The Seaforth News, 1949-12-29, Page 2At this season of the year one's
thoughts have a way of turning back
"to the. days of childhood, back to
the Christmases one used to know.
I remember, about this time, it used
to be a special treat to take a long
walk helm the country and bring
back .holly and mistletoe for, de-
corating All summer we kept our
eyes' .open u that we knew just .'
where to go for the ` lve,t 11011),
where the herr!., were elle reddest
and the k lv •s the greenest Mistle-
toe was hider to find. bitt 11 we
wean to Rye', 1 aue.'a Walk of about
eight miles, the knew there was one
bah tree there drat° wa, al.ta_a,
thickly entwined tcitb the parasite
mistletoe. Anil what was eiti t utib,
to sturdy. energetic vonug,i mrn1 '1
leas.' it w1(- Hooting to I1ty l rothe's
and sister but .l ,;as i'ot:iderablp
younger :ang tet, end of the to all,
would find sue dragging ,team:) be-
hind. But take mother', advice and
stay at house: . . Ola no! 'l'hat teas
a
treat 155onldn'i. ttti, for :o , thing.
I can ri.ualiee that v all.: even
yet -clown to Gallint dot. through.
Middleton -L'arl: and on to Helms
Rye's 1.011,--a narrow. moss -covet --
tee 1 sac t-sc t t -
ter :ux prime n a l to e t
eta lane about three miles long,
wlerc'holly I ':le grew red in win-
ed -islet 1 tv cd ie the spring.
The lane .-.(ne otic through (el.
Bareedisen es ,,tale, and thus to the
Main rt,,tei on top of a steep hili.
From tltett it s' as down -hill all the
home. The 1.111,•, are 0011 names to
malty reader, but, yet. 'mite 01101 ,
I get a letter ,aping -'1 remember
so will th 111:we. tvu 1)1011uic.ed
in your cottt:lai d .e‘, we,4., ago."
So you see ) t1 veva!: !r ran tell. it's
a small t of L=, -a t l the older one
gets the sane rtr 1 t ei•iil.
light 11.1. nts) 1 sap "them:
you." "1-:igl.t) -tire Fears Young -
for your nice !e'er. It. and t+hes
1 ata 85 ytar* oid 1 iiopi' 1 shalt be
able to w r•to it ss 1. and as hright!;r
as you do now. •
But hack ( 'e rola* pn•trara-
tions in she long. ;mug ago.
For weeks heft Christmas we
used t0 Save our nenti'•s and hie-
pennies.
i-
pennies, and r: ith Derr combined
small fund -and believe me. it was
small, we bought rolls of coloured
tissue paper. mostly red and greett.
Atter tea mother let tis use the
dining -room table and we got busy
with paper and paste. Cut strips of
paper one inch wife and four inch-
es long pasting thele together to
form links, one to auothcr, in alter-
nate colours. In our home y et v few
decorations were. bought -we made
them all ourselves, and we spent
zpany happy hours in the process.
Then a day or two before Christmas
we draped the rooms with paper
ohainst we trimmed the pictures and
mantel with holly; rye hung mistle-
toe in the hall and in each doorwai,
but we always saved a piece of each
with the choicest berries to stick in
the middle of the Christmas pud-
ding. And 1 remember mother al-
ways got someone to fetch her six-
penny- worth •of brandy-- not to
drink but to light up the Christmas
pudding. I loved to watelt the pud-
ding being brought in. Then
mother would pour the brandy over
the pudding,_ set a Hiatal to it, and
we watched ecstatically as the
dancing flames leaped up and
around the spieey puddiug with its
topping of holly and mistletoe. The
pudding was never cut until tine
last flame had burnt itself out; I
also remember ntother had to tart
my piece of pudding well from the
inside because I wouldn't touch it
if I got one taste of the brandy. So
lighting thr Christmas mid diug
didn't quite demoralise rue! 1 didn't
like spirits then and I don't like
them now.
la all Its' childhood there was
only one Christmas when we had a
tree. They were not as common in
Engtaud then as they are in Canada
now -- mainly, I suppose. because
they had to be bought. We didn't
have` cars 111011 to bring home trees
purloined from somebody's wood
lot.
And to us, the gay old fellow in
tlae red coat and long white whiskers
was not Santa Claus but Father
Christmas. But he used to conte
down the chimney just the sante,
only Ile didn't find our stockings
hung from the mantel. Fle had to
visit the bedrooms and at the head
of ea, if sleeping (') child he found
a stocking hopefully pinned to the
be,Irail.
Came theearly morn, and tete
fir.,t tiai!1 awake isould get tate
others together and we to onld e'ott-
gregate ili 0116 Or other of the bed-
-sums. When mother heard whisper -
104 and rattling of mysterious par-
cel, she w sued come in too --and we
net er untieda .parcel until she ap-
peared. Then when the parcels were
111(51 rapped mother Went downstairs
and presently we heard her playing
carols on the old table piano. We
raced down, dressed or undressed,
11 didn't platter-- and we stood
around the piano and sang hymns
s
as long as mother would play them.
And thus began our C:hrt turas!
Children today, with their Santa
Clans parades, and all kinds of Pres-
rots, cannot possibly be any happier
than was our little fatherless family
with their home-made gifts and
s elude pleasures, And another thing
1 remember -- we always had
sausage -rolls for breakfast Chrisntas
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Personalizing Christmas Cards -\Villi Christmas fast approach -
in actress Corinne Calvet got a fete pointers from artist
Albert, Kramer on how to personalize Christmas cards. She
alight have done better by mailing pictures of herself:
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aY Jam Andrews.
When you think of fruit cake, it's
generally Uhe rich, dark Christine's
kind that comes to mind. But there
are plenty of other sorts of fruit
cakes, good at almost any season
of the year.
Some of the latter ase feather -
light. with fine. even texture. Yit
the fruit is still there, with the
d•oteble pleasure of eating fruit and
cake in one serving.
So here are three different kinds
-pineapple, banana and orange, to-
gether with a simply grand filling
for bete last named.
Pineapple Feather (Cake
1 sup ahortening
3 cups sugar
4 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups flour
34 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking -powder
34 teaspoon soda
1 cup pineapple 514s41
54 cup hot water
4- 'stiffly beaten egg whits*
Method: Thoroughly arsam *e
shortening and sugar. Add agg
yolks and vanilla; beat well. Add
sifted dry ingredients alternately
with liquid. Fold in egg whites.
Balt, in three wax paper -lined,
eight-in•oh (rake pans In a 350°
oven for 30 minutes. Put together
with pineapple seven -minute fa•ost-
itng. Add oneehalf cup drained,
,rushed pineapple to one recipe for
seven -minute frosting.
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Banana Coke
cup ahortening
1% cups sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1 tesapoon vanilla
2 cups cake flour
34 teaspoon salt
54 teaspoon soda
34 cup sour milk
1 cup banana pulp
1 teaspoon baking powder
Method: Thoroughly bream the
shortening and sugar; add eggs and
vanilla. Beat until fluffy. Add the
sifted dry ingredients alternately
with milkandbanana pulp, beating
well after each addition, Bake in
wax paper -lined 614x10'/ -inch cake
pan in a 350° oven for 50 minutes.
Orange Cream Cake
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons cold water
1 cup cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
54 teaspoon salt
Grated rind of one orange
Method: Beat egg yolks until
thick and lemon colored. Add sugar
gradually, beating *11 tete while
with the egg beater. Add sold
water and grated orange rind. Sift
flour, baking powder and sent to-
gether, and add to first mixture..
Milt well. Add well -beaten egg
whites.
Bake in two layers in a greased
pan in a 325 -degree *von lot' 30
minutes. When cool, aprsad with
orange cream filling.
* * *
Orange Cream Filling
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3 tablespoons flour a
sup sugar
3/ cup boiling water
1 tablespoon butter
A egg yolks
Grated rind of one orange
3 tablespoons orange juice
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon gelatin
1 tablespoon water
34 cup whipping cream
Method: till floor, „urustarclt
and sugar togethher. 'Add to boiling
water in top of double boiler, stir-
ring eon stanrI'. Crook 20 minutes,
Add butter. Beat this mixture
into egg rullzs. '12enirn 50 double
ISSUE 53 - 1049
boiler. Crook three minutes. Add_
orange rind and fruit }aides. Stie
in gelating dissolved its one table-
spoon water. Cool.
Add 'whipped cream. Place its
refrigerator.or other very cool place
one hour. Spread on *eke. lee
with orange icing..
* *
Now, something for those wibh
rein sweet tooth; and, by the way,
did you ever woudar why we al-
ways say "tooth" instead of "teeth"
in that connection?
With without taking time totry
and solve such a deep mystery -
although I suppose it's like tweak-
ing jof a good gardener having a
"green thumb” -here ' are some
candy cacipes that bake little tints
to make, and yet furnish a heap of
'good eating;
Divinity Puffs
Makes 24 pieces
Beat 2 egg whites until stuff
Combine 2% cups sugar, is cup
water, 34 cup light corn syrup
Cook to thin stage or to 234° on
candy thermometer.
Pour 34syrup mixture over egg'
whites
Stir constantly while pouring
Cook remaining half of syrup mix-
tureto 260°
Pour over egg whites, beating eon -
stoutly
Beat 1111111 mixture holdu eltape
when dropped front spoon
Add 3/4 cup chopped ante, 34 tea-
spoon vanilla
Swirl from teaspoon onto waxed
paper
5 e a
Yummy Nut Candy
Makes 34 pieces
Beat -.1 egg white until at{tE
Add 1 cup ground peanut's, 1 sup
brown sugar
Pour into a well -greased, shallow
pan
Bake at 350° (moderate) for 115
minutes
Cut into squares.
Jiffy Candy
Makes 10 pieces
Melt over hot water %a amp choco-
late chips
Stir melted chocolate into 1 cup, of
puffed rice
Drop from teaspoon onto, waxed
paper
Chill until stiff in refrigerator.
Chocolate Fudge
Makes 16 pieces
Combine 2 cups sugar, 2 squares
chocolate, chipped, % cup cream,
2 tablespoons butter, 54 toaspoos
salt, 2 tablespoons light aorta
syrup
Simmer until sugar dissolves, stis-
i•ing cmtstantl)
Cover, cook to soft -ball stages, or
238° on candy thermometer
Add 1 teaspoon .vanilla_
Cool to lukewarm, or 110'
Beat until creamy
Pour into butte ! ;-inch-square
pan,
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Cern Flake Bares
Makes 16 bat's
Combine 34 sup sugar, ye cup light
corn syrup, 34 cup sre5m
Cook to soft -ball stage or until tetn
peratare reaches 236° ott sandy
Uheemometer
Wolk fast froth here oil
Add to sugar mixture: 3 sups Sons
flakes, 54 sup peanuts, 54 cup of
cocoanut
Spread its greased, -8-inch-stows
pall
Cool
Cut into bars and wrap in eay:ol
paper.'
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It gives you all the answers without
the botiket of snantitriig the facts,
Famous Cure (!)
For Tuberculosis
Until the discovery of the tu-
bercle bacillus' -by Robert ICoolt,
many strange' recipes and supersti-
tious rituals were tried its a vaitt.
attempt to cure tuberculosis. Not
the least remarkable is the one used
at his mother's insistence by Uha
famous General Wolfe:
"Take a peck of green garden'
snails, wash in beer, put Client in
an oven and let bhem stay until
they are done orying; then with a
knife and fork prick the green
from- •them, and beat the snails,
shell and all, in a stone mortar.
Then take a quart of earth worms,
slice theta through the middle and
strow them with salt; then wadi
then- aid beat them, the pot first
being put into the still with two
handfuls of angelica, a quart of
rosemary -flowers, tltett the snails
anal worms, agtrimony, bears' feet,
red dock roots, barberry brake,
bitlberry, worm wood, of each two
handfuls;' one handful of rue, tu-
meric, and one ounce of saffron,
well dried and beaten. Then pour
in three gallons of milk. Wait 'til
morning and then put in three
ounces of cloves (well beaten),
Hartshorn, grated. Keep bhe still
covered all night ,This done, stir
it not. , Distil with a moderate fire.
The patient trust take two spoons -
151 at a tithe."
Just as public education now is
one of the most important factors
in the effective control of tubercu-
losis, public ignorance and fear for
many years retarded. progress. It
remained, however, for scientists to
show the way and win the belief
and confidence of the people. -
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AMBITION
A touring• actor has played the
part of Abraham Lincoln so many'
times that he has assumed the habitis
of the great president, even going
so far as to adopt characteristic.
garb.g
s
Recently, dressed in the nape and
tall hat of Lineolu's day, he nodded
gravely to another repertory actor.
Waitinguntil the impersonatoe
was out of earshot, tete other inure
mured: "That fellow will never he
satisfied until he is assivated." -
LANN€ 1-#1�ST)
"Dear Anne Hirst: if there is
anything in my marriage worth sal-
vaging, maybe you can find it,
"During these. 10 years, I have
seen only heartache. It has been one
affair after an-
other with .any
husband. ( W e
married at 14
and 19.)
"Three months
after we mar-
ried, 1 found
out his weak-
ness. Anne
Hirst, my hus-
band has a wonderful personality,
aid he is devoted to his children;
he is a fine provider, too
"But wiry in heaven can't he leave
women alone?
"He used to put the off with lies,
until .i. caught hitnself each time.
Each tine he promised would be
the last. Don't you think after 10
years he would chauge if he is ever
going to?
"I have tried to be a good wife.
I. have worked and helped in every
way I could, I'm a wonderful
housekeeper, and now we own a
Mos home, But it seems hs would
throw it all away for a good time!
"1 forgave hint every time, and
told hint if he'd tell me how I have •
failed, I could understand. But all
he says is 'You're the best wife a
man could have.' (Yet he has struck
me more than once;)
"I think I have endured all T can.
I know it is affecting my health,
end 1 thinly I deserve a little happi-
ness.
"\\'e never got out on any occa-
ston, 1. am contented with anything
he wishes to do.
"It is only a month since his last
affair. He asks me not to leave him,
and he will try to do better.
"Do you really think 1 should try
again?
LONELY M.L."
* 11 would be logical to Say, No.
* You have stood enough, Through
* 10 years of marriage he has out-
* raged your love and destroyed
'0 your faith. The constant anxiety
* has reduced you to a state of
* futilft,r, Every time he -promised
* to be loyal your hopes rose again,
* and every time he broke his worth
* your heart broke too.
Yet perhaps this time he really
* means it, and will find the
* strength to be a better husband
* and father.
• Has it occured to you to use
* the children as your final argu-
* anent? -f1 he has hot sufficient
* self-respect to be a decent man,
*you yourself will not allow your
* children to grow up to be asham-
* ed of their father. If he is ea
* devoted to tltetn as he professes,
* he will hesitate when he. is faced
* with" that ultimatum. It has never
* occured to him, 1 expect, that you
* would take the children away
* from him.
* So, if you feel you can face one
snore trial, convince him that you
* mean what you say, This time you
* will expect him to keep his word.
* You will expect flim to start tak-
* ittg yott out regularly, and giving
* you all this affection and attention
* he,has squandered on lesser wo-
* men. You will try with all you':
* heart, once more, to have faith in.
* But at his first defection, you
* will sue him for divorce, and their.
* he will lose his wile and his chit.
* dren forever,
* is
* Isn't it worth one more chance
To give an erring husband one
more trial takes all the courage a
faithful wife can muster. Yet a wo-
man can sometimes renew her faith
just once more. If this problem con-
fronts you, ask Anne Hirst's. advice,
Address her at Box 1, 123 'Eigh-
teenth St., New. Toronto, Ont.
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