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Show THF SALT t.AVK TBTBrXK. Anc:ant and Modern Join Hands IF- - 989 a COOK BOOK ' tjM DECKSIBEK 23, STTNDAT WORNTNG. It Is Pleasant and H9 Pi m mm m Cheery to Revive the Old English Christmas Custom of the Wassail Bowl frW room. jjj TAe Dining Room of j Our Model House Proves That a Duncan Phyfe Table Won't Swear at a Twentieth No. 2. Simplicity is the keynote here. this room. The walls are painted a light pinkish orange, a color much favored by the moderns, and the wood work is a trifle darker. Chair seau are upholstered In soft green velvet. At the windows are Interesting draperies of horlseo tally striped mohair In shades of green. These are lined with ecru, matching, that In the living room for the sake of its effect outside, as both rooms have window facing the front of the house. The draperies are arranged with pulley cords so that they may be drawn to gelher at will. Because they may be drawn together at night, and because we are advocates of plenty of sun shine and daylight, glass curtains anJ roller shades are dispensed with here they are In the living room Century Cupboard By WillElla de Campi. THERE ar open doorways be A' tween the living room, the I trance hall and the dining room In our home harmonious it w deemed wise to have the colors blend In a!) three. The hall, It la to be remembered, in in green and Ivory, the li vlnar room In parchment yellow, green, and mauve, with touches of deep orange. In the dining room we have a color scheme of light pinkish range, green and plum color. This room measure IS by IS feet. A study of the floor plan, firure 1, showi a well balanced arrangement of furniture, with all the necessary conveniently placed. Modern decorations and accessories cjniMne pleasingly with the simplicity-othe Duncan Phyfe table and The built-icentury chairs. corner cabinets, mirror over the sole table, a buffet iwhlch does not show In the main illustration, figure 21 and all glassware and silver are quite modern in character. Because It has a northwestern a warm color was needed in High wrought f eight-eer.t- iron stands modern silver grace the buffet. Here there are four lovely silver candlesticks and an unusual urn. which is EMBARRASSING MOMENTS Something New on the Highway About the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me has made me cautious about sleep. I was jrtth a crowd of fellows who were going to a party In town about three miles from our cottage, and, piling Into an eld flivver, we wended our way. We were all dressed up In odds and ends, 1 In a complete outfit of women s clothes except for the shoes, which were my own number twelves. About half war In the oar broke d - n and we all got out, the others t nX'tl up strtr to slt tmdor a tree In the shads. The day was so bright warm I fell asleep, and upon aw aliening found myself alone. The boys had sneaked away without me. Hiroad was the main traveled highway, and my feelings can be readily imagined as 1 walked up the dusty roai! decked out in finery and number ,. twelves. Several cars passed, not one offer'ng was n embarrassment trie ride, and my complete when I had to cross the main street to get to the party. all the joy had gone by the time I arJ, U N. rive Absent-Minde- It was raining and I had the urn-bIla with me. When alighting from my train at the terminal. I opened the umbrella and Vent walking with it open .through the station. I noticed many people U and flnall:' some man said " It Isn't raining in here, wake op." DM I close It? And how E. C. B, absent-mintledl- SmeeUhed. My most embarrassing ... moment hap pened recently during a class discusof whom.' A by the way. sion boy, I m rather fond, was teacher pro tern Politics was the subject under discussion, end as my father is a politician and a candidate for office I tr iiuallned to speak. Some one laughingly made the that In this age a great si politician must be either a crook or a millionaire In order to succeed. I " My and said spoke up promptly father Is neither! " The boy friend surveyed me calmly as said: " Neither Is he a great politician! " Embarrassed? 1 was squelched! F. H. K Strange Awakening. Sitting in fun view of the minister. 1 fell asleep and the awakening gave m the hair raising embarrassing moment of my life. I opened my eyes suddenly to see him pointing his fing to hear his voice ger at me and this I see? Sure-l- j out: " Whst " My wife asnothing very bright sured me It was just a dramatic point 'still havs my In his sermon, but doubts. . UR.n.r- than-derln- 1 1 Witting Club Member class was organizing a club. . temporary W. had selected when the teacher said. "Who will take the minutes? " " I will. I"ve got I answered quickly Our preei-dem- . In ike Big City. I live In a small town, and for the first time In ten years made a" trip to here I was told people Chirac. moved fast." After mskrng the rounds f the big stores all forenoon win do wishing and sightseeing, I was I stepped into a rests u ravenous. rant, and sat down at the first vacant place I saw because I was dead tired. Hot soup and a salad, also a glass of water, stood ready where I sat I devoured th soup and atdown. tacked the salad. A man stood at my elbow. I thought ho was a waiter and having been told " people move and think fast in Chicago " I thought I would not keep him waiting so I said: " This isn't half enough. I want some potatoes and meat" The man said: " I'm no waiter. You ate my lunch I was so embarrassed I lost my appetite and fled from the place UK - r Followed by DogM. living at a rooming nous and taking my treals out. Any one who has ever eaten out all the time will realise how hungry one gets between meals and I was designated as the girl to go out and get some sand wlchas to tide us over until the next I was meal. It was Sunday afternoon and walked down a rather exclusive street and some three blocks away got ham sandwiches for three girls. The sandwiches were put in a paper bag which I Jauntily carried. In the first block two dogs sniffed at the sack and tagged at my heels; before I had gone far six- - dogs were following, in spit of my going taster, threatening them, ete. Imagine my discomfort going down the exclusive street carrying the paper bag with a half dozen dogs sniffing and running after me. I arrived at the rooming house hot and breathless and angrier than ever, and I met the only man roomer In the doorway as I slammed tit door shut on the dogs J. B. McE I No. 3. A corner for the tea table. decorative enough in itself, but 't nulte the piece de resistance whi i filled with a bouquet of large flower like calla lilies,, chrysanthemum glsdlolae or peonies. A pair of mod-r- n decanters and set of glasses n the console table are'of The fruit howl w: '. clear rreer. lis mirrored side In the fenlr of tn dining tabl is an interesting Item In the corner oi the room near th' door Into the pantry and in front oi the radiator is a threefold screen covered with a charming shellacked paper In a flotrerett d's'gn. repeating the main colors in the room. This satisfactorily transforms th ugly radiator corner into a delightful decorative unit. Another fascinating and amusing bit of decoration is a modern painting which Is hung above the buffet. Though the rug in th living room la of plain plum colored chenille, we have found that plain rugs in th lining room tend to magnify every crumb dropped from the table, which is favorable point in th minds of puppy dogs and beggar;, no doubt, but Is a decided disadvantage is the maintenance of an orderly house. We have ompromised in carrying out the room floor scheme by having a plum colored rug which is flecked ail over with coral .ink, blending beautifully with the color of the walls. Ours Is always an orderly house! 11 Dinner Ksdikues Coffee Christmas Pinner Chilled Relishes Oyster Soup Roast Goose Apple Sauce Sweet Potatoes Boiled Onion :iuehe1 Turnips ( Light Green Salad Hot M'nce Pie or Pudding with Hard SMS Nuts and Raisins Hot Spiced Cider In Big Bowl Supper Thin Slices of Headcheese or Substitute Boston Brown Bread. Cream Cheese Dish of Fru. Beverage V Wednesday Honey Coffee Luncheon Stew with Vegetables Melba Toast Wafers Curly Endive Salad, Orange Garnish Tapioca Cream Black Couee The Drat part of the first one reads: " The wassail bowl used In ancient days to be served espeIt was cially on Christmas eve. brought into th banqueting hall with songs and carols, and crowned with To make it, grate half a garlands. nutmeg, and put It Info a saucepan with one clove, a quarter of an ounce of grated ginger, half a small blade of mace, an Inch of stick cinnamon, and two or three coriander and cards mon seeds. Tour upon these ingredients a teacupful of cold water, and let them boil." White wine and sugar, the yolks of she eggs and th whites of three, six roasted apples to throw Into the bowl were the Ingredients for which this spicy loess was prepared. Th last statement is: " Though sherry or madeira ought properly to be ussd, good raisin wine will make an excellent wassail, especially If u tumblerful is added to it. The next recipe calls for ale and win, sugar rubbed upon the yellow of lemon until it is taken off all mad very hot and was finished thus; " Throw Into It half a dosen apples roasted as in the last recipe, and half . practiced 'and Taney cAeedh Work oiotiide Public Performance. went Into s nearby drug store to buy a pair of rubber bathing shoes I wanted a pair that wonld fit me tightly enough so that they would not be lost In the water, and I had no Idea what site that would be. As no one but the clerk was around I Just sltppi d off my pump, and after much tugging and assistance got one shoe on and that was where my troubles began, for getting It on was hard, but It wouldn't come off at all The clerk got down on his knees and pulled without success. Gradually a group of Interested and amused onlookers gathered. My embarrassment mounted to the highest point possible and still th shoe wouldn't come off Finally, the clerk left me standing, parched Ton a spike heeled pump and an b s bathing shoe while h went In search of a knife. He had to cut the shoe off and then he charged me for them, aad I left the store, both embaiiassed snd I broke. O.K. Coffee Luncheon Boiled Rice Chicken Gumbo Soup Grapefruit Salad Hot Tea r i Be v or age Dinner Chilled Seal dons Thin Soup Potato Balls Broiled Salmon Buttered Pferts Melon Salad Prun Pi a small lemon cut Into slices aad free entirely from th whit pith. Serve very hot." The nest recipe Is older and calls for a great Mat of spices simmered tn a little water much port or sherry, sugar, eggs, with quite specific directions about cooking and frothing It. Twelve fins soft roasted apples are The second recipe thrown Into It called for Demarara sugar, the fourth can for Llrbon sugar nd Is mads of hot beer flavored with toasted bread instead of apples The Container. We have every reason to believe that the wassail punch bowls war prideful things, in th story " Wassail " this is said about th. Pcnric bowl: " A punch bowl of the old gray dragon pattern which had evidently seen good service snd owed its present entirety , to on or two rivets." By It was a plain stiver tankard, with cups of buffalo horn flank, ing it on either side and a large deer horn handled ku;r and fork, strongly suggestive of round of beef, backing It behind," and everything about it spoke of " fatness " The room hsd " its token of great hams and pieces of bacon which lay like boulders In the succession of racks which hun( all along th celling . . geese and salmon bung to be smoked in the chimney, dressed Joints to be seen through the open door of the pantry, all ready for th approaching supper, turkeys, gees and ribs of beof which hung from hooks In preparation for the morrow's feast." And when the supper after the wassailing had been eaten and they were ready to dance, " Th musicians were now called upon to give an accompaniment to the chorus, with which th toast of the hearth cur was always Introduced " This was a baigho to the rooftres ami hearthstone aad their bounteous owners. Th reputation of the leading musician was so great " that 'twas thought he would hay made his fortune la London, only that be could never get beyong a public four miles distant," which certainly shows what his proclivities a a drinker were. A Wassail None.. The more than three hundred year old song which the English singers mentioned sang was this entertaining one which is partly s toast: " WoesoM, teaseoU, all over the town. Our bread it is white and our aw it is brown; tur toiN ft I was of the prose maple free, 11 (In wassaii Bowl ws will dew to -- Here, health' to Che horn; find send our crop of earn, Pray Traveling Kit Is Just the Thing to Tuck in Your Suitcase for Your Next Trip. small traveling kit shown is Just the thing to Include the articles yon win need you pack your grip for a long or short trip. This on Is mad of lavender satin ribbon, and It will be equally attractive made of .any The cushion measpreferred color. ures Ave by three and Inches. Two pieces this size must be cut, snd each one is overt anded to a piece of one Inch wide satis ribbon To Ma this narrow ribbon, turn In the edges and overhand together, letting this come exactly at one corner of th cushion. The next step will be to have a sixteen inch length of five Inch wide flowered satin ribbon. Bast s strip of White flannel over on side of the ribbon, and then on the flannel side, s bast s piece of sarin ribbon, of an Inch wide, so that It comes exactly to the edge covering the edge of the flannel This ribbon is overhanded to the outside ribbon, and the inside edge is cross stitched ,s to let to th flannel, taking .ire the sutches show through on th oi she his float master s pood go'l irop of corn as e'er I out too; In the wassail howl weTl drink sale ma Ikrr QfrJ ' flares health to the w and his tall; God send our matter s cask of ale, a pood cask of ale as e'er I did tn the wassail bowl vCtt drink fir long H pood too; unto owe, butler, fill us a sotel of the best. Then I pray that your soul in keeosn may rest ; But if you do bring us a bowl of the i THE small. May the devil take butler, bowl and aUI one-ha- lf three-quarter- - hen heres to the moid In the lay u nite smock, fVJto tripped to the door and slipped bark the lock, Ac (ripped to the door and pulled back the pirn Per to let these folly was sailer i walk 1 r nwftrad aid. This ribbon; of course, nu tared at th corners A small bag of tea satin ribbon five Inches wide and four inches deep when finished Is sawed to th flannel, aad th photograph wHl show where. To sew this bag la place, open It wide at the top. and sew It to the flannel from the inside Where the cushion is sewed to 'he outside ribbon snd flannel length, a pocket is formed, and you can carry tn the bag 1 to" aad pocket a small pair of scissors, thimble, tape measure, needle, and small pieces of cardboard wound with thread and auk In the colors you think you win need. As you can ate, a great variety of pins and shield pins are arranged on both the cushion and flannel A ptere of th Inch wide ribbon, era of a yard in length, is m "d to' one end of the kit s as to O it to tl.re-.juar-- I The Jolly i The wassailers with their go from place to place, aad la the Wassail Story " th band did not keek merry beep ass their leader had kept them from drinking everywhere until they should come to where the He said' toar war moot get.' ro is blew r olith (would be to be s filling with bread and ' Salted Note Cream of Mushroom Sons Pot Roasted Guinea Has Stuffed Baked Potato Bowl of Salad Squash Coffee Cream Puffs flapper Potato Soup, think Thin Toast Fruit Salad Cookies Bei erase Copmrht IMS. By Th Cateass ' Coffee ' Kg Mixed Rene Cream of Corn BsfJi Mashed Sweat Pork Chops Cooked Endive Apple Batter Pudding Coffee Meres health to fas os and to his right yt. Ptay Qo4 send our master s pood Christmas pie, A good Christmas pie as e er I did sew; In the wassail bowl we will drink unto thee. This Attractive Beverage Dpsnsr Breakfast Dish of Fruit Pancaks Breakfast Sections of Sstsuma Oranges Farina Date Porridge Plain Dry Toast thee. etc Fruit Cake Sunday Fa-m- Olives Cream of Onion Soup Pan Broiled Flank Steak Delmonlcu Tomatoes c'rled Tomatoes Cooker?-- i Fruit Coffee Breakfast Persian Melon Special Wafflci with Sirup a A Luncheon Hot Smoked Herring, Lettuo Salad Hot Corn Bread Hot Fruit Cheese Beverage Dinner Hearts of Celery Chicken Stow PumpUosa. Mashed Potatoes Red Cabbage Bulled with Apples Cream Cheese Marguerites Tuesday Fruit Salsd Beverage Dinner Coffee Ijunckeon Mushrooms on Toast Friday Firet Day of School. This was my first year at high school, and of course the first dsry ( was doing my best to maintain a dignified and " old manner." The super lntendent was giving the whole school a little talk, telling us of a few rules He had Just finished saying, " When a speaker is on the platform you are expected to give your utmost attention, with no noise." when crash' bang! all my books fell to the floor, pencils going" everywhere, and the lock sounding like a canheavy locker non ball! ' I received an expressive look, th meaning of which I could not fail to And every one nearly understand. broke their necks to look at me! J M. 4 Coffee Remnant Breakfast Prunes Marmalade Hot Bread Cooked . Vegetable , riwup Bailed Ham, Pineapple Sauce .led Potatoes. Parsley Butter Hot Spinach. French Dressing Squash Pt Breakfast Malaga Grapes Oatmeal Porridge Entire Wheat Toast Saturday Coffee Revenxjre i j Stowed Figs Hominy Grits Marmalade Graham Toast Hone Cheese . w Hollands, holding Ivy plants stand In front of a pair ol windows, brinKing a note of life tnt the room. Flowers and growing plant? are so gratifying to decorative effects Before the other window a tea table Is placed?, as shown in figure 3. There are handles at each side, sa that the top may be lifted off as a tray. Dull silver makes a pleasing note of contrast In this room with the ugh! orange walls. Besides the silver tea set on the window table, delightful pieces of . ni i Ai I. floor pon o Bmkfat Brooksat Luncheon Hot RoaM Beef Hash leftover) Sweet Pepper Puree Pears I'uavtitsl iv k Eddington. had Its' .led to th E.ngHh ners carolling a rare "Wuise'l !.'ong" my neighbor tr my right said she had a friend UvinK quite near her who always had no wassail lowl and the I was singing at '"hristmss t'me. quite sure this bowl wuld not con.ne. so I quizzed her, tain a spiced and she said it ti rUiiwd spiced cder and fruit Juices In a story printed In Blackwood's " Magazine In 1S2, with the title. Wassail: A Christmas Story." this is what Is said to the parson, with first a word to his wife, by Farmer Guy: " Pass round the cup. dame," go the dame took a slight sip. Just kissed the cup. and passed It on to the curate. " Don't be afearel, sir." salt) I'er.rtce Twon't hurt 'tis only cider warmed up with spices, with a roast crab ipple bobbing Ir, It. Cider Is proper farmer's drink, so Is ale, but I can t take kindly to Tout brandy and and your ports and sherries for they don't seem to me proper but farmer folks, or farmer's life: here's to you and wishing you hearty w elcome " This story msy have been designed It partly as a temperance story, for it cords the dreadful death of a young t man from drink, and tells of his grrr-wickedness and injustices because he drank himself into his awful condition Abstinence from strong spirits was v hat he advised ae he died Simmered Cider. The poet Whittle- hss the line. "The elder simmered slow," In one of hta poems of winter, and we know from many sources that hot cider, plain or spiced, was long an acceptable winter beverage in both America and the The recipe for mulled British isles Ider that has been most exploited In his eolu.nn is this: To two rups pf iter snd one cup of sugar add a four ,ch stick Of cinnamon, a dozen cassia r allspice buds, the thin yellow peel of half a lemon, and the same of an r?nge. Cook for about ten minute, then rain and sdq io the liquid the Jul' 'lie irangt the Juice of one lemon. d one cup ET older; of more, accord-r,iMore Virion juice Tan to taste. Se addd If the cider Is not obscured by It Born sterilized ciders bar a negative flavor, so more lemon Julos la This preparation, with the needed. quantities of sugar and water reversed two cups of sugar and one of water may be added to a fruit compote or to asnaon baked apples, or a pulpy apple sauce may be made far more agreeable with such a seasoning. in using orange pulp, in a hot mulled cider it is perhaps bast to heat It separately, but If It Is heated in the simmering or mulled cider it should not be cooked in the slightest. It will cool the hot cider too much if added oold and with no further heating. A hot baked apple or even some apple sauce improved mulled cider, and the old recipes for wassail bowls call for baked spples even with hot wines Hot cider really needs a little sugar to emphasise the scid in it, and this agreeable with fruit may be quit as the spiced eider. Wassail Bowls. There are four recipes for " Wassail bowls " in CasaeU's Dictionary of 'i ER Thursday Coffee i By Jan Monday Orange Juice Prepared Cereal Crisped Fadges Freshly 192R. getting boozy on small when we've the good eating aad drink- in , in view. Besides, he knew that tt a drunken crew went roaring and screaming to the " farmer's " be would take mortal offrsfS- But they ate " n ty cake " and drank a bit at the parson a And the parson had 11i esssil then briefly, but told them that they knew why he could not drink th Jolty wa rail. though he would sip th bowl tor th sake of old times "and wish you aad yours all the hsnflniss of th season." The Being. At the farmer's th board groan, but the author of th story did not want to put it so: " It seemed not in th least inclined to groan, but looked very Jolly, covered as tt was with goodly viands and bedecked with laurel snd holly berries It was certainly heavily laden, but bore its burden . Then war rounds cheerfully. of beef and rib of beef, of wondrous size and fatness; plump hams goodly to sight and savor; large pies; legs of roast pork, succulent aad brown with crackling; huge plum puddings dark with fruit; ebeeeee; (Teat loaves and cakes, ail set in tempting array, interspersed with cans of elder and Jag of ale. "Round the dams were scattered a taw trifles, such an patties, tarts. little of syllabub and cream, and bowls sweet cakes the yeoman called them his wife's pomps and vanities. . The yeoman's carving was a fejht to see. How he flourished th carvers with each cut! How the slices fall before his knife like eora before a sickle! Hew he chuckled as empty plate succeeded full oaas in apparently endles succession! . ' . "a. performance at the trencher be applauded as he would a 'good hit at a play " And following thai hi a story of a young savage of those days who bad com to sing. He buried bis face la tat masts. And then melody succeeded th feasting, all singing. The wassailers had evidently suns; first for their supper aad the coins. But we should not omit the moment whan everything was ready for th feast: "Old Pernios sat with his chin Just rising over a round of beef th knife aad fork held sa either side of it In readiness for work. Seen tana, ha looked like some grotesque bit of heraldry, the Jovial face was lbs crest, th riuad of beet th shield, tan oar vers th supporters." Money In th Wassail Bowl When everything was ready and the wassailers rushed In and began to sing there were many ebrnka to the bowl, aad the leader began to smile. After this, ss private persons, they went to th losded supper table. But first they had struck up the sssml son e with all their strength and exhibited " every degree of nasal twans? and nasal energy " The song began thus: -A Jotty wassail bowf, A wassail of good ale, WcU fart the butler's soul That tetteth this to sale. WUk our teassaa. Our jolly wassail." These last two lines end all the many stanzas, the next of which is ah address to the dame to let them in. while fhe "riezt Italia what the aeiTls " Our wassail we do flO With apples and with feeos; Then grant us your pood will To taste here once or tunas Of our wassail. Our jolly losses." Then the maidens of th house sddresaed, snd then the master, to them in out of th cold. And they had all marched In, Indian they stood behind the master's and sang: Much fop unto this hoB With a is entered tn; Our matter first of oB . . .' The master drank, and then there was a loud chink In the bowl Aad then the cup passes on to the dans while they wish her fortune and luck with " our spiced bowl.' s sip aad a chink, and se the drinking went around with laugh aad cheer, while the band sang more stajisaa, with bl i strings asked for the liberal and those who give bountifully track fop betide them oO: Our prayers shall be stM. We hope, tad ever shall, for thee pour great good wut To our wassail. cm-ra- . . . . . . ft Our )oUp ihiisC ' |