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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1923-12-13, Page 3M, JESSIE LEITCH. Xt \vas Chrictmau Eve, Snow hadsomething i the song, would parties in stralige lee that souuded boon ' falling; softly all day long, 'adore eilently and evitboue ee very -very ear aNyo,y. e 't teathering' the woods with softness, anyone, Fie without a new dm the4t Joh Dobbs r . his pa ore be - p heaping tee leeesee with purest silver she might put the'roonoy.!away toward fore the fire, The kettio 'WAS IW4t44 ellieg tee ' wor3d with whits the training of their darling'0 voice, Ing, Setting it briele, abetrectedly, *theme. • T re bad Mee Dobbs fried otetoes tie she had ele will be a whito Chtmos," Said been bOY Who died in hifaneY. His done or thirty ,yeere, at supper time, John Dobbs, p0 in to stamp the snew 4)ff his feet before he entered the kit- chen that was freshly scrubbed ao to floe and eragrant With the spiciness of Christmas cakes and puddings. Mary Dobbs, his wife, paused in her fluting of pie crust to giallo anxionsly hie hend. It W48 Orapty. rte had gone to the village fer 'lite W[43 fl9bWr1g. She was ou lier knees beeicle the beeertifel ineeeement, her nrine elaopireg the 'shining,wood, ,Johe Dobbe Made 'me atternpt o 'hide :tem teitre that eereamed down Mstaco, Jim Oreete,4 teok Iita cap gre aed wite wonder and -incredulity en big face, He had know% "Tolebs' girl" con her e.' i1 love the dein, elleree thee shinee 4 in her littir---"" sang the voice, Nellie wee an oillY ein d, he Y P eItez you elie moue, Mother," mild Iiiien'I'.ar Yae°talicit Waae'e bt7elne-Yo-thoeaen-5' Years fried baemeTA end. oggs,ened 44 0011 01 inacie coffee', 4.i'l,it,.°gto'llleckl;11°I'VaPeirclOCIWIlalr: S111111. iTsimernGIrtengtaisl since little John had been buried in took 411 apple pie from the oven and ""e approaclied the =chino aeelswardlY, the graereyard plot behind the village eklmoned thick cream from a milk pan reverently, 1 etrarein , - ,in the cepar that was very o1d-1ash.1 Sometimes when John Dobbs sat for coal and wood and apples and nornee and tuemeel the litele leeeen and "Thore's a' song en the other 91de,,, able Tvemoty,seren Yee:re I toned Ettla very full or veget g he eve(' softly end edjusted the neetile John Doblia huelsibe and drew hie Wife ' b of ade ickles " , „ 1 1,1 , e that was -unbelievably lull of golden totee that flooded then lietle room with rnel- edy and Love's divine inesoage. So "little" Nelly sang to her dear °tee on Christrnas'Eve..Truly- she had a long time looking into the laz m p tl old cook etove on winter eveningo, The lonely two oat we -aa their • 13(1 ,A''t ever 80 bUlAb there'e no . expeess purpoee oe getting the mail, his wife, seeing the lonelineos in Me , little white coveeed table in the epee, She sighed 4 thee endied „Wee, -*Mild put doevn her oewing or ' lees lzitchen and =Mid amens the reeolutely. lterlenitting and place a gentle hand table at each other, It W40 ObTlf3trA44 "Cold Johne" ehe asked balancing em hie arm. "Our jOnn WOnld have Eve—,thee fifth since Nellie went -the ie deftly ember floury hand and been elle 'ovoid say, Witb011t 4broad, ,$milPing at IiiM as iiNhO were her child finishing tee eee,eeeee, ee, just hold Ido "Yourncoffee Is the best in the world ieeteael of her husband- hand, belPleselY client, knowing that IVIo,thee, sani John Dobbs. ' not l'°rIPetten "the 'old folks at hornet" There evere other records. HOY tb me u olcen rief wee in his 'Rave another cup?" said IVIary . "Not cold. A. bit disgeldointed. I'd --° sae- 11$1) g , Night John's favorite Ceinetmas eong, h t e• I her oevn. Fox every Deletes, knowing that lie would: ' d 0 Little Town of Bethlehem the • oar as wit n vet my hemt on t a e wo They were thirdeing of Nellie of the eoreign stamp. Ws not like N'olio to men arld every woman in the world ome, 4ey was hymn, that beellieeload sung first of all forget 'the old folks iee home' the daY yearns sootier or later for a man cholcl letter that had ntc M' when she was a baby, lispiag the John Dobbs looked all of hie sixty, it is the =ging etep of a man WhO 16 11 before Christi -nese, —a bey -grown tall. As age comes on, very sure that John was thiekeng of the ,baby son. who slept under the evergreens. A mist of tearo clouded her glaases. She wiped there away heroically. John, looking etraight at her,,did net see her tears, beeause his own eyes were full. , "/ thirik I'll go down to the expreetz office after supper, Mother, and take that card along," he said. "There might be something." , • Just than the jangle of sleigh bells sounded in the yard. , The old people Sprang up, hope shining' in their eyes, she knew that there would be to other Palmrs that came from -aerose the sea, clutching at the very springe of their Borne mg a ou, g ng pp . e d It d so Mail until Christmas morning. • wonderful te read her letters about "There was notbinp; else, Joluer ell seasons and engagements and concerts eeeitinued, as he unirMd- a hulled° °', and, recitals. The little -girl Much of paners and felt for the glasses._that terror at eae aigrae of a mass a people, were pushed up into his grizzled hair. of stage fright, of fear that elle -would 'There's a card, Poone Phiee• Seree'" not sing *ela had long since dieap- , office, but I called for it and it waen't. armee eeelnese t peered from her letters, every o-ne ef box for youl"- ' was carefinly hoarded to be Jim was lifting a huge Fox Trent thing about a parce a the there. Here's the card—you read it.', read over and over again. There -was -his sleigh which was loaded with gro- "It's from Nell -MI The parcel. 08: assurance and confidenee br those 1 cerie, a sonall Pine tree, elltedrY lumpy from Paris. Perhaps the last train, grown...up letters. Arid there was parcels that bespoire'the presents for wasn't In' John-? If you'd maY wst'9edf" pride Soinetienes her mother Wonder -1 the Sunday School Christmas Tree, of eyes were .ehining. —it a seeme so greatly 0 e , Masten, of Cerernomeee ; Mary Dole's face was fluseed, heri ee ee there might not be a little vanity: which, for many yearo, Jim had been "1 wee so disappointed about til° the talk of Nellie's about the goevus ' °Me YOung Piano Was ltrilfi at the letter that I didn't pay much attention eXprese office waiting for you, John," she 'had to, buy foe her last -concerts, to the card," he said. - the panties, the friends, the dinner he said'. "It men.° fere Halifax and Eleanor Dobbs load been in Paris - a deal of trouble they've gone to, pack for 'five years. ehe had a veto. , She Ing it and painting your name en the , Wag 'studying Grand Opera. Her par- are outside of the box in capital letters. ants were very proud of her. 'Iliey look at that!" were very lonely, withodt her but "What can it be? Nellie must have Eleanor hod d voice and voices, her , sent it said Mary Dobbs with shining teachers had always said, were few eyes. "There isn't a sent in Halifax , and far between. who -would be sending things to us— It had all begun years before when unless Nellie." - - Eleanor, A, Shinillg-baired little girl But Nellie is M Paris," said John, of five, stood on the echoolroom plate eee "This came from Halifax." form and sang at the Cluistmae tree "Let's get it in the house," maid entertainment. SO sweet; even then, practical Jim. Across the threslacea, were her baby tones, that there had into the lamplit kitchen, they dragged been tears in her mother's eyes when it Mary brought a hammer, John sheliftee her down from the platform Dobbs attaeleed the ease methodically, The child, frightened by the applause saving the nails as he drew them out. which followed. her little song, had It Was a music box, the finest and hidden her face in her mother's lap e , the best that any of the trio had ever and refused to sing again seen. The mahoganY shone in -the Year after, year, as she grew, larnp light. Mary .Dobbs touched it Eleinor was always siging about 'the wadi; and singing them all to one tune, and songs they could not under rare es he dragged offhis 07,,01,08,1 youeg and full of strength and cour- stand because the words were French placed them in tba waadbox and hung, age that they want And Peed. aed 13 -at the voice was Nellieat hie old evoolen jacket up behind the 'If Neilie would only come home —come to them across the mike. "Don't worry—the leder will be sound of children's •footstepa iri the &ea.. and marry! If there could be the It was 'underneath; the larit record that they found the letter—a real Thin was what Nellie's 'a).ong, Nellie has never forgotten yet." old house," Christmas letter,- full of tenderness Dis wife's ;Voice wasreaseering, She. umthen' would breathe tooftly to her-, and plans foe another CM -Mtn -me when eitlened her Pies Mee .the oven, moved solf- But, with a v5iee like Nellie's, the tea kettle to the front of the eveuld it be right? Dicl "prima donnas" they should be together. Next -they cheery old cook stove, glanced at the ,141:617? Mare" Dobbs was not Uulte eoued a photograph—the last, best picture of their girl. clock above the Janne shelf and said elere, ,Certain it was that little Nellie, , • . "Eleanor" they called her in the news - being. Nellie! Could it be possible that their little Nellie had come—? But it was only Jiin Greggs' from the next farm and Mary Dobbs' hands were' cold as she tried eto pat 10note of genuine cheer into the voice that responded to Jim' teont, "Christmas with hands that were tremulous and house, at her 'lessons, at her play-- eagerly caressing. A card, bright we1211 singing to her dente singing to her scarlet ribbons, was tied to the inside eather as he sat before the oven doorof the cover and in Nellie's writing at night in the.little farri kitchen. LookIng for Immigrants were the Words, "Merry Chris:ernes to "Nellie must have her voice trained, 'Mrs. Horace Pareons, one of the the best Mother and Father that ever et's a gift," her father would say. And ladies sent to England to- Went new lived, from their Nellie." her mother, listening to the golden citizens forrOntario. "I'm glad she mentioned your name first, Mother," eaid John Dobbs, IN THE GIFT OVA GREAT BOOK. YOU CONSPIRE WITH GENIUS eneazze "What ghat' 1 glve nry friend for Christmas?" • - - "Do you mean friend, or is it only somebody you happen to know?" "Friend "Well, nothing is too goodin- that case, Give a skyscraper or one of -the Thousand. Ialands or -a Russian .wolf- hound or a grand piano or a grain of radium." • • And with all the rest, books. • Or if you can't -give anything else, give books. For in them is the magic that commands all the treasures of the universe. Books draw the stare from the sky and the pearls froni the deep. Before wireless telegraphy was ever 'dreamed of books carried the greatest! inessagee of mankind around the world and across the centuries. Boolcs anticipate all discoveries and! keep the precious past from the hands of thieving Time. Moving pictures of ancient civilize: tion flash upon the silver screen a the reader's mond. -We cannot go back and make phonograph records oe aeadi Illegal -5, but in the old poets the! rhythms a long ago sing to the inne'ri All the arts and all the sciendes transmit their treasures in print. So each new generation finds the stored material for a continual recreation of the world, ' - He who gives a book touches the spirit of life, „plays upon the keys of •an organ whose tones will smincl per - hays br other lands and in cither cen- twice The giVer of boolcs'rnay be a con- shakily. '"Open her up! Let's have a tune. These muse be the records," and Jim Greggs, withezmighborly freedom, be- gan to Open it smaller box fastened with heavy cord. Jim took a record at spirator with genlus. Next to the great writer is the one who finds for hien the right reader. • Books carry the seed eV life. Scatter them widely in the hope of hae-vest. Plant them one by one ho the most feetile soil you can find, Books are at once the rivet ex- quisitely intimate and the most broad- ly universal means of expression. Toe them Is restoration and repose. In them ie the irresistible cell to go on. There are plenty of good books and there will be more. What the world needs is better use of them. Bush -Jeep, men declare that invention and production have outrun effective merchandising, that is, bringing the right thing to the right person. In no field is this so true as in literature. The mass of people know by hearsay that there are such things as. booes. In a population of 0,000,000 a sale of 900 Copies is called good,, 9,000 ie amazing. ,Not the sale -but the attune tion is amazing. Part ef Ms the fault of author, publiehers and booksellers. But the greater lack is in the reader or in him who might he a reader, or in binnwho might create a reader by a well chime Libraries are good, but what we need It itoem individual Owl -lent -tip and tee of booke—not 05 so much paper and nik and binding, but tie means of random and put it in place. He want- ed to heat the new "mnsic box." • There was a moment's grating, whining, then a woman's voice rang out—golden he its clarity—full of tenderness. Mary and John stared, speechless, the color of sweet surprise flushing their faces, a lovely light flooding their eyes. ' aTellie's voiced" Mary Dobbs With shaking hande, they unwriee- Ped the tissue Paper, even tearieg the bright little Christmas seals. Nellie Their "little" Nellie "She's just like she used to be, only taller," her mother said, "She favors you, Mother," "Hut she has your °yea, John," said Mary Dolahe, reaching 'ever to clasp bizle hand and then they placed the Photo on the centre table, sat dovvn tainred leofokieeedicaintgit, sae if they would never As the clock struck twelve, John put the first record on again, tenderly, and the notes of HOMO Sweet Home filled the room and their hearte'. "It's a Wonderful Christneee morn- ing," whispered Mary Dobbs when the last note had died eavey, sweet beyond cqmpare. The Christmas Sprit., Hoot Bay! Christmas' is. here again. How good it is ithat it comes every year. And the greatest thing about Christmas is the Christmas Spirit. Oh, of course, there are„ the big dinners; the chicken the potatoes, the cranberries. But *hat man- ,there With a healthy outlook on life who does not take delight in such things? And there are the numerous -gifts, . , • „9 for (0(:)c1 Hata,y urne the time for eieh sweets end eppereizing confections. 18.101;c)) t.ti‘sniliz'eeyc4Pe;e° gthoeatclear° as whale - Quick Date , Croams,---Bent two tablespoonfuls of 'butter until it is creotong. Add ono cupful of (=foe- tionerf? ongar little at a time and beat the mixture well ,zefter every ad- dition. Add one scant tablespoonful of cream, drop by drop, and flavor tee whole with venilla. Stone a pound of dates, fill the centres with the cream mixture end roll the candies loreloger. Grape Carannes.—Place two cup - LY fele of milk and one cupful a .812$41.'1 in saucepan and stir the ailietere entil it reaches the boiling paint. Add one cupful of gtape-jarn or Marma- Inde and cook the whole until a little oft it dropped into cold vvetet will form 21 Arm ball. Then. add two tablespoon, etas oe butter, caele tee mixture until it resches the "hard -ball" stage, add ono cupful ,of nut meats and pour the 7011°71 eanitntiot aingtro'easego:larpea6n, When it 00 Peanut 13ers.--Shell one quart of roasted Speeish Imamate, remove the skins and chop the nuts fine. Beat the white of one egg until it is otin, end while you beat add geaclually one enp- ful Mown segue, one' quarter tee - spoonful of saltload ' one -halt tea- sPoonful a vanilla. Fold -the peanut rapate into the mixture, speeed the whole in a square, ahallow buttered tin pan and babe it in a slow oven. 'When the candy is done met it into bars with a snare knife. , both going and coming, which are of especial significance to the young folks. (I -wish here to siiggest that aus is an opportune time for all of ue to be young follee). And there are the Chrlstrzies trees, and the -Christ:. mas holly, and the Christmas hells, red bells, green bells, yrbite bells, and joyous decorations of all lcinde and designee ali of which are Met outward expressione of that divine spaelc of love and good 'will which we please to term "The Chrlstonazi Spirit," We leane- from Him Whoseibirth we commemorate that it le more etleashog to give than to xeceive. It is not nec- essarily the meet expensive gifts that mean moat It es the spirit in which the gift is given that Counts. The thoughtful word, the friendly -deed, the kindly act, things 'that cest but carry with them a feeling of friendliness, and helpfulness, and good will, are the things that Meng jdy and are contagious. . . • Forget yourself and try these things on your earnily, your friends and eiour neighbors:, Then note the peaceful pleasure that follows. The time spirit of good fellowship toward. othere never fails to corne back to you. It is "The Christmas' Spirit," e Christrnas Eve. Day flickers into dusk; the street Jumps flower - Like eater= poppies- in the heart of night; The petals of the snow drop hour on hour Until .earth bloesoms like a rose of white. Midnight and silence; calm, cold hills look down -- Upon a valley stretching still and tar; , Low in the east beyond the little town Glimmers the Christmas candle of a . Says Germany Beaks War . Andre Tardieu„ . a 'famous French- man, Who says that Germany has been .preparing men and armaments undle- turbed • for fourteen months, and. chargeti United' States citizens ;with financing the imports ef cotton, and copper, which Amounted:to. twice the emotnete imported by Francs. Beaks are Seed to at, books are air , to breathe, light for the. -eyes, a path for the feet and a hand to clasp in the aaik, ,Give books. Give Canadian evoke! anne, ONE DARN THING AFTER ANOTHER Sohn Dull—Stop along, gentlemen, ren getting used- to it." —From the NeWa et the World eee0 pc001- Loolc As HAPPY Are 1 TO `lb 0 1 - DocraR. ' IZA13-bi flIOR(5 Tilers is a Star. Once in the silent midnight skies there gleamed A (Aar that filled the:earth with , glorious light, And shephercle on the hillsidewere afraid And wise men journeyed 'cross the land that night. . This Christenas eve there is a Star that glows Although across the night no =di- anae states . And floOds the world; hid in a little prayer There is a star of faith within all hearte. —Gladys Bryant. A Broken Man. . el. J. Daly, president of the Home Bank of Canada, who appeared recent- ly in court to answer charges of con- speraey, as a -weak and broken man, supported by a nurse. His appearance was followed on Priday by the segue 01 Home Bank books and papers at the head officee, by -officers -of the Ontario Attornei-General's Department. The pap era ' refer to.loans niade to com- panies in which directors of the bank were interested, ow to:See the Christmas Dinner No matter how simple the Christ- mas dinner may bee etime attempt should be made to give it a holiday air. An appropriate centrepiece can ,be milde by arranging evergreens, berries, seed pods and other pretty thengs from tlie woods or the fields., In a low basket or in a pie plate, tilled with moss. Cover the table with a nicely laun- dered table -cloth laid over a silence cloth and, at each place or "cover," as it is called, arrange the necessary china, glass, silver andthe napkin. At an informal dinner the large_plate is not placed at the covet until the per- son IS served. At a formal dinner, a cocktail of-fenit or shell -fish, or dams or oysters on the half -shell may be 'placed at each cover jnst before the guests --enter the dining -room. , If iedividual "salts" and "peppers" • are not used, place larger ones at each end of the table. Bread, on plates or bread -trays, can also be placed on the table, with jelly, pickees or other rel - A. serving of butter is placed on each butter -plate, and the glasses are filled with water. The napkin can be left fiat._ HOW TO PLACE THE SILVER. Plan Silver iS placed one and one, half beetles from ,the edge of the table, the sharp edges of knives toward the plate. , The bowls of spoons and the tines of forks are turned up. The glass le plated ju8t beyond, the tip of the knife, the bread-and-butter• plate a little beyond elle eorks; Sauce dishes should be placed at right of plata, but if the coffee -cup occupies that space, push the sauce<dish farther up. Place' the necessary spoons beside the dinneri knife, and the butter spreader upon the broad -and -butter plate. • ' NO DINNER COAIMHTH WITHOUT THU HOSTESS, BY careful planning everything can 'be arranged in the kitchen before the dinner begine. Foods can be dished and Pieced in the warmer or in a vow mocleeate oven. The happiness of guests and feenily depende latgely1 upon having the hostess at the table and evety one will be glad to help and make the eervieg as light- as possible.' The call to dinner should be obeyed at (Mee. If guests ate.,„.„,..,present, sisoipis plade-cards will enable both guests and family to be seated withont confusion and will add to the table decorations. If soup ferries the first course, piece the soup in hot seep Plates Or bouillon cups, either of which should be placed on other plates and placed before each Person. One authority claims that eveeythhig except beverages should be handed 4ncl,pladed from the left An- other authority claims that soup should be handed from the right. They also disagree as to whether the plates should be removed from the left or right.' The important thing is to have the hood served and removed as easily e.nd quietly as possible. After removing the soup plates, place the main dish and the hot din- ner plates before the person who is to oarve (usually the head of the !am- ity). Vegetable dishes' can be placed In front of other members of the fam- ily or obliging guests. The person who carves asks each person his ref- er,ence as to light or darkmeat, p acee It on the plate and passes the plate to those who are serving the vegetables, -who pass each plate to the person for whom it is intended. Ween this course Is flnialied, remove the plates, the bread, jelly and telishes and serve the salad. , Arrange the salad on plates and keep in a cool place until served, The crackers and cheese are placed on the table, thee passed from one to another. Remove salad plates, crackers', cheese, p,epper and salt, brush crumbs from the table with a folded- napkin and a plate, refill the glasses and serve the desert. ' • TEA -WAGON A Q124AT HELP. The dessert plates, nuts, raisins, and candy and certain desserts can be ready on a side table or a tea -wagon, which ie a great help in serving din- ner. Ice amain, hot puddings ancl pits must be brought in from the kitchen. The dessert and dessert plate§ are placed before the Maltese who serves this coutse. Nuts, raisins and dandy are also placed -mem the table. Coffee is pouted in the kitchen and served with the dessert, motets 112 15 preferred with the dinner. Stager and cream are either plaeed upon the table or passed when the coffee is served. 1 e5, 6,JINI,K, sui- I DIDN'T t Lrel,,, elNI-C yr wouLP WHIZ. -re-H.' FA.S-MT--Y-- eO.OLMOS)SE5. C ler eiOULP Mteete. m eLNCEtt "WeLL, 11415 JO)Dc130QK 1 AB ',T51 Lov Nato ttr.t, itTEepNk,THAT MAKETHE t GOT DTo M158 NelORLD b SOUNDPPY-NO No ) flOCOUN't OVER FUNWN Stuffed Immo :furnish a wholeeenet, sweet for the ehildren, Stein One pound of good proem and reonove the efeenee. Steer pare a the prunes, each With titarther Prelned stuff othero with eloopped eeteed nuts, ler with e mixture of cone eupfel each of ettisine and wee. Imes end a few eandied elenories, or ad% stiff orange marmalade, tiONLIS4,4 171T(4hrly waarr WItY11 thanedwrit of ono egg, moo cupful of brown sugar, one cupful of pecan nut remota one. Mirth teacipooeful of salt, Beat white of ogg until stiff Lula add augur amble ally, beating conseantler, Fold in the nut meats, finely chopped end emirate ed with salt. Drop ex= the tip of emcee, one inch mean, cm a butt,e4 sheet, and bake113 Mederate even until delicately broweed. Ceendie fondant Made with condone - ed milk and confectioners' sugar is a great improvement over the fondant made with this sugar end white of egg, The fondant retie:me three table- spoonfuls of imavy condensed milk and two eupfels confectioners' sugar. ,The -milk should be warm (not loot), then slowly stirred Into the sugar to fornfa paste. Turd out on a marble slab or on a piece of white oil- cloth placed upon a table, and knead until smooth, Divide end flavor the various portions as desired, Vanilla exteact, maple or peppermint flavor- ings, orange-jeice, chopped auts, chop- ped dates, candied eherries and can- died 'pineapple cap all be used. Mold the candy into varioue shapes and dip into melted ellocolete, if desired. Wrap or lay between sheets of Wax -Pe -Per and store in a cold place. The con- densed milk must be very heavy, a thin milk can not be used. Farm fruit cake: Many house-ivivee are 00 situated thee the candied fruots usually called for in elitist -nee cakes are unavailable or perhaps rather ink pensive. To them is dedicated this delicious cake which calls for no ine grediezetmot emend en the pantry shelf - or at the country store. Erapty Into O colander or etrainer some black- berry, Cherry, and strawberry or Pear preserves, and draM until free from all juice, In the meantime, cut into fine shreds, one-half cupful each of dried apricots (or primes), Peaches and apple, and eprinkle well with sugar and flour. Scissoes are very useful for cutting up this fruit. Cream together two cupfuls of sugar and two cupfuls of butter (or a little more than one and one-half cupfuls of vege-' table fat), add the yolks of nine eggs, then one teaspoonful each of Soda and cream 'Cif tartar diseolved M a little 'waren -welter. To five cupfuls of sifted flour add the following spiees: two teaspcionfuls of cinnamon, three- fourths of a teaspoonful each of nut, meg, allspice and cloves, and stir lato the batter alternately with, a .liquid which consista of one-half cupful of coffee and one-half cupful of any kind of fruit juice. Grape -juice is very goo4 for 'Mho purpose, Next add the dried . fruit one cupful of chopped nuts, two cupfuls of ,the blackberry preserves, two cupfuls of cherry and one cupful of strawberry or peer preserves, Also add one-half pound of citron chopped, fine, if obtainable, or use the same quantity of drained water -melon rind preserves. When well mixed, fold in the stiffly 'beaten whites of the eggs and bake slowly. This recipe will make two large cakes, Making 1Vlothers Merry. The oldest English mune for Christ. Inas1 Moddra Nibt, or Mothers. Night. In the early days, when our Saxon forefathers had just settled down in the country that was to be England, the day ef December 25th Was given up to games and feasting but the night was 'dedicated to the special hereof of mothers. Tilley occupied the seats of honer, and everyone brought them gifts. Sons and daughters who had gone out into the world strove to be at home on that one night in the year. A little later the name Yule was given -to Christmas, and the rejoicinga of the day were prolonged into the night, when nieri sang and told stories sitting round the cheerful blaze of the Yulelog. customs O " f Te,Mothers' Night gradually died out, though they still stix-vive in a fe-ve remote parte of Bri11 - tain. Its place leo been taken to eornis extent by Mothering Sunday in the Nortleof England. On that day every: one who tan do so still makes a pit. grimage homewards, and the mother receives the homage of her .farnily. Spectacles for Indigestion. Stomach -eche.? Consult an poetise-. Soleime, grappling with one de (Avila zationei greatest scourges, has die. covered that indigestion May be mired by treating the eyes. , Oculists heertily subsonbe'to the thebry. "Eyestrain Is a frequent cause of in. digestion," . said , an eminent eye epeciallet to the writer. "Certain types of eyestrain mean nerve acaste, (Berea that tetve waste in a person al. ready lacking in nervoue °tern', mid meet of the functions of tbe body will be ellen of driving Power. "Thee, if there 10 not eaough energy - to inalEe the Edema& work properly, the walls of the stomach become ileve, eid and termentation Inits up, with all the dyepeptie sympteme, "T atni reterringeoe course, to 20 type of indigestion veiny due to neurosire M people who have not enough etervito eaergy to make the onuecleo work, "Hy 'eorreeting the eyestrain, Mx( eo eaabline the person to obtain moo nervotia energy, these sernmtmtie appear, deem marvelleuzdee "Tide theory, oe enrol, does sot 917 to oar osao loiore tort) is 14 deft*. Ito Melon le the membrane of ail III0414C11,"