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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-12-19, Page 13dte t)1 i o"- a:f .�i�\ `V Sweets for Christmas. At this time when we are urged and commanded to be econgmlcel In our use • of -sugar, it is wail, to prepare, Christmas sweets which can be made without any, dr a•vory small amount of that scarce article, - The fairly plentiful materials that are suitable for malting sweets are Syrup, maple eugar, honey, popcorn, and all kinds of nuts. Sugary dried fruits will also help. ChoboIate and cocoa aro always safe to use, The fol- lowing are eome tested recipes which call for only a minimum of sugar: 'Stuffed Dates,—Stuffed dates aro a most wholesome sweet, and quickly made, too. The dates must be first picked apart, washed in warm water and dried in an old napkin, Remove the seed from each with a sharp knife, slip a nut in its place, press together, and sift over with granulated sugar. Leave etanding a while on oiled paper to become firm, Chocolate Dates,—Prepare dates as described for stuffed dates. Slit each date lengthwise, just far enough to al- low the kernel's being extracted with, out bruising the fruit. Grate one- fourth pound of good chocolate, add en equal quantity of confectioners' sugar, and two tablespoonfuls of boiling water. Boil until a soft ball forms in cold water. Before removing from the sire, add a few drops of vanilla ex- tract. Place the pan inside a ,larger one, half filled with boiling water, to keep the chocolate fluid while the dates are being filled. Take up a little oft othe mixture onie teaspoon, open the date and pour it /featly .In. When Ailed, press the sides gently together. Place in a cool place to harden. Stuffed Figs. -Chop Bite anykind of, nuts. Mix with halt the quantity of well washed and dried currants, Open figs at one side, and pack with mix- ture, rounding the fig to look like a rroo,os6 pear. Cloee'the opening, thou at Fruit Cheese,—Stone a pound of hardens, Again, puffed riee can be dates, add t° them a pound of figs,,half a pound of blanched almonds, half a Trowel of pecans and half a peptide& Brazillian nuts. Any nuts at hand may be shtbetitutod for the ones named, Put the mixture through a motl„t-chopper, and pack into tumblers: Keep in cold vinegar, teaspoon baking soda, 1 tea - place, This may bo tolled into tiny balls and dipped in chocolate, cut into blocks and used as a sweetmeat, or cut into thin altos and put between bread and butter, or crackers,to servo in the place of cake. end of the tlg,atick a clove to look like blossom end, and at the, other a stick of cinnamon bark for the stem. Dust lightly with powdered sugar. Parletan Sweets,—Pick over and re- move stems frohu one pound of figs and stones from one pound of dates. Mix St1'ith one pound of English Walnut meats, and force through a. meat chop. per. Work, using the hands, on a board dredged with confectioners' sugar, m- 111 well blended. Roll to one-fourth of an inch thickness, using confectioners' sugar for dredging board and -min. Cut with a sharp knife in three-fourths inch squares. Roll each pieoe in con- fectioners' sugar, and shake to remove superfluous sugar, Place in layers In a tin box, putting paper between each layer. These confections may be used , at dinner in place of bonbons. Sugared Popcorn,—Put two table- spoons of butter in a sauce pan, and when melted add two cups of brown sugar, ansa .one-half cup of water. • Bring to the boiling point, and let boil for sixteen minutes. Pour over two quarts of popped corn, and stir until every kernel is well coated with sugar. Taffy.—Dissolve half a cup of sugar in four tablespoons of cider vinegar, mix with two cups of molasses, and cook very slowly in a kettle large enough to prevent the plass from boil- ing over until a little dropped in cold water hardens, then stir in a heaping teaspoon of butter, and a half teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in a table- spoon of hot water. Stir up, remove from flee, and flavor with a teaspoon of vanilla, or lemon extracte turn ,into a greased ,pan, and when Cool enough to handle pull' until bright with figured or greased paeds. When light enough, pull into narrow strips and cut off in pieces the right site for a' mouthful with a pair'of greased scissors. Wrap each of these in a little twist of pane fin paper. used if no popcorn is to be had, P.S.—Instead of nut moats, 11/4 cups of cornflakes oan bo used on bottom and on top. OM-faahloaed Yellow ,Tack. -1 quart New Orleans molasses, 1 teaspoon Conservation Dainties. Maple Popcorn. Bails. -3 cups pepped B0111, 1 cup maple syrup, 3 teaspoons vinegar, pinch salt, 1 teaspoon butter or substitute, pinch of baking soda Put syrup, vinegar anti butter substi tuts Into shallow pan; bring to boil slowly: add salt and soda. Boil slow ly until the soft ball stage (that is when a drop will fora: if dropped ,on cold plate); hrttsli plate with a little butter substitute, cover with popcorn that lies been carefully picked over to be sure all has popped, then pour the hot syrup over, stirring quickly so each kernel is covered with syrup. Rub hands with a little butter substitute; take a spoonful and roll into balls at once. If small balls aro desired (the size of English walnut); the corn mus bo chopped fine. If popcorn is not ob tatnable, use puffed rice. Popcorn, Molasses and Nut Squares. —3 cups chopped popcorn, 1 cup finely chopped nut meats of choice, lin cups syrup or molasses, pinch salt and pinch of baking' soda, 1 tablespoon 'butter substitute. Boil and test syrup as foregoing. recipe. Pour over pop- corn„ Brush' agate or china plate with butter substitute; cover bottom with nuts, then spread the popcorn over nuts; rub spatula or knife with butter before smoothing; then cover top with nuts; cut into squares before it spoon butter substitute, Put the me - lasses into large saucepan so it will not boll over, -Bring to boil 'slowly; stir continually until; it kilns .a thread; add vinegar and sada; boil a few moments, then try a little in cold water.' If it hardens; remove' frons fire at once: pour into buttered plate, and as soon as it is cool enough to handle, rub hands with a little butter substi- tute and begin to pull it. The longer , you pull it, the better it will be. Draw - into long strips and cut into pieces with buttered knife or scissors, P.S,—Chopped nut meats can be , added before it hardens. Conservation Sandwich.e-el cup fresh grated cocoanut, 2 cups seeded raisins, is teaspoon salt, thin slices of brown bread. To the raisins that have been washed, dried, and put through food chopper, add cocoanut and mix well, If it seems to dry, add a little of the cocoanut milk so the mixture can be spread between thin slices of day-old wheat or brown bread. t No butter is used with cocoanut. Rye Flour Gingerbread. -1 cup mo- lasses, 14, cup shortening, 4 cup sour milk, 2 cups rye flour, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon ginger, % teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda, In teaspoon clove, % teaspoon' cinnamon. Mix the molasses and elrorteping in a saucepan over the fire until melted. ' r't, this egg and add' to the sour milk. vac the seasonings and soda, add to hot molasses, and when foaming pour into the egg and milk. Mix well, 'add gradually the flour and beat until smooth. Pour into a greased, 'shallow pan and bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes, 11 LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS GIFTS 11 / Last Minute Christmas Gifts. "Do Your Christmas Shopping Ear- ly: !" Have you heard that before? Even last summer. But did you? Every single necessary postcard and gummed Christmas label? Then react something else. - _ "Oh; Well, neither did I, I meant to, but I keep remembering somebody that I want to remember, and now but two weeks remain." - There are still post -card jingles and greeting cards. to be bad,. that will show a friend that he is not forgotten, but there are also scores of little in- expensive gifts that may be purchased or made at the last minute, and that will fit into someone's Christmas stock- ing. But be euro that they do fit, for nobody' must know that they are last minute gifts. For the girl who works in a"dusty office or who travels much, run up a black sateen bag on the sewing ma- chine which is large enough to hold her hat without crushing. • She will think of you and thank you every working day. •- For the girl who should be learning to do housework, a couple of dish - mops which cost five cents at the ten - cent store. Dress these up in tissue paper and label them the "Helpful Twins." Make holders of bright scraps of material for use around the hot atm - To the flower lover or gardener send some of your own choice seeds in dainty envelopes, or an order on the' seedsman, or a bouquet of cuttings' from your window plants, 01' a promise as follows on a Christman postcard: "On April first, or thereabout, , If you will bring your basket out, I'll dig tor you a root or so Of things that, in niygarden grow And you may plant them in your yard To 'remind you of my regard," For tbe grandmother who sows but whose oyes are not so good as they olhce, were, buy a package of self - threading needles, or two spools of No. 30 cotton, blank and white, and thread a paper of common noddles onto the end of the thread on each spool. Grandmother will fellow how to slide the needles along and break off a length of thread with a needle upon it as she needs. For the woman who crochets or tats find one. of the books of samples of crocheting or tatting. They cost from 10 to 21 cents and 'give dhtections for doing the work which any needlework- er Man follow, What child would not like a box of c0oities crit Into animals and wonderful mon, such as' old-fashioned grandmoth. ors know how to hake without cutter or pattern. The man who lives In a boarding-bouso Swill, bo wonderfully pleased with eatables, 0o—cookies, lit• t!o mince pies, or big ones, or a fruit cake. Any woman who depends upon a city bakery for Thor bread and des- serts will hall with delight a loaf of mit, broad wrapped In a holly paper napkin. Any child' old enough to sew ,for her • Ball family will be delighted with 5roll of serfise of cloth suitable for doll elothea, A paper 0fneedles and a .31)001 of thread W111 add to they cola- ttlotenoss of the.gitt, A quilt maker Will also like any MIs of silk or cotton puitalna for Icor itectllework hobby,, - The folks you know who like to read will enjoy the same story which has given you pleasure in your favorite magazine if you will clip it from the paper and tie or paste it together into • a booklet. • After all, it isnot so much the gift as the thought that goes into it which brings joy to donor and recipient. And the giver who has Christmas in his heart will find suitable gifts for all whom he wishes to remember, no mat- ter whether he loops in the big city shops, the ten -cent stole, of in his own back yard or cellar storeroom. Bethlehem in 1917. At Bethlehem, at Bethlehem, Dark forms go to and fro. Can they be shepherds with their sheep, Shepherds that nightly vigils keep, As shepherds long ago? ,,, What gleans there iu the hands of them At Bethlehem, at Bethlehem? No shepherds these—ah, no! For Bethlehem, that Bethlehem Which saw the angels draw The veil from heaven's gate aside, Keeps now the strangest Christmas- tide 1 That Bethlehem o'er saw. All night the tramping feet go by, All night the creaking guns go by, Grim -faced the weary gunners ride, Where shepherds knelt the Babe be- side And Christ lay in the straw. Is there no light in Heaven's high face At Bethlehem, at Bethlehem? Those men that guard\\the holy pisco,' Is there no word of joy for them? The sentries walk their watchful round 'Where shepherds lay upon the ground, At Bethlehem, at Bethlehem, Where holy Mary's Child they found, And angels 'sang, by God's good grace. Ah; yes! the Wide sky spread above Still holds the Silent waiting host. The sentry stands upon ilia post, And laboring columns forWard move: But all the mighty ranks on high Wait, while men strive and blood and die, . Fol' Christ's ad emaud of peace to therm, At Bethlehem, at Bethlehem. For his command --oh!, wait not long, Lord of the lowly and the strong! Speak thou the word, and Bethlehem Shall helu'again Ilio angelic song. Thy healing power, 0 Lord, release— Good will and peace, good will and peace— And fill the amazed sky above Weill, the triumphant song of novo! Xmas Thank -You Note. Tho easiest time to write thank you shotes for Christmas presents is /mule' cliately after Christmas. Tho Longer one neglects this little courtesy the Harder it is to find time for it. There is no law of etiquette which says "wait a little while before acknowledging the gift." The most perfect good Perm in this case is to answer as soon as ever it is possible, Slue Finally dot Attention, Little Lydia incl been given a ring as n. Chi'latina present, but, much to her disappointment, no one of the guests at the Cln•letntns dinner had noticed It, pinally, unable to with, stand their obtuseness or inditfereece, gime exclaimed: "Cl dear, "i'rn so wa1•10 .In Ply new FOR NEXT CHRISTMAS, 137 Hilda Rielnnond. Last year I began buying Christmas ,resents as soon as the January sales stteedded the Christmas sales and some of my friends laughed at me. The idea of getting ready, or even begin- ning to get ready, at that early date, was very funny to them and many wore the jokes they made about my thrift, .But when the end of the year rolled routed and the presents emerg- ed casting about one-half what they wot„d before the holiday is December, then it was my turn to joke about the "Dec -it -oil" tribe. So each year, after Christmas, I shall invest in some pres- ents and during the few spare =- meets I have all the year round I shall work on then:. For example. a beautiful pair of tow- els with simple :hemstitching, cost about two-thirds what they sell for now, and some pretty bath towels were less than half price. The bath towels bare the simple crocheted edge so cannmon now. A soiled piece of art linen made a number of cushion cov- ers after the best parts were out into dresser scarfs. The scarfs were edged with a small embroidery design and were soon finished, The beauty of the material carne out 4n the wash tub, and then they were Iaid away. One -such scarf cost 30 cents, but a similar one was shown in the store. for a dollar and a half. Apron material cost less than one-half because it was soiled, and odds and ends of trimmings were on rho remnant counter at a fraction of their cost when clean. A remnant of silk at 25 cents macl.e two dolls' dresses and there was enough left for a little bag. A '.':]hili likes a silk dress for a doll better tltan anything else in the wot;iti. And, by -the -way, dolls sell very reasonably after Christmas. if the bodies are soiled from Handling, a little glove cleaner win make them nearly oe nice, 115 yaw. I have a large box into which I throw the odds and ends I buy, but I never get anything unless IInsow of a, definite use to bo made of it, It is harcl to keep to this stern resolve, but it pays. Just because a thing loops cheap Is no reason why I buy it, It, must prove to ins that I can use it for something both useful and pretty be- fore I invest, I have' soen too many women buy useless things aid fritter - Ing away money, thinking that perhaps. the thhig will come handy sometime, I cannot afford, to buy under _such vague conditions. "But as sure as I begin early some °certaion coulee along and I draw on. tny. Christmas box for a gift, I hoar some women saying. Yes, that is true, but there Is another nide to the quoin tion,' Last summer I was able to draw on my box for a gift that would have coat pre three dollars le the store but out of the box 1t Cost 78 cents, There was no time to matte anything then, so it Was either open the box or go to the store. You may sure i did not go to tbe store ,when tut article that could be replaced email be furnished at that cost. So I. am getting rowdy "Per next Christmas" the whole year through. It ray purse were overflowing with niene7 I ennuis Ince very mach to go shoplift recirlcssly without looking for bat'gaine, but altos all, Blore Is n joy in contriving ens Dimming,and making hmush cut of little that T fancy rich wom011 hover experience. At least, It le well to believe that, for it Helps Mightily in the little ecolhomloa of everyday life and makes giving all the sweeter and more blessed at Christnhas time. The Origin of the Christmas Tree. The history of the Christmas -tree is difficult to trace,' It has been connect - ad with Ygdrasll, the great tree of Norse mythology, and Christmas -trees and May -poles aro known to be relics of that famous Scandinavian Ash. The roots and branches of Ygdrasil, the world -tree, or as it is sometimes called, the Tree of Time, bound together heaven, the earth, and :tell, From it all tribes of nature received nourish- ment. According to a Scandinavian legend of great antiquity the Christ- mas -tree owes its origin to the service tree which sprang from soil that had been drenched with the blood of two lovers who had been foully. murdered. During the Christmas season flaming lights that no wind could extinguish sprang mysteriously from its branches at night, and the practise of llbunllna- tIng the Christmas -tree may, perihaps, be traced to this tradition, which no doubt was strongly influenced by the fact that lights were (and still are) a feature of the Jewish feast of the Chanuea or Lights (December 10). Among the Greeks Christmas iS'ealled the Feast of Lights. Sir George Birdwood }las traced the history of the Christmas -tree to the ancient Egyptian practice of decking houses at the time of the wintersols- tico with branches of the date -palm, the symbol of life triumphant over death, and therefore of perennial life in the renewal of each, bounteous year. ------0• The New Year. New year, coining on apace, What have you to give me? Tering you scathe or bring you grace, Face Inc With alt honest -face: You shall not deceive nt°, —Christine Rossetti "WIth s'Wt1-iN r)i►rorxy► rr,; CNs-istm*M."! 1iln$ I, the Sr>!ie of ireelth 'untold, L 1cilg'; x►'.oula °Beek • '• The world's moat skilful iartlseu4' end 'bid thexu shape, ' With ,jewels and xlletale lino, sone eeeeeeee._: rich ddetgu, •S } .'. s It WO. W be thine. idea I the wit tto write a eennet•pase, il!g lair, And Verne it all, In terms of graceful, flowing rhyme, Words only for your sight: and.thus invite • • • • Your heart's deiigl+t. Had 1 the'skill torinusic rare compose, A song that 'birde would envy as they e'd thejr flight -The ntayotes all true an' d clean none else might hear: - • " • * ;Ilor but your ear. However, lacking wealth to purchase rarest gift And 'wit to write or skil1 to sing; I ' send The gift of nature's lavish dower, from tarry bohvers; * e a . These wondroun flowers. And even had 1 wealth, and "wit and skill with mise, Andeven oould I well bestow all magic three, Still 'would 1 deem them scant to mete, all incomplete, And send as well these .Yuletide -bins- seine sweet. ' - A Christmas Dolly. There four of us girls in the faintly; I(itty;and Maud and Mother and mel And Motherthe'nieeriest one of all When wehuig our stockings along the wareall, Three of us crept down before 'twas light, To see what Santa had left that night: And each of us found a lovely doll; Maud's was French, with a parasol, And a Paris gown and a picture flat, Kitty's was Dutch, and round and fat; Mine was a Jap with beady eyes, Its kimono gaudy with butterflies. But mother's—oh, Mother's was best of all! It wad soft and squirmy and red and small; Not French, nor Russian, nor from Japan, But just a little Canadian! One of its fists was doubled up, The other looked like a rose -leaf cup. Each tiny toe was a round pink pearl, And the fuzz on its head we think will curl. If you know a child whom a dolt would ' please, • I'd be glad to give her my Japanese, For I don't seem tocare for Hop Lee' Slug, • (Since Santa brought us this darling tiling! Hew to Keep Christmas, There is a better thing than the ob- servance of Christmas Day—and that is, keeping Christmas. Are you on lining. to forget what you have- done for other people, and tp re- member what other people have done for you? Are you willing to stoop down and consider the' needs and the desires of little children; to remember the weak- ness and loneliness of people who are - growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and ask your- self whether you love thein enough; to try to understand what those who live in the same house with you really want, without waiting for them to tell You; to trim your lamp so that it will give'more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to slake a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden. for your kindly feelings, with the gate open—are you willing to d0 these things even for: a day? 171en you can. keep Christines. Are you Willing to believe that love Is the strongest thing in the world— stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death—and that the blessed Life whiclh began in Beth- lehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eter- nal Love? Then youcan keep Christ - mast And if'you can keep it for a day, why not always? But you can never keep it alone. —Henry van Dyke. Christmas Maple Creams, Take two cupfuls of shaved melee) sugar and one cupful of cream. Bret to the soft ball stage, or 240 degrees Fahrenheit. Remove from the :ire, add one cupful of chopped butternut meats and beat until it turns seamy. Pour into Daus and cut into sgneree. Place a half of a:nut pleat on top of each sgnar'e. Walnuts may be user] in- stead of the -butternuts. LADS DEO! It is done! Cliuig of bell and roar of guar, Send the tidings up and down., How the belfries rook and reel! How the great bells, pull on peal, Fling the ,joy from town to town 1 For the Lord. On the whirlwind is abroad; In the earthquake He has spoken ; He has smitten with His thunder The troll walla astincledr, And the gates of brass are broken! Did we dare, ' in the agony of pi ayes, Ask for more than Hellas done? When Waw ever His right hancl Over any time or land Stretched las 11OW beneath . the sun ? Ring and swing, Bells a joy'! On morning's wing Send the song of praise abroad With a sound of broken ehtiinfl ',Pell the nations that Ha reigns, Who mole Is Lord and God! • i Riabel Itiplt 1Motlt o; us' 1leeoih• (lxgve Neighbor hood•wonhen,would,:!iave been offgpdsi4 1 y,Allee aoniu11tne's lecture;ou Chrifst' mas bharity.hed it not been for elle 1 the sCboe]-teacher's interpratat!oib of '.00t all neighbiirhoo¢s that „Ova to charity, }leech Grove leads," paid tip, Young on our may home: "I can't understand why, Grandma Wheeier wanted us to hear that '!'hen our littte seboq!•teaoher, whom people outside Beech Grove Nelghbor- hood. call Anne 'Elizabeth':Suttan,:,.pno* tested, "She didn't mean to offend us Tin sure, 11Irs, Yeung, You know charity is. just a .tlmited name for love and' every neighborhood needs all the love that 1t can get," Portia looked straight ahead of her, down the road toward the corner at which the little teacher would turn away from us, ;Stliliy she outlined the plans for theableaux and entertain - anent our club was to leave on Chat, - me Eve at the club house. After the corner had been passed and she and I were alone, Portia told me that. Anna and Clarke Anderson, Wilt) was Portia's best -beloved brother, were not to marry In the spring. "They've quarreled again," she euded. "Meaning Clarke has quarreled," I thought to myself. I knew Clarke Anderson, Aloud I said, "Why, it Will spoil our Christmas!" • However little Anne, In the way that aelmol-teachers have of forget- ting themselves, valiantly tried to for- get and go on with our Christmas en- tertainment, A few days later she called a special meeting of the neigh- borhood women. Jamie brought me news of it when he a came home from school. "I think she's going to give the mothers our Christmas letters;" he said wisely. "She. had us write them to -day," John laugbed. "Far-seeing boy!" he remarked after Jamie had left the room "Guess you'd better write one and give it to the teacher. Or do you know what you want?" 1 shook my head. I could not tell him that I was thinking of littte Anne's romance and that probably she was the only person in Beech Grove Neigh- borhood this year who would be lonely at,Christmas time. 'I thought of it all tho' way' to :the club house,; "Before I give'you-mothra your own cihiidrien's letters; I want to read one frim Bennie- Newton," Anne told us after 9rax1 hna Wheeler had called the meeting"to order. '' • Thescrawly little letter was handed from one to the other, Bennie New- ton had so many brothers and sisters that his mother seldom could come to our meetings. This time she was ab- sent, "Dear Santy Klouse," he had writ- ten. "This year I want you to be square with us Newton children, There's more of us than in any other family hi this nayborhood and we al- ways get the littlest Christmas tree of all. Now if their aint enough big trees to go around won't you be square and, bring everybody a little one? "Yours Respectably, "Benjamin Newton- "P,S.—I doant mind the little tree myself. It's for the other kids, I doant want you to hnalce a difference," Grandma was wiping the tears from her eyes before the letter lied gone around the r000?. Portia Young forgot the animosity she had seemed to feel toward the little teacher and siring to her feet. "Let's see that that young - star. has the biggest tree in the neigh- borhood!" she said. "He deserves it" When Mrs, Harris tried to speak, she could not for a sob choked her. Little Anne, dry-eyed and Woefully sad, talked gently to us. "We couldn't do that without hurting his mother," she said, Portia very kindly asked Anne if she knew any way to get a big tree for the Newton children without offending. Anne nodded her dusky head and stood tip to talk, her dark oyes still sad but strangely alive as if with a great pur- pose. "Bennie Newton isn't the only child in this neighborhood who wonders over i the difference in the size of Christmas trees," sluo told us. "Lots of littte hearts ache and are silent over smell, Or trees than their neighbors have. The only way for us to bring happiness to everyone is to have one big tree for us all at our club house—A, commhhnity. Christmas tree as some of you have already mentioned. "But having it will not be enough. It must be the only Ciiriatmas tree 111 the neighbol'hood. We'll all have to give up our individual Christmas trees in favor of this one, -Don't you see how it would loop for all to have one ' great tree together and then after go- ing home for some of us to have ether Christmas trees? That" ---there was a little catch in her throat—"that wouldn't be square either." Grandma Wheeler's white head nod- ded approvlul. So did several °thsrs. A few hesitating ones showed signs of I PUS TRE y agrr;, i"t`het woulSl ``1s real ,•hrhtitexn4nt' said, Gfi'aedxna, "Lova," .Corrected: Anne gently move, ,te the word that desonibes What wo Fleoeh Grove people feel, We Won't bo lgtving 01 t'eeeivixig but oharinfi'. Un' the Rrst Clxristxnae ttveryoue nhafwd, the same G1ft,; . Mb:40"-1't you lliie our children in Beech Grove Neighborhood to feel that way about Christmas?" • The•moriftug after: We had decided to , have the community 'tree we awolte with it lova that before had lust lain dormant, now chive in our ltearta, It was' a love'that was the basis Roe uni versal brotherhood, Without mnen- ttoning it f9 were aii drawn together the mysterious way that love leas of uniting people. Ilosy our tree grew; The Christmas• .. tableaux dwarfed beside it, If the hall' in our Clui1. househad not o;ctondodi past thee second story up to the very:. rafters of the building, Iain afraid the tree would have outgrown 11. "At fleet I was a little afraid of the , idea," !Mrs. Newton told ua as she helped Portiit Young tie the balls to the tree's lower branches. <'I was afraid that Bennie might not be satin fled with a tree that belonged to every one, Dennie is hard to understand." "Caste le forever abolished by a cog* munity Christmas tree," prophesied Portia Young's husband. "It makes you people who have 0!1113lreu all the year round, share them impartially with us." He was helping Lucien Wheeler fasten the lncandescents to the top branches' of the tree. They talked all the time they were working although they had not been friends since they quarreled oven a boundary fence five years ago. That same night as John and I sat by our grate, he told nee, "I'm begin. ning to think your tree is a wonderful thing after all. It's going to make the older people as happy as it will the children." "All but Anue Sutton," I answered. "Clarke Anderson hasn't corns near the tree. If some one could only got him there so that he could see bow sad her eyes are then everything would be all right. No one can even interest him in it. Portia says it's impossible,. I've a notion to try myself." John laid his hand over mine. "No," he said firmly. .."Clarke's hot-headed and stubborn. Besides I don't like to meddle in such affairs." After that I tried not to look into Anne Seitton's' eyes but whenever she talked I thought I heard a wistful note e in her voice: One day John too heard it. The next afternoon he brought Clarke home with him to supper, While I was making my yeast biscuit they sat in the living room talking. "The trouble with you and Anne that you quarrel so much is because you are too self-centered, Clarke," I heard John say, "Mother and I used to have a great many sharp words ; when we thought just of ourselves and lived for. ourselves. Now, that we are interested in many otbeic people, we don't quarrel. When you get to thiilk" `-arta Ing of your neighbors and grow .in- terested in their lives, there's a lint• versal feeling comes into your heart that takes all of the selfish pettiness away. Yom won't quarrel then.,', Clarke laughed scornfully, "I prsfer a home feeling," ho said. "It would be more attractive to me." "You'll conte to the tree?" John sug- gested. "No." Clarke was gruff. Yet he did come although it took all John's persuasive powers to bring hint. I dill not see hint until the school children began singing their carols on the first night, Christmas Eve. Then I forgot Mini, for the lights were flashed on the great tree and, together, every one 1n Beech Grove saw their universal gift. Something gripped my heart that made m0 feel as if I were in another world, a world in which you and I did not exist but Suet WE did. Mrs. Harris, who was standing next to me, reached out and took my hand. It was as If we were renewing our friendship. Slowly hooked around at my neighbors' faces. They too were swayed by that understanding. While the last carol was being sung I saw John again but Clarice Anderson was not with him. I turned diy' head enol there close to my 'shoulder were the little school teacher and Clarke. The sad look had left her eyes and in bis there was more than joy; there was understanding. He too now knew the universal feeling that was Invad- ing Beech Grove Neighborhood, I did not need to worry any longer about our rotuance. While I was looking for our Jamie so that we could go itonto, little Ben- nie Newton slipped his hand into urine. 'I know a secret," he whispered radiantly. "That tree ain't all a whole tree at all. It's got lots of little ones all spliced to that biggest one. I guess Santy Claus made it out of all the trees he aimed to give us kids in this neighborhood." Everyone in Boeeh Grove Neighbor - mod was happy! Christmas Mapie Balls. Three quarts popped corn, ono cup- ful maple sugar, one-half cupful sugar, one tablespoonful butter substitute and one-half teaspoonful salt. Pop corn and pink over, discarding kernels that do not pop, and put in a large kettle, Melt butter substitute in mace -pan and add syrup and sugar, Bring to the boiling point and let boil until mixture will become brittle when triad itt cold water. ' Pour mixture gradually, while Stir- rihlg constantly, over corn which has been sprinkled with salt, Shape into balls, using as little 1210581tl'e as pos- sible. May the Giver of Gifts give unto you That which is Good rind that which is Trite; .. The Will to help and the Conine to tion A heart that °all Sing the whole year tlhrougih Whether the skies be gray or blue, May ilio Giver of Gifts give these, to you, • c, ,• Tidings of Comfort and Joy God rest you; merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born upon this clay, To save us all from Satan's power When wo were gone astray. 0 tidings of comfort and joy! For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas Day, Now to the Lord sing praises, All y0t1 within this pla.e, And with true love and brotherhood ]thele other now embrace: This holy title of Christmas All others cloth efface. 0 tidings, etc. Glory in the Highest! When Christ was born of Xiiu'y free, !n Ilethi°llont that fair citta, Angels sang there with mirth end giboi In blxoelsis Gloria! Tills King is conte to ea''e mankind, ,1s In Scripture tnuthe we rind; Therefore this son,} wo have in mind, , Ifx ]dxceleis Gloria!