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wishes and preferences take the place OF
the money you can't honestly afford to
spend.
Another one of the mistakes of Christmas
you will be able to see while 1T Is stih at
close range is the rush in which you were Al
during the week or more before the holiday
You were driven to death with the final
shopping. the marketing. the preparation
of the Christmas goodies, the wrapping
and ribboning and sealing and sending on
of presents. You are quite likely to de-
clare pettishly that you never want 10 see
another piece of tissue paper. or bit OK
red ribbon or tinsel string. or Christmas
seal again as long as you live! You are
sick to death of theml
Again, let me ask how this harmonizes
with the true Christmas spirit. To this
the sort OF thing the Founder of the Festl-
val would have liked to see among the other
qualities brought out by his birthday
OF course, it is not the true you who
feels all this. The strained and wearied
nerves of an overweight woman, not the
heart, are at fault. Make up your mind
that next Christmas everything will be
different and plan for it while the de-
fects of the last one are still present with
you.
Resolve upon reforms which will not be
radical as to rob the day OF its
joys but will make it safer and saner than
the last one. Start your next Christ
mas list the first of January. You
couldn't make better New Years reso-
luton. Spread the hurried Christina .
rush out so thin that 1t will cover the
whole year, and there will be all the differ
ence between a torrent foaming through
high and narrow banks and a spring broad
ening itself out over a meadow IT refreshes
and beauties The Christmas spirit is
broad enough and elastic enough to stretch
over a whole twelvemonth without the
least injury to itself and with great benefit
to the twelvemonth and to youi
Give this same idea to your children and
you will have provided them with a way
to rally from the Christmas reaction. II
they can begin to think in concrete form
about another Christmas while the Joys
of this one are still fresh upon them they
will not have the cruel drop from expect
ancy to safety. The love that the Christ
mas thought is meant to show fails OF its
meaning when 1t Is limited to any one sea-
son. Even the little children can get a
perception of this kind and take their part
in helping you to make Christmas not OF a
day but for all time.
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MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAND.

ciousness, but use whatever you like in that
line.
IF you make the pudding according
to this recipe-'y your content will be your
best having
If you measure ingredients in a tea
cup, use one egg the less. If in quart
bowl use two more.
1T is a genuine pleasure to contribute
this recipe. AS have said, 1t is CEN
fury old. 1t has been in our family for
generations. / have used 1t for forty years.
MRS. NJ. r. W."
I hope with all my heart that the home
sick man will espy your letter and find
in the great city which Is his home the
woman who can put the various con-
stituent parts of the recipe together as
his mother used to mix them in his boy
hood when everything tasted better than
1t ever can again to him. 1t is well for
him to comprehend this, that possible dis
appointment may be softened.
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Recipe for Pumpkin Bread.

Read a few Sundays ago that a Con-
slant Reader desired recipe for pumpkin
bread.
" In looking over my clippings I see that
I have two recipes for the bread, neither
of which have tried. 1 will send both:
Il. BROWN BREAD WITH PUMPKIN
have the fresh, sweet yellow cornmeal and
rye meal (not rye four).
g" Sift together cupful and half of yell
low cornmeal, the same quantity Of rye
meal and half a teaspoonful of salt. Add
a quarter cup of molasses; one cup of pump
kin juice; one cup of milk and half tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in two table
spoonfuls of milk. Beat the batter thor
oughly; turn into two quart brown bread
tin and steam for five hours.
%. PUMPKIN BREAD-Stew a good
sized pumpkin as for pies; mash fine, and
stir to stiff dough with -four and add a
teaspoonful of salt. Mix well; turn into a
creased breadpan anc bake in a slow oven
for three hours or more. 1t may be eaten
hot or cold, but it is best if when cold it is
cut into thick slices and fried, then served
with jelly with sweet pudding sauce.
MRS. r. c."
Since you do not certify from personal
experience for the palata!bleness of either
OF the recipes you are so kind as to con-
tribute in response to a sisters need you
will not take it amiss If say that they do
not seem to me to be any improvement upon
the good old fashioned pumpkin pie. Per-
haps they are not intended to supersede
that in our affections? We thank you for
the novelty. Those who love pumpkin for
the peculiar flavor thereof will get it here
un6isguised by spices and custard.
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formulated by other writer's on Christmas
topics and buy your presents we'll ahead Of
time. Some one has recently written of the
advantage of purchasing two Christmas
presents month Throughout the year, and
it impresses me as an excellent idea Don't
you know how often you have heard a
friend express desire for a certain pos
session and have racked your brain after
wards, when Christmas drew near. to recall
the wish? Very well, let this serve a
suggestion. Keep a record of the presents
for this friend or that and get them as you
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against hope that she will receive 1t some
how. and wishing her the best possible sue
cess and the same to the Corner.
BY the way, wish you would tell US
how to join it, and when to write and to
whom. I should like TO be one Of your
family"
ORIGINAL RECIPE FOR BREAD
Pare and slice five small or three medium
sized potatoes and boil in one and half
pints of water. Cook them slowly until
they soft enough to put through the
ricer. By then there should be three pint
cupfuls of the liquid. potatoes and all. II
you have not as much as that, make up
with enough cold water to fill the three
cups. Then measure another pint of cold
water, in which soak two cakes Of COM
pressed yeast To the potato water add
two taJblespoonfuls of melted lard, half a
cup of sugar, and small handful Of salt.
Lastly, flour enough for a thick batter.
Beat hard with .oden spoon until light
and hubby Next comes the water in
which the yeast has been thoroughly dis
C mix in little more -four and beat
again for a few minutes, and add -four
gradually until the dough is dry. Work
it with the wooden spoon as long as you
can, then knead 1t with the hands long and
well. being careful not to get IT too stin.
If, by some false calculation you should
get It too stiff, soften It with a little cold
water.
when you have finished kneading It
rub a little lard or butter over the bottom
and the sides of the pan to prevent stick
ing and to do away with the necessity OF
using more -four for kneading for the
final rising. Set IT to rise and let 1t gain
about twice or even three times the orig
inal bulk before kneading 1t down again.
~ 20 Faip IA has . Fu Heb
again make into loaves and put into the
pans in which 1t is to be baked.
The whole process should not take over
five hours from start to finish If the dough
is cared for right. It should be kept warm
but never hot! Better too cool than too
hot.
The yeast should be crumbly when
broken, but not hard crumbs. Never use
tough or 'rubbery looking yeast use
a particular brand of flour which prefer.
but have made good bread with other
brands.
II have entertained guests from almost
every quarter OF the globe, and from one
and all have received high praise for my
fine bread
1.-THE above recipe will make six large
loaves. If fewer are desired, use less water
and yeast in proportion 10 the number
needed. NJ. z. c.
A sprightly correspondent. in asking for
a recipe not long ago begged me to % make
it fool-proof, in writing it out. so that the
veriest simpleton could not err therein"
That. to my notion, is the acme Of perfect
recipe making You have exemplifled this
in the formula, which I am too public
spirited to pass over by mail in a sealed
envelope to " Mrs. Julia H." II she is the
woman take her to be she will forgive me
- he y,so
property a little longer.
For simplicity of composition and ease
in the making your bread should take a
prize. We are ready to believe that fl Is
likewise as fine as your fortunate visitors
declare.
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are not obliged to go to the shops and thus
you are less likely to fall a prey to the
microbe of Christmas buying.
This work in advance has also enhanced
the worth of your gifts because they are
now the product Of thought and considern-
ton and are not merely articles snatched
from counter and paid for-or charged!
Here is another chance to apply remedy
for the contagion. Don't have your pres
ents charged! Pay cash for thenI
I know this is hard saying to follow.
can hear your protest now.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

BECAUSE Of The enormous number of
II letters semitic The department must ask
contributors TO limit their communications 10
100 UOrds, except in cases of formulas or
recipes which require greater space. I UGnt
ell my correspondents to hare shouting in
ths Corner. and II my request In this respect
Is complied toith it ril Be possible 10 print
mary more letters.
Attention Is called 10 the fact that Marion
H0Tland cannot reeeioe money for patterns,
as she has no connection lCih any department
that sells them. Marion Harla7d.
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Original Recipe for Bread.

Mrs. Julia H asks for a recipe for
home made bread in which both potatoes
and compressed W figure prominently.
This is not the recipe to which she refers,
as this originated in our family. If you
find it too long, kindly let me have the ad-
dress of the member who asked for It and
I will mail 1t to her.
wrote the recipe last Sunday; tore 1t
up on Monday and today decided to rewrite
it for the dear old lady's sake, hoping almost
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symposium upon the =" Nexed Question" in
which other tender hearted women take
part, you will see why preferred to open
the matter to discussion to attempting to
solve the puzzle single handed. In one Of
the letters written by one of these compass
sionate souls the very point raised by your
self of seeking other church associations
is treated fully.
Believe me when say that no other social
and domestic problem engages more of my
most serious thoughts than nat illustrated
by Emily F. If discussion would bring
calculation I would gladly resign this page
to It for weeks together. May I ask your
consideration of the solutions rendered by
the several contributors to the first and
second symposiums to which place has
been given?
Old Fashioned Plum Pudding.
II have read lately Cbut I think not
In your column a piteous plea for the
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whom you intend to give them. At this
stage you are prone to mutter vaguely:
What shall I get for Cousin Jane?"
Would this do for Aunt Maria?'' " No"
Uncle John never uses tobacco, but can't
think of anything for him but that smoking
SET "Of course it's of no special use,
but then she has everything already and
this will do as well as anything
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can. Don't say you haven't the money for
1t when you think of 1t! You certainly
don't have it when the holidays come
around!
If you get or make your two presents-or
your one personal---very. month you have
percepibly diminished the strain that is
put upon you during the last month Of the
year. If you have little to purchase you
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But 1t is saving Of time to have a
charge account at the Christmas rush!
You don't have to wait for your parcels
and then cash payments are such a pull on
ready money that It makes it dreadfully
hard!"
Is it any less hard to pay the bills when
they come in the .rst of January and
then perhaps again the first of February or
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the better OF it you must plan for its treat
ment when you are Just convalescent
from your latest attack and are meditating
mournfully upon the ravages it has
wrought in your pocketbook. Since you
are almost sure to fall q victim to 1t again
If you are exposed to 1t. arrange to keep out
Of the zone Of contagion.
In order to do this try to follow the idea
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course it's difficult, The joy OF giving is in
the air, the longing to spend and be spent
for those you love holds you in Its grip.
There are few things more painful than
to be just to yourself before you are gener-
Gus to others and yet injustice to yourself
here means injustice to them as well. Think
this over and see If you don't agree with
me- Then make planning and study of
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March? I have known persons who did not
get over the strain of the Christmas
counts until we'll along in the spring or
summer. Can you think of a greater trav-
esty of the true spirit of Christmas than
thus to burden yourself for months after
the day which should mean peace as well
as good will?
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per, or the hair brush. 1t will do most of
them good and teach them obedience when
nothing else will. But girl should never
be spanked after she passes her infancy
nor a boy after he is Il or ID years old. If
spanking up to that age has not cured their
faults or evil practices no amount of it
administered afterward will.
No right minded parent will ever whip
a little girl over 7 or years of age. By 80
doing they hurt an indehnable something
away down in the girls consciousness that
she will never get over. And her pride.
too, that large asset in the girl, is deeply
hurt AS for the boy over II. a beating
simply hardens him.
Our correspondent thinks that a little
more whipping of boys 10 and 10 years old
would lessen the amount of crime in the
country. She probably does not know that
very recently New York state examined
into the history OF the boyhood of each of
the criminals confined in the state prison
for murder and other terrible crimes and
found that nine-tenths of them were
brought up by fathers who hogged them
constantly until they were dead morally
and every bit Of manhood they ever had
was driven out of them.
"A prominent educator said once that If
the parents could be spanked instead of the
children, matters would often turn out
much better.
Il have written more than I meant to
say and perhaps I have put 1t rather
strongly, but believe everything I have
said is true. One more point must make
is this: 1t is a fact that in all the articles
one reads upon this important question, we
see that the strongest advocates of cor
poraI punishment are those who were
whipped most when they were young.
Does not this fact In itself tell a story7
WALTER S. W., NJ D."
A point, let me add. which may well set
US to thinking. Do the said men and wom-
en-, in the retrospect and the perspective
of mature years. recognize the benefcen$
effects in the long run of what seemed at
the time grievous -? Or was the moral
sense deadened for all time by the dis
cipline?
wish I had room for other communica-
lions bearing straight and hard upon the
subject before US But the limitations and
exigencies Of space may not be ignored
Sympathy for Emily F"
Pardon me for saying am grievously
disappointed at reading your curt dismissal
of the sorrows expressed by Emily F. She
seems so lonely and depressed! Could you
not have given her some words of encour-
agement, or suggest some plan by which
she could communicate with other dones-
tics of American BIRTH She looked to you
for a word Of sympathy, hoping that your
friendly hand would guide her to g. place
of good cheer and helpfulness- Are there
not some church circles where this lonely
woman would be welcome?
Perhaps in publishing her letter you
have opened the way by which she VIII
gain friends. II I were not hundred miles
away it would give me pleasure to welcome
her to my home and to try to bring a ray
of sunshine into her Swallowed life.
Please do not think that am finding
fault with you'll Only I felt so sorry for her
after reading her letter.
" Mrs. MARY NJ. L. r. .
If, as I hope. you have read by now the
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Buy Presents ahead of Time.

I grant the prevalence and contagiousness
OF the disease and If you ever wish to get
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Spread the Rush Out Thin.

Decide what you can afford to pay for
presents, set that sum aside and make a
conscience Of not going beyond it! OF
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T dbulate Your Mistakes.

OF course the children are not disposed
to look beyond the day itself. In child
hood the long, long expanse which
stretches from one December to another
equals the grownups conception of eter-
nifty. I reconect in my own almost-baby-
hood asking my mother when there would
be another Christmas. The latest one
seemed already lost in the mists of mem
Dry. When she told me that the next one
would not come for eleven months it
seemed further ahead than the beginning
of the twenty-fr century would now!
Don't expect your children to make any
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Potato cake.
Toast.
Tea and coffee
LUNCHEON.
Baked Welsh rabbit
Stewed potatoes.
Brown bread. cut thin
Nut cake and jam.
Cocoa
Bean soup based upon liquor in which beef was
cooked
Cold corred beef.
Macaroni with cheese and tomato sauce.
Canned asparagus.
Mince pie with cheese.
Black coffee.
X -
WEDNESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Hawaiian pineapple.
Cereal and cream.
Salt mackerel with gravy.
Graham biscuits.
Toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Clam broth in cups.
Corned beef hash Ia left overl.
Baked potatoes.
Macaroni warmed over from yesterday.
Breakfast mullins with honey.
Tea and fancy crackers.
DINNER
Yesterdays SOUP
Brunswick stew based upon fowl.
Boiled rice.
Scauoped sweet potatoes.
Indian meal pudding.
Black coffee.
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THURSDAY.
BREAKFAST
Oranges
Cereal and cream.
Cheese onnelet-
Rice mullins.
Toast
Tea and coffee
LUNCHEON
Fried apples and bacon.
Whole wheat bread. cut thin and buttered-
Egg and lettuce salad
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Hal are you going 10 90 WhSn
A Christmas is over?
NM The children of the household
will show frankly that they regret
It, Perhaps regret is too reticent
an expression to apply to the sense of the
return from the fair, the reaction, the feel
ing of slump which will fill their small
minds and hearts on the twenty sixth of
December and the days Immediately fol-
lowing.
"Out of the day and night
A Joy has taken flight"
and the average child has no method of
showing the melancholy brooding over him
except by whining and crossness.
You seniors will be tempted to whine and
be cross. too. after Christmas. If your
ccnsciences will let you indulge your in
clinations Christmas will have left a
crop for you which the youngsters hap
PLY do not have to garner. In the
appreciation of this you are likely to say
to yourself that after all Christmas
hardly pays when you consider all the work
and expense it has meant and the depres-
sion which treads on the heels of the reali-
cation of a long anticipated pleasure.
With the children a certain reaction is
almost unavoidable. 1t is certainly in
evitable unless they guided away from
It both before and after the holiday. For
YOU who remember many Christmases, who
have gone through all the period of en-
thusiasm and encouragement, experience
should be an aid in teaching yen how to
escape the worst sensations connected
with " the cold gray dawn of the morning
after"
The trouble with most OF US is that we
plan too much for looking forward to
Christmas and don't give enough attention
to looking back upon it in way which
will help to make retrospect a happiness.
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SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Grapefruit.
Cepea1 and cream.
Fried scallops.
Beaten biscuits.
Toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON
Cream of satisfy soup In cups otherwise % mock
oyster soup"l.
JelIied calves tongues
Beaten biscuits from breakfast.
Baked sweet potatoes
Endive salad with French dressing.
Crackers and cheese
Cream puffs.
Tea.
DINNER
JuIienne soup.
English chops Including each a lambs kidney
Green pea souffie [canned peas1.
Caulhower.
Pumpkin pie and Swiss cheese
Black coffee.
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MONDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Tangerinea
Cereal and cream.
Rolled bacon and scrambled eggs
Rolls.
Toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Dreaded sardInes on toast.
Cream cheese and pInento sandwiches
Lettuce salad.
Toasted crackers with American cheese
Boiled erstards and cake.
Tea
DINNER
Yesterdays soIp.
Corned beef with horsera dish sauce.
Mashed turnipS.
ScaI1oped caulifower La left oyerl.
Bread and marmaiade pudding.
Black coffee.
= y
TUESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
Cereal and cream.
Bacon
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Crackers and cheese.
Corn starch pudding.
Tea.

Crackers and cheese.
Corn starch pudding.
Tea
DINNER
Canned corn chowder
Brunswick stew a left overl.
Rice croquettes Ia left overl.
Stewed celery.
Taptoca pudding.
Black coffee.
FRIDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges.
Cereal and cream.
Fish balls.
Corn bread.
Toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON
Lambs liver and bacon.
Potatoes la Lyonnaise.
Toasted corn bread.
Cookies and tea
DINNER
Oyster bisQue.
Boiled Goldfish with caper sauce
Mashed POI atoes.
Canned green peas
Floating island
Black coffee.
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SATURDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Baked apples.
Cereal and cream.
Ffnnan baddte-
Popovers-
Toast.
Tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
nee of liver and bacon upon toast a left overl.
Green pea pancakes Ia left Over].
Fruit salad
Crackers and cheese. toasted
Jelly cake and tea
DINNER
" Scrap soup" VARIOUS left overs skillfully
blended.
Tfmbales Of goldfish IA left oyerl.
Potato puff Ia left overl.
Spinach
Currant loaf and coffee
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THAT are you going to do when
Christmas is over?
wv The children of the household
will show frankly that they regret
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-02-27

Thord laid some money on the table.
The priest counted It.
1T IL a great deal Of money" said
he.
1T is half the price Of my gard. I
sold today"
"What do you propose to do now.
Thord?"
Something better"
They sat there for . while. Thord
with downcast eyes. the priest with
his eyes fixed on Thord. Presently
the priest said. slowly and softly:
Il think your son has at last brought
you a true blessing"
"Yes, think so myself" said
Thord. looking up. while two big tears
coursed slowly down his cheeks.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-02-27
Money In Gathering Gum.

Money In Gathering Gum.
A gum hunter gathered l,S00
pounds Of spruce gum the last sum.
mer In the Adirondack mountains.
Inc most he ever secured in . Sin.
gle DAY was 30 pounds. His profits
may DO estimated when II IL known
tnat any druggist will gladly pay
$1.so . pound for The gum.