The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-01-04
A SIMPLE BILL OF FARE FOR A
CHRISTMAS DINNER.
From Hearth and Home.

grand dinners, bills of fair for little din
ners dinners to cost so much per head :;
dinners (which can be easily prepared
with one servant" and so on. They give
bills Of fare for one week bills Of fare
for each day in month, to avoid too
great monetony in diet. There are bills
Of fare for fat people, and bills OF fare for
thin and bills o: fare for hospital,
asylums, and prisons, as we'll as for gen
tlcmpn's houses. But among them all, we
never saw the one which we give below
Ii has never been printed in any book
but it. has been used in families. We are
not drawing on our Imagination for It's
ilema. We have sat at such dinners we
have helped prepare such dinners; they
are within cverybody'S means. In fact,
the most marvellous thing about this bill
OF fare is that the dinner does not cost a
cent
Ho all ye that are hungry and thirsty
and would ike SO cheap Christmas din
ner listen to thiS
BILL OF FARE.
First CourSe-GLADNEss
This must be served hot. No two
house keepers make il alike; no fixed
rule can be given for it. It depends, like
So many of the best things, chiefly on
memory but strangely enough, it de-
Ponds quite as much on proper
forgetting us on proper remcn. bering.
Worries must be forgotten. Troubles
must be forgotten. Yes, even sorrow II
self must be denied and shut out. Perhaps
this is not quite possible. All we all
have seen Christmas days on which sor
row would not leave our hearts nor our
houses. But even sorrow can be com
PEELED t. look away from its Borrowing
for festival hour which is so solemnly
ioyuns as Christ's Birthday. Memory Can
be flied full of other things to be re-
membered No soul is entirely desti-
tutG of blessings, absolutely without COM
tort. Perhaps we have but one. Very
we'll we can think steadily Of that one,
If we try. But the probability is that we
have more than we can count No man
hasyet numbered the blessipgs,the mercles
the Joys Of God We are al richer than
we think, and if we once set ourselves to
reckoning up the things of which we are
glad, we shall be astonished at this num-
Der .t
Gladness, then. is the first item, the
first course OF our bill of fare for Christ.
mas dinner.
Entries.-Love garnished with Smiles.
Gentleness, with sweet wine sauce of
Laughter
Gracious Speech, cooked with any fine,
savory herbs, such as Drollery, which IS
ALWAYS in seasun, or Pleasant "Reminiscences,
which no one need be without,a s it keeps
for years, sealed or unsealed.
Second Course.-Hospitaiity.
The precise form ofthis also depends
on individual preferences. We are not
undertaking here to give exact recipes,
only bill of fare.
In some houses Hospitality is brought
on surrounded with Relatives. This is
very we'll. In others, it is dished up
with Dignitaries Of all sorts men and
women OF position and estate for whom
the host has special likings or uses. This
gives fine effect to the eye, but cools
quickly, and is not In the long run salts
tying.
In a third class, best of all, it is served
in simple shapes, but with great variety
of Unfortunate Persons-such as lonely
people from lodging houses, poor people
af all grades, widows and childless in
their affection. This is the kind most
preferred in fact, never abandoned by
those who have tried it. aT 4a
For Dessert.-Mirth, in glasses.
Gratitude and Faith beaten together
and piled up in snowy shapes These
will cook light if run over night in the
molds of Solid Trust and Patience.
A dish of the bonbons Good Cheer and
KlldliEess with everyday notices /;
Knots and Reasons in shape of Puzzles
and Answers; the whole ornamented with
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver, of
the kind mentioned in the Book of
Proverbs.
This is short and simple bill Of fare.
There is not costly thing init; not a
thing which can not be procured without
difficulty.
If meat is desired, it can be added.
That is another excellence about our bill
of fare. It has nothing in it which makes
it incongruous with the richest or the
plainest tables. 1t IS not overcrowded
by the addition of roast goose and plum
pudding it is not harmed by the ad
dition Of herring and potatoes. Nay, it'll
can give flavor and richness TO broken
bits Of stale bread served on doorstep
and eaten by beggars.
We might say much more about this
bill of fare. We might, perhaps, confess
that it has an element of the supernatural;
that its origin is lost in obscurity; that,
although, as we said, it has never been
printed before, 1t has been known in all
ages that the martyrs feasted upon it Il
that generations of the poor, called bless
ed by Christ,ha laid out banquets by It;
that exiles and prisoners have lived on it;
and the despised and forsaken and re-