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Tor CLiistmar,Dinner'..., celery wlth'sllverkniie, Dreaarng:!.
One-quarter cup cream,' *hipped;
two. tablgepoanfelselelnon ate cel olLe.
tablespoonful sugar, -paprika: Serve
on ;lettuce' hearts:''; • `
I'iidt Salad.—Three medium tined.
apples cut'fine, fol=, stelka•of.celery
cut'- fine, .two .bananas sliced, one:
cupful. English walnuts' chopped
fine, a pinch -of salt, and one tea-
spoonful of: sugar. Serve - with may-
onnaise dressing.
Apple Salad.—Usered skinned
apples and allow one large apple to
each person to be served. Out a
slice from the stem end of each ap-
ple and, scoop out the centres; place
the apple .shells in cold water to
prevent them turning.derk. 'Throw
away all the seeds, taking the cen-
ters from the apples, and cut the
pulp in small pieces; add equal
amounts of chopped celery and
chopped ' nuts; mix with equal
amounts of salad dressing and
whipped cream. . Remove apples
from water and wipe dry; fill with
mixture. Garnish salad'''plates and
place a filled apple on each plate,
pour a teaspoonful of dressing over
each apple,, and serve immediately,
or apples' will turn dark.
tCrdnberelen' Remove all .letveti
feeffieneiefes glean afeb,er esse ,eeeeel :and
add 'jipte of one lemon; four. _tart
apples sliced thin. three •or four
sticky of oinnamon, one-ihaff cusp of
Water. and :MOO: and -oneah'alf•=cups
of sugar,. Boil slowly, tiventy rain-
• Orange Parfait: —• Dissolve one
heaping teaspoonful powdered gela-
tin in one-half cup of boiling water,
add one cup sugar and one pint of
cream whipped stiff and ear until
it begins to thicken, then add ono
glassful of orange marmalade and
ono teaspoonful orange flower wa-
ter. Peck in ice 'and salt and let
ripen, for three hours. Delicious is
aserve with a Christmas dinner,
Turkey -Dressing,- Three-fourths
cup of butter, six. eggs, one teble-
spoonfnl sugar, one cup currants,
one cup 'sultana gaisine, one-quar-
ter cupcitron cut into small pieces,
a little salt, wineglass of sherry or.
brandy, five or six pieced Dutch
toast or dry bread grated fine. Stir
the butter and eggs, to a cream; add
life sugar and salt. Just before
filling it into the turkey breast add
the bread crumbs and whites of
eggs beaten well to a froth, then
currants, raisins, and citron, lastly
the sherry. }.
Homemade Mints. — Make <a fon-
dant of two cups sugar, one-half
cup clear syrup, one-half cup water.
Boil to a loft ball stage, partly
cool, then beat till cold. Melt un-
til it will run from a spoon a small
portion ata time in a cup set in
boiling water.. Color with fruit
coloring and flavor the white with
peppermint, the pink or other col-
ors with wintergreen. Drop small
spoonfuls on paraffin paper and let,
harden. With a little practice one
can make them of equal size: These
are. superior -to the ones sold in
confectionries and can be made for.
a few cents a pound.
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if you have ever used -
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have some beauties, and
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HOUSE PHONE 12
,OFFICE PHONE 140
A. J. HOLLOWAY
BUSINESS AND
SHORTHAND
Subjects taught by expert instructors
at the
Puddings..
English Plum. Pudding.—One tea
cup sweet milk, one tea cup sugar,
three well beaten eggs, two pounds
sliced raisins, one and one-half
pounds finely chopped suet, flour
enough to make a stiff batter. Tie
loosely in scalded and well floured
pudding cloth, boil five hours in
plenty of waiter; keep water boiling
all the time. Use any prepared
sauce that is not too rich.
Plum Pudding. -One cupful finely
chopped beef suet, two cupfuls fine
bresdcrumbs, one cupful sugar, one
cupful seeded raisins, one cupful
well washed currants, cup of chop-
ped blanched almonds, half cupful
of citron sliced thin, one teaspoon-
ful of salt, one of cloves, two of cin-
namon, half a grated nutmeg; four
.t well beaten eggs; dissolve one tea-
spoonful of soda in a tablespoonful
of warm water •; flour fruit thor-
oughly from pint of flour, then mix
remainder as 'follows : In ° large
bowl put the well beaten eggs, su-
gar, spices, and salt in one cupful
of milk, stir in fruit, chopped nuts,
breadcrumbs, and suet, putting in
soda last; add enough floor to make
fruit stick together, which will take
all of the pint. Pail or ttsam four
hours. Serve with wine or brandy
or any well flavored sauce.
Holiday Pudding. -- One cup of
chopped suet, one cup of molasses,
one cup sugar, one tap sour milk,
one teaspoonful soda dissolved in a
little hot water, three cups flour,
Bono pinch salt, one cup raisins
chopped coarse, one cup each of
chopped figs and walnuts makes a
/I• very 'rich pudding when added to
batter. Also, for variety; a cupful
of chopped citron may be used.
Steam three hours. Serve warm
with • vanilla or any preferable
sauce. This pudding can be made
several days before wanted and re -
steamed and is as delicious as when
first made. Can be resteamed for
several meals for small family.
Steam in steamer in pan large
enough to allow for pudding to rise,
azekdiated
Y, M. C. A, BLDG,.
LONDON, ONT.
Students assisted to positions. College
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free. Enter any time.
J.W: Westervelt 3. W.Westervelt,Jr.
Principal Mitered Alienated
17 .. Vice -Principal
CENTRAL
STRATFORD. ONT.
TTTDENTS may enter our
11/4.3 elereas at any time. Those
who enter now will have
an advantage over ;those who
cannot enter till the New
Year. • Our counsel in Com
mercial, S.horthandeand Tele-
• graphy departments are •
thorough and praetical. We
offer you advantages not
offered elsewhere in the Pro-
vince.
Salads.
Green and White Salad.—One can -
Get our free catalogue and pineapple sliced, one-half pound
see if it interests you. I Malaga grapes, one stalk small cel-
ery, one-quarter
el-ery,-one-quarter pound blanched
almonds. Cut pine apple into small
cubes, celery into small pieces; skin
grapes and cutin halves, Put pine-
apple and grapes into juice of two
oranges and one lemoh and put on
Beauty may be only skin deep, ice twelve hours, Drain in colan-
but some people are mighty thick der. Put almonds and celery into
skinned. I water. Drain in colander: Cut
D. A. MCLACHLAN,
Principal.
THIS IS A STORE OF •
DEPENDABLE
,
VALUES
S
The average man needs all the
pat,ience'he has and then Soule.
It was his marriage day, and the
best Man: was doing his best to
puke the groom brace up,,
'Where's your ner re, old man 2'''
he asked, "Why, you're shaking
like a leaf, "I know I aim chat -
eared the groom.' "But tete is •a
ilex P w1'ecliing bole for iZ•ie I'1's
gob sonic eacuse to be frightened, I
haven't Ifi T ve never been: m rr rird
before." "Of couree y m haven, i,,'
soothed the plospceiivo father -in-
,;
law. If you had youd he great',
deal more scaicd'than you ar•
s"
A store that keeps in touch with the constantly
changing jewelry styles.
A store that sells the 'same goods as those sold in
the better stores all overthe country—
And sells' them, too, at as low prices as ANY STORE'.
CAN,
Everything we show you can be depended upon to
BE exactly what we tell you it is.
' This is so from Tie Holders' at a quarter to Diamonds.
And it matters not what you may require nor when,
if it belongs to a Jewelry stock, it's here.
Prove these things any time occasion arises.
unter
JEWELER and ISSUER' OF
MARRIAGE LICf;NSE5
Cakes.
White Fruit Cake.—Two cups of
sugar sifted three times, three-
quarters cup of butter. Work but
ter and sugar to a cream and add
one-half cupful of milk filled up
with water, three and one-half cups
of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, sifted three times. Stir
thoroughly and Ladd the beaten
whites of five eggs. Flavor with
almond. .Filling: Grind one-half
cup each of raisins, figs, citron and
English walnuts, add some ground
pineapple, a little of the juice. Boil
two .cups of sugar until it threads,
and pour on the unbeaten whites of
twoeggs; beat until quite thick,
then add the fruit; stir all toga-
'her;in between layers and on top
'over with the halves of English
walnuts. -Delicious. •
Royal Fruit Calm—This is a large
recipe, snaking three loaves. Can
be kept for a year or longer. Five
cupfuls of flour, one and one-half
cupfuls each of sugar and butter,
one-half a milk, cosl ucup-
ful
fof
of molasses, one teaspoonful of
soda, two teaspoonfuls each of all-
spice and cloves, two tablespoonfuls
of cinnamon, five eggs, one nutmeg,
two pounds of raisins, three pounds
of currants, one and one-half
pounds of citron; bake about one
hour or longer in a slow oven,
Christmas Confection. — A new
Christmas confection, delicious and
quickly made, es made by cutting
rich fruit Bake thinly and dipping
squares, triangles, or circles in
melted sweet chocoate. This bon-
bon is a delightful "find" in the
Christmas box.
Pumpkin for Christmas.
Pumpkin Chips.— Pumpkin chips
are giete a novelty. Select a deep
colored pumpkin, peel, and slice
thin; to ea_li pound, of chips add a
pound of sugar and a gill of lemon
juice, with the grated lemon rind;
stir well and let stand over night;
cook slowly until tender; then skim
the chips out, let them stand two
days to get firm, then put them in
a jar with just enough syrup to keep
them moist. These are often taken
for an expensive imported pre-
serve, No one recognizes the ple-
beian pumpkin. Spices may be
added if liked.
Individual Pumpkin Pie. -Mix to-
gether one and one-half cupfuls of
dry cooked pumpkin, one-half cup-
ful of sugar, one cupful of milk,
two well -beaten eggs, two table-
spoonfuls Sof molasses, two table-
spoonfuls of melted butter, one-half
teaspoonful of allspice, one-half
teaspoonful of cinnamon, and a
little salt, Tour into smell pastry
lined tine"and bake a nice golden
brown,
Candies.
Delicious Fudge. --Two cupfuls of
granulated sugar, one cupful milk,
two heaping tablespoonfuls cocoa,
and a. small piece of butter. Cook
until it will form a: soft ball in cold
water. While the fudge is cooking
beat the white of one egg stiff. Take
the fudge from the stove when clone
and stir in the egg, beating the
mixture until smooth and until it
begins to thicken aoanewhat. Then
.stir inone-half cupful black wal-
nut meats and pour into a buttered
tin. When cool cut into squares
and serve. The white of the egg
keeps the fudge irons drying out,
and it may be kept 'for some time
without becoming hard and brittle.
Opera CI'eants. —Part 1 : Three
cups sugar, one cup cern syrup,
one-half cup water. ,Part, 2: Two-
thirds, cup sugar, one-third cup of
water. Boil part 1 without stirring
until, brittle when dropped -in wa-
ter:. Boil part 2 until a soft ball
can be formed. Beatthe whites of
Here's
A Friend
Indeed'
Constipation is the bane of old
age—harsh cathartics aggro.-
vale,
ggravale, avoid them and use Chem.,
bcrnains Tablets, thc'ialldeot and
gentlest of lanbtives—best for the
Yuen+;, the middlc'cood end the old.
250, bott10-Dru'4tete and Dcalorst
or by mil.
"Cbi...04 0o it'iodicive Co. 0,ien''t.
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kdSlu
Especially where there are
children' in the house, but
Panshine makes • doors,'
floors, tables,and eupa+
boards, wondrous Glean-.
a.joy to look on. It 'shines•
everything—does
the magic cleanser
Panshine absorbs dirt
and grease anis grime
as nothing else • does.
It makesthe disagree-
able part of kitchen
work and cleaning,
scouring and
scrubbing simple
and easy. Poet-
tivelywill not harm
She hands.
TeeSh"' 1Oce
atYe..
t:, -' �Z.P4 At All Grocers 'v"Ritiflserrot
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..�„ .`Et�miem'.
three eggs. Pour part 2 into eggs,
then add part 3, beating all the
time, d' one-half pound Eng-
lish whelnuts; some candiedcherries
and pineapple, Flavor with vanilla..
FIRST CJCRIST1IIAS°'TOWN.
Bethlehem Is No Longer a Typical
Syrian Village.
With the thought of the whole
•civilized world turning toward the
town of Nativity, and moat Chris-
tians wishing thee they might see
for themselves the scene of the
Christmas event, it is rather dis-
illusioning to have a candid tra-
veller confess .that Bethlehem to-
day is not at all like the Bethlehem
of 1,900 years ago. Like many of
the other pilgrimage sites., the place
he a, great disappointment. The
very fact of its celebrity has made
Bethlehem over. One looks'in vain
to -day for any' semblance, of the vil-
lage ,that' greeted the anxious eyes
of Joseph as he led his young bride
to the ancestral abode for the Ro-
man census. Only the hills remain
as they were when the surprised
shepherds heard the first Christmas
choir, and even these have been
marked by a new . order of life,
writes a visitor to Bethlehem,
The 'first impression of Bethlehem
is that it is larger, more imposing,
and more prosperous than the other
towns of Syria. let has a smaller
percentage of mud huts, and an ex-
traordinary. array of modern build-
ings of brick and stone, built in
western style.. These are the
schools and churches and consents
which religious devotion has plant-
ed at the scene of the greatest in
the history of Cltristendom.
Through the open windows, as
one goes along Bethlehem's main
street, the town now having a pop-
ulation of about 4,000, one sees the
pearl workers, men and women and
children, at their dusty task of
carving buttons and ornaments
from mother-of-pearl. The shells
are taken to Bethlehem from Red
Sea points and the product is die-
tributed all over the world,
The people of Bethlehem are
Christians, mostly of the Greek
church. Even a casual observer
sees the strong admixture of Euro-
pean bleed in the population and
recalls that the Crusaders once held
tho town and established their life
there. The old crusaders left other
traces of their presence in Pelee -
tine than the castles which mark
strategic points and the coins which
farmers occasionally dig up in the
field. The very dress of the Beth-
lehem women, with its high head.
gear, is apparently a survival of a
European fashion of the Middle
Ages, •
Just as there has neves- been and
doubt about the site of Bethlehem,
so there is also a general agree-
ment` as to the authenticity of the
cave which is covered by the
Church of. the Nativity, In the
second century strong tradition
pointed to this site its that of the
wonder birth. Then, of Course,
Bethlehem ;was different, more like
the hillside villages which one may
see in northern Syria, oft the tour-
ist routes,
The inn that harbored Joseph
and Mary was ouch a hillside khan
as I myself have frequently Dean•
pied. Indeed, on Christmas eve,.
two years ago, I chanced to sojourn
in a village on the side of a hill half
way between the ' Mediterranean
and she Tigris river, where the eon-
ditions and the dress were just as
primitive as can bet famed anywhere
in the world. '.Dhe hearses were one;
storey; high, and usually the rear..
r•ooni was in 'he nature of a cave
dug in the earth or the limestone,
Bethlehem was a 4hillSide village -of
this sort.
A peasant, people, living as close
to their animals ss_ the .Syri•eus.do,'
count it no burden 'te share thrt'
warmth of rho room set apart for'
the driving and riding =heels.. In
my Christmas khan where, by the
way, there was just knoll a by
as Mary used, I found that the
family of the innkeeper hacl re-
treated to the rear of the '.cave
moat with the houses, and it was
thrilling on Chrrsdsi•ias Eve in this
dark, low-cei.led apse tnaarnt, with
its rough, emoke~goverul cc iters, to.
hear the law ere of a little' baby.
'Phase whoewould.sieeth Bythleh ea
of _Joseph, slid Mary; should go not
to Bethlehem, bee oil the beaten
tractt where tits Orient -eft pi r, is•'
'bailees may be fomncl
The limese 5's•t,lail elf,. is
ovorinid ivitl'rtonhaltgtn-pti soil 1, ,rnis
masts, lamps and candles., saint the
other tawdry emblems of supersti-
tious reverence; that its character
can scarcely be seen, In 'the floor
is laid a large silver star. There is
a lack of dignity and simplicity and
appropriateness in the present set-
ting of the cave that makes the
traveller feel that this is the most
un-Clrristmasy of 'alt spots on
earth; for peace and good -will have
no abode here.
To the traveller from: the western
continent, the greatest marvel to
be. found in Bethlehem is the fact
that the spirit which was born in
the manger, andw•hich'has been re-
sponsible for the new life of the.
western world, has returned to the
place of its origin, there to break
the ages -old chains of ignorance
and oppression. Bethlehem 'has
within the last few years been shak-
en to its Centre by a great economic
and social crisis, which can best be
described as the Americanization
of the birthplace of Christ.
D
CMERRY
CHRis-rMS
R.
Row to Give Presents.
Why is it that people in selecting
presents so often say, "Oh, yes,
that will do for so-and-so."
This means that something qi ite
unsuitable is to be offered to so-
and=so, but tliat the giver's con-
scienec' is eased by the fact that she
has given ''a present."
The giving of presents is really an
art, and one, too, which entails a
good deal of trouble. One natural-
ly hopes that the recipient will have
pleasure in one's gift, and;'surely
that is worth some trouble.
Some people buy a lot of things
without the slightest regard for
whom they are 'intended. The 1'e -
suit is a general mass' of things,
books, gloves; sweets, needle cases,'
and so on, which have to be planted
on a collection of "sisters and cous-
ins and aunts" without any, or at
least very little, regard' to the in-
dividual taste.
Better far is it to choose some
quite small .present provided it will
really give pleasure to the re-
cipient.
For the lady with nimble fingers
the little presents she makes her-
self, costing only a few cents, will
often give more pleasure than the
most expensive thing bought at
random.
Men find much difficulty in select-
ing presents'. Let them remember
that pot flowers are always accept.
able.
For the reader, books never come
amiss: Where there are young
people, sweets, fruits, crackers, and
so forth are always acceptable, but
with everything let the individual-
ity of the sender be seen. 'Write a
little note or a few words of greett,.
ing,on a Christmas card or visiting
card.
It is in these, Iittle ways that the
thoughtfulness of the sender is seen
and appreciated.
—_ .e
Nothing makes a man so sad as
to have a girl jolly him.
If a man has no end in view it is
easy to see his,,'Rnish.