Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1929, Page 19

WOMAN'S PAGE. Who Should Trim Christmas Tree? BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ‘There are two distinct and different ideas in families about who shall trim the Christmas tree. The idea of one group is that the older folk should do it and that the glory of their work shquld burst upon the little folk when 12~24 CHILDREN DELIGHT IN TRIMMING THE CHRISTMAS TREE. they glimpse the tree ChristMias morn- ing. The belief of the other group is that the fun of frimming the tree £hould be allowed the children, who will delight more in the results of their handiwork than in the sight of what others have done. Each method has its advantages. Moreover, each way can be followed in There is no question about who shall deck the tree when ohildren are little tots. Parents must do the happy work, nor would they be spared it, for the glee of the youngsters when they first see the tree is a joyous reward. The hap- piness of adults and little folk is about evenly shared. It is when the children get old enough to trim the tree that the ques- tion of who shall do it arises. There are several practical viewpoints to be considered. =By this time, after the many years that parents have trimmed trees, the novelty has worn thin with them. They know that the children cannot be surprised, although they may be delighted with the sight of the tree in all its splendor. Therefore the zest | of the work is decidedly minimized for the adults, who are often so wearied by }Jrevlouz preparations and the rush of last-minute tasks that they rather shrink from the job. ‘The children are restless and eager to do something. To be told they can trim the tree will be greeted by shouts of glee, that is, the first time they are allowed to trim it. Afterward they will mas work. Tired mothers often find this pleasure of their children a great relief. Some- times the children find pleasure in surprising the ‘parents with the gaily adorned tree, and it is the latter who are kept in suspense until Christmas morning. It is then for the parents to show their satisfaction and astonish- ment, and never by word or look to in- dicate that everything is not just right. (Copyright, 1929.) DAILY DIET RECIPE STUFFED VEGETABLE CUPS. Vegetable cups, 6. Diced bacon, 2 tablespoons. Green pepper, 3 tablespoons. Dried bread crumbs, 1 cup. Water or stock, 14 cup. Salt, % teaspoon. SERVES 6 PORTIONS. Raw tomatoes, pepper or cooked onions or turnips may be used. Scoop out center of vegetables to make a cup. Season inside of cups with salt. Cook "bacon and chopped green pepper slowly for about 5 minrutes until lightly browned. Add bread crumbs, liquid (which may be vegetable water, meat stock, milk or plain water), salt and the pulp from the scooped centers. Mix together well and fill the vegetable cups. Sprinkle bread crumbs over top. Place on a pan and bake in a hot oven 15 to 20 minutes, DIET NOTE. preparations by assuming this look forward to helping with the Christ- | WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. When we didn't go to the dentist to have our teeth pulled and the neigh- borhood shoemaker did all the extract- Recipe furnishes fiber, little fat and starch. Can be eaten by normal adults of average or un- derweight. Lime, iron, vitamins A and B present. If tomatoes are used, vitamin C will be present. eame family in different years. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Public Schools. ‘The superintendent of schools writes from a town.in a nearby State: “A few years’ experience in buying Janitor's supplies for schools has con- vinced me that there is a wide fleld for graft and that the opportunity has not been wasted. In the matter of disin- fectants and deodorants, for example, ‘we have arcmatic blocks, pine oil dis- infectants and, finally, th: salesman ‘who would have you pay $2 to $4 a gal- lon for a formaldehyde solution whosy content he does not profess to know. I have paid exorbitant priccs for cleaners with catchy trade names only to learn that I might have .bought the same thing at a reasonable price under its common commercial name. Can_you tell me what may be used as a clean, cheap, effective deodorant. What is your opinion of the use of sprays in school Tooms as a preventive of disease?” If disinfectants, decdorants or cleans- ers must be purchased for use in the schools, why should not the chemistry and physics department of the schools advise what should be used? Are our public schools so poorly mannsd that the head of the chemistry, department can't give expert advise about such a thing? Is the teaching of physics in the school system so abstruse and un- practical that the head of the physics department is unable to tell the pur- chasing agent what materials are best for cleansers? - What earthly use is it to require a boy or girl to take a course in physics nd a course in chemistry, as every| hool should require, and carefully avoid teaching the pupil anything about the physics and chemistry in his or her daily 1ife? The great weakness in thes= science courses in our public schocls is that the science teachers are too much interested in mathematics. A reason- able amount of mathematics may be good for a pupil, but when the mathe- matics department gets through with him it is regrettable that the physics or chemistry department sheuld feel in duty bound to rub some more mathe- maties into the luckless pupil. The graft the superintendent has the MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit, Hominy with Cream Brofled Lamb Chops. Po.2to Cakes. Popovers Coffee DINNER. . Oyster Cocktail, Celery, Olives, Cranberry Sauce Roast Turkey, Giblet Gravy Mashed Potatoes Boiled Squash Tomato Salad, French Dressing Plum Pudding, Hard Sauce Nuts. Raisins. Mints Coffee SUPPER. Lobster Salad Parker House Rolls Orange Sherbet, Pruit Cake Tea POTATO CAKES. ‘Take left-over mashed potatoes (say 2 cups), add 1 egg, 1 table- spoon of flour and sait to taste. Form into cakes and brown to a golden crisp on each side in a medium hot spider. PLUM PUDDING. One cup bread crumbs, !4 cup suet, chopped fine; !, teaspoon soda, }s teaspoon cloves, % tea- spoon,” cinnamon, 1y ‘teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking powder, Y4 cup molasses, 1 egg, Y3 cup milk, 4 tablespoons raisins, 4 ta- blespoons nuts. Mix all the dry dients thoroughly; add the raisins and nuts chopped fine. Break the egg into the molasses, beat well. Mix with the dry in- gredients. Fill a well buttered pudding mold haif full. Cook it in the top of a double poiler. Steam 12 hours and serve with vellow sau Recipe serves four. Hard Sauce —Cream together 1 heaping tablespoon of butter and 14 cup sugar. Add teaspoon bofl- ing water. Beat until light and smooth and flavor with vanilla or lemon to taste. PARKER HOUSE ROLLS. One quart boiled milk, butter size of an egg, !, cup sugar, 1 cake of yeast, a little salt. Mix thoroughly into 2 quarts of fiour, let stand in a warm place until morning. then 2dd 1; teaspoon of soda, dissolved In a little water, #nd roise ggain. Knead about 4 o'clock again to have warm for supper. Cut info bis~uit and rais> cgain, then bake 20 minutes in & moderate oven. z BRADY, M. D. temerity to imply is there, all right. Maybe the grafters who make a fat thl.r;: out of it would call it legitimate t. Hokum, bunkum and graft. The hokum is the very idea that disinfect- ants are necessary in the schools; the bunkum is that when a disinfectant is to be used it must be & propristary ar- ticle, not a plain chemical compound or_mixture. There is no more need for disinfect- ants or deodorants in school than there is in the home. Ordinary cleanlin and ordinal cleaning with ‘ordinafy cleansers will meet every possible requirement in school as it does in the home. Heaven pity the children so unfor- tunate as to attend a school where a spray is used or the air impregnated with some mysterious odor. (Copyright, 1929.) o WINTERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. ‘Thin and frail, and very lovely, the ice sheets spread across the brooks, so thin that you would think & rabbit could not run across them without fall- ing through, and, indeed, it is quite possible that he could not. In a season of year that must admit much slush, much sickness, many a day with boil- ing gray skies and much that is dismal or inconvenient there is one boast, and that is the beauty of the ice on run and creek. Just possibly you are not so pleased with the beauty of ice when it cracks your milk bottles. The odd property of water which causes it to contract as it is cooled (as, indeed, almost all things do) until close to the freezing goint. when it suddenly expands (which al- most nothing else in Nature does) is responsible for Koul’ spilled milk. And yet we have to be grateful for the expansive power of ice. It is a very healthy little lesson in biological ob- servation and philosophy to stop and consider what would happen if ice, like other substances, steadily contracted as it cooled. If it did so, it would, for its volume, be heavier than water. And if ice were heavier than water it would sink to the bottom of every pond and stream. ‘The eccentric expansion curve of water is only one of its marvelous and unique properties, such, for instance, as the fact that its vapor is lighter than air. Were it not, we would never have rain, and we would live in a perpetual dense fog. The supply of water never materially changes on this old earth. In short, water seems to be exactly adapted to sustaining life and without it all things dle swiftly. > R Lemon Chiffon Pie. Separate three eggs and beat the ! yolks with half a cupful of sugar. Add | the juice of one lemon and the grated | rind and stir until smooth, then cook |in the upper part of a double boiler until thick. Cool, then beat the whites | until stiff, then beat in half a cupful of sugar. Carefully fold in the lemon custard. Bake and cool a pie crust {and fill it full of the lemon mixture, | Return to a slow oven for 10 minutes | to set. | AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN, SUB ROSA BY MIML. ‘Not a Laugh in a Carload. ‘The lives of some people are just like that. They drag along year in and year out, but there is not one laugh in carload of their existence. They belong to the Ancient Order of the Long Face, seeing nothing funny in what would make even a horse laugh. ‘With these people, it's a pity that in all their heavy freight they can't cafry a barrel of monkeys. A laugh a day is as good as an apple—it can keep the doctor away. But the Sober Sues don’t see it that way. They keep on being grim and gum and grouchy. Maybe people don’t laugh because they don't see any good in it. They ought to know what a laugh really means. First of all, we know it's bet- ter to laugh than to cry. Indeed, & laugh will often take the place of a cry and it's usually the man who has a good laugh where a woman will have a good ery. ‘When you stop to think about fit, laughter and tears are something alike. A child can pass from crying to laugh- ing in a second. Grown mflle. it they have the risible habit, can laugh until the tears run down their cheeks. Why should there be such switches and short circuits among our feelings? It seems as though nature had fitted us up in such a way that we can get rid of a little sorrow and small amount of pain by using the laugh in place of the ‘The laugh seems to be a cry on a small scale. We can afford to laugh when we drop a penny, but we may have to cry if it's a big dollar which rolls away. We can snicker when we slip and save the cry until we are really hurt. In many cases we can Just fall down and go boom. In this sorry old world there are lots of things that annoy us because there are all sorts of mix-ups and misunder- standings. But if we have a sense of humor we can see that these little cat- astrophes are quite amusing. A sense of humor which tells us that life is like that can save us many an idle tear. The smart people who write Phyx know all this. When they get hold of a situation in which a person suffers Jjust a little they make a comedy out of it. 1It's only when the sorrow is great and unavoidable that they turn the show into a tund{i There's a lot of laughing matter in this universe if you can only see it. Of course. there is a great deal of sorrow, but the average person experiences little more than an annoyance which can be laughed off if one only has the will to laugh. (Copyright, 1929.) NANCY PAGE Christmas Plum Pudding Steamed or Chilled. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. | When the Page family gathered for Christmas the grown-ups sat at one table for the Christmas dinner and the small children of all the families were at their own little table. This was set with a Noah's Ark and animals for the centerpiece. Last year the children had had a small Christmas tree and the year before that Joan had enjoyed the big chimney with old Saint Nick coming up from its sooty depths. Aunt Nancy usually spent as much thought on the children’s table as she did on the one for the grown-ups. The children were getting a. marvelous store of happy childhood memories. When any one complimented Nancy upon her work she FOPR /MALL CHILDREN- | | sald that she was merely passing on some of the nice things that her own mother had done for her. ‘The dessert for the children might have been ice cream, but since the grown-ups were having plum pudding, | “None of cur men folks ever got to | be specielists, except Cousin John was ihe b2st hand in th~ county at guessin’ the weight of a h (Copsright, 1929.) Aunt Nancy made a gelatin plum pudding for the children. She put two tablespoons unflavored gelatin to solt!n’ in one cup cold water. She shaved one and one-half squares or ounces of baking chocolate and added it to two cups of milk heated in a double holler. She added one cup sugar and a little salt. When this mixture was hot enough to have a scum over the top she added softened gelatin. This mix- ture was cooled and when partially set she put in one cup of dates and one cup chopped seedless raisins. Three stiffly beaten egg whites were folded in. ‘This was chilled in a rounded bottom mold and later unmolded and served with cream sweetened slightly and flavored with vanilla, ay be desserts. Write to of this paper. inclosing & siamped. ‘seli-addressed envelope, asking | for her leafiet on sala | (Copyrigh ‘When American talking pictures were iniroduced into Berne, the capital of Switzerland, recently, subtitles in Ger- man gave & @ist of the conversation, | married right away. I am no Folly of Encouraging a : This Lad Let His Him Into Grafting Brother—Shall Symapthies Rush Marriage? IDEAR DOROTHY DIX—My husband and I are continually disagreelng over his helping port his parents and my parents, and are trying to buy thinks it is his duty to pay ents, go on notes w] trouble which he is continually getting do you think? strong, healthy, 25-year-old brother, We have to help sup- X d 1 think that is enough, d have a very limited young man' ch he always has to as we have a baby conte. husband debts, buy his girl Christmas pres- gnty and generally help him out of the into, but I can't see it this way. at . MARRIED LIFE. Answer: You are entirely in the right and your husband is utterly wrong. His duty to his lazy, good-for-nothing brother. is to his own family and he has no right to sacrifice you and the baby Moreover, he is doing the brother the greatest possible injury he can because he is enco habit of evas he lives. It is not kindness to support any able-bodies, healthy yor they are able to work they should be made to him in his shiftlessness, and this will soon harden into a responsibility that will make him a ne'er-do-well as long as persons.’ If work, and the only way to make them work is to throw them out on their own and make them know that they either have to earn their own bread and butter or else go hungry. It is the knowledge that some good, > s0ft sap of a brather or sister will always support them if they won't support themselves that makes thousands of men and women go through life human parisites, taking the very bread out of the mouths of little children, depriving old people of the comforts they should have, adding still further to the burdens of already overburdened men and women. It is & curious kind of family pride and family loyalty that makes & man sacrifice his wife and his children as well as himself to some member of his own family, but it is often done. It seems to be the man from having the cous to say “no” to his grafting sisters, but whatever the reason, the only remedy in your case is for sort of weakness that prevents brothers and you to try to get your hands on your husband’s money first and hang on to it so tightl: L2 BOROTHY DI there will be none left to borrow. .. D!:AR DOROTHY DIX—I am & boy 18 years old. I have bzen going with the sweetest girl in the world for six months, but her father' treats her cruelly, He beats her and she comes to me crying and she wants me to marry her. I told her that I thought it was best to wait until I got a job, but she insists on being cause I am not working. Answer: Don't marry her, my boy, and support a family decently, Don't and cause you to do & thing that you regretting. ‘Wait until you are ready to marry. I say that for the because she would be jumping out of the frying pan into the quitter, but I cannot see the future as happy be- A WORRIED LAD. until you have same way to make a living let your sympathies run away with you will spend the balance of your life in 1 as well as for you, fire if she married you under the present conditions. She, at least, has a home, even if it is an unhappy one. She has & roof to cover her and three couldn't even give her that. And even to be beaten to be hungry. aulre meals a day, and you th a rod is no worse than Instead of marrying the girl call in the police. They will stop her father from chastising her. Don't marry any woman because you are sorry for her. And don't let any girl rush you into marriage. Many a gfiir] cries on a man's shoulder until he marries her for pity life weeping himself over his folly. and then he spends the balance of his DOROTHY D (Copyright, 1920 Wise-Crackers of Courts and Royalty PRRABENEA, £5 AT O Ry Triboulet Enrolled Francis I of France in Register of Fools. BY J. P. GLASS, BT DX MRS OO o XXX “OH, BIRE!” BAID TRIBO! ULET, “COULD YOU 3/ NOT ARRANGE TO HAVE HIM HANGED AN HOUR BEFORE? The humor of the court jester of by-peror on a previous occasion, he grant- gone days often gained much of its piquancy from the fact that it made a butt of the monarch. But we must allow that Triboulet, famous fool of Francis T—who was, by the way, one of the most gallant and chivalrous ench history—was a A few examples of his humor will prove this, A nobleman of exalted station suf- fered considerably from Triboulet’s jests. In anger he threatened to have him whipped to death. The jester expostu- lated to Francis I “Do not fear,” sail the king. “If any one were bold enough to kill you :n:hmxm Jhave him hanged an hour “‘Oh, sire!” said Triboulet. “Could you arrange to have him hanged an hour before?” In 1540 Charles V, Emperor of Spain and Germany, sought permission of Francis to pass through on his way from Spain to quell & revoit in the Netherlands. Although Francis had recelved hard treatment from the em- ed the request, Soon after this he saw Triboulet «cribbling on a piece of paper, “What are you doing?” he asked. “I am writing & name on the rej ter of fools.” ‘Whose name?” inquired Francis. 'That of the Emperor Charles, who is committing the folly of mv.rumng his safety to you by passing througl your kingdom.” “But how if I let him pass safely?” “Then,” retorted Triboulet, “I shall substitute your name for his.” The jester Was present at a meeting of the council of state, which was dis- cussing a French invasion of Italy. The discussion largely centered about the choice of the road which the French army should take. u“Oen:‘l.‘elmzn." ;m hll;oul:an "n;:e:" something much more t than T o g st = " repl & _grave councilor, “is more imj ant than the road which our soldlers will enter Italy?” “The one by which they will leave it again,” retorted the buffoon. (Copyright. 1920.) OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRI Teasing Is Cruelty. ‘Teasing children is a form of cruelty. It does as much harm if not more than beating children. When a child is teased to tears and rage his emotions are disturbed, deeply disturbed, and that is a serious matter, indeed. It is altogether too heavy a price to pay for somebody's ill-advised amusement, Holding a little child against fts struggles for freedom brings on a vio- lent rage. There is a primitive instinct within every one of us that is stirred to wrath and violence when we are bound and made prisoner. It is the sort of rage that shakes one to the very foundations and leaves its traces long after the storm has passed and is seem- ingly forgotten. Offering something to a child and then withdrawing it beyond his reach again and again may seem very funny to the person engaged in the lofty en- terprise, but it is irritating to the child. He gathers his forces to reach for the object, his whole physical being is in- tent upon reaching and getting, only to be thwarted repeatedly. This brings on a very nnhlflpy, stcrmy feeling that af- fects the child’s nervous equilibrium for hours—it may be for years afterward. Calling & child by some name that he dislikes reduces him to helpless weeping. , It hurts his self-esteem. It makes him feel his helplessness. He feels disgraced. One’'s name is a sym- bol for his personality and anything that touches the raw. It reaches to the spirit of the child and it suffers. Such needless suffering is surely cruel. Telling tales about a child before others when the telling embarrasses him atly is another form of teasing that hurts. It makes the child long to run and hide himself from the jeers 2nd the smiles. That desire is born of fear, the fear of being hurt, of being made to feel small, of being thoughv unfit. That fear takes root and warps the budding personality. What fun can there be for anybody at :uch ;tvmfl Teasing is.too expensive. jures the ‘pirlf of a child, It robs him of growth and power. It eats his courage and shakes his faith in himself. It is cruel. And the price is shared by the teaser. It costs fllm the regard of the My Neighbor Says: Never try to hurry or. force :hr {zislnl of dough when mak- T between kneadings and do not add more flour during the kneading than absolutely neces- sary. Keep the dough soft. If raisins, currants and citron are well warmed before adding them to the batter they will not Sink to the bottom of & cake. Steel wool used for soouring Will rust if not dried after be- ing used, A solution of bofling hot water and 4 ounces of pulverized alum to 1 pound of goods will set all colors in wash materials. child. He turns from the one who hurts him without cause and does his | best to shut him out of his life. He re- members what happened to him long after the teaser has forgotten. And long after he has forgotten his scars of memory make themselves felt. Teasing costs too much. A child who has been worrled in such & fashion does not eat well. he digest his food well. Fear in any form, anxiety, worry, irritation, kills di- gestion and therefore . checks growth. There can be no excuse for it. Of course, we do not mean that a child is not to bs chaffed, or laughed at, or tossed about among friendly bantering words. We mean that he is not to be subjected to cruel, selfish teasing. There is a vast difference be- tween' the spirit of the two and the child is quick to sense it. JABBY “By the looks of the head of my fam- | [1ly, the Christmas tree isn't the only thing that's senlnl trimmed."” (Copvrizht. 1979.) ATWOOD GRAPEFRUIT TREE-RIPENED WHOLESOME DELICIOUS Nor can | Wholesale Distributor 148 TR oo, LITTLE BENNY —_— BY LEE PAPE. I had a lot of money_lately and I dident wunt to ask for any more on account of being too much chance of not getting it, and pop was smoking and tmnkln‘"md ma was looking at the funny with a serious expres- mfi.md sed, G, I wish I had § cen Thats a naturel wish, I wish I had some money myself, pop sed. I could do with a few hundred dollers very nhicely just now, he sed, and ma_sed, So couid I, heehee, and pop sed, Your complaint is a common one, Benny. Just tell me of somebody who duzzent wunt money if you wunt to serprise me, he sed. youve had of money alreddy this week consider- ing the small amount of money in the :nr:gdmd the large amount of boys? e sed. My goodness he must think we're ade of money like a national mint, a sed. He awt to ‘realize there are thousands of poor peeple who axually need the money that he skwanders like & carefree butterfly. Well bet the poor lady thal 1 was going to give the 5 cents to for Kmas needs it all rite, I sed. Holey smokes, I sed, and pop sed, Whats ail *hat, do you axually meen to say you intended to give it to a poor woman? Sufe I did, I sed, and mad sed, What “00r woman, my lands? and I sed, She’ @ poor lady that cant see very good, so she has to wear glasses and a old red. shawl, ‘Where is she? pop sed. 8ir? 1 sed, and pop sed, O, theres & sir in the woodpile, is there? Where is this objeck of charity? he sed. She’s in the little candy store in back of our skool, I sed. You lose, pop sed. Is there any other game you wunt to start? he sed. No sir, T sed. Wich there wasent. Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. ‘There are a lot of le they can keep et agie their thoughts to them- selves, Impossible. Freud is right for oncw, anyway, when he says, “He that is :"'l‘!nt. ::lth his lips, tattles with his ger tips.” Thinking is inaudible speech. Speech is audible thinking. Any original act is éhe E::Iet':: rlahlult of ?nl'l’lnll thinking. pe: e provi unds for thoughts and action, ks When a person talks to himself he is testing his thoughts. He is trying to find out how his thoughts might stack up in the minds of the imaginary persons he is addressing. He is trying to find out whether or not his thoughts are practical, Speech 1s sometimes something more than a test of thoughts. It's a test of actions sudll to be performed. When & man entertalns some doubts about what he can accomplish he talks the possibilities over with the man with Wwhom he would like to do business. In such cases his speech may be a thi n invitation, a compromise. In any it is action in the making, There are those who do nothing bus flll"l'nk. They become harmless philosu~ phers, There are those who do nothing but talk. They become either clowns or nuisances, degtndlng on what they talk about, and when and where they do it. There are those who only act. They do no original thlnkln&. Thg{ are human puzzle boxes, e suspiclous characters, sometimes feared, some- times admired, ‘Thought, speech and action consti- tute a trinity. A balenced individual 1s the one who puts them together in the proper proportions. The least im- portant of the trinity is speech; thought and action have the same weight. (Copyright, 1920.) JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. ~BY JOS. J. FRISCH. VOLSTEAD HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF CREATING MORE LAWBREAKERS THAN ANY MAN IN HISTORY. HOW ABOUT MOSES? The Sidewalks of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. You have probably received most of your Christmas cards. They have va- ried in color, beauty, expense and origi- nality. Some of them have been very formal, more or less im ° keeping with the character of the sender. Others have had a ‘humorous touch. ‘We never real- ized until a few years ago how val- uable an unusual name .is around Christmas, particu= larly if one’s mon- icker is the name of something. We are closely related to & gentleman named Nutt. Can you imagine what the owner of that name can do with it by the application of thought? And he does. Think of the possibilities when he begins to muse over his annual Christmas card. He did not play on his name this year, but for downright origimality we believe his card deserves honorable men- tion. The “card” is actually a blotter such as commercial establishments fre- quently send out or place under doors for advertising purposes. On the smooth side in the left-hand upper cor- ner is a picture of the gentleman and is wife. On the right are the words: “Free offer!!! For a limited time only we are giving away to our special friends a fine assortment of Yuletide Greetings and Best Wishes. Therefore, kindly let us send you at our expense the follow- ing old favorites: A Wish that you may have & Very Merry Christmas, together with Heartlest Greetings for a Happy New Year.” The name of husband and wife are appended, followed by “Whole- sale lers in Good Cheer.” The bot- tom line contains the address and tele- phone number. Originality! * %% A friend of ours sses the unusual name Wish. Think what can be done with it. And he did. This is his card to his friends: What's the name, again? “Fred Wish"—you chortle my name in glee, And “What do you Wish?” you say to mel ‘What does Fred Wish? He wishes you A Jolly Christmas and New Year, too. These are the wishes Fred Wish is wishing: Luck in hunting and luck in fishing, Luck in business and cards and love, May {ou and fortune go hand in glove, May life be always a tasty dish. Gaining Weight. “Dear Doctor: About a month ago I received one of your reducing and gain- ing pamphlets. I have tried hard to gain, but all in vain. I just cannot. 1 am 25 pounds underweight. Would you advise me to take cod liver oil or tab- lets? Please advise me. MISS G.” The first thing that one who s un- derweight must do is to have an exami- nation by a competent physician to see if there is any organic disturbance as the cause of the underweight, Miss G. If there is one, before you could hope to gain it must be corrected. Have you done that? 1In the absence of any or- ganic trouble, gradually increasing the diet until perhaps as much again is taken as was en before, plus more sleep and frest, and more time spent in the open, will eventually cause a gain. Yesterday I met a friend whom I hadn't seen for years. He used to be 25 pounds underweight, as you are, and he told me he gained his needed pounds by following a doctor’s advice to eat his usual amount at each meal, but to take two good sizéd pats of butter instead of one, and then follow the meal with two teaspoonfuls of olive oil and a glass of buttermilk and czeam, half and half. In two months he had gained the 25 pounds. Let’s count the extra calories he con- sumed. Three extra good sized pats of butter, 300 C. (a pat the size of a lever teaspoontul, 100 C.); sx teaspoonfuls of olive oil, about 1 ounce, 200 C.. of buttermilk, 40 ordinary cream, 200 C., L taken three times a day would be 720.. And remember it was in excess of what he used to take. (After he got to nor- mal weight' he was able to hold it with- out taking so much extra.) It might not be wise for one to try to increase so much, but gradually that amount could be worked up to. Not all could man: the excess butter ‘and oll, especially the oil, for free oil fre- quently upsets some sensitive stomachs. | Cream, however, which is an emulsified | oll, can be take by most all. Those who do not l'ke buttermilk could just as well have ordinary whole milk “with their cream combination. | Nuts give a combined oil (and a good | grade of proteln or building food), N | which also is non-irritating to most. B. C., Hamilton, Ohio.—Other is re- quired in comparisons when objects of the same class are compared, otherwise it should be omitted, “Volstead has been accused of creating more lawbreakers than any other man in history,” is the correct form, The giraffe is tailer than any other animal (same class of objects compared). The giraffe is taller than any man (different classes compared). (Copyright, 1929.) Creamed Sweetbreads. Place the sweetbreads in cold water with a little salt for one hour, then drain. Put into a saucepan, cover with bolling water and boll very slowly for 25 minutes. Drain, and when cool sepa- rate and remove all membrane. it into small pieces and reheat in cream sauce. Serve hot. WILKINS One ounce of nut meals is equivalent to 200 C. so this is an excellent gaining food, Egg yolks are also excellent gain- ing food, for they are high in iron ana ofl. I have known many who gained their wanted pounds by taking a_ glass of orange juice with an egg yolk, or the whole egg, three times a day, after their meals. A glass of orange juice 13 100 C. and one egg yolk is 50—the whoie eg is 75 C.—so this adds 450 to 525 C. ‘Thoroughly ripe bananas (100 C. to onv medium sized) are also a good gaining food. Then many extra calories can be tucked in during the meals by the addi- tion of more butter to the vegetables, 311 7th Street N.W. TURKEYS DUCKS BEEF ROAS PORK ROAS HAMS e R, EGG! 0YS Western RS Pt., 35c; FREE FG gi fiz{(ll:;g: Hens. . Lb-zgc Rolled Prime Rib, 29¢ Fancy Chuck Roast, Lb. BUTTER™ ciiarmry Selected Fresh ‘What .more, I'm asking you, could Fred ‘Wish? Another example where name and originality are displayed with effect. * ok ok X Life hasn't been easy for a certain lady over 70 years of age. And yet the hope of youth springs in her heart and her friends are legion. A few years ago death claimed her only child, a daugh- ter, whom she raised to charming wom- anhood. FEach year she forgets her grief to send indjvidual sentiments to her friends. This year the postman delivered this one from her. The lines were wrftten by her: “I've & lot of friendly neighbors Whom I do not often see, But, just the same, I've downright proof ‘That they have not forgotten me. For the postman smiles these days and says: ‘Cards for Mrs. B. today. If this keeps up our “Uncle Sam" ‘Will simply have to raise my pay.’ And as I read the friendly lines My heart goes pit-a-pat— ‘Who'd ever guess that joy could spring From such a little thing as that? So here's a heartfelt greeting, To you and yours a glad New Year, And may this little card from me Add a bit to your Christmas cheer. “M. J.B” Somewhere in this woman's heart there is youth and a song. * koK ok Another friend of ours sends telegrams instead of cards, Every year his greet- ings’ go to scores of friends over the wire. Just another method of drawing their attention to é| the fact that he is thinking of them on Christmas day. Certainly it is e pensive. * Ok ko Tonight Santa Claus will visit the great ocean lineis g charged with the responsibility of navigating, It fs usually & large and happy family of folks that gathers aroung the Yule tree. The small passengers receive as many presents as their brothers and sisters l.;ha’rt: -;(} the holl:l-gexpme loses none of & aspec cause of bein; spent dn the high seas. ’ DIET AND HEALTH BY LULU HUNT PETERS, M. D, cream sauces, cream on desserts, eto., and taking larger amounts of each fooa. Vitamin B, the anti-neuritic and ap- petite-stimulating vitamin, should be looked out for by the fruits and vege- tables, and the whole-grain breads and Cod liver ofl is also an excellent gain- ing food. It is 100 C. to the tablespoor.- (All oils count practically 100 ©. to the tablespoonful, except mineral on, which is not absorbed and so is not counted.) If you can take cod liver oll, I would advise that rather than the tablets, for while these have the vitamin'D (the vitamin which is neces- sary for the proper calcification of the teeth and bones, and hence is known as the anti-rachitic vitamin), they do noc have any value in calories. | .MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN, One mother says: Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas at our house without popcorn. But last year instead of making popcorn balls I made a popcorn cake and the children enjoyed it more than they did the balls and it was so much prettier and easier to eat. I used my favorlte recipe for popcorn balls, but instead of shaping it the usual way I molded the mixture in a generously buttered round angel cake pan. I turned the cake out of the pan as soon as it was molded and while the sirup was still a little sticky I deco-~ rated it with tiny red cinnamon ean- dies. 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