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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
3
Poem fragment recalls Christmas past in a cottage scene with warm hearth light. The speaker laments departed loved ones, imagines stockings and Santa, and notes memories of mothers, pies, and festive scents from a kitchen long gone, as family faces glimmer in the fire.
A survey of Christmas lore in Europe showing how Santa is viewed in Germany Belgium Holland and Bohemia. The Christ Child Knecht Ruppert and St Nicholas figures deliver gifts with distinctive customs such as wooden shoes hay for horses gingerbread Nicholas figures and magical white horses.
The Newark Sunday Call piece surveys Christmas gift traditions from Italy to Austria, Spain, France, Sweden, Denmark, and beyond. It describes the Bambino in Italian practice, gift boxes tossed by hidden messengers, birds fed at Christmas, shoes filled in France and the Netherlands, and the Gabriel angel in Austria, ending with a note on universal peace. Newark City area data included.
A series of kid crafted gift projects from a 1910s Woman's Home Companion feature. The pieces include a circus rug made from denim with appliqued circus imagery, a sled and skating sail built with pins and tin runners, a slipper needle book with velvet and silk trim, a croquet inkstand carved from a split croquet ball, and a handkerchief bag made from two handkerchiefs and a ribbon covered hoop.
The African peanut is less delicate than the American as an article of food, but it yields more oil and is easier to crush. The voice a man has can be carried three miles through a twenty foot trumpet.
A recipe passage describes making sour cream biscuits with flour sugar salt baking powder sour cream sour milk and soda in tepid water, plus optional lard or butter and shortening. It also outlines a silver cake with layered options marble style orange zest and juice, folded whites, and lemon flavored icing.
Soapy water improves clothes gloss. Dry black hose on the wrong side to prevent fading. Turpentine with white clothes makes them snowy. Fresh lard removes tar from hands or clothing. Wash with soap afterward. Dip jar rubbers in hot water to prevent stiffness before use. Use an iron clamp to secure fruit juice spills while draining. Red tablecloths stay bright with borax and shade drying. Store potatoes in an opaque erect box to limit sprouting. Vinegar enhances boiling tough meats. meat becomes tender and flavors better. For vegetables with odors, add stale bread to absorb scents. After ironing, place clothes in a sunny window hours before storing to keep them sweet and odorless. Rub starch lumps with hot flour, then shake clean. Lamps gain brightness by camphor in the vessel. Sweep carpets with moist tea leaves to lift dust and brighten the room. European cities include Christiania, Berlin and London.
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