Spoil Your Family With Love Not Lamentations
Kathleen Norris urges husbands and wives to invest in authentic love and caring at home. A Chicago letter illustrates the toll of gloom and suggests improving health as a path to happier family life, stressing kindness over money and constant nagging.
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We Need Love Now
Kathleen Norris argues that spoiling a family equals loving them with extra attention and giving them what they want. Happiness comes from love, and even a poor man with an adoring wife is richer than a rich man with a distant spouse. Love prepares people to face an uncertain future with hope and courage.
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Planning Helps Late Shoppers Select Presents
Last minute shoppers will crowd stores in the days before Christmas. Plan before leaving the house to create thoughtful gifts with minimal time. Pair items like camera film with a lamp and flash bulbs, or box stamps with plain stationery, and consider theater tickets with a note.
Why holly became tied to Christmas traditions
The article traces holly’s Christmas association to thorny branches and red berries symbolizing the crown of thorns, pagan handoffs, and Saturnalia rituals. It notes Roman Saturn dedication and early Christian use to protect homes during persecutions, linking holly to December celebrations.
Holiday Decorations and the Christmas Spirit
Holiday decorations lift the Christmas spirit and renew belief in Santa Claus. Hang holly and mistletoe, a bow tied wreath on the door, festive candles, spruce mantels, and shiny balls to captivate the eye. A bright home makes you glow with true Christmas cheer.
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Christmas Ham and Veggie Menu for Festive Tables
A home chef guide offers a holiday menu featuring baked ham with sweet glaze, green peas with beets, and festive fruits and nuts. Instructions cover baking times for various ham weights, glaze ideas with peach juice honey marmalade and apricots, and a glossy sauce. Also included are pudding steaming tips, cranberry strings, and decorative touches for a traditional Christmas feast.
Christmas Dinner Menu and Recipes Overview
Weekend menu features grapefruit persimmon salad with sweet French dressing and baked ham plated with holiday sauce. Includes Virginia cranberry mold sweet potato pone green peas with heets crescent rolls celery olives jelly plum pudding with sauce and coffee.
Holiday Menu Highlights for Christmas Dinners
Traditional baked ham with sweet potato pone and plum pudding leads a gala feast. Versatile grapefruit persimmon salad with avocado. Virginia cranberry mold. sweet potato pone with ham. sweetened by a French dressing and citrus accents.
Christmas centerpiece ideas with evergreens and cheer
Lynn suggests decorating with evergreens berries cones candles and colors for Christmas. Propose centerpieces including a green wreath on a mirror filled with white sprayed branches ornaments and fruits. Add pine branches cones candies silver bells and a gingerbread house with powdered sugar snow on a mirror backdrop.
Trunkfish Trunkfishes Description and Shell Form
Trunkfish Trunkfishes of the family Ostricidae inhabit warm seas and have bodies encased in a hard shell like a turtle. Only the jaw fins eyes and tail are free to move, giving them a distinct rigid appearance among fish.
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