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%Ji yOLETlpg 5P»BiT ■P'lNP^ erfPRESCIOM IKt COLORFUL CHRISTM4* CAW>S. VUARM-rtBARTEP AhiP APPEALIMd, -TH*y CARRy CHBERV -HOUPAV TP FRiEUP* AMP LOVEP OHEV EVBRyWMCR-B. WHY DOES SANTA PERSIST? 'Rightness' of Belief in Him 1$ Subject of Eternal Debate . V v;. 1X1^6 CAN ANSWER the riddles ” Why does Santa Claus persist? Is is good or bad for children to be lieve In him? Teachers, psychia trists and other specialists in human behavior at the juvenile level differ. The Santa Claus myth has strong convictions in Its favor and convic tions just as strong opposing it Children whose very pro gressive parents have explained to them that Santa Clans is only a myth have not been easy to convince. They fix their sur prised parents with the coolest of condescending stares. They don't agree with the psychia trists who say that a child who really believes In Santa Clans has had his thinking ability im paired. Even grownnps berate the destroyers of the Illusion. Evidently Sant? fills such a basic human need that it's not safe to tell people that he is fantasy. And its more dangerous to try to prove it. Belief in Santa satisfied children’s need for love and security. They keep this belief as long as they need it, carrying their belief through various stages—they fear him, trust him, love him and then doubt him. Bui they never completely doubt him, no matter how realistic they become, and they remember with joy the days of their utter credulity. Psychiatrists fear that letting the child become possessed with the myth tends to make the adult attempt to preserve the infant pleasure subconsciously through out life and remain emotionally immature. And experts question whether chil dren should be taught to believe lit erally something that is not liter ally true. One expert says: "There is no sound psychological reason that I know of for children not enjoying the Santa myth as long as they know that it is not true. (But) if a child at 4 or S years of age can believe that one person can come down all the chimneys of the world in one night, and can fly through the air with reindeer and a sleigh and necessarily a heavy load, the child’s whole relation with reality and whole ability to think clearly in terms of cause and effect have been seriously damaged or permanently destroyed. He will have learned that to think in relation to the evidence of his own eyes leads only to confusion and fear. hI ,•> l§i iPl mm? m - >; WEIX WISHERS . . . Looking in at the window of the McGuckin home in New York is a whole flock of Santa Clauses, their hearts warmed by the sight of little Brendan C. McGuckin playing with his toys. Two years ago the toddler was stricken with polio which affected his legs, back and stomach, and his life was in critical UNIVERSAL SYMBOL * ” * 4 . Every Nation Has Christmas Bells The nations of the world have their individual symbols of Christ mas. But there is one universal symbol—the bells of Christmas. In a way this is strange since bells were not associated with the ^»hirif»h until about 400 A.D. when an Italian bishop installed them in his church. Some authorities, however, claim that it wasn't until 004 that the first bells were placed in churches. Whatever the date, the custom has grown until there is perhaps no use of church bells so widely known in Christian countries as the ringing of chimes to herald the ad vent of the birth of Christ From (me end of the country to the other bells peal the story of "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men.** Toys for Chrislmas Feature 'Atomic' Sets, Reflect Sciences, Arts Toys for Christmas 1950 will re produce in detailed miniature every phase of peace-loving America's arts, industries and sciences. Although some toys are keyed to jiAenile interest in atomic en ergy, jet propulsion and minia tures of U.S. army and navy equip ment, playthings designed to de termine aptitudes and build ca reers in homemaking, architecture, fashion designs, transportation, ag riculture and chemistry dominate the new toy showings. Cowboys will lead the toy gun and holster production; although the war headlines have inspired an increase in play uniforms and nurse costume sales. Santa’s toy pack will equal the record $300,000,000 (manufactur- The peaceful possibilities of nuclear research are stressed in this new atomic energy lab set. It includes a workable Geiger counter, a cloud cham ber that makes visible the paths taken by alpha particles speeding at more than 12,000 miles per second, and a fluo rescent screen that shows atom ic radioactive material disin tegrating. The set is guaran teed harmless. ers’ value) of the past three years with greatly improved quality, as suring parents peak play value for their money. Assistant Santas are advised to shop early for special ly wanted items, as widespread shortages are expected in many popular lines because there are more than 45,000,000 children of toy age—40 per cent increase over pre-war years, and manufacturers face shortages of many basic'ma terials. This estimate on 1950 prospects was given by Arthur M. Raphael, president of the Toy Manufacturers of the U.S.A. "Toy volume in 1950 is expected to equal the record sales of the past three years, which have been around $300,000,000 manufacturers’ value,’’ said Mr. Raphael "Capital- Inflated plastic and rubber tcvs take the spotlight this year. Here, a youngster punches an inflated clown who will always come back for more. izing on the opportunity offered by the 40 per cent increase in the number of children of toy age as compared with pre-war levels, manufacturers have utilized the latest research and manufacturing methods to produce more ingen iously varied designs. The new showings of toys, games, books and hobby equipment will offer parents more for their money of increased play value, tested age interest and better durability than ever before. Increases are noted in the number of toy designs adapted to children under five, a market which has increased 48 per cent since 1940.’’ Cowboy careers intrigue girls as well as boys this year. Several million cowgirls are reported to be enthusiastic wearers of West ern regalia complete with lariats and two-gun holsters. Juvenile firemen will get a thrill from a new model fire engine with a four foot ladder extension. A car set with a jack and wrench and removable wheels and tires gives Junior a chance to try his hand at repairs. Catering to ranch minded boys, a new sidewalk bike features sad dle bags and a rifle carrying case and holster in blade leather with a smart white trim. For the three- to-five-year-olds there are convert ible four-wheel bikes; the extra wheels are. removed after the child learns to balance. Make your Prettiest Salads for Guests (Se* Recipes Below) rh= Party Salads EVERY WOMAN likes a compli ment on a salad, especially one which she has prepared when en tertaining. Picture-pretty salads are wonderful decor ations for holi day tables, and they give a lift to menus which are full of hear- yjTtN ty foods. Fish salads molded in attractive shapes are excellent when the menu calls for extending the last of the sliced roast beef, ham or turkey. Made ahead of time to chill until firm, they’ll also relieve a lot of last minute preparation. * * * Tuna Mousse (Serves 6) 2 cups aspic jelly (canned madrilene, consomme or tomato aspic) 1 cup puree of canned tuna fish 2 tablespoons unflavored gela tin 34 cup cold water 34 teaspoon paprika 1 eup mayonnaise 34 cup whipped cream Salt Coat fish or ring mold with aspic jeUy by pouring the cold, but not quite jelled aspic irito a chilled mold and tilting the mold in all directions until completely covered with jelly. (If desired, decorate mold by press- Jng sliced olives into jelly.) Put in refrigerator while mousse is being prepared. Puree tuna in a blender or by running it through a fine food chopper. Soften gelatin in cold water. Heat tomato juice and pap rika in a saucepan. Add Softened gelatin and stir until gelatin is dis solved. Cool, then stir in pureed tuna. Add mayonnaise and whipped cream. Salt to taste. Pour into aspic-liqed fish or ring mold. Chill thoroughly. • • • Seafood Mold, Green Goddess (Serves 4) Soften 1 tablespoon gelatin in 34 cup cold water; dissolve over hot water; cool slightly. Add 34 cup Green Goddess Dressing; 1 cup sea food (flaked crabmeat, salmon, or tuna; diced lobster; whole or cut up shrimp) 34 cup finely chopped celery; 34 cup sliced pimiento- stuffed olives; salt to taste. Pour into an oiled mold; chill until firm. Unmold on crisp salad greens. Green Goddess Dressing (Makes 134 caps) 1 egg yolk 34 teaspoon salt 34 teaspoon dry mustard 2 tablespoons tarragon vine gar 1 tablespoon anchovy paste 1 cup salad oil, 34 cup cream 1 tablespooA lemon juice 1 teaspoon onion juice Dash of garlic powder 2 tablespoons chopped chlv-j or parsley In a deep bowl, mix egg yolk, salt, mustard, vinegar, and anchovy paste. Add two tablespoons oil; beat with a rotary or electric beater un- . til blended. Beat in remaining oil, two tablespoons at a time. Stir in rest of in gredients. Store in tightly cov ered jar in re frigerator until needed. At serving time, pour dress- LYNN SAYS: Make Foods Festive With Holiday Tricks Those steamed puddings will taste excellent with a cinnamon sauce served hot or cold. Use juice drained from pears and season with cinnamon. Thicken with cornstarch and add butter while the sauce is hot Carrots can be festive if they’re served with pineapple chunks. Out of the pineapple juice, make a thickened sauce with cornstarch to glaze the vegetables and fruit LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU Fried S,alt Pork Cream Gravy Mashed Potatoes Green Peas Hot Rolls •Grapefruit Surprise Salad Apple Pie Beverage •Recipe Given ing over mixed greens in a bowl and toss lightly with two forks..For a main dish salad, add sliced chick en, flaked crab meat or shrimp to the greens. • • • PRETTY FRUIT salads are easy to make, when you depend on "fix- in’s from the pantry shelf/* Canned fruits are all ready to use—saving you precious time. As for variety, there are so many fruits available today in a number of can sizes that it’s easy to find your favorites any time. Try an arrangement of one or more of these salads on your nicest platter. Be sure your fruits are icy cold and well-drained—the secret to salad success. Peach *N Cottage Cheese — Place drained halves of canned cling peaches, cut side up, on salad greens. Top with cottage cheese to which chives have been added. Pineapple Chunks 'N Cherries —Arrange drained canned pineap ple chunks with dark sweet cherries on salad greens. Molded Fruit Cocktail — Fold well-drained canned fruit cocktail into slightly thickened fruit gela tin. Use fruit cocktail syrup for part of the liquid. Mold as desired and chill until set Unmold on salad greens. Blushing Pear — Drain canned pear halves and put 2 halves to gether with soft ened cream cheese. If de sired, sprinkle paprika on one side to make a "blush.*’ Top with cream cheese and a short strip of a leaf of water- on salad green pepper or cress. Stand upright greens. Winning Every Day Lesson for December 17, 1950 •Grapefruit Surprise Salad (Serves 6) 1 No. 2 can grapefruit seg ments 1 3-ounce package orange or lemon-flavored gelatin 2 tablespoons sugar 34 teaspoon salt 6 to 7 Maraschino cherries 34 3-ounce package cream cheese 2 tablespoons mayonnaise Drain grapefruit segments, re serving juice. Add sufficient water to juice to make two cups liquid; heat to boiling point. Pour over gelatin dessert, to which sugar and salt have been added, and stir until dissolved. Chill until mixture begins to thicken. Cut cherries petal fash ion by quartering at stem end and' cutting almost to center. Place one in the bottom of each individual mold, spreading out the petals. Soft en cream cheese; add mayonnaise and blend. Roll into balls and place one in the center of each cherry. Line molds with grapefruit seg ments. Pour slightly thickened gela tin carefully over grapefruit and cheese. Chill until firm. Unmold and garnish With watercress and serve with fruit salad dressing. A quick casserole for shopping days before Xmas layers sweet po tatoes in a baking dish, covers them with applesauce and tops with pork sausages. Bake in a moderate oven until sausages are cooked, about 30 minutes. , j Brown sugar and cinnamon, mixed and spread over cooked sweet potatoes before baking will spice them nicely. Dot with butter. Let your cranberry jelly or sauce take on a holiday air by mixing with mincemeat Chill thoroughly before serving. SCRIPTURE: II Corinthians 11:18-33; 12:7-10; Phllippians 3:4-11; II Timothy 4; James 1:2-4. DEVOTIONAL READING: II Timothy 4:1-8. T HE idea that religion is the opiate of the people has been circulated only by those who know nothing about religion from the in side. The Christian religion is no kind of drug. You may hunt through the New Testament from end to end and find not a single expression reminding you of a drug store. What you do. find, over and over again, is the idea- that this life, for the Chris- Foreman tian, is a fight, a race, a grueling test run. What Christianity offers (among other things) is power:, power to run file race, to stand the test, to win the fight. • * • Paul Knew How It Was ■nHE Christian life is a fight . . . ^ but not a losing fight. Countless Christians have proved it by living it We can pass up the number one example, Jesus himself, because some people might say that be had access to some source of power that ordinary men do not have. Look, if you please, at Paul of Tarsus. There was a man who looked trouble in the eye many a day. In fact, there nev er was a single day when troub- 1 les left him free and easy. Whatever we may say about Jesus, Paul certainly hsfa no special "pipeline to heaven r * which any oth er Christian might not have. Yet he lived, so to speak, on top of his troubles, not down under them. Even now, centuries later, Paul’s struggles are still an asset for every Christian; each one of us can say, "Well, if Paul made it, I can.’* • • • On Many Fronts A T the end of Paul’s life he wrote those famous words, "I have fought a good fight." Our Scripture brings that statement down to cases. What was Paul's fight? To his Corinthian friends he tosses off a rather hair-raising list of adventures, disasters and calam ities through which he had passed. We don't need details. Just to name them is enough: famine, robbers, beatings, jail sentences, riots, three different shipwrecks . . . What a life! But Paul rode these things; they did not ride him. Or again, there was bis 'thorn in the flesh." Nobody knows certainly what that was; but it was no doubt some kind of physical ailment or pain, and it did not go away. Pain is often far harder to stand than some exciting experience like a shipwreck. In the face of pain such as Paul suffered, one cannot fight back. All one can do is to take It. Yet Paul lived through this, too. It was part of his "good fight.” To the Philippians, again, he re ports another sort of victory, though he makes no boast abefat it. He had conquered his besetting sin of conceit and pride. Paul was by no means a naturally humble man. Yet when a man can write as he does in Phil. 3:4-11, it is plain that he had crushed pride down and out. Perhaps Paul, like many another man, had found that his worst en- erfiy was himself, his worse self; In the second letter to Timothy, written at the end of his life, he tells of still other kinds Of things that cost him a struggle—friehds abandoning him, a trial that went against him. Yet these too he had not simply endured but conquered • * • Available Victory T WO thoughts come to us from all of this. One is, that it takes a fight ,to make a man. That is to say if Paul had had a perfectly easy life, he would never have been the grand character we know. For him, and for many a Christian since, re verses, disappointments, suffering and pain, tragedy, sorrow and mis takes will contribute to creative spiritual experiences if these are met in the Christian way. And that leads to the other thought: The Christian way to power, the Christian secret of living a winning life eVery day, is today exactly the same as what Paul said It was: the . strength of God, "made per fect in weakness." The Chris tian never becomes God; but God's grace and power can live in the Christian. Is is not the Christian who lives the victorious life, after all; left to ourselves we should bog down. But God be thanked, he does not leave us to ourselves! It is not we who win, but He in us. This does not excuse us from the fight; God lives not in the lazy but in the loyal. (Corrtffct by tk« later* •11 •( BaHftaea E4a«aU«a *■ 4S PratMtMt be WNU Featar**.) Thirsty "Some men thirst after fame, some after love, and some after money.” “1 know something that all thirst after.'\ "What's that?" "Salted almonds." Why It FeU "Hey, look — the barometer’s falling!”^ "Tsk, tsk — probably wasn’t nailed up right.” Small Contribution * "I have piade a will leaving my brains to the hospital and just got an acknowledgment from the au thorities." "Were they pleased?" "They wrote that every little filing helps." No ^Potting The sweet young thing entered the office of the fashionable dog kennels and tripped up to the handsome young man at the desk. "I want a pet," she cooed. "Fd love to,’* he answered sad ly, "but the boss is awfully atrict." Tragedy An American in London, who was badgered by the English on almost every topic, at last deter mined to go on the Mississippi steamboat style, and brag about everything. His first chance oc- curred at an exhibition of paint ings, where a picture of a snow storm attracted general admira-. tion. "Is not that fine?" asked a Brit isher. "Could you show anything as natural as that in America?" "Pooh!" answered the Ameri can, "That is no comparison to a snowstorm picture painted by a cousin of mine a few years since. That painting was so natural, sir, that a mother, who (incautiously left her babe sleeping in a cradle near it, 0% returning to the room found her child frozen to death!" /■' •• L..I ..I.!. I. Look Pretty, Efficient In a Neat House Dress Wet and Dry A little boy had been absent from school and the teacher sent him home to get an excuse from his mother. He came running back to school and handed the paper to his teacher. This Is what his mother bad written. "Dear Teacher: Please ex cuse my Tommy from being ab sent. He got wet in the A.M. and had to be dried in the P.M." BIS. acres title. Aerial map can fence on stag. tim__. cedar, poplar, gum. Notmng cut 1838. No tmbr. planting recon no fire hzd., ell aeasons str« pasture: barn, feed house. 2 tat. metal-roofed. Taxes 831; rent $90; i 28. No county debt. 1 ml. from and C$cWC Ry. Prop’ty line enty. 1 be paved; electricity, $78,000,000 devel.: Gov't, endor. recreation wild life; 78,000 A. Reservoir, water basin* $40.00 acre. H. B. STU P.O. Bex 180. Aiken. S.O. HEHnbSr SNEEZY, STUFFY, WA1 folks about good tasting SCOTTS EMULSION * fi Thousands of folks know this! tasting Scotfs helps you ward off colds—helps yon, get well faster—aud helps yon keep going strong when year diet needs more natural A AD Vitamins! Scott’s Is n HIGH ENERGY FOOD TONIC- rich in natural A AD Vitamins For STUFFINESS, COUGHS of C0IDS Wise mothers know how really effective Vicks VapoRub Is when you rub it on. Now, for amazing new relief when colds cause coughing, up per bronchial congestion, or that "stuffed-up" feeling, modern mothers use VapoRub this spe cial way, too — In steam! it brings relief almost instantly. 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