Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-12-08
Good Cookery
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
IN THE HOUSEHOLD.

be said to be likely to increase love or
much fruit of family affection. 1nsinu-
ate advice or gentle reproving suggestion
at some other time; birthdays do well for
that sort Of thing II any one desires to
bestow sugar coated pills on fete days.
But on the 25th of December let us give
unadulterated sweets rich to the core
with thoughts of what the recipient real
ly covets."
BREAKFAST.
Grape Fruit. Cereal
Crisped Pork with Milk Gravy.
Buckwheat Pancakes. Maple Syrup.
Coffee.
DINNER,
Celery Soup with oysters.
Sailed Peanuts. Picked Pears.
Pot Roast Beef. Mashed Potatoes.
Dreamed Turnips.
Cold Slaw.
Mince Pie. Sage Cheese.
Nuts.
Sweet cider.
SUPPER.
Dreamed oysters on Toast.
Neufchatel Cheese Sandwiches.
Chocolate Cake. Canned Peaches
Tea.
The woman trying to make 50 do the
work OF SIS torn with doubts as to wheth-
er the little gifts already selected are
sure to please the recipients. amazed to
find that postage and eXprcssage are go
ing to cat a hole in the fast diminishing
sum of Christmas money equal to the
gifts themselves, worn to fragile with
the hand-to-hand encounter of the jost-
ling shopping crowds the top lofty in
difference of the "salesladies" and the ex-
asperating slow delays of the money
changers beset with fear that some one
will be forgotten or injured or disappont-
ed. comes the thought that an extra chap
ter in the Simple Life might well be
added on how to make of the holidays
days OF joy. gladness and sweet remem-
brance of others, without leaving the
house mother a nervous wreck at their
close.
Something has become vitality wrong In
our modern method of celebrating the
Nativity; and it is not that we are trying
to do too much and in pursuit of the ma
tiful. spiritual significance?
If the purse is narrow, the strength
limited, why not look those facts straight
in the face and act accordingly.
| one can keep a happy and even jolly
Christmas without gifts, l suppose; but
the custom is so natural so delightful, so
fun of possibilities Of happiness for those
who give as well as those who receive
that it is worth curtailing in other direc-
! tons to keep it up. But there must be
discrimination. The children are to be
| first considered. Christmas Is peculiarly
their day and to lose the memory OF
Christmas jollity and joy in the giving
and receiving of gifts would be an ire
parable loss They do not require, how
ever, costly toys and great accumula
tons of expensive and complex things. II
is not in the quantity nor the cost that
the child finds it's pleasure, but nearly al
ways the thing with which he can dc
something. Then come the aged the sick
the poor, the respondent. and lastly deal
friends who love US not for the loave.
and fishes that we can furnish, but fol
Yourselves. TO such n sprg of holly Oh
mistletoe tied with a bit of gay ribbon,
letter forging still closer the old links o
affection, Il dainty card with the swee
Christmas message; Peace on earth
good Will to mem" These often convey
more than meaningless bit of bric-a
Ibrac, never to be used by the recipient
Cut short as out of keeping with swee
Christmas spirit, the buying of senseles
Expensive trifcs to send hther and you t.
those whom You do not love and who dc
not love you, making annual barter o
what should be free-will offerings, not
gust got to do it whether | can afford il
or not