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Show Transforming a Box Into Smart Ottoman Household Neius By RUTH WYETH SPEARS , Shakespeare, no Englishman has world with as many notable of life to every circumstance ,!L Dickens. In aU his numerous characters who are as real ' ! ; 1,s mil the day the most they were created. famous of these char- tor- - WNU Service. THE AUTHOR acters are old Scrooge and "Tiny Tim in Christmas Carol. The better part oI two months were spent in the writing of this little story. Dickens himself referred to his "Carol as the greatest success he has ever achieved. This selection is rare praise from a prodigious writer whose works place him among the greatest of English writers. The stories which he produced in such great numbers Include such masterpieces as Nicholas Nicholby, David Copperfield, Pickwick Papers Bleak House and Great Expectation. ill STAVE ONE Marleys Ghost standing of the role. Miss Scott didnt think it surprising at all she used to be a school teacher, you see. dead. he was dead? Of knew k00ge and he were did. Scrooge he irtners. Scrooge was his sole ex-this sole friend, and sole ourn'er. And even Scrooge was -the sad event s0 cut up by doubt that Marley was no is ttere This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can ;me of the story I am going to If we were not PerfecUy conned that Hamlets father died there would before the play began, more remarkable in his be nothing at night. taking s stroll The firm was known as Scrooge Harley was or and Oh! at Marley. But he was a the wrenching, Mo. The family moved to Kansas City, where one of her high school teachers, Miss Ida Lilly, was so conShe hails from Jamesport, hand tight-fiste- d grindstone, Scrooge! a squeez-ag- i grasping, scraping, AFTEK THE FOOTBALL GAME See Recipes Below. clutching, covetous, old sinner! -Once upon a time on Christmas Eve-- old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-hous- merry Christmas, uncle! God cried a cheerful voice. save you! said Scrooge, Humbug! "Bah! "Christmas a humbug, uncle! "You dont said Scrooges nephew. mean that, I am sure? said Scrooge. Merry 1 do, Christmas! What right have you to be merry? Youre poor enough. returned the nepheCome, then, w gaily. "What right have you to be morose? Youre rich enough. Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said "Bah! again; and followed it Keep Christmas in your up with: way, and let me keep it in mine. repeated Scrooges "Keep it! "But you dont keep it nephew. "Let me leave It alone, then, Much good may it said Scrooge. A do you! are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare Christsay, returned the nephew. mas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-u- p hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it! Come! Dine with us "There fellow-passenge- tomorrow. see him went the whole length of the expression. But why? cried Scrooges neph- Scrooge said he would yes, indeed he did. He ew. "Why? Why did you get married? "Because I fell in love. "Because you fell in love! growled Scrooge. Good afternoon! Nay, uncle, but you never came to see me before that happened. Why give it as a reason for not coming now? Good afternoon, said Scrooge. I am sorry, with ail my heart, to find you so resolute. We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party. But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and Ill keep my Christmas humour to the last. Sq A Merry Christmas. His nephew to bestow the stopped greetings of th3 season on the clerk. Theres another fellow," muttered Scrooge, who overheard him: my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas. Two portly gentlemen came in. At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, said one gentleman, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight Provision for the poor and destitute. Many thousands are in want of com-tno- n necessaries. "Are there no prisons? asked Scrooge. "Plenty of prisons. "And the Union workhouses? demanded Scrooge. Are they still in operation? "Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mmd or body to the multitude, the gentleman, a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. What cd I Put you down for? I Nothing!" Scrooge replied. P to support the establishments mentioned they cost enough; and those who are badly omust go there. Many can't go there; and many 8'ould rather die. "if they would rather die, said crooge, "they had better do it, and oercase the surplus population." Seeing it would be useless to pur SUe their point, the men withdrew. At length the hour of shutting up counting house arrived. Jo have DAD the top of a box and slip- cover it; then add a separate cushion three inches thick. The result will be a smart ottoman that either may match or contrast By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union. I with the cover of your favorite chair. The little feet made of ARTHA SCOTT, playing drawer pulls keep the ottoman the role of a school from looking like a box. A corded teacher in Cheers for Miss seam where the skirt of the slipamazed Director cover joins the top, and an invertBishop, 0OX WITH TOPAKD .COTTON BATTING Tay Garnett by her under- Youll want all day tomorrow, I suppose?" said Scrooge. The clerk observed it was only once a year. A poor excuse for picking a mans pocket, said Scrooge. Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, went home to bed. Now, it is a fact, that there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door, except that it was very large. Let it also be borne in mind that Scrooge had not bestowed one thought on Marley. Then let any man explain how it happened that Scrooge saw in the knocker, not a knocker, but Mar-ley- s face. As Scrooge looked at this phenomenon, it was a knocker again. To say that he was not startled would be untrue. But he put his hand upon the key he had relinquished, turned it sturdily. , He closed his door and locked himself himself in; double-locke- d in, which was not his custom, and sat down before the fire to his grueL The fireplace was an old one, paved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures. There were Cains and Abels, Pharaohs daughters, Queens of Sheba, Apostles putting off to sea in boats, hundreds of figures to attract his thoughts; and yet that face of Marley, seven years dead, came like the ancient Prophets rod, and swallowed up the whole. butter-- said Scrooge. Humbug! As he threw his head back in the chair, his glance happened to rest upon a disused bell that hung in the room. It was with great astonishment that as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing. It was succeeded by a clanking some noise, deep down below; as if chain person were dragging a heavy merover the casks in the wine chants cellar. Scrooge then remembered to have heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains. It came on through the heavy door, and passed into the room. The same face: Marleys chain keys, padwas made of locks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel. ob"You dont believe in me, cash-boxe- served the Ghost I dont, said Scrooge. senses? Why do you doubt your Because," said Scrooge, a little A slight disorthing affects them. makes them stomach the der of cheats. You may be an undigested a bit of beef, a blot of mustard, an of a fragment crumb of cheese, of underdone potato. Theres more about you. of grave than gravy At this the spirit raised a frightto his ful cry. Scrooge held tight chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon. But how much greater was his horror, when the phantom round its taking off the bandage down dropped lower jaw its head, upon its breast! :11 upon his knees, Dreadful ap-i- y he said. do you trouble me? juired of every man," that the spirit turned, should walk abroad and if that fellow-men- ; not forth in life, it is to do so after death. It to wander through the voe is me! and witness ot share, but might have d Jurned to happiness!" spectre shook its chain, fettered, said Scrooge, Tell me why? e chain I forged in life. I made It link Ghost. its pattern strange to cmbled more and more, pursued you know, "the weight and length i ig coil you bear your-full as heavy and as seven Christmas Eves j If you are entertaining the crowd after the game, youll find substantial refreshments in favor; for the same crisp air that puts football players on their toes breeds keen appetites. ago. You have laboured on it, since. It is a ponderous chain! Its good social strategy to arScrooge glanced about him on the range everything buffet style and let floor, in the expectation of finding the guests help themselves. Youll want a table that himself surrounded by some fifty or is festive, easy to sixty fathoms of iron cable. "At this time of the rolling year, handle, and yet the spectre said, casual. You may I suffer most. even want to set Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-being- s with my eyes tinned up card tables in the living room to down, and never raise them to that make your guests blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode! Were there no poor comfortable after homes to which its light would have they have helped themselves from the buffet. conducted me! Natural colored linen, or rough Scrooge was very much dismayed. Hear me! cried the Ghost "My homespun cloth will make a smart time is nearly gone. background for your serving table. I will, said Scrooge. But dont Candles are often used very effecbe hard upon me! tively, when serving buffet style, for How it is that I appear before they add both atmosphere and light. you in a shape that you can see, I If you double as hostess and chief may not telL I have sat invisible cook, youll enjoy the game twice as beside you many and many a day. much if you plan a menu that can I am here tonight to warn you, that be prepared beforehand. Sandwich you have yet a chance and hope of makings and a hot steaming beverescaping my fate. You will be hauntage are a wise choice. Then wind ed by Three Spirits. up the feast with ice cream and Scrooges countenance felL chocolate cake. said the Without their visits, Frankfurter Sandwich. Ghost you cannot hope to shun frankfurtBoil or steam large first I the tread. the path Expect tender until ers tomorrow, when the bell tolls One. and juicy. Slice Couldnt I take 'em all at once, thin on white or and have it over? hinted Scrooge. rye bread and Expect the second on the next serve with musnight at the same hour. The third tard sauce and upon the next night when the last hot potato salad. stroke of Twelve has ceased to viGarnish with brate. Look to see me no more. pickle. When it had said these words, the Hot Potato Salad. spectre walked backward from him; (Serves 6) winand at every step it took, the medium-size- d 6 potatoes dow raised itself a little. 4 slices bacon (minced) After listening for a moment, it onion (sliced) 1 medium-size- d floated out upon the bleak night. 2 tablespoons bacon drippings Scrooge closed the window, and y cup water examined the door by which the Vt cup vinegar Ghost had entered. It was double-locke1 teaspoon sugar as he had locked it and the to He teaspoon salt tried undisturbed. were bolts teaspoon pepper say Humbug! but stopped at the Cook potatoes in jackets. Cool, first syllable. and slice. Pan broil minced skin, STAVE TWO then saute onion in bacon bacon, The First of the Three Spirits drippings until brown. Combine and heat water, vinegar, sugar, salt, and When Scrooge awoke, it was dark. pepper. Add to mixture in frying Church chimes struck twelve. pan, and mix with potatoes. Place said "Why. it isnt possible, in baking dish and heat in moderate that I can have slept oven (350 degrees) before serving. Scrooge, through a whole day and far into Egg Meringue Surprise Sandwich. another night It isnt possible that (Serves 6) anything has happened to the sun, bread 6 slices noon! at twelve is this and Vi cup butter (melted) He remembered, on a sudden, that Vi pound sharp cheese the Ghost had warned him of a vis6 one. eggs tolled bell when the itation Salt and pepper Di"g, dong! 6 slices bacon The hour itself," said Scrooge, else! and slices of bread and brush Trim nothing triumphantly, He spoke before the hour bell one side with melted butter. Place sounded, which it now did with a buttered side down on a cookie deep, dull, hollow, melancholy One. sheet. Cut cheese into strips about Light flashed up in the room upon Vi inch in thickness. Arrange them, on the the instant, and the curtains of his side by side, or fence-lik- e bed were drawn. bread. Separate eggs and drop one The curtains of his bed were egg yolk in the center of each slice drawn aside, I tell you, by a hand. of bread. Sprinkle with salt and Scrooge, starting up into a pepper. Whip egg whites until stiff attitude, found himself and dry, and pile high on top, face to face with the unearthly viscovering the egg and cheese. Cut the slices of bacon into halves itor who drew them. It was a strange figure like a and place two halves on each sandchild: yet not so like a child as like wich right across the egg white. an old man. Its hair was white as Place in moderate oven (350 deif with age; and yet the face had not grees) and bake for 10 to 15 mina wrinkle in it, and the tenderest utes, or until the egg white is brown bloom was on the skin. and the bacon is crisp. But the strangestthingaboutitwas, Silver Cake. , that from the crown of its head there (Makes 1 loaf cake) sprung a bright clear jet of light. Ai cup butter I am the Ghost of Christmas 1 cups granulated sugar Past, it said. 2!i cups cake flour (sifted) Scrooge: Past? inquired Long 3 teaspoons baking powder observant of its dwarfish stature. Vi teaspoon salt No. Your past. 1 cup milk into bold made then Scrooge 1 teaspoon vanilla extract him. quire what business brought 4 egg whites (stiffly beaten) Your welfare!" said the Ghost. Cream butter, add sugar and beat It put out its strong hand as it well. Sift the flour, baking powder spoke, and clasped him gently by and salt together, and add to sugar the arm. and butter mixture. Mix well, and Rise! and walk with me! The grasp, though gentle as a place In refrigerator. When desired for use, remove mixture from rewoman s hand, was not to be reBreak up lumps with that but rose: frigerator. He finding sisted. fork. Add milk and vanilla, and the Spirit made towards the window, beat until mixture Is smooth and his rube in supplication. creamy. Then fold in the stiffly beat"I am a mortal. Scrooge remonen egg whites. Pour Into greased to fall." liable strated. "and loaf cake tin, and bake in a mod nu v,i: lomim uo com-pletel- y cla-pe- erately slow oven (325 degrees) for about 50 minutes. Chocolate Peppermint Frosting. 2 squares unsweetened chocolate lVb cups (1 can) sweetened condensed milk 8 marshmallows (cut In quarters) Few drops oil of peppermint Melt chocolate in top of double boiler. Add sweetened condensed milk, stir over rapidly boiling water 5 minutes, or until the mixture thickens. Add marshmallows, and stir until they begin to melt. Remove from heat and add peppermint. CooL Spread on cold cake. This frosting covers tops of 2 layers or top and sides of loaf cake generously, or about 24 cup cakes. Vanilla Ice Cream. (Makes 1 quart) 2 cups milk 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons flour Vi teaspoon salt 2 egg yolks (well beaten) 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 cup whipping c earn Scald milk, reserving Vi cup. Mix and blend the sugar, flour, and salt, and mix to a smooth paste with the cold milk which was reserved. Add this mixture to the scalded milk and cook, stirring constantly until thick, in a double boiler for 15 minutes. Add egg yolks which have been well beaten and cook, stirring constantly, 3 minutes longer. Add vanilla and chilL Fold in the whipping cream which has been whipped, place in ice cream freezer and freeze, using 3 parts ics to 1 part rock salt Sausages in Pastry Blankets. (Makes 8 sausage rolls) cups flour teaspoon salt Vi teaspoon baking powder Vi cup shortening 3 tablespoons cold water (approximately) 8 pork sausages Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder. Blend in the shortening. Then add just enough water to form a dough, mixing lightly. Roll out and cut Into 8 oblong pieces, each sufficiently large to wrap around one link of sausage. Place individual sausages (well pricked) on individual pieces of pastry; fold ends over and roll up. Place folded side down on a baking sheet. Prick crust with a fork. Bake in a hot oven (425 degrees) for about 30 minutes. Serve very hot. Better Baking. The smell of baking cookies and cakes will soon be permeating the house. Fruit cakes will be baked, packed and stored carefully, until the time they are to be used for gifts. Better Baking includes fruit cake recipes which have been thoroughly tested in Miss Howes own kitchens. This cook book also contains many good cookie recipes, from Ginger Cookies to Fudge Drops. If you are planning on giving cookies and fruit cakes to your friends as gifts, it will be wise to write for Better Baking now. Start your baking early, and avoid the last minute rush. You may secure your copy of this cook book by writing to "Better Baking care of Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, and enclosing 10 cents in coin. UieleuMd by Western Newspaper Union.; Tip on Molasses Before measuring molasses for recipes dip the cup or spoon in hot water and the molasses will turn out more quickly. Test for Custard Baked custards should be tested with a knife. When knife comes out of the center of custard clean, then it is done. 60ARDS,' BOTTOM BASTED TO SCREW OR BOl.TCTAC DRAWER PULLS NEAR CORNERS 3"CUSHION j rADD rS?'T&t vinced that Martha had exceptional ability that she lent her the money to go through the University of Michigan. Martha took to college theatricals like a duck to water. She taught for six months after graduation, then went back to the university to become head of the property department In the college repertory company. The companys head, Thomas Wood Stevens, took an Interest In her, and when he became head of the Bonstelle theater in Detroit she went along. If 1 am a qualified actress today, the credit must be given to Mr. Stevens, 6he says. Afterward she went to New York, where she played in dramatized ghost stories opposite Orson Welles. More stock the engagement for the then to stage play, "Our Town Hollywood for the screen version of the play. After that came The Howards of Virginia." Then Do you like stampedes? if you want to dont miss "Arizona see the largest and most realistic cattle stampede ever attempted In motion pictures. The 700 whitefaced Hereford cattle were purchased for it and rehearsed for a Jj ' , A- r- i. x " TACR V SEAM OF SUP COVER TO BOX ed pleat at each corner of the skirt also give a professional touch. I suggest tacking the slip cover firmly in place as shown in the sketch. If down or feathers are used to fill the separate cushion, make an inner cushion of ticking with a top and a bottom piece the size of the box top; and a straight three- inch piece around the sides. If kapok is used for filling, this inner cushion may be made of muslin. The cover of the separate cushion has corded seams to match the box slip cover. NOTE : These directions should be clipped from the paper as they are not available in booklet lorm. However, complete directions for making slip covers end (or making corded seams are In SEWTNG, Book No. 1. No. 3 also contains valuable slip cover suggestions. These booklets are 10c each. Send order to: e MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer It New York Bedford Hills Enclose 10 cents for each book ordered. Name Address INDIGESTION may aliect (ha Heart trapped in tb ctomacb or riiiot msy art like a oo Um heart. At Use Drat aicn ot dime Tablet to mart men and womwi depend on Itall-t- u at gai fn No laxativa but mad of the laatrsU If tho acting mnllrlmta known for acid lnritgeitlon. a FT I18T UOHK doesn't prova better. return btUia to ua and racoira ixjUIiUfl Modi yr lMck, j&e. flu r Joy the Mainspring Joy is the mainspring in the whole round of everlasting nature; joy moves the wheels of the great timepiece of the world; she it is that loosens flowers from their buds, suns from their firmaments, rolling spheres in distant space seen not by the glass of the astronomer. Schiller. JEAN ARTHUR month; then three weeks were spent in filming it in Rattlesnake canyon, 18 miles from Tucson. Participating in the stampede with the cattle were 150 Papago Indians and 100 American pioneers, headed by Jean Arthur and William Holden. WOMANHOOD Remember Ingrid Berman, who won ao many hearts when she made ber one appearance on the American screen? Youll see ber again In "Legacy," planned as one of Columbias most important pictures of the year. Its being produced by Robert Sherwood, Thousands of young girls entering womanhood have found a real friend in Lydia E. pinkhams Vegetable Compound to help them go "smiling thru resiles, moody, nervous spells, and relieve cramps, headache, backache and embarrassing fainting spell due to female functional Irregularities, h amoui for over years. 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Shes getting ready to go to Hollywood after Christmas, to make a picture on the Universal lot. Horace Heidt fully recognizes the necessity for encouraging talent within his band you know that if you listen to his Pot o Gold program. He eagerly introduces the songs composed by Frankie Carle, the pianist, and hes delighted that the recordings made by Fred Lowery, the bands blind whistler, are so successful; the record of Tumbling Tumbleweeds has passed the 20,000 sale mark. - ODDS A!D EDS Rosemary Lane it breaking aua y from the team thet been part of uith her listen, and will freelance; she wants to have more time for radio. Hut you'll see her with the others in Four Mothers . . . .ana Turner, Judy Garland und lledy Lamarr hate starring roles in I he '.teg-felGirl , . . Gone U ith the U i nd" util be at uiluble for general release at approximately half Us road show prices early in January . . . 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