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It was Ohristmas Day. The snow
watt falling heavily ,in the streets.
Them was holiday cheer in the
The ,Christmas bells rang out their
message of glad:.ess. The day seemed
- made for happiness.
Arline, who had invited twelve
Meads for Ohristmas dinner, stood
the'front window wailing for her
party to arrive. As she waited many
sleighs flew by and happy voices rang
out, but she sew or heat:d not, for she
was lost in :leap thought.
Arline hhci proinised to give Du�,i��iley
Grant her answer on Christmas Day,
and although she had had tvvo• months
to weigh this.vital subject ehe"had not
yet conte to a decision. Dudley was
conaiderecel by all the first families as
'the most eligible young man of Ar -
line's circle. He was a clean, good-
looking, prosperous. healthy young
man of fine Family. If Arline had told
any of her friends that she hesitated
accepting this paragon they would
have raised their hands in honor and
cried, "What more does she want?"
•She herself didn't know. That was
tare trout 1e. • When he was ziot near
she felt •she••lover] bine; but when he'
was with- her'_oisten• she,• became dis-
sa'tieited. Deep in .her 'heart was a
litr4e uncertainty.
Once he had angrily kicked her bro-,
tner's small (ramp dog: This, she nould •
tWt forget. And then again, he made
eport of her settlement work and her,
settlement friends. This she could •
not forglve. But she surely cared a
great deal for him, whether the .feel-
ing watt love or mot—that was the
question.
Turning toward, the library table
she: tenderly toyed with the rich red
roses that stood in the high Japanese
vase. "He surely is thoughtful," she
murmured.
"My love is like a red, red -rose,"
sang out her small brother, with a
twinkle in his eye as he , passed
through the room. "Say, Sis, can I
be best pian?"
• A joyous confusion was heard and
the merry dinner party carne bound-
ing up the front stairs.
"We're starved," cried.Harvey. "We
collected; one by one,• as we carne along
—and we've brought our appetites
with- us,"
"That's good news," laughed Arline
with _sparkling eyes, "for we have the
biggest goose In goosedom for dinner
and the rest of the family are going
to Auntie's. Mother says we should
leave nothing but the bones." '
"But where is Dr. Keith?" asked
Bernice as they removed their wraps,
"He es the only one missing."
"Dr. Keith?" ex -claimed Dudley in
surprise- • "& 1inne; why- nide you inrritel
that pian who lives in the settle-
rnene ?"
"Because be is a friend of mine,"
answered the young woman simply.
"He just telephoned, however, that he
would ire unable to comeno our Christ-
ina* dinner as he had an emergency
call. A doctor never can call his time
his own, you know."
"I suppose not," asserted Dudley,
with a •shrugs .,of lint shoulders, "if he
spends hair bis time with:crying slum
babies. This Keith cares more for
his settlement practice than for all his
millionaire patients put together. I
wager this `hurry call' 'was only to
some little, glitter 'creature."
Arline tire*. a long breath but .said
nothing.
The. jolly erawd was soon seated
about the beautifully decorated Christ-
mas table. Fun rolled merrily on, but
somehow for Arline there was.a little
rift in the lute of the words, "Only 'a
little gutter creature," kept flashing
aeross her mind.
In the middle of the dinner, as the
laughter was it its heightt the maid
handed a note to. Arline, • remarking
"There's a little boy outside, ma•:''ain.
He says he'll wait for an answer."
Arline. opened the folded Paper and
read:
"My Tiny was thron don bye a
automobeel. Can you eom back
with Jimmy. She Cris for .you.
Pleas corn. I'm sory on ehristtnus
to ask you. She As vete sik.
respectfully Mrs. Huggins."
Without a moment's hesitation. Az-.
bore -arose and .with., n-•littlee trenor••iz
her voice said:
•
"My friendTiny has been-hur';, She
is crying for me. You all will • forgive•
me of I go, won't you? You tan have
just ass good a time without nee, 'tend
Tiny needs limn •
The guests, 'knowing her interest ill
her settlement friends, readily.asaured
her that they would take care . of
themselves --all but Dudley Grant. He
restrained silent. As she went for her
hat and cloak he followed her, pro-
• testing.
"It's all nonsense your tasting •off
in this way—spoiling our whole
Christmas party. Besides, you prom-
ised to tell me . something to -day.
Can't you send one of the maids to
Tiny?" •
"Maids!" gasped Arline, opening
wide her soft gray eyes. "Tiny doesn't
want a maid. She wants -ate."
"Well, I want you too," stated
Grant. "It's absurd for a hostess to
leave her party. Quixotic. There is
a thing as being too conscientious--"
"Good-bye, Dudley," said Arline, ex-
tending her band, and there wad a tone
in her sweet vibrant voice that the
man had novel. heard.
Before long Arline and -Jimmy ar-
rived at the tenement. house. Jimmy
led the way up three flights of stairs,
through a long, narrow, dark hall and
softly opened the door of a dreary
iitble room.
• When Mrs: Huggins saw Arline her
face lit up. through her tears and -she
said, "I knew you would come, honey,
even on Christmas Day:"
"Inn :glad I'm here," softly answer-
ed `Athne' ae„she knelt doyen by the
enai a bed -and placed her soft, -oot.
hanik,on Tiaj's fevered browAt first
in vain she tried to quiet the thildelaut
by tiegreee the little girl became cake,
and ?ate iii` the afternoon said;. back
on her pillow in a deep and 'restful
sleep.
Then -Arline, rising, saw Dr. Keith;
for the :first time since she entered the
room. As they tiptoed inbo the next
room she said, "So ]hie was your
emergency
"Yes, •but you did more for our little
friend than I could," he answered as
he 'gazed upon her with deep, sympa- Jerry s eyesfixed upon him. At o.,�
thetic •eyes. "I knew you wouldn't fail with a smile of tluiek, unembarras
us when Mrs. Huggins sent for you:; neighborliness, he spoke:
God bless you, little woman".. The "'It's Chrlstanaa Eve, 'you know," $i
doctor took both her hands in lv and rid. =Why don't wo get together a
held them tight. bare a fin*� real, old Chriatme
Then again the troublesome Svords, earole?"
"Only a gutter child," flashed across The ingenuous friendlinea+s of il~tel
her mind, and in answer the thought young lather_ stirred an eenseveringt
came, "This is a man," and all at once, chord in Jerry Ci•,rtwright in spite adi
as - a beacon light from the darkness, his intended aloofness. - The irritattes&
she knew her own heart. that had possessed him a moment be«
• Turning away so as to hide her real fore departed. He perched himself en
;feelings, she murmured, "And Tiny
the arm rest of his seat and, a minute
•well get well?" later, the voices -of the two men, by gine,
"She surely will," the doctor an. means .unmelvsiious, rose ~softly in• "lib
-swered, coming close ine her: "And new Came' Upon -the Mx�an glrt• Clear:"
--as you were so auceesefui •v.,itlt one
A couple tri the sec$ oft aheRtl turn
patient an you give your attention to and looked back, ensiling., Soon the
snothenr'' case?" other paeeengere ,in the cee were a
tracteyl,; and gradueily gathered abotz'c'
"Now? To -day? On Chrissttnas?"the origiusl greeep; moat of theist join -
Arline asked in earpriat�e, - ecd• unaffeetedly in the , inglnig. Among
"Yes, to -day and every, other day," these passengers, Jerry naiticed•a•;thhay
Keith ;replied with a quaver m his careevonn-loakintg woman in blank.
s*oiee. U 'ou are the only one who can conte up and• etattd with her arm aloin
cure bim. " an equally thin, anerertiicnooktit$
"Who is he?" .she softly asked under flan ter.
.her breath. } .- ,
. bei"lion ' of Je�ryn_ from*
"A zia •whonee€ls you molt- thsut naiVhther remei tet€ the esittre.of the
Tiny—more-t n-ang one deal)) thai:t thering. ea ']lie: pleassaist-f eel ev r.
kcl_
wee. a Iran who roves yeare s th:,a tilidemei: ,c#tuietiy ressti1tg, a faint .sited
hies heart, with althis acral, with all hies :.in• hsr. ems; the.. e/real" eat Ili
might. fall you accept the ease?' at='atglit, - listening wilt ep :usow
'Tit try;' nntiinurea Arline, and vis •wortc#en But •t+�n:eeliovv 3exry Y�uua ,
Keith opened his Armes without a nia• the eyes of everyuite laatn to turn oft
merit'shesitation she nestled Diose to
httnseii' Not every song praposerl ev:
him. Then raising her radiant face generally, 'known, but .term did hid
she still: whining best to mane everything go.
"Arid on Cha ietmas, tea." It was �surpr»ang the number 'or tuns*
and verses lie wee ahle to remember- ;
the songs of his old Sut%dsteneehoo't
The Christmas Guest. days, They sang theme all un rewt nd-
Twine 1the balsam. alsas,ni coughs that hold edly, with eontagiou:s good will and st
Memories of delight sudden feeling of fcllo'w ti f+er one
Hang the garlands, as of old, another.
'Where the lamplight's ruddy gold At. Wit the bine came for the party
Blossoms on the night. to break up. The traveler's Clsristmeza
ether round the Christmas lire; - Eve was over. Everyone looked the
Place a chair for him better and the happier for tate flit
At the call of love's desire
He will quit the radiant choir—
Saints
hoirSaints and seraphim.
Heave» is love, and .love is hers,
Tender, strong and true.
Lingers now his spirit near,
Christmas 11; a in
a Sleeper.
The young man who boarded thg
tourist sleeping car at Langdon,
berta, on Chrisrtreais Eve was not in ej
good humor. It seemed to him to lb
particularly unpleasant that, on thin
night of all the nights in the year, (hfi
should have to put "up with uneongert
ial surroundings. The negro porter
tucked away his baggage, and he seta
tled himself in his •compartment witk¢,
a feeling that this was to be a Christi,
leas Eve that he •sihould not care too
remember.
In the section directly across th •
aisle,were seated the five membees i
a young family. Something Amen
,titers at once drew Jerry Cartwright'!`
attention. • The mother ' as pl'edeantn.,
faced, with a tired look in her eye*
' that suggested the long, arditouu day:
cep. tt ecel. .The three sleepy` young.
stern eat huddled together on the seas!:
in front, facing baoltward, But it waif
the look of untroubled peace on then'
face of the fattier - that ihterest4
Jerry :most. The car, as usual, w
overheated, and the man 'set In le,
shirt aaleeves, with hie head resting
against the back of the seat. His eye
were •closed, but his lips moved. Raise
ing his head suddenly, he eaug'h•
Christmas Cakes and Cookies
Plain Foundation Cake -•s•e cupful
shortening. }n cupful sugar, 1 egg, M
cupful milk or water, ii teaspoonful
salt, 3 taespoonfuls baking powder. 1
teaspoonirttl vanillas 1 e cupfuls flour.
C'i'easn the, butter and the sugar ihor-
nughiy, then add the well -beaten egg.
Sir: the flour and salt and add alter-
aately with the liquid, keeping the mix-
ture of an even consistcnoy. Mix
quickly, beat .hard and fold in lightly
iho biaking powder sifted over Lite top
and •tine :flavoring, Turn into well -
greased pan and bake in a moderate
oven thirty to 'forty minutes. Make
one layer.
Varietions ot'Plain Foundation Cake.
White Cake; Use three egg whites
in place of the whole egg.
Geld Cake Use tour egg yolks in
place of the whole egg,
,Mocha Cake: Use cold coffee in'
,pla.ce of the liquid called for.
Chocolate Cake: Add two squares
of melted chocolate and a little less
flour,
Nut Cake: Add otic -Half cupful of
ehopped nuts, slightly floured,
Spite Cake: Add one -halt teaspoon-
ful of cinnamon, one bait teaspoonful
• ani tnhted allspice, nutmeg and cloves.
Variations in Tins end Shapes.
Loaf Cake: Bake in a small loat
.pale or double the Ingredients and bake
In a large loaf pan, Loaf cakes keep
well.
Layer Cake lror a email eake cut
1.te one layer in two and frost, making
a two layer (sake half sise or double
Ike the amount and bake in two
inner pans.
Cute Cakes: Drop the mixture into.
weltegenetied rnnflhan pens, filling the
*mil •about .twt Iz1rde full_ and bake
absent tiveftynlivez isiutee, Qr Use dee
iaasbll ettunln Pane ' and.lake fifteen
Mates. These make (Minty "little
e ates ror. all„ •
Sanely Cake*: Heat tiny fumy-
shaped
unnyrssha ped parer, then brash with good
brush
dined l is melted fat,.
Drew s
teaeyaratai• of crake mixture irtio each
pan, mil hake tea to tiirtiaetr *buttes.
for a ottaFal,tya,r cake may be otti: 'tnlo
Yancy shapes With a cutter, but there
is a waste unless great care is taken
to plan the pieces.
Christmas Plum Pudding.
1 cupful dried bread crumbs, '1 cup-
ful chopped beef suet, 1 cupful brown
sugar, 1 cupful seeded raisins, 1 cupful
currants, in cupful finely cut citron, %
cupful finely., cut figs, 1 tablespoonful
candied lepton peel, 1 tablespoonful
candied orange peel, 1 tablespoonful
salt, ne teaspoonful cinnamon, vii tea-
spoonful cloves, In teaspoonful ginger,
1 cupful fruit juice, 1 cupful flour.'
Mix in the order given and add enough
cold water to make a stiff mixture.
Turn into a well -greased pudding mold
or into two smaller molds, filling the
molds only two-thirds full, Cover the
mold tightly and place in boiling water
and boll six to seven hours. llesnove
the pudding front the mold when cold.
This may be made two weeks before
Christmas, . but roust ,be reheated by
boiling one hour just before serving.
Plum • Pudding With Honey. ,
2/3 cupful brown eugar, 1 cupful
chopped suet, r4.. cupful extracted
honey, 3 eggs, ,n teaepoonful salt, 4
teaspoonful -cloves, t4 teaspoonful cin-
namon, rb teaspooutul mace, in tea-
spoonful soda, 1 cupful sour milk, 1
cupful English currants, 1..cupint rais-
ins, 8 capfuls flour. Ruh the sugar
and the suet together-, then beat in the
honey. Add the wellebeaten eggs. Sift
the spices, soda and flour, and add
gradually to the egg•mixturae alternat-
ing with the milk. }Peat constantly,
add the fruit slightly floored and
"teem In a tvell-t zeese t Covered mold
three houn:e, Serve wins vctlilles.snots:
Vaniltat 6r.aca-- scant cup"ftti eug-
tr„1 tableepoo.nitii cernatatoh 0x•`"71 of
.flour, 1 cupful bolting Wates 1 tear
m.poonittl minis, 1 tetra epoonful bitter.
Mix sugar. and csrinetarelt .in a, sauce.
pats 'four on boiling; water, • etiering•
rapidly, Boll and stir until dear. Add
butter and vanilla, Serve loot or cold.
Fruit Cake With Honey.
auptul sugar; 1 ottp.int extreetel
holier. % ettl sour cream, 14, cupful
shortening, 2 eggs, % teas .eocntul
soda, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, en tea
spoonful cloves, 1 cupful raisins, 1 -cup-
ful currants. 2 cupfuls flour. Cream
the sugar. shortening and honey t'o•
gethdr, Add the well -beaten eggs,
beat bard, then add the sour creams,
the flour mixed and sifted with the
soda and spices. Add the floured
fruit, spread in a well -greased and
paper -lined pan and bake in a moder-
ate oven about one hour.
Mixtures with honey require modern
ate heat.
Fisted Cookies. •
2 cupfuls oattaieai, 2/3 euptul sugar,
1/3 cupful corn syrup, xn *fel thick
sour milk, 34 teaspoonful, salt, 2%
cupfuls dour, en' cupful 'shortening, 34
teaspoonful soda. Beat the sugar and
shortening together add the sour milk,
the time sifted with the soda acid the
salt, Roll out thinly on a well -floured
board and cut with a cooky cutter.
Bake in a hot oven. •
Filling -1 cupful .sugar, 1 cupful
water, 1.•paekage bf date or 1 cupful
Chopped hen, Stone thedatesand put
through a fine•chopper. •Cook with the
sugar and water until the mixture
thickens, Place a spoonful of the
mixture between :two cookies and
press firmly.- together. Store in a dry
place.
Variations fo Plain Sugar Cookies.
Vanni* Cookies: Use one teaspoon.
NI vanilla and omit the nutmeg,
Chocolate Cookie*: Add three table.
spoonfuls of grated ehoeolate after it
Is melted, use vanilla for flavoring.
Coeeenut Cookies: All one -halt cep.
ful of shredded c000aanut to the dry
ingredients in plain sugar cooky rube
end roll oneatouvth, Melt thit;3,:,
Nut i ookies: Use hail' as mach
shortening and add onentalf.eupfatl of,
finely aahopped nuts to Use dry' ma-
teriels In plain sugax•000ltyrale and
ItAli out ane.teul'th of an inch flu k,•
Finely chopped tints May be`spritticled
over ft* lop bare baking.
Candied Orange ail& Lemett Peel, •
Peal of font, oranges or Imam. 3
ilii Grt.s tarter, 2 'tetupft is sugar, pal'v*x
teed sugtzi'. Ctneiz tite poets fatthe
water slowly untie tender, . Drain for
twa Waxen remove ell the white. pore 1
Heart from the peel and, With seissoraa
Grit frith cline etelps, }3oii the 111101t
•
and one.half cupful water until , it
spins a thread, add the peel, boil for
Ave minutes, remove with -a fork and
roll lightly in pulverized sugar. Store
in glass jars for use. Candied peels
add a variety to the holiday candy
boxes.
On the Taking of Jerusalem.
(By the British, December, 1917).
The march is o'er, •s
The day is done,
The Cross against
The Crescent has won.
In its dazzling light
• They cannot stay;
Ye of Allah
Away, away!
The Cross returns
ppromptu service. Everyone had
rientdly word or glanee for Seery at
fsor: the jolly, magneto, young teeter.
Again Jerzy noticed the Ye:s art in the
rte% diems, •s'tand.ng wiela her .nit
round her frail dsrughter. He routed
rvv�as d and took the woman's hand:
Blest and beautiful and dear, <I with you 'both a happy Christman
.fled from mortal view, amid a still happier New Tear.” Jerry
Sing the songs
he loved the best--• .null:
Songs of mirth and joy-•-• The woman's wan features became'
Ere upon his hero -quest, animated. "We have to thankgoat
Seeking service, finding rest, and your friend for a happier Christ -
nuts Eve than wa expected to spend
Put a flower at his place this year, have we not, Mabel?" she
He will understand, replied,.
lea iia aweetne'ss love may trate A utile later Jerry Oartwrigitt lay
Visions of a varnished face, stye ^heel in his berth with raisedwin-
1'oueli a vanl,hed hand, dow shuttle, gazing out on tho dim ex-
_._ ,___. . ......... :..._- _ pianse of prairie. "Iii the' east Shine
and the sitars of Orion Shone out
4 n4gh•ter and more clearly than -he had
ever seen them at name.
"My!" was .his unuttered thoug t,t.
"3 got on this train age All -natured ass
a bear. A man with a friendly, buoye
ant heart makes rile forget it and help
others to be more cheery and forget
their troubles, too; and now ---a kittett
eouid plays witch Site. Why, art's beers
eine of say hest Christmas Eves!"
To the land of its birth,
Rejoice, ye peoples,
Throughout the earth;
And ye of Allah,
Kneel to pray.
,At the Cross of Christ
This Christmas Day.
c!rithna8 Card
Q little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lier
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
''et in thy dark streets shined.'
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Arc met in thee to -night.
0 holy Child of 'Bethlehem]
Descend iv us, was pray:
Cast out our sin,, and enter it, '
Be born in >ta s to -day.
We hear the Christmas angels
The grit glad tidings tell;
Oh, gotta to us, abide with us,
' Our Laud En/summon
Christmas, 1919.
"G+itaiatiazae., awake! Salute the happy
morn, : •
hef'eon the Saviour of mankind was
born: '
Rite to adore the mystery of love,
Wbtch h.oct;e of angels chanted front
above:
Thio r2ay 'hath Goa fulfilled His pro.
milked Worn,
-This day' is born a Saviotu', Christ the
This reign of set will end when txtea
'shaft 'heed.
keine when tket Oakk) tuxan whet tier
Leese threagne Weed, -