The Sunday Oregonian., December 20, 1908, Children's Section, Image 64

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THE CANDY FAMILY AND
HOW TO MAKE THEM
BY LINA BEARD ,
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ALL of these little candy and nut tojis are good
to eat na make, fine Christmas gifts:
Trac Santa Clans' sleigh (Fig. 1) on light
weight cardboard. Cut all heavy lines and bend dotted
lines.
Make the reindeer of peanuts, wirh an extra half of
peanut fastened on with a pin for head and neck; cut
horns and ears according to dotted lines from a folded
piece of writing paper (Fig. S), open out and bend at
dotted lines on Fig. 3. Olue the hori on the heads
of the deer, fasten a hand of blai-k or inked paper
around each body, then puncture two holes slanting:
forward for front legs and two more slanting . back
ward for hind legs, insert wooden toothpick legs, and
with slender strips of black paper attach the deer to
the sleigh as in illustration. Use a bent piece of card
tonrd for the sleigh seat, and on it glue a peanut
Santa Claus witn red tissue paper cap and a ooat
made of a strip of red tissue paper placed around the
body and fastened at the bark. Give the little fellow
wooden toothpick arms and legs, stretched out hori
zontally as in picture. Glue black paper reins on
Santa Claus' hands and extend them to the heads of
the two last der.
In the back of the sleigh place a Christmas tree of
trrren fringed tissue paper, and a yellow paper bag
filled with wee toys or bits of gay paper.
A drop of glue on the tip en'd of the legs of each
aiitnal and along the bottom edge of the sleigh run
ners will fasten Santa Claus, sleigh and deer to a dark
colored box Ud. piece of glass or a thin board; then
the pretty affair can be carried from place to place
without danger of injury. .
One stick of candy will make Mary's mother (Flg.4),
ami a stick broken in half will make two little girls,
Mav (I'isr. 5 and her sister. The stiff dress skirts
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enable these little people to stand alone. Cut the
mother's skirt from stiff writing paper, three and
three-quarters inches long (Fig S, and make a simi
lar skirt for Alary two inches long. Cut a red tissue
paper overskirt, shaped like the white one, for the
mother, and make deep points at the bottom; paste it
to the white skirt along the top edge and back edges.
Cut Mary's overdress of buff tissue paper; then from
double white tissue paper, folded (Fig. 7). cut the
THE CHILDREN OF HAMELIN WHO
HAVE you never wondered what became of the
children of Hamclin after the Pled Piper had
lored them into the mountainside? And isn't it
about tinie that the rest of the story was told?
Everybody rememhers how it all happened, even
though It was 500 years ago. How the town of Hame
lln on the River Wcscr, in Prussia, sufiered from a ter
rific plague of rats, and how nothing availed to exter
minate the troublesome creatures. How. finally, an odd,
unearthly-looking man In many colored clothing of a
curious pattern came before the Town Council and
offered to charm away the rats from the town If they
would pay him 1000 guilders for the- service. How,
the bargain 1eing struck, he lifted a pipe that he wore
bung about his neck and played upon It In a soft,
stranye magical way that sent every single rat scurry
ing out of the closets and cupboards of Hamclin and
Into the Weser. How, when the dishonest Mayor de
clined to pay the 1000 guilders, the Pied Piper, as he
has since been called, played upon his' pipe strains so
mysterious and Irresistible that this time all the chil
dren of Hamclin followed him and followed him until
they reached Koppenberg Hill, when the side of the
mountain opened and forever Inclosed them.
Now, so far as the wretched mothers and fathers
and the remorseful Mayor were concerned, this was
'the end of the 130 little children who were charmed
away to pay the town's debt of 1000 guilders. Because
'they had been dishonest and faithles with the magi
clan (for, of course, the Pled Piper was a magician),
the exacted from them this fearful penalty. No sight or
sound or rumor of the children ever reached Hamelln
afterward. So that it was a long time before anything
but grown-up voices was heard in the still little town,
and nobody ran and danced on t.ie street, and all the
.toys got dusty and all the little cakes and tarts got
dry and stale and had to be thrown away. And worst
of all. the mothers wept constantly for loneliness; it
was so terrible to have nobody to pet or prepare supper
for or tell stories to or put lovingly to bed. And
mothers ever since then have remembered the story
and have had a special fear of magicians and have
kept fast hold of their children's hands when a strange
man playing music came down the street. Indeed,
there are still mothers who are nervous about these
tilings, and it is always best to humor them.
But If the desolate mothers had known what really
became of their children, would they have cared so
much, or would they have cared more? Read the story
and see If you can tell.
There was. of course, something in the music
the Pled 'lper played which was different 'ro.n any
: music you have ever heard and which made the
children think of nothing but t.ielr desire to follow
l.nn. Without an instant's delay they sprang from
Santa Claus' Sleigh
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Marv Lemon Candy's Mother
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Nut Giraffe.
Cut waist at
dotted lines
mother's waist along dotted lined, and make a smaller
waist for Mary.
Cover both the whole stick and the half sticks of
cady with oiled paper for protection. Slip the moth
er's waist on over har head, bring the side pieces of
the back forward and lay the front sides over them,
then fit the dress skirt on over the waist, pinning It
at the back, top and center. Twist the ends of the
sleeves Into hands and pull the oiled paper out at
the top of the back of the mother's head as hair for
her hat to rest upon. Let the mother have a white
tissue paper sash, and around her shoulders a red
tissue paper scarf, pinning It at front waist line.
Ink the mother's features and glue a large hat on
top of her head. Make the hat of a round piece of
white writing paper, rolled up n one side and
trimmed with crumpled bits of red tissue paper pasted
on top of center of hat.
Pin the short skirt on Mary and put her waist on
over the skirt ns an apron. Place a strip of buff tissue
paper over her head, allowing the ends to hang down
their games or their dinners or their mothers' laps
and joined the enchanted band. They would have
gone to the ends of the earth, but, as you have seen,
that wasn't necessary, for the earth opened and took
them in. And when the walls of the Koppenberg
closed behihd them they shut out not only the sight
of the children's own tnuntry but the memory of it.
Or, rather, this Is what the Pled Piper Intended.
But it happened that as the mountain walls closed
together the face of one child was not turned, toward
the Piper, who strode ahead. Instead It was turned
back, toward Hamelln, and his last look was upon
the little town itself, where he kne.v his mother stood
waiting for him to -return to her. And the result of
this you shall see. .
For the other children, looking about them when
they were once Inside the mountain, experienced no
great surprise, for they were altogether under the
magician's spell. And they asked no questions when
hundreds of other children, who were lightly dressed
In rainbow colored clothes with no buttons-on them,
and who wore no shoes or stockings, and whoBe hair
was long and tangled, came trooping toward them.
For they had aiready forgotten Hamelin and their
own homes. But the Boy that Remembered thought
the new country very strange, and, coming up close
to the Piper, he pulled the magician's red and yellow
scarf and whispered gently:
"Piper, where are we?"
And the Piper smiled strangely and piped an an
swer on his pipe. And so strange was the Influence of
that country that tike Boy felt as though he had re
ceived a real answer, and thanked the Piper and fell
behind again, blushing and ashamed because he had
not understood. But how should he have expected to
understand the language of the pipe?
And where they really were (which of course the
Piper would never have told) was in the Land of Lost
Children. Many of them were children who had run
away from their homes and never been found again.
And eome of them had been enticed by wicked elves
and fairies. And a great number the Piper himself
had Brought. And none of them 'grew any older or
any wiser, but played together with shouts and laugh
ter from morning till night. And when night came
no one came to lead them away and wash their faces
and give them warm supper and put them to bed, but
they fell asleep wherever exhaustion overtook them,
like little savage things.
Of course the Lost Children were very eager to play
with the large band of new recruits that the Piper had
brought, but the Piper would not allow this at first,
for the Hamelln children were too neatly and soberly
dressed to live in his country. So, taking them with
him Into a little wood, he made t-cm all take off their
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behind; tie a string over the buff paper around Mary's
neck and pinch the paper at the back of the head and
the strip will then be a sunbonnet (Fig. 5). Make
Mary's little lamb (Fig. 8) out of a cocoanut covered
marshmallow, using wooden toothpicks for legs and
paper for ears.
Mr. Giraffe's body is a soft shelled almond, his neck
a peanut cut to fit, then glued to the body; the head
Is one-half a peanut cut to fit neck, with bits of tooth
picks stuck, in for horns and paper ears pasted on; his
tall, a twisted paper with fringed end, and his legs
Wooden toothpicks (Fig. 9).
heavy little shoes and their thick garments and sober
caps and bade them clothe themselves In gay strips
of red and green and blue and yellow that he gave
them, so that soon they were all as pled as he. And
to all of them this teemed pleasant except to the Boy
that Remembered, for night was coming on, and night
"Piper, why do we stay?"
Is no time for children to be out playing, alone In the
woods.
And what these woods were like I cannot describe,
for It seemed as If they shifted constantly, as things
do In a dream. That is to say. If one of the children
cried, "Let's play snowballs!" Immediately a few yards
away the ground would be heavily covered with snow,
and the trees thick and soft and white, as In mid
Winter. While If another said, "Oh, :io; I think it would
be nicer to hunt birds' nests;"- you could easily turn
away and run to a place where It was all green and
pink and warm and Springlike.
The best thing about i all, of course, was that
everybody could do exactly what he wanted; but no
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The little pig (Fig. 10) is a pet of Mary's mother.
He is a pecan nut, with curled paper tali and paper
cars glued in place. The legs of cardboard (Fig. 11)
are glued to the under side of the nut.
Make your little turtle (Fig. 12) of a glaced marsh
mallow'. Dampen the flat side and stick the candy on
a piece of writing paper cut to fit; then paste the other
side pf the paper to a cardboard foundation cut from
Fig. 13. Bend down the legs and bend up the head
and tail.
The nine and a half-inch Santa Claus (Fig. 14)
is made of reanuts with an English walnut for a head
FOLLOWED
body wanted to do anything long, so that everything
shifted constantly and there wasn't any comfort or
coolness, as the children would have discovered if
they had ever stopped to think. Of course, not only
were there no mothers to talk wisely to them and kiss
them anil no nurses to see that they were cleanly
dressed which they decidedly were not but there
were no schools or teachers, so that they knew no
more one week than they had known the week he
fore. They seemed happy, or at least they were very
gay and hilarious all the time, but they were really
more like puppies and kittens, or colts and heifers,
than like boys and girls; and, after all. It is more de
sirable to be a boy than a puppy.
And the pitiful thing was that they all missed their
mothers and fathers and the people they had loved,
but without knowing that they did. For the magician
had In some way blindfolded their little hearts, so that
they did not know why they beat or what they yearned
for. Or, rather, this was the case with all of them
except one the Boy that Remembered.
And at first the Boy that Remembered used to go
to the Piper and say: "Piper, why do we stay? Won't
you lead us home again?"
And always the Piper would smile and play strangely
on his pipe and the boy would go away mystified
with an ache In his heart So finally he did not go to
the Piper any more, but every now and then he would
take aside one of his own companions and put his
arm about the. other's neck and ask him:
"Don't you remember the dear schoolmaster and
what a saint the pastor was, and the beautiful woman
who sold cakes, and don't you 'want to see your own
dear mother, and how, how can we get to them all?"
But the other boy would shake himself free and
look very troubled and answer:
"You make me unhappy, but I do not remember.
Come and play. It is easier to play than to remem
ber," So the years went on. And in the town of rfamelln
the mothers walked slowly and wore black dresses
and looked constantly toward the Koppenberg while
in the Land of Lost Children those that had come from
Hamelln grew no older and no wiser, but played .
always and laughed and sang.
But the Pled Piper was not easy In his mind. For
he remembered the laws of this magic country, and
one of them stipulated that if at the end of ten years
one of the children of Hamelin remembered whence
he had come all the children were to be forfeited.
And at last the ten years were spent, and on the last
day the Boy that Remembered looked at the Piper
and said once more:
. "Piper, why do we stay?"
Which meant, of course, according to the law, that
Mary Xcnaon Candy
with bits of toothpicks stm. In for horns and p
ears pasted on; hl9 tall, a twisted paper with frli
end, and his legs wooden toothpicks (Fig. 9).
(Fig. 15). To make the body fasten the ends of two
peanuts together by running a wooden toothpick half
way in each nut, point two more, then sew the four
together with fine string. Make e;ich leg of two nuts
jointed together, and attach .each to the. body with
toothpicks. Four peanuts, run together with wooden
toothpicks, form the arms. Heat the end of a knitting
needle or wire hairpin red hot ami burn a hole in one
end of an English walnut. Push one end of a tooth
pick into this nut head, the other end into the peanut
body, and fasten more securely by also acwin; head
and arms on to the body.
Crumple red tissue paper and gluo it to the body
for a pouch, to make Santa Claus fat; tlten dress him
in cotton cloth or tissue paper, red coat, red trousers
and red cap, all trimmed with glued on hands of white
raw cotton. Ink Santa Claus' features and glue, on
hair and flowing' heard of white raw cotton; fasten a
gilt paper belt around his waist. '
Gunnlrop lied Riding tlood (Fig'. 16), is a piece of
candy covered with oiled paper, then a round piece of .
tissue paper twisted into a neck under the candy
head and brought down into a. full white skirt. Over
tiiis is a short red tissue paper skirt, and another
round red paper brought partly over the head and tied
around the neck with a' string li is t, then a strip t
white tissue paper.. Cut the edge of skirts and hoed
into points before dressing- Ked Hiding lined.
Make the blowpipe (Fig. IS) of a large sheet of pad
writing paper. Roll the paper over and over into a
thick hollow stick. Taste down tno lengthwise over
lying edge; then paste a band and tassel of blue
tissue paper near one end, of yellow at the center
and of red near the other end. Roll wads of raw
cotton into small halls and cover them with squares
of brilliantly colored papers, each of a different hue.
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Mary's Lamb,
fcocoanut candy
Bring the ends of the squares together In a twist like
the old-fashioned little Fourth of July torpedo. Place
one of these gay wads well into. the pipe and see how
far you can make it go when you blow it from the
pipe; then inclose all the wads in a white square tissue
paper bag and seal the opening.
The dog (Fig. 19) is made of chocolate-coated cream
candy and wooden toothpicks, but you must keep them
in a cool place or he will melt.
(Copyright, 1903, by the New York Herald Co. AU
rights reserved.)
THE PIPER
all the children of Hamelln must be freed. So, as
sembling them, the Piper turned to the Boy that Re
membered and said:
"The time has come for you to go. In which di
rection shall I send you?"
And if the boy could have known the direction in
which Hamelin lay they might all have gone back to
comfort their mothers' hearts, but In his ignorance
he pointed instead to the wrong side of the moun
tains which opened ami the children passed througrh.
And they found themselves in a strange country,
where there were men and women and grandmothers
and grandfathers and where people worked and took
thought And a certain soberness came to them, and
after a little they learned to till the land and to reap
harvests. And tiiey married and children were born
to them, and they learned to build cottages to shelter
the women and the children. But they never came to
be like the other people of the earth. And to this day
they wear strange pied garments and there is a look
of wildness in their eyes, and whenever, of evenings,
a group of them are gathered together, the laughter
that rings out is not the laughter of us simple, human
folk.
Old Stories of Christmas
j IIKPF are some so-called old stories that are f
irei'.lly r-.ot old. for they have an interest, a fresh
ness and a beauty that keep them always new.
Of such are the story of Christmas and all the. legends
and "tales that belong to the great festival.
There is a legend in Germany that when Eve
plucked the fatal apple the leaves of the tree imme
diately shriveled into needle points and its bright
green turned dark. The nature of the tree changed
and it became an evergreen, in all seasons preaching
the story of man's fall through that first act of dis
obedience. Only on Christmas does it bloom origlitly
with lights and become beautiful with love gifts. The
curse is turned into a blessing by the coming of the (
Christ child, and thus we have our Christinas tiee.
The visits of St. Nicholas to the homes of the people )
on Christmas eve as an annual custom grew out of a '
festival in honor of Ilertha, a Norse goddess. At this '.
festival the house was decorated with evergreens and
an altar of stone was set up at the end of the hall
where the family assembled. From flertha's stone we
get our word "hearthstone." On the stones so set up
were heaped fir branches, which were set afire, and
through the smoke and flame Ilertha was suppose 1 to
descend and Influence the direction of the flames, fruin
which were predicted the fortunes of those present-