SUPPLEMENT
EAST CLACKAMAS NEW S, DECEM BER 9, 1920
December
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TOY TREE TABLE DECORATION
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Miniature Christmas Emblem May Be
Surrounded With Presents Tied
With Red Ribbon.
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WIESE DDES THE MONEY
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ECORATE the table with a
Christmas tree, one of the
toy ones, and pile around its
foot a quantity of presents
tied
with
red
ribbons.
These should be only what a college
man would call "grinds"— perhaps a
tiny tin piano for a would-be perform­
er, a lantern for the omj the points of
whose jokes are difficult to see. a
placid paper golf bag for the enthusi­
astic player, and so on, each with a
rhyme or quotation, says Harper’»
Bazar. I f one considers a goose a
somewhat undignified bird, ducks may
be exchanged for it, either the domes­
tic fowl or the more expensive canvas-
hack or redhead. Fried celery Is very
good with duck, the crispest pieces
dropped In batter and then cooked in
deep fat. But the apple sauce cro­
quettes should not he omitted even
with tills. For this Informal dinner
there is a very good and Innocuous
drink to serve with the heavy course—
sweet cider, spiced and sugared to
taste, cooked ten minutes and served
hot.
HEALTHY NEW YEAR
Oregon contributed $32,000 in YULETIDE THORN TREE SAVED
the 1919 Christmas Seal Sale.
■looming Glastonbury, Subject o f
5 % paid for seals and sale sup­
Beautiful Legends of Christmas,
plies.
Was Dodfcied to Destruction.
5 % commission ot National Tu
NE of the most beautiful legends
berculosis Association for
of Christmas Is thnt of the Gins-
the National Program.
tonbury thorn. The thorn trde grew
90'^ supported the Oregon work. st Glastonbury Abbey, in Somerset­
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What the 1920 Seal Sale Will Do in 1921
A $35,000 Seal Sale will continue
the 1920 program. Less than
this amount will mean curtail­
ment.
A $45,000 Sale will make possible
many extensions, such as:
More Open Air Schools.
Traveling and Permanent
Clinics.
Dispensaries.
More Public Health Nursing
Demonstrations.
Sanitary and Case-finding
Surveys.
Campaigns for Sanitoria.
OI.I.S that walk and talk
and wink and roll their eyes
[ r-Xn are Parisian Christmas nov-
cities in toy la mi. ^ These
dolls seem almost human, ns
they walk in sprightly style across tha
floor saying "mamma" or “ pupa" Just
os real children would.
Walking dolls being a new Inven­
tion,
seem
wonderful
and
bring
screams of delight from little girls and
hoys, too, who watch with Intense In­
terest every step of the lifelike dolls
as they are exhibited In the shops.
The machinery that moves the doll’s
legs Is set In motion by a key that ia
Inserted In the works at the waist
line. y
The voice Is made active by worka
that are wound with n key.
The eyes move as the hody swava
from side to side Just us the r * il chil­
dren’s eyes roil tie) blink, et«-.
shire, and was supposed to have de­
veloped from the staff of Joseph of
Arlmnthea.
According to the legefld,
Joseph came to Glastonbury and while
lie was resting on a hill, afterward
known ns Weary All hill, he stuck his
stall In the earth. The staff Immedi­
ately grew green and budded, and at
Christmas time it blossomed Into
beautiful »flowers.
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One chronicler states that during
Queen Elizabeth's reign the thorn had
s double trunk, but that n somewhat
bigoted Puritan, who disliked tin* tree
because to his mind It smacked of
popery, started to cut It down, and
succeeded in demolishing one of the
trunks. »A miracle rescued the re­
maining trunk of the tree by causing
a chip of wood to tty up and hit the
Puritan In the eye. while nt the snme
time he slipped and cut his , leg.
Later the tree was grubbed up. but
a number of smaller trees raised from
slips of the original are said to he
owned by persons In the neighbor­
hood.
An Ancient Christmas Dish.
An indispensable Christinas•dish of
ancient times was "frumenty" of
“ frumnnte.”
Here Is the recipe fo*
making the dish according to a faith­
ful old chronicler: "T ak e clean wheat
and bray It In a mor*ar until the hull*
he all gone oT, and seethe It nntll It
hurst, ami fake It Jp and let It cool;
and take clefs, fresh broth and sweet
milk o f nlmonn* or sweet milk of klne
and temper It all; and take the yolks
of eggs.
Roll It * little and set It
down and mess It forth with fat veni­
son
fresh mutton." Frumenty was
often served slone without venison or
mutton. When served by It9elf It was
weB sweetened.
THINGS THE BOYS LONG TOR
Youngsters Prefer Toys or Contriv­
ances to Test Their Muscular Skill
or Endurance.
I T T H A T shall he said of that hlun-
V V dering kin* less of home folk
that considers giving the hoy only
presents of such tilings as lie actu­
ally needs?
It Is an outrage upon
the spirit of Christmas to present him
with new shoes, ties, handkerchiefs—
something that he knows he will get
anyway— \fhen his sleeping and wak­
ing dreams for weeks before have been
tilled with visions of tops, halls, guns
and magic lanterns, says Maud Sou­
liers in tlie Woman’s Home Compan­
ion. The most beautiful knitted muf­
fler woman's fingers ever constructed
cannot compare with a Jack-knife with
four blades and a cork-screw attach
ment, when exhibited over i3e back
fence to a ne'glibor hoy on Christmas
morning.-«’ Very soon after the days
of kilts a boy readies the age »Alien
lie yearns with tils whole soiii after
any toy or contrivance that will test
his muscular skill or endurance.
At
this age an appropriate present would
he a rawhide or rope lariat, such us
Is used hy the Buffalo Bill riders.
A
pair of hand’ or arm stilts will be re­
ceived with equal favor, and In the
same category comes a new fishing
rod,# snow slioes, tennis racket.^golf
clubs, a good bull, lump or cyclometer
for his wheel, or even a live pet. a
new dog, a pulr of rabbits or guinea
pigs— something that he can pet and
train for hla own.
Funny Christmas Habit.
There Is not a drug store, cigar shop
or barroom In the larger cities which
has not been made the storage room
for Christmas presents bought before
the rush sets In. The strange part of
It is that every man who utilizes the
friendship of his favorite place round
the corner thinks he Is the only one
who thought of the plan. Realizing
that the stores will he crowded, many
far-sighted heads of families bought
their presents a week In advance, and
then, fearing the nature of the myste­
rious pncknge would be discovered at
the office or at home, they hit upon the
device of making a cache In some re­
sort nenr home.
ART AND SCItN Ct
IN
TOYS
Playthings for the Kiddles Necessary
to the Proper Conduct of
Their Society.
H ILE the making of toys Is tin
art that Is probably practically
as old as the world Itself, It has been
only within recent years that science
lia- ''othercd Itself about them. Less
than half a century ago they were re­
garded merely as playthings amus­
ing diversions for children that were
by no means necessary to their well­
being. Today, however, science Insists
that there Is a well-defined philosophy
underlying the use of toys; thill they
are the tools with which the little ones
ply their trade; the paraphernalia nec­
essary to the proper conduct of the’ r
society; that dolls, for example, are
tpore to them than the associates that
help to entertain them In that hey
aid them In the attainment of „¿le'r
mental growth hy stimulating the
natural emotions which must he ex­
perienced In later life.
Wli'etlg-r this theory of the scientists
Is correctsor not, the fact remains that
children have always had the play-
Ihlngs- requisite for their Imitations of
tin* domestic life and business affairs
of oltler people: that they have always
required their elders to provide them
with such Inventions, and that, when
they could not obtain these toys by
any other means they themselves have
s o u g h t m l found objects that might
be made to suit their purposes♦¡■Iven
the somnolent middle Ages did not tint
an end to their pastimes. The toys In
which they found diversion may have
been more simple, but, as they met
the demands of nature, they played
their allotted part In the scheme o f
human development.— Public Opinion.
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Ancient Christmas Custom.
Many quaint customs are observed
nt Christmas time In various English
country parishes. In that of Cumnor,
In Berkshire, of which the living Is a
vicarage and the clturch n beautiful
specimen of pn old English parochial
edifice, all who pay tithes repair, a f­
ter evening service on Christmas day.
to the vicarage where the vicar Is
field In duty bound, by a usage cen­
turies old, to ref de them with four
bushels of malt
rewed Into ale or
beer, two bushels .»f wheat linked Into
bread, and half a hmulred weight of
cheese t Any remnants of t h h f “ list
aye distributed among tlo* poor of the
parish after morning prayer the next
day.
ANNUALLY
Toys for little Willie,
Something for the cook;
Make, with forty other thlngt
The empty pocketbook.
Plante for Christmas.
Other tilings being equal. It Is bet­
ter to buy plants near one’s borne than
to travel tifur. Do not be tempted,
even by cheap ofTers, to go miles
away, for counting cur fares, packing,
expressnge arid lost time, the ultimate
cost Is very likely fo tie more than If
you paid u good deni higher price nt
home. O f course It may happen that
one grower or florist has a large stock
of some one thing and can sell at a
low rate, but dealers usually have an
underCtnnd.ng with one another es­
pecially^ regarding holiday prices, and
for weeks before the holiday season
;hey have been hnlnnclng stock with
each other, so that the better quality
plants are of an almost fixed value
POOR THINGS
Tramp Birds: They might throw
us a few crumba on ChHatmaa morn­
ing.
Traditions of Christmas Festival.
In the records of every nation we
find traditions of the Christmas festi­
val. traditions which have been hand­
ed down from generation to genera­
tion In oft-told tales which thrilled
the hearts of the listeners with al­
ternate fear and delight. Kir Walter
Scott tells us that they who are born
upon Christmas or Good Friday will
see spirits, and will have tlie power
of commanding them. He also adds
thnt the Spaniards Imputed the down-
can,a looks of their monarch ' Philip
II, to the disagreeable visions to which
Ibis ortvllette sublected hi —