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ho "leap out of the calendar and Ce HOPE + here was a time when toward the of each year Christmas seemed Sing ahead of schedule. That 'when my Christmas preparations had boon backward. Everything was had yesh because I had the deluded 1m- pression that gifts and decorations 'must be picked fresh, like eggs, and used immediately. 'Then came the knowledge of an easy way which nas enabled me to ~mmept Christmas untired and waiting. First of all, the plan includes a little ®ook containing +a list of those who are dear to me, with an adidtional mame from time to time of people who have made the Interval between €hiistmases exceedingly pleasant. Be- side the book there is a bin and a drawer. . Nothing but Christmas stores go into them; but bew they fill! A little gift bought here, another there, a bit of needlework, some glasses of jelly arg dropped in their turn. Maga zines contribute a fruitful crop of suggestions and are actual gifts in themselves. Almost every cover that comes through the mall suggests gomeone on my list. Illusrations supply thumb-nail and full-page plc- tures that fit surprisingly well into the lives of those about me and as soon as the family and the neighbors have read my periodicals I cut the pic- tures I want and file them away. Verses and witticisme follow the pic: tures. 1 gaye every clean box and good plece of paper. The paper can be pressed with a warm iron if not too musged At odd times T apply pic- tures to my boxes and sometimes they "are so pretty I shellac them for per- manent use--boxes for stockings, gloyes, neckwear and stationery, From colored advertisements I often find borders for the sides of my boxes. $ than indiscriminate ones bought at a shop. Tree decorations also are made by pasting odd and amusing colored magazine pictures on card- board cut in the same shapes, care' being taken to insert a loop for hang: ing efore varnishing both sides. A variety of tree ornaments I found could be made Into little per- sonages of which painted empty spools are the bodies. Two lengths of thin wire, eight inches each, are pulled through the centers of the spools; the upper ends are bent for- ward for arms and the lower ends! are left handing for legs The tips of the wires are bent to simulate feet and hands. The wires may be wrap ped with colored yarns. Pants, pants alettes and sleeves are added Ww) necessary to complete a chara ization. The heads of disks of card- board anywhere from a nickel to a quarter in size, and faced with white paper or oilcloth to be painted with faces. The headpieces and wires are held with sealing wax. When my house needs a Christmasy} dress I think at once of the windows, A decorative window I like is made by cutting green crepe paper imto nar row strips long enough to reach two thirds up the windowpanes. Pasted eight to ten Inches apart they ap- pear to be tree trunks. More green paper is cut into wing-like patterns and hung as boughs, the larger ones at the bottom and pyramiding to an acute tip. The "trees" are made more realistic by applying artifictal sidw to the molst glue. | A circle of candlelighted stars Is a! charming substitute for a lack of real trees. A round barrel hoop may be used for this, painted a bright color or covered with silver paper, sliver stars Perhaps I select a handkerchief for a friend. I have little money to spend, but I wrap the tiny object with a, wealth of loving thoughts Nine, ten 'or even eleven months before Christ- mas | may have seen a small illus- tration that was particularly reminis- 'cent of her. I know too that the subject will amuse her, so I save the picture and paste it on the wrapper. A letter may be written months or weeks in advance and jinstrated at the top "Alberta Boasts Identical Triplets Two cases of that extremely rare phenomenon, human identical triplets have been revealed by Alfred E. Clarke and Daniel G. Revell, biologists of the University of Alberta, Canada. Triplets of this type are, like iden- tical twins, developed from a single egg cell. They ar® always of the same sex, and since they have the same hereditary endowments they are very much alike in appearance and also in mental and emotional make- up. Says Science Service's "Daily . Science News Bulletin" (Washington). When twins develop from separate egg cells, or zygotes, they are no more alike than ordinary brothers and sis- ters, except that they are of the same age. Indeed; they may be decided contrasts in temperament as well as physical appearance. | proceed to the Soviet capital. Triplets are usually of this non- identical type, because when a divis- fon' occurs in the egg cell, the tend- ency la for it to form two parts, not three. "The identical triplets reported by Professors Clarke and Revell are all "Boys. One set are the children of a {family of German origin living in Stony: Plain, Alberta." They are fine Aads, now ten years old, and they are the youngest of fourteen children. They 100k so much alike that thelr mother resorted to the scheme of haying each wear a gold bracelet with his name engraved on it for ident! fication. The hair of all three grows "*4n an odd clock-wise whorl at the back of the neck, although no other mem- "ber of the family has this character- istic. The finger and palm prints of hung from it every four inches and the large-sized birthday-cake rosettes plerced into the upper edge of the hoop between the stars. The circle is suspended by four wires from a hook or chandelier and can be ela- borated with holly or greens. Pictures, paste, paper, paint and spools are treasured with the gifts I, buy or make from month to month and store for the most blessed day in all the year. Soviets New Plan Chain Packing Plants Chicago.--Soviet Russia is again seeking ald in America for a govern- bment enterprise, Fifty or more engih- eerg and draftsmen, under direction of an American engineer, are trans- ferring to blue prints the best features of the Chicago meat packing industry for reproduction in Soviet Russia. The Communists plan to spend $80,000,000 in a chain of 40 packing plants. A 'committee of the Soyusmiaso (Government meat trust) after a survey of the American packing in- dusiry, opened headquarters here. Plans are being drawn for two plants, one in Moscow and the other at Semi- Palatinsk, in southwestern Siberia, Russia's cattle country, H. P. Henschien, Chicago designer of packing plants, is the commission's chief engineer. Next spring, after the last bundle of blue prints has been forwarded to Moscow, Henschien will He will superintend the building of the two plants. weil rite: Quake is Recorded In North America Cambridge, Mass.--A "well-marked" earthquake of moderate intensity was recorded at the Harvard seismograph station, recently. The distance of the quake was estl- mated at 1760 miles from Cambridge. Officials sald this was " a relatively short distance and the source may have been within the limits of con- tinental North America," i representing Quetzalcoatl Orphaned when two days old, this litter of young porkers faced a dark future until their owner, John Vincent, devised ingenious feeding trough. Dinner gong' has sounded. Santa Pays Last Visit To Mexico Quetzalcoatl to Replace Jolly Old Fi igure Mexico City. -- Quetzalcoatl, the aztec god of the alr, pictured as a gigantic plumed serpent, may replace the Canadian Santa Claus in the minds of Mexico children if an experi- ment to be tried out by the Ministry of Education as a part of its program to instil the principles of nationalism in the minds of those of school age is successful. In an official statement, the Ministry announces that figures instead of Santa Claus will distribute toys and clothing to 15,000 needy children at : the Christmas celebration The statement refers to Quetzal coatl as "the symbol of our aboriginal dieties and of our apostles, the fore- runners of our christian civilization." The giant image of Quetzalcoatl is one of the archaeological treasures of Mex- ico, forming part of the main temple at the pyramids of San Juan Teotihda- can near Mexico City, sometimes re- ferred to as the Egypt of America, The word Quetzalcoatl is a literal translation of the name of the great Aztec Maya god, Knkulean, who. bore the attributes of combined bird and snake. He was revered in the cen- turies preceding Columbus as god of the arts and crafts and of general culture. The tradition was that after instructing the people in the useful arts he departed eastward over the sea, promising to return in a speci- fled year. He was white-skinned and bearded and when the Spaniards therefore made thelr first {rruption in the year specified in the legend a hesitating policy was followed toward them by the natives which enormously facillitated Spanish penetration, Panama Canal Toll Rates May Be Raised ew York.~Toll rates at the Pan- ama Canal may be increased shortly by the United States Government, in the opinion of Col, Henry Burgess, Governor of the Canal Zone, who ar rived here recently, The canal is only paying three- eighths of one per cent. on the capital invested, he said. The total tonnage carried through it in 1930 will be ap- proximately 1,000,000 tons below the figures for 1929 and 1928, according to the governor. Farm Problems Conducted by Prof. Henry G. Bell, Dept. of Chemistry, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph one of pleasura and profit. Some Last! Minute Christmas Cookies To make Bohemian Christmas, pound 'of powdered sugar and a half ©ggs, three tablespons of cream and one pound of flour. Mix sufficient sugar and flour in equal parts to sprinkles over the dough board. Roll tha dovgh on this until it is about a quarter of an inch thick. them cut Into stars and when the cakos ara baked ice them with tals icing: Beat two tablespoons of water and thicken with conTectioner's sugar. Spread this together the yolks of two eggs and on the cakes and sprinkle ed and cut fine, then set in the oven a few minutes to dry. i Kriss Kringle Cookies sugar with the same quantity of but- pressed through a colander and three cups of nfolasses, then add a table- spoon and a halt of grated orange peel, a teaspoon of mace and one of cinnamon and enough flour to make a stiff dough. Roll very thin in ob- longs, sprinkla with red sugar and bake. Chocolate Creams Cream well one cup of butter and slightly beaten, four tablespoons of] half a cup of sugar; add two eggs, sweet milk and a teaiboon of vanilla or almond flavoring; then three cups | | of flour in which has been sifted two and one-half teaspoons of baking pow- | der and half a teaspoon of salt. Have | ready two squares of chocolate, melt- ed; add this to the above mixture, | blend well and chill; roll as thin as possible--using only a small portion | of dough at a time--cut into any| Definite! shape desired and bake in a moder- cookies rub together a quarter of a! pound of butter, add the yolks of four thickly | with almonds that have been blanch- i Cream three-fourths of a pound of ter, add a cup of preserved quinces/ Government to Produce Bone | Investigations are being made the United States Department of culture which, If successful, will lead to the commercial propagation of las vae for use by the medical profession in treating wounds and bone inflame. tions. The new treatment With larvae fis the outgrowth of an accidental discow ery by Dr. Willlam 8." Baer, former army surgeon and now of John Hop- kins University. Having observed im France two soldiers brought in after lying for seven days on the battlefield with thelr wounds heavily Infested with fly larvae but healing unusually well, Dr. Baer pondered the incident far ten years while treating many patients suffering from osteomyelitis. This disease, more common In chil dren than fn adults, {3 an inflamma tion of the bona which results in flesh infections. It is hard to cure, and it allowed to become chronle, oftem { lingers for years. About two years ago Dr. Baerstried the larvae treatment on a few of his patients, and some of the chronis cases wera cured within six weeks. Since then about 300 patients hava been treated. All children and four- { fifths of tha adults wera cured. To prevent larvas from Introducivg injurious bacteria into the wounds, the |-es&s from which they are hatched are | first disinfected by dipping them in a | solution of bichloride of mercury. Lit- tle Is known about the actual benefits | conducted by the larvae, but Dr. Baer fs of the opinion that they serve as living disinfectants. | The success of Dr. Baer's experl- ments and the large dumber of cases throughout the country to which this treatment 1s adapted have created a The object of this department ote vas Ei ; y Is to place at the service of our answers to many such questions are! othe cool put two to- : demand for larvae. Entomologists farm readers the advice of ac- | Impossible, but a bringing together| SCther With a white icing | of the Department of Agriculture ara knowledged authorities on all sub. [of such Information as applies, can German Fruit Snaps { interested now only in finding methods jects pertaining to the farm. be of untold help to the farmers of | Cream one cup of butter and add; °f propagating numbers of these Address all questions to Pro- Ontario. | two cups of sugar gradua stir into! Species under itary conditions fessor Henry G. Bell, in care of A few years age this paper publish-| this mixture, without se three! @3' possible, but also in devising ac The Wilson Publishing Company, od a double column weekly, of ques-| eggs, ine teaspoon of solved | Curate means of identifying larvae as Limited, Toronto, and answers tions and answers. It popularity of in halt a cup of warm water, onet Members of the proper spacies hefora will appear in this column in the this section is an indication .of its' pound of ch 1 raisins and one! they are used order in which they are received. value to Ontario farmers, then we are cup of chopped English walnuts, Add yo mnie When writing kind!y mention this justified in reviving this service. TI sufficient flour to make a 1g) A paper. As Ye . limited it is we have arranged to do under the! roll out, cut into rounds a: ntarctica advisab where immediate reply same editorship that proved so accept-' once U ed Is necessary that an addressed [able before. | Pop-Corn Cookies nconquer envelope be' enclosed with the Prof. Henry G. Bell, who will again Mix well one cup each of pop corn y question, when the answer will be conduct this work, 18 well known to (finely ground), figs cut nh a and New y Antarctica, the South mailed direct before being pub- Ontario farmers, He 13 Associate sugar: have ready mixed half a cup Pole"s bleak and barren base, remains lished. - Professor of Chemistry at Ontario each of butter and-milk and a beaten] MCONAU nd a challenge to man, Copyright by Wilson Publishing | Agricultural College, Guelph, Where agg and add the above mixture to it: | Rear Ad | Richard E. Byrd says Co., Limited. |he has special charge of field demon- tien add m one cup each corn in the record of his expedition to the strations and extension work In 80il} peat ang 1 info whith ius. baen bottom of tha world. Farm Problem Service fertility. His rwide experience in| sifted a teaspoon of salt and one and Thera remaing the last trace of the At no- time uslnce man undertook| farming methods, both in his native! ine halt of nutmeg and fo easpoons fca age, out of which emerged life, to till the soil has farming been|Dprovinca and in United States are ofl of haking powder. Roll out about the adr traught with so many or so great prob-| great value in this work. Besides, a third of an Inch thi cut into, , At writes the commander lems. Questions. of type, location, his own preparation and experience,| rounds and bake in a moderate oven }ol-the aol 1 ghey Tea Yio lived organization and management of the Prof. Bell will have tha co-operation St. Nicholas Filled Cookies fo mon hg by the ca of Little Amer- tarm--questions of crops, varieties,|of specialists of all departments off plang halt a cup each of buffer, 0 "We siniply tore away a bit more culture, disease and insect control; |the Ontario Agricultural College to| hrown sugar and molasses, add one, °F the vell which conceals its sacreta. questions of soll types, adaptabilities, whom he will refer questions outside ua pe aten egg, tour e3paOHS of In 3 Jarger spect it remains, and maintenance--questions of tillage,| the fleld of soil fertility. This fact | sour ilk, then three va of flour | prohialy v will 1 ain for many years manuring and fertilizing -- questions should make this column of Increas-\ yy Which there has been mixed al ° : ha, ne of the great undons of llvestock-breeding, feeding and[ing Interest and value. | teaspoon of baking pow sie toa ingks 2 aw rid 8 care, and questions re the marketing] We shall conduct the new service spoon of baking soda, ona teaspoon , Die ve aw ad, y Bon he of the products of the farm, force| under the title of Farm Problems. of cinnamon and half a teaspoon each | °T% and ent aimed, an themselves on the attention of farm-' The published questqions will be iden | of nutmeg, cloves and salt. Chill well ¥ 3 in Qe rial canes 1 are ers who aim to make thelr business tified by initials and county. | by setting on 'ice, then roll thin and ~° &V¢ 3 he mong the im- cut Into oblongs--abbut two by four POA! us expedition, -- Ey T_ Pinches.© Have prepared a mixture of, The an BYHAS of the Byrd Professor Claims Earth Is | alt a cup of honey, half m cup of| CXEeUition ara vet 10 ba divulged. The chopped walnuts or pecans, a quarter ¢ rt ' ad of a cup of freshly grated (or shred-| ' aL volumes At Least 1,825,000,000 Years Old New Haven, Conn.--The earth is at least 1,825,000,000 years old, according to calculations of Professor Alois F. Kovarik, professor. of Jaysies at Yale University. In a recent address here he reveal ed a new formula, based on the com- monly-used "radio-active time clock," by which he had been able to arrive at a calculation which agrees approxi- mately with recent astronomical com- putations. Professor Kovarik's formula extends the scope of a previously known meth- od of determining the age of radio actlve minerals--by measuring the ex- tent of transmygation from their known original form. Scientists know that radio-active miner disintegrate atomic weight. Because this rate of discharge has been found absolutely constant through centuries of change, physicians have called these rocks the "radlo-active time clock." A fragment of uraninite dug from the earth of Sinyana Pala, Carelia, Northwestern Russla, indicated the a%e of 1,825,000,000 years. It is entire- ly possible, the professor said, that other rocks will indicate still greater age. See fee. Bring In the bottled lightning, a | clean tumbler, and a corkscrew! the triplats also follow a similar pat- "tern, which is like that of the father, | but. unlike any others in the family. The! boys received practically the 19 score on an Intelligence test; they enjoy the same games and » sports; and in school they all are. good In arithmetic and poor in lan- jigs. he other set of triplets are still in infancy. re only seventeen months when 3 examined, These boys look very riuch alike, although the parents | ble to tell which is which' with: "any great dificulty. The finger- oliow the same pattern, which dittorent from thelr only sister. BEE of the various teeth. Basel, Sita ~The committee - of 'of banks of issue 'has de- Roun 8 new poe. Fd dhe Bank tor ments designed to eliminate radios fluctuations in national exehanges. The International Bank : Council ol meets Dec. 12, : They ars now over two, but | Unusual photographs of Progress of disastrous tornade n Nebraska, Loft ing to gyrate down from clouds. Third photo shows funnel as it struck. The Path of The Tornado cloud shortly before It strikes. Tornado as funnel Is start: ot ond shows blaok twister as It throk pond and sucked jt dey. Jor passage, than the temper. x { t | Bake In a slow oven for ten marked last year. -{ commenced the distribution to prairie ded) cocoanut and a teaspoon of flour. | Spread half of each oblong with the filling mixture, fold over to a square! shapa and hake in the quick oven Christmas .Rocks To two-thirds of a cup of butter and ona cup of sugar, well blended, add two beaten eggs, heat well, then add | Wp reem | How to Stop Raisins From Sinking In Cake Ralsins may he dredged with flour, and added the last thlug to the bat- ter. The flour increases friction, and helps to keep tham from sinking. They may be placed In a warm one and one-half cups of flour, with | oven to plump, and then added to the which has been sifted a teaspoon batter, when the swelling of the fruit each of cinnamon and cloves. Put! reduces tha density, and consequent- one pound of English walnuts, one! !y keeps them up pound of dates and ona pound of| D 'reamed In with the raisins through, the food chopper and | thoroughly incorporat- add to the above, then one teasy boon | od with the shortening that they will of soda dissolved In one and one-hal t| tend to stay up, or "stay put" in the tablespoons of hot water. Stir well; batter, This method results in a and drop by half teaspoons on butter. darkening of the cake, which many ed tins and bake In a moderate oven. do not object to, sinca it makes i Maryland Sand Tarts | look richer. 1% cups butter, 2 cups sugar. 4 cups Or the Taisina may be added, hand- flour, 2 eggs, Cinnamon and almonds. | Digked, ua > hy fo the batter altos | Cream butter and sugar. Add yolks| oe a Bo. oe | of both eggs and the whites of one. | | Add flour until tha dough is still] fall. y Note: Raisins which 1 enough to be rolled out and cut. With! the Rat aa " hen § | the house for soma tir a pastry brush paint each cooky with rather hard have a tenden to fdll. the remaining "White of egg, dust with] This \s av Te oma : vy i ou bo fl overcoma b a cinnamon and place almond in center. | or fifteen | minutes. [ pe | Jack Miner Tags 323 Geese in Day | Kingsville--Jack Miner, Canadian naturalist, had a busy day at his bird sanctuary recently. He caught, tag- ged and liberated 323 Canada geese in the work of compiling a recofd of the flocking activities of the birds. In addition he caught three geese he had tagged six years ago, four simil- arly treated four years ago and ten mrss soon One Hundred Million Trees Since 1901 when the Department of the Interior through its Forest Service farmers of seedlings and cuttings to establish shelterbelts to beautify and protect thelr homes, well over 100,000, 000 trees have been sent out. 4 anime It is better ,going through the world, to have the arms chafed in that nar Hillmen's , Call Proves Irresistible To Cows Oakland, Calif.--Back In the Ozarks In Mtssourl they belleved that J. R. Schriber of Springfield, Mo., was the best cow caller in the world, and they expected him to win the cow- calling championship of America at the Pacific Slopa Dalry Show in Oak land. - Just hafora Mr. Schriber went in te broadcast his appeal to cowland im his best volce, he was handed a tele gram from his admirers in Springfield which read: "J. R.: Remember you're from Missouri. You show "em." He did. With competition from 16 cow callers from seven states, he wom the American championship. Mr, Schriber is 78 years old and has heen a cowman fn Missourl. Ha what Is known as the Missour! call, which Is sald to make the most obstin- ate bossy start hone when paged. ------r-- Marriage is not a lottery, it's a pob tery--where hurian clay is made family jars. Disease se Treatm'ts |