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Show rre a test dinner the . j Yn wnia ui J , 7 J0r" Jl.lt and radumtj sj s v. 't.-- - IflLUAILGASTOH house on the hill was lllV full of Christmas. In every room festoons of greenery, poinsettias and holly wreaths vied with candles, bells and tinsel to make more radiant the festive scene ana crease the Christmas spirit. There were two great ceuar trees in the hall, one on either side If the mantel, and both were deco with a har- ded and overburdened lest of Christmas cheer. The last one of fifty expected boys id just arrived fifty boys whose from nine to thirteen ;es ranged are. They scarcely looked the The trag- (dons of wealth and ease. dv of strueale whs deeply craven on over fvery countenance and greatly bed their appearance. Ihey were iothed in a nondescript array of long- lom garments, each article of which iad been divorced from a former suit iiid handed down from a former own-t- . Patches, tatters and rags covered .ded. oversized. Inittonless shirts and instituted their full dress for the iccasion, They were from the back streets and allevs and from bedrooms in woodsheds, warehouses and base- ,HE bis Ps a i2 were h.innv around upon wan Thev tnrtnr. THINGS -n- appy ior once. long table stretched through the ining room and the lihrnrv. white covered and weighted down with a dinner that looked like the flare of iheaten to the hungry boys. There A c ;flf twenty-fiv- chairs on each side e V fahta ui jjiav-ccit liic uhc nlniA k, nnA sm. to bft nonmiP the rnnnff hr "J flip 'head Jru easily In our city house. There Is plenty of room. "I will take the little white one with the brown The Mother Dog ear." right Knew. "But not yet," said the master. "He is too young to leave his mother. "Come back again In several weeks and you can take him with you, though I do hate to see the puppies leave their mother." "That's nonsense," said the friend. "He'll have a good home with me. and he's such a fine looking dog. "I'll show him at exhibitions and he'll win prizes for me " The mother dog disliked this man. He didn't seem to look at her or at her mippies as though he loved them but only as though he thought of how many prizes he could win because of cupful of puffed rice and one Pour out in a but- cupful of peanuts. tered pan and cool. Sunday Night Sandwich. Spread rye or graham bread with any soft cheese and sprinkle with chopped black walnut meats. Cottage cheese with cream or any grated rich cheese softened wiih cream makes a good spread. Cut into rounds with a bak- ng powder can thev make most nr. tractive open sandwiches. Sliced stuffed olives make fine garnishment ror open sandwiches. Ginger, Nut Sandwich. Take one- half cupful of chopped preserved ginger, cupful of thick sweet cream and one cupful of chopped Knglish walnuts. Spread the mixture on rounds of buttered bread, using whole wheat or while them. Lie didn't seem to have any affection in his heart for the does, and that frightened the mother dog. It would be so dreadful to have her puppies go somewhere like that. .Nor did the puppy who was chosen like his new master when he went to him. The first morning after he had been in the city a maid took him out for a walk. lie hurl to walk on a leash he one-fourt- bread. Mapla sugar, grated, mixed with a little cream and chopped ahnomls or walnuts, makes a delicious filling for a dainty sandwich to serve at tea. Fried Egg Sandwich. This Is one which will appeal to the hikers after a cold, brisk walk, or good to serve a skating or skiing party. Cook a thinly sliced onion in bacon fat or butter until a light brown, add an egg, and cook until done to taste, season with salt and pepper and place between buttered bread, the bread heat- f tablespoonfuis of orange juice. Stir well and drop on butBake tered tins by a box of candy. Childlike, she asked in a slow oven. Likeable Foods. him what he got for Christmas, A nice dish which the children will tne "'I didn't get nothin',' replied Is prepared of seasoned mashed shivering boy. 'I never had no Christ enjoy b a n a n a 8 , stirred Into mas.' Sweeten rice. cooked " 'Did you have a Christmas dinadd a and the bananas ner?' asked the little girl. to aclemon Juice little "'I ain't had nothin' today.' and cent the flavor. Serve house to come my "'You can with cream. will cive you some dinner,' A delicious cinnamon invitation, to the action and suiting Is which roll popu very she pulled at his arm and George lar is prepared as usual, a into reluctantly rather her then placed In a baking better part of the city and into a big the following sirup has which In warm home. George was soon eating pan Heat two tablespoonfuis been ever poured: had he the first Christmas dinner f cupful of brown The little girl's papa talked of butter, had. and cupful of water he sugar and night that kindly to George Cool and pour It 8 forms sirup. until was given a bath, a new lot of clothes, a baking pan, or cook the sirup into could he since time first and for the In the pan In which the rolls are to remember he slept in a clean, warm bake, add a half cupful of pecan bed. meats and place the rolls in the sirup soon told. Is "The rest of the story Bake in a moderate ovett and turn old to the George never went back and serve bottom side up. out little girl That alley to live or sleep. rolls are very attractive. Dse Clover was my mamma. Her papa gave the let him any mixture, place small balls of George a chance to work and oi in each compartment three fine dough a to be go to school. He grew pan. Make the rolls about gem the truth, the tell to was taught boy. He bethe size of a walnut before they rise to be honest and industrious. He On When baked they will fill the gerr came a smart business man. twenty-on- e pans. was Christmas day when he hrpnri iii such a well liked brean home years old there was a big wedding first that one enjoys making it at in the home where he had had his slonall.v. iiecn married Christmas dinner and he was Rve Bread. Soak one hard to the little girl. He worked f in cupful of luke venst cake and was honest and every Christmasa m u..ter to which one teaspoonful he and my mamma used to carry hna hnen added. Let stand the basket of food and nice things to or longer to be twenly.minutes .(bout of the city to four cupful? add poor people in the part then srln to rise, where daddy used io nve. Hour, three cupfuls of butter and worked until he got to be president mi it. " ""-- i infills- of salt, P' of the big bank where he first began uonfct nnd St IT Well. me tne 3"iir j to work. Before he died he told enough wheat add then rise, to mannna iway iloiir to make the mixture a little stiff this story and said he wanted who had no Int.. boys me poor to help and than ordinary bread. Form er So homes to have a good Christmasfound loaves, add a half cupful of caraway daddy was born on Christmas, ate b.s ...p.ls If liked. Brush with sweet fat bulk and bake his first friend on Christmas, was Pt rise until double Its oven a moderate In first good dinner on Christmas, p hour died on married on Christmas and Peanut Butter Tea RollsDissolve of money had When he .. Christmas. ke of compressed yeast In one Christmas a water. Add made happy his own he fourth cupful of lukewarm one-,aifor as many as he could. Christmas t one cupful of scalded milk three butter returning of each peanut "With cupful we can to to four cupfuls of flou. mamma and I will do what md a hapone to make cupful of melted butter, carry out daddy's plan we , boys two homeless fourth cupful of sugar, py Christmas for two beaten eggs and a few want you boys to grow vv in successful lratin4 of nutmeg. Let rfcfc shape est men, to be Christ :,, a happy make to .,ch with softened butter turn and in meen boys. rise until light Bake mas for other poor be will oven. -minutes in a hot If nothing happens, there another dinner here nex t to comand all of you are welcome one-hal- one-hal- F the daughter of the late George ucu mm possessea to full measure his generous spirit and keen alertness. -- Her father was born on 011 end Christmas. n .tt,....-- One Christ-ma- i s jha year ago she and one-fourt- h t. couldn't iumn and race about To be sure he wns a little older than when the man had first wanted him, and yet he was so young and did love to jump and play such a great, great deal. He met many other dogs and they were all as he was all walking by leashes and they wore muzzles, too. Others he saw driving In motors and they looked very uncomfortable. And then he heard, awhile after this, that he was old enough to be entered in the dog shew. He was taken for plenty of walks before that time. The dog didn't quite know what It was all about, but the next day when the maid took him for his walk he waited until he noticed she had hold of the leash by just her little finger. Then then then he made a dash for it! He ran away, leash and all. He heard the maid calling after him. But he did not go back. He thought only of his mother, and iiia first master. c.h nriventnres as he had. He remembered the trip he had taken with the man. First they had gone on a ferryboat across some baggage car Just as the train was pulling out. He i ' r.n .. upon the Greatest Dinner 'hey Had Ever Seen. " hZ"er bora d given a dinner like Same number of homeless tea of tnose Present Navwfi!81'8 n rresent a year aS-bvaa announced. A'scram- - Dinn? wStafh or held I each chalrs followe(l ;Not Ways of polite 80ciety fheck by SBPer manners, a chair and but for the 'ng of tt'be11 o grabbing ould Started- Miss GeorSJa 4W thMf t0 sfand P io-- r toent their chairs- - When or-D-4 ,tored she bowed her head in rhlglns voice, said: hew Jul T ?ecuie(1 fr' k.,7 464 ahali ihristma cheer and ioys Ml todabol;68 lne lnt0 their chairs Bame time fell upon the f one-fourt- h ne-ha- lf !S - Cfc . Wesum Newspaper TJu.on.1 J 1W C ELECTRO-DYNAMI- ;- k vr -. as?. fir" vi - iwiiB-ii- fc krViiCS i 1 6 fA. radio fine! but an Atwater Kent that's great! YOUNG FOLKS know difference. Just watch their eyes glow when they discover their new radio is an Atwater Kent! Why is it that this one name in a radio means so much, particularly to those who live on farms? Ternars it's because Atwater Kent Radio asks for no time out for trouble. 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Electro-Dynami- c On the Air Kcntliadio? HAS Nearly 3,000,000 Atwater Kent Sets sold to date. Atwater Kent Radio Hour, :1S (Eastern Time), Sunday Evenings, WEAK network of N. B.C. Atwater Kent ATWATER KENT MANUFACTURING CO. A. Atwater Kent, President Philadelphia, Pa. MSWlssahlckon Ave. Program, Thursday Evenings, 00 (Eastern Time), W JZ network of N.D.C k 10 Wouldn't Let Her "I shall never forget Mrs. Nitt operation." Mrs. Witt I, dear." Answers. The Connection Bill connected with you by marriage in some way?" "Yes; he married my fiancee." "Isn't my "Neither shall IV' II wat er. Then they had gone quite a distance on a train. So he tried to rehis way member back home. And on the train he jumped into a home got he got out safely at the right station. And when his He Made a Dash master saw first for It him he said: "You'll never have to go away from home again." And he arranged it with his friend and the dog be- came his favorite pet of all. one-hal- TrlAU MTTfRV. .. Oi HOUSI CUIMHT D . "rcan keep one one-hal- twn-rlnlln- Kl G of the master, "I will take a puppy for you. well-beate- n Santa Claus distributed i. rrisn hilla nnA boy and everybody was happy jto each NEW AND OLD two-third- s with warm wool stockings SCREEN co "V ell," tinued the friend one-hal- "He Was Generally Called the 'Allej Kid.'" fffiMDD ' n- - Serve at once. Fruit Rocks. Cream cup of butter with one cupful of sugar, add two eggs, and when well f mixed add one and cupfuls of flour which lias been sifted with one teaspoonful each of cinnamon and cloves. Add one pound of walnuts, one pound each of raisins and dates. When all are well mixed add a of soda dissolved in one and each one. lift? new. The mother dog knew from the masvoice that something sad was going to happen master for the wished that he had more room to keep the beautiful five new puppies but knew that he had not the room. ter's peanut brittle that Is different Is the Chinese way of making It. Chinese Peanut Brittle. Take one each ot cupful brown sugar, corn sirup, and cook until It makes a hard ball In cold Wiiter. Then add nstonisnment. Air THE DOG'S MASTER A 'Enr-- OI m Mary Graham BnnnEr ed hot. was all unreal and new to them. wvn from the mantel behind trees came candy and nuts, and It was all nor them. There was n nair of warm Imittens fnr rtrh hnrr a nan onrl a nafl" lot shoes i f. it for 'Bl..n of life u that means! To "1 to thoM things that mak us niore at home in the world: that help guard us aKainst ennui and stagnation: ha, lnvegt ,he eoun try with oew interest and enticement that make every walk Id tha nelds or woods an excursion Into a land of unexhausted that make the returningtreasures: seasons nil us with expectation and dethat light make every rod of ground like the page of a book. " nicn new and strange things may be read. in short: those mines that help keen us fresh and sane and vouny inii miii, nmune to the sirifa arM , the world John Burroughs. the resplendent pop-eye- u luxury iltfrn Kewnoapcf FAIRYTALE thow10 murh rurce .hT lents. looked DADDY'S EVENING 'Tne KITCHEN CABINET over-inflati- . i. Chrlstmai Sp"t live) v Bt tru. Bieaiuuig gonp disappearea. The waiters piled their plates with turkey and cranberry jelly, hot buns, brown gravy, roast meats, and any kind of vegetable desired. This was followed by courses of plum pudding, mince pie, fruit cake and ice cream! Mints and nuts, apples and oranges climbed out of the baskets and slipped Into grimy pockets for future reference. Appetites began to slow up. Stomachs never before guilty of began to show distention and assume rotundity. Expressions such us, "Gee, Tm full" and "Golly, I wish I could eat some more," came with real sincerity from the stuffed diners. Miss Georgia arose and said, "Now, boys, if you will be quiet a moment I have a story to tell you. I think that perhaps ten of you were here a year ago today and will remember the story, but I will tell it a sain and hope to tell It again and again on each returning Christinas for years to come. "Up until two years ago when my father died, I had never known anything but a happy Christinas. But it was not so with my father. He was often cold aud hungry and Santa Claus brought hira no presents. He never remembered his fatlier and his mother was very poor; and when she died daddy had no home and no friends to help him. He found a place to sieep in tne nacK sued or an old warehouse and a kind old man gave mm a quiu una a Dianitet mat were little better than rags. He ran errands end did odd jobs for which he got a few nickels and pennies. "His name was Goor-re- . hut most of those who knew him never heard his name because he was generally called 'the allev kid.' The allev kid' knew that there was a Christmas for most boys and girls, but he had never had one. The day he was ten years old was Christmas. It was a cold day and daddy had no presents and no breakfast Everything in the garbage cans was frozen. He wandered about in the cold and watched the happy crowds go by, but they brought nothing for him. He was cold and hun gry; sometimes tears came into his eyes, but he brushed them away lest somebody should see them. "In the afternoon a little girl came down the street, carrying a basket of little boxes filled with candy and nuts for poor children in that section of the city. She saw him and gave him - Ii 1 1 B . Tongue Twister Ruth rooted up the light red beetroot beneath the flowering fruit tree. I'ercy pocketed Penelope's pencil, professing possession. Three thoughtless citizens sipping salty soup. totterTopsy tips the two topmost ing copper tops. Frankie furltiveiy followed Flo through the thoroughfare. Give greedy Gwendoline great green grapes. Fifteen fair flappers fingering flimsy fabrics. Seven saucy sisters sewing satin suits. ' Eligible A Great Bend father has a young on of fighting tendencies. The father ndeavored to Impress upon his mind hat he must not fight any one young- -' r than pimself. The boy met a strange y later, and this onversat!on too lace: "Hello! How old are you?" "Six years." "I'm six, too wanta flghtT" r iii'iiii,iiliiMiiiirar iil(ii"' iiiriTr'"r'iTiiw Ml mum Tr Daughter of Mrs. Eve Wood Howe 1006 Sooth H. Street, DanviUe, 111. rhter of Mr. Cstherine tamath las 72. Mobswk. Michigan After mv rlaiiehter frew into womanhcod she began to feel rundown and weak and a friend asked me to get her your medicine. She took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia & Herb Medicine Her nerves are better, her appetite Is good, she is in good spirits and able to work every day. We recommend the Vegetable tct other cnrls and Mrs. Cath mothers." their to Pink-ham- 's erine Lamuzru "I praise Lydia E. Pinkham's VegetableCompound for what it has done tor my tourteen-year-ol- d daughter as well as for me. It nas helped her growth and her nerves and she has a good appetite now and sleeps welL She has gone to school every day since beginning the medicine. I will continue to give it to her at regular intervals and will recommend it to other mothers who have daughters with similar troubles." Mrs. Eva Wood Howa Msmm tlfe Msse t&b fe fe Complete your toilet with sil icsarii Talcum bath with Cuticura Soap, there is more refreshing than Cuticura nothing Talcum dusted over all the body. Antiseptic S. and fragrant, it is an ideal powder for every member of the family. AFTER ft Sample each free. ' S V I |