Christmas Table Centerpieces and Festive Ideas
Decor ideas for a Christmas dinner table include Nativity scenes snow scenes and mini tree centerpieces with gifts and mirrors. Or craft gumdrop trees ball trees using wires and base reflectors candles bells and silver accents to create a festive look. Fresh poinsettias and crystal vases with roses or carnations fit silver or crystal centerpieces. Favors include candy baskets tiny trees or Santa figures.
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Santa Claus
Scrap book sent to sick boy in hospital
A Lawrence woman who makes scrapbooks for children sent a gift to Wayne, a very patient boy at Memorial Hospital. His letter describes gratitude and hopeful plans for Christmas morning as his schoolmates visited and his father helped him see them.
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Memorial Hospital
Wayne
Marionette Pinocchio on Display at Book Nook
David Gagliardo presents a hand carved wood Pinocchio marionette at the Book Nook. Made this summer in Cob ile during Madonna making study with Milt Bryan of Washburn. The figure stands about eighteen inches high and is hand painted.
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David
Gagliardo
Cobile
Madoness
Milt Bryan
Washburn
Modern Entertainment for Churches Co-Authored by Jackson
Maud C. Jackson of Lawrence and Effie E. Preston co author a new church program book Modern Entertainment for Churches. It offers plays dialogues monologues recitations pageants and songs for children and adults tied to events like Children’s day Christmas Easter Rally day and temperance day.
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Maud C. Jackson
Lawrence
Effie E. Preston
Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Lawrence Journal - World
T. 8. Denison and Company
Chicago
Lemon Sauce A Piquant Contrast For Pudding
A simple lemon sauce serves as a lighter substitute for rich hard sauce with plum pudding. The mix uses cornstarch sugar salt water milk egg and butter plus lemon rind and juice for a bright accompaniment to a Christmas dessert.
Crisper Pastry Tip For Cold Pie Crusts
Milk used as the liquid in the pie crust yields crisper edges and longer lasting crispness. Pastry made with milk stays crisper when pies are eaten cold.
Make Up for Lost Sleep After Holiday Season
A healthful skin and hair routine starts with adequate sleep after the holidays. Exercise daily, drink eight glasses of water, and follow a beauty oriented diet rich in greens and fruits, with low calorie, non bulky foods to improve circulation and complexion.
How to Remove Wax Stains from Fabrics
To remove candle wax from fabrics scrape off excess wax without harming the fabric. Use an ironing board and blotting paper under and over the spot. Press a warm iron to absorb wax into the blotting paper, repeating as needed. If traces remain, sponge with carbon tetrachloride.
Richer Biscuits Double the Cut Dough and Butter Steps
Instructions describe rolling dough thin to cut twice as many biscuits, buttering half the rounds, stacking buttered pieces, and baking until they break apart easily for delicately rich biscuits. Ends with a note about reading the classified page daily.
Revival of the Fuchsia in Old Fashioned Gardens
Garden notes highlight fuchsias once common in grandmothers’ kitchens and windowsills now revived as houseplants and summer bedding. The article explains origins in Mexico and South America, proper indoor and outdoor care, lighting, watering, soil, winter rest, pruning, staking, and propagation from cuttings for year to year bloom.
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California
Mexico
South America
New Zealand
United States
Mind Your Manners Etiquette Quiz and Answers
A quiz on social usage covers eating rules for baked potato skin, apple sauce with pork, serving ice cream on pie, saying thank you for food from a servant, and refusing offered food. Best solution suggests paying off social obligations and ignoring the debt if you do not enjoy the company.
Christmas Nuggets Cookies from Mrs Keller Recipe
Sift flour and mix with sugar shortening and eggs and flavoring. Stir in currants mixed nuts fruit candied cherries citron and lemon peel and milk. Drop spoonfuls on greased sheet bake 375 for 10 to 12 minutes yields five dozen nuggets. Mrs. Jno Keller 1329 W 9th St. Journal classified ad offers extra cash by selling items around the house.
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Jno. Keller
9Th St
To Freshen Petit Point
If you are fortunate enough to have heirloom petit point, occasional cleaning keeps colors bright. Dry cleaning is safest. at home, place work flat and gently brush with carbon tetrachloride, using only enough liquid to loosen soil without dampening the canvas base.
Cleaning Technique for Absorbing Moisture
The method suggests stroking the surface then absorbing loose soil with a soft clean cloth, and allowing the area to dry. This concise instruction applies to delicate fabrics or surfaces requiring gentle handling to remove dirt without damage.
Anise Cookies From Mrs. Howard Gregory
A historic recipe describes making anise flavored cookies. Use eggs and sugar beaten light, fold in sifted flour, roll to half inch, press designs, cut squares, let dry ten hours, then bake on buttered tins at 328 degrees F until light yellow.
Inexpensive Renovation for Split Pedestal Table
If you own a small old fashioned dining table with a pedestal that separates into two parts you can form two attractive console tables. Place the flat sides against the wall for foyer or living room use.
Gumdrop Cookies: A Bright Citrus Nut Treat
A recipe note describes making gumdrop cookies using light brown sugar flour and chopped nut meats. It instructs adding lemons and orange gumdrops, spreading dough on pans, and baking for about twenty minutes until cut into squares. The directions include precise measurements and a high baking temperature.
Lawrence couples win marriage licenses at probate judge
Licenses issued yesterday by the probate judge include Charles Georgie and Lula Lewis Lawrence James C Freer and Marjorie Kemp Marbichend Arthur B Leonard and 4 Smith Herschel Finch Walter Watts and Juanita MiStone Vin land Orin M Bliss Oskaloosa Nellie Mae Smurr A suggested Christmas present a scholarship in the Lawrence Business College Adv.
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Charles’ ‘Georgie
Vinland
Orin M. Bliss
Oskaloosa
Nellie Mae. Smurr
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Daley
BLATT
Journal- World
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Nity
Rumsey Funeral Home
Ind. St
Shimmons Shop
Mass
Petit
Derry Snee
George Ansdell
Bill Harlan
Glenn Kirby
Lawrence Paint & Wallpaper Store
Springerle
Mrs
Howard Gregory
Lawrence Business ' College
Merry Christmas
MR. and
Mrs. Dick
Bradley Bradley Cleaners
The
Seaton
Floyd Sample
Paul Clawson
Lawrence Hill
Ellis Kahn
C. D. Stewart
E. N. Taylor
Gordon Angwin
John Long
Leslie Owen
Albert Kieson
Clarence Callihan
O. L. Grant
Fred Shirk
Joe J. Wilson
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