Middletown transcript., 1896-12-26
Our Wonan's
Column

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- HRlSTMAS Day,
- with its pleas
ures and rejoic-
~NA. ings. 10 here
WIs.M: again.
NJ At no other
! \NS2ZW season of the
| ~ EE;EZV@I year is the spirit
| EES51ZF of selfishness so
| T1W< effe ct ally re-
w| buked. The fes-
tivities of this joyous season bring with
1t the family reunions, the forgetting
of family feuds and the remembrance
Of "peace on earth, good will to men,
On this happy day the sinner man"
must not be neglected. Everybody
appreciates good dinner.
The turkey, Americas favorite bird
is, of course, the central dish; but who
would feel the banquet finished with
out mince pie and plum puddingp
The Christmas dinner table should be
appropriately and prettily decorated
with evergreens, holly, bunch of mis-
tletoe hanging below the chandelier,
and sprays of wintergreen everywhere
it can be tucked. Roses and chrysan-
themums seem to be the favorite flow
ers. Wherever ribbons are used, let
them be of rich, bright red, for that
is warm and glowing color, and es-
pecially fashionable this season.
Branches of holly placed tastefully
among the draperies of an apartment
add much to its cheerful appearance.
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MENU FOR CHRISTMAS DAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges Grapes
Oatmeal, Cream
Baked Apples
Omelet Stewed potatoes
Oldfashioned sausage balls Wheat cakes
Gems Coffee
DINNER.
Blue Points on half shell
Cream of tomato soup
Celery Radishes Olives
Boiled cod, lobster sauce
Plain potato balls Cucumbers
Roasted turkey, oyster sauce
Cranberry jelly
Sweet potato croquettes Peas Boiled
Onions
Roasted duck nut stuffing
Orange salad
Plum Pudding
Ices Cakes Jelly
Cheese Coffee Waters
Bonbons Fruits Nuts
SUPPER
Lobster la Newburg in chafing dish
Mayonnaise of celery
Potato croquettes Pickeled Beets
Parker House rolls.
Frozen jelly, W hipped cream
Sponge Cake
Tea.
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There is seamy side of the holiday
Season and everybody knows it,
although everybody does not acknow-
ledge it.
1t may be the greed, or the ingrati-
tude with which the gifts of the rich
are received, or the self-denial and the
disproportionate result of the gifts of
the poor. 1t may be as in three instances
known, the literal binding of one wo-
man; the laying up for months of
self-supporting teacher from trouble of
the eyes, and the like effect upon the
vision of busy mother-all by attemp-
ing to paint or to embroider Christm as
presents, and all in the endeavor to
thus let time and work take the place
of money that was not at hand.
Or the seamy side may show itself as
in this true Incident
A girl Of 13-old enough and we'll
trained enough to know better-wrote
before the last holidays to an uncle in
very moderate circumstances and just
gone to housekeeping with all the at
tending expenses: "If you don't know
what to send me can tell you that 1 |
would like either bicycle or camera"
As he had already bought her 75-cent |
book his feeling may be guessed in
transmitting the humble token of |
venuncular affection. In their turn |
these young people in their new home,
with countless demands upon their |
purse, received from the girls parents
a handsome piano lamp. They had |
already two piano lamps, and the wife
sighed: "Oh if it had only been win
dow curtains"
Another seam is the patronage, or
the SENSE Of crushing obligation, OF of Of
the necessity for payment in kind be-
yond ones means to encompass, felt by
one poor fellow-doubtless among
many Cthers-who on one December
26th exclaimed that he hated Christ
mas; all his rich relatives gave him
what he could not return nor al
low to be one-sided without a loss of
manhood.
The list may be closed by the recital
of another mans wrongs: Il paid," be
said last New Years Day. "over So ex-
pressage on the boxes my wife sent
away this year. And everything we
received was g. o. Dior city express"
1t is too suggestive of a moral 10
hint that we might all try in these
times of slowing and giving'' not to
add to the woes of such fretted souls
as any of thesep 1,