Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1924, Page 42

WOM Make Christmas AN’S PAGE. Gifts Look Merry BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. The ability to do up Christmas gifts ®o that they have individuality and distinction has become an art. The wrappings should express Christmas cheer; the gift, the Christmas choice 'The wrapping can be.so attractive that a nerson may hesitate a moment before venturing to mar the perfec- tion of the package. There is something about a nicely wrapped parcel, at the holiday season especlally, that implies ‘a present When the wrappings have becn stripped, off, it is an article, pure and simple. [ know of one little lad who defers undoing his Christmas pres long as his curiosity permits, PACKAGE SHOULD BE AS ATTRACTIV AS THE GIFT very reason. The cor toys to him w long as the Eifts, they unknown th the cret wonderful o wish, probab ave mystery, quantities. But wrapping lies the its fulfiliment of but what wish? Many an older person s s the atti- tude of tha lad. So lct us make our £ifts as attractive and artistic as pos- able. Mysteriously “Sweet” A bottle of perfume, cologne or toilet water may be done up in the disguise of a lady of fashion. She may be tricked out in full skirt; shawl and bonnet, all made of crepe paper. Paste a dainty face, cut from a fash- ion magazine, on one side the stopper and conceal the rest of It with the bonnet. The straight, full paper skirt reaches to the neck of the bottle, where it is tied securely. The trim shawl hides the too high-waisted skirt and gives a natural contour to the “sweet” lady. Who would not revel in such a bewitching gift? BEDTIME STORIES Lightfoot and Hunter. Who beeds the promptings of his h From mercy's way will ne'er dep 0ld Mother Nature. It was a clever hunter who was after Lightfoot the Deer. Yes, si that hunter was clever. He knew how to move through the Green Forest without making a sound. Never once did he put a foot down until he was sure that there was no dry twig heneath to snap. He moved slowly, very slowly. He felt there was no hurry. He felt quite sure that he had guessed the trick that Lightfoot 1 _DON'T WANT TO THE HUNTER MUT- TERED WITH A LITTLE SIGH. had played and that he would find Lightfoot in the very same hiding place from which he had been fright- ened. So he stole forward with the Ereatest care and not a leaf rustled Meanwhile Lightfoot was back in his old hiding place in the middle of a thicket of young hemlock trees. He was lying down. He was very well pleased with himself. He was sure that he had fooled that hunter. But this sureness didn't make him any the less watchful. Every Merry Little Breeze that came his way he carefully tested for the dreaded man scent. Not for an instant did he fail to keep his ears wide open for suspicious sounds. But the Merry Little Breezes brought him no man scent and his wonderful ears caught no suspicious sounds. For a long time Lightfoot lay there, feeling safe and without worry. But at last. without ary reason that he knew of, a feeling of uneasiness stole over him. It was just a feeling, but he couldn’t get rid of it. It was a feeling that something was wron, Whisk brooms have the same pos- sibilities of being dressed in costume. Here is an idca for a man's present. “Cross-Word Wrappings.” This vear we have the cross-word vogue to add individuality to our Wrappings. Let us make the most of it. We can use the idea in several ways. For instance, we can cut a triangular pleee from a folded plece of white paper with a straight end where the crease comes. Open it |out and you have a prim tree with a trunk. Fold another piece of paper and cut a tub from it. Make this tub of green paper. Paste the little Chridtmas tree with its trunk touch- ng the tub on to a box wrapped in a piece of red tissue paper holding a gift. Divide the tree with ruled cross lines, or use a -draughtsman's commercial cross-lined paper for each tree. Starting from the top of the trec, letter the words “A Merry Christmas,” making_ solid squares where words end. The “A"” fills th apex. When the phrase has bee finished, write “for” in the same wa and then letter in the person’s name for whom the gift is intended. up the parcel so that the tree not crossed by the ribbon except where the “trunk” goes into the tub. Here the ribbon may be tied into a neat little bow. Such a wrapping is unique. Cross-Word Wreath. Instead of a cross-word tree a wreath may be used. Have it appear to hang from a big bow at the top. Paste the wreath of white paper on A greon tissue paper wrapping and have the bow red. Letter the words as above, in such spaces as can be made in full on the circle. mor me on any one line her so much the better. Letter from top to bottom, having the phrase on one-half of the wreath and the name on the other, leaving an unlettered section at the part of the wreath below the bow. The let- ters should be printed neatly. Stili another cross-word effect can be had by pasting a square or rec- tangular picce of white paper, marked off Into squares, a parcel al- ready wrapped in red, green or other colored paper. The words are then lottered {n the spaces either horizon- tally or vertically. Solid squares form the division of words, thus sim- plifving the reading of the so-called | “puzale.” is Colorful Effects. Distinction can be given packages by wrapping them in two contrasting sheets of tissue paper. Make a wide backward fold where the paper ends, thus disclosing the tone of the under or lining paper. Use ribbon the color of the lining to tie up the parcel. A |large circle of gold sealing wax with |the donors monogram or inltial stamped in it may take the place of ribbon to hold the paper in place. Or the seal may be put across the ribbon. The present vogue of hand-blocked papers sugges(s the idea of using wallpaper for wrapping paper. Some of the wallpapers make delightful fancy wrapp'ng. You may have some odds and ends of such paper that would be just the thing. Be careful how you fold the wallpaper; it s apt to tear in creases, so it must be handled deftly. With plain wrapping papers whether white or| in colors a few bayberries or a sprig of holly or any bit of living green tucked under the bow adds decidedly to the attractive- ness of a Christmas package. To insure the safe arrival of any parcel sent through the mall, be sure to do it up in an outside wrapping of stout paper, and tie securely with strong twine. The twine should be tight, so that it will not slip off, however much the package is handled. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS that danger was very close. Moment by moment that feeling grew. He had heard nothing, seen nothing and smelled nothing to give hjm that feeling. But it grew stronger and stronger. Silently Lightfoot got to his feet. With his beautiful head thrown up he stood motionless. He was filled with the desire to run, to get away from that place as fast as he could. But he didn't know in which direction to run. Not knowing, he would be as likely to run into danger as away from it. So wisely he remained there motionless, but ready to leap the in- stant he should know where the danger lay. Now, that hunter had crept to within shooting distance before Lightfoot had risen to his feet. As long as Lightfoot was lying down the hunter couldn’t see him. But when Lightfoot Bot to his feet the hunter saw him at once. Tt was the chance he had been walting for. It was the chance for which he had patiently been working ever since daylight. Still he ddin’t shoot. In fact, he almost forgot that he had a terrible gun. You see, Lightfoot looked 50 handsome that that hunter just had to keep still for a few moments to admire him. He could see Lightfoot's great soft eyes, and in them he saw fear and uncertalnty grow and grow. He knew that Lightfoot knew that he was in danger, but that he didn’t know just where that danger was. And as he watched a change .came over that hunter. Twice he started to lift his terrible gun, but each time something stopped him. 1t Lightfoot had been running that hunter would not have hesitated a second to shoot. But with Lightfoot standing there, with not a chance in the world to escape, he simply could not shoot. What do you think that hunter finally did?> He snapped a dry twig in his fingers. At the sound Lightfoot looked at him and saw him. Terror filled those beautiful eves. Then with a mighty leap Lightfoot left that thicket and bounded away. “I guess I don’t want to shoot him,” the hunter muttered with a little sigh. “He {8 too beautiful to kill” And then that hunter started for home, and somehow he felt strangely happy. He knew that he felt far happier than he would have felt had he killed Lightfoot. —e The origin of whist is very ob- scure, but under its old name of triumph it was so generally under- stood that Bishop Latimer preached a Christmas sermon in 1529 at Cam- bridge in which the allegories were based on the game. frows o lo obluin the ldeal India Blend! *AWARDED the First Prize for Tea Quality at the Calcutta, India, Exhibition—now you know how fine Lipton’s is! Tle | wAarTer RALEIGH N B\rer sirHuMPHREY Groerr: DEATH,HIS PLANS FOR PLANTING AN ENGLISH COLONY IN AMERICA WERE CARRIED ON BY HIS HALF- BROMER WALTER RALEIGH RALBIGH HAD SAILED WITH BROTHER TO NEWFOUNDBLAND wiAS| THECOAST OF NORTH - | A GREAT FAVORITE AT COURT AND | [camerer e VERY WEALTHY. O, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1924 Sir Walter Raleigh’s .7/‘ .// Veare raae IN 1584 HE SENT TWO SHIRS UNDER| /AMADAS AND BARIOWR 7O EXPLORE His | [THe Amanmic FOR AN IDBAL. POT TO PLANT A COLONY. THEY DID NOT LINGER BUT HURRIED BACK TO ENGLAND TO REPORT TO THEIR EMPLOYER . OLINA THEY ENTEAD PAmLICO | SOUND AND CAME YO ROANOKE ISLAND| Copyright, 1924, by The NcClure Newspaper Syndicats. Menu for a Day. BREAKFAST Boiled Rice with Raisins Creamed Codfish Toast, Marmalade Coffee. LUNCHEON Macaroni with Tomato Crisp Rolls Baked Stuffed Apples Sponge Cakes. Tea DINNER Clam Chowder Broiled Halibut, Chill Sauce Creamed Potatoes Baked Squash Baked Indian Pudding Coffee. RICE WITH RAISI) Wash rice and put In salted water. Pick over and wash a few raisins. Boll slowly till well cooked. Serve with milk and sugar. STUFFED APPLES Here is a nice sugarless dain- ty. Wash and core six apples, put into baking dish and fili holes with one-half cupful of chopped raisins and one-half cupful of chopped nuts mixed together. One-half cupful of molasses and one-half cupful of water mixed together and pour- ed over all. Bake slowly, bast- ing with the liquld two or three times while baking. Serve cold. CREAMED POTATOES. One can of evaporated mflk, two cups of peeled and diced po- tatoes, one tablespoonful each of flour and butter, one tea- spoonful of chopped parsley. salt and pepper. Cook the po- tatoes in water to cover until nearly done. Drain, cover with the milk, adding a little of the water in which the potatoes were cooked. Bring to a boil, thicken with flour and butter blended, season to taste and sprinkle with parsley. Answers to Yesterday's Puzzles. Sauerkraut and Spareribs. Melt 2 tablespoonfuls of butter or pork fat in a saucepan and add 1 quart of sauerkraut. Cover the pan closely and cook slowly for an hour or until tender. If necessary, add a little water to prevent the sauer- kraut from sticking, and stir occa- slonally. Frankfurters, sausage or spareribs may be cooked In the pan with the sauerkraut, if desired. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1924.) T T I T T AEEE JEN dNEE _am . An assumed aititude. Inspired with dread Orlental. Riotious behavior. A pronoun. A weak explosive noise. Suffix indicating action Recent. A sallor. To perform. A grassy place. Obtained by work Southern State (abbr.) . Attacks. | A very sharp Instrument. . Ridicule. . Slipped. Manner. An eastern university. . Amount of surface. Large fish of Greenland. Terminals. . To be in debt. To ‘cause to flow. Feline creature. A parent Unusual Greek letter. To declare openly. Spoken. An island in the Pacific. To get up. Dormant. Eaten away. . Normal. Breathes quickly. A hard fusible material. A poem. Preposition. Above. One of a pack of cards . The woodcock. The great artery of the body. To accuse at law. Seaport of Asla Minor. A selling again. A thing lent A zoological Ireland. . Inactive. . To acknowledge. To look after. An act. King (Spanish). Droops. garden. Meat and Pastry Rolls. Small quantities of cold ham. chicken or other meat may be used for these. Tho meat should be chopped fine, well seasoned, mixed with enough savory fat or butter to make it shape, and formed into rolls about the size of a finger. A short dough made of a pint of flour, two tablespoonfuls of lard, one teaspoon- ful of baking powder, salt and milk enough to mix. This should be rolled thin, cut into strips and folded around the meat rolls, care being taken to keep the shape regular. The rolls should be baked in a quick oven until they are a delicate brown color nd served hot Down. A Malay canoe. Means of propelling smail boat. Russian Mountain range. . To become less severe. . A vault. jaculation. Habitual drinker. Mord of honor. ger. Delicious New England Fish Cakes in five minutes OW would you like a breakfast of real fish cake.s—'hut with none of the fuss and bother of soaking, picking, boiling, paring, mixing, etc.? Take home one of these blue- and-yellow cans of Gorton’s—the original ready-to-fry fish cakes--made from famous Gorton’s Cod Fish—No Bones. —A drink” CUP of strong tea correctly made is the most stimulating and invigorating drink, whether taken hot or ice cold. But tell them to make it strong for you and be sure it is India Tea—or a blend containing India Tea. Once you have had a properly made cup of tea, with milk and sugar, you will realise how essentially tea is a man’s drink. Be sure it is— NDIATEA Or a Blend Containing India Tea Venture. | TO ROANOKE WITH A HUNDRED 7O EXPLORE THE REGION MORE THOROUGHLY AND TOLAY OUT A SITE FOR A PERMANENT COLONY - LANE AND WIS MEN EXPLORED THE OLONY SHE WAS DELIGHTED. AND TO SHOW HER FAVOR SHE MADE RALEIGH A RNISHT AND NAMED THE NEW LAND “VIREINIA"ING | b OF MERSELR, TH5 VIRGIN QuEEN| Nutrition Nuggets. Although every case or so-called indigestion may differ from every other case, it has been fairly well established that about 50 per cent of these cases show a condition of too much acld in the stomach. The first thing to do is to arrive at the cause. This may go back to faulty habits, to inherited disposition, *o disturbances in the other organs, or to chronic autointoxication. The cause once found, the treatment should be planned accordingly. ‘When acid indigestion is caused by faulty habits, the victim should ask himself whether he indulges in too rapld eating, whether he demands too much spice in his food, whether he is eating a large amount of food that is In itself acid, or whether he has an overweening fondness for sweets, and whether he is overwork ing mentally. Any one of these may cause the secretion of too much acid. In planning for acid Indigestion, remember that fats delay digestion and should be used sparingly. Olive oil, cream, crisp bacon and fresh but- ter are among the most Indigestible fat If yvour physician orders purin-free diet, select your foods from the fol- lowing list: Milk, wheat cereals lightly cooked eggs, potatoes, new cabbage, bread, fresh butter and rice with cream and limited amount of sugar. Remember that if the children have milk as a basis for their diet, this diet will almost automatically tend to “balance” itself. If plenty of fresh vegetables, fruits and whole grains, with oc ional eggs and meat, are added, other elements of a well rounded diet are provided There is a decided difference In con- densed milk, evaporated milk and powdered milk. Condensed milk is sweetened and prepared according to a special process. Evaporated milk is merely whole milk with the water removéd, and can be used in cooking in place of fresh milk. Powdered milk is also treated by a special process, and is especially adaptable for in- fants' diets in cases where fresh milk cannot be procured. During the cold weather we can digest, and in fact w need, more food than during the warmer days. Do not, however, let this fact allure you into overeating. A well digested meal of small portions will do you much more good than a hearty one which has put too great a burden on the digestive system. - 3! 1IN 1586, WITH HIS SUPPLES Rui= NING LOW, LANE DECIDED 0 RETORM | TO ENGLAND.. & RIVER AND HEARD FROM INDIANS OF CHESAPEAKE BAY. JUSTAT THAT TIME SIR PRANCIS DRAKE CAME TO ROANDKE ON HIS WAY HOME FROM THE WEST INDIES AND TOOK LANE AND M1S MEN ABOARD, ToMORROW : —— THE LoST COLONY WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. Easy Chairs for Everybody. Is your house a home? Or fs it just a collection of “furnished rooms"?| There is hardly anything that do more toward “individualizing” a home; toward making it a place| where every member of the family | really feels that he “belongs,” like some thoughtful attention given to| the selection of easy chairs. | Many men measure their satisfac- | tion in staying at home in terms of | the chair they have to rest in. Yet in spite of all the pretense women indulge of buying “comfy” things, if & straw vote could be taken among the husbands of the country it would doubtless reveal a strong disapproval for women's “administration” of easy chairs. The point is that men usually want a chair big and comfortable enough to snooze in. They have a particular fondness for roomy lounginess, while the women preseribe such chairs be- cause they aren't beautiful, or take up too much room. A dignified, comfortable chair for the head of the house is the uphol- stered wing chair. Some men in fact v fond of this type. It fur- s an unusually good headrest reading, with light fr either direction, and has the ad-. vantage of being more adaptable for conversation than the “sleepy hol- low"” styles. The wing chair is also popular and comfortable in cane and wicker designs. The round, low-back “tub” ch is a popular easy chair for peopl short or of medium height, especial- Iy If it is not too deep. Low-seated, upholstered arm chairs are greatiy appreciated by many women. To be most satisfactory the seat should not measure more than 16 or 17 inches| from the floor, and should slope gen- tly toward the back. Substituting three-inch down cushion for a thick: er one built with springs will some- | times transform an unappreclated | chair into a haven of real rest [ vet is the will div Ty Consider the children, too. The liv- ing room fs not really a living room | unless Herbert and Mary and lhcl baby have chairs of their own there jbr insistin(g on_ The mensio family them abo And whether to 1 | The reason ided ing haven't them rocker dimenstc than this purpose only 1t or offensive In number of number great m m th re i that so in opinion quest found a that adj peo types. most the he or th. mi-1 is limited, re is also chairs be hols of i wh kes mething of the memtb when the q ny fi thi it c itse mo room chairs must be noth ered able ght-welgh it possib right d roof ti to move chai ies ar “disturh- member heir to fi d for th If to the re readil used f t distracting where 1 ing bette straight- Sunsweet Prunes in Cartons Sunsweet “Prunes in Cartons are— are sterilized in water heated to 212 degrees F. by machinery— not touched by human hands. Easily identified—you know that youare getting the fine, sweet, thin- skinned California prunes—not the Clean— [1 [2 {31 Packed while hot tart, sour kind. Sunsweet means “from famous Cali- fornia orchards, selected and under the su| ers themselves.” A Qurck MeTHOD TO COOK BREAKFAST PRUNES Wash SUNSWEET PRUNES, cover with bot water and allow 10 soak one bour. -five minates. Add. 2 m’o Pmnes are nature’s own laxative. Docrors e st ot by ol it e Other fruits it jui i e an 07 ly concentrated breakfast not serve the same pervision of the grow- removing pranes, measured before soaking or cooking. If a thick desh when sender, and boul the liqui Mlitigo/{btda' Juiceor And prunes provide remarkable val- uesat low cost. Compare their price with other foods that offer anywhere near the same combined delicious- ness, food value and healthfulness. 60,000 doctors recommend them as an ideal breakfast fruit. Ask your grocer for Sunsweet Prunes packed MOLIow. until, se8 minuctes before are. PrUNES POR CONSTIPATION e PO bulk of prun Bacon, eggs and similar high! out that the inting es havea beneficial fast”” is a wonderful health rule. of prunes will dishes need prunes to make bulk in the digestive tract and aid elimination SUNSWEET CALIFORNIA PRUNES CALIFORNIA PRUNE-AND APRICOT GROWERS ASSOCIATION 11,252 Grower-Members, San Jose, Californig in Cartons. Prepare as suggested be- low. Then serve this appealing, beneficial fruit for breakfast to- mtlxb:i]_ing mm.‘awmm%'fi" pits it desired, remove prunes 0 serving comsifiency. A litile orange peel, lemon