Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-24

DECORATIONS FOR THE
TABLE-AN EXCELLENT
PUNCH RECIPE-GUARD-
ING THE CHILDREN
AT CHRISTMAS.
There's a hustle and thrift In the city,
There's profit and pleasure untold,
And sorrow, the more Is the pity,
There's silver and jewels and gold;
Cafes offer menus inviting,
But you turn from each Spire and dome
To dream of the theme more inviting
A Christmas dinner at home.
No salaried chef. Just our mother.
No wine well selected and placed,
But dinner, was there such another
Fer cooked to appeal to your taste?
There may not be daintiest tongs for
The sugar, but what famous tome
On cookery holds what one longs for
A Christmas dinner at nome!
The turkeys rave never such dressing,
The pies seem the verlest paste,
And you find you're not shamed at con-
Tossing
All the rest of the year you may reasoS
You're happy 'neath spire and DOME,
But you long for in holiday season
A Christmas dinner at home.
What to Eat
Let all be merry and happy and full
of good will toward their neighbors to-
morrow. This is no season for malice
and envy, and if you are a generous
man or woman but once in the year, let
it be now. Don't wait until the new
year to make your resolutions, but be-
gin now. Give all you an, but let IL
be done with the true Christmas
spirit.
1t has been truthfully remarked that
the presentation has quite as much to
do with making a gift acceptable as the
article itself. Christmas packages are
sent Ito be in correct form, and there
fore should be dainty in appearance.
If boxed, then ribbon-tied with a spray
of holly through the knot Of the bow
If wrapped use white silk tissue paper,
the ends fringed and twisted to hold
the gift, and for greater safety tied over
with sherry ribbon" which is nothing
more than feather-edged, in all widths
and the red of the holly-berry.
The decorations for the Christmas
table, as usual, will be largely Of holly,
red roses and red carnations. A pref
ty way to arrange the dining roc is
to carry ropes of laurel from the cor
ners of the room to the chandelier,
which should be decorated with green
and hung with the silvery berries of
the mistletoe. Holly wreaths for the
windows, tied with bright red ribbon,
can be obtained by everybody, and the
cost of laurel roping and holly is so
slight that it comes within the reach
of the most humble.
The turkey and pies, the cranberry
sauce and the vegetables are the time
honored staples of Christmas, but
there must be nuts, of course, and plen-
ty of them. Not Italian or Spanish
nuts to-morrow-we've had enough Of
the latter to crack lately-but our own
native American nuts; the rich but
ternut; the sweet hickory, and the
mealy chestnut. If no nut cracker is
at hand, a hammer and the side OF a
fiatiron will work wonders. Here is
the secret of cracking these nuts:
Direct each blow on the narrow side
of the hickory and the pointed end of
the butternut.
Then we must have popcorn. Get a
big wide pepper; shell a quart of corn,
which must be dry enough to almost
rattle Off the cob itself; put a half cup
full in the pepper and shake merrily
over a good bed of Goals, slowly at
first, then rapidly, until, with a rattle,
the tender kernels bursts TRANSPORTED
from their cerements. Empty quickly
in a big, bright tin pan; sprinkle the
corn while still warm with salt; and,
* you want It specially delicious,
melt : tablespoonful OF sweet butter
ana stir e1rouKh y.