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¢By Katherine Edelman
S SOON as Darrel Thorpe got a
chance to use the phone, he
dialed his home. He must tell Edna,
how sorry, how terribly sorry he
was for what had happened this
morning. All the way down on the
car he had reproached himself for
the hasty words he had said. He
couldn't understand how he had spo-
ken to Edna like that, and on Christ-
mas eve.
He drummed impatiently on the
desk as he waited. Edna was al-
ways punctual about answering the
phone and doorbell. It wus a way
she had, going right through with
things.
Which really was the cause of
his flash of temper this morning
In her quick, decisive way, she had
swept aside his idea of having old
Mrs. Darby for Christmas dinner.
The little lady, now down on her
luck, had befriended Darrel when
he had come to the city.
“I'm not going to have her!” Edna
had declared emphatically. “We're
The big man did not seem to hear
him. His eyes were glued on a
closely-typed statement.
going to skip Christmas as much as
possible—go out and eat somewhere
~and miss all the rush and bother.”
“1 think that's a darn selfish way
of doing,” Darrel shot back. *‘Christ-
mas is a home day, with a turkey,
someone to share them with us."
effect of his words, Darrel rushed
from the house, banging the door.
times, but there was no answer.
Panic seized him. Had Edna be-
lieved that he meant what he had
who had packed up and left for
much less reason.
had been to flare ip as he did!
HE morning was unbearably
long. Inwardly fuming, he hung
up the receiver, to answer an im-
perative buzzer from the inner of-
fice.
morning.
Wheatley, keeping him
around in circles, he might have
been able to reach Edna long ago.
If
the same ugly mood yesterday, Dar-
rel knew that
have been on edge this morning,
that he wouldn't have spoken to Ed-
na as he had done. He blamed
Wheatley as much as himself.
“You sent for me,” he said stiffly,
as he waited beside the desk. The
big man did not seem to hear him.
His eyes were glued on a closely
typed statement. Darrel
again. Then Daniel Wheatley looked
up, and rubbed his hand across his
forehead as if trying to remember
something.
“Oh, yes, yes,” he began; ‘Mrs.
Thorpe called before you got to the
office this morning. I forgot to tell
you. She left word that she was
going marketing with a Mrs.—Mrs.
Darby, or some such name. Also,
she wanted me to be sure to tell
you to bring home a Christmas tree
and all the trimmings.” There was
a merry twinkle in Wheatley's usual-
ly hard eyes. “Looks as if you were
going to celebrate Christmas at your
house,” he finished, with a laugh.
“We certainly are,” Darrel
grinned back; ‘we're going to have
a real old-fashioned celebration of
the day.”
“Think your wife would object if
you took a cranky old man to Christ.
mas dinner?”
Darrel wondered if he were hear-
ing things, then his quick wit jumped
to the surface. “If you really mean
that, Mr. Wheatley, I can assure you
of a hearty welcome. My wife thor.
oughly believes in having people for
Christmas dinner. At least, I am
sure she does now.” The last sen-
tence Darrel whispered to himself.
Carols on Fields of Bethlehem
On the hillsides of Bethlehem,
“where shepherds watched their
flocks by night'' on Christmas eve
and Christmas morning, tourists
from many lands yather annually to
sing carols and remember the life
words of Jesus of Nazareth,
In Bethlehem for Christmas
Due to modern transportation one
@an leave America as late as the
middle of December and be in Beth-
lehem in Palestine for Christmas,
6,000 miles away.
Holiday Fruit Cakes
And Cockies
Half the thrill of Christmas is in
the pre-holiday preparations. Mak-
ing cakes that are crammed with
fruit and nuts, baking an endless
variety of cookies to be frosted and
‘“trimmed’’ in true holiday fashion,
and packing gift boxes of Christmas
confections, is as much fun as the
great day itself!
Fruit cakes are a Christmas holi-
day tradition. The dark cakes do
improve with age
and should be
made as early as
possible. They
won't mold or dry
out ifthey’'re
properly stored.
Wrap the cooled
cakes well in wax
paper, then store
in tightly covered
cans. If you like, brandy or wine
may be spooned over the cakes at
two-week intervals during storage.
White fruit cakes make a pretty con-
trast with the dark, but they dry
out rather soon and should be eaten
Don’t forget that fruit cakes, cook-
jes, and small plum puddings make
charming Christmas gifts, especial-
ly for the friends and relatives
who'll be away from home on the
holiday.
Christmas Fruit Cake.
(Makes 10 pounds)
13% pounds currants
pounds seedless raisins
pound citron
pound mixed candied fruit
pound candied pineapple
pound candied cherries
cup butter
cup brown sugar
eggs
cups pastry flour
teaspoon baking powder
tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon nutmeg
15 teaspoon cloves
15 teaspoon salt
1 cup fruit juice or wine
Cut fruits. Cream butter and add
sugar. Add well-beaten egg yolks.
Mix and sift dry ingredients and add
alternately with fruit juice or wine
to the butter mixture. Add fruit.
Fold in beaten egg whites. Place in
baking pans lined with wax paper.
Cover pans with cheesecloth and
steam 5 hours. Then bake one hour
in a slow oven (275 degrees).
Glace Finish for Fruit Cakes,
1% cups water
3; cup granulated sugar
3% ounce Gum Arabic (4% tea-
spoons)
Place sugar and water in a sauce-
pan and boil to the thread stage (230
degrees), Add
Gum Arabic and
heat again just to
the boiling point.
After fruit cake
has been baked,
remove from the
oven and garnish with nuts and
fruits as desired. Then pour the
Gum Arabic mixture over the fruit
cake in a thin stream, and manipu-
late as little as possible in order to
avoid crystallization of the glace.
Plum Pudding.
(Serves 6)
1% cup milk
3% cups soft bread crumbs
34 pound suet (ground)
14 cup sugar
2 eggs (separated)
25 cup seedless raisins
3, cup currants
14 pound figs (cut fine)
14 cup citron (sliced thin)
14 teaspoon nutmeg
14 teaspoon cinnamon
1; teaspoon cloves
14 teaspoon mace
34 teaspoon salt
1% cup apple cider
Scald milk and pour over bread
crumbs. Cool. Cream ground suet
in warm bowl. Add sugar, cream
together thoroughly, and add well
beaten egg yolks. Combine these
two mixtures. Add cut fruits to.
gether with spices and salt, Add
cider. Lastly, fold in stifly beaten
egg whites. Pour into well-greased
pudding mold. Cover tightly and
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steam for 6 hours. Serve with hard
sauce.
White Fruit Cake,
(Makes 53%-pound fruit cake)
3% cup butter
2 cups sugar
7 eggs (separated)
2% cups flour
2 teaspoons baking
14 teaspoon salt
1 cup sweet milk
1 teaspoon on extract
1 pound white raisins
12 pound figs
14 pound blanched almonds
1% pound citron
12 pound candied cherries
4 pound candied pineapple
Cream butter and add sugar. Sep
arate eggs, beat egg yolks and add
Mix and sift together dry ingredi
ents and add alternately with the
milk. Add lemon extract. Cut fruits
and add. Blend well and
well-beaten egg whites. Place ir
pans lined with wax paper and bake
1 hour in a very slow oven (275 de
grees); then increase heat slightly
(300 degrees) and bake 2 hours
more.
Old Spice Wonder Fruit Cake.
14 cup butter
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups cake flour
1%; teaspoon soda
1% teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon C
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1 teaspoon allspice
powder
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1% cup citron (cut)
1 cup nut meats (broken)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Crean butter, add sugar, and beat
thoroughly. Add eggs (well beaten).
Mix and sift to-
gether all dry in-
gredients, reserv-
ing % cup of
flour. Add flour
mixture and sour
milk alternately
-beginning with
the flour mixture.
Flour citron, raisins, and nuts with
the 3% cup of flour which was re-
served and add to the cake mixture
Add vanilla extract. Place in well-
greased, small tube pan. Bake 40
to 45 minutes in a moderate oven
(350 degrees).
Rolled Orange Cookies.
(Makes about 8 dozen)
% cup fat
1 cup sugar
1% teaspoon orange peel (grated)
1 egg (beaten)
4 cup orange juice
3 to 3% cups flour (all purpose)
3 teaspoons baking powder
V4 teaspoon salt
Cream the fat.
in the sugar. Add the grated or.
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DOLLAR MAKERS —————
Emotion Wins
Over Logic in
Average Mind
By GEORGE T. EAGER
CONVINCING example of
the fact that more people
respond to an appeal to feelings
and emotions than are influ-
enced by reason and logic is
the recent experience of a lock
manufacturer in New York.
Having spent a lifetime in per-
fecting a superior article for
intruders and knowing more
about mechanics than about the
human mind the manufactur-
er's advertisements had for some
time merely extolled the lock’s con-
struction and
workings. Sales
were disappoint-
ing.
Several months
ago a tragedy oc-
curred which was
front page news
for days. A prom-
nent woman was
brutally mur-
dered by an in-
truder whose en-
trance to her home had been made
easy by a cheap, defective lock. An
advertising man persuaded the lock
manufacturer to address a series
of advertisements to husbands who
failed to provide adequate protec-
tion to wives left a e¢ at home.
Very little was said in the
tisements about details of |
struction. Much was said
wives and cl
iren. The emotio
appeal swamped the
yrders.
adver-
factory with
Psychologists explain that in
motional state of mind one's de-
sire to act is paramoun nd that
when a product to be sold is made
part of an emotional feeling a buy-
er does not see the product as a
ietached object but as of his
wn welfare and acts accordingly.
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art
Jars
THE MYSTERY
OF ‘JONESBY’
~OMETIME ago a well-to-do
«7 business man, prominent in
his community,, received a
mysterious letter. The enve-
opes merely contained several
newspaper clippings about a fa-
vorite horse in his racing stable.
I'o the clippings was attached
1 simple card reading *‘Compli-
ments of Jonesby.” A few
weeks later came clippings
about a dance given for his
debutante daughter, followed
a month or so later by the
comments of various financial writ-
ers on the annual report of the com-
pany of which he is the president.
Each roup of
clippings was ac-
companied by the
mysterious card,
of
WHO IS
JONESBY ?
and
her word
comment or
explanation,
Needless to say
the name Jones-
by and the whole
affair became a
much discussed subject among the
business man's friends and family.
There were many guesses and at-
tempted solutions of the mystery.
Then one day the whole matter
reached a climax at the business
man’s office. A man appeared, said
he had a matter of intense personal
interest to discuss with the presi-
dent and handed the reception room
It merely carried the
ually add the orange juice. Add the
3 cups flour, baking powder, and
salt which have been sifted together.
Mix in well, adding more flour if
necessary to make dough just stiff
enough to roll. Chill thoroughly.
Place on lightly floured board and
Jonesby got his interview and he
got it immediately. He was an in-
surance man who specialized in sell-
ing big policies to prominent and
wealthy people. He sold his policy
just as he had sold policies to
many other "hard to see’’ prospects
on greased baking sheet, and bake
in a moderately hot oven (375 de-
grees) for 10 to 12 minutes.
Lemon lecing.
2 cups powdered sugar
14 cup melted butter
3 tablespoons water
1% tablespoons lemon juice
% teaspoon lemon peel (grated)
Mix all together, stirring until
creamy. Spread at once.
It's fun to have your own collec-
tion of reliable and unusual holiday
recipes. You'll want to add to yours
the Christmas favorites I've assem-
bled in a specially prepared leaflet
of ‘Holiday Recipes.” This mimeo-
graphed booklet is available to you
for 10 cents in coin. Address your
requests for ''Holiday Recipes” to
Eleanor Howe, 819 North Michigan
Avenue, Chicago, and be sure to
enclose the coin!
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Cheerful Nursery
Cheerful as sunshine is the at
mosphere of a nursery with walls
and woodwork painted a warm
cream color and the floor azure blue.
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Pressures in Engines
How to measure the volume of the
compression space above the pis-
tons of an internal combustion en-
gine, without removing the cylin.
der head has been solved by the in-
vention of a whistling gauge. The
rate of vibration of the air inclosed
in the cylinder head is compared
with that of air inclosed in an ad-
justable and calibrated chamber of
known volume by employing two
identical whistles, one attached to
one sparkplug port of the engine and
lhe other to the adjustable cham-
Fr.
The whistles are blown by air
having a common supply and con-
stant pressure, says Popular Me-
chanics. The pitch of the notes of
the whistles on the two chambers
depends upon the volume of air con-
tained in them. Thus, when notes
of the same pitch are produced, the
volumes of the two chambers are
equal.
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Smith Bros. Cough Drops are the
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