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HE woman with brown eyes
was Razing meditatively out
of the window at the people
hurrying through the falling
snow with their Christmas bundles.
“You are thinking?’’ her husband
suggested.
‘ About Christmas, that’s all.”
“We have left undone the things
that we—”
“Not this time, my dear. Merely
about everybody in the world.”
“No one could call you narrow
minded!”
“People have the right spirit about
it,” she explained. “They are so full
of good will toward men that they
try to do too much—that’s the trou
ble! You see, most of us and our good
intentions are hampered by average
salaries and modearte strength.”
“I’ve noticed it.”
“We want to give to everybody. We
want our homes superserupulously
tidy. We plan festivities which require
new party clothes for the whole fam
ily, extra special cooking and prep
aration for guests.
Then we set about doing these
things. At first it goes well and we
enthuse. The common, everyday af
fairs interfere and complicate mat
ters.
“At the beginning of Christmas
week—with many frills deleted—we
find ourselves growing tired, awful
ly tired. But we see that it’s impos
sible then to stop and rest. That’s
where the strain begins. We feel
compelled to finish what we’ve start
ed and to carry the program through
to the last item of buying, marking,
packing and shipping.
“Unexpected demands interrupt.
Then the strain begins to tell on our
nerves. Perhaps we don’t say any
thing for fear of spoiling Christmas
for the others, but in our hearts we
wish mankind had kept Christmas
free from this sort of thing.
"W’hen Christmas day comes we
are too weary to bother about the
true meaning of it all or take very
keen pleasure in the results of our
back-breaking work, much less go out
and hear beautiful music and uplift
ing sermons.”
“I’ve always wondered wrhy women
attempted so much.”
“Because everybody does. And if
one poor, lone, sensible woman sits
down and flatly refuses to kill her
self working for Christmas, her fam
ily and friends will think she is a
quitter—a social slacker.”
“Well,’ suggested her husband,
“why not let the rich people have all
the fuss and feathers , and let those
in medium circumstances realize they
can’t keep up that pace?”
“You dont’ understand,” said the
woman with the brown eyes; “as long
as rich folks do it, those less able will
strain to do likewise. That’s why the
wealthy people will have to see the
trend and institute a change.
“In place of so many mere presents
we must give such things as love,
courage, kindness and generous im
pulses—things which our present phy
sical and mental strain forbids.
Throughout the rest of the year, if
anyone felt inclined to send a regular
gift to a friend or relative, that could
be done very easily and the recipient
would know it was voluntary, not a
compulsory remembrance.”
“It’s a great idea,” said the brown
eyed woman’s husband, cheerfully. “A
bit of real affection in place of some
of the monstrosities now exchanged
would be a great improvement.”
“You can make fun if you want to,’
she replied, “but when the world
wakes up to the real meaning of
Christmas—and the war I believe has
helped to wake it up—you’ll see the
effect spread over tjie entire year.
Then the first of January won’t be
associated with bills and pills, but
with the genuine eagerness to live
the next 12 months better than those
preceding.”
“In the meantime,” sighed her hus
band dramatically, ‘I hope you "havent
bought n e ar >ther smoking jacket.”
Thatme! ' said the woman
with the larown eyes. “I haven’t time
to be sitting here talking. And it
won’t be any of your affair until to
morrow morning, anyway.”—Chicago
Daily News.
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Buy your wagon from Jeffrey Bros,
at Batesville. They have the John
Deere wide-tread—the kind you like.
REAL SPONGE CAKE
It is foolish to try to make a
sponge cake without sponges. Get
two large, ripe sponges at any sponge
store. Get Florida sponges if possi
ble—sponges are raised in the sponge
groves of California, but they are
not so large, juicy and succulent as
the Florida variety. You will find
these sponges porus, and the first
thing to do is to remove the pores
from the sponges with a pair of
tweezers. Don’t bother to save the
pores—they aer not good for any
thing. Having removed the pores
from the sponges chop them up very
fine in your bread bowl. This may
be done either wnth a hash-chopper or
a pair of scissors. When you get the
two sponges chopped up, add one
quart of pastry flour, one pint of di
luted water, one pound of granulated
sugar and the shells of six eggs.
The egg shells will make the sponge j
cake brittle and crisp. If you want
to fool yourself completely, use white
sand instead of sugar. Next stir
the mass briskly with the stove pok
er, being very careful not to splash
it out on the floor. If some of the
batter should fall out on the floor,
collect it carefuly and put it back.
Flavor the batter to taste with tal
cum powder of any flavor desired—
if you want the best insist on either
Amethyst or Sapphire. Bake in a
slow oven one hour until cake is
nicely browmed. If baked longer than
this you’ll have to cut the cake with
a hammer. First try the cake on
your mother-in-law, and, if she sur
vives, its a success.
THE REAL CHRISTMAS
The real Christmas is an invisible
presence, a joyful glance of the eye, a
wonderful expansion of the heart, a
sense of comradeship with all man
kind. It is an abandonment of our
selves to Rood impulses and an almost
reckless waste of good feeling and
generosity and love, and no army of
pessimists can banish that kind of
Christmas from our hearts.
Press reports say that Chaos is
threatening in Germany—and we are
just a little bit inclined to hope that
chaos isn’t bluffing.
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