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Fairy Tale for the Children It was a lttle time before Christ. mas, and Judy dreamed that she was up in Santa’s workshop. There ghe gaw tables and tables and tables with half-made toys upon them, Sha saw huge barrels and packing cases and toys belng taken off. She !saw Santa’s huge pack which he wore :upon his back on Christmas Eve as the went to visit all the boys and girls in the world. She saw toys which were all finished and were standing up by each other in rows, which hadn’t been put away for the great Christmas season yet, There were Teddy Bears and woolly Jambs, Ittle pink rag pigs and there iwarc traing of cars and boats and air planes, There were games and balls and tops. There were sailor boy suits, There were whistles and all sorts of toy animals, There were dolls all ibeautifully dressed with china faces and china bodies, There were some with rag bodies but china faces, and there were others —oh, there were so many of all sorts she simply couldn’t look at them all. She felt dizzy looking at so many, And she saw Santa Claus, his red coat lying on a chalr nearby, working for all he was worth, making toy after toy, painting one, putting it together, fixing it so it would be all right, There he was, his white beard hang ing way down on his chest and his eyes—well, she had never seen such eyes before, They were laughing! Yes, actually laughing. She saw those blue eyes of hig twinkle and-—she saw them laugh, Ob, how happy he looked. And yet how bunsy he was. He no sooner fin ished one toy than he made another, Goodness! How quickly he worked. Now he was making—what was it— could it be? Judy held her breath, This was al most too exciting! | Yes, he was actually making a doll —the very sort she wanted—a nice rag doll with a painted face, a doll to hug and love, Oh, how she would love that doll Santa (Maus was making. Then it seemed as though the shop Household Hints SLPPPPPPOIPIVPIOIDODDOIOPD Corn silk is easlly removed with & brush, . * » Fresh grass or mildew stains on fabries will disappear if washed In e\enr cold water. Don't use soap for them, \ ® & 9 Leaving the oven door wjar for half an hour after baking allows the molsture from cooking to escape and prevents a rusted oven. Children of wise parents learn to make their own declsions and not re ly constantly on the Jjudgment of others, ... Wrapping garbage with newspaper each time it is thrown out and lining the garbage pall with paper will help to discourage flies, . 0 Elastle goods will last longer If washed with a soft brush and soap, rinsed thoroughly and hung up to dry slowly at room temperature, Long Haired Furs Trim Coats bevrsrssssesees By JULIA BOTTOMLEY Ate . \‘\:\'\‘\: }%\ wi;")‘_a a \Ls) B MY /, N 4 \\‘*,«}‘ N\ [/ 1% LAY Tan AT (o /\ : ol Y e / - bk"«\ 1\ B IR K 3 ¥ — ! iy 3 ,'o;? b TR i ' «v R - 2 Y AR el s ' H - & ‘ . \“}.\ T 2 "“." AR A W ‘v ’\",; i- : \l, g .\- ] ' : o Y 400 AR » :.‘ @f “v. "\\\ ) ¢ g v‘,’ ..3‘ \\“ t‘ o ¢ ‘~ ; 3 \\\' !‘ o / 5 ~ *:‘ l ] When one handsome fur trims ane other, then the answer is luxury, and that Is exactly what the fur coats bespeak this season, fashioned as they are so frequently of supple flat pelts which In turn are magnificedtly collared and cuffed with furs of long halred variety, By MARY GRAHAM BONNER were far away and the toys grew less and less clear, and the last she saw was an arm of a rag doll being fin ished while Santa smiled as though to say: “You'll do, little doll, you'll do.” Then she heard her mother calling her to get up. “It's late,” her mother said, “Oh mother,” Detty bhegan, “I had such a dream, 1 dreamed I saw Santa Claus in his shép. “Oh, he was the most beautiful old ] LS, N H : Y -%1 - r | ‘*‘ o ‘ % | Ma' v % ' ’.g..’- ) : / ' Y| R P '¢‘r ii !b 0 Ly 4 . *‘L—' j “ da < o g - A/"\T'.':,‘... b :.7' 7 N;—“:" "},.'-'v Pt N R AR R 11477 5 AR ’@// Rl i BRI > ey Oh, How She Would Love That Doll, man I ever saw in all my life—and yet he wasn't exactly old—no, not old at all, “Oh mother, you should have seen his eyes! How thn‘v laughed. “And he was making—think, mother -he was making a rag doll. The very sort of a deoll I hope he will give me for Christmas. “Do you suppose he may give me that doll, mother? And I saw the whole shop and all the toys—and everything, Some Good Things to Eat 'Tis the human touch in this world that counts, The touch of your hand and mine. Which means far more to the fainting heart Than shelter and bread and wine, For shelter is gone when the night is o'er, ‘ And bread lasts only a day, ~ But the touch of the hand and the i sound of the voice, Bing on iln the soul alway. ~Spencer M. Free, M. D. Before the freezing weather destroys all the good mushrooms found in the woods, can or dry some for winter. They make delicious soup, gravies, and combined with meat, dozens of savory dishes. The people from for . elgn countries—Bohemia, Poland and neighboring . = countrles, find a wealth of the appetizing fungl which they preserve by salting In wooden tubs, and dry as well. In the markets the dried mushrooms sell for several dollars a pound. A handful of the dried mushrooms soaked will add plenty of flavor to a large dish, Green Peppers Stuffed With Mush. rooms and Chicken.—FPrepare the pep Natural gray broadtall trimmed with silver fox, or belge caracul with col lars and cuffs of fitch, or black broad. tall and black caracul with rich mar ten, sable or other brown furs or snowy white fox or ermine—thus does the story of fur coats recite their be gulllng trends CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD “Oh, 1 hope Santa Claus brings me a rag doll.” Now the Dream King had sent this dream to Judy, and it was as real as a dream can be. But it was absolutely real that Santa Claus was making a rag doll and that that rag doll was going to be found on Christmas morning In Judy’s stocking. For the Dream King had told Santa Claus it was what she wanted and that was why Santa Claus had smiled 80 when he had finished making the doll—because he knew how the doll was golng to please Judy, and how dearly she would love it. * (©, 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) Scalloped Smoked Fish and Egg Any of the smoked fish with large flakes may be used, but finnan haddie makes a particularly good dish of scalloped fish., The bureau of home economics tells how to prepare it. 1% cups flaked 4 to 6 hard-cooked smoked fish eggs, sliced 2 cups milk 1 cup bread erumbs 4 ths, flour 4 drops tabasco 6 tbs., butter Stir the bread ecrumbs .into two tablegpoonfuls of the butter, melted. Prepare a cream sauce of the remain ing butter, and the flour and milk, Grease a baking dish and put in a lQ{s er of fish, then egg. Pour over th the cream sauce, and continue until all of these ingredients are used. Sprinkle the buttered bread erumbs over the top, and bake In a quick oven until the sauce bubbles up and the crumbs are brown. pers by eutting off the stem ends, re moving the seeds and pulp, then par boil for five minutes; drain. Place in gem pans in which a little water is placed and stuff, Use chicken, mush rooms that have been fried in butter, seasoning bread crumbs, an egg for binding if desired and cream lony‘ make the contents moist. Bake enough to brown the buttered crumbs on top and serve very hot. Roast Beef With Mexican Sauce.~ Reheat cold thinly sliced roast beef in the following sauce: Cook one onfon finely chopped in two table spoonfuls of butter untll light yellow, Add one red and one green pepper finely chopped, also one clove of gar lic and two tomatoes also chopped. Cook 15 minutes, then add one tea spoonful of worcestershire sauce, one fourth teaspoonfuyl of celery salt, and tahle salt to taste, Orange lce.—Make a sirup, using four cupfuls of water to two of sagar, boil 20 minutes, add two cupfuls of orange juice, one-fourth cupful of lem on Juice and the grated rind of two oranges, Cool, strain and freeze. Wailnut and Salmon Salad.—Take three-fourths of a cupful of salmon, one-half cupful of walnut meats, three The fur coats in the pleture feature long-haired furs used to trim flat thin pelts. To the woman who aspires to be modishly cloaked, they are sure to prove alluring, The model to the left is as fetching all in beige as it is all in gray. However, gray broadtall with silver fox is first cholce owing to the fact that gray has unexpectedly made its way to the very front color rank, The model to the right stresses the beauty of light fur trimmings on dark, a contrast which Is strongly fea tured this season, -If your preference Is for two flat furs used together, then vision, If you will, a white earacul coat with a collar of black persian lamb, the revers of the black fur beilng that long they face the front. opening at each side down to the hemline. Speaking of white caracul, it is winning fame in fashion's realm as a trimming on tweed sults and coats, A distinetly new method of contrast. Ing furs is being effected In this way —the cont itself is fashioned of a thin fabric-like fur, and is entirely un. trimmed, The collar 18 made 80 as to admit of wearing a separate fur piece, This fur plece may be a sumptuous twin-skin fox sears. Then again it may be the intention of the designer to complement the coat of supple thin fur with one of the new fur acoessory sets which have entered so intriguing. ly Into the winter style pleture, These new fur ensembles, which necessarily must be of fubric-tike fur, exploit searfs remarkable for thelr novelty, Some of them assume the contour of odd-shaped capelets or per. haps diminutive three-cqrnered shawls, There's & muff, of codrse, for muffs are “iu" again, and a modish lttle fur hat o match—somstimes a fur en velope purse. oty (0, 1925, Western Newspaper Uston v C onveniences in the Kitchen e T BsTT s ; O A R R R (0 e s B, 3 TN o A si NG ¥ 7 41 M 3 % Gih S R ¥ SR A 7 5 o RL T % ’}" o TR ,;,,’;%.» #1 got S B R e So R B LS B sg L B, A R Be n B LR T By s s e Y Wil %0k j:fi’:g-,';;;;;.;{.».‘g:;‘;‘v_’:;;'"-. 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Drain and mix the Ingredients, add one cupful of salad dressing and serve on lettuce, When one has access to fresh water cress, there are numerous ways of serving It. Add it to 24 white sauce and serve IR OPN over poached eggs. Add BPROa to mashed potato with a fi”" 57 Bit of chopped onlon. ;’&‘@" Cook together with pNehßts onlons and serve with SHupwts® butter, Chopped and VU™ served with French dressing with cold meats, it makes a very tasty sauce. Serve with lettuce as salad, or use as a garnish to a platter of lamb chops Other uses will suggest themselves for this piquant green, New Orleans Pork and Cabbage.— Take a plece of the shoulder of pork, using two pounds as lean as possible. Shred a firm head of cabbage and place In the bottom of an iron kettle which has been well buttered. Season the cabbage with salt and pepper, add one teaspoonful of mustard seeds, one-half cupful of vinegar and a tea spoonful of brown sugar. Put the pork on top well seasoned and floured. Bake three hours and serve with baked potatoes. Steamed Fish.—~Wrap a white meated fish In cheeseeloth and steam until tender. Serve with: Olive and Almond Sauce.—Melt three tablespoonfuls of butter, add the Rompers for Winter Wear (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Among the various practical designs in rompers sultable for children of three or four years old, there is none more easlly made than the romper of colored print shown in the illus teation, It 18 cut with wide, short, raglan sleeves which may be extend ed to the wrist If preferred. The neck is flat, outMned by a shaped band of plain contrasting material, carried to the bottom of the front opening, Plaln material s also used to finish the sleeves and pockets and to make the loose leg bands into which the rompers are slightly gathered at the sldes. White piping outlines the colored bands and adds to the decoratlon, Three large flat buttons, easily managed by little fingers, are used for the front fastening, while In the back two but aut each side keep the drop seat Imn. This romper may be made from any ordinary romper pattern with raglan sleeves, The burean of home econom fes, which designed this adaptation, does not have patterns to distribute, It will be noticed that the legs are cut slightly higher on the sides to pre vent them from slipping down over the knees. Peculiar Light Fox fire Is the phosphorescent lght emitted by foxed or rotten wood a:; is a pecullarity of certaln species futigl. (limate has us.sl‘sn on t:v: condition except as affects growth of the fungus, her kitchen more convenient after she had talked with the home demonstra tion agent about the improvements needed. She realized that consider able extra planning and work would have to be done, especially as the sug gested improvements would require an expenditure of about $l5O. So Mrs. Devoe concentrated on her own spe cial source of income—her raspberry patch. From the sale of her fruit she earned enough to earry out her cher ished plan. Most of the work she did herself. To economize space there is a fold ing ironing board on a closet door, with an electric plug for the iron con veniently placed. A drop shelf near by becomes a work or lunch table when wanted, but it i§ out of the way when access to the flour barrel or pantry shelves is needed. Mrs. Devoe put in a new sink, drainboard and washtub on the other side of the room, a cupboard for chira, and con venient drawers for supplies and linen. She has plenty of hot water now because she put a paper packing around the tank in the hot water closet. Everything 4s painted whiteé. It is by such improvements as these that the farm woman is making her work easier, brighter and more in teresting. Extenslon workers in every state are pointing the way to labor savirg arrangements and equipment, same amount of flour, and when well mixed add one cupful of white stock. Cook untll smooth and, just before serving, add a c¢upful of cream, one fourth cupful of shredded almonts, one teasponful of beef extract, eight olives stoned and cut inte small pleces, one-half tablespoonful of lemon juice and salt and cayenne to taste. Scalloped Cauliflower.~{oook the cauliffiower until tender, then drain and place In a buttered baking dish: on tep of the cauliflower place a layer of good snappy cheese, then a layer of white sauce and cover with more caull flower. Finish with white sauce and buttered crumbs. Brown in the oven for fifteen minutes 6@, 1028, Western Newspaper Union.) N £ TN £ «s!‘v?' . O G (e i ; #‘ A v F N }\“{'! 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