Onions and Oatmeal

Iegetahle Dishes

Maud cut up fcur large onions; licks of celery: and three pot- .F'ry these for ten mlnuieﬁ. add 3 pints of boiling stock. gently until the vegetables

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lime are dellclc-ils. Have ii good- oaions: 1 teaspoon of M60: I Elms bread. Soak the bread Iii hour. press tut all surplus

. than mash well to make it free from

with a lumps.

pepper, and add this with the beaten egg to the bread. Maia» into fritters and fry in deep fat. Drain well. Place on a hot dish on a taoir ooyley. Serve at once while piping hot, with apple sauce and roast. pork.

Celery au Gratin

Use 2 white heads of celery; 2 czs. parmcsari cheese‘ boiling salt- ed water: and a white sauce- Wash clean and scrape the celery. Cut into lengths about three inch- es ‘ong. Place In salted boiling water and cool: gently until tender. Strain well, then arrange neatly in a vegetable dish. Make rme good white sauce; seestn well; add i 0a.. of the cheese to the sauce: then sprinkle the met on top. after it has been poured over the celery. Place in the oven to brown gently.

muuiioqvcr Patties

Have a nice white-headed willi- ficvarer. Cook onlv the flower In boiling salted water wiitil tender. Strain of: the water. and leave We

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FirsfClrrisim Trees

On the wild, sandy heatriland of the north Ge man plain the dark- leafed fir trees have flourished for many dentin-lea. It is not Stringer- therefore, that. "l9 "(P-‘lflili-nlas rec" mzuid have its orlein the". It. dates back prior to the days O1 Christianity. '1he early Egyptians used to employ decorated tress in their festive sewn celebrations. ii is a mt wen known w Il_ bow"- ists that the palm tree Vim 1'0"?! a. shoot each month, and at the time of the winter solsatiee. a spra cf palm. bee-Pills ' wagynnployed in the temple 05m, to mark the completion of the year. Curiously enough. Ell!- lmd d“ not mqpt Christmas trees until the middle of the last century The prince 00118011. 511mm! "m" his marriage to Queen Victoria, in- u awed mom into Great B1‘

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, it was a furore. and ever; panh- mime had In have it in some ahqW or form. ,,

"Keep the Home Fires, Burning ‘for some reason connected wl its sentiment, for both words and

"i are undistinguished also u»: the , ‘ fancy, and became gzagscnlysecondtn"! . . . .y." mere in I- iorty-year-old popll- "av rmao . . .'

lar song that still setg lips humming and feet- bwtlns ime to its lilt w Lose You, but. We Think .You whenever it is heard even to-day. ought to G0." pleased the stay-at- In its most popular da a it became homes, but caused serving soldiers a second National. An em. Yet it. a sort of bitter amuaemen‘ ming- waa written in the spirit of bur- M with nausea.

More! one of the most famous of all I elevation to the status of a patriotic songs originated with ‘The

kind of patriotic hymn came about Great," Macdermott, a top-of-the-

by a curious cwwinailvn o! clr- mu performer of the last century cumstances whicri will be alike in- 1t; gave a nickname to a section foreskin: and puzzling to the fu- o: a. ty. The ultra-patriotic Na- ture hisiorlm of the British race. clone si; is called a. "Jiri " by some

The lamented Lesliestuart. wrote wen now. And why? use, in “Soldiers of the Queen" as a kind ms long-dead days when war with i?! "take-M!" 01 the 5191886 Diliflil- Russia was threatened. on account tic song, which was usually a sick- of her supposed designs on con-

iy piece of slush. The ualit oi’ gtantinople, frantic applause greet- the verse may be well Ia by ed Macdemiott -a big man with a the refrain, hlch ran- voice -as ho nightly roared out

W . big It's the soldiers of the Queen. the refrain: m lads, "We don't. want to fight; who've been, my lads, an seeu, But, by Fingc, if we do . . . . my lids. ending with the cry: Arid fought for England's glory ‘The Russians shall not have

When we've had to show them Constantinopiel"

what we mean. with the outbreak of the present

And when they ask us how ‘twas conﬂict, all was changed. The pub-

done, iiic no longer depended upon the

And how it was we always won, variety theatres and the pant/o- We'll proudly point to every one mlmes for their musical fare.

Of England's soldiers o1 the It all came over the air -ot .at

Queen." least, the bulk oi it

stuart wrote a stirring setting In No pantomime, either last. year or march-time to this bald and un- the year before, featured any not- grammatical bombast- with the able song dealing with the war. extraordinary result that the In September, 1938. I asked the peop took perfectly seriously head of the biggest mllalil-iltllbl-iﬁh- what was intended for a parody! lng firm in London (as far as the

One reason for this was the out- more popular" sort of ditty is con- break or war in South Africa and corned) what would be the most the desire of the crowds for some- outstanding song of that Yell" thing catchy and patriotic to sing_ pantomime season.

Orginally written for a sophisti- without hesitation. he named a cated musical comedy, by Chrlst- sentimental offering with no refer- mas, 1899, it was sweeping the ence to war at alli country, and was sung -—in the (Copyright: Publishing deepest earnestness -from lllllld~ merit twwith N. F. Ltd.)

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By Christmas, 1900. the first burst of patriotic frenzy had tiled down. Such stirring events as the relief of Ladysmith and the relief of Mafeking, each o! which had occasioned a great outburst of en- thusiasm, were things of the past.

The war had lasted much long- er than was expected, and Britons were in a sober mood. Although the Prince Consort,

The most. prominent ‘pantomime husband cf Que-en Victor's iva: offering" in the martial line that rvsponsible for making the Christ- ycar was a nostalgic effort called mas tree popular in Britain, she "Goodbye. Duly ray." supposed to real origin of the custom dates be sung by a so er departing to back many centuries. Tradition fight, bells us that the ear.y Christians of ' The refrain opened:

northern Europe found that an "Good-bye, Dolly, I must leave you, evergreen tree WE; bein used by Though it breaks my h-sari; the barbarians as an ob eat round to go . . .‘ which to dance during the fes- Lt was on similarl1nes—literally—- tivlties that were held in cornice."- to that other lyric of which the ion with one of their pagan gods. chorus ran: The Christians rather liked the "Good-bye, my Bluebell; farewell idea. and adapted it to their own to you, ceremony of celebrating the anni- Just one more look into those Wrsﬂry 1f the birth of Jesus. eyes of blue. An evergreen tree was always ‘Mid camp-fires gleaming, ‘mid zelvcted for the religious rite, be- ‘ shot and shell. cause the leaves of such a tree re_ I shall be dreaming oi my own main always green thrsughout the Bluebell," year; analagous with it was their Of course, the variety theatres faith, which must live in strength contributed much to cqnﬂempofary and steadfastness all through the martial balladry, with such efforts time until their festival came round as “What Do You 'I'hink of the 888m- [ﬁsh Now?" with its scrip-comic The old folk lore of Northu-n elm“; Europe gives w; a story c! St. Win- tyou used to u]; u, “um-g firuilMan people believed that Because o; lg“5wrs_ he was t e man who instigated the Bu‘; you can-t can u, tragwrs use of a fir tree to commemorate riowl" '

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UN°FHCME “WEI? he wanted to illustrate a pom. in The 6M9 01 “Well-TY. that his sermon bery fctrc-lbly. To do classic of the Great Vviir, was on this effectively“ he 0mm“; a band all fours with that of Soldiers of o; men to h", down on c“ mg

the Queen. hch ob t. hi If to this day some Continental Kw, m Akgwg’ $1.2, "wig nations think t a national hymn, made m. we we, u, pram u, me

and take off their hats when they mmd, and when 1 1 a u, hear it played. that is purely w- Ether trees m that ‘.‘.§uf°'ui‘l..u§ Hldelliﬂl- were more or less damaged, except. Iii W85 WTIWHI 150F110 i-mie 59501‘? oiie.. This wBs a. fir tree growin the war broke out, and contains no qaqjte clogs m the trunk o; the 1H reference to war, love 0d country, or ed pa]; any cognate t ic. It is a simple at, wings-id was gmpr-mgd m. story of w M thinking amid Incident. and Immediately tol the the leasures of London of his peqplg that warm us” hm 51m, wit- swee heart away in ﬂpperary. messed was a It w happened that it. became as to how they ought to live. That very popular and some of the first little tree so near theoek and still regiments to go to France were standiri erect when ail the other

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8min." Then they repair to the kitchen where a good Grrisanal supper is spread. 0N THE ALTAB. The Swedish people keep the tree intact until January l3. On that date there is a. final merry party anrgdtue children's friends are in- ln to take paﬂ "Th! Christmas Tree Pluridering." They lead an upright life and, by good have B43185 8W1 8W9“ $111585 W example, point. the way to heaven, whit-lid then the tree is stripped of even as that little the was doing». i111 1Y5 Pretty ornaments and B3318- He suggested that the iir tree About a century ago, and for a, should be regarded henceférth us decade before that, many churches their holy tree at Christmas time. ln Germany held a Christmas The converts found the idea at- morn-mg service :.t six o'clock. A traotive, and ever aiterwards took Christmas tree was placed on the a little fir tree into ther hcmes at altar table. and every member of Christmas and knelt before it in the congregation on entering the sllint worship. cl-iiuch. took up to the altar a The oust in of decorating it with candle or a. small lamp. Years be- lfghts and small gifts was not ln- fore it had been a manager, but augurated till centuries later. This that occurred early in the sixteenth and the Christmas tree substituted. cieritury, wgien snarl} clpndeslwepe . l‘ II 6S 651T] irimeﬁodbiftnfelttliitig Ihelowgciid no? TI"? French PWPIE“ m“ 3°‘ the candles and moulding the soft- ‘iusdlnance Wu" m“ emblem °t med mum, m the “needles-r o; me Christmas was due to the Princes: m. wet The Mm m.“ that we use Helena of Orleans. She introduced

today wag o; Wm“, undn-eamg, the Christmas tree to Fmnce at o; s; may, ume_ about the same time as Prince Consort started the custom in Bri- gg" pwm Haven tam-IMO. But it was not until the Franco-Prussian war in i870. qygvgu spuﬂqwgrdg_ the m5- when the German soldiers spent tom of set g up a chriswnas tree Christ-mas in France. that the was first adopted in Germany during people of that country really adopt- the time of Martin Luther. This ed the Christmas tm as part. of was in the fifteenth century, but it. their festivities. was not until tne eighteenth that By that time England had fairly the practice became popular in that “got going" with the innovation, ciliimilry. BY this time liiillc llfﬁsellis though Scotland, with her dislike 811d articles of adornment were of anything new, was lagging be-

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n e residential uarters cities, it is the oustogn nowadays“: have I lease cur-amiss tree in m. front garden. No citizen who young l0 kﬁell his end up with his neigh- bours would dream of being with- out one. They are decorated with mlllii-COIOU-Ivd electric lishts and make the district look very gay, until s. gale comes along and blows afew of them down; then may look rather foolish.

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There is no doubt that this soa- son will provide many new X10991. ties in decoration for Christma; trees. In addition to tinsel gm,“ and circles, glass balls in bright colours, varous fruits made of blown glass. Donald Duck and the Fox. transparent halls containing icicles. tinted frost, tlnkllng bells, chiming clocks and Sarita Claus that nods his head, there is s, 11mg glass bird that clips ori to a branch. It ha! a spring in its interior and 5°13 mellly l-lP and down when any one walks across the room

Although Christ-mas trees origin- ally 0111110 from Scandinavia, Hol- land and Germary. there i; now u very large homegrown trade. in several countries in ETigiarid exlen- sive plantations have been formed which keep IRFITIZIIS 1i’ men em- ployed all tfhc "Fm" ‘ti. Nor-i t has a forest vl‘ Tits grown. spa t.- ly for supplying inc Chrlsunns trade.

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