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/ THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. DECEMBER 18, 1942 ON THE HOME FRON s' RUTH WYETH SPEARS DLANKETS are worth their weight in uniforms, so let’s protect them from unnecessary wear and from extra cleanings by covering the upper edges. A strip of muslin would do but why not use a pretty material? Try to find a flower print with pastel tones and then bind the pro tector in bias tape that will repeat one of the flower tones. For blan kets 72 inches wide, two yards of 36-inch material will make two protectors or one, plus trimming bands for a pair of pillow cases and a sheet. Five yards of bias tape will be needed to bind the edges of each protector. The sketch shows how material is basted in place with slip-stitching through the bindings. In this way they are easily removed for washing. * • • NOTE—Today's gift suggestion is from Mrs. Spears' 300K 8 which also contains directions for more than 30 other gifts and things to make for the home. Readers may get a copy of BOOK 8 by sending their order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 18 Enclose 10 cents for Book 8. Name Address ITS G00V;, Children Like This Better Way To Take Cod Liver Oil/ Mothers!—children need the vital elements in Scott’s Emulsion to help promote proper growth, strong bones, sound teeth! So give them good-tasting Scott’s Emulsion daily —they’re sure to like it. Tones up aystem. Contains natural A and D yitamins. Buy today—all druggists. iBecsmioeBded by Many Doctors Grotesque Goldfish By careful selection, goldfish' have been developed in numerous grotesque forms and striking color-, ations for about 1,500 years. Yet no person has ever yet discovered how to produce a pure black one without giant “telescopic” eyes. SKIN IRRITATIONS OF EXTERNAL CAUSE pimple*; bumps (blackheads), and . broken-out akin. Millions relieve iiaeries with simple home treatment. Coes to work at once. Direct action aids healing by killing germs it touches. 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Most of the unhappiness In the world can be traced to a lack of this failing. Thus adver tising shows another of Its manifold facets—shows Itself as an aid toward making all our business relationships more secure and pleasant. Santa Claus Bom In Famous Poem By Clement Moore Santa Claus was bom in New York on a snowy December night 120 years ago. He sprang full grown, clad in red and white, with eight reindeer and a sleigh, from the mind of Dr. Clement Clarke Moore when he wrote his famous poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas.” The legend of St. Nicholas had come to the New world with the Dutch settlers in the Seventeenth century. Gradually the name of that figure became San Niklaas and later Santa Claus. There are several explanations of how Santa Claus happened to he bom. One story tells that on Christ mas eve, 1822, Dr. Moore was being driven to his New York home in a sleigh, and the tinkling of the bells on the horse’s harness gave him in spiration for the verses. Another story tells that Dr. and Mrs. Moore were packing Christmas baskets for the needy and found they were one turkey short. Though it was late. Dr. Moore went out to buy another. On his way home with the turkey under his arm he is said to have composed the poem. Dr. Moore read his poem to his children on Christmas morning. When a friend had the verses print ed in a Troy, N. Y., newspaper, he denied writing them, but later ad mitted their authorship. The poem gained rapidly in pop ularity, and the picture it painted of old Santa has endured to this day. “His eyes, how they twinkled; his dimples how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow. And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed, when I saw him, in, spite of myself.” Short Course in Yule Card Etiquette Hints For Your Yule Dinner Foods with a Christmas air will contribute much to making this holiday a success for your fam ily. Your favorite may be turkey with all its fixin’s, traditional ham, roast goose or even roast pork, but whatever it is, have the accompanying dishes all blend in with your main course. These menus will guide you in planning your Christmas feast: I Cranberry Sherbet With Avocado Slice Roast Turkey or Chicken With Stuffing Celery Curls Radishes Olives Mashed Potatoes Gravy Buttered Brussels Sprouts Hot Rolls Pickled Peaches or Pear With Red Jelly Steamed Pudding With Hard Sauce Coffee n Hot Tomato Juice With Chopped Parsley Roast Pork With Candied Sweet Potatoes Baby Beets Green Peas Carrot Sticks Celery Olives Dinner Rolls Honey Jelly Hot Mince Pie Coffee After-Dinner Mints and Assorted Nuts III Cream of Mushroom Soup Baked Ham With Clove and Brown Sugar Topping Peach Halves With Cranberry Star Garnish Parsleyed Potatoes Mashed Turnips Green Beans Cabbage Cole Slaw Pickles Jelly Celery Hearts Plum Pudding With Sauce Coffee Each year at this time, when Christmas cards are about to be ad dressed, the question always pops up in the mind. “How shall we sign them?” Here are a few hints and suggestions that wiil help you along in making your decision: • If you are a married couple all you need to do is sign, “Jack and Jane.” For those that would require more formal address, sign the card: “Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jackson.” • If you have a small family you can sign the card: “Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jackson, Sally and Jane.” For the informal address of the cards it could be: “Jim, Mary, Sally and Jane Jackson.” It is always best to put the names of the child or children next to the mother’s. • If you are a married woman, liv ing alone, you can sign your card, “Mary Brown Jackson”—the Brown being the maiden name. The gen eral practice in such cases is also to put in parenthesis “Mrs. Jack Jackson.” • Young ladies, single, just sign “Sally Jackson” or just “Sally.” If the acquaintance is casual Sally can precede her name with a “Miss” such as “Miss Sally Jackson.” But at Christmas time, informal ity is the general and prevailing note. Cards addressed to your friends should be as informal as pos sible without causing any affront to those receiving them. If you wish you can even add your own little personal note as might a young lady to her young man. Or as one pal would to another whom he hasn’t seen, or heard from for a long time. Small Children Need Special Care During Holiday’s Excitement At Christmas time it is generally an accepted thing that each member of the household requires, and should get a handling which is very close to being called “special.” But it is the two-year-olds, or close to that, who really require special handling. Excitement is in the air. Even though excitement is a healthy emotion, too much of it is quite upsetting to the very small child. For the two-year-old child the toys should be quite simple. The kind that makes them open their eyes wide, enables them to put them to a practical use, will stand a “good beating,” and will not be the kind , that will frighten or excite them. Child training specialists, after ' observing many young children, also suggested that since a small child becomes tired very quickly from excitement, the parent should see that he gets his regular afternoon nap. They say parents won’t be doing any kindness by letting him stay up. Another thing is to prepare for him food which does look festive and different, but which will not put too great a strain on his delicate di gestion. Parents might open the little lady’s, or little fellow’s, gifts, but it is hinted that it will be the wisest thing to give the littlfe one just one or two of the gifts at a time. En thusiasm shouldn’t be expected over each gift received. It will take time for their little minds to figure out something to do with it, and until they do, it isn’t worth much. Make Tree Fireproof This Way—It’s Easy You can fireproof your Christ mas tree by a simple method of letting it absorb the proper amount of ammonium sulphate. First cut the trunk of the tree at an angle or in a “V” shape. Then weigh the tree and divide the weight of ammonium sul phate needed. Dissolve the indicated amount in water, using one and one- half pints for each pound of sulphate. Put this solution in a jar or bucket, set the tree in the solution in a cool place and leave it long enough for the tree to absorb the solution fully. Then the danger of fire is at a min imum. ‘First Footing’ in Britain Survives as Superstition In England the superstition about the “first footing” still survives. Someone must go into the house be fore anyone comes out in the new year; otherwise some member of the family might pass away. Mem bers of the family may be seen pac ing up and down the walk about 10 minutes before midnight, waiting for the whistle, so he can come ^ in out of the cold and bring good luck into his home for another year. Junior’s Military Toys Made Largely of Wood Santa Claus’ helpers anticipate a boom in military toys. You have noticed some of the advertisements and window displays already. During the past four or five months the busy men at the North Pole have been making Springfield and Garand rifles entirely of wood, wooden machine guns which sound with an uncanny rat-a-tat-tat. There will be few, very few lead soldiers. Most of them will be made of cardboard and plastics. Instead of the following toys being made from metal, wood will be used in stead: Parade guns, cannons, anti aircraft guns, forts, planes, jeeps, tanks, field ambulances, battleships, submarines and barges for Com mandos. Junior will be in civilian defense, too, when he gets his presents at Christmas time. There will be doc tors' and nurses’ outfits, air raid war den kits and blackout sets—all made of non-essential materials. Christmas Cards Traced To Reign of Victoria One of Queen Victoria’s favorite painters, W. C. Dobson, is credited | as being the originator of the pres ent-day Christmas card custom. In 1845 he dispatched lithograph copies of a greeting card to his friends. Prior to the exchanging of cards, i Christmas letters were written to one’s relatives and acquaintances. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUI3T, D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chlcaso. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for December 20 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE BIRTH OF JESUS LESSON TEXT—Luke 2:8-20. GOLDEN TEXT—Thou shall call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.—Matthew 1:21. Say It With Food ... A Very Merry Christmas! (See Recipes Below.) Yuletide Trimmings Christmas time has come again With its warm and cheery spirit of giving, of receiving, and of hoping— for the peace on earth and goodwill towards men. It’s tjie time for lovely carols and their message that never grows old, time for the fire on the hearth and the yule logs ablaze and a- crackle that bring memories of the whole family to gether for Christ mas—in other, in happier days. It’s a time for lining the pantry shelves with goodies for the Christmas feast, of pleasant bus tling, of children foraging for pres ents and cookie'. * Christmas was always a time for rejoicing, and so let it be this year— for in the deeper sense it will always be the time for glad tidings. Now, for the pleasant bustling and the business of putting together the holiday feast. This year’s menu will be simpler and tuned to ration times —so those you love will have their share, too. Start things out by helping your self to tomato juice (hot or cold, flavored with lemon juice), or some thing different like pineapple juice with a scoop of raspberry sherbet, or grapefruit juice with lime sherbet— served in the living room with tiny crisp crackers. Save work at the dinner table by passing out the relishes—green and ripe olives, celery curls and salted nuts with the fruit drink and crack ers in the living room. If you have had a turkey for Thanksgiving, give the other poultry a try at Christ mastime. There’s roast chicken or capon two of each -will serve a good sized family gath ering. Or, roast goose is tradition- ally nice as is . roast duck with apple or wild rice and mushroom stuffing in place of the apples. *Roast Chicken or Capon. Season capon or chicken inside and out with salt, pepper and a few grains of ginger. Fill with dressing and place in a dripping pan with V* cup fat, from chicken preferably. Dust lightly with flour and roast in a moderate oven. Baste and turn frequently. Add water as necessary to prevent drying and to make gra vy. Roast until tender. A 6-pound chicken or capon requires about 2% hours. •Savory Stuffing. (Enough for 5 to S pound fowl) 5 to 6 cups fine bread crumbs M cup minced parsley H cup minced onion 14 cup chopped celery 1 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning or sage 14 cup chicken stock 1 beaten egg Cook giblets until tender. Drain and brown in hot chicken fat or but ter with 1 tablespoon minced onion. Chop fine. Combine bread crumbs and seasonings. Add stock, egg and Christmas Dinner Pineapple Juice with Raspberry Sherbet Crackers Olives Celery Curls •Roast Chicken •Savory Stuffing Cream Gravy •Sweet Potato Casserole •Green Beans in Sauce •Cinnamon Apples •Finger Rolls Plum Pudding Beverage Mints •Recipes Given Lynn Says: Ducks or Goose? If you’re serv ing ducks for Christmas, get the best results by rubbing the out side of the bird with onion or garlic, pepper, salt, paprika and ginger. Fill with stuffing and roast with onions and celery. A wild rice and mushroom stuffing has an affinity for ducks: Saute % pound of sliced mush rooms in 2 tablespoons butter, then add 1 cup wild rice which has been boiled, and season to taste. With goose, it is a slightly dif ferent story. Rub the goose with salt, pepper, onion. Stuff with apple or potato stuffing and roast with a few slices of lemon, whole apples and celery. giblets. Chill overnight or for an hour to blend seasoning. There’s nothing like an attractive garnish with sharp flavor to point up the food values of your dinner. Cin namon apples do just that for your Christmas platter of chicken: •Cinnamon Apples. Core and pare apples. Make a syrup out of 1 cup sugar, \Vi cups water (or, 1% cups corn syrup— light—and 1 cup water) and 3 heap ing tablespoons cinnamon drops. Place apples in syrup and cook, covered, slowly, basting frequently until apples are tender and brightly tinted. At a poll tak n of servicemen’s fa vorite foods, sweet potato casserole took a mighty fine lead. So, if that boy of yours is coming home, and has pinned his vote on this sweet potato dish, here’s the way to put it together: •Sweet Potato Casserole. (Serves 6) 3 cups hot, mashed sweet potatoes 3 tablespoons butter \4 teaspoon salt *4 teaspoon grated lemon rind 2 egg yolks, beaten Vi cup crushed canned pineapple 2 egg whites 6 marshmallows Beat potatoes until fluffy. Add sea sonings and beaten yolks. Fold in pineapple. Cool. Then fold in egg whites. Bake in a buttered dish, topped with marshmallows in a mod erate oven (350 degrees) for 25 min utes. •Green Beans in Sauce. (Serves 6) 1 pound fresh green beans or 1 can green beans (No. 2) 1 tablespoon chopped onion 2 tablespoons butter Vi cup chili sauce Cook onion in butter until soft. Add chili sauce and seasoned green beans. Cook until thoroughly heated. Fresh, homemade rolls! Ah, what compliments they stir in the heart of every diner! Here is a very sim ple recipe you’ll like: •Finger Rolls. Vi cup sugar 1 tablespoon salt 2 tablespoons lard 1 tablespoon batter 2 cups boiling water 2 yeast cakes Vi cup warm water 1 teaspoon sugar 2 eggs, beaten light IVi pounds flour Dissolve the first four ingredients in boiling water. Let cool. Dissolve yeast and sugar in lukewarm water. When first mixture is cool, combine with yeast and eggs. Add Vi of the flour. Beat thoroughly for 10 min utes. Add remaining flour and con tinue" beating until it blisters. Brush top with melted butter and cover. Place in refrigerator until it doubles in bulk. Shape into rolls. Let rise for 2 to 3 hours before baking. Does the whipped cream get sulky? The cake tail at the crucial moment? The table decorations look flat and pointless? Ex plain your problem to Lynn Chambers and she’ll tell you what to do about U. IF rite her at IFestern Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago, IIL Please enclose a sell-addressed, stamped envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. How shall we keep Christmas this year of our Lord 1942? That is a question which is pressed home to all of us by trying circumstances, growing wickedness—yes, by count less things which try to tell us that there just is not any use to try to keep Christmas as usual this year. Well, then let’s make it unusual! Let’s have it more genuinely Christ mas-like than ever. That’s what we and this weary world need. The way to do it is to make this more than ever a Christmas centering in Christ. Doing that will mean that this year we will I. Keep Christmas With Joy (w. 8-10). “Merry Christmas” may sound a little flat and empty this year, for there may be little to create merri ment. “We wish you happiness at Christmas!” will probably not fit very well, because happiness de pends on what happens—and a good many of the wrong kind of things have happened to most (perhaps all) of us. But joy—that is quite another mat ter. We do not tire of the reminder that joy is something which God gives in the heart and which goes so far down into the depths of man’s soul that the surface tempests of life cannot disturb it. Remember Paul who was “sorrowful” on the surface “yet ever rejoicing” in heart (II Cor. 6:10). The ground of our Christmas joy is the good tidings of Christ’s com ing. That has always been the real heart of Christmas joy, but often it has been obscured by tinsel and trimmings. This year let’s get back to essentials. And let it be said that this does not mean that we are going to omit all the precious little customs and pleasantries which have had their in nocent part in making this a holiday season. No indeed; let us have them all, or as many as we can, but make the heart of it all Chris tian joy. II. Keep Christmas With Assur ance (vv. 11-14). With so many other things (many of which we had foolishly regarded as permanent and sure) failing us, it is a delight to have something sure to tie to, and we have it this Christmas. Christ the Saviour has come! Not only do we know that He was born, lo these many years ago, as the Babe in the manger in Bethle hem town, but we know that He still lives! He was born, died for our sins, was raised for our justification, ever lives to intercede for us, and He is one day to come again. The evidence for all this is plentiful and satisfying, and gives us abun dant ground for the keeping of Christmas even this year in assur ance. This thought leads us to our third point. We have joy and assurance in order that we may III. Keep Christmas As a Testi mony (w. 15-20). Having found the Christ, the shep herds “made known abroad” (v. 17) the good news. They returned "glorifying and praising God” (v. 20). They, too, lived in a time of great darkness. They were part of the people of whom the prophet said: “The people that walked in dark ness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined” (Isa. 9:2). That light was Christ, the “light of the world.” There could be no more appro priate time to testify to the world, whose lights have failed, that we keep Christmas because it tells of the coming into this world of the unfailing Light, the One who said of Himself: “I am the light of the world” (John 9:5). Some day, if Christ should tarry, the world will return to a measure of sanity. One of the realities it will face is that the temporal and material is transitory, that a de pendence on them is certain to dis appoint. The spiritual and the eter nal will then have new opportunity to commend itself to the hearts of men. That is why we want to keep Christmas this year as a ringing, joyous testimony to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The writer of these notes does not often hear from his readers, scat tered all over the continent (yes, and in foreign lands), but he counts them all as his friends. He prays for them, and counts it a joy to serve them through these lessons. So, since they are his friends, he says to every one of them who sees these lines: “May God make this a blessed Christmas. Through the clouds of trying circumstances may you see His face. Above the noisy clamor of this world may you hear the angel’s song. And may the joy of the Lord fill your soul this Christ mas Day!” Had to Take It Irate Man—So, young fellow,' you desire to become my son-in J law? Enrollee—No, sir, I don’t. But ifi I marry your daughter I don’t se© how I can get out of it. Stricken Buck—I hear Robinson is back in the hospital. Private—Yeah; he took a sudden tuns 1 for the nurse. That’s It Teacher—What is the main crop of Iowa? ' Jane—I don’t know. Teacher—What do they put in cribs? Jane—Babies. The problem was to give an ex ample of a paradox and the stu dent wrote “Two . D.s.” Kick Off Medical Officer — Young man, have you ever been bothered with! athlete’s foot? Recruit—Yes, sir, once when a football player caught me kissing his girl. PENETRfl y a revelation.” Has a base of old fashioned mutton suet. Grandma's favorite. Demand stainless Penetro. Generous jar 251, double supply 251. COLDS COUGHINS; SNIFFLES. MUSCLE- ACHES Onr Knowledge He that had never seen a river L.iagiiied the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.—Mon taigne. Quick application of comfortins Rosinol gives prompt relief from fiery throbbing. Its oily t»se soothes parched skin. RESINOL Farthest South Florida’s northernmost border is farther south than the southern most limit of California. SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER Rubbor b used on planes for lin ing gas tanks and fuel Unas* for de-icing instrumants* for Insulat ing cabins with weatherstrip- ping* for lining flying salts tp for dozens of other purposes. Proper Inflation means maximum miles. A tire under -inflated 20 per cent (24 instead of 30 pounds) will reduce its life by 15 per cent and 23 per cent of the mileage will be lost in a tire that is 30 per cent under- inflated. Tho Baruch Committee anticipated that 53*000 long tons of rubber would ba imparted by tho II. S. In tho last IS months starting July 1st last. No noro auto chases In movies for tho duration. No more tarns at high spaed on squealing tiros and no more now cars. Possfele audionca reaction to tho waste of rubber — and speeding — brought tba taboo. Inum peace BFGoodrich | pirst in rubber ^Tactl of ADVERTISING • ADVERTISING represents the leadership of a nation. It points the way. We merely follow—follow to new heights of comfort, of convenience, of happiness. As time goes on advertis ing is used more and more, and as it is used more we all profit more. It’s the way advertising has— of bringing a profit to everybody concerned, the consumer included