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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1943
Page
7
For over a thousand years crickets have been kept as pets in China for their singing. Rich and poor prize their melodious sound, housing them in hollow gourds with air holes, and the wealthy use ivory tops and decorative paint on the cages.
A readings notes that a whirling phalarope named Wilson dives and spins in shallow water to disturb fish, then consumes the stunned prey.
Merry Christmas to You. This feature shares practical holiday recipes and menus including baked ham stuffing, cranberry apple relish, fried Brussels sprouts, yam puff, beet olive salad, and wartime fruit cake. It offers timing, oven settings, and a sugar saving note with a request for reader letters.
Decorative notes describe a shimmering Christmas tree ball bouquet on stems with evergreen accents and silvered twigs, arranged in a low black bowl or pale blue mirror. Also outlined is icing a gingerbread house with white icing and silver snow, plus miniature figures for display.
December lore mixes old calendar names with Christmas customs. Weird rites in Craigmadden Scotland and Malabar Point India promise fertility, sin relief, and luck. Traditions warn against leather, demand green decor first, and crown the cricket as Yuletide king for good fortune.
Yorkshire Christmas Eve supper features creaved wheat dish baked long hours then simmered with milk and molasses. a rich tea includes sugar cured ham pork pies spiced loaf Christmas cake mince pies Sally Lunn teacakes and hot breads. The feast inspires vivid rural nostalgia and indulgence in local customs.
The instructions describe making a Santa Claus figure using one red apple as the body and a marshmallow head with clove eyes lipstick nose and rouge cheeks. Attach head to body with library paste and add cotton for a waistcoat and a red art paper cap with cotton trim.
The British House of Lords has about 700 members. The slowest moving animal is the tortoise with a max speed about one tenth mile per hour. A misogynist is someone who hates women. The human larynx has two vocal cords. Tattooing can be obliterated today, with 18 methods in use though tattooing predates Christianity and was once thought impossible to erase.
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