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mas Candies
PECAN PRALINES
HiVo cups of brown sugar, five
,tabh spoonfuls of water, noe table
ts spo< -lful of butter, one cup of pecans.
Mix water and sugar and place on
| fire As soon as the mixture begins
to bubble add one cup of pecans in
halves and one tabelspoonful of but
ter. Let all boil together for one
•r-mir ute, stirring constantly. Remove
jppan from the stove; stir a minute,
{.ant! drop the contents by large spoon
fuls upon paraffin paper or a marble
slab to cool.
• PECAN DIVINITY FUDGE
K Two cpsu of sugar, two tablespoon
jfuls corn syrup, one half cup of hot
water, whites of two eggs, one cup
of chopped pecans, one-half teaspoon
ful of vanilla. Mix sugar, com syrup
and hot water. Cook until syrup
forms a ball in cold water, add slowly
to|beaten whites and beat until thick.
Add pecans, flavoring, and pour in
buttered dish to cool. Mark in squar
es! before entirely cold.
PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE
’ut two cupfuls of brown or white
sugar and two-thirds cupful of mils
on the stove. Stir until sugar is
dis^ dved; then boil the mixture very
slowly, with but little stirring, until
it will form a ball in cold water.
Add four tablespoonfuls of peanut
butter, stirring until the butter is
■fclted. Turn into buttered plates
aid mark into squares.
PEANUT CANDY
For a thick peanut candy, boil to
gether a cupful of sugar, a cupful of
rriolasses and two tablespoonfuls of
butter very slowly for about half an
hour. Then try in cold water, and
when it is brittle add a cupful of
shelled peanuts. Pour into well-greas
ed pans to the depth of half an inch.
When it begins to harden cut into
squares with a buttered knife. A
crisp peantu candy is easily made by
melting and browning granulated
sugar, being careful that it does not
burn, and then pouring it, when it is
all melted and brown, over shelled
peanuts. When it is cold, break it
in pieces.
MOLASSES PEANUT CANDY
Two cups of molasses, one cup of
sugar, one tablespoonful of butter
and one tablespoonflu of vinegar.
Boil all together until it will harden
in cold water. Have buttered tins
quickly spread with shelled peanuts
and pour the candy mixture over
them. Break into squares when cold.
PLAIN PANUT TAFFY
Two cups of sugar and one cup of
vinegar. Boil until brittle when drop
ped in cold water. Before taking up
add one-half teaspoonful of soda,
one teaspoonful of flavoring, if de
sired, and one and one-half cup of
peanuts. Pour into buttered plates
! to cool and when tcold break into
| pieces.
POPCORN FUDGE
Two cupfuls sugar, two tablespoon
fuls butter, one cupful of popcorn,
one-half cupful peanuts, one cupful
: milk, one-quarter teaspoonful salt,
one-half teaspoonful almond extract.
Boil the sugar, milk, butter and salt
to the soft-ball stage. Flavor with
the almond extract . Stir in the pop
corn and nuts that have been run
through a food chopper or chopped
very fine. Stir until creamy, and
when cool cut into squares.
Lest We Forget
The Christmas season, the time of
giving, is at hand. In spite of un
rest and high cost of living, Ameri
ca was never so prosperous. Never
were we so well able to acre for
the poor and unfortunate than we i
are now.
The only trouble is that people are
rather tired of giving. The years
1917 and 1918 were full of calls for
charity and war work. Some people
gave more than they could afford.
Many contributed who had never giv
en anything.
It was not to be expected that the
wartime enthusiasm for giving would
continue forever. There were too
many drives. Most of them were
worthy but some were doubtful. Some
of the methods were questionable and
money was wasted.
The American people are not stingy
They are more than willing to sup
port every good cause but they are
going to scutinize appeals more care
fully in the future. They rae going
to be sure that the cause is a good
one. They are also going to be sure
that the money they give is not wast
ed. This is as it sholud be.
At the same time we should not go
to the opposite extreme and not give
anything.
Our local charities, our churches,
schools, the Red cross and other
similar organizations must be sup
ported. Let us examine new appeals
carefully but let us not starve the in
stitutions that have been doing good
work for years.
A Few Don’ts
For Christmas:
Don’t court indigestion.
Don’t grumble, whatever you do.
Don’t half fill the kiddies’ stockings
Don’t give presents -which will be
useless.
Don’t forget the mistletoe. Ro
mance still lives.
Don’t forget that it ought to be a
merry Christmas.
Don’t deny the little ones’ idea
about Santa Claus.
Don't worry about unpaid bills—at
any rate until tomorrow.
Don’t scoff at the lingering super
stitions of the good old days.
Don't for the show of things, buy
presents which you can’t afford.
Don’t expect too many presents.
Take what you get and be thankful.
Don’t, if you get up on your wrong
side, make everybody else miserable.
Don't forget to think at least once
during the day what Christmas really
means.
Don’t give a present unless you
want to. Better not give at all than
give insincerely
Don’t forget that the giving of
Christmas boxes, like charity, should
begin at home.
Don’t, if you are a girl, stand un
der the mistletoe until you see the J
right chap approaching.
Don't kiss somebody else’s best girl,
even though she is under the mistle
toe. There might be a row.
Don’t work on Christmas day if
you can avoid it. If you have to,
however, don’t make a song abouT- it.
Don’t give Johnnie a trumpet and
Peter a whistle and expect to have a
quiet time. It’s unreasonable.
Don’t put off buying presents until
the last minute. You’ll get better
value and avoid the crush if you shop
early.
Don’t looked pained when somebody
tells a fifty-year-old Christmas story.
That’s one of the unavoidable cir
cumstances of the festive season.
Don’t give a new song to some one
who doesn’t sing, but be still more
certain that you don’t give a new song
to someone who imagines he can sing.
Don’t refrain from giving because
you can’t afford to give much. The
intrinsic value of a gift counts for
nothing. It is the thought which
prompts it that matters.
We are in position to make loans
on pood farming lands located near
Newark. E. G. Magness- and Co
CHRISTMAS FASTS IN BRIEF
Day Celebrated as Christian Festival
For Centuries
Christmas day is the anniversary
of the birth of Christ, and has been
celebrated as a Christian festial for
several centuries. The Christmastide
lasts from ihe 25th of December to
the 6th of January, the tewlfth day
after Christ’s nativity.
The origin of the Christmas tree is
obscure; the thought of Christ as the
Light of the World and the Tree of
Life may have given rise to the ligh4
bearing tree, or the popular old be
lief that every Christmas eve, trees
blossomed and bore fruit, may have
been the foundation of the custom.
Gift-giving, is, of course, the echo
of the Wise Men’s gifts; and mince
pie, turkey and plum puddings are
modern relics of the pagan feasts.
Santa Claus, known to every child in
every land in this old world is the
personification of the spirit of loving
and giving.
The holly, synonymous of Christ
mas, was a sacred plant, and the mis
tletoe a mysterious plant, supposed
by the ancient Druids to have some
mysfic power of healing and prevent
ing misfortune. It was never allowed
to touch the ground, hence the mod
ern superstition that it is unlucky for
a mistletoe bough to fall from its
place. It was dedicated to the God
dess of Love, which explains the cus
tom of kissing under the mistletoe.
TOUCHED IMS HEART,
BUT NOT IUS PURSE
A very ragged individual invaded
the office of a millionaire one Christ
mas eve and started describing his
woes and sorrows in so graphic a
manner that the millionaire was
more affected than he h id ever been
before in his life.
At last, with tears in his eyes, he
rang the bell for his servant, and
when the latter arrived, said to him
in a broken voice: “John, put this
poor fellow' out at once. He’s break
ing my heart.”
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ASKS FUNDS FOR
ARKANSAS RIVERS
Appropriations for numerous river
projects in this state were included
in the requests made of Congress by
Secretary of the Treasury Glass Mon
day.
Estimates included $70,000 for the
Red river below Fulton; $502,000 for
the Ouachita river; $29,350 for the
Arkansas; $27,000 for the White riv
er; $21,700 for the Black river; $8,
550 for the Current river, and $10.
750 for the St. Francis and Big L'
Anguille rivers.
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