely an interest and en-
thusiasm in planning Christmas house
decorations that will carry on into the
winter, far exceeding that of any
other season.
The most stolid person in the world
will feel a thrill at the thought of
Christmas greens, and the least senti-
mental will glow at the sight of holy
and mistletoe.
When we go for our Christmas
things we take cutters, twine and a
couple of big baskets. We go first
to the big pitch pines, for we covet a
few twigs of its brilliantly green
needles, selecting branches bearing
the rough, chubby cones. Hero we
also find a certain variety of rich
brown heads of seed vessels of a wild
grass, heads that are very effective in
winter bouquets.
We then go to a certain hillside
where we can find nearly everything
else necessary for our purposes•-
princess pine, tree evergreen, bar -
berries, bayberries and so forth; and
we clip branches of juniper and cedar
and white pine, and twigs of glowing
sumac berries, which retain their glor-
ious red color through the winter and
are very effective in wreaths and bas-
kets. For sprays of cone -fringed
hemlock—one of the most decorative
of the winter greens --ere visit the
grounds of a friend, where we -are
also allowed to collect a few twigs of
the more unique cone -bearing ever-
greens. Everything, .except the su-
mac berries and the seed vessels of
the grasses, we clip most carefully,
with conservation in mind; and we
never cut the slow-growing 'and dim-
inishing Iaurel or pull the rare creep.-
ing
reep-ing staghorn.
With all this wealth of greenery
and glowing color at command, it is
easy to wreath pictures with the trail-
ing evergreens, branches. of white
pine, cedar and juniper, and to make
exquisite wrcatbs, baskets and win-
dow sprays to contribute to the charm
of Christmastime. fecvare,. however,
of using hemlock for permaneart wall
decoration; it soon begins to dry and
drop.
. For window sprays arrange a fiat
oval bouquet with stems overlapping
and concealed in the middle; of hibbr'
vitas, oone-fringed hemlock, holly and
bright berries; tie a red bow over the
stems—wide paper ribbon is all right
• —and hang between the inner and
outer window sashes. These are rap-
idly made rad exceedingly pretty.
For the baskets, select.one of grace-
ful shape and effective color; place in
it a container for water, and fill with
cone -bearing hemlock, sumac sprays,
blue -berried cedar and juniper, sprigs
of everlasting and bayberries.
For the "Welcome" wreaths make a
round of a stiff but pliable'twig; take
a pair of scissors and a ball of soft
twine and go to work. The foundation
is prettiest made of all sorts of green-
ery of the varieties suggested, Includ-
ing as many cones as possible. Inter-
sperse the white everlasting and as +
many varieties of berries as you have
at hand, using sprigs of bayberry
liberally. Bunch a mass of evere.
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VIE COULD HARDLY
SPEAK Et BREATHE
Cold Was So Bid
Mrs. E. H. Greenway, Rayrnore
Cask., writes:—"I would like to tell
you that T think Dr. Wood's Norway
Pine Syrup is one of the very beat
remedies for a cold. •
I hail suck a very bad Bold I could
hardly speak or breathe, so I went to
our druggist's end asked him what he
thought best for a cold, He advised
me to take
Dr. Wood's
Norway
Pane
Syrup wee'
•
and I must say I felt grateful to him.
for, besides being very pleasant to
take it relieved my cold quicker than
anything else I ever tried. I don't
think any ono should be without a
bottle of it in tho )Louse,"
"Dr. Dr. Wood's" is put up in a yellow'
wrapper; throe pine trees the trade
mark; price 35e. a bottle, large family
size UOe.; put up only by Tho T.
Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Out,
finis e
relieved of
Price 60e. a box at
all dealers, or mailed
direct on reeeipt of
price by .The T. Mil.
burn Co.,'Limitod,
Toronto, Ont.
greens, cones and berries at the top
if you wish. Hang on the front door
with a big red bow. •
Small pine or cedar trees or tiny
junipers, potted, are charming.
Then there is a moss garden made
in a big flowerpot saucer. This I fill
with leaf mold over bits of charcoal,
then cover with rich green moss, in
which I set all sorts of tiny wood
growths—partridge and checkerberry,
gold thread, bits of ferns and so forth.
This is sprayed every day, set in the
sun occasionally, and in. it appears all
sorts of minute growths. Acorns and
chestnuts sprout into tiny trees.'
One of the very prettiest and most
effective Christmas decorations I
know is made by rapidly wiping over
irregular and attractively shaped
bare twigs with paste, sprinkling
them sparsely with white confetti, a
few of which will adhere, and then
sprinkling thoroughly with the glit-
tering silver mica dust used for show-
ering Christmas trees. This results
in an arrangement exactly resemibaing
a handful of branches covered with
hoar frost. Two or three sprigs placed
in a glass or silver holder make a
beautiful Christmas decoration.
A SUGG STION
On your Christmas list, like that of
everyone, there are names which pre-
sent difficulties. Perhaps a friend in
hospital, or a nephew who cannot get
home for Christmas, or some far away
friend. You search the shops in vain
and in despair you turn home—home
to your kitchen perhaps, to prepare
the evening meal, and then the idea
comes—why not send a box or hamper
of home-made Christmas dainties to
bear your Christmas greetings of
cheer. Of course you will want Christ-
mas Cake in it, some Shortbread, some
home-made candy and nuts. These
boxes daintily packed and tied with a
bright bow.make attractive gift3.
SHORTBREAD.
7 cups. flour, .:.se.:.:,•-
• 2`eups butter,
cup fruit sugar,
3h cup brown sugar.
Cream butter, add sugar gradually.
Add flour gradually and mix well.
Put out on•floured board. Knead until
it cracks and is of even consistency.
Shape into desired sizes, Bake in
moderate oven, 350 degrees, for 20
minutes.
FRUIT BALLS.
1 cup figs,
1 •cup walnuts, 1 cup dates,
1 cup seeded raisins,
tablespoon leme t juice.
Put fruit and nuts 'through food
chopper. Add lemon juice. Mix well.
Roll into balls. Then roll in granu-
lated
-
lated
sugar, powdered sugar, icing
sugar, or cinnamon. •
Wireless apparatus is now installed
in 3,500,000 British homes.
The Sailor Prince
Prince George, youngest son of the
King and Queen, was the guest for a
Sew days of the Governor-General at
Rideau Hall, Ottawa, while crossing
Canada on. his way from Oriental
waters to England for Christmas.
YE OLD ST. NICK
We hear ye jingle of ye sleigh,
And gladly in our toil we pause
To welcome on thys Christmas Day
Ye fat and jollie Santa Claus;
He cometh down ye sootio flue
To humble cot or lordly hall
And singeth out hys loud halloo,
"A Morrie Christmas to You All."
Hys smile is broad, hys heart is warm,
He bringeth funne and right good
cheer,
And be there calm or be there storm,
He cometh surely once a year.
And in our b
Beneath hys'
Till we, too, gi
Wyth "herr
All."
arts he lights a glow,
tagick spell we fall,
et high and low
Christmas to
Thys day he rules the word, h
Are laws of love and peace
mirth;
Ah, would thatte gentle Santa
Might ever govern on the e
Yette .are we grateful thatte h
One day of Joy for Great an
One day when all ye planet
Wyth "Merrie Christina
All."
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and
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You
IA. Share m the Feast.
After all, the animals have a right
to take part in Christmas, for did they
not witness that first Christmas, when
they stood around a manger, in an
old stable at Bethlehem, and watched
the wise men, in their great wisdom,
bow before the Prince of Kindness?
There are always animals in the
pictures of the first Christmas, in the
stable where the Christ -child first saw
the light, and on the hilts where the
sheep, as well as the shepherds, heard
that wondrous anthem. For the most
wondrous chorus of voices ever heard
on earth was not sung before an
assembly of princes, or whore wealthy
or famous people were assembled. It
was sung on a star -lit hillside, where
men who earned their living tending
sheep were sitting about, waiting for
the dawn. And then they saw that
other light, and heard that wonderful
sang about a child born that night,
who was to grow up and teach people
the law of kindness.
•
and the ns
paper, a litle red ribbon,
card, or a spray of holly tucke
very ferw pennies to the expense,
double the value of the gift,
SALTED NUTS: ..;.,,
Prepare nuts, all except almonds
and neanuts must be shelled. With
peanuts, remove the red skins. Al-
mond's are placed in bottling water for
about two minutes, till skins soften,
and then pour off water and partly
cool. Remove brown jackets and dry
them. For all kind put 143 cup cook-
ing oil or 3 tabiespooufuls butter in
frying pan. Stir in 1 cup nuts and
grease well, remove from fat and
drain on paper. While draining,
sprinkle with sale. Grease another
cup full and so on. Next place in
pan and in oven tell as brown as de-
sired. Watch well while in oven and
have only moderately heated oven for
this work. Stir often.
PLAIN CHOCOLATE FUDGE.
2 cups sugar,
2-3 cup of milk,
2 tablespoonfuls butter, pans oiled with cooking arks or olive
3 ounces chocolate. oil have a more attractive surface
Boil while stirring till thick enough than when butter is used on the pansy
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a y coo
old over and o
enough, pull. B
pulling. Cut in
shears. Wrap in
ENGLISH
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown'ses
1 cup corn syrup,
1 cup light cream or rich milk,
3fi teaspoonful salt.
Mix in canes pan and stir over heat
Ave minutes. Boil till it forms a bard
ball in cold water. Add one teaspoon-
ful vanilla and 2 tablespoonfuls butter.
Pour into oiled pan. Cut when partly
cooled. Later wrap in caramel papers.
For chocolate toffee with butter add.
one ounce of chocolate. Nuts and
marshmallows cut in small bits may
be added as desired. Often these are
chocolate coated, too.
Corn syrup is used in many candies
with cane sugar. Candies poured into
to drop from spoon as molasses will,
that is, when poured back into the rest
of the mixture it will ;de up on itself
a little and not readily mix into the
rest as a thinner liquid will (about 7
or 8 minutes). Remove from heat,
add 1 teaspoonful vanilla and beat
till creamy and just ready to harden.
Pour into buttered pan and cut when
partly coaled,
PEPPERMINTS AND WINTER-
GREENS.
1 cup sugar,
8. tablespoonfuls water.'
Boil up well once, till bubbling all
over surface. Put 3 teaspoenfu a con-
fectioners sugar into a bowl and pour
syrup onto This, then beat till smooth
and flavor. Drop on wax paper or
oiled tin.—E. M. S.
DON'T PUT YOUR HOUSE TO -
SHAM
It Is the One Time Of
Dressed Up— i
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Even our homes, the houses in, down is a br
settia or Snr
replacing
gives'
et
to
which we live, in their mutts way wel-
come with joy the advent of Christ-
mas and the holidays. You may not
have suspected it—but that is because
you have never paused to consider
that the yuletide season is the only t•;
time throughout the year that our er
houses axe "dolled -up" or allowed to
wear gay ribbons and bright colors
and put forth'their most inviting ap-
pearance.
Howveer,. houses like little girls, and inviti_
sometimes are put to shame by the When on.
way their mothers dress them up— trees at o
some mothers, as you know, overdoing with bright)
it—others bytheirbad taste— and spreads the Yu:
still others who seem to think that a
"hair ribbon" is enough to make one
feel dressed up.
Christmas decorations in the home
are not for the family and visiting
friends only. Every housewife should
realize this fact. Colorful decorations
however are very, very essential to
eve',
in ont
electric
the lights
The most artists
that soul who firs
of transplanting s
evergreens to th
throughout the eu
a riot of gay color. During t 8
day week rice can pin red cranberries
tho development of the re�l.Shcristntaa , t^ l:rzc:rcli ends of these little trees —
spirit feeding, putting 'the color and + adding to the decorative valve.
action into what- otherwise might You will note we have touched only
merely be a drab winter week in De. on home decoration for Cheistmae
eerie)
Sim
any art—and who is there who can
say that arrangement of color does Christmas tree you may have in the
not call- for a certain sense of the home, place it where it can be
artisrthrough window, door, or gassed-inseen
Firsttic? of all consider the size of the porch, so that all passersby may enjoy
house when selecting the decorations it too.
that are to be used at doors, windows It gives that warni feeing to the
and throughout the home.•heart to know that within that home
At the front door a fat bright holly --the Christmas spirit—joy and peas'
wreath with a plentiful supply of real —is prevailing.
berries, by all means. The. real holly
wreath is of course to be preferred.
In the Eastern States the practice is
quite general of hanging the wreath
on the outside of the door.. ,This is
done so that it will not wither or dry
out as quickly—as it sometimes will
phefty is always a good rule in
which has to do with the view from
the outside of the home. Just one
more point: no matter the size of the
l
For the
do when hung inside and behind the Et
•�a,�
glass panel. The writer knows one
family from the Wost who were quite
shocked at seeing the wreath .on the!:STOCKINGS.
'•
there's nothing equals
the nifty little boauti-
fuily-colored
LAY-en—ten, DYE
TREE �K
outside of the door --expressing the
feeling that it was too suggestive of
death in the horns.
However, it is a matter of choice
and no doubt one can well be govern-
ed by the costo& of the locality in
which they line. .
For the windows, all decorations
are hung on the inside. If one has
large pate glass windows, than a
medium sired holly wreath at each
window is quite appropriate. If the
windows are sncall-•--then almost any
wreath obtainable is too largo. The
most artistic touch for smaller win -e
al
rat SEND an empty Flit` -D -LA
Dye package and 5 cents'
($tarp"s' W Coin) for each
Doll Pattern wanted.
Johnson Lf.ni- Richardsonted
Dept Montreal,
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