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e t r I * 9 9 • 9 • • B • % 9 % m 9m WomarCs World By Mair M. Morsan I •»â- â- <• I I â- â- Â«Â»Â»Â» 4 MAKE XMAS CAKES NOW Eggs are sky-rocketng just as the ''10-egg cake season," that of Xmas bakins, open?. Whilf> "use only tested recipes'' Is the first rule of a successful cook, nowhere is it more important than In making Xmas cakes, crammed full of the tinest fruits and spices, held In a delicate, smooti'j batter made with the finest cake flour obtain- able. A good true recipe is of no use it It is not carefully followed and ac- curate measuruments made. And, of course, the fruit, flour and eggs are not just thrown together as thoy come to_hand â€" they must be added as specified in the recipe for, in a dark fruit cake, the fruit is added directly after the sugar; in a light, it is floured and added when the batter is well mixed. The recipe for Christmas Fruit Cake here has been carefully tested and gives a perfect cake. 1 lb. HVz cup.?) sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder % teaspoon cloves % teaspoon cinnamon % teaspoon mace 1 lb. butter or other shortening 1 ib. brown sugar 10 eggs, well beaten % lb. candied cherries % lb. candied pineapple 1 lb. dates seeded and sliced 1 lb. raisins 1 lb. currants % lb. citron, thinly sliced % lb. candied orange and lemon peel % lb. nut meats, chopped 1 cup honey 1 cup molasses % cup cider Sift flour once, measure, add bak- ing powder and spices, and sift to- gether three times. Cream shortening thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, fruits, peel, nuts,' honey, molasses and cide". Add flour gradu- ally. Turn into pans which have been greased, lined with heavy paper, and again greased. Rake in slow oven (250 deg. F.) until thoroughly done. Cool in pans. For large loaves bake In 8 X 4 X 3 inch pans about 4 hours. For small loaves bake in 6 x 3 x 214 Inch pans about 2>4 to 3 hours. Makes 10 pounds fruit cake. To store, brush lightly with port or brandy, wrap in waxed paper, and keep in air-tight container. Or brush with grape juice, wrap and store. Whit'^ Fruit Cake is becoming in- creasngly popular and ths carefully tested recipe gives a feathery lig.ht batter fo- 'i,„ dBliclous combinaton of fn" ..;iTE FRUIT CAKE 4 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder % teaspoon soda % teaspoon salt 1 Ib. sultana raisins V2 "'. citron, finely cut % lb. each crystalled orange peel, lemon peel, pineapple and red clierrie.s, finely cut 10 egg whites, stiffly beaten 1 Ib. blanched almonds, finely cut 1 cup butter or other shortening IV3 cups sugar 1 tablespoon lomon juice Sift flour once, measure, add bak. Ing powder, soda and salt, and sirt together three times. Sift one cup flour mixture over fniits and nuts; mix thoroug.hly. Cream shortening thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add remaining flour uii.xture to creamed mixture, a small amount at a time. Beat after each addition until smooth. .A.dd lemon juice, fruits, and nuts. Fold in egg whites. Pour into paper-lined tube pan or small bread Pins, 2 X % X 41/3 inches. Bake in slow oven (250 deg. P.) 21^ hours, then Increase to 300 deg. F. for 15 minutes. Makes 8 pounds fruit cake. Old-Time Brownies is a splendid recipe to have wheu using egg whites in cakes botause it uses five egg yolks to make wonderfully flavor- some cup-cakes. OLD-TIME BROV.'NIES 1% cups sifted cake flour % teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 1-3 cups sugar 5 egg yolks, beaten until thick and lemon.colored 2% squares unsweetened (diocolate, melted 1 cup sour cream 1 cup walnut meats, broken 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add soda and salt, and sift together three times. Add sugar to egg yolks, cream- ing well. Add chocolate and blend. Add flour, alternately with cream, a small amount at a time. Beat after each addition until smootih. Add nuts and vanilla. Pour into deep, greased cup-cake pans, filling them about 1-3 fult. Bake in hot oven (400 deg. F.) 15 minutes. Makes 3 dozen Brown- ines. Apples, rosy and full flavored, are Canada's pride at this sea.<;on. They keep the doctor away because they supply valuable mineral salts. To add pep and interest to a lunch or dinner menu, the clever home- maker can turn out Apple Cider Tang in a short time and at a very low rost. APPLE CtDER ANG 1 package quick setting lemon jelly powder 1 cup warm water 1 cup sweet cider IV^ cups red apples, cut in matob- stlck pieces Dissolve jelly powder in warm water; add cider. Chill. When slight- ly thickened, fold in apples. Turn into indivdual moulds. Chill until flrm. Unmould. Serves 6. Poor "Apple Betty" hasn't had a new dress since Canadian house- wives first served her. Cocoanut Ap- ple Betty is a "company" dish and yet easily made. COCOANUT APPLE BETTY 4 tart apples, pared and thinly sliced 1 cup soft bread crumbs 1 cup .'">hredded cocoanut % cup firmly packed brown sugar ^2 teaspoon cinnamon 4 tablespoons butter Arrange the layer of apples in "greased baking dish. Cover with bread crumbs an<l cocoanut then sprinkle with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon, and dot with butter. De- peat until all ingredients are used, topping with cocoanut. Cover and bake in moderate oven (350 deg. F.) 35 minutes. Uncover and bake 10 to 15 minutes longer, or until apples are soft. Serves G. Escalloped cheese and olives is a flavorsome and smartly new supper dish â€" the very tihing for late Sunday supper or "high tea" as many Can. adians still call it. And it's excellent for luncheons, too, with rye bread or bran muffins. ESCALLOPED CHEESE AND OLIVES 1 small onion, finely chopped 3 tablespoons quick-cooking tapio- ca 114 cups tomatoes, strained and heated V2 cup grated cheese buttered crumbs 1 tablespoon butter '/4 teasi>con sugar % teaspoon salt 1-8 teaspoon paprika IS ripe or stuffed olives, coarsely chopped Saute onion in butter. Add quick. cooking tapioca, salt, sugar, onion, and paprika to tomato juice, and cook in double boiler 5 minutes or until tapioca is clear, stirring frequently. Place layer of tapioca mixture In greased baking dish, cover with cheese, add layer of olives, then re- Royal Performance s UNDAY chooiesson King George and Queen Mary of Enp;lan<l pictured as tliey en- tered the flower-banked Royal Box at tlie Palladium in London to attend a command performance held there recently. Other mem- bers of the Royal Family also attended. mainder of tapioca mixture. Cover with crumbs. Bake in moderate oven (350 deg. F.) 20 minutes. Serves 4. Tomato Rabbit is one of those odd. ly named dishes, because a rabbit never came near it. Perhaps It de- scended from the old Welsh and To- mato Rarebits that were the pride of ti'.ie chafing dish expert. But this To- mato Rabbit hasn't the tendency to get stringy and tough as the rare- bits did because minute tapioca, not corn starch, is used to bind it. TOMATO RABBIT 2 tablespoons quick-cooking ta. pioca 1 cup milk, scalded 1 cup canned tomato soup 14 teaspoon salt (lash of paprika 1 cup grated cheese Add quick-cooking tapioca, salt, and paprika to milk, and cook in double boiler 5 minutes or until tapioca is clear, stirring frequently. Add tomato soup and cheese. Cook until cheese is melted. Serve on crackers or toast. Serves 4. A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR ALL THE YEAR There is no suoh thing as a poor Christmas present. Some are just better than others. Any gift offered out of a spirit of love and friendship carries a sentiment not to be dls- cardc<l lightly. All gifts, however, do not bespeak this wish so well as they migiit. Household gifts lack the desirable personal touch â€" yet purely personal presents often wear out or change style so quickly that the giving seems an ill-chosen waste. Tho per- fect gift not only gives instant pleasure, but lingers on to charm the receiver many, many times. Pets make excellent gifts. Can- aries, particularly, touch a respon- sive chord in any woman's heart. They need little care: a bit of water, some bird-food and such tiny lux- uries as will make life more pleasant for them. And in return they bring tiheir owners the gift of .song from morning till dusk. With the Christmas season coming on apace. It is well to keep this sug- gestion in mind. The novelty of the gift will surprise and please the re. ceiver. HOME HINTS When p.iper hanging, use common starch instead of flour for t^e paste. It sticks better. Is also more eco- ncunical, and makes the job much cleaner. Housewives who have no hot water supply should place the wash- ing up bowl full of cold water on the kitchen range. It will be getting ready for use. Each night take volets from their vases and place them upside down In a pudding dish. Half fill the basin with water, so that the flower deads SAYS HIS IS SADDEST JOB NEW YORWâ€" Louis Oppie believ- es he has the saddest job in the na- tion's largest city. He advanced his claim to the title at a gloomy brick building surround- ed by a high iron fence at 29th Street and First avenue. Oppie is custodian of the place. Officially it is known as the city morgue; but to him it is "tragedy terrace". Across the street, tenement eliild- ren play, unmindful of the morgue, and the life of the city whirls by. To Opple's care ai'e entrusted Man- hattan's unidentified dead: Suicides, derelicts and failures tossed aside by the city's rush. The bodies are photographed, wrap- ped in sheets, tagged and listed in the book of unidentified dead. Then they are taken to tlie basement and placed in long cases. Here are men and women who met death suddenly and alone. Some are from olher cities; they dropped out of sight without causing a ripple on New York's surface. Relatives back home wait and won- der why they do not write. Oppie sees relatives enter the morgue, and sit on a long bench wait- ing their turn. He leads their grim search through the corridors. He commutes from Jamaica to what he calls "his port of missing men." are well covered, while the stalks are left exposed to the air. In the morning gently shake the water from the petals and rearrange in vases. Linseed oil is excellent for remov. ing rust from tiie range. A novel way to scent the hair is to sew a small cacibet bag inside the hat. A. wet chamois, wrung dry, will re- move all lint from the upholstered furniture. Mahogany woodwork can be wash- ed wiUi cold tea, or with a weak mixture of vinegar and water. Silk and woollens can be ironed safely on the right side if they are covered with a slightly dampened cheesecloth. Keep a small bottle of ammonia on the desk. A dip of the pen In the ammonia will make it as clean as new. Vt . â- â€" LESSON X â€" December 8 NEHEMIAH REBUILDING THE WALL OF JERUSALEM Nehemiah 4:8-9, 15.21. GOLDEN TEXT â€" The people had a mind to work. â€" Nehemiah 4:6. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING TIME. â€" All the events recorded In the first seven chapters of the book of Nehemiah took place within a period of one year, 445-444 B.C. PLACE. â€" Susa, the ancient capi. tay of Persia, the winter residence of Artaxerxos, about elghtly miles east of tihe Tigris River; and the city of Jerusalem. "So we built the wall." This phrase can almost be called a piece of quiot humor. Nothing could stop these people. God was there. The king's de. croo was in their midst, "And all the wall was joined together unto halt the height thereof: for the people liad a mind to work. "But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobia^h, and the Ar- abians, and the Ammonites, and the .'Vshdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went for- ward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth.'' In most editions of the He- brew Bible, this Is the first verse of the fo\irlh chapter. Hero we have a complete list of the foes of Jerusa- lem. Here we find the anger of Uiese opponent! reaching its highest pitch. "And they conspired all of them to. gether to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.'' Tho sudden arrival of hos- tile forces outside Jerusalem did cer- tainly cause confusion. "But we made our prayer unto our God." Note here the plural pronouns. Hitherto there had been a melancholy solitariness about the earnest devo- tion of Neliemiali. Tihe success of his missou began to show itself when the citizens began to participate in the same spirit of devotion. "And set a watch against them day and night, because of them." Certainly prayer did not make tiiese people carelss. Men who first speak to God and manifest dependence upon him are generally found to be those who make the wisest use of every available and honorable source for bringing about those things concerning which God 'has revealed his will. "And It came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known un- to us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto Ills work." God Jias brought the counsel of the enemy to nought through the precautionary measures now taken by Nehemiah, and the enemy apparently abandoned their in- tention of making immediate attack. "And it came to pass from bhat time Ibrth, that half of my servants wrought in the work, and half of them held the spears, the siilelds, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judai'.).'' We should gather from this verso that only In the case of Nehemiahs personal attendants was there still an insistence upon arms being carried while the work of building went on. "Laded themselves; I'very one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other held Jiis weapon. And the builders, every one has his sword girded by his side, aiid so liuilded. .\nd he that sounded the trumpei was by me." Nehemiah had l:ept oversight of the entire under- taking. "And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of lihe people. The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from aimther." ''In what place soever ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thitiher unto us; our God will fight for us." "So we wrought in the work; and half of them held the .spears from the rising of the morning till tihe stars appear- ed.'' Even though Nehemiah had made elaborate plans for the defence of the city while Us walls were being built, nevertheless, tie had confldenca that his God would fight for hla people. (See also Ex. 15:3-6; 14:14; 1 Deut. 1:30; 3:22; 20:4; 28:7). Your Daughter's Height To tell how tall small daughter !•' likely to grow, take her height at th« age of seven. If she la tall, then she Is likely to be tall at Ifl, when her growth la about complete. If medium at seven, she may always be so. If short then you need not expect a tall daughter. The seven-year height Is not In- fallible, but It is better for predicting than her height at the age of 11, Dr. Edwin B. Wilson, of the Harvard School of Public Health told the National Academy of Sciences. That Is the way girls grow, ac- cording to a study of 275, whoa* Sleights were measured each yoMP from the ages of seven to 18. Custom may lead a man Into manyi errors; but It justifies none. â€" Fielding, It you know how to spend less I than you get, you have the phlloso-j pher's stone. â€" Franklin. Basque Model Here's a very sniait basque model with a very modern look, ihat will interest bright young â- hings and t!ie young business wo- man. Wool jersey, rabbits wool, vel- .•eteen, novelty crepe silks, velvet, itc, are very attractive materials Cor this dress. The shirt collar ind double row of buttons are •harnilngly young. Simple to sew â€" inexpensive, and what a remarkably chic ef- fect. Style No. 2799 is designed for sizes 11, 18' 1."), 17 and 19 years. Size IT) re<|uires S'^ yards of 39- inch material with '4 yards of 39- inch contrasting. HOW TO ORDKK PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, g'iving number and size of pattern wanted.. Enclose 15c in stamps or coin (coin prefer- red; wrap it carefullv^ and ad- dress your order to Wilson Pat- tern Service, 73 We.^t .Vdolalde Street, Toronto. FU MANCHU By Sax Rohmer THE SEVERED FINGERSâ€" Setting The Trap. Four shabby fellows saluted when [ We entsrod the Wapping River PoBee Sfation, We were I to go to Shen Yen'i in the police iauncK, which would await an alvm from u«. "But don't wait too long." Wey- mouth warn*d Smith, when plant were completed, "or you may apfxtv next in the river with half your finger* mining." The other iyto slouths, itcting on Itieir orders, had broken from Hie back into an empty shop opposite Shen Yan's, "60 insids Shen Van's like lightning when you hear ffie signal," were Weymouth's parting words to tfiein. "The launch i> ready, sir," an- nounced Inspector Ryman from tho doorway, and we trooped out to Hf ^ little craft. The chill of the water peoa- tiated my thin garments I tfio«tf^ of Fv Manchu . . . ttte Severed Fingen ... as we headed into the shadows . . • 35aa^?i;^