The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05
FEM EN.

Food for Thought and Christmas. Now that we have become accustomed less sugar and halves of turkeys perhaps you won't mind giving little consideration to the Christmas First off the lordly and sound fruit cakes and plum buildings must gain their sweetness and poundage with the aid of butter substitutes and syrup n stead of sugar although there will be butter than last year The Ladies Gazette and the Rural Gentleman repee with page after page of illustrations that show table laden with everything from turnps to turkey cran berry jelly to chiffon pie and glazed sweet potatoes to grapes The usual sidenes of salted nuts glazed nuts, mixed nuts hard candies and rasns attract but are not often attacked for couple of days until the last of the gravy has disappeared and the wshbone hangs on con venient hook ready for the pull There many at tractve in house during the holidays but none has the attraction of the weigheddown dining table with all four extra leaves inserted and covered with that treasured double damask linen cloth which is worth it's weight in gold Once set the table stays for suc cession of meals such Christmas cocktail parties with snacks Christmas suppers that feature scaoped oysters salads designed color and shape than taste, WaSSa bowls steWS and what have All these trfes have nothing to do with the major opus in food that makes the table creak Christmas day The usually along lines similar to those of the before even though food coumnss make play for starting something different such smoked turkey lima beans with scaoped Spam bits and gace of carrots wild rice and chopped peanuts: So it goes, folks There's lots of food for thought and Christmas in the next few weeks eat drink and make merry
 VETERANS RETURNING to the home they've dreamed about for four long years are facing peck new troubles Yessir the biggest blow heavier than barrage of German 80 is the fact that the baby of the family has forgotten all about papa during his long absence It is particularly irritating to learn that little is much chummier with the neighborhood grocer the garbage than he is with his doting father Then when the recently discharged GI starts out that ong-anticpated shopping tour for bright shining, cvvies, he can't find shirts. The that packed away in 1922 two sizes two small, and he likes em pure white in sharp contrast to resome khaki But shirts So he calls up all his haberdasher friends just back from servce-and he finds they themselves haven't got any white shirts They're pnchhting with the old G. ho fo 4oho, chi onH take the family for spin into the peaceful countryside It then that friend wife forces herself to relay the news that she stripped the gears in the family gas buggy back in 942 and just didn't get around to doing anything about it because tires hard to obtain So to sooh his saggng spirits he asks his happy spouse to make some toast and tea. But again she apologetc The wires in the toaster burned out back in 1943 So he takes lonely walk thnkng-how beautiful are the Connecticut hills to the flat volcanic island of Two Jma streaked with red How much he'd like to have $1O0 to throw away little Joes Christmas. How great it would be to find vacant family home and get away from the noisy family upstairs. But then-home no matter how far removed from dreams far better than the foxhoes of the snkng Japanese isandsand little Joe really warmed up little this morning. Sotheres always the fuureand things getting better all the time.
 Christmas Echoes Let's just stay in this depart ment and get much as Now here's nice pair of woody bedroom slippers only they size 81a and want 512, what do you think? Yes I'd like separate boxes. The ties in the shirts in the pajamas in one, and the sweater in one. You're welcome. THANK 1OO! :WlH you walt OH lHe TLLfAoE! i've peer! "a1- ing half hour want four pairs of these stockings in size ten. You're out of that size? Jeepers We'll let's sink push along to the glove counter Have you any mttens like this in red? No? Have you any in blue? No? What color have you get them in? Just this pair in brown? Let's to other department before start throwing things. Now, this won't be hard. al ways like the book department. Where's my list? No, that's the bakery list Here it is. Mo- it isn't that's something else forget to get We'll don't seem to have the book list, and never many books in all my life, but don't know what to get. All right, I'll back tomorrow-maybe. We'll, here at the hand kerchiefs. Let's buy couple dozen and call it day.