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ey WL Sle age ZY $ "i ro gg 2 ly fo ge 5 TABLE TALKS.. Cranberry Relish, Pudding, Sauce Here is the recipe for a delight- ful, colorful relish for the Christ- mas dinner: Cranberry-Apple Relish (Makes 114 quarts) 4 cups fresh cranberries 2 apples, pared and cored 2 oranges 1 lemon 24 cups sugar or 174 cups sugar and 1}4 cups * corn syrup Wash applés and cranberries; put through food chopper. Quarter oranges and lemon, rind and all; remove seeds and chop. Add sugar end blend. Place in jar; cover closely and chill in refrigerator. 'This will keep indefinitely. Steamed Cranberry Pudding. (Serves 6) 1 cup sifted flour 174 teaspoons baking powder 14 teaspoon salt 14 cup brown sugar 14 cup bread crumbs 24 cup finely chopped suet 1 cup chopped cranbacries 1 egg. 14 cup milk or water Mix ingredients in order given. Turn into a greased mold, cover with waxed paper and steam for 2 hours. Foamy Cranberry Sauce (Makes 175 cups) 4 tablespoons butter 1 cup confectioners' sugar 1 egg, separated 14 cup swoetened cranberry juice Grated rind of 1 orange Cream butter and sugar to- gether, Add beaten egg volk, cranberry juice and orange rind. Fold in stiffly beaten egg white just before serving, Hard Sauce \ (Makes 33 cup) 14 cup butter 1 cup confectioners' sugar 34 teaspoon vanilla 1 tablespoon cream Cream butter, add sugar, gradu- ally, beating until light and fluffy. When thoroughly combined, add flavoring and cream, Chill until cold but not hard. . Coffee, ginger, nutmeg, fresh fruit or jam may be substituted for vanilla and cream. you'll want Three reascens why to knit these mittens! Inexpensive . . . easy-to-do cable stitch , . . warm and bright for those breezy dayg ahead! Knit a pair for various members of the family--they'll love 'em! Pattern 535 hay directions in sail, medium, large size; stitches. Send TWENTY CENTS (20c¢)in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson, Needle craft Dept., Room 421, 73 Adclaide St. W., Toronto. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS, Not a Weakling In the C.W.A.C. The chief objection voiced prior to enlistment of the C.A\W.A.C. was on the grounds of physical frailty, says the Regina Leader- Post. There were many who be- lieved that the health of the women would not stand up to the rigors of regimentation and Army life and that not only would the indi- vidual recruits suffer through sub- sequent loss of health but that they would become charges on the Gove, ernment through pensions for vari- ous disabilities.' Col. Margaret Ilaton, director= general of the C.W.A.C., speak- ing in Toronto silenced these ill- founded protests forever. She pointed out that to date there is not a single C.\W.A.C. application for a disability pension. King to Speak The King will make his Christ- mas Day broadcast this year at 3 p.m, as usual, it was announced at Buckingham Palace, ' ' DARK LIGHTNING By HELEN TOPPING MILLER CHAPTER X "l can take care of old Harper. He owes me money." "1 woudn't talk to too many people about this well, Mr. Ma- son," Gary advised. "If you get a wildcat down and it turns out to be a producer, the wise thing to do would be to shut it down and keep quiet about it. You might want to get leases on the other land that touches your pool." "1 don't want a lot of land, All I want is a good oil well. And I've got a fat chance to keep this well man quiet. liverybody in the county knows about it already." "That's because you've talked too much," Mona Jee said. "You send that wire off to Junior now, Harvey, right away." "All right, all right, don't shove me!" "Would you speak to Adelaide before you go to Austin about tak- ing me over to the oil fields in the car, Mr. Mason?" Gary asked. "Hey, Addie!" Harvey raised his voice in a whoop as he went down the stairs. * . * Mother, 4 Adelaide was waiting in the car when Gary went down. "All right, mister," che said. "Here's your taxi." "Thanks a lot, I hope I didn't in- terfere with any of yqur plans?" "l was supposed to be playing bridge at Grace's, but she can just find somebody else. She's being snippy anyway, and Oliver goes around telling people that Dad's crazy and will probably go broke." At Gary's direction Adelaide turned into a muddy little road that twisted between stumps, over frail wooden bridges, past lcascs, each one fenced carefully with good steel fence, past batteries of tanks and little shacks with rickety cars standing in the yards and dreary looking clothes flapping on lines. l.ean, faded women came to the doors of these shacks, looked out hopefully, patiently watched them pass; dirty children scram- bled out of the road; dogs slunk into bushes--the hungry, vague, hopeful fringe of humanity that lingers on the edge of every oil field. The men, muscled and lean, waited for roughneck jobs, pipe- laying jobs, any scrap from _the vast, teeming feast of exploitation. * * * "Now we have to look for a well that's just been finished," Gary said, "where there's an ouf- fit standing waiting to be movegl, And then, after we find an outfit, we have to persuade them to move twenty miles or more on to a wild- cat job, and that will be a selling job too, for mostly they don't like wildcats very much." finished?" "How can you tell a well that's "There's one over there. Sce that derrick with the red mud piled around under it and all the machinery still standing? Well, it's down and cased in and the Christmas tree's set up--so I know it's finished." "1 don't sce any Christmas tree, You're crazy, Gary." "See that contraption -of pipe and 'wheels and stuff sticking up out of the hole in the floor? That's what oil men call a Christmas tree!" ! A rickety trailer was parked un- der a tree, and beyond lay an un- shaven man of middle age, with hig hat dragged down over his eyes and a small white dog curled up in a sleepy knot on his chest, The dog sprang awake and came 'charging, yapping, 'as they approached, and the man sat up. FEMALE PAIN LydiaE.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound not only helps relieve périodic pain but ALSO accompanying nervous, tired, highstrung feelings -- when due to func- tional monthly disturbances. It's one of the most effective medicines for this pur- pose. Pinkham's Compound helps nature! Follow label directions. Try itl lydia & Pinbhamis Si os ISSUE 50--1945 . = "Know who owns this drilling outfit?" Gary asked, "Sure I know--Hymie Starr owns it. Go up yonder and talk to Jim Hickey. Up in that shanty with the red front on it, just be-- yond that machine shop, towards the stripper. Jim's a good driller-- good as there is." * * . Jim Hickey talked glibly and eagerly. He would, so he prom- ised, get a well down quicker and cheaper than any other man around. Gary came back and'said, "Let's go. His stuff is old. He hasn't got the money to have it over- hauled. We'll look somewhere else." Ile folded the grimy paper on which Jim Hickey had estimated his drilling costs, and put it in his pocket. I'll show this to your father, but he probably won't want to risk Hickey on the job." It was dark when they back toward the ranch, Gary sat alone with Mona lee for a while, listening to the radio, then went upstairs to his room to write letters--to oil men that he knew, asking for a job. He had finished the third epistle when he heard Mona Lee coming up the stairs. She stopped outside his door and said, "I thought you'd gone to bed, Gary, would you go over to Grace's place with me? She telephoned--and it's late, and Harvey doesn't like it if I drive alone at night." Gary got up quickly. Is someone sick?" Mona Lee hesitated, looking worried and unhappy. "No, I guess it's just one of Oliver's sprees. Grace was crying, and she said she had to talk to me and Oliver had left the car in town, so I told her I'd come." turned "Of course, * * Tok They locked all the doors and left the key in the asparagus-fern box for Adelaide, and -Gary held the flashlight while Mona Lee backed the car out of the garage. The Kimball house was a new, smart white bungalow on the edge of the little town and, as they drove in, every window was lighted. "Oliver's not home," Mona Lee said. "Grace is scared when she's alone and she turns on every light, You wait here, Gary, till IT find out what she wants to talk about. You can turn on the radio--I1 gles it works." A lighted door opened and she disappeared inside, so Gary lcaned back an snapped buttons and tried to interest himself in a dance band and then in a news broadcast. And then that door opened and Mona ILee dame out and came around to her scat, getting in be side him without a word. Gary did not ask questions, and the silence lasted till they were almost back at the ranch. Then Mona Lee slowed the car and drew a deep, weary breath and sighed patiently. "Grace and Oliver have had some sort of a fight--and she says it's about her father's oil well, but she doesn't dare tell me what it is. And Oliver's gone off and never even said good-by." * * * Gary said, "Too bad to worry you like this, and then not tell you what it's all about, so you can help." "It's all a gamble anyway--and just talking: about it hasn't been good for any of us. Harvey Junior paying two thousand dollars for a car--and his father letting him do it, and' Adelaidé making all' kinds of ctazy plans as if her father were a 'millionaire already." "They'll setle down." Gary tried to bé 'comforting. "I wouldn't wor- ry too 'much." Harvey 'Mason went off to Aus- tin, lobking strange and dréssed up ir his Sunday clothes, his saddle colored face very dark above a shining white collar, He had fumed hecause Mona Lee forbade him to wear his boots or his big cowman's hat. "If you're going to be an cil man you'd better look like one," stated Mona lee irmly, "and nét like some old cow waddy." (To Be Continued) COUGHS « COLDS . BRONCHITIS ASTHMA WHOOPING COUGH SIMPLE SORE THROAT PARAPUP SURVIVES WAR--AUTO GETS HIM k "Paratrooping was never like this," groans Trooper, parachute- jumping cocker spaniel, Field Artillery Battalion. former mascot of the 467th Parachute He's pictured "hospitalized" in the Memphis, Tenn, home of his owner, Capt. William Lewelling, after being run down by a hit-run driver on a Memphis street. | CHRONICLES By Gwendoline P. Clarke of GINGER FARM ~~ Really, I honestly believe that Christmas sneaks up on us faster with every passing year. A few weeks ago it seemed ridiculous even to be thinking about Christmas, And then the weeks just rolled away and here we are almost cata- _ pulted into such things as the mid- dle of Christmas shopping, prepar- ations for Christmas concerts, gift problems, poultry picking, Christ: mas cakes and puddings, invitations received or given, tax bills, and ad- vance notice that instead of "dreaming of a white Christmas" we should be preparing for it. That's a regular jumble, isn't it? But you know very well that's the way it goes. No one that I ever knew was able to give his or her undivided attention to Yuletide preparations, least of all on a farm. * * * . Take this place, for , instance, Now that we have ordered our tur- key and invited six house guests for Christmas it behooves me to tkink about puddinbs and things. But do you suppose I can settle to it with the threshing machine sitting like a black menace in the middle of the yard, It has been tirere for three days waiting for de- cent threshing weather, You see it is clover we shall be threshing and for that we need cold weather, Yesterday it was cold enough to please anyone--ten above by our! thermometer--but then yesterday was Sunday, so that settled that, However, last night we did go so far as to arrarige to thresh Mon- day - afternoon, - 'But now the weather has turned -soft again--it is up to thirty-seven degrees and I don't know whetlier to prepare for threshers or not. I's a great life, this farming! But yet 1 'don't know of a better one. However, let's get back to thoughts of Lhristmas. * * * f Ladies--I haven't told you about my advance Christmas' present, have I? I'll:-tell you now because then if "you are interested 'you might casually hand this paper over to your 'better 'half with the remark --"There now--there's an idea for Christmas!" Well now, this thing that I am referring to is a "pressure cooker." You have seen them. advertised, haven't you? Personally, T have I'een reading the: descriptive adver tisenients in American niagazines for two years, I'also knew enough about -a "presstire cooker to know ' it would be a jolly nice thing to have. It ig rather an expensive thing to buy but I wouldn't' put it in the luxury' class because I feel the money is well spent because it gaves time and fuel, and, more im- portant still, food cookd by pres- sure is nicer and more nourishing than done any other way because none of the natural juices have a chance to escape. I'or instance, take a cheap cut of meat, add to it the neccessary vegetables and you have a stew that really is a stew -- flavoursome, nourishing and quick. The time between unwrap- . ping the meat and serving the fin- iched- stew, complete with dump- lings, need not be more than half an hour. Macaroni and cheese can Le on the table in fifteen minutes, Carrots -in ten minutes. Scalloped potatoes, twenty minutes. 1 could go on aid tell you more, but isn't that enough? The time I have given you includes preparation . time--Dbecause, "after all, all food must be prepared before any cooker can do its work, I might add I have had my cooker over a month and I don't think a day has gone by without my using St at 'Teast 'once, often twice each day. w * a - There are several makes of pres- sure 'cooker on the market now, either of aluminum, stainless stee of metal alloy of some kind, Ours is the latter, I believe all makes work much on the same principle. They are perfectly safe and easy De ---------- SSN TSS, to operate if used according to di- rections, but I hate to think what would happen if the lid were forced open before the steam had been allowed to escape--there is a little gadget on top for that purpose. Unfortunately," so many .people are inclined to take chances around the home. Chances which so often result in an accident that could often have been avoided had the parties concerned taken just a lit- tle more time, We are all in such a hurry these day. But I ask you --in a hurry for what? What is so important that we cannot take rea- sonable care so that disasters such ar burns and scalds shall not oc- cur? The death of little children ae a'result of fires started hurriedly with coal oil or gag is absolutelf criminal, Gift Suggestion Because 'everybody - saves and collects gomething or other, any body, man, woman or child, would" love to have a, glorified letter file" ap a Christmas gift. They are at- tractive, irseful, inexpensive and so easy to make, The letter files may be purchased for about 25 cents. For the cover- ing you may use fancy gift wrap- ping or any leftover wallpaper (the wallpaper makes a sturdier cover). A linen mending tape with a glue backing is used to bind the edges. This tape makes a neat finish, serv- ing also as a reinforcement to the corners. With the application of a generous coat of bakelite varnish, the letter file becomes very shiny and entirely professional in appear- anc... . : 'Sunday Scheol 'Lesson December EXALTING CHRIST IN THE LIFE OF THE NATION Lesson: Isaiah 9:2, 8, 6, 7; Luke 1:26--33. Isaiah ©:2.--The inhabitants of the region 'of Galilee were repre sented as walking, or living, in darkness because they were far from the capital and had few reli- gioug privileges; they were com- paratively rude and uncultured. The language of the prophet re- fers to the time When the Messiah would 'come to that dark region and become both its light and its deliverer. 3.--This joy would be a holy joy because it would- be before "the Lord. It would be a joy over blessings received as the figure of the harvest indicates; and joy over evil averted, as the figure of divid- ing the spoil indicates. 6.--It would be 700 years before Christ came in to the world, but the present tense is used because of the absolute' certainty of the promise being fulfilled. The Government has been placed upon His shoulder; He has been given all power in "Heaven and in Earth" He is Wonderful; this title implies that He will be cxalted above the ordinary course of nature and that His whole mani- festation will be a miracle. He is Counsellor; the word is expressive of great wisdom and of qualifications to guide the human race, He is the Mighty God--a title that means the Supreme God, Next He is the Everlasting Father 'for in His divine nature Christ and the Father are one, Fin- ally He is the Prince of Peace. He has made peace between Jew and Gentile 'und He 'will 'yet usher in an era of universal peace, 7--In contrast to all earthly kingdoms 'which 'have their vise and fall, the Kingdom of Christ knows no end, for 'it is-an ever fasting kingdom and will perpet- ually extend its boundaries. Mary and the Angd Luke 1: 26:~80.--The angel's word of salutation "Hail" ig equi valent of 'joy be with thee," inv plying she was truly honored to have the privilege of giving birth to the world's Redeemer, the Son of God. Mary was not troubled with doubts and unbelief, but with confusion at the -honor bestowed on her. Mary had no cause for fear but rather for joy, for she had found favor with God. 31-38.--The message of the an gel revealed to Mary 'that her Son should be esus The Saviour. © He. was coming to redeem Isracl, to save His people from their sins-- and not Israel only, but all the world. The House of Jacob means the descendants of Jacob. His own name was changed from Jacob to Israel, and thus his de- scendants were called the children of Israel. "The Kingdom of Christ shall never be destroyed. It shall stand forever. 'Blended for Quatity LAD i S BACKACHE The Plague of Outdoor Men The outdoor man, whether he be farmer, truck driver, or railway operator, is often subject to backache. 'This may be-the result of exposure: to cold 'and dampness or the result of strain from the jolting® and bumping of: thé vehicle he rides. 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Yes, you'll see it again . . . you'll enjoy it again ... just as you used to do. . ov and to one andy: all a Mevey Christmas and a - Tappy New Pear a