The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 23, 1939, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT Goose Is Favorite For Yuletide Feast And Easily Fixed Goose, which ts the traditional Christmas fowl just as turkey is Thanksgiving’s dish, is easily pre- pared and is delightfully tasteful if handled correctly. Not until recent years has goose been properly ap- preciated, largely because it hasn't been prepared properly. Geese vary in weight from 8 to 12 pounds or more. Watch for soft feet and a pliable bill (if you dress your own bird) as an indication of proper age for cooking. An excellent dressing is the apple- and-raisin variety, made with the Allow 20 to 25 minutes to the | pound for roasting bird in 325- degree oven. following proportions: One pound of apples, peeled and diced; one-fourth pound of raisins; one tablespoon of orown sugar, and three cups of oread cubes. Salt to taste. Al- though this dressing is dry, the juices from the bird will make it tasty. Removing fat is a simple process. First wipe the bird dry, inside and | out. Place in a covered roaster in 2°425-degree oven for 30 minute start warming. Remove from oven \ and cool. ove fat. Repeat this process e. Then stuff the goose, close the opening of the body cavity and tie the legs together. Weigh the bird, allowing 20 to 25 minutes ‘to the pound for roasting in a 325-degree oven. Roast with breast side down. | as it roasts, but orange juice with grated rind may be used if desired. Yule Table Decorations * Inexpensively Prepared; Add Gay Note to Feast Company coming for Christmas | dinner? Or just the family? In any event you'll want a Christmasy look- ing table and it can be accomplished easily and inexpensively. Here are three suggestions: A large bowl, preferably of wood and filled with shining fruits (a bunch of grapes on top) gives a festive air. You can lay a wreath slender candles grouped about it. Lace runners or doilies that reveal the gleaming table top complete this informal picture. For an all-white table, use a white tabe cloth for your background and center. For ends of the table, white | tapers in candelabra are excellent, and around their bases use simulat- ed snow, cotton sprinkled with tin- sel. Flowers, make a beautiful table. and red roses in a low bowl, bedded by sprays of long-needle pine and frosted with cones is particularly | attractive. A bit of holly gives it | a definite Christmas air. than a dozen flowers. Such an ar- rangement should be kept low sa it will not hide the folks across the | table. For a long table, make the | arrangement long; for a round table, | iiaxe tt round. 3 Christmas Islands, Harbor, Cove, Sound, _ Are Found in Atlas Not one, but three Christmas is- lands will celebrate the Yuletide this r, all of them under the British fl The first is located in mid- Paeifie and is really a submerged mountain 15,000 feet high with only, its. top above water. The second, in the Indian ocean, is forest-cov- eréa afd had a population of 40 when the last census was taken in 1898. The last Christmas islands is near Cape Breten in the maritime provinces of Canada. France has a Christmas harbor on Desolation or Kerguelen island about 2,000 miles southwest of Aus- tralia. The United States has a Christmas cove near Boothbay har- bor, Maine, which is a summer re- sort. There is also a Christmas sound near the southern tip of South Amer- ica about 120 miles northwest of Cape Horn and located in an island belonging to Chile. Santa’s Gifts Censored In S. Africa This Year They’ve cramped Santa Claus’ style this Christmas in South Africa. Little Jannie may ask for a toy pistol and little Piet may want a box of lead soldiers. But they won’t get them, Toy soldiers, guns and tanks and pistols are now banned by the Union. The reason: A recent outbreak of violence by young criminals frightened the legislature into barring any toy resembling a weapon, particularly a revolver. Water pistols are barred, and even the little percussion cap pis- tols are taboo. 13 ‘POSSUMS IN ONE TREE ATLANTA, Ga.—Called to rid] a neighborhood persimmon tree jj ,of opossums, two patrolmen! {shook down nine and _ thought ; they had exhausted the ‘possum You don’t have to baste ‘the bird | i while more expensive, | An arrange- | ment of pompon chrysanthemums | The en- | lire arrangement needs few more | Think of Children, Not Only } Yourself, When Buying Toys’ Don’t buy the toy just because it pleases your fancy. Keep the child in mind, too. Miniature dogs with wagging tails are fascinating to parents but they won’t keep the | child happy very long. Miss Elisa- beth Irwin, who is principal of New York’s Little Red School House, : says large blocks, tool chests or | jhand-manipulated derricks make | much better gifts. Keeping in mind the child’s age ; and taste, durability of the toy and | a few well-chosen scientific princi- | ples, she offers these rules to you | who are Santa Clauses this Christ- | mas: 1. Choose toys which stimulate the of holly about the bow! and use tall, | a miniature Christmas tree in the \ This new Arabian pony, which | | scoots along as the rider bounces | | up and down, is a sample of the toy which helps children exer- | | cise large muscles. | mechanical toys. Trains that run | by hand are an example. 2. Choose toys which help children exercise their large muscles, like | large blocks, trapezes, boards to fit over saw horses. Roller skates, - | sleds, bicycles and other athletic | toys are also good. | _ 3. Find toys that don’t break eas- | ily. If you buy tools, be sure the | hammer head won't fly off. Inex- | pensive miniature automobiles may | break down after a few trips around { the parlor floor. 4. Buy games of skill, chance. Select games | counting and building. net of involving WE KNOW HIM “So Joe was the life of the; party?” “Yes. He was the only one |who could talk louder than the |child’s imagination, rather than | ; Carolina. | a holdover from } the Twelfth night, or Epiphany— +| hanging their stockings and await- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Merry Christmas is whatever you : Make it, whenever you make it. , ; From December 5, when Saint Nich- | olas arrives for Dutch children, to ' the Aleutian islanders’ Christmas.on There’ are 5.000 parcels of 10 polinds | in streets of Brooklyn, N. | gives 50,000 ‘pounds ‘of Christmas for distribution “ families by a Denver newspaper. This custom, followed the ‘past » jyears, has helped make the haliday season cheery for the destitute. ' January 7, someone is celebrating |°8ch- Ip the 10-year period. Mr. j this festive day most of the time.* © Holland chooses December 5 as } the eve of the festival day which | the church has set aside in Saint | Nicholas’ honor. | In Hungary Santa | Cmus pays» his | first visit several | | weeks ahead of | the Yuletide, leav- | ing boxes of candy | in preparation for | his second visit. Most of the un- | usual celebra- | tions, however, come after Decem: | , ber 25—indeed, fall after New Year's | day. Remote Shetland islanders | north of Scotland celebrate January , 5, still clinging to the old Julian cal- | endar and refusing to accept that of Pope Gregory which most of the world has: used for two centuries. | January 5 is also Christmas day | ‘in at least one part of the United | States proper, isolated and wind- swept Rodanthe island off North | The custom, apparently | “old Christmas”— the occasion finds all 300 residents | ing Santa Claus. In Alaska, where mid-summer de- livery of Christmas presents makes | | them suitable either for last Christ- mas or the coming one, part of the residents celebrate on December 25 | and the rest, January 7. The latter | | date is observed chiefly by Aleutian islanders, which is populated by na- tives who were interbred with Rus- | sians hundreds ‘of years ago. They use the Russian calendar, which has not been changed to conform with that used by the rest of the world. By this calendar, New Year's is | celebrated January 14. | TRUJILLO BROS. | WHOLESALE pobcclt Season’s Greetings Yo Everyone | 927 THOMAS STREET Phone 899-W tet ie? ISLAND cry | CASH GROCER We Are Happy To Greet Y Again With |} A Merry Christmas and a Healthy RUBIN APPEL All Lines Of Wearing Apparel Pin « Vasey Duval at Division Sts. eS away “more fan | - “Pye since ' was a bist etary Es a A ae | “1 wat in need slot of the ‘time boa , a Christm: mua dard Bird cite Gitte tie a | had observed dozens of adults and | iidren at pay plant H te for decaraal tetape of eet mutton and’ pork. White House Mainta us Traditions 139 Yeurs Qi WASHINGTON. — Santa v makes his 139th visit to the Wali House this Christmas, carrying tradition started December 2 abt when Kris Kringle called on lit | Suzannah, granddaughter of Ptes: dent John Adams from Massachu setts. The White House in those day: | was in an unfinished state and mansion of today. Yet the’ ’ joyous spirit prevailed on * eA Christmas morning, more than @ | century and a quarter ago. aS that found in the White House this ‘Yule tide. From early years of our Presidents have set aside the Reavy burden of state and made merry Christmas day with their families ry, POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Wishing All Our Customers and Fellow Citizens a ! Joyous Holiday Season Cor. Division and Francis Sts. J. H. Brady. Mgr. Phone 9134 BAYVIEW——— SERVICE STATION Best of Christmas and New Year’s Thoughts. For All Our Customers and The Public In General VINCENT CREMATA Proprietor Roosevelt Blvd. at North:Beach Key West, Fla. GENE’S NEWS STAND Newspapers-Magazines Hand-Made Crocheted Work Moderately Priced wo Merry Christmas To You All ps" ee, 832 Duval Street Key West — UPICIAL WISDOM The defendant was being sued | because his goat had eaten up the plaintiff's garden. The goat was in court and little attention was paid to him while witnesses were be- ing chosen. ‘When the first witness was to be sworn they looked in vain, for | the Bible. “Your honor”, said the prose- cuting attorney, “that goat has | eaten the court’s Bible”. “Well”, grumbled the court, | “make the witness kiss the goat. | We can’t adjourn court to get al new Bible”. r } — SWEETING’S — SERVICE STATION | ; | Expert Repairs—Painting Lubrication PENNSYLVANIA TIRES , Pi and a HAPPY NEW YEAR To All Key Westers Today ‘and Throughout All the Coming Year. : Harv Fleming at Grinnell Streets ' PHONE 53 SIMONE’S TOURS Steamship Ticket Office ge coreres , asanin pnrners SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1939 Ga E LL ES GME LED LB th, A Merry Christmas and A Happy, Prosperous New Year To All th Cor. White and Eliza Streets Phone 598 : itt itis tation tatiana aaeniaaia SUOMI MTORIMEME Te wy Gomez Furniture Store The Store That Brought Down Prices In Key West A Happy Yuletide To You Al 720 Duval St. Phone 264-J CP EEELOOP EEA EMED, sl 0 bbe hebdkddedde hd Le dak’ We Sincerely Wish That You May Have A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS —— and a —— HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR PAUL'S strpiy'stor aly SUPPLY STORE RAYMOND CURRY, Prop. White at Fleming Street Phone 65 (henhntedlch nhaeahaleals haha loaherth POPPI L LOLI CLC LO CLO > < ® ~ “ | MR. and MRS. Wish You A Merry Christmas, Prosperous New Year and Thank You To Our Community for the Coming Year 1939 Toys Sprout Wheels ‘crop for this season. However, a As Kids Imitate Parents | few nights later, a check show- ‘Today's civilization-on-wheels has ed there were four more esas revolutionized the Twentieth century up the same tree. | toy industry. Several decades ago - | children played with paint sets and the judiciary together in order cut-out dolls. Now girls and boys to reduce juvenile delinquency, | want wheel goods. The desire to poy Lincoln E. Frye, Episcopal have an automobile like dad's i8 80 rector, is acting as Chief of Po- great that toy auto manufacturers |. 2 5 £46 Police moust change their designs as soon lice and a member by f a . as bew models appear. Velocipedes Commission of this town. must be streamlined, scooters must have pneumatic tires, and doll car- riages must be of the latest baby buggy designs. POLICE CHIEF A RECTOR | Prosperous New Yeai 1212 Olivia St. Phone 78! For Your Cooperation || i PHONE 407-J ; NEW YORK BUSY BEE BARBEQUE So pe pore’, Ses 519 Duval St. Phone 465 KEY WEST, FLA. fads Eo LUMBER CORP. Caroline and William Sts. Phone 297 ere | LaPeer eee a Th HUGO DIAMANDI High Grade- Shoe Repairs MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR 612 Duval St. Short Orders ROOTES TROONMRTOMEETD Cetereeees sl Best Sandwiches ee | | A. SOLANO | | Grade “A” Milk, Cream and ;)| Chocolate Milk | | NOVELTY WORKS MAXWELL LORD, Prop. PLAINVILLE, Conn—In effort to bring the church i | | | | | i ih | Key West an and | | Se -—-O— Wishing You The Best Of Christmas Wishes 804 WHITEHEAD STREET PHONE 223 FRANK JOHNSON’S | Headquarters for KEY WEST SOUVENIRS = eng Season’s Greetings To All a peers, 602 Duval St. Key West | [Bes WISHES TO ALL BSN, ees ALL KINDS OF WOODWORK — KETCHING’S — BILLIARD PARLOR Wishing a Very MERRY CHRISTMAS Teo All My Friends, Patrons and All Key West At This Happy Season { ee Soft Drinks | | | 5-10 and 25 Cent Store 905 Simonton St. Key West EL PRADO CAFE A Merry Christmas and 218 SIMONTON STREET We Are Taking Thi This Occasion at This Happy Season To All Our Friends and ri Ga for pear Past Patron- ag to uct < Business, That We May Con- "tee to Merit Your Good Will and Frey o. Throughout the Coming Year Sincaré Wishes for a Memy Christmas and a Happy Prosperous New Year ELEN ae eee er et ey emg” PHONE 319-R | i | i | Happy New Year || ee To All Our LM L LL ILI IL III ISS SD ST aM, Friends and Patrons 1 9 3 9 1 9. 4 0 \ Cor. White and Division Sts. To Greet You With A Word of Thanks For Your Good-Will and Patronage and To Wish You A— MERRY CHRIS TMAS And A HAPPY NEW YEAR J. R. Stowers Co. 515 Duval Street—Key West SII IIIS IIS IS ISI IL! aS. COFFEE MILLS PE WR, Candies pane, Wee 6 Duval St. Key West be bode Fresh Roasted— CUBAN and AMERICAN COFFEE OSL. VIP POPPI OPO PTT ms i® ' The Oriental Pharmacy : QUALITY DRUGS PRESCRIPTION STORE Ni Division at Duval St. Phone 379 PILL LLLALAALLALAAL SL £ fea , CE OPI OL. x te . N N N \ N N N N N N iN N aa. edd ddd df 4