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!? fhri^tmcic I Day Menus! DINNER. Cream o( Chicken Soup. Olives Celery Salted Nut.9 Roast turkey with oyster stuffing Cranberry jelly Plum jelly Catsup Pickles Potato snow Creamed s<iua8h Scalloped Cauliflower Chicken salad Cheese straws ?luin pudding Mince pie Fruit cako Kuts Fruit Bonbons Coftee SUPPEn. Chicken and oyster cro(|Ucttes Brown bread and butter sandwiches Strawberries in jelly Peach trifle Chocolate walnut cake Tea Cocoa Cream of Chicken Soup.â€" Wash large, fat chicken, carefully, put it Into a soup kettle with one gallon cold water, and let it come slowly to a boil. Add one teaspoon salt and skim carefully. Let it cook slowly until the chicken is quite ten- der, then take it up. Add to the soup one small minced onion, a sprig of parsley and a bit of celery. Let simmer half an hour longer. then strain. Iteturn it to the kettle with half teacup rice and two teaspoons salt. Cover the kettle and let the soup boii until the rice is done, then add a luir,p of butter and one large cup sweet cream. Let get very hot and serve at once with bread sticks. Uoast Turkey With Oyster Stuffing. For a ten-pound turkey, take one quart bread crumbs^, half cup butter cut in bits, one teaspoon finely pow- dered summer savory, half teaspoon powdereil thyme, and salt and pep- per to taste. Mix all well together. Rub the turkey witli salt and pep- per, then put in a spoom'ul of the crumbs, followed by a few well- drained, nicely sea.souod oysters (al- lowing one pint the latter for the turkey), and continue this until the bird is full enough. Do not (ill it too full, or the stufiing will be heavy. Baste the turkey with the oyster Ii(iuor, and cook until tender and richly browned. Potato Snow. â€" Beat into one quart hot mashed potatoes four ta- blespoons butter, half cup cream or milk, one scant toa:>poon salt and a dash of white popper. Beat thor- oughly with a fork, then beat in quickly the stiffly whipped whites of throe eggs. Press through a heated colander and serve at once. Keep the potatoes on i;ie back of the rangt while rieparing them, as they must not be allowed to cool. Creamed Squash.â€" Cook and mash the squash thoroughly, season to taste, and beat in half cup sweet cream and a generous lump of but- ter. Scalloped Caulillowcr. â€" Butter a baking dish well, put in a la.ver of cooked cauliflower broken soiiall, sea- son to taste and cover with bits of butter and bread crumbs. Continue this initil the dish is full, then pour over one cup thick white sauce, cov- er closely, and bake in a quick oven for 20 minutes. Chicken Salad. â€" Mi.'c together two cups diceil celery, two cups diced cold chicken and half cup lilanchcd and coarsely chopped almonds. Mois- ten with mayonnaise and keep very- cold until time to serve, and then turn i;ito a salad bowl, pour a lit- tle mayonnaise over the top, and garnish with celery sprigs. Cheese Straws. â€" KoU pulT paste one-fourth inch thick, sprinkle one- half with grated cliccsc st-asoned with salt and cayenne, fold, roll, and again sprinkle with the s-eason- ea chee.sc; repeat, cut in strips, five inches by one-fourth inch, and bake in a hot oven. Serve on a doily in little rings of pufl paste. Plum Pudding. â€" One pound rais- ins itoncd and chopped, one pound currants washed and drie<l. three- quarters pound bread crumbs. half pound flour, three-quarters pound be«f suet, three eggs, half pound cit- ron, and orange i)eel, half nutmeg, one teaspoon ground ginger, two tea- ispoons baking powder and just en- ough sweet milk to moisten slightly. Tie in a cloth and boil for four hours. Mince Meat. â€" Three cups chopiXKl I beef, six cups tart apples, finely I chopped, one cup chopped suet, one cup each vinega." and cider, two cups each seeded raisins, mola.sses and sugar, one tablespooon each cloves ' and cinnamon, half grated nutmeg I and half tablespoon salt. Bake in two crusts. I Chicken and Oyster Cronuette.s. â€" Chop cold boiled chicken very fine, season to taste, add a little minced parsley, and moisten with cream suf- ficient to make a paste. Add one well-beaten egg to each one pint chicken. Parboil large ovsters and remove the tough muscles. Allow two or three to cadi crociuette. Sea- son and coat thickly with the chick- en croquette mixture; dip in dry bread crumbs, then in egg and soft stali^ bread crumbs. Fry in deep fat and drain on. brown paper. Garnish with parsley. Peach Trifle. â€" Make a sponge cake with six eggs, two cups sugar, one tablespoon lemon juice, half cup boil- ing water and two cups sifte<l flour. Beat the yolks and sugar until light, add llavoring, then the stiffly whip- petl whites, next the hot water, then the flour. Bake in a large loaf. When cool take out the center. leav- ing an inch rim on sides and bot- tom. Stick the cake rather full of blanched almonds, and thickly cover inside and outside with pink frost- ing. Drain the syrup from preserv- ed peaches, cut in halves and lill the cavity of the cake with them. Sprinkle with a few blanched and chopped almonds, and heap over the top whipped cream, sweetened and delicately flavored, and make pink with a little strawberry syrup. Do not fill the cake until just before serving. Chocolate Walnut Cake. â€" Make a good layer cake after any pi-efcrred recipe. For the filling whip the whites of three eggs until very stiff, add confectioner's sugar enough to make rather thick, halt teaspoon Vanilla, four tablespoons melted cho- colate and half cup English walnut meats chopped fine. Place between layers and over the calce. Pecorate with halved Enillish walnut meats. ♦ ;^H(*:-*t*.-H*H^^K*i!r» She told the old, sweet story Of Bethlehem that night: The while the yule-log's glory. Sent up its dickering; light. A 'question of funds. A CHRISTMAS GARDEN'. The older ones -were tired of the conventional Christmas tree, but not to have one would disappoint the little folks. for nothing ever tried equals a tree, to their wa.v of think- ing. JMau.v plans and things were talked over by a certain Sunday- school committee. These were all old. "Why can't we have something new ?" and the speaker suggested a garden. "Instead of one largo tree, have several small ones." This sug- gestion was voted on and accepted, and wlien the proi)er time came, was carried out in the following manner : An ante-room at the vestry had folding doors that would open, con- ! necting with the main room. This was chose!! for the garden site. In I it were set. with a gardener's taste. I five trees, five feet tall. These were coated with alum to represent frost work, and trimmed with paper /low- ers, gilt and other ornaments. The I small gifts hung on the branches. I At their trunks lay the heavy pack- ages. About the garden was a hedge i of laurel with wild, everlasting flow- ers, dyed varions colors, tied to the branches. In the windows and about the garden were vegetables, placed tor artistic clTect. All the rooms were festooned with evergreen, flow- ! ers, hitterswcct, corn and fruit. In : the garden were a little boy and girl I dressed in costume, who served, with : another pair, as carriers, taking the : presents, as Santa Claus called the j names, to their owners. Before the I presents were given, a literary and ] musical program was carried out by the children and young people. HAPPY SANTA O^AUS. And lit the bright young faces. Now hushed to quiet tliore. And brushed away the traces. That lined the brow of care. It turned to threads of silver. The old man's thin, gray hair. His face seemed growing milder, .\mong thooe children fair. A world-worn face and weary Was his, with something yet. Beneath its aspect cheery. That he would fain forget. -•\.'' lie thought of all his treasure â€" His store of hoarded pelf, But it had given ploisuro. Not even to himself. The while the yule-log's glory Went up in crimson flame, His sweet-voiced daughter's story To silent ending came. Her little children listened, With cheeks grown slightly pale. And eyes that moist ly glistened. To hear the Christ-child's wail. Then looked each at the other With wide and startled eyes; Then turned to look at mother. In simple childish wise. For where the yule-light flutters Across the window's rim A cry, a child voice utters. From out the shadow dim. ,.i, , And from the circle .springing, A girl whose wavy hair Had in its meshos clinging Five summers' sunbciuus fair. Threw open wide the doorway. And heard in accents sweet. "Please, ma.y I turn in oor way; 'Tis told out in ce street?" Then in the yule-light's .sliining A little stranger stood; His small bauds intertwining The strings that tied his hood. The children gathered near him. And .sougl'.t with tender wiles. To comfort, warm and cheer him. And change his tears for smiles. 'I went to look for Desus. But dess he's gone up higher; The wind it mostly feezes â€" An' then I had to kye." He lisped in his replying: But Watched the old nuin's hair. The (ire-light on it lying. And Came beside his ciiair And whispered. "Is oo Desus, An' wants us all to stay. An' loves an" always sees us. An' s'aut 1 go away'.'" The old man's lips were smiling, Bitt tcar.s were on their way: The child's half doubt beguiling. Ho said but one word, "Stay!" But when good-nights were spoken, â- And little stockings hung. Beneath the mantel oaken. Another stocking swung. .; ' And wrapt in childish slumber. Upon the snow-white bed; Among the old home number, I{epose<l ar.other head. The winter days seemed lighter â€" Alike the children far..Hl, Their pleasures all were brighter. Because they had been shared. The child was sweet and lowly; The old man said, and smiled, "The little one is holy. To us a true Christ-child." And never from that dwelling, The strange child went again, 'Till tender buds were swelling. In April's sun and rain. Then, paler than the lily, That blooms at Easter-tide, Reposed the frail form still.v: They said the child had died. When Easter bells were chiming. He left them with the da.v: His footsteps upward climbing, 'I'o Jesus found the way. They read from some old volume Found on a dusty shelf. In language sweet and .solemn, "'Twoa done to Christ's own self." The old man's head bowed lowly. Through tears he said, and smilec^, "The little one was holy. Ah, yes, a true Christ-child." Ho read from that same volume. From olt the clean-swept shelf. The message swoet and solemn. But thought not of himself. Ho thought of dwellings lonely . Where hungry children be; . But: heard the Christ's words only, ':'rhou didst it unt© me!" Arid though from sea and moor-way The wind swept fierce and far. The old man's stately doorway, Was always 'eft ajar. WHAT WILL SANTA CLAUS BEING ? And never from that doorway A beggar went unblessed. They came from town and moor-way. And found both food and rest. But when again at yule-tide The great logs blaze and flare. The old man by his fireside. Sat feebly in his chair. Tlie bright flames upward leaping. Transfigured every hair. The children thought him sleeping. He sat so quiet there. There in the red light's gleaming. His worn face pale and .set. Held, in its patient seeming. No shadow of regret. Awhile lie sat reposing. Then spoke again and smiled. His dim eyes scarce unclosing. "Let in the sweet Christ-child!" The yule-logs blaze up brightly. Low droops the silvery head; Unclasp the thin hands lightly â€" The old man's soul has (led. â€"MRS. P. A. HENRY. Bowmanville, Unt. A SIMPLE, MEIIRY Cnrj;STM.\S. It was on Christmas eve and our folks had decided not to have our annual gathering, but a.s the time grew near, I began to feel that we ought to have some celebration, writes a farmer's wife. "Well," I said to Jacob, "I believe we ought to go to town and lay in a few Christmas joys." So we went, and I purchased a low toys, books, lit- tle useful articles and some loolish things with which to play iokes, be- sides nuts and candy. 1 got pink netting and made littie boots, with needle and red yarn to hold the children's candy, nuts and popcorn. I had taken in several nice yellov,? rolls of butter, but I did not say what I bought with the butter money to Jacob. When we returned I made a small Christmas tree and drew the soi'a across the corner in front of it. As I stood cooking and thinking il only our near relatives and neighbors would come. Jacob remarked: "Are you looking for the boys and their folks over? " "We rvver know who may come," I replied, "and any- way, the weatiier is so cold that cooking will keep well. But still I think one ought to celebrnte." -'\f- tor dinner 1 called my yougest boy (all we ha\'e at home) and said. "How would you like a horseback ride with .a messago for all our folks â€" brothers and their families, aunts, uncles, and cousins, to come over early to-morrow and eat supper, and for each to bring something for thi table?" Well, they came and that early; it seemed as if the message was all that was needed. We were ready and had soon set before them tin usual Christmas fare, which abounds in good things. The supper over and the kitclien tidied, we distribut- ed our presents to all, and I pro- duced my "jokers" to jollify the oc- casion. I then turned to our com- pany and said: "If .Jacob don't ! Care, we will have the boys set tha ' dining table and chairs out on th« porch, so as to make room for an old-fashioned game of blind-man's buiT. and all will play, from six ta 50 years old" (that included all). They all consentetl, even to Jacob. Weil, of all the laughing we had it that night. You should have heard the children laugh and clap theu h.-nds to see Iheir aiamma run and their papa sit close up in the cor- ner. We would first have two men blindfolded and the first caught was the next blindn:an: it it was a lady, we chose another lady. About 11 o'clock we adjourned, and all expressed themselves as hav- ing had a good time. Our neighbot B said he enjoyed himself the best he ever did in his life, not excepting when he was a young man. So, you see, we did celebrate. CHRISTM.VS llORXINO. On Christmas morning, daric or white. The home is happy, eyos are bright, Faces merry, voices gay. Speak Love's blessing on the day. On Christmas morning, be it spent Where tints of brightest June ar( blent Tropic fashion; tempest tossed: Rain bejeweled. gcumied with frost. On Christmas morning, all is fair, Hope and joy are eveiywhero. Now and ever, shade or shine. Welcome in the day divine. Some time ago a lady who Vfas a well-known advocate of woman'.s rights was tackled by a pretentious young dulTer on her favorite sub- ject. Finally her op|iOMcnt wound up his attack on the pretensions ol the aspiring la-<lics by suyiiijr: "In fact, madam, I think you would like to le a man!" To which she softly replied: "And wouldn't you?" HIS PEJESmiTa