Milford chronicle., 1951-12-28
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Christmas is the time when kids
whO've been separated from each
other by school and studies can
get together with their pals for
holiday festivities. 1t is wonder
full, of course, if you can be on the
receiving end of an invitation. But
it is fun also to give party 1t
does take wOrk-yOu can't expect
your guests TO entertain them
selves. They must be made COM
Portable and happy every minute
they are in your home.
So if you do plan party at
Christmas, be sure the invitations
are pretty. decorations are in the
spirit of the day. food is satisfy
ing and entertainment is planned
to keep the guests amused. You
should have some new Christmas
records for dancing, and some for
singing carols.
If you want to insure having
/ people accept your invitation,
make sure it is pretty and really
inviting. You can make a lovely
star or small Christmas stocking
| or Yule tree ornament design out
of red or white or green mat paper.
Then you can write your invita-
ton on it in either white, red or
green ink.
Decorations need not be eXpen-
sive. Pick up some trailing ground
pine in the woods or buy similar
vines at the florist and decorate
your fireplace or hang a garland at
the door. You'll find fresh greens
are prettier and less expensive
than the crepe paper kind. A row
of red, white and green candles
across the fireplace or placed OF
the piano or radio cabinet will lenC
another touch of Yule to your home
While il is fun to sit down at ;
table, it is lots more fun and cas-
Ter on the hostess to serve a buf
fet supper But if you do sit down
cookie place cards would surel!
make a hit You'll need a large sof
cookie, narrow ribbon, a pape
dolly, cOlOred sugar and waite
frosting q tablespoons of suga
to ~ teaspoons of water).
Place cookie on dolly. Threar
darnihg needle with ribbon ant
sew the cookie to the dolly. YOl
can do this if you are careful t
stick the needle through with rib
bon all the way and then bac
again. Leave about five inches c
ribbon ends on each side Of tn
. cookie which you will tie in bow
Dip a tOOthpick in frOsting I
write the name on the cookie.
If you are working on a Skimp
budget, serve foods which hav
> plenty of bulk and are filling. 70
can. cream hardbOiled eggs an
serve them on rice, and that
always a nice inexpensive disl
Add some green pepper and pimer
to and the dish will take on
= Yuletide flavor. You can cook tn
creamed eggs in advance. and hay
them all ready to serve just b
heating with a little addition;
milk. Hot buns or rolls are goo
with this dish.
A Christmas quiz would be 10
of fun and really keep Fhe CUES
= on their toes. Here are some SUI
:, gested questions:
" l. When was the public singir
T of Christmas carols forbi
- den?
g 2. Did mothers read The Mig
- Before Christmas to their chi
- dren during the RevOlutiOna,
=. War?
"a 3. What were Che names Of Sa
ta's RENDERS?
II 4. When was the first Christina
Al, card sent out and from VIII
"a country did it originate?
" ;. How did the legend that San
20 Claus comes down a chimn
h. originate?
m 6. What English queen request
,n Christmas gifts from her su
"T jects?
Answers: ND During the da
of Oliver Cromwell in the Purita
dominated 18th century. ca \
because is wasn't written I'm
1922. go Prancer, Dancer. DOnd
A Bitten, Comet, Cupid. Dash
to Vixen. (4) 'Tis said the fiji
Christmas card originated in En-
k land during the reign of Que
a Victoria. 50 In TeutOnic tim
lis Hertha, goddess of the hearth a
he home, was supposed TO desce
Mt through the smoke of burning
a boughs. Santa Claus was la
ire identified in the same wav
he Queen Elizabeth stipulated Il
her subjects give her Chrism
,ut presents.
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