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Christmas

Christmas holidays'. are the time for parties and parties are much more fun if you plan them care-

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tess and the guests. Maybe you would like to have one yourself or perhaps you plan to organize a Christmas party at which your little sister will entertain her friends.

one thing that people of all ages enjoy are amusing favours and prizes. 01 course. you can go out and spend a lot of money if you have it and buy expensive things in the shops. but they won't be half the fun that the ones you make yourself are. The home- made kind are run both to make and to receive.

For instance if you are planning a party for school age chlldren-- bigger ones have been known to be entertained by them too - try oranges and lemons. Take one bright, clear-skinned orange and one lemon for each favour. Draw laces on the oranges. using it cray- on or soft pencil. Make pirate hats nt striped socks cr striped wrap- ping paper. ilsc wooden skewers to fasten the orange heads to the lemon bases and cut just enough of! the bottom ends of the lem- ons so they will stand flat. but won't leak juice. Set them on rounds of cardboai'd and attach a place card and maybe a small striped. candy cane. Walnuts and almonds make good favours too. You think up some ways to use them.

And here is an easy party cake that even a 12-year-old can fix. Buy a plain baker's pound rake and split it in half length-wise. Top the upper half with orange icing. You make it by l.lSlll;: two table- spoons full of butter or margarine. three cups of icing sugar. one tab- lespoon of grated orange peel and enough orange juice to make it blend and spread. While the icing is soft. gel: animal crackers around the edge cf the cake. When ready to serve, slice one pint.of orange sherbet in tuo and spread on the lower half of the cake. Top it with the iced cake and decorate. the platter on which you serve it with more animal crackers. You may put lighted candles in the centre

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The clothespln doll game is .1 good one for giris between the ages of ten and 15. Before the party. make up for each guest a pack- age containing i-I wooden clcthes- pin (the kind with a head and two Iegst. some scraps of silk. ribbon and pieces of pretty coloured crepe paper and I stick of chewing gum. Collect several pairs of scissors and pencils. When everybody has her package. tell the guests to start chewing the gum. Give them 20 minutes or half an hour to 'dress the clothespin doll -with whatever materials the package

. contains and drew a face on it with

a pencil. Give it first and second prize for the most. original dolls and, if you like, a 'Booby' for the one that doesn't fnish. The gum is to help stick the clcthcs to the doll.

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For you older girls there will be lively lesions of skating and danc- ties. You'll be having so much fun yourself you wont want to take .1 lot of time out in prepare refresh- ments. but you will want to be a good hostess.

Even after a fast and lively dance session in your own living room I hot fruit punch tastes good these winter evenings, This one is easy to start early in the day so that it is almost ready when the thirsty dancers step for re- freshments.

Golden Gate Punch '

1 cup sugar

1 cup lemon juice

1 cup orange juice 1 cup grape juice. 5 cup water

ice cubes or ice

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There are so many reasons for having a. Christmas party. You can make it a Christmas Eve par-i ty when festivities begin late, when carols are in order and bacon?

and eggs are served just before: the guests go home. Or perhaps you can plan a mid-day Christ-

mas party .or a party on Christ- mas night. It is up to you. . Your invitation to the partyi can be cut out of red mat paperl that measures 12 hy 3 1-2 inches.l It is folded in half to form a book-. let and the cover is pasted with n' few attractive Chrislnms seals: Inside paste i-'i'attei'cd snowflakesl cut out from lace paper doillcs.l Leave room to write your invita- tion and use white or green ink if you want it to be effective.

If your guests are to sit at the. table and b served a repasi. YOU? can make elightful place mats; out of dark green mat. paper, Make it pattern oi a large. full; Christmas tree rolllllily 16 inches” wide at the broadest part and 12 inches high. Trace outline on green mat stock and cut out. Paste on: tree snowflakes cut out from the doiiies and little red dot seals that give the appearance, of Christmas tree halls.

Little cone trees make wonder- rui centrepieces for table or buffet You roll a piece of red mat stock

Pour sugar into" clean glass cal- lnn jar. Add fruit juices and shake Jar until sugar dissolves, Add wa- ter. cover tightly, and keep ccirl until ready to serve over ice cube:-:. Fix orange slices with tiny candles. to decorate. serves 8.

Hot Fruit Punch

2 cups boiling water

4 tsp. tea

2 cups sugar

2 cups orange juice

1 cup lemon juice

l cup grape juice

2'; quarts boiling water.

orange and lemcn slices.

steep tea in boiling water for 5 mins. Strain. Add sugar to hot. tea and let cool. Prepare fruit juices and keep in glass quart jar covered tightly, until ready to use. Then add boiling water, mix all in punch bowl and garnish with citrus slices.

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into a cone about nine inches liigli. (Four of them make it trecl Fasten with paper clips. Then take a square 8-inch dolly and cut it. into four quarters. Around the outer edges, paste a narrow white crepe-paper ruffle. Thong holding the trimmed dolly quarter like a triangle with the point at the top. paste it over the cone. Four of these will make the main part. oi the tree.

The trunk is made. by takiiig tour pieces of spool wire. each 13 inches long. Hold them together with one wire held l-2 inch above the other three. Wrap the wires

small glasses,

Little lndividualmince pics make a good accompaniment as do short- breads. either the bought or home- made kind. You make the mince

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with red crepe paper to form the tree trunk. Fasten narrow tips of the four red cones about 1-2 inch from inc top of "the tree trunk. To place where the four cones are pasted to the trunk at the top. add a narrow white crepe paper ruffle and secure with spool wire. Top the tree with a tiny gold 'or silver Christmas ball. Fasten another white crepe-paper ruffle at the base of the tree trunk. Then put tree trunk through the open centre oi a roll of white crepe-paper streamers which serves as the base for the tree. Trim streamer roll with a narrow green ribbon. Tie in a lovely lull bow.

JINGLE BELLS DANCE

Give each girl a bracelet of jing- le bells. String five or six merry little silver jingle bells on a piece of narrow red ribbon just long enough to go around.a girls waist. Before the dance begins have each girl's partner tie the bracelet on her wrist. Appoint one person to serve as "Stop-the Music-Mast.er'! His job is to keep turning off" the radio or phonograph at irregular intervals without letting the danc- ing couples know' exactly when. Each time the music stops. the

couples are supposed to stop danc- ,

ing instantly. The girl whose bracelet Jingles the longest after music stops is eliminated along with her partner, The prize is awarded to the last couple left - the! couple with the best jingle con- tro

At every Christmas party there should he gifts. Naturally a teen- age purse doesnit allow for lux- ury ltems. A good idea is a Christ- mas Santa pack (Mom's laundry bag will serve ihelpurposel, chock full or little inexpensive items. The boys can bring presents for the girls and the girls can bring gifts

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for the boys. Make it: grab bag for Yule fun.

ing sure to puncture the lid cf each littlc pie with a fork. They may be baked in the morning or the day before and heated in the oven again just before you wish to serve them.

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Try These: 1 Ten Teasers'

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if you turn a horse so that its head points -exactly south- west. in what direction does its tail point?

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Why is a very surprised man rather like a leopard's tail?

Why is a room filled with married people just like a room

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that is quite empty.

What is the best way to make a coat last?

which suffers the greater loss-a king robbed of his coun- try. or a country robbed of its king.

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Why are goals the most useful of all animals to vegetarians?

which is the more valuable,- a five-pound note, or five pounds in silver?

What is the difference be- tween a bottle of medicine and ll hearthrug

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What is it that will always go up a drain-pipe down or down A drain-pipe down. but will never go tip a drain-pipe up or down a drain-pipe up?

Why is human life the hard- est of all riddles?

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Make the trousers and waist- coat first.

The country-because it loses a sovereign. while the king loses on-ly a crown.

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. Because by beheading you get oats.

A five-poundt note. because w-hen you put it into your pocket you double it,

One is shaken up and taken: the other is taken up and shaken.

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An umbrella.

10. Because. no matter how clever we may be. we :11 have lo give it up.

Little Children Wake and Listen

Little children wake and listen.- Songs are breaking o'er the earth. While the stars in Heaven gllsten. Hear the news of Jesus' birth.

Long ago to lonely meadows, Angels brought the mesaag down. Still each year through midnight shadow'

It is heard in every town.

V." this 1' they are telling? singiiiy, in the quiet street. While their voices high are swell-

ins. What sweet words do they repeat?

i".'ord:' to bring us greater glad- ness.

Tlzaugll our hearts from care are free.

V:or::s to ch:": away our sadness. Cheei-loss though our hearts may be.

( lst has left his throne of glory.

And a. lowly cradle found.

Well might angels tell the story,

Well might we their words re- sound. T

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While the stars i- lleaven gllsten. Hall with joy. your saviours birth.

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animal sacrifices made at the same

time of the year. in the pre- Christian era. This seems lo be substantiated by the fact that.

only 70 years ago. in certain loc- alities. the school-teacher used to give the students a rooster or a hen which they were to behcao. Saint Thomas' is the day when the- schoolchildrcn play tricks on their teachers. the chief trick being to entice him to the door of the classroom and lock him up in a little room until he will succumb in the cavprices of his young for- iurcijs. In Bra-bani and Limburg, the servants resort to the same strategy with their masters. These innocent pranks are called bulleti- sieken and builensluitcn.

The day of the Holy Innocents. the 28th. which brings further evi- dence of chlldhoodh mischievous- ness. is it very ancient holiday. in- eluded in ihc annals of the church at Carthage at the end of the Vth century. it was established in memory of the young children massacred by Herod to stop the rumors announcing the coming of the Messiah. The legend is of par- ticular significance to Belgians. for popular imagination has it that the bodies of two innocents were buried at the Convent or province of Namur. in Antwerp. Brabant. and certain parts of Limburl. ihb children used to dress up as "grown-ups". taking advantage of life authority conferred by the cast-of! garments of their parents to run around the house making a great racket.

In Flanders. in the past. In de- lightful pageant called the "Beth- lehem" was presented. A young man dressed as an angel. and but- dened. with two huge wings. would recite the Ave Maria to a girl. She would answer: "Flat". and than he would kiss her lips. A child

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MATCH

This is a pleasant little stunt that needs only a few matches-- safefy ones, preferably. to pre- clude aocidenis. 1.

Lay one match down on a table and then lay a second match at

TEN QUICK QUERIES

Why is the inside of anything bound to baffle you?

right angles across the nrst-one 2- which 0'3 111 3nim3l5 "9 "10-W quarter of its length being on the mdlhed i0 b9 Wld- ' &fi::y;t.and mreelquartem on the 3. What word of five letters has

The problem for your audience ””ly We whef you 13” two is to make the upper match move ”f them 'way' up and down. wiiilliouttoucliing it L why in H founmn . Datum. zggaglmn 3 Win” t'h"' inch” W " larly contradictioua thing?

This seems I ridiculous ambi- 5, what is the difference be- iion until one proceeds to show that the request can be complied tween a boy learning lessons with-in a fashion that is ingeni- and I Shepherd 100kmE Bile-l' ous but simple. his sheep?

Lay a third matoh parallel with I the first. with its upper and over- 6. Why are novelists and build- lapping the shorter end of the or: very much Illke? second. Then continue to lay three or four more matches in a sort of 7' What 5”" M mbb”-V .33 1”” crisycross pawn". likely to be found out.

About six sthould suffice to span - - s - , the stipulated 3-inch gap. and (then. 8' xily i,”,.,x”"”;l,';?gh'2f,l; dgiyizt by pressing firmly on the last wings-. match. you should.be able to make ' the second one raise its head. Re- 9, What is it that has one tool.

leasing the; presure. cause: its at each end, and one foot in head to sink .dispiritedly once the middle? more.

10. When is a rock not a rock?

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THE MUSEUM THAT WARMS YOUR GUESTS

The period duning which guests

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warmth and friendliness. and it is deslraible to preclude or dispel them. For this reason some simple but interesting occupation during a waiting period is a great help to mental ease and happy informal,- ity. A good example of many such occuvpanions is a private museum that is easily prepared and pro- vocaiive of GI usemenl.

Round the walls of the room where guests gather are dispoeed objects or sketches-quite rougii drawings will do. There may be any number of these, according to preference or the lengthof time to be filled up. Each exhibit thould be numbered.

Every guest. on entering the museum. is given a card or a sheet of paper on which is printed or written a corresponding (but un- numlbercd) list of titles or descrip- tions. It is his business to study the exhibits and to enter the number of each one opposite the most ap- propriate description on his paper.' Later, a correct list of correspond- ing exhibits and description! can be put up or read out. so that he can measure his success '

Suilaiblle objects and descriptions are easy to think out. Here are a glolzen examples which may be use-

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The Castaway-an old ketllle.

A Black Lookout-I pair darkened spectacles.

A Well-Matched Couple-I pair shoes.

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Maid of Greece-A candle. A stirring Subject-a teaapoon.

The Cheat-a penny covered with aluminium pa nt.

Memories of Iong Ago-three or four email lump: of coal.

The Cup-Bearer-a saucer.

A slippery Customer--a piece of wet. soap.

Off ibover Cliffs-a piece of chalk.

The Charge of the Light Bit. nde-a bill from; the local gas company.

....nn.nm.?:.gggg, song of a little bird: puer natua est nobis (a child is born to us). Is great ox then interposed I Ionor- oua ubi (where). while founkldn bleaied Bethlehem. Finally. a donkey sounded I hlhamua (for eamus) and the pi-oceuion act off. followed by all the annals. while I jester brought up the rear. shaking his bells. it was like a lovely picture made in Epinll. of which the colors have slowly be- come binned. Today this page is ' blank: auaybf the other pageants! apoken of MN will doubtless meet

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BY REGINALD DIGBY

WHY is Christmas Day celebrat- ed on December mm so am seems to know. During the centuries the Birth of Christ has been celebrated on various dates. but it was Julius 1. Pope from A. D. 331 to A. D. sea. who fixed December 36th. for ”Christ'a Mus" day.

WHY is boxing day so named? It has nothing to do with sport. in Roman tlmel. offerings for the Door were placed in boxes and tek- en into the Church to be blessed. They were opened on the day after Christmas and their contents dis. tributed to.the needy-thus, Boxing Day. V . WHY do we enjoy a holiday on Boxing Day! It was not always so. for until 1811. the Christmas "break" from work complied one day only. (That is proved by Charles Dick- ens's immortal "A on.

cai-ol".) It was Sir John Lubbock

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NMIOIII. the patron saint 0181::-ll! legend says that he visited pm; girls on December em, and Mt W9?" "WW I lifts. These girls hllnl their stockings overnight 1,. readiness for the saint): commi Hence the time-,honoured custom 51' u" Christmas stocking. now me kiddies' greatest Joy. WHY does Santa Claus wear in. familiar red costume. The .u.g. Prmu ”Pl”-1113 Saint Nicholas. um original gift-brlnger. show an 01,; man with white hair hard. and clad in a long. robe. trimmed with fur. The mod. em Father Christmas always coli- iorma to this idea of the benevol-