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M ~M+-L L " "" ""'~~~~~UIV--~ ~ 'III~'-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- --- --U~LRWY Do Your Christmas Shopping Early Give The Working Girls A Chance. lIDIS T S Ii Ii Hj OIEMADE candies are so wh&e some that whenever possible it is advisable to manufacture the youngster's sweetmeats yourself; then you know exactly what are the ingredients, and there is no danger of their little stomachs being endangered by too rich confections These recipes will afford a wide range of choice for the mother who desires simple candies for the little ones Christmas stockings or to fill the bon bon boxes that make such charming souvenirs for the Christmas party The illustration shows one of these bonbon boxes, which is made to repre sent a snowball with a doll seated on top. Both box and doll are incased in cotton, which is meant to represent snow. A tiny branch of pine is grasp ed in the doll's hand. Miniature Santa Clauses arrayed in white make favorite decorations for boxes, which may be shaped like bouses or sleighs and con ered with crape paper. Delicioeus Sweets. Plain Bonbons.-Take the white of one egg. beat till firm. add one egg. copful of water; then weigh one pound of icing sugar and gradually mix alto gather. Add for flavoring vanilla or ground almonds. Orange Juice instead of water may be used. The sweets are colored pink with cochineaL Wal nuts or almonds may be placed on the top when the sweets are finished. Vanilla Caramels.-Take two capfuls granulated sugar, one-half cupful of cream, one-fourth cupful of molasses. three level tablespoonfuls of butter and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Put the sugar, cream, molasses and butter into a saucepan over the fre Stir until the sugar Is dissolved, then cook without stirring until a good ball man be formed. Then the mixture is dropped into cold water. Remove from the fire and stir until creamy. Turn lainte a buttered pan and when cool cut late squares Nut Deinties. Nut Taffy-Take two cuptuls of sug a, a cupful of molasses and a table spoonful of butter. It the molasses does not moisten it enough add a tit tie boiling water. Boll until It can dies In water without stirring. When done pour on a buttered plate on which two cupfuls of nut meats are spread. Nut Brittla--Take a cupful of gran ulated sugar, a cupful of chopped outs and a bit of butter the asae of a wal MtL Melt the sugar and the butter and astr in the auts Pour into a but. tered pan. Cream Candles, Peppermtint Creams-Take a cuptol of granulated sugar, a quarter of a cup tel of water, two drope of oil of pep permnt. peor Into a aucepan on the e Cook until alsp, when put Into cold water, pour on a heavy platter ead beat ntil creamy. Drop on oiled paper, flatten and allow to cooL When frm melt a quarter of a cake of choc~ elate over boc water. Sweeten slight ly and dip the mints into the melte~d chocolate f a tbhlck chocolate coat lg Is desired the mnts shbould be al- I lowed to harden after the first dipping and then be dipgpal a meond time SMaple Crem--Tabke the whites of es said gquarter of a capful of cna Add to this enough mlted maple sunr to give a good col er and flavoi. Thee add enough con be rs gar to mold easily. Roll le a strip ene-tourth of an Inch thick sad cut ito mrands with a tiny cetter k darkt. amelt gar for these OCanut Oeans-PIlace two table Oenuals of btter in a reaepan. then pewo h alt a ciptl oft mlk and hal Seulfi e. gar Brln to a boil and seek twelve mlnutes, being careful to peint its eeernug~ Push to the back of the Sr, add a thLd at cupfal of dniif eceanut an half a teespeao fi of beu an at untl the mix t Ioa creams. Perr drop b~r spoon s ma bttereAd pean = A CHRISTUAS Alr. URnT e1ses I Hoters Own Heares. So-.e of the hotel keepers "on the other side" have peculiar ways of ad vertising their houses, and one of the most sinaualar of thtee m.thods is the statement in their advertl-ements that the hotel is equipped with a hearse: Inasmuch as the American hotel keeper is unly looking for "live ,ones." It is not of record that hears.es have been used as attractions in tnts country as yet. One of the English cateri:ng journals. in speaking -f this custom. recently sail: "We have on several occasions commented upon the un canny mixing up of the funeral tratlic business with hotel keepin--an unho!y combination to be met with in some Sn,rthern parts of Ire!un.l. Aprop ,.s I here is an enticin, advertisement from a Sigo paper ca:cu;ated to Iring qlt:e a rush of Guests anxious to teot tL.e accomm-odation: 3Mrs. -. pr, rietr ess of the - h.-t'l., toe% to ann,':ene that she has alihled to her estallish ment a glass hearse." "-Steward. One on the Spy. Rev Evan Jones of Carnarvton wrote his reminiscences for a Weis, paper. One of the best is that of a wealthy church member who was sus pected of not contributing as Pro:i J dence had prospered him and was ip proached upon the subject by a cour e genus brother. le "It was noticed." he said. "that you r placed two halfpennies in the coile tion lnr." t "Did you find half a sovereign in the t box also' g "Yes," replied the censor. "D1I) you find two half sovereigns e there?" "No," was the reply. "Well," replied the suspect. "if you must know it. I put that half sovereign between the two halfpennies, and I advise you in future to ask your spies to use spectacles when they pry into their fellow worshipers' affairs." A Rain Preventer. About fifty years ago an invention was announced which would be ac claimed with joy just now. A German. Helvetius Otto, stated that he had dis covered a means of preventing rain. He built a platform on which were placed some huge bellows worked by steam at a very high pressure. These ft were supposed to blow away any t. clouds gathered above. Otto main d tained that these "plruvfuges" dis > tributed throughout a town would en ir able the authorities to Insure dry' d weather for so long as they thought s fLt. The inventor bore a high reputa * tion in the sclentific world, and his pluVifuge attracted attention. But it never proved practicable, and after a , few months' experiment Otto gave up f trying to fight the weather. S A Test of Big Heartedness. The Countess von Toss recorded this d human little story of the charming 'Crown Princess Louise. Frederick I n William II. presented her with the' II new summer residence of Oranienburg a (which he had had newly decorated : fD or hen on her first birthday as crown a princess. At the end of the day he it asked her if she still had a wish un gratfied. The only thing left for her to wish for. said Louise, was a hand ful of gold for the poor. "How big?" asked the king. "As large as the heart a of my generous papa," was her an-. t. swer, and she had no reason to be dis satisfied with the result This princess. wD ho was so much loved when queen b consort, was one of the two lovely daughters of Prince Charles of Meck . lenburg.-"A Mystic on the Prussian a Throne." r White, a Meisemer. The fallacy of the average English man who regards black as white has been noted by Mr. O. K. Chesterton. Sthe English writer. "People." he writes. "never ask whether the current color language is always correct Ordinary a sensible phraseology sometimes calls Sblack white; it certainly calls yellow r white and green white and reddish , brown white. We call wine *white Swine' which Ls as yellow asu a Bluecoat boy's legs. We call grapes 'white grapes' which are manifestly pale green. We give to the European, whose complexion is a sort of pink drab, the horrible title of 'white man'-a picture I more bloodcurdling than any specter in Poe." a "Yes, ma'am." said Harry the hobo. "I know I look like a strong man, but - out of my fty years of life Pre spent over sixteen years Ja bed." k "Why, you poor man." repied the lady sympathetically, handing him a quarter. "What has been the trouble paralysisW . a "No. ma'am," usaid Harry, "Jest atl ! reg'lar habit of sleepin' eight hours a I day. ma'am."-Harper'. A UreIht Idea. Theater Maaer-I cu't ma your play, sir. It too long for the stase~ Amter Playwright-B~nt, I say--aw- leek her-aw! Can't ye iolgtm the staa, yes know? of TY a H ph" sal the ibdly rei is as ,"* rm the art,t had a , a rt a salMq the wi- while I we. Meumlya Hiet ~ty-arry ay he loes me dr n aneWr sieme. DrtLhe-4 aggem thmrs a sbeek a AM. teg Wl b-bm0h I eeamet gt at tmal a rise. Hek-Why but a at' :he CHRISTMAS BAGS. id he They Are a Generally Approved Gift he For Women. gat Floweret s.:t:u cut tl; tWvo p:rces and .e: with twoi. de;, -`'ad ..;.- Ic a.r'-s the to:p 'er of each s.~ ti.n n~, a s*.*t..t, for th is charmins ha:= a'. :n s;Iin to tat.'h en the [,red,.n,ia':it b. I.W " ;iit t in. fl,,wer. a s w a s ued f -.r the .: :a . A g m:: o \\.ss :Ig male for th-e :Ltrr't sti:; ri l.!l un. whihb ser'e.l t, .lr.iw the mnith! of th. -j bag toaether and L.a·ve thi. four st-a: nr- lops the appearance of t:ug a bjg Ic is RIBBON THEATYR BAG. ;It Sglowing i.-wer. A r.b- ru. hirn wa . usedl to trim the out;i:es of the t.a: A spray -f riP. an !,ers was knott.- I )1 at one side -f th, ! a, This tnakes a . pretty bag to ai-ry t the theater awl for hohlng the -;pera .-a.es. Brocade work ,las ass. are tc,?t faecinatinc anw are quite fash.ionalpe. Magnifient iits of f.ir:e mawy be used s in this fa:hion, an] if the l.ec.. s are two small to form the entire bag they are used with the satin or s!'k. There are an intinite n:umber of ways in which they may be adapted] inl this Smanner, and even the .mailest pieces are available for the de-oration of the to bag. If there is enough of the brocade It is sometimes used in a deep band with the silk 'or satin shirred on the lower or upper part of the bag. If the pieces n are smaller the brocade is made into c" medallions and set into the sides n- These medallions may be bordered - with gold laze or gold braid or with n fine shirrings of satin. Bags are safe things things to present to a woman friend. )y for now. when they should match her z costume and are so generally worn. IY she is scarcely likely to have too many. AMUSING TOKENS. t Character Brooms For the College Boy I a or Girl. i If In doubt what to give to the col it lege boy or girl you will amuse and a please by dressing a whisk broom in p any of the quaint styles suggested C here. :1 Separate covers may be made for the - whisk brooms, or these decorations may is be applied directly to the handles. One whisk is dressed to represent a k plantation mammy. A colored doll's e head Is glued to the handle or to some - foundation that will slip over the ban die. Then a dress of gayly flowered fabric Is made. the waist being filled e " t 31 to U r 1 .. . .. b a b out with cotton, so that the ownr mly use it for pincushion f e wishes. A gay handkerchief s mader for the neck, and another tiny oe Is knotted, bandana style. over the head. A little white apron with pockets Is put on over the dress, and the slerves of the gown, stuffed with eutto. arc thrust Into the pockets and tacked there so that the absence of hands on thie re will not be noticed. Another doll's headts dressed to rep reseat a French maId and fitted to the whisk In the same way. Ior the frlend who Is fond of out- . -oor sports the whisk representing a to dog will be acceptable. If you cannot th get an arttfeial dog's bead make one g of canton flannel or velvet and tint with water color palnts The cap and v cost should be of bright red cloth with A Iler for the whisk troom may also be -ade thus: A thin plsee of z-th cut down id of a eigar box t will b-sh cbovered with lnese em whleh a Uttle embroidery has been woked. Them cover a strip of beck. em mm or cardboard with lies dserated o with emroidery. Faster it over the be whek with thumb tacks amS attach Sm te which ribbima Im adli will igh a A taretme svelpe of asemiee ams ll wth Mele hm r o'w . o le h t eqw bem JACK HORNER PIES. eft They Are Indispensable Features of Juvenile Christmas Part.es. d When there are ruan: ch.;dreu in tV.. ,, fami:y a Jack tlIrnrr pie is not a ! I 3 accessory to the Christ;:as dinner. • Is a pleasant way of di.tri:,ut.:ig i:.. 'r ridual souver:1rs. An approprite (Crl-t:::as center piece of this .lescr:;ptin is a huge sn.w. ball that looks lIke the real th:ug an'! has twelve sn:a::er bas in it. each o:. of these cortailnin a present. The rlbbors by which the presenzt are drawn out are of different culors and hang over the sides of the big snowball .More effective in color is an enor mous ball made of a mass of red ldow ers. and from the center of each hangs the ribb, n attachel to the gift Another J.-k Horner pie is in the shape of a stow man so true to life that " " i! :h ].' a' b JACE lOL5 PI> . be even has on the old hat and holds a bundle of switches All around the place where his waist line ought to be are the ribbons by which the presents are removed from his capacious inte d rla. S 8till another variety Is the huge red. d cornucopia that is decorated with gold, paper and holly berries and Is suspend e ed from the chandelier over the table. y the ribbons hanging within convenient reach of the guests. a ,s . ie HOLIDAY CHEER. d Consmme d Celery. Bsated Nuts. Roust Goose. Potato Stufa. Sweet Pickle Jelly. Hot Mine Pia Vanilla Ine Cream Raisina Nista Boaboes DELICIOUS PIES. Creams and Custards Instead of Minee For the Christmas sprad. The Christmas pie need not necee erily be a mince. Custards, particu larly pumpkin custards, are alce, and they are less indigestible than those of mince. Custard or cream pies may be at-' tractively finisbed with meringue. On this a decoration may be applied through a pastry tube, the meringue b ,a sightly colored for this purpoee. To make the crusnt take two table spoontfula butter, one and one-half ta blespoonuls sugar and the yolk of one e. cream, butter and sugar. Beat the yolk well and add. Then add a rmall cpfil of flour. rees into a pie pan with the back of a sposa and bamke uantil a light brown. Fill with the following emam: One pint of milk In a double bolDer. MIx togethe three tablewpootthif ul r Se. Cook for awhile, than take fro the rm sad add ne* tablespomamfl of I anila Cove with a morlegamt'de at to e well imat whites of ofu q sad a little ~.r. Cover the pe with thli anl ,now asmlya t theo ven. For tm who aid t em ss. rolce pus adilg. e this Ia a oseo eshtoutoat: Take oae captul cooked reMsl , one cpful apple users, one-halt cpmpu i tr. aoehal caIpal racther am e mn asnd alphe. This makes seems neough fur three pad mlau piet M a a p a a bas m b 'm . a btess er a- -- - mer. Or,- U~ri erh acrarr A Midsummer' Visit From Santa Claus NE time somebody ithey could never find out wh, it wasa playeda j-,ir on Santa Cl.iau and tore of a.. the leaves of t.-" calendar up , t Dec. 22. whch, a you know. is on.:, three days btefor Christmas. It wa really midsummer and the weather was very hot. but Santa Clans, who bad always gone according to bh calendar and had never found It wrong believed time must have slipped by bin. without his realizing it. He had been rather taking his time in the workshop and had scarcely half enough toys to go around. so he was much worried bow to give presents to all his children. A fairy beard him talking to himself about his troubles and had a splendid idea. She hurried into the woods and told the other fairies and all the beasts and birds and bugs about Santa Claus trouble, asking their help in the mat teer. "I don't see bow we can help much." said a little bear cub. "We can't make toys." "No." said the fairy, "but you can be toys. My plan is for aus to oer to take the places of the toys that Santa Claus needs. We fairies can be dolls. for there are lots of dolls' dresses in SSanta's workshop. I know." "Splendld." Santa said. "Just hop aboard my sleigh. which is hitched in the front yard. and we'll be off. So the animals and fairies and every thing else hopped into Santa's great sleigh. and he. climbing to the seat clucked to his reindeer and bade them "I Danw wa wmms m naw on. fy over the ground. But they could not move the sleigh, for there was no -snow on the pround Santa Claus did not know what to do. but the fairy de cred that she could 8x that dimculty. She blew a little whistle, and haun dreds of white wild geese came fying from the sky. She told them what was the matter, and the peese, catch ing the end of a long rope in their beak spread their wings and were oe with the sleigh and Its prelous load, bearing It as lightly as feather. eo that It hardly touched the groand. By morning Santa visIted all the towns and left presents everywhere. He hadn't a single thing left In his sleigh and thought that he had-doue a very od night's work. The chl] dee when they awoke Wte mornina and tfound the presemt wondered where they could have come from. Some e the little bears had cards aseund their necks which read "A Merrty ChrLstmasn" The children were irlssd, but joyosly began to play with their strane to The ittle behaty earn. who hept their chlaws curved in e that thae woraldb't scratch, were the moast delightfl thina The chl dren were ury loed ad the sitta 1eo pomes made splendi clown bdai and moms of the firies were par tleulaly prtty dolUJis The blirds to he esems a sweett, the beetes deWed ike armsa of real -d~ers, and theo field mie spu e their heabds and ipped over eah otheer's tao to the ramn mat c their smail owners I l a few days. bhewever, the chldrena began tire even e tbhese wmderfult -aw ts. and the lorest people msid ta ws flue t r an t tLs ~rn Whem they mawed hem thre start at to tb-lrp Santa Oasnmak toys as hat u thl ael r that as time wet h Iet l ir the real Chnbtuas Wh- dr el man had by tls tue mm he had mr a mlae n the ---sl that h e ab werl be les their as r rl km - at mmdau i 0 UR OFFERI 20-DAYS- 2 i·-v i RELIABLE GAS RANGES The highest type of Gas Ranag you can purchase. 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