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Friday, Decern ber 19, 1941 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER kf, £ uh * i CkamteM. shoulders and fitting smoothly over the hips helps the average figure achieve youthful slender ness—the skirt is comfortable to wear for walking, standing and sitting, the dickey provides a note of freshness for this costume so that it is always attractive to wear. Make it now for yourself in gabardine, twills, plaids, nov elty rayons or serge. • • • Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1485 B is de signed for sizes 32. 34. 36. 38. 40, 42, 44 and 46 Size 34 requires 5 yards 35-lnch material; 3 yard* 54-lnch. Dirkey re quires % yard 35-inch material. Send your order to: SEWING i IRf l.E PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco Calif. Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No. Name ... Address . ff nr untn un a rljilii in hunt, until iih yiurii: Aliò tljr lunirrinttrnt abad hr npnit bin Hhmiliirr: Anil bin iiuntr aliati hr rullrb umnòrrful, ruiniarUnr. tljr itiiybtji (Snò, tljr rurrluatiuy futljrr, Ihr priurr nf prarr. -íuaiah 9:G Infants Under Year Old Enjoy Christinas Gifts, Baby Claims Let a Star-Studded Ham Say Merry Christmas! (See Recipes Below) Deck the Table Greetings, homemakersl Here's my Christmas present to you, a menu with recipes designed to ring in the holiday season and to crown your table with luscious food, just wonderful to eat. The menu is worked out in the best colors of the season. TIIIN WEEK'S MENU Christmas Dinner ‘Grapefruit-Persimmon Salad •Sweet French Dressing •Baked Ham ‘Holiday Sauce ‘Virginia Cranberry Mold •Sweet Potato Pone •Green Peas With Beets Crescent Rolls Celery Olives Jelly Plum Pudding with Sauce Coffee •Recipes Given There's a touch of the traditional In the menu in the baked ham and sweet potato pone topped off with the plum pudding, and then there's a dash of newness in the cranberry mold, the salad and its perky dress ing and the holiday sauce. Whether you're welcoming your sons from camp, your daughters from college, make this their gala feast, for , Christmas din- ners are some thing to cherish and remember. ‘Grapefruit-Persimmon Salad. "()/ courte uw bubin can enjoy Chrittmat <i/U.' Dear II arid: Of course. I’m disgusted. You’d feel this wny too if folks said you were too dumb to enjoy Christmas, They say that we babies less than a year old don't need presents be cause we can't appreciate them anyway. The ideal A lot of other babies are also com plaining about this attitude. Why, we can talk better English than most grown-ups. "Dud iddy biddy baby want pretty rattle-wattle? Daddikens will pick it up from the floorsie-worsie for oo" Phoeyl If I couldn't talk better than this I'd keep still. And then they have the audacity to assume that babies under one year are too young to enjoy Christmas. Last month we conducted a poll among babies 12 months of age or younger, asking them if they con sidered themselves capable of en joying Christmas. Exactly 887 of the 1.000 babies questioned replied emphatically in the affirmative. The 13 who voted "no" are going to be a year old before Christmas and felt they would have n better chance of get ting presents from relatives if their younger cousins were left out But that's a purely selfish motive and doesn't affect the unanimity of the poll. • Now that you have had indisput able proof that babies enjoy Christ mas, don't rush out to buy us an electric train or bicycle. After all, we act our age even though we know better. There are lèverai points you should keep in mind while looking through the toy department: We want toys that will attract our at tention, and they must be cleaned easily. We babies have a bad habit of putting things in our mouths, so Be versatile with your grapefruit Peel, separate into sections, then slip the thin peeling off the sections being careful to leave the section whole. Alternate the sections of grapefruit wth thin slices of persim mon, having the outside sections on top so the fruit together gives the appearance of a mound. Use three sections of grapefruit per serving Lay this on a crisp bed of lettuce and serve with dressing. Avocado and pink grapefruit sections may also be used in this way. I if the toy 1s too small, we might swallow it. Don’t worry, though. I We'Tl get over the habit. Colored bakelite disks on a chain make one of the nicest and least expensive gifts for babies. We can have a lot of fun playing with those white, yellow, red and green disks. | And they're real easy to keep clean, too. Other children want only toys they can play with, but we babies | ‘Sweet French Dressing. can appreciate the more practical (For fruit salads) • gifts such as cribs, playpens and | 9 tablespoons oil jumper-swings. They are virtual 3(4 tablespoons powdered sugar necessities to us and make our lives (4 teaspoon salt much more pleasant. 3 tablespoons paprika Clothing also makes excellent (4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce gifts. A few of the many articles 4 tablespoons lemon juice we would be glad to receive include Set all ingredients in icebox for shirts, night gowns, dresses, romp three hours before mixing. Com ers, shoes, stockings and bonnets. One of the most practical and bine in order given, blending thor welcome gifts for* any baby would oughly. Chill again in mason jar. be an automobile seat. These can Before using, let melt, then beat be attached to the seat of any auto until thick with wooden spoon. mobile and permit babies to see •Virginia Cranberry Mold. out, but prevent them from falling You’ll want something tantalizing- out. Babies must be able to sit up ly tart as foil to the bland sweetness before using them, but all babies of the ham. Here it is: learn to sit up before they are very 1 17-ounce can cranberry sauce old. And we enjoy looking out of Juice of two oranges the window of the car as much as Grated rind of 1 orange you do. It's no fun just looking at 1 cup hot water the inside of the car when we're 3 packages gelatin going some place, How would you Mash cranberry sauce fine; add like it? Another practical gift would be a rind and orange juice. Dissolve gel life-insurance policy that will ma atin in hot water and add to first ture in about 18 years and provide mixture. Pour into molds and put funds for a college education. Or, in cool place to set savings account can be opened in •Sweet Potato Pone. baby’s name for as little as <1—but (Serves 6 to 8) you don't have to mnke It that small. Delicately spiced, heart-warming We babies can’t get Christmas gracious accompaniment to presents for our parents and other your dinner is grownups, but we certainly would this sweet potato if we could. Just wait a couple of pone. Satisfy your years and see if we don’t desire for sweet Signed, Disgusted "Youth. potatoes with ham this new-old Early Puritans Forbid ‘Crime* of Celebrating Christmas Celebrating Christmas was a crime to the enrly Puritans in Mas sachusetts. The practice was looked down upon with so much disfavor that anyone observing the date was fined five shillings. On May 11, 1650, the general court in Boston passed a law against Christmas cel ebrations which said: “It is therefore ordered by this court and the authority thereof that whomsoever shall be found observ ing any such day as Christmas or Jones Found It Difficult Matter to Change His Diet u Hint la way. It’s like grandmother used the like, either by forebearjng la- >£?.--------- to make, homey, bor, feasting, or any other way, tasty, just won upon such account as aforesaid, ev derful food! ery such person so offending shall 2(4 cups grated raw sweet potato pay for every such offense five shill (4 cup butter ings as a fine to the county." (4 cup sugar >4 cup milk Fair Warning 1 teaspoon powdered ginger “Listen, chillun” said Uncle (4 teaspoon mace Eben, "don’t eat yohsefs into a state Grated rind of 1 orange of mind whar you’s wishin' for a Blend sugar and butter, Add doctor harder dan you did for Santy sweet potato and milk. Beat well, Claus." then add spices and orange rind. Going to a new restaurant for lunch Jones ordered brown bread, The waitress brought him white, Jones, being a reserved fellow, said nothing. The second day he ordered brown and again got white, This went on for a week. Then he decided that the only way to get what he wanted was to order the opposite. So he start ed the new week by adding to his luncheon order : "And bring me some white bread." "But,” exclaimed the girl, aren't you the gentleman who always has brown?” Bake in a shallow, buttered casse role in a moderate (350 degrees) ov- en. 30 to 35 minutes. ‘Baked Ham. You can depend upon your holiday dinner to go over if you serve a bam, glistening and shimmering. baked in sweet, spicy juices. Wrap the ham in clean wrapping paper. Place fat side up on a rack in an open pan. Use no water. Bake in a slow oven. Hams weighing 16 to 18 pounds require 4 to 4(4 hours baking; 12 to pounds, 3(4 to 4 hours; 10 to IS pounds, 3 to 3(4 hours; and 8 to 10 pounds, 2% to 3 hours. Remove paper and all rind. Cov er with a glaze of pickled peach juice or 1 cup honey and (4 cup or ange marmalade, or 1 cup pureed apricots for extra special goodness. To make stars, cut slices of pineap ple and form into a star. Use a maraschino cherry in center. Bake until brown (about 15 minutes) in a hot (400 degrees) oven. 1 IJ ERE’S good news for belles- A A on-a-budget who yearn for the smooth smartness of a two- piece frock! Pattern No. 1485-B offers a streamline version—sleek, simple to make with a three but ton cardigan neck topper, a skirt with a front pleat and a dickey collar which gives a trim touch of white in a flattering line next to the face. This dickey is easily adjusted—doesn’t need to be even pinned in place. We easily can see the advan ‘Holiday Sauce. tages of a suit of this type. The For your masterpiece, the ham, serve a sauce that's rich and jewel- jacket emphasizing width at the red. Ladle it over the ham gener- ously to bring out the best in the meat. Like all good things, the sauce is a simple, good-tasting combina tion. Melt 1 small glass of currant jelly in double boiler, add 3 table spoons chili sauce, blend, and serve •Green Peas With Beets. Bright red and green touch in the best tradition of Christmas is your beet and green peas vegetable com-I bination. Boil the beets with two ■ inches of their tops left on until ten der, 25 to 35 minutes depending on age and size. Plunge into cold wa-1 ter and remove skins. Scoop out center, add salt and butter. Just I before serving, heat beets, fill cen ters with cooked, seasoned green peas, heated piping hot. Stop worrying _ _ about what to send that man you know in the service. He’s answered that Christmas gift problem for you in any number of surveys made in camp and on shipboard. It’s cig arettes and smoking tobacco first. The favorite cigarette is Camel. The big favorite among smoking tobaccos is Prince Albert, the Na tional Joy Smoke, according to actual sales records from service stores in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. Local dealers are featuring Camels in your choice of two gaily wrapped packages, also pound tins and pound glass humidors of Prince Albert as ideal Christmas gifts for the men in the service.—Adv. TICKLE ? 4 Sooche that throat tickle which comes from a cough due to a cold! Quick—get a Smith Bros. Cough Drop. (Black or Menthol—5f.) Smith Bros. Cough Drops are the only drops containing VITAMIN A Vitamin A (Carotene) raises the resistance of mucous membranes of nose and throat to cold infections, when lack of resist ance is due to Vitamin A deficiency. Trunkfish but their bodies are encased in ■ Trunkfishes, of the family Ostra- hard shell, like that of a turtle, ciidae, which are found in warm and only the jaws, fins, eyes and Don t forget the big. overflowing seas> are shaped like other fish, tail are free to move. bowls of fruits and nuts for the family to nibble on during Christmas day. Cluster raisins, apples, yellow, | supple bananas, and nuts in the' shell—al) these the family will want to make their festivities complete. The children will give you three cheers if you string red cranberries and popcorn on a string and hang on the tree or in their stockings. Steaming the Pudding. Plum puddings are best when served piping hot. This means they should be steamed for at least 1(4-2 hours before serving. If the pudding is in a mold cover with a lid or with heavy waxed paper. Place on a rack in a large kettle. Have about 2 inches of water in the bottom of the kettle, ; and have this water boiling all the ! while. More water may be added if necessary. A double boiler or a pressure cooker may also be used to good advantage for steaming. To serve, unmold the pudding and garnish the platter with holly or other leaves and bright berries. LYNN SAYS: Few holidays can offer you the same decorative possibilities as Christmas season, so make the most of the evergreens, berries, cones, candles, ornaments, and rich colors. Here are some centerpiece ideas which would be effective: Use a green wreath on a mir ror and fill with evergreen branches dipped or sprayed with white paint and place brightly colored ornaments or fruits among the branches. Surround candles with pine branches and cones and have sev eral small silver bells around the base of the centerpiece as though they came out of the branches. Make a gingerbread house, frost with a thin powdered sugar icing and sprinkle with silver snow. Set this on a mirror or surround with spruce or pine branches and cones. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS 28% LESS NICOTINE than the average of the 4 other largest-selling cigarettes tested—less than any of them—according to Independent scientific tests of the smoke Itself! CAMEL t- ■ .THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS