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Pel!cacies for Yuletide. •
1. 1001044 Until tender eriongit to Voice
with a strerin. Drain and weigh
them; tate.ao equal weight each of
pared and cored apPles, seeded and
chopped raisins, cleaned currants and
pliok shredded beef SUet; one . half
of their :weight each. in candied
orange peel and citron, and one .quer-
'ter of their weight • in sagar, Cut
open the lemons andremovethe seeds
then chop ell together as Atm as pov
Bible. Add to this one smalL nntmeg
•grated, one 'teaspoonful of salt, and
ginger, one quarter of a teaspoonful
of cloves and three • Menges Of crum-
bled state Macaroons. Add sufficient
cider or -sherry to moisten and Pack
away in!glass Ars, .
r Areas Pudding.-(ine: cup of
clumped -suet, one-half cup sugar, one-
half ;COP nielesSese one enii our .milk,
one and one-half. teaspoons . soda, one
egg, one teaSpoon• cinnamon; eine tea-
spoon- cloves, one,Itelf, teasporue_salt
one and. one -quarte . dips •;chopped
raisins, three-quarters- • eur, . chopped
certents, one-half • cup „.choPpect figs, •
one-half cup- candied (grange peel,
three and .one-half cups bread ,flour4
together flour, 6ices, mrepared
'flour; salt iittel 'leer. Add selireto'sonr
milk and melasses; 'add. suet, Sugar
arikeggs unbeaten, and then beat in
the flour •mutture. Steam in a well-
, Mince Pie.. , Plum Pudding. • •
. Fruit, . Nuts. • oiled and floured mold for four hours,
Coffee."' •• • • • Raisins then serve garnished with ,holler and
Mar -8.001i.
Celer*-. •• Olives.
ReaSt Oyster Stuffing.
Cranberry Jelly, „
Deiced Sweet Potatoes.
Meshed rotatees.
•• Pew, • Creamed Onieni.
Let$oce. lore* th.'easing.
Wafers, CheSse...
Iltyln Pudding. Hard Sallee& •
'Coffee,
00,..0071,11,00000.
*Rave Oyster. . T''Aate Soup,
. Steemed gatibut
Oireamed Potato Bells. . •
•Reeest "I'urkey". Giblet' Gray
anberry J1jr.. , •
Lshed Petatees,:' . Brussels Sprouts,
• • ' Celery Salad, • •
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Wafersi: Cheese. .
l‘'fioee. Pie!' . 04'ange. .T0:- •
eq- :.PO,ti Dense •
,•,• • • •
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,Qreate, of Cern, Seep. ,
-Halibut a hi Plamande..•
lideet Turkeye Cheetnut Stuffing.
; ,thanberry. Jelly CelesY., • ;
hijiehed Potatoes ,- Spinach •
1.4ettuce...• French Dressing,
Itrafers. Cheese
4.
Neck Clams,
Consomme.
Coot Buck. Brown Gravy.
Current Jelly.
Md)PotatoeS , Cauliflower.
Celery Salad. • •
Wafers. • „Cheese.
Plum. Pudding.. .. Hard Sallee.
• • Orange Ice Cream. ,
'Coffee: Bon Bons.
5.
Raw Oyd
Mock Biscpie,':• •
• Celery. ves. •
• -4-
Hailed ,Ood. ° • Lobster Sauce.
,
surrounded , by, portions Of hard
sauce, sprinkled with chopped piste°
chlo-nutmeats--and-eapped--t,vith den-
dled cherries.. The pudding Will b
more attractive still if blazing whe
brought to'. the table. To acconeplis
this, pour over three' tablespoonful
of good brandy and ignite. it just be
fore sending it to • the able. Thi
amount will serve twelve people,
To .Serve the Christmas Pudding.--
. .
Turn the hot Pudding out en d heete
•platted and in theetop stick a sprig
_Of holly. Dip half ' a dozen lumps of
sugar in alcohor and place railed the
base of the pudding. • Touch a lighted
mateh. to.each lump, carry quickly to
the table aid place before the host -
e s: , .•
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I•, • Potato. Balls. ' . Mint Sherbet-goil---together :for
• le---RoaotTurkey. GibTet Gravy0 •five minutes cine pound of Sugar and
..t. .
• , Cranberry Jelly., one: pint of •water. Pound well the
,- Sweet Potato Croquettes. leaves trona one large bunch of mint;
lolled Onions. IVIint Sherbetpour over them the hot ,syrup and set
1 - Roast Duck. Orange Salad. away until cold„ then strain, Add
• Mince Pie. ' , 1 the Strained juice of three, lemons and
Jaye .• .. Fancy Cakes. h " freeze. "When hard, remove the dash-
eults. - k Nuts. , ,Bon DIMSer, add. two tablespoonfuls of cream
, •
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Coffee, ' ,----e-- - e ---e- de menthe,: mix well with bespeon, re-
.
. -- • pack the freezer and set irside. for
Mincemeat
for Pies -One of several hours.- .
wedded suet, let, pounds each .of Yule Dollies. -=,Cream together one
recided,ealsins and cleaned turrants, .half -of a cupful. Of butter and • one
ree oarters of. a pound ofbrown cupful of sugar.. Ada •gradually two
gare one half of a cupful of /nee -welt -beaten eggs, 'One tablespoonful Of
Issese three pints of chopped " tart Cream or rich milk one teaspoonful of
plea, one pound of chopped beef,vanilla and three - CuPfuls. . of flour,
e pint of the, liquor in which' the with which has been sifted two tea -
eat was cooked ot the_ same -clean- •,speerrifiticof , leaking liider; ::then
fi of good- beef stock, one heaping stand for an hour in 4 Very cold
:
.• ,thlespoonfol,..of salt;• ene eitpfill • of --,Place. .11ave reedy a!tin cutter inett
andere one half of a.eupfirleed"wine, . Shape of a- doll about five inches -long;
e•:gralled••rind and strained *Alice- of •Take a portion of the dough out on the
e orange and one lemon, foui. tea- board at one time, roll out one half
oenfecie Of .cinnernon, one teaspoon- ' Ina-. thick and cut We dolts. Brush
1 of doves, one teaspeonful of all each over with inilk and .dredge
ice, one .teadpooeful of mace, one lightly with powdered sugar, use cur -
If of a podedof citron.- - ' ! rants for eyes and, bake on greased
log•r‘, those ,:who do not care to use, pans in a moderate oven. When cold
uor.' cider in the Came proportiOns decorate the skirt of each dolLnvith
y lie=Sidistitutede e -Piet all •reiffles ciffresting. Wrapeeach sepa-
e cider er limier and suet into • ei .eately in sheets •of Waxed •papeire • In
rge Iteitle and stew slowly entil. the packing place the doll in a long . shah-
pples and feeit are verytenderlow box)packfirmly with tissue Pa-.
hen said; add the other ifteedients 'aer and befoLe alosing the box acklea -
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rid -pat -away in stone or glass, jars. tiny Christmas card and a Sprig of t
Mincemeat Without Meat..,, -Boil six holly. Tie thk hex with red ribbon. n
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Thaler the liellf :0041.4. f
• Qe iniurediriend or troth,74
Yo who have 'scorned each all,* • ‘; Of I Ida 7 111$
In this feet *Wing 'earl
Yo who, by word or dood, 4:,,.$, it Is As 're iyhath4 Or Not Ile lel
;love ass444,3dad hsext b104.40 -4.4; ',. Aeceplsed, • 0
Como. gather iter04 . .
• 'Let sinned against,. Mud Sinnink,
Forget their strife's beginning*,
And join in friendship neWe
Be links no longer broken. „.
Be meet forgiveness spoken,
Under the'holly hough,
Ye „who have loved each ether,
Sister and friend and- brother,
In this fast fading year:
• Mother and sire and Child '
Young Man and maiden mild.
Comp gather here;
• And let your hearts grow fonder,
AS memory shall ponder
Each past unbroken vow.
Old javes aod, younger wooing P'
• Are sweet in the renewing,
• 'Under the holly 'beagle e •
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Ye who have nourished "sedeeSS: •
Estranged from bane, and gladness,
14' flits fait jading year;
Ye, with, o'erhurdencd. mind, " • .
Blade aligns from your kind,• ,
Coine gather here: •
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Let elet the useless sorrow •
r• 7Ifsuee'ery:;uouPhigohptlesbanlidopine morrow.
Take heart;-eincloud your faces,
And join in dur embraceg,
Under the holly bough.
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Salvos() ioraohody trisl to vor-1
0044 31.014 Or ma -that there had Neu
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no such thing ao A Chriatmaa featly*
, ity and excite:1101d in the thno of our
.., grandiathera or great -grand -fathers,
writes G. K. Chesterton, It would be;
totally vseleSs for thena to ten Ito
that letters had coma to light show.
ing that a non-existent ceremony had
been =vented •as 4 practical lobe on
Washington Irving, as an American;
_that in the original manuscript in, -
the British NUsehm Dickens wrote
,"A Candlemas CarolP that it is 01- •
tered in a later hand to "A Christmas
Carol;" that Sir Boger de Ceverler .
and his .Christraas is a forgery writ -
terra `s'hort time ago by. Bernard,
Shaii; 'that Grimaldi •with his dying '•
breatr had • declared that he acted' in ..
pantomimes toward _the et,4d• at_ De-
cember solely out of respect for the
" stoning of St. Stephen, or.any =Me' .
- .4ar of such detelled'Alteratioit$: • We ..
CHRISTMAS CARD.
s First Pictured Symbol -W•
as Sent
Through the Mail in 1844. '
d •Every year brings its new supply
of Christmas •cards, certain as the
merry day itself, and more certain
than the mistletoe and holly. So wide-
spread is the custom. and , so used are
we to see it come zeear - atter year,.im-
proved and;beautiful, that Christmas
without the _Cbristrnas_card would he
a thing unheard of. Yet our grand-
fathers knew nothing of this timely
token, . e
• The ChristmaS card is not old. It
was in 1844 that the -first pictured
symbol' of t hristrnap 'Was prepared
and committed to the mail.
It was on a cold Decentber, evening
that a young English artist sat at his -
desk trying to write sopiething new
and original by Way of a holiday
greeting, to please the taste and• touch
the heart ora dear friend. The ;young
writer was hard to satisfy. e
' After -some. serious thinking and re-
peated planning, the_ided came like a
burst of sunshine. '
Taking a, piece of Pardboard about
twice as latge- as the niodeen-peate-
card, he began to draw. In the centre'
of the three panel's into which he -(112'
vided the -design he skached a family
group raising glessed to the health. of
distant friends, within a. wreath of
holly and midtletoe, and on the side
panels, smaller pictures that suggest-
ed charity and good -will to than. • .
This card, carefully folded and cov-
ered; was despatched without farther
• thought. But the delighted recipient
ewa-S-so eche-m.1W. by it that hoe Shaved.
it to all his friends; and proudly
claimed for it the _admiration of his
acquaintances. • • •
verybody begged •for A ceay, or
another aid as beautiful, and before
he next- Christmas the artist- madea
ew design and Ise!' hdi
' AARRISTIVAS :DAY.: -an ache to theheartof those who I
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. , • . 'hot Summer beyond the sea remembe
"The timedraws neat the:IA.1th '.of that it is Christnias Day. • • •
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.riste" The indestructible ' appeal i • The story -remains, treasured in the _
,
the Fleast Of the Child, itstriumph Head' eLChildhoodseofethateelrileilitnid-I
, 'Wli the shocks:, of time' and i whichepossesses .wisdorn and , ender
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age, comes with a note �f wonder : anee Which "will outlive all the Wise:tem
ach sacceSsiire year of its • cele- ' of 'older people, all the timid. fears. of
.• i ri. • ft is .so much the oldest]. doubting Christ/nag', and all the as -
in Europe. ft has seen so !Many saults of seepticiain
. •
w er, a t litho-
graphed. ,
le • .That ' was..• thef beginning. • In the
r. following .year there. Were' ether 'pie- other heto in any sage• has been hived,
as fire, hardly to touched with the ,
turemakers, and the *Christmas card hand,. and even at -Midnight, • metal as He has- been by i11 the ages. All
'was leuhehed On the tide of Popular was almost too hot to hold. • • ' oyer Christendom, • and more. and
artistic forces of the nineteenth cen- JESUS 'OP NAZARETH.
OrYi - • ee:19
• , What Reaults Have CciMe From .11is
CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA. Life and Hie Death.
, About 190.0 Years ago a Man was
The Weether 41_t_egethe_r _Different -horn in the Far East in a humble
lam -
To That of =Canada. ily of a set* race. He taught for
- The author of. "Land -Travel
an -d 'two or three Aare, never outside. Hie
See -Faring" gives an interesting plc- own conntr. , not In the schools or
ture of Christmas 'weather at the anti- universities, but in the fields, on the
podee. Australia' all the year round hillsides, and in the streets of the
is very different from temperate coun-
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towns. ,Ile- taught -a curious- doctielne
tires,ebut Austreilia during the holiday thee,* seemed emit° eimposSible to
comprehend. or to follow. He was, op:
season is hardly to be imagine.d..by
stayeat-home minds.' ' - ' • . . •
'It Seemed impossible' that the heat the best, aed-„most religious wide. of
posed by the persons who were called
-could. increase, and . yet, as Christmas I ins' day. 'Fipally; these persona de -
drew near, it grew hotter and hotter' dided tbet He was tadangerees to be
still; and "although eVery: day we de- 1 allewed to' jive. , They put: Him to
clined,' .almost in terror;. to believe'. death, While those Who stead by. con -
that the• therniemeter' could •,get any denmed And abused•Hirri...,- - •
highet, still every day it went up I . When tie died He had no great fo14
some ,degrees. • • • • lowing,. orify a few humble, unedlicat-•
•On Christmas" daye it -was' one hun- .
ed peesants, not one • of whom really, ni• Y . e simple httle.. hemetttchecl even more neglected; here it. need-
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dted. and fifteen degre. • • f days understood • what. it. was their. Teacher '
later, one • hundred • .and twenty 'de- ehad meant. They , looked for .nothing"
grees; end on, the first Of the new.; further- from Him, , and went back to
year it. stood • at • • one heedred , and !.:their fishing or the* farming. 'There
twenty-five- 'degrees, and . remained I was not then one written worded' His
there fere three days. • This was. in the : in :•existence. All the woi.'dk Of His
-"shade ender. a -ire...randa:. What •it was that theivorld hes e-ie-r,had consist of
,l11. the sun,..I. didnot hameethe.•ceurage .00.Yeeneefew - pages. There are -only
to inquire. or. the -capacity to calculateI -fmr- • 7-131.-d's -.014 rofess- to-- be -the
The sker".Was intensely bine,. with. a .
, very onee He u . (I. His life.' and -
whitish • haze. near the, horizon; and ' His „death would pup to he quite en -
the wind now blew steadily from 'the miportant eventse in .the world's his,
trcipics„ a• north Wind that - Slowly
posed .. over. . nearly. two. . thousand 1 tory. ' Yet what 'results . have' come .
. ' • - •
i from them!: - .... • •
..reiles of burning plains, , as it moved 1 He • has:.chaeged .1the -.course. of hise'
toward •the south, .gathering warmth ' tory more than any other . being who
• as it carne, until it, wris like the blast hap lived. . No king , or conqueror or
of heat that: eOnies from ataPp_ed_fuie ; scholar. or • peetehase to day . An in-
nace when . the. molten metal runs in 11, uence compared' to: His. His. teach -
.dazzling whiteness: .. . .. ' [ mg to -day, so, far as it is understood,
' The sheep and ' the horses _stood all; is accepted .at‘authoritative over most
-of- -the- -.world. 7, -Christendom asks,
day • in. the • shadeT-i-vith. theft, ffrooiiing
heads-'4.teetarele-the-teee-tinnks ; -the'c f`Vir-hat-did TIP .tenell ? 147-1.1at•-did-Ik'
H'ANDHERCHIEF
should net think these disposeda'al '
dire evidences of. Chrietmes, for,. -.the
, Simple reason that We could. not so
Infich' as remember 'all the eyidencest .
of Christrhas. If a thousand More' •
'inemorie$ of .it were thus explained
should knew there Were a million:,
more not ,expleined. This is the first
thing about 'Santa Claus, He is a tra-
dition; that is, he is a •fact. We may
-net know where he came from but w
know. veLhat he And if anybody -
says
that he is heathen, inswer,
with. atithority, that he is note-
...Parenth '
A Very. intimate Little Token of Re- '711
e ' Some complain that parent e :wilt
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membrasice. not tell their children whether Santa
Handmade handkerchiefs are the Claus exists or not. The parents do
most' delightful of gifts. Every wo- Uot tell them for the eXCellent reason,
man likes a dainty handkerchief, but that the 'parents do not Irn6w: Those '
tmreavnitygewnoeme ennettotnesibdeerbetrbt- put ef
into the mysteries of man's life in nae;
an ex_ who have. thaught their way' deePest '
their own purses. It remains for fax have generally, tended 'to the
•conspiraCY and give that economical •
friends and anniverearies to •form a lvdeci; pthroebtatbhiyerpeerw:ernealpprvinitteipiplieess,,Abned_
wamare_a_supplyeee. elm/It-bless that- hind the energiee in Places, seasons,
occupations, and periods of life. e • •
will last her until another gift time .
.eanies about. As color is One of the These- speculations ' have generally,
leading notes jp• handkerchiefs, both and perhalfs wisely, been left indee
feminine and masculine, pretty, pilaw finite and separated from the clear.
handkerchiefs can be made from religious doctrines needed for, the
squares of sheer -linen bettonekorglein -.conduct of life.. But they are unite
color about the edges, instead of be- sufficiently suggestive to make ag-
ing hemmed. ,Add :to this a _mono- nostitism cue, as I have said; . both'
gram worked in color, and possibly a ways, and make a Philosophical fa- .
monogram frame - or wreath ' ;about tier at least as doubtful Of rationnal..."
that and you have as smart a hand- lit explariations as of, „supernatural, :
kerchief AS one could wish. Still other tales. He knows precious little mare
hand,niade handkerchiefs have little, than the child know. . Parents sleepl
spraers of foliage and 'flowers, worked all night, . and generally more heav-i
in the came color, in one elerper.ily Than Children. And rationalistic '
White lace and sheer linen combhia- parents sleep all day as well .
thins are as welcome always. They The third point is more obvious but
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q es with an: edging.. of lace, ..or oply be mentiOnecf to correct what has, •
more eleberate, hendkershief with in "gone before. , It should Alwayi be re-
,
suttee,' edging aid even inset nindal- ineinheted.theit degmatit. and .autlioire•
• liens of vatenciennes or filet . itative religions spend much of their. •31
• A • handkerchief lies the • advantage tiros lather, in restraining superatie
of being, if you wish it, a -very' inti- tions, than in encouragb g them, and-
nrate, little -token. of ,re-tnera-brance that such.. enthusiaenis" as that which:
encloSed in the same envelope,,Avith.axdProtestanta
.Affectionate . note_ A • handiterehlef 'allyedisplay sir the theriti- And
Will make' a "lettee gift worth. hay- I fects widespread deitiogiatic inoere•
int..-
• I • •
ments. 'If saints such as St Nichol-
as' of .the 'Children, da • not exist, they' e.
GIVING AND -RECEIVING., ' 'Were, not a priestly deceptum, but .ate
erroneous puldicecipinion. -
How to Make the—. Gift to the -Receiver • • May Happen' Conatently.
The 'fourth act itis necessary to
a 'Pleasuie. '
realize els. that • when the faithful _
i'thet119. spairitit -.6efi'ggifv-t-7- thing historieally ' happened once,
making' Thei e ii my -real religion- say -that a certain,
mg, of course, but •there is •the art of 1 they, do not -feel it:as inconsistent with
giving as To give theenfee, that -it- actualithappens Pone
and modestly, not grudgingly, not stantler: ••• . • •• .
odeseeuding-lee, not is Arced -ohne -Ant -• /f theie is anything . the ingene'
of charity, not as .superior to an in- ine suggestion that Santa Claus bring- • •
ferior, net to emherrass- the receiver;
and With an air to make- him or her
feel that.You are :conferring a 'special
favor—t� give in the right. way as
fowls . kept' in shelter as well, and, Mean?". and when it akrees on that;
.like the quadrupeds, they,. too,- pant- the matter is settled. .. - . ...
.ed, With • open mouths and 'lolling . .. He is. also the .most loved 'person in
toegees. - . ' •• .. .,...,i ell history.. „Different ages have had
The • gr.ound in ' the"Sun wa-s. •as ..bae their -her•oes 'who have been loved; no
sing ' presents. has a trace , of_ the Vise '
Men !Winging • . gifts.' to leethleheme .
ithere is no inconsisteney- in theChtise4.
ian mind- between his historically
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iweeeletivaesi.tzgrbiveei,gni.ifatl.ces. the. gif,t to the
that occasion, and his. really "4 -
and literally *haring brought gifts on
.'. 'Water left out in the sun for a few 1
e Jesus of, Nazareth has 'becoine • the 'CO receive,. it • is, neverthelesS, blessed ; in.: -
more in heatheridom;•*the bietlitley. is moi blessed to give kthinan 1
4,, our seeie, must accept it as ' a
-of , ;e' bAilled itth
cembee. The heathen -mind, now. mi.,'
trith ringing Rifts every 25th of Dee ••
hours disappeared almost as if it -had
• • The list 'point to remember 18 that,
been beilin B..cl •* • f .. 1 'd d
g. ii. s weie ounc• qa , i . ._ .. .
' greatest holiday and the gladde day. ko.• receive., in.: the right way. While p • ox. i . , . , • • • . '
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In these things, form. -iS . 'ev th'n
struck by 'the. sun in. their flight, and
Galitem:c:
of the yea'. .
Verily, ."Thou haat epnquered, ,. 0
You can "re -state" doctrine, though it
._ . ery i g4, ..
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, avon-Buteit-w-e-s---het Until the idea
I had grown out .of• favor among aids."
I tic and literary. circles that it Was
1 teken up by a" businees man who saw
•money in the pretty pictures.' In 'a
little while the mails were filled.
A modern writer had told of his
delight on receiving a Cheistinas card
in 1860.7 --"Such a 'crude affair, a snow -
Covered church, with aeepray of crude-
ly. colored holly virreathing. it; and" an-
other Scene showing a chill, wintry
-road; flanked by gaunt, snow-covered,
tree., 'along which walk§ a bent. old
,man Under a'heatiy.burden of fagots."
- _Assa.the Christmas card- had a
new birth, for it was then theta great
e ,riee flare and fade. .It has sur -
11 so ;twiny ends of the world.
efihe marahes which, to -slay
4 hnieurrifulli between .Ravenna• ,A Few Suggestions That Will Conte
a he Adriatic etands a -Ghtietian
h a, which is one of the oldest • .. in Useful.
flno -of the loneliest churches in A „remark,often...heard atethis eSea-e
ell erltk'Nearly ferirteelf" ht-iiidired' len of the year is. "I c ' r th
aic
• Y ago the hoge edifice of eSant , what to give 'So-and-so for 'Christ -
A. owe was :raised by_ an Imperial,l_mas,.."„:-. .,_- .... •. ,,.__••-.-•-•-- - --- -,-
re n die centre of a Splendid and - That,- is the' trouhle--to think of•
' Ar ' lioneeneseePort: town;_e_To-day- -things= The making iye the SUP -Ping
' 4nii stone of the great city of are minoreeletaila when-orreeitas--- e -
Cr temajfis; where nnee its busy I cided what, .' to make or buy. The
lie _moved is nothing but eetint shone do not help much, for there is
yelhgrasses and the Pine forest so' very =eh to be seer' that they
by ' • Hut in the vudemosaie Of are apt to dull the imaginationrathee
. the the sheep are still -seen than sharpen it. ' ••••
co in Bethlehem, and on the irete are_a few Suggestions that
will its. older companion '-in- the , may proire 'useful, .or May at least
- citYk rrogepsion, of the three Kings ' suggest sernething .eIse te Your mind
-GIFTS FOR TOE; 'Awl'. FOLKS
led star, bears gifts -to the go. We will think of presents for men
dm her Child her star -em- first, as they are by. fae_trie _hardest,
broilthrow •• The older:Irian,' who usesily---is
ade-
T
rieltmaire stories, the shep- quetely suppliedeewith' gloves; ties,
he the Aeld, the kiddie in the:, 114110M:chiefs,' slearre 'links, cigarette
Witt mystic efferings, have •beeti
woe the yeti' soul of Europe;
fres o the walls of its Chtirches
unddrals through the efflotte of
1(5 13)., ineorporated in Its 10g-
anlailkinterwoven with MI
the Of ley and pity which shim
ee as DAY. Our northernini-
has set theinin the north,
err ht -with something ,of -.the
rn and solemn weeder which be -
le its dim lights end shadetes.
the ::sheeelserils are always
iii the cold eight of 'Winter,
tramp of the Zing's veropaey
rd An the irestbound roerls
Mer a monarchs from the Erna leek% ete.; who has no' :idea
110
•
tie
rjiI
a IP .getherlog round the Stable,
.. snow "10 the .bleak
ter long ago.' It is the vision
iataana of holly and fire and
ith the Yule blazing: On
t th the feasting • and rejoie.
I 4 rtr, 'tree 'with its thousand
t hts, the laughter of ,ehildren,
. Wen of families :intik outside,
t ' all white and sparkling
faee, Width gathers togeth6b-
„qtrY of the rest, !and brings
!he ivent, is the problem ,of everY
household. Would .for instance,
I like an electric tea,iter.: They come
Inoue for 82.50. They make the hest
toast imagihable, and the Man with a
toaster beside him 'en'the breakfast
table ',can be sure of • hot; deliciou&
toast, each morning, no Matter ho*
early •or late he may be; for. his break-
fast , . . •
-If there is d in the family,
brass halals or se ,moriograrn
-Maks 11 nice gift lot its owner. -These,
tan be made by a harnessinalter or a
Sllvptosznitli Peeket 'travelling slip-
-pera -soft.-lcather -that denio
leather eases and eost from $1 or $2;
are a good idea Mk a man who haa
to travel much. VIorida 'water is, m
gift often Appreciated, by the fastidi-
ous man, as if is a toilet water' that
ean bo used after shaving without
letiving .oftensively perfumed odor.
"X Understand Smith and '../ones had
high words the other • dte "Yost
and they'rateing to have higher (mom
nach of theni hag outage,d a lawyer))
there was a 'sombre, inelancholy look
about ' everything., _seeraed, as if
nature were ready. to die,. sinceyhope
was lost and -strength.- exhausted:- -
•.After the -slow passing,. of those
three -long days, . the ' thermometer
.went. down with. exasperating delibet-
Here are a few old Christmas Say-
ings that should interest the busy
- So re.
Folklo
received With gralthli ran eXpress the”. same thought in
4pse:r golf. how „elf atpbperieospst! aettedt egeifrdt , be tyir
and in a quiet, but most sincere wav
ediver. eNoematter' how -simple,
-God loves the cheerful giver, it muat
be -also that he loves the cheerful rer
how' is not being done--very-
it because one. cleat logical meaning...11' -
u cannot "Le -State", a vision. - You
e put 111: many verbal forthe.
housewife:
Givek, or in Turkish.
the giver should b; made to.feel that
the giBas-,ft is appreciated. • • I
. I -French B t
. u .yeu cannot express the •
_ _ e 91 rman-:---- •
,ation, until:the:end of,Juntiary,- when - ti --warin • eleistnias, a. cam
'it' dropped quickly' to one hundred_de-
greese which-Teerried pleasantly. cool. If a light 'Christine*, e heavy. sheaf:
If a green' Christrnasea white Ease
• • e Saving Braine. -
• .
. 'there's a. wind on Christmas' Day, -
,.o er •
trees 111 bear much fruit. -
• . rst ' •prineiple s •of poetry. Santa
• HOLIDAY CANDIES.. - ,t..eaantteentetes4nati7 nio.et,h•e saarirtea.-Tiae-ripeseeelinr- ifs •
Nut Barsiee•Pearnite alnionds, Enge the symbols of other
igious or
same thought in Greek. architecture
ndon firm -offered five-hundred..gai-i Governess-WhY - don't you walinits or 'Oceans may be iesed la
designs, Many of, the greatest 'artists I Denies •-e.BCCouSe tree on Chvistmas Day, there will. be .eenniseng
- - • -. Witle.fresh better, arid put the nuts
use.
eaelein__peeendst=ereetistite-y-our-r4g LtIL
remoVing the inner Covering And Claus may have brought hie
• I
----If •the sun 'shines through the apple -
'of the dr reepopded with their • best last, '• them: '• Grease the bottoin present frenn th east o - • ' d • •
thein to
ideas Thus the •little • flower ef art
expanded 'until • almeost a whole ‘gen-
Oration after its beginning, it bloomed
into its:greatest. beauty:- • - -;
Attists-evete glad to express :them-
selves this helpful manner. 1VIiiiiie
hilieSelf was one Of the, 'first to Catch
the idea, and • he :east of the epportoo,
ity;. and he Wati:rolciwed*tiy_Marena,
:Stone; George, Boughton, James Sant.
andUther equally fumes in the wdrld
The; young•paiotern of the fitIC card
became later a, ftenOue R.A•,, but: noth-
ing he afterivards er'eated.Was 'se eri-
elle] • and iinpreisiVe "its .thai
three,feld.picture. .1' •
.
In the Meantinie the literary artist
had Seen their oportunityl and had-
giVen to. the beriety of the painting
the musie of their wards. Many well-,
• koown writers were not above this
hle.sSed Work of inalcing .people happy.
Thousands of pounds were spent Ia
finding the:right poeros ak.d suitable•
Chriatinag soak -Lents, Until at last
these Yule -tido offerings .reached the
..elimak of their, •literAr-tand-at tittx
excellence, . • •
Cultivated folk 'of le• -day laugh at
those white -winged angels, w#11 their_
golden 'mita and 'Shining halos.; at
the ivy-covered church, the • happll
home stooes,- With blazing fires' and
groups of prettir thildrem They may
MOM! at the old pictriree,. brand them
as. "poor art,"" bourgeois, "seta. -
Mental" and "mid-Victorian? , •
Neverthelesa, the Christraits card
6116114a AnisSion, and it a innueriec:
will bo counted ono of the moral
_
ood clews the follewing yeer
g • . • and sides of a biorid, sheik:NV tin Pan from the north; but lie•, has brought
e t t his iem eels
hito it; spreading them evenly. Put 1: or, whether he is genuine is whether
teaeup of watert arid a pinch of eream I , , •
of tartar, into a -kettle, and. boil until , ete....e, • --''''''''-`. -."----""-
ii neer MISTLETOE WAS SACRED. '
:14-e
thick, hut not. too brittle._ Pou,r thei
.Nnctent Druid_SAltotight-Gr • ' n
syruP over 1
ems -With- .
coni_whent...k.celighanrly_an4tdi,trb.,4n.et Asart.,9e-tfro-i, . , , in fof s jIlvan_,_spTrics.,
into -w.ide bars -with n. shall) knife% and,' -7.-The.. il.ruids ,with e.orononks , 0.i,
become soft and delicious. •--' : great solemnity used to collect iniatle-
let stand several' 'lays:- when it *Rife
the festit al Of . winter
lbe0.1edif;selgeolnvedeuBgentrteirn Secoktectlit.1-eyliiittint ii tztzteap.o.,,,!in.oitly
ritl:it.OeofWleill:n..sailelrneid. ttboe.e3trliirfts eadiewient, or -
the ales bearing mie- . •
solemn
'melt; let boil until thick, stilfring
•Ii. lb: of butter. Set OVA): the . fire atio. 1
11 proceision to such :oaks, .a PrinCe of ' •-----
-the while to prevent ,seorehing. Take
:froei the Sire; pour into buttered tin's gtloteld(e$rndes.retzeillZing.tlik irt,istletee With It '
or trays. 'When stiff, mark Oly into
It is recorded that the people's' tev-'•
stinee,,s,,, when eold, break apart,...eani(s.i 1,e
'cial‘iindPy eeilvei ill. sl:leu4rea.iinonivgaitinituier arrtil. l'i.lna' . gr -eat ineasarc from the cures which •
rove. for the priestS proceeded in .
'prove with' a0e. ' • ' the priest's effected by tiwans• 9f this '
To _candy I:reit - Melee a eseTup eueious 'green plant of the pearlikee
with I. lb. of sugar and half.,,a teacup, berries. It was rollecAR1 thus cere-',
fat of water. When boiling IMP near- I oitiniousiy, 63 the Druids because.. it,
, e.
- , lei retiched the carernel• stage, 'mit iiii was sniepteseketa..tiriv .amttw -T41-gpi.4,1--;,.------
4.` any Pre-so:Veil fruits,: rind stir gently 1 AtTs‘he .1:0ason among t6 nrilizis tn.
. budritoilr they
le grent,6,-cib-ylisttadllo.izendort thenlet_ thein
,
thein out, and dry them in tut oven or i 1:winging in bits of ovexpreet from The,
'woods and adorning the house is
9..
get coiorid. . . • .
- * .1 houses were decked with: overgreens, .
most„charming and lovable one. "not
llobby's Mother declined to 44,i•vo 1 in' Deeember that the a ?Ivan epirits,
might repan. to them. att • remain tot-; •
nipped with treat and eeld winds ini..
tit a milder Seasetr had renewed tlia
foliage of their clean abotlee." •'.•.
The tonfinon Area laYs about ON)
or 000 egge, ill ten Vette
The Tvinkle in Soitta7s Eyes ; p). of granulated sugar with half a he is reeognized:
• • • them to our Neese. And the Only test
Th• e tyvinkl▪ as that twinkle .in.Santa's pycs
Are tha mirrored reflections02 Christmas joys
..That flash in the lips and sparkling- eyes
Of millions of loval?le girls and bays:
hini a third lot of plum pudding.' So
he yelled at the top of his:evoke for
two hours and then stopp,ed, "Well,"
• Said his Mother, "are you going to .be
g�o liave you linielted mine"
"bro," replied the boy. "I have not
finisholf only resting,"