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Show PAROWAN TIMES. PAROWAN. UTAH HEEDLECHAFT tw Make This Beautiful FICTION . PATTEnKS JACK By JOHN Corner II. J: noSE f'-4- for with until about a month later. One of Freddy ond John wonted a dog but they weren't getting the neighbors said: their pica. Then a stray mongrel wandered upon the scene one day ond "You know, I think I aw your Whit-I- . dog this morning over St the caused a great deal of excitement. watchoutside was He schoul it to keep water from flowing downhow do you Jo! Won ing the children as they came out. WHY. come unline went along hill, Mother asked Everything in?" you I stopped the car end turned around, comex she opened the front door. Both til Mr. Westour came over to but by the time I went back to look his garFreddie end I looked up to ses who plain that Jack had dug up for him, he was gone." den to bury a bone All our efforts Die culler might be. Mother replied that Jack was to explain didn't siieaxe Dad very The shades were drawn In the livmaking the rounds of the probably was disgusted. much, and he for us. We kept ing room. o we couldn't ee who schools looking Then Jack chased Houghs cat, renewed by w.is standing on the porch. Mother and hoping, searching the in cat and the porch gut caught was still alive. had darkened the room to protect Jack news that the old until and couldn't get out to Fi eddy's eyes because Freddy had railing loose. But we didn't have much time the sawed man Itoush railing was I the measles. Ho was covered with as practicing he wasn't too pleased hunt for him. a blanket and curled up on tha day Naturally, every night for a school play. The about that. we bed which had been moved down Dad was adamant by that time, night of the play's performance from upstairs I was spread out on found Jack again. almost to would have Jack insisted go. and the door with the erector set. During the second act, there was He had found some farmer who We waited to see the unexpected would take the dog But Jack had a lot of commotion rear the back of visitor, and Imagine our surprise a knack for taking tilings into his the auditorium, and several ushers when in walked a big brown dog. owo hands, or 1 guess we ought to ran up and down the aisles. It was The newcomer trotted across the say, his own paws! pretty hard for us to enact the scene room to inspect me, and I patted He had a habit of following us to with all that commotion going on In him on the head. Then he went over school, but we'd usually chase him the auditorium. to the day bed and nu7z1ed hi big home after a block or two. But one On the way home, I asked Mom head against Freddy, as much as what the noise was, and she morning, when the snow was comto say: ing down pretty heavily. Jack trot- laughed. "Hi, there. Bud, Iva come to ted along behind us. "I think it was your old friend," help you get well! "Go back. Jack." I shouted at she replied. Bake Your Fruit Cokes Early "O. gee. Mom," cried Freddy ex"What do you mean. Mom?" I him. "Go on home, old boy," but (See Recipes Below ) citedly, a dog! Can we keep him. the dog kept trotting along behind questioned. Mom? Where did he come from? us. I threw stones at him and tried in the play "Why a dog got during Early Christmas Plan What's hla name?" LYNN CHAMBERS MEND for the stage everything I could think of, but he and made a NOT TOO early to think of rrs In"Now. now, not so fast, son," a1 Christmas now, especially If you 'va 5'.f, terrupted Mother, as she settled e Casserole Tuna want to have blanket the under again. Freddy Green Beans with Cheese Sauce ' and cake fruit "He Just came to the door when I Carrot Stick went to get the mall, and I thought plum puddings Baking Powder Biscuits with JeUy These on hand. the time maybe he'd help you pass Pineapple Chiffon Pie are best foods while you're closed up here with the Beverage when meUowed measles. Do you like him?" for and I ripened end "Boy, I'll say." Freddy several weeks bechanted In unison, "hes swell!" degrees, in a pan fiUed with on fore being eaten. (A The newcomer, who was busy Ininch of hot water. Bake one-haThen, too, it's a good idea to get hour. Cover with waxed paper and specting the premises, was Just some of the work out of the way bake for two hours. Then remove dog; part alredale, part hound. He n and would jf was big. grayish-brown- , before the holidays are literally on pans from water and bake one-haU 1 i --'I have passed for a genuine alredale top of us. Theres a lot of work to hour longer. Remove from pans; if he hadn't had those big floppy, preparing the ingredients for both remove paper and wrap in fresh hound dog ears. fruit cake and pudding because they paper. Store in tightly covered tin, We had always wanted a dog but both require chopped fruit and long Dad said we didn't have a place for baking and steaming time. IF YOURE LOOKING for a sima dog, and he wouldnt have one if fruit cake, particularly for pler he had to keep It tied. WHITE OR LIGHT fruit cakes smaU family, heres one that is very WhatU we call him. Mom?" I find many admirers each year. This tasty. asked eagerly. fruit cake Is not as heavy as the "Why don't you and Freddy flg- Simple Fruit Cake dark kind, and you may find it nice ure that out for yourself, son," she H the with latter to enp variety. shortening vary said as she went toward the kitchen j Ye cup brown sugar Cake White Fruit to get dinner under way. 3 eggs, beaten H cup butter AH my life I had wanted people 1 cup sifted flour 1 flour sifted to call me Jack, because I liked it But keeping Jack out of trouble was like trying to keep water cup H teaspoon nutmeg Ye teaspoon soda from flowing downhill. for a nickname; but all I ever heard Ye teaspoon doves 2 tablespoons lemon Juice was just plain John, so I said: Ye teaspoon baking powder when the usher him. still kept right coming along. Nothing 8 beaten caught egg whites, "Let's call him Jack, Freddy." Ye teaspoon baking soda 1 cups powdered sugar "Yeah Jack's a good name all we could do would persuade him to looked around to see four of them Ye teaspoon salt go back. We knew we'd be late if dragging him up the aisle, and it cup candied cherries right. Here, Jack, come over here, we 2 cups seedless raisins to on went so we aH looked like didnt for the world Ye Jack." hurry, candled pineapple eld boy!" he called to the dog. And cup Ye cup candied citron school. we As entered the "But look let's go back and building, for H cup blanched pistachio nuts Jack wagged his tail, put hia big Yi cup candied orange peel him. I cried. or almonds front paws up on the couch, and Freddy shouted to the dog: W cup candied pineapple come wo out. here till "You wait for "Your father and look I did H cup sultana raisins licked Freddy on the nose. Ye cop candied cherries Jack! him, son, as soon as the play was "Gosh, look, John, said Freddy, Cream butter thoroughly, then cup pecans, chopped I asked my teacher if I could over," said Mother as the car turned "he knows his name already. add flour mixed with soda. Sift conJack and she In in, we the at home. "But gave bring Cream shortening and sugar, beai driveway We had a wonderful time with sent if I would promise to keep him couldnt find him anywhere. I guess sugar into beaten whites, combine in eggs. Add raisins and aH fruits, Jack until Dad came home. lemadd and first mixture the with "Whats going on here?" he quiet. I hurried out to find him, we're just not supposed to have him on juice, fruit and nuts, cut fine diced fine, and the nuts. Fold in back anymore." flour which has been sifted with called when he saw the dog but Jack had disappeared. and sprinkled with flour. Stir thorBut two days later, just as sud we got home that night, stretched out on the living room spices, baking powder, baking soda a lined in bake loaf and pan salt. Bake In greased, waxed-papedenly as he had gone. Jack came oughly and floor. "Where did that mongrel WHEN asked: This with buttered waxed paper. lined pan In a slow (275 decome from?" "Wheres Jack? I haven't seen home! Freddy was out shoveling baking wiU take about one hour snow off the sidewalk, and Jack oven for one and one-hato "He came to help me get well, him aH day. gree) oven. in a slow (325 degree) two hours. He followed us to school this came bounding up the street just Dad." piped Freddy from his haven Because the dark fruit cake Is on the day bed. I explained, like hed never been away from If you bake rather than bake-steamorning, Mamma, good idea to steam home. welcomed him Everyone I to when came out could work Dad "but Freddy always get him, the fruit cake, have a smal it first to cook back, and even Dad didnt say a for most anything, and when he he was gone." dish of water in then thoroughly, "WeU, I suppose that saves your word. telling Dad how the dog Just to bake it, for the oven so that Cf But our pleasure In our dog didnt practically came up and knocked on father the trouble of getting rid of out The the cake will About a last drying month long. later. the door to help Freddy get weU, him, she said. Take off your cake will be also have more Dad just grinned and said grudg- coats and hang them up to dry. Jack was lying on the front porch. when moistness and more moist a tot two who about Long, Teddy aH wet from the snow. Youre ingly: in this wUl be glossy in across lived the street was from us, prepared No one had much to say at the "Well, I guess we can keep him way, and you appearance. for a while . . . until you get well supper table that night. Even Dad playing on the sidewalk in front of V Trimmings put will to be able slice it thinner. house. He toddled his toward the was pretty quiet, and he went to the anyhow. on the cakes was and down into But after Freddy got well. Jack window several times to look out curb, climbing Dark Fruit Cake should be placed on after they have the street when Jack leaped to the stayed. Dad kicked about it a little, before we went to bed. 1 pound brown sugar baked for two hours. Almond halves center of furithe street, but he finally agreed to let us have Two dejected httie boys prayed barking 1 pound butter candied pineapple and cherries are at the youngster. Just then a Jack if we kept him In the basement fervently for the of a ously 1 pound flour most frequently used. at night, and the dog didnt get Into lost dog that night. We rolled and car came around the corner, and 12 eggs, beaten separately tossed all night long, wondering struck Jack. Jack wasnt dead, but any trouble. Plum Pudding 1 teaspoon soda aH his ribs were broken. We both promised! But keeping where our pet might be. nearly 1 teaspoon 1 cup flour nutmeg grated Dad sat up with him through two Jack out of trouble was like trying That was the last we saw of Jack 1 pound seeded raisins Ye pound each, candied orange long nights, feeding him and nursYe pound lemon all peel, citron, lemon and orpeel, citron, ing him, but old Jack just couldnt cut fine ange peel, cut fine make it Ye pound seedless E cup molasses raisins Our only consolation was that Ye cup fruit Juice H pound chopped almonds Jack had undoubtedly sacrificed his Ve 2 teaspoons cinnamon pound bread crumbs life to save little Teddy; for the car Ye 1 teaspoon ground cloves cup sugar could have struck the youngster just Ye 1 teaspoon pound almonds, blanched baking powder as easily. But this was a logic dif1 teaspoon H pound pecans, unbroken be Sill, be Sill; 'Glace tAbf CGlCWrM gronnd cinnamon 5 a, HIS is s holy time ficult for youngsters to understand. Ye 2 pounds seeded raisins teaspoon gronnd cloves s Is A childs white prayer is winging itS lure Freddy cried as though his heart Ye teaspoon 1 pound sultana raisins ground aUspice would break, and I guess I was 1 pound dates 1 teaspoon salt tearful pretty myself. 1 pound figs Up to the throne of God. Across the sill 1 cup suet, chopped fine After waiting so long to get our 1 pound candied The laS red light fades from the winter day, 1 cup molasses pineapple Jog back, it was pretty tough, hav- 1 pound candied cherries 3 eggs, beaten As s young mother who is to lose him so soon. Things were veiy wise j ing 1 cup pickled Is teaching a chdd to pray. so glum around the house that peach syrup Cut pineapple into smaU piece. Mother decided we ought to have a Remove stem end from figs and cut. Sift flour over fruits and nuts and Two tall white candles bum beside her chair, party to cheer things up. But it Stone and cut dates. Mix aH these mix weU. Mix was no use . . . nothing could take with one cup flour. Mix the re- ients, add suetremaining dry Ingredthe in the and work in evenly; dusk; they center Piercing eyes the place of our lost dog. Even maining flour with soda and spices. blend in eggs, molasses and fruit Of the kneeling child like twin San shining there; when spring came and Dad took us Cream the butter untU fluffy, add juice. Pour into buttered molds s on the They glimmer through the twilight of the room, 8 j sugar, then the weU beaten yolks Ashing trip, something was fuU and cover with waxed ' and stir well. Add the flour mixture paper. Place in a And make a halo of the mothers hair. missing. steamer or top of We were sitting on the porch one alternately with molasses and fruit double boiler and steam slowly and afternoon . waiting for Dad to come Juice. Gently fold in the beaten from four to eight hours, Bnghter than the candles or the sunset light J! home for supper. Freddy sighed whites, then the dates and raisins steadUy to Will be the fruit born of this precious hour the size of the mold. according and said: and other fruit, and nuts. Line four Store as for fruit cake. The planted seed of faith will bear a white "Poor old Jack. bread pans with waxed paper and One-hahour before ready to Mother asked, "Boys, youre sure- butter. Pour batter into pans, r" Incredible flower. serve, start heating the pudding. fulL Set pans in oven, 300 And truS implanted in a childs heart may ly not moaning about that dog yet, Released by WNU Features. are you Bear wonder-frui- t some future day. . j then Dad swung the car Into LYNN SAYS: Just 4 Roast duck takes well to a Oh, teach her well to pray! garnish rt j the driveway. From along side the Garnish Foods Properly of endive with orange slices or rice we house, heard him honk the horn. To Stimulate filled with current jelly. cups Appetite Freddy ran to see what he wanted. Sausage, meat baUs and chops are Garnishes make food more attracSuddenly, he burst around the cor-- I ner of the house, carrying a squirm- tive and thus stimulate digestive attractive when they are placed on a mound of rice, mashed potato, ing puppy in his arms and shouting: juices to aid the way in which we macaroni or a green vegetable such "Hey, Mom, look what Daddy use foods. as spinach. Keep garnishes simple, fresh, apbrought home. Hes our new dog, With a roast of beef, lamb or mutMom . . . and you know what his propriate and easy to make. Edible use browned potatoes or name is. Mom? His name is Jack! garnishes are far superior to mere- ton, mashed potato cups filled with green Mom looked at Dad and smiled, ly decorative ones. or diced vegetables; boiled and I thought I saw Just the least Lattice potatoes are effective for peas sign of a tear in the comer of Dads a platter of fish or chops or steaks. onions with sprays of parsley; slice of carrots or turnips fried in eye. as the new puppy kissed FredAdd parsley for color, if desired. deep dy on the nose Ciotlu- - fc x Doll J J -, rectum- X- You can band by getting it bee-lin- e "r Fish-Noodl- J iw;7" W j I jvdtjj li .' li nr 1 I J r tongs and your which is sunlight. two-third- lf two-thir- rSj I ' To remove WISE Mrs. Santa! Begin this sacks rinse wellprints in doll now for Christmas or remove all the confc birthdays! 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