Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-18
BAB'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE.

are absolutely making love to the girls.
while husbands are growing Affection
ate TO their wives. Before you realize
IL is Christmas eve you are asked If
You want to help get the presents
ready. and. feeling yourself young
again. off you go, prepared to tie up the
many packages. You don't know what
1t means, you from the north. There
are hundreds of packages to tie up.
There Is an apron for this one. hand
kerchief for that one. n gown for the
other, tiny purse holding little
money, a pouch filed with tobacco and
always there are to be fixed bags for
holding candy nuts and raisins. Who
are they for? For the innumerable
darlSies who have never recognized
that they have no claim upon that fam
lily with whom they were born They
all come trooping home at Christmas
time and expect that the madame of to-
day will be as generous as the madame
of 80 years ago. who owned them. And
this madame feels the responsibility.
for as You stand with her tomorrow
morning, helping her to give out her
presents. You Will see boy come up.
who will say. Madame, don't you know
me? Use Celestines Tom the afore-
said Celestlne having betrayed the hid
ing place of her mistress silver during
the war. but returning after 1t expect
ing to be cared for when III and getting
Just what she expected. sThere will ap-
pear an old man. who will say, Honey.
YOU didn't spec to see ole Uncle Jake.
but Use done come for my Christmas
money" All the year around Uncle
Jake goes out saving wood, and he
would not do quarter of n cord for the
1,ss ~
Yet they all feel that they belong to the
Cary household. and when they are
talking will say with an air of pride:
oh, you amt nuthin; you amt nuthin
'cept Yankeel Use been attached to
the Carys fob generations" And these
southern ladies', remembering that. aft
er all. the darkies are only grown up
children, forget their faults, remember
their virtues give to them generously
and honestly wish them a merry Christ
mas and a happy New Year.
| 1t Is nearly time for dinner. We all
| have on our finest frocks and are only
waiting to see the dignified old butler
| roll back the doors and open the very
gates of delight, for that is what n
| good dinner means. You who in the
north are sitting down to turkey, the
driest bird that was ever eaten: who
| ind delight in pumpkin pies, the fiat
| test pastry that was ever made, ought
to be with me. Our dinner Is COM
menced with terrapin, and this terrapin
is not served after the fashion peculiar
| to many fashionable restaurants in
| New York. where 1t is SO deluged with
| wine that the flavor of the terrapin is
lost. No. Here 1t Is cooked simply with
butter. favored with pepper and salt
| and II you don't know just what ter
rapln means and how perfect its favor
is you can throw little madeira into
your own special portion. but somebody
who knows better Will look at you with
surprise II you do. Then we have can
vasbaok ducks at one end OF the table
Just high enough and so perfectly cook.
ed that when the carving knife goes ir
the blood spurts out. They have truly
been cooked in the ideal way-carried
through a hot kitchen by coolheaded
cook. At the other end there are roast
capons, flanked, as they should be. by Q
home cured ham. the outside of which
is delicate brown. the result of It's
having been smeared with the yolk OF
an egg mixed with n little wine that
has some sugar in IT. The southern
housekeeper knows. as does the Eng
lish one. that with white meat there
must always be eaten ham or bacon
Consequently the chicken never ap.