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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
3
Festive holiday recipes include baked ham with peach or orange glaze, star pineapple garnishes, and a jewel red sauce. Also green beets with peas, fruit bowls for nibbling, popcorn cranberry strings, and steamed plum puddings served hot with holly garnish.
The Christmas seal began in Denmark in 1903 to fund tuberculosis prevention and care. It reached the United States in 1907 via Wilmington Delaware and spread to about 40 other countries. The National Tuberculosis Association took over in 1920, with artists designing stamps to capture the season’s spirit.
An article notes firs top the Christmas tree list for their shape color and fragrance with balsam and Fraser varieties highlighted. Spruces are valued for needle arrangement while pines are distinguished by grouped leaves. jack pine and related species also appear. Other candidates include arborvitae red cedar and Douglas fir in limited use.
A holiday dinner plan features a grapefruit persimmon salad with sweet French dressing and baked ham. The menu includes Virginia cranberry mold sweet potato pone green peas with beets crescent rolls celery olives jelly plum pudding with sauce and coffee.
A traditional Christmas menu features baked ham with sweet potato pone and plum pudding, plus new touches like cranberry mold and a bright grapefruit persimmon salad. The grapefruit salad combines orange rind and persimmon with oil, sugar, salt, paprika, Worcestershire and lemon juice, chilled before serving on lettuce. A cranberry sauce mix with orange juice and gelatin forms molds, while the sweet potato pone pairs with ham, blending grated potato with butter sugar milk spices and orange rind for a homey, grandmotherly dish.
Lynn suggests festive centerpiece ideas for the Christmas season using evergreen branches berries cones candles and ornaments. Proposals include a green wreath on a mirror filled with painted evergreens bright ornaments fruits and a frosted gingerbread house on a mirror surrounded by spruce or pine branches and cones.
A young woman chooses to deliver gifts in person rather than mailing them. Friends value the personal touch she brings to Christmas celebrations.
The piece notes that many Christmas gifts mailed without proper wrapping or addressing are auctioned off by the post office after efforts to locate senders and destinations fail. It explains extra clerks, unclaimed packages, and sales of items like alligators, live poultry, turkeys, and fruit to recoup costs.
The name Kriss Kringle is sometimes misused for Santa Claus. Kriss Kringle derives from the German Christ-kindel meaning the Christ-child.
Mountain scenery in the Swiss Alps fills towns with white beauty under a sapphire sky, presenting a poetic holiday scene of villages and hamlets.
Advice notes that successful toys should educate or offer action or mirror large items. It cites common toy types across eras and suggests designers focus on learning value, play engagement, or replication of popular big articles to boost appeal.
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1485 B designed for sizes 32 through 46. Size 34 requires 5 yards of 35 inch material and 3 yards of 54 inch material. Dickey requires 7 percent yard of 35 inch material. Send your order to:
North Carolina gallackers harvest galax leaves spruce laurel and other greens as demand peaks for Christmas decorating. Families gather in forests to pick, sort, and bundle while buyers ship material to dealers and shops surge with wreaths trees and prepared greens.
Ancient Druids credited mistletoe with healing powers and linked it to Friga the Norse goddess of love. The article notes the custom of kissing under the plant and warns that maidens not kissed beneath it may not marry in the coming year.
Trunkfish of the Ostrociidae family inhabit warm seas and resemble other fish but are encased in a hard shell like a turtle. Only the jaws fins eyes and tail remain free to move.
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