The Frontier Woman — Atkinson Reader Urges Others to Maintain Scrapbooks As a Hobby By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE Hi there, all you Santas and Mrs. Santas! Got the tree up? Watch out the kids don’t try to eat the trimmings, I’ve known it to happen before. If you have children and can possibly afford it, you've just got to have a tree and trim the house. You know what? You can fix a wreath for the window by put , ting evergreen on a coat hang er which has been bent into a circle. Fasten with fine wire or string, and add some pine cones, holly or bitters w e e t. The handle is an ideal hang ing idea. There are some rather beautiful can I; '# Blanch* Spann P*aa* dies for use this year at the holi day season. If you have a set of the Christmas villages, complete with houses and church, you might want to use some of the choir boy candles, arranged in front of the miniature church, or build a small church of card board. One of those gingerbread houses would make a good table centerpiece. That is, if you can keep the guests from eating it. A fun idea for Christmas day and a centerpiece is to put a large mixing bowl or some oth er receptacle in the middle of the table. Tiny gifts can be wrapped and put into the bowl with a ribbon leading to each plate. When dinner is finished, a gen tle bit of pulling will bring out the small gift. You'll find plenty of ideas for gifts at the five and 10 or can use candy, candy bars, nuts or nutmeats in the pack ages. Those glass sugar plum and such trees can be used for other things besides gumdrops. Try impaling colored marshmallows on them for a new twist. Folks who love Christmas, and folks who love chocolate, will get a double thrill out of finding chocolate fruitdrops, individually wrapped i n their Christmas stockings. These chocolate drop cookies get a Christmasy look through the addition of candied cherries and candied pineapple. They are delicious with ice cream, and pretty to serve with the holiday eggnog for an infor mal party. Best of all, they re quire no decorating. CHOCOLATE FRUIT DROPS One cup sifted enriched flour, Vfe teaspoon salt, xfz teaspoon baking powder, 1 cup chopped raisins, Vi cup cut candied cher ries, Vi cup chopped candied pineapple, 2 eggs, Vz cup sugar, 2 squares unsweetened chocolate, Vi cup melted shortening. Sift together flour, salt and baking powder. Add raisins and cherries and pineapple. Beat eggs until light and add sugar gradually. Add chocolate and melted short ening. Mix well. Add flour mix ture. Drop on greased baking sheet. Bake in moderate oven of 350 F. for 10-to-12 minutes. Makes about three dozen cookies. — tfw — Children Will Like Scrapbooks, Too— Mrs. Marie Wehrly, of Atkin son, wins one of our three months’ subscription prizes to day. The other goes to Mrs. Joe Timmermans, Highway Market, Sutton. Atkinson, Nebr. Dear Blanche and Readers: Do you have a scrapbook? It’s a hobby that makes for interest though not especially expensive. It would be a good one to start a youngster on. My scrapbooks really mean a lot to me. In one I have odd bits of knowledge plus poems both uld and new. They are ones ± have gleaned from magazines and papers. Poetry has always appealed to me, maybe because I never could compose two lines of poetry. My best scrapbook contains cards that I collected during a period of years. Their place of abode was a pasteboard box for sometime. I really enjoyed picking and sorting prepara tory to pasting into the book. These cards are very personal to me. The biggest share of them came to me from my own chil dren on various occasions such as Valentine’s day, Easter, Mother’s day, birthday and Christmas greetings. Many of these have perfumed centers or bows of rib bon. Lest I forget, there’s a group of those cute, fuzzy animal cards from my grandchildren. They, too, get a kick out of look ing at them. I guard this book most jealously. the changing color in leaf and It’s sheer enjoyment for me to ride along country roads and see tree in the fall of the year. It’s a I time of year when a person’s ap petite perks up after the harvest of good things and the prepara tion for winter. Do you enjoy cooking and bak ing? There’s a lot of satisfaction to be derived from preparing a tasty dish. Why is it that home bread baking is fast becoming a ' lost art? The home variety has so much more flavor. Homemakers, oo you 4et your daughters practice cooking and baking? They will learn more by doing than by hearing or read ing. After all they should learn the principles of cooking and sewing at home while they are growing up. Don’t forget to give some praise where it is merited along with constructive criticism. No, it won’t make a sissy of your young son to know the rudi ments of cooking and serving. The pressure cooker saves so much in food flavors. How about some fruity spicy cookies along with a glass of cold milk or perhaps you would prefer tea or coffee? As for me, give me a cup of fla vorful coffee and I’m not par ticular what method is used in the preparation of the drink just so it’s good. Here’s a recipe for prune cook ies. I hope you will want to try them, they are good for the chil dren’s lunch box. They keep good if you don’t eat them. PRUNE COOKIES One cup shortening, 2 cups su gar, 1 cup pitted prunes (cooked and slightly sweetened), 3 eggs, 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda I sifted with flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, Vz tea spoon nutmeg. Mix in order giv en. Drop from a teaspoon on a greased tin and press a piece of cooked prune on the top. No milk needed. Bake in a moder ate oven. Did you know that pies and ice cream were created by Am ercan cooks? In many European countries bread dough was the basis for sweets that took the place of our cakes and cookies. Yours for better homemaking, MRS. MARIE WEHRLY. — tfw — Sends Cranberry Turkey i«ioid Recipe— Sutton, Nebr. Dear Mrs. Pease: Well, will write again. I was feeling rather sad when we mov ed. I still do if I think back to the lime we sold our nice herd of cattle and had the rest of the sale. But that is over, and we I have moved and things are going along quite nicely. We miss our ; friends back there, of course, and think of them often. But of course, being in the gro | eery business, like we are, we I have met a great number of peo 1 pie and made lots of new friends, | we hope. People seem very nice, we don't get to go much. We are pretty busy most of the time, but I love the work. I don't think it's as hard on me as farm work was. Of course. I miss our lovely cream. The children like their new school very much. Of course, i miss my two big boys I had to leave back there. But when 1 think about it, it could be worse, and perhaps it will be, the way this old war is. We just have to hope and pray it will end be fore it takes more of our boys. I’m going to send a recipe that I think would be nice for Christ mas: CRANBERRY TURKEY MOLD First part: 1 tablespoon gela tin, 2 tablespoons cold water, 2 cups turkey broth, 1 teaspoon grated onion, salt and pepper to taste, 1 cup finely diced celery, 2 cups diced, cold turkey, 2 cups chopped pimientos. Soften gela tin in cold water and dissolve in hot turkey broth made from boiled and strained turkey bones. Add onion and seasoning to taste. Cool until slightly thickened. Fold in remaining ingredients. Half fill fancy molds and chill. When alfmost firm add second part of the recipe. Second part: l1/^ cups sugar, % cup water, 4 cups cranberries, 1 two - inch stick cinnamon, 6 whole cloves. Grated rind of 1 oranfge, 1 tablespoon gelatin, 2 | tablespoons cold water, Vt cup finely diced apple, % cup chop ped nuts. Boil sugar and water j together. Add cranberries, spices and orange nnd. Cook until cran ! berry skins pop open. Put through fine sieve, soften gelatin in cold water, dissolve in hot cranberry mixture. Cool to thick en, add apple and nuts. Pour in mold on top of turkey gelatin. Chill until firm. Unmold on let tuce and serve with mayonnaise blended with whipped cream and seasoned lightly with horse radish. Serves six to eight. MRS. JOE TIMMERMANS — tfw — Send Us a Letter— Why not take your pen in hand this week and send us a let ter? Each week for the two let ters used, we award a three months’ subscription to each writer. Wouldn’t it be fun to win a three - months subscription to The Frontier? You can write a j bout anything you like. If you send recipes try to send at least two seasonable recipes and some time and labor saving ideas in your letter. Send your letter to Mrs. Blanche Pease, The Fron tier Woman, Atkinson, Nebr. SANDHILL SAL It’s hard to keep up with the Joneses if they have steak every might for supper. Most of us haven’t saved enough to last us through a rain drop, let alone a rainy day. There won’t be any glamor on your pan if you crowd your feet into shoes two sizes too small. Gifts Going to Omaha Mission EWING—On Wednesday, De cember 6, 13 members of the Wo mens' Society of Christain Ser vice of the Ewing Methodist braved the cold weather to hoiu the regular meeting at the church parlors. The meeting was epened with the reading ot a Christmas poem by the president, Mrs. Earl Bil- I lings, who also conducted the bus- 1 iness session. A box of Christmas presents i will be sent to the Omaha city mission. This will be taken care of by Mrs. Henry Fleming, secre tary of supplies. Bazaar and elec tion day dinner bills were allowed and final reports were given. Plans were made for the Christ mas party which will be held at the church parlors December 23 Mrs. Sis Ebbengaard had harge of the devotionals. The theme was “Be Still and Know That I Am God”. She also presented the les son, “Spiritual Resources for Health”. The .meeting closed with the WSCS prayer repeated in unison. A social hour was enjoyed by the group. The hostesses for the afternoon, Mrs. A. R. Marquardt and Mrs. Waldo Davis, served a luncheon from a table decorated in a Christmas color scheme. Other Ewing News Nick Belmar, of Dawson, la., has been a guest of his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Belmar, jr., the past week. On December 19 the operetta “Santa Claus Land” will be pre sented at the Ewing high school auditorium. “Santa Claus Land” is a musical playlet in three acts. The setting for act I is the living room of a home on Christmas eve, and act II is the Palace of Santa Claus. Santa’s palace is full of a , variety of toys, all in costume, who entertain with singing and danc 1 ing. The operetta is being present ed by the sixth and seventh . graces under the diection of Mrs. Mamie Housh. Regulations of the state depart ment lor normal trainers require that they spend two days of obser vation in rural schools. The Ew ing senior normal training class has imet the requirement this year by visiting four schools, one-half day each. The schools and teach ers visited are: Emporia — Miss Eula Larson; Stafford—Miss Mar lize Schrad; Deloit—Miss Maxine Bauer; St. John’s—Miss Patricia Funk. Seniors who are in the pro fessional training class are: uon ald Kurpgeweit, Wayne Pollock. Leola Cary, Beulah Cloyd and Thelma Primus. The enrollement in the Ewing grade school this fall is 133. Stu dents are distributed as follows1 Kindergarten—11; first—12; sec ond—18; third—13; fourth—16; fifth—17; sixth—15; seventh—16; eighth—15. There are 100 in high school: Freshmen — 33, sopho mores—17; juniors—26; seniors— 24. Frontier for printing! Nash Play Picked by Atkinson Juniors— ATKINSON—The junior class of Atkinson high school will pre sent its annual class play on Jan uary 16 and 17. The play selected is “The Sweetheart of U Baka Pi,” by John Nash. Other information ; will be released at a later date. The cast of characters in cludes: “Elva Anderson,” Colleen Kennedy; “Opal Rogers,” Ruby Meyer; “Kathleen Emery,” Kath leen Huebert; “Beatrice St. John,” Vivian Lemmer; “Rheba Saunders,” Doris Bogue; “Lo raine Daly,” Glenda Enbody; “Duane Runyan,” Lavern Brady; “Grant Richards,” Bill Richard son; “Oscar Hapwood,” Larry Storjohann; “Willie Wrigh#,’’ Clayton Goeke; “Archie Os wald,” Duane Shermer; “Lloyd Donnally,” George Kahler; “Mrs. Mulholland,’ Leone Fix; “Dyke Ransome,” John Osborne; “Her mann,” Mike O’Conner; “Emma,” Phyllis Watson. Thomas Cooper, band instruct or, has been selected to direct the play. ! Dr. j. l. sherbahn j CHIROPRACTOR J Complete X-Ray Equipment j t Vj Block So. of Ford Garage 2 O'Neill. Nebraska * & R H SHRINER bS; Renls I%* 11 L,llllll,ul Plat* Glass Wind & Tornado. Truck 8c Tractor. 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