Sweets for Christmas. At this time when we are urged and Commanded to be economical in our use of sugar, it is well to prepare Christmas sweets which can be made without any, or a very small amount of that scarce article. The fairly plentiful gain that gre suitable for makin weets are 4yrup, maple sugar, noo Anta popcorn, und all kinds of nuts. Sugary dried fruits will also help. Chocolate and qaocoa are always safe to use. The fol-| luwing are some tested recipes which eyll for only a minimum of sugar: Stuffed Dates.--Stuffed dates are a and'dried in an old napkin. the seed from each with a sharp knife, Blip a nut in its place, press together, and sift dver with granulated sugar. Leave standing a while on oiled paper to become firm. Chocolate Dates.--Prepare dates as described for stuffed dates. Slit each date lengthwise, just far enough to al- low the kernel's being extracted with- out bruising the fruit. Grate one- fourth pound of good chocolate, add an " equal quantity of confectioners' sugar, and two tablecpoonfuls of boiling water. Boil until a soft ball forms in cold water. Before removing from the fire, adda few drops of vanilla ex- tract. Place the pan inside a larger one, half filled with boiling water, to! keep the chocolate fluid while the! dates are being filled. Take up a little off the mixture on a teaspoon, open the date and pour it neatly in. When filled, press'the sides gently together. Place in a cool place to harden. Stuffed Figs.--Chop fine any kind of nuts. Mix with half the quantity of well washed and dried currants. Open figs at one side, and pack with mix- ure. rounding the fig to_ look like 2 ! whips Wi Wor BH PNR ANS pear. Close the opening, then at one end of the fig stick a clove to look like blossom end, and at' the other a stick of cinnamon bark for the stem. Dust Ifghtly with powdered sugar. Parisian Sweets.--Pick over and re- move stems from one pohd of figs and stones from one pound jof dates. Mix with' one pound of, English walnut meats, and force through a meat chop- per. Work, using the hands, on a board dredged with confectioners' sugar, un- til well blended. Roll to one- 'fourth of an inch thickness, using confectioners' sugar for dredging board and pin. Cut with a sharp knife in three-fourths inch squares. Roll each piece in con- t fectioners' sugar, and shake to remove superfluous sugar. Place in layers in a tin box, putting paper between each layer. These confections may be used at dinner in place of bonbons. Sugared Popcorn.--Put two table- spoons of butter in a sauce pan, and when melted add two cups of brown sugar, and one-half cup of water. Bring to the boiling point, and let boil for sixteen minutes. Pour over two quarts of popped corn, and stir until every kernel is well coated with sugar. Taffy.--Dissolve half a cup of sugar in four tablespoons of cider vinegar, mix with two cups of molasses, and took very slowly in a kettle large enough to prevent the mass from boll- ing over until a little dropped in cold water hardens, then stir in a heaping | teaspoon of butter, and a half teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in a table- spoon of hot water. Stir up, remove from fire, and flavor with a teaspoon of vanilla, or Jemon extract; turn into a greased pan, and when cool enough to handle pull until bright with floured or reased hands. When light enough, pull into narrow strips and cut off in pieces the right size for a mouthful with a pair of greased scissors. Wra each of these in a little twist of para- Fruit Cheese.--Stone a pound of } hardens. a pound of blanched almonds, half a pound of pecans and half a pound of Brazillian nuts. Any nuts at hand may be substituted for the ones named. Put the mixture through a meat-chopper, and pack into tumblers. Keep in cold place. This may be rolled into tiny balls and dipped in chocolate, cut inte blocks and used as a sweetmeat, or cut into thin slices and put between bread and butter, or crackers, to serve inthe: place of cake. and on top. not boil over. Conservation Dainties. Pe Popcorn Balls.--3 cups popped 1 cup maple syrup, 3 teaspoons kahit, pinch salt, 1 teaspoon butter or substitute, pinch of baking soda. Put syrup, vinegar and butter substi- tute into shallow pan: bring to boil slowly; add salt and soda. Boil slow- ly until the soft ball stage (that is, when a drop will form if dropped on cold plate); brush plate with a little butter substitute, cover with popcorn that has been carefully picked over to be sure all has popped, then pour the hot syrup over, stirring quickly so each kernel is covered with syrup. Rub hands with a little butter substitute; take a spoonful and roll into balls at once. If small balls are desired (the size of English walnut), the corn must be chopped fine. If popcorn is not ob- tainable, use puffed rice, Popcorn, Molasses and Nut Squares, --3 cups chapped popcorn, 1 cup finely chopped nut meats of choice, 1% cups syrup or molasses, pinch salt and pinch of baking soda, 1 -tablespoon. butter substitute. Boll and test syrup as foregoing recipe. Pour over pop-: tute into long strips and P.83.--C added before it hardens. If it seems to dry, add wheat or brown bread. ginger, einnamon. corn. Brush,agate or china plate-with jsoda, add to hot molasses, and when ; butter substitute; cover bottom, with }foaming pour into the egg and milk. | nuts, then spread the popcorn over Mix well, add gradually the flour and nuts; rub spatula or knife with butter cut RAW FURS iznrexess market prices for RAW FURS and GINSENG ROOT 22 years of ---- eo Reference--Union Bk. of Canada. | Write for Price: List and Tags N. SILVE 220 st. Pen} St. Ww. Montreal, P. The Highest Price a, RAW FURS to us, no matter what quantity. 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There are still post-card jingles and to be had, that will show a friend that he is not forgotten, but there are also scores of little in- expensive gifts that may. be purchased or made at the last minute, and that will fit into someone's Christmas stock- But be sure that they do fit, for nobody must know that they are last minute gifts. For the girl who works in a dusty office or who travels much, run up a black sateen bag on the sewing ma- ; chine which is large enough to hold Ther hat without crushing. She ict | (think of you and thank you ; working day. j For the girl who should be learning |, bookle lish- to do housework, a couple of dis mops which cost five cents at the ten- | cent store. Dress these up in tissue) paper and label them the "Helpful : Twins." Make holders of bright scraps | of material for use around the hot stove. | To the flower lover or gardener send some of your own choice seeds in dainty envelopes, or an order on the seedsman, or a bouquet of cuttings from your window plants, or a promise as follows on a Christmas postcard: "On April first, or thereabout, | {f you will bring your basket out, | I'll dig for you a root or so Of things thnt in my garden grow And you may plant them in your yard To remind you of my regard." | For the grandmother who sews but; whose eyes ot 60 good as they } omce were, buy a package of self: | threading needles, or two spools of No. | 30 cotton, black and white, and thread | a paper of common needdles onto the , end of the thread on each spool, | length of thread with a needle upon it} » After ally it is not so as she needs. For a woman who crochets or tats find one of the books of samples of crocheting or tatting. They cost from 10 to 25 cents and give directions for doing' the work which.any needlework- er can follow. What child would not like a box of heart will find suitable men, such as old-fashioned grandmoth- ers know how to make without cutter or pattern. The man who lives in a boarding-house will be wonderfully pleased with eatables, too--cookies, lit- tle mince pies, or big ones, or a fruit Wisht my Snowman, "Same to you," says he. "Say," says I, Again, puffed rice can be dates, add to them a pound of figs, half | used if no popcorn Is to be had. P.S.--Instead of_nut meats, 1% cups | of cornflakes can be used on bottom, Old-fashioned Yellow Jack.--1 quart ; New Orleans molasses, vinegar, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 tea- spoon butter substitute. lasses into large saucepan sq it will Bring to boil slowly; | {s# continually until it spins a thread; at ence: pour into buttered plate, and a@s soon. as it is cool enough to handle, gub hands with a little butter substl-' begin to puil it. you pull it, the better it wilkbe. Draw cut into pleces with oe knife or scissors hopped nut meats ~ can be Conservation Sandwich.--1 cup tresh grated cocoanut, 2 cups seeded raisins, % teaspoon salt, thin slices of brown bread. To the raisins that have been washed, dried, and put through food chopper, add cocoanut and mix well. cocoanut milk so the mixture can, be spread between thin slices of day-old No butter is used with cocdanut. Rye Flour Gingerbread.--1 cup -}lasses, % cup shortening, % cup sour | milk, 2.cups rye flour, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon % teaspoon salt, soda, % teaspoon clove, % teaspoon | Mix the molasses and! shortening in a saucepan over the fire until melted. Beat the egg and add to! the sour milk. Mix the seasonings and ; until smooth. Pour into a greased, hetore smoothing; then cover top with shallow pan and bake in a moderate F; in juares - _tmoinutes. as the thought that goes into it which fringe joy to donor and recipient. And the giver who has Christmas in his whom he wishes to remember, no mat- ter whether he looks in the big city shops, the ten-cent store, Own back yard or cellar storeroom. Gifts for All! "Merry Crismus!" "what did you like best On your Chrismus tree? A COMMUNITY. CHRISTMAS TREE By Mabel McKay. ail each Grove Neighbor- . ,| hood. women would have been offended by Alice Cochrane's lecture on Christ- mas charity had it not been for the little school-teacher's interpretation of "Of all neighborhoods that give to charity, Béech Grove leads," said Por- tia Young on our way home. "I can't understand why Grandma Wheeler wanted us to hear that lecture." ; _ Then our little school-teacher, whom people outside Beéch Grove Neighbor- tested. "She didn't mean to offend us I'm sure, Mrs. Young. You know charity. is just a Mmited name for love and | every neighborhood needs all the love {that it can Portia looked straight ahead of her, :down the road toward the corner at 'which the little teachér would turn away from us. Stiffly she outlined the | j Dees for the tableaux and entertain- {mas Eve at the club house. | After the corner had been passed Put the mo-; #24 she and-I were alone, Portia told ;me that Anne and Clarke Anderson, | who was Portia's best-beloved brother, | were not to. marry in the spring. |"They' ve quarreled again," she ended. "Meaning Clarke has quarreled," I thought to myself. I knew Clarke Anderson. Aloud I said, "Why, it will spoil our Christmas!" { However little Anne, 1 teaspoon in the way that schog)-teachers have of forget- ting themselves, valiantly tried to for- get and go on with our Christmas en- tertainment. A few days later she pte a -- meeting of the neigh- tbyurioed. wom Jamie brought me news of it aide came home from school. "Ts think she's going to give the mothers our\ Christmas letters," he |6aid wisely. "She had us write them to-day." . -- John laughed. "Farseeing boy!" he remarked after Jamie had left tha | room, "Guess you'd better write one and give it to the teacher. Or do you know what you want?" I shook my head. I could not tell him that I was thinking of little Anne's romance and that probably she was | the only person in Beech Grove Neigh- | borhood this year who would be lonely | at Christmas time. I thought of it all the way to the club house | "Before I give you mothers your own children's letters, I want to read one {from Bennie Newton," Anne told us | j after Grandma Whecler had called the | meeting to order. The scrawly littie letter was handed from one to the other, Bennie New- ton had so many brothers on Aaetiogt thet his mother. our meetings. This time she was war ee The longer --_-- a little of the mo- 1 teaspoon | much the 8 "~ "Dear Santy Klouse," he had writ- ten. "This year I want you to be square with us Newton children. There's more of us than in any other family in this neyborhood and we al- ways get the littlest Christmas "tree of all. Now if their aint enough big trees to go around won't you be square and bring everybody a little one? . Baa Respectably, gifts for all or in his hood call Anne Elizabeth Sutton, Pro- ; ment our club was to have on Christ-; was a love that was the basis for unt- |¥ersal brotherhood. Without men- tioning it we wete all drawn together in the ures way that love has of uniting peppl How our tree ee The Christmas , tableaux dwarfed besice it. If the hall jin our club houSe had not extended 'past the second story up to the very rafters of the building, I am afraid the tree would have outgrown it. "At first I was a iittle afraid of the idea," Mrs. Newton told us as she helped Portia Young tie the baile to {the tree's lower branches. "I was 'afraid that Bennie might not be satis- fied with a tree fhat belonged to every fone. Bennie is hard to understand." -"Caste is forever abolished by a com- jm unity Christmas tree," prophesied ; Portia Young's husband. "It makes you people who have children all the 'year round, share them impartially | with us." He was helping Lucien Wheeler fasten the incandescents tO the top {branches of the tree. They talked all ithe time they were working although ithey had not been friends since they |quarreled over a boundary fence five | years ago. That same night as John and T sat by our grate, he told me, "I'm begin- ning to think ycur tree isa wonderful thing after all, It's going to make the -- Peuple as happy as it will the childre "All bat Anne Sutton," I answered. "Clarke Anderson hasn't come near the tree. If some one could only get him there so that he could see how ead her eyes are then everything would _be all right. No one can even interest 'him in it. Portia says it's impossible. l¥"ve a notion to try myself." - John laid his hand over mine. 'No," ,he said firmly. "Clarke's hot-headed and stubborn. Besides I don't like tc meddle in such affairs." After that I tried not to look inte Anne Sutton's eyes but whenever she talked I thought I heard a wistful note 'in her voice. One day John too heart! it. The next afternogn be brought Clarke home with him to supper. While I was making my yeast biscult they sat in the living room talking. "The trouble with; you and Anne that you quarrel so much is because you are too self-centered, Clarke," | heard John say. "Mother and I used to have a great many sharp words | when we thought just of ourselves and |lived for ourselves. Now that we are interested in many other people, we {don't quarrel. When you get to think- ing of your neighbors and greW in. terested in their Nves, there's a unt versal. feeling comes ie yoRe noart that away. ou --ys0 Clarke ieagnad pide a home feeling," he said. be more attractive to me." . "You'll come to the tree?" John sug gested. "No." Clarke was gruff. ™ Yet he did come although it took all John's persuasive powers to bring him, I did not see him until the school children began singing thetr carols on the first night, Christmas Eve. Then f forgot him, for the" Hghts were oT preter' "It would enjamin Newton. "P.S.--I doant shat the little tree myself, It's for the other kids, I doant want you to make a difference." Grandma was wiping the tears from cake. ~Any woman who depends upon . her eyes before the letter had gone a city bakery for her bread and deg-}) Why! You s'prise me," says my / around the room. Portia Young forgot | serts will hail with delight a loaf of Snowman. a the animosity she had seemed to feel | new bread wrapped in a holly paper} "Don't you truly know?" toward the littl teacher and sprang | napkin. "No!" says I. "Ho! Ho!" says Snow- to her feet. "Let's see that that young Any child old enough to sew for her doll family will be delighted with a roll of scraps of cloth suitable for doll clothes. A paper of needles and spool of thread will add to the com- Pleteness of the gift® A quilt maker will also like any bits of silk or ¢ptton suitable for her needlework hobby. The folks you know who like to read |; will enjoy the same story which has given you pleasure in your favorite ; magazine if you will clip it from the | paper re tie or paste it together into Fahrenheit. Remove meats and beat until it Pour into pans and cut each square. stead of the butternuts, man, "Heaps an' heaps of snow!" Christmas Maple Creams. Take two cupfuls of shaved maple sugar and one cupful of cream. Boil to the soft ball stage, or 240 degrees | |that without hurting his mother," d. add one cupful of chopped butternut ster has the biggest tree in the netet'| borhood!" she said. "He deserves it." When Mrs. Harris tried to speak, she could not for a sob choked her. Little Anne, dry-eyed and woefully = sad, talked gently to us. We couldn't do she 'gai | Portia" very kindly asked Anne [f she knew any way to get a big tree for the | |Newton children without offending. 'from the fire, turns_creamy. into squares, Place a half of a nut meat on top of | Anne nodded her dusky head and stood Walnuts may be used in- up to talk, her dark eyes still sad but strangely alive as if with a great pur- pose. oe "Bennie Newton isn't the only child | LAUS DEO! It ne! Clang of bell dni roar of gun, Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel! How the great bells, pea! on peal, Fling the joy from town to town For the Lord . On the whirlwindvis abroad; In the earthquake: has spoken ; {e has smitten-with His thunder The iron walls asunder And the gates of brass are broken! Did we dare, In the agony of prayer, \ . Ask for more than He has done? | ' in this neighborhood who wonders over | the difference in the size of Christoass | trees," she told us. "Lots of little hearts ache and are silent over small- er trees than their neighbors have. The only way for us to bring happiness to everyone is to have one big tree for us all at our club house--a community Christmas tree as some of you have already mentioned. ; "But having it will not be enough. | It must be the only Christmay tree in the neighborhood, We'll all have to give up our individual Christmas trees jin favor of.this one. Don't you see 'how 'it would look forall to have one great tree together and then after go- wouldn't be square either." | ded approval. So did several others. Grandmother wil/ Know how to slide = agreement, "That "would be real the needles along and break of a, When was ever His right hand charity," said Grandma. ~- Over any time or land "Love," corrected. Anne gently. Stretched as now beneath the sun? "Love is the word that describes what Ve AN PED . we Beech Grove people feel, We won't be giving or receiving but shering. "On -iIPOU LL 4 R Ring and swing, the first Christmas everyone shared ° Bells of joy! On morning's wing the same Gift. -Wouldn"t you like our of all kinds Send the song of praise abroad! children im Beech Grove Neighborhood Better _quality preferred. % % With a sound of broken chains to feel that way about Christmas?" Write for priess, Be tenet nations that haf reigns, ; The xaneitlig fier we had decided si . o 1ave the community tree we awoke STANFORD'S, Limited> ~~ o plone i Lor and G with a love that before had just lain 128 Mansfield 6t. - - Montreal dormant, now alive in our hearts, It = i i ' ing home forsome of us to have other | This King is come to save mankind, Christmas trees? That"--there was a | As in Scripture truths we find; little catch in her throat--"that! Therefore this song we ave in mind, _ Grandma Wheeler's white head nod- LA few hesitating ones showed signs of | flashed on the great tree and, together, | every one in Beech Grove saw their | universal gift. Something gripped my j haart that made me feel as if I were 'in another world, a world in Which you and J did not exist but just WE did. Mrs. Harris, who was standing next to me, reached out and teok my hand. was as if we were renewing our | rtendship, Slowly I looked around at my neighbors' faces. They too were | owayed by that understanding. While the last carol was being sung I saw John again but Clarke Anderson {was not with'him. I turned my head and there close to my shoulder were lthe little school teacher and Clarke. The sad look had left her eyes and in his there was more than jey; there was understanding. He too now knew the universal feeling that was invad- ing Beech Grove Neighborhood, I did not need to worry any longer about our romance. While I was Jovking for our Jamie so that we could go home, little Ben- nie Néwton slipped his he nd ipte o mine | "I know ai secret," he whis pered | radlantly. That tree ain't all a whole | tree at all. It's got lots of little ones -all spliced to that 'biggest one.. I guess Santy Claus made it out of all ; the trees he aimed to give us. kids in this neighborhood." Sveryone in Beech Grove hood was happy! Neighbor en Glory in the Highest! | When Christ was born of Mary free, .In Bethlehem that fair citie, . eels sang there with mirth and glee, In Excelsis Gloria! In Excelsis Gloria Raw Fu rs FOX, COON, SKUNK WANTED SHIP NOW*FOR HIGH PRICES . Remit | We pay en and hcl mn 24 Hour anes ted sookies and Price List SPANNER & CO. TORONTO Send ice OLIVER 26 ELM STREET,