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At this sc•a.s,•'E itt the year ,vise'-
thoughts have a way of turning back
to the clays cr childhood. hack to
the Christmases one used to know.
I remember. alsom this time, it used
to be a special treat to take a long
walk into the r:oun:ry anri bring
bad: holly and mistletoe for de- -
ehorating. All 131tntrl`eo we kept our
eyes open so that we knew just
w•:?ere to go for the 'pest l:o'.=;•.
where the berries were the red.le,t
and the leaves t!c greenest. M'stle-
tne was harder to find lint if we
went to Rye's Lane, a walk of about
eight miles, we knew there was one
holy tree there that was alacav:
thickly entwined with the parasite:-
mistletoe,
trasitemistletoe, And ;Shat was eight mile;
to sturdy. energetic roting.sters` At
least it was nothing to my brothers
and sister but 1. t•.ts considerably
younger an the end of the walk
would find Inc dragging wearily be-
hind, But take mother's advice and
stay at home` ... Oh. no! That was
a treat I wouldn't miss for anything:
t can visualise that :gall: eveu
ye; -down .to naliingdon. through
Middleton Park and on to }ienny-
Rye's Lane -a narrow. moss-cover-
rer, and primroses and sweet -scent-
ed lane about three miles long,
wi,ere holly berries grew red in win-
ed violets bloomed in the spring.
The lane caste out through Col.
Bar!na.diston', estate, and thus to the
twain road on top of a s::eep hilt.
From there it was down -hill all the
home. The names are only names to
many reader: but yet, quite often,
i get a letter saying -"I remember
aJ t?' ell those places you mentioned
in your column 1 c v weeks ago."
So you see, yke.t never can teat. lt's.
a small world -and the older one
gets the smaller re world.
Right here ray 1 say -Thank
vote." 'Eighty- h e Years Young.
'for your nice letter. Ii. and whet:
ant 83 year: old I hope• I shall be
able to -write a, Rel; and as hrightiy
as you do now.
Bet back re, Christmas p' para -
tions in the long. long ago.
For weeks irefc•re Christmas we
used to save otir pennies and ha'-
pennies. and -0-ith our combined
small fund -and believe nae, it was
artall. we bought rolls of coloured
tissue paper. nia,.tly red and green.
After tea mother let us use the
dining -room table and we got busy
with paper and paste. Cut strips of
paper one inch wide and four inch-
es long pasting Ofent together to
form links, one to another. ? alter-
nate colours.In our home eeryfew
de, -.orations were l oug.:t--y C
theln-, all ourselves. and we spent
many happy ;lout in the p ,7 es..
Titr.n a day or teto hefore Christmas
we draped the rooms with paper
.-i•ah s: we trimmed the nictnree an.'l
mantel with ol:y imnq mistle-
toe
tle-
toe .tt the tail, and eacll ivr.. .
shut we always saved a piece of each
with the c..oi:•- _ !,e'. ?i!
Che • middle of ".'r,e i istI'a .i:i.
•ii And ? ret:nti i. -r i t:•e . ,I-
tva s got .c 7., et.: -i's-
p. t ,y -T.vort brandy- v t.)
drink nut•r+ ti,e ' .. n ,
pudding. I 'c'ti t.o 4 ate' 4, rc.ld-
di..4g being + ; ;;• :
Cirri!;-:t'r sour :l pvol', t7le hear. over
the pudding G ^ a -t a 't zo and
ce ntehe i ets a icall3 as _ase
ria .sing flames ape:i e.t•:
ai_,:clurl `l?c•aice , ;� ,,tis its
to' ting C.* Loin J, arA mistietae.
p .l!.';: 7,as i.evtr i. the
last flame- had ;rt n.. itse rt,:t. 1
ai •7 :•en)r•nt`,er I: ) iier ":ail t•1 cut
my piece of A.ell iron t':e
it: e 7,e,. vise ! Il .a t touch it
it ] got ries a.le t ,e } ra!'rj '.
lig ting the t."..ristmas }).rrrrlir!g
didn't quite d.-n.or al e 'ne'. I didn't
like. spirits the::
their: trove
itt all my ciri,r ,..d tr re
only one Christmas whet: we had a
tree. They were not as common in
t',clt :is they are itt Canada
now --• uta stly, l suppose, because
they had to be bought. We didn't
hare -rare then to bring home trees
purloined from somebody's wood -
And to us, the gay odd fellow in
the red coat and tong white whiskers
was mat Santa Claus but lather
Christmas. Batt he used to 'come
down the chimney just ,the sante.
only he didn't find- out stockings
hung from the mantel. [icy had to
visit the bedrooms and at the head
of each eleepiug (?) child he found
a stot•lang ii_ype'rttliy pinned to the
betlrail.
Came the early morin, and the
fir.: child a wake w wind get the
others together- and we would con-
gregate i one or outer of the bed-
rooms. \\ iten mother heard whisper-
ing and rattling of mysterious par-
cels she -would come in too -and we
never untied a parcel until she ap-
peared. Then when the parcels were
unwrapped another went downstairs
and presently we heard her playing
carols on the old table piano. We
raced down, dressed or undressed,
it didn't matter - and we stood
around the piano and sang hymns
as long a$ mother would play them.
And thus began our Christmas!
Children today, with their Santa
C'iaus parades, and all kind of pres-
eels, cannot possibly be any happier
than was our little fatherless family
with their hotlle-made giits. and
simple pleasures. And another thing
1 renremt,er --- we always had
sausage -roils for breakfast C:ltrismas
morning:
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Personalizing Christmas Cards-\Vith Christmas fast approach-
ing, actress Corinne Calvet got a few pointers from artist
Albert 'Kramer on how to personalize Christmas cards. She
might have done better by mailing Pictures of herself.
When yon think of fruit cake, it's
,generally the rich, dark Christmas
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 are feather -
light, with fine. even texture. Yet
the fruit is still there, with the
double 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 the last named.
Pineapple Feather Cake
1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
4 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups flour
y4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
teaspoon soda
1 cup pineapple juice
rye cup hot water
4 stiffly beaten egg whites ' ..
Method: Thoroughly cream the
shortening and sugar. Add egg
yolks and vanilla; beat well, Add
sifted dry ingredients alternately
'with liquid. Fold in egg whites.
Bake in three wax paper -lined,
eight -inch cake parts in, a 350°
oven for 30 minutes. Put together
w ith pineapple seven -minute frost-
ing, Add one-half oup drained,
.r.rushed pineapple to one recipe for
seven-tninute frosting.
*
Cake
Banana
% cup shortening
1% cups sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups cake flour
teaspoon salt
tl teaspoon soda
34 cup sour milk
1 cup banana pulp
1 teaspoon baking powder •'
Method: Thoroughly cream the
shortening and sugar; add eggs and.
v hills. Beat until fiuffy. Add the
sifter1 dry ingredients alternately
with milk anti banana pulp, beating
well after eaelt addition. Sake' li
way: Mier -lined 6'.x10!% -iii ii nal:e.
pan in a 350' over! for 50 taint
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Orange Cream Cake
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons cold water
1 cup cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Grated rind of one orange
Method: Beat egg yolks until
thick and lemon colored. Add sugar
gradually, beating all the while
with the egg heater. Add cold
water and grated orange rind. Sift
flour, baking powder and salt to-
gether, and add to first mixture.
well. Arid well -beaten egg
whites.
Bake in two layers its se screased
pan in a 325 -degree oven for 30
minutes. When cool, *pnead with
bra nge .•reattt filling. t *
Orange Creast Filling
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3 tablespoons flour
eup sugar
3/4 eup boiling water
1 tablespoon butter
2 egg yolks
Grated rind of one orange
3 tablespoons orange juice
1 tablespoon 13tnon juice
1 tablespoon gelatin
1 tablespoon water
34 cup whipping creant
Method: anis fl,r!7r, , r,Irittarch
and sugar togefl+rr. a,dd to boiling
water In tap 01 t1 ruble bailer, stir-
ring constantly. took 20 minium.
Add butte:. Heat (hits mixture
into egg„ yolk.. Return to double
ISSUE 53
boiler. Cook three minutes. Add
orange rind and fruit juices. Stir
in gelatin. dissolved in one table-
spoon water. Cool.
Add whipped cream. Place in
refrigerator or other very cool plane
one hour. Spread 011 sake. lee
with orange icing.
* s ,.
Now. something for those with
that sweet tooth; and, by the way,
did you: ever wonder why we al-
ways say `!tooth" instead of "teeth"
in that connection?
With without taking time to try
and solve such a deep mystery -
although 1 suppose it's like speak-
ing of a good gardener having a.
"green thumb" ---here are some
caudy recipes that take little time
to make, and yet f?n•nis1t a heap of
good eating.
* t.
Divinity Puffs
Makes 24 pieces
$eat 2- egg whites until stiff
Combine 2% .cups sugar, 54 cup
water, 1 cup light corn syrup
Cook to thin stage or to 234' on
candy thermometer.
Pour 7' syrup n%i',tnre over egg
whites •
Stir constantly while pouring
Cook remaining half of syrup mix-
ture to 260'
Pour over egg whites, beating eon-
stantlt'
Beat until mixture holds shape
when dropped front spoon
Add 3/4 cup chopped nuts, ;i2 tea-
spoon vanilla
Swirl from teaspoon onto waxed
paper
*
Yummy Nut Candy
Slakes 24 pieces
Beat 1 egg -white until stiff
Add 1 cup ground peanuts, 1 oup
brown sugar
Pour into a well -greased, shallow
pan
Bake at 350° !moderate) for .5
minutes •
Cut into squares.
*
•
Jiffy Candy
'fakes 10 pieces
Melt over hot water !4 cup choco-
late chips
Stir melted chocolate into 1 eup 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, 14 teaspoon
salt, 2 tablespoons light eorn
syrup
Simmer until sugar dissolves, stir-
ring constantly
Cover, cook to soft -ball stage or
233° on candy thermometer
Add 1 teaspoon vanilla
Cool to lukewarm, or 110'
Beat until creamy
Pour into htottese1
. pan.
* * *
Corn Flake Bare
Makes 16 bas's
Combine• 34 oup sugar, % cup 'light
corn isyrup, 'up ,refs*
Cook to soft -ball stage or until tem-
perature reaches 236' on handy
thermometer
Work fait from here. on
Add to Auger mixttu•e:: 3 cups (torn
flakes, / eup peanuts, % cup of
cocoanut
Spread le greased, 8-inch-sgitar'e
pari
Cool
Cut into lar, and wrap in waved
paper.
i ittch•square
}'rejttdice save time and trouble.
11 gives you all the auswers without
the bothM 1? *ritarnduing the fects,. .
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For Tuberculosis
• Vitali the discovery of the to-
bercle bacillus by Robert Koeh,
many strange recipes and supersit-
tiotls rituals were tried in a valla
attempt to cure tuberculosis. Not
the least remarkable issthe one used
at his mother's insistence by the
.famous General Wolfe:
"'lake a peck of green garden
snails, wash itt beer, put them in
an overt and let them stay until
they are done crying; theta tt'ith a
knife and fork prick the greeu
franc thein,. and beat the snails,
shell and _all, itt a stone mortar,
Then take a quart of earth worms,
slice them through the middle and
strove them with salt; then wash
theist and beat theta, the- pot first
being put into the still with two
handfuls of angelica, a quart of
rosemary flowers, then the snails
and worms,. agrintouy, hears' feet,
,red ' dock roots, barberry brake,
billberry," warm 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 tate still
covered all night. This done, stir
it not. Distil with a moderate fire.
'I'.he patient must: take two spootis-
ful at a time."
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. -
Froln "Reporting Progress," pub-
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AMBITION
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A touring actor has played the
pact 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.
Recently, dressed in the cape and
tall hat of Lincoln's day, he nodded
gravely to another repertory actor.
'Waiting until the itnpersotiator•
was out of earshot, 'the otltet' mur-
mured: "That fellow will never he
satisfied until he is assinated."
"Dear Anne Hirst: If there is
anything in my marriage worth sal-
vaging, maybe you can find it.
"During these 10 years, 1 have
seen only heartache. It has been one
affair after an-
other with my
husband. t \\' e
married at 14
and 19.1
"Three months
after we mar-
ried, 1 found
out iris weak-
ness. Anne
< t' Hirst, my bus -
)and has a wonderful personality,
and he is devoted to his children:
ie is a fine provider, too ---
".But why in heaven rau't he leave
women alone?
"fie used to put me off with lies,
until 1 caught himself each time.
Each time he promised would be
the last, Don't you think after 10
years he would change ii he is ever
going to?
"I have tried to he a good wife.
I have worked and helped itt every
way I could. I'm a wonderful
hotisekeeper, and now we own a
Mee home. But it seems he would
throw it all away for a good tine!
"1 forgave hint every time, and
told ]tint if he'd tell me ]tow I have
failed, 1 could nndcrstand. But all
he says is 'You're the best wife a
roan could have.' (Yet Ire' hat struck
me more than once.)
"1. think 1 have endured all 1 can.
I know it is affecting my health,
and I think I deserve a little happi-
ness.
"\\'e never got out on any occa-
sion. i ant contented with anything
he wishes to do.
"It is only a month since his last
affair. lie asks me not to leave him,
and he will try to do'better.
"Do you really think I should try
again?
LONELY
* ' It would be logical to say, No.
* You have stood enough. Through
* 19 years of marriage he has out-
* raged your love and destroyed
* your faith. The constant anxiety
* has •reduced you to a state of
* futility. Every time he promised
* to he loyal your hopes rose again,
at
and every time he broke his word
* 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 oc'cured to you to use
* the children as your final argu•-
* went? If he has not sufficient
* self-respect to he a decent mat!;
* you yourself will not allow your
* children to grow up to be asltant
* ed of their father. 11 he is as
* devoted to thein as he professes,
* he will hesitate when he is faced
* with that ultimatum, It has never
* occurcd to him, 1 expert, titat yott
* would take the children away -
*
way* from him,
* So, if you !feel you can face ot,e
* more trial, convince him that you
* mean what you say. '['his time you
* will expect hint to keep his wed.
* Yori will expect hili to start talc-
* ing you out regularly, and giving
* you all this affection and attention
* he has squandered on lesser wo-
* sten. You will try with all your'
* heart. once more. to have faith in
him)-
* 1it--t. at his first defection, you'
* will site hitu for divorce, and {herr
* he will lose his wife and his chil-
e
Isn't it \t orth 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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