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NEW YEAR'S DAY is more gen.
erally celebrated throughout
the world than any other holiday
despite the fact that the new year
does not begin January 1 in many
.eountries.
Advent of the new year is hailed
universally with good will, celebra-
tions, hospitality and, in many coun-
tries, with an exchange of gifts..
Origin of the New Year's celebra-
tion is lost In antiquity. About 3,000
years before the birth ot Christ the
people of Babylonia kept a New
Year's festival which lasted for 11 or
't 12 days,
In the°days of the Roman Empire
the year had only 10 months, begin-
ning with March.
When the months of
January and Feb-
ruary were added to
the calendar, Jan-
uary 1 was desig-
nated as sacred to
Janus who, accord-
ing to mythology,
bad two faces. Ro-
mans believed Janus
looked backward
over, the past year
with one face and turned the other
face to the future. When the Ro-
mans became Christians, the festi-
val still was kept although it was
observed as a day of prayer and
fasting.
The modern trend
of festivities and
merrymakings to
herald the new year
has been in vogue
tor, three or four
hundred years. In
America and
throughout most of
the world celebra-
tions begin on New
Year's Eve.
Forst to Celebrate
New ]fear's Day
Chatham Islands, New Zealand, is
the first place in the world to cele-
brate New Year. A British colony,
the islands are inhabited by 200 per-
Ions,
erIons, largely shepherds.
The islands are at the nearest
starting line of time, and when New
Year arrives its is only 12 noon in'
London and 7 a. m. in New York.
As it dawns on the islands, the
tfew Year begins its race westward
Along the equator et a speed of 1,000
biles an hour. By the time New
lorkers gather to ring in the new
mar, the Islanders are sitting down
b dinner:
How Can I?
Ey Anne Ashley
Q. )How can I remedy dry
hair?
A. A hot oil shampoo is good
for .dry hair. Heat pure olive oil
and apply to the hair and scalp
thoroughly at bedtime, Bind the
Lair with a towel to prevent
staining the bed linen, , and then
next morning wash with a mild,
liquid shampoo. Use this treat-
ment about once a week.
Q. How can I make string
beans retain •a bright color after
cooking?
A. If a pinch of baking soda is
added to string beans -while they
are cooking, it will soften them
and, also preserve their color.
Q. Holy can I' prevent the
thread fro n curling and knotting
while sewing?
A. Before cutting the thread
from the spool, thread the needle
and make, a knot, at the freshly-
cut
reshlycut end of the thread,
• Q. How can I remove oil stains
from carpets?
A. Cover the spot with a paste
made of fuller's earth and water
and let it remain for 24 hours.
Scrub with benzine if the oil is
from the streets.
REAL ORIGIN
January, the first month of the
year, derives its name from the ,
Roma god Janus,
r Because Janus WAS a two-
faced god, represented by the
Romans as looking backward as
well as forward, the idol was
considered n fitting symbol for
the turn of a new year. Standing
firmly at the juncture of the new
and the old, Janus could look
back on the past year and look•
forward to the new.
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CHRONICLES OF GINGER FARM
By Gwendoline P. Clarke
Happy New Year, Everybody!
And won't it be nice to start a
brand new year with .all the trou-
bles and trials of the old year
left, like a heavy pack, on the
road behind us. That new pack we
arc taking along with us into the
New Year is going to feel a little
light and empty for awhile, isn't
it? But it w011 soon fill up a bit—
you'll see,
But I wonder with what? May-
be that is up to ourselves.
Supposing each one of us. starts
out with an empty pack and has
the • opportunity to fill it up with
whatsoever we like—what a vari-
ety of things there wilt bel
p
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This kind of pack is so differ-
ent from other baggage=it will
carry sui.shine or gloom; kind
deeds or selfishness. And strange
to say the weight of the pack de-
pends not so much on how full
it is but what it carries. Kind-
ness and sunshine weigh far less
than selfishness or gloom. No
matter how much happiness we
load there is always room for a
little more. As for kind deeds they
take up hardly any room at all
—and they are so light it is never
any trouble to carry them around.
But, ob toy—just try toting a
few selfish thoughts along with
you and your load is soon as
heavy as lead: And worry—worry
is the worst burden of all. But
that is mainly because of its
heavy wrappings. Take the wrap-
pings away and let tine good,
clean air and sunshine get to the
inside package and immediately it
begins to shrink, and sometimes
evaporates completely, Worry al-
ways acts that way — given the
opportunity, •
a
Just think of the old ,pack you
left with 1047—you will remem-
ber it wasn't the joy and the
laughter, the kindness to the old
folk nor the patience with the
young—they were riot things that
made it heavy, were they? No, it
was the hurt feelings that were
being `carried around the little
petty jealousies, the determination
to "get even,' the discontent and
Unrest—it was those things that
weighed so heavily all the time,
ddn't you thinlc so?
But, oh dear, let's forget about
that old pack -it belongs to the
past, doesn't it? Our concern
now is with 1948, and Here tee are
with a nice new pack .and we are
not going to let it become a
burden, are we? Or, if it does
show any sign of overweight, we'
can at least have a houseclean-
ing—turn the pack inside out, let
in the sunshine, throw out the
gloom, and start all over again.
.But do you knoo what? I
don't think we had :better put in
too many New Year resolutions.
They do seem to clutter things u
so badly. They have a trice ap
pearance, and you don't like to .b
rough and throw theist out, bit
after all what good are they when
they are just shoved on one sid
and forgotten? They are some
thing -like a pretty girt witliou
.any worthwhile personality—nit
looking but useless.
There is another thing the
weighs down a pack rather badly
and that is debts. Oh my, yes
debts can get terribly, heavy! Th
Chinese realised that long ago s
what do they do? They pay every-
one they owe before the old year
dies and then they are all "felly,
velly" ]sappy. Maybe we cant t al
do that—sometimes it isn't even
good business—but . t least we
can look after the little bills that
should be paid. , We might at least
clear up the nuisance debts—the
$1.50 owing at the grocer's, that
$2.90 at the butcher's for meat
sent out with the mailman, and
for the apron that Bill brought
home 011 approval. Why add to
the work of the store -keeper by
axing him "send these little ac-
ounts out tine and again. Of
ourse we are being kind to the
government. Every stamp that is
ought adds" to its revenue,
Well folks, that's my New
Year's message—the best of luck
o you, and may your pack be
ight the whole year through,
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New Year
QUOTES
"The object of a new year 'is 120
that we should have a new year. It.
is that we should have a new soul
and a new nose; new feet, a new
backbone, new ears, and new oyes.
. Unless a man starts afresh
about things, he will certainly do
nothing effective.... Unless a man
be born again, he shall byno means
enter into the kingdom of heaven,"
—G. E. Chesterton.
• • •
"New leaves, to
be sure! Let them
turn them that are
ashamed of their
old ones."
—Edward Payson
Powell.
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'Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year Is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true."
—Alfred Tennyson.
•
"We are bound,
by every rule of
Justice and equity,
to give the New
Year credit for be -
Mg a good one
Until he proves him-
self unworthy the
confidence we repose in him."
—Charles Dickens,
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�CYi1 Rill TAL 1.J a •
bfoliclay Breads
i. ors a good, basic sweet bread,
this...old-time favorite just can't
be beaten. The Swedish tea -ring
is an espec;111y. good Holiday
season-, brews.
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Basic Cottee Cake Dough
cup butter and % cup
dripping or
1 cup chicken fat
2 calces yeast
.4 cup water, cool
]teaspoon sugar
• 1 cup sugar
3 eggs
2 cups warm milk
Flour, enough to make a
soft dough (6 to '7 cups)
Soak -yeast in water with 1 tea
spoon sugar and cover. Let stand
while you cream shortening with
sugar, Add eggs, milk and yeast
solution. Beat in flour to make a
soft dough, Roll out on floured
board. Let rise on board. Cover
with a mixture of butter and su-
gar. • Roll into loaf shape. Sprin-
kle , ith suga and cinnamon.
Belle on greased baking sheet or
in greased' loaf pan. for 15 min-
utes a' 300 degrees T, and then at
800 degrees F. until done, about
30 minutes longer.
Swedish Tea Ring
Roll out coffee cake dough into
rectangle, Sprinkle with a mix -
hire of butter and sugar, cinna-
mon, pecans and candied fruits.
Roll up as for jelly roll. Lay on
greased baking sheet and 'form
into ring, Cut with scissors at 1 -
inch intervals, then turn each cut
section on its side to form. Swe-
dish Tea Ring. Cover 'and let rise
• until doulle. in bulk. Brush with
egg yolk -mi.^d with 1 teaspoon
water. Bake at 350 degrees F. un-
til done about 25 minutes.
Filled Rolls
These are good: cook dried apri-
cots with sugar. Add ,grated or-
ange rind to bast,: dough. Roll'
dough into little pieces. Fill with
apricot mixture. Fold dough over
filling. Cover wit' .crumbs of sin
gar, butte and flour an:: let rolls
rise. Bake at 375 F. until nicely
browned.
Quick -breads should be 011 your
holiday list, too. Here are some
good ones.
Holiday Bread'.
204 cups sifted flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
rd cup sugar
134 teaspoats salt
?4 cup chopped candied citron ,
cup rn
;. tablescupoonsrats chopped candied
lepton peel
2 tablespoons chopped candied
ies
? cupcherrchopped nuts
l egg
'4. cup corn syrup
1 cup milk
34 cup melted shortening
Sift together flour, baking pow-
der, sugar, and salt' Add fruits and
nuts. Beat e, sirup; milk and
shortening. Ag'
to flour mixture,
stirring only enough to moisten
flour. Pour •into well -greased loaf
pan, ,134 x 8% inches. Bake, in
moderate oven (375 F,) about 1
hour. Makes 1 loaf.
Fruited Coffee Square
1% cups sifted enriched flour
•2 teaspoons .baking powder
:2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
T ' cup lig t corn sirup or
honey
Ya cup milk
e tablespoons melted short-.
ening
Cranberry Filling
1 cup ground cranberries
'l: cup mincemeat
2 tablespoons sugar
Crumb Topping
;q enriched flour
2 tacupblespoons butter
ry cup sugar
Sift together flour, baking powd'
er and salt. Beat egg, add sirup or
honey, milk and shortening., Blend
thoroughly. •Add to flour mixture,
stirring only enough to • moisten
flour. Pour into greased pan 8 x 8-
x 2 inches. Spread Cranberry Fil-
ling over top, sprinkle with Crumb
Topping, Bake in moderate oven
(3.75 F.) about 35 minutes, Makes •
1 coffee square.
So You're Going
On.A World Tour!
Most people like to plan tours 08
the world,even if they have na
intention of ever actually taking
one. So here's a quiz regarding
various places on the world's sur-
face — with a choice of locations
'under each. You're to try and
tell the correct ones. The answers
will be found, upside-down, under-
neath.
1. THE DOLOMITES ARE '-es
a. Mountains in Italy; b. a ` disc
trict in the Alps;, cl. hills in 'Dale
matin.
2. THE HEBRIDES ARE —
a, Islands off Scotland; b. Lakes
in New Zealand; c. English hills.
3. THE CRIMEA IS
a, A river in Turkey; b. a region
in Alaska; c. a peninsula in South
Russia.
4. THE GHOR IS
a. 4 cave in Rentucky; b, o.
mountain in Tibet; c. a' Dead Sea
valley.
6. THE SUDAN IS —
a. A. South African plein; Is, re,
gion in North Africa; c. an ancient
city .of Egypt,
8. THE BANAT IS. —
a. A farm district in Yugoslavia)
E ; Japanese mountain range; c. But.
garian lake,
7, THE APPENINES ARE —
a, Islands in the Pacific; b, Grey
clan peninsulas; c. Mountains of
Italy.
8, THE RAND IS
a. Welsh mining district; b. hunt-
ing district in Sweden; e. African
gold territory.
9. THE ANTILLES ARE —
a. Mountains in Peru; b. M'exi'
can desert regions; c. The West
Indies.
10. THE DECAN IS --
a. A river in Mesopotamia; b. hill
country in Northern Alberta; c. a
region in India.
THE ANSWERS.
1—B; 2—A; 3-C; 4—C; 5—B1 ..,
8—A; 7—C; 8—C; 9—C; 10—C.
WHEN VISITING TORONTO MAKE YOUR HOME AT
THE
WARWICK HOTEL
Every room with Nati.. mowerand radio.
Rates from $200 single.
CENTRAL Permanent atietta invited. MODERN
Eaeellent Cu`eine.
Cor. Jarvis and Dundas Sts. 160 Dundas St. E.
Troops Make Reds Scramble in Nice—This n,
ist-sponsored strike demonstration in Nice ju
Once -defiant Reds are falling all over each of
troops (lower left and centre) advance with
had been unable to control the snob,
ad scramble was what happened to a Comuttul-
st before order was restored in that French city.
her (top of photo) to escape as French Colonial
machine guns and rifles. A few gendarmes, who
can be seen scattered through crowd.
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