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HE goose has several advantages

COOK

So all you have to make is a rich brown over the traditional turkey as a gravy in the roasting pan with the liquor from

the stewing of the bird's giblets. Christmas bird.

In the case of small families it does not Leaves a fragrant Memory haunt the house with the persistence of the turkey when festivities are done.

It is considerably less expensive, and, if its actual weight of flesh is small in comparison with its frame, one should banish such uncharitable thoughts at this time of the year. These will suit It

A goose is simpler to prepare for the table, because one sort of stufling is enough for it. whereas the turkey is improved by two, and it needs no encircling garnish of sausages or curled bacon to enhance its regal form.

Another by no means minor point in the goose's favour is that its fat can be used for the most delicious of all dripping toasts long after the bird itself has vanished. Its fragrant memory thus lingers over many a winter ten-

table.

It needs no Extras

For the stuffing, parboil half a dozen large onions and chop them up, but not too finely. Mix them thoroughly with half a pound of brend- crumbs, a dozen finely chopped sage leaves and

It is quite unnecessary to prepare a sauce a good seasoning of pepper and salt. for it, because, although an accompanying apple For the vegetables I suggest brussels aprouts sauce is reversed in many quarters, I idways find and roast potatoes. The goose will take from the contents of a jar of rowan jelly not only two to two and a half hours to roast, according

to its size, and must be basted well. labour-anving, but distinctly preferable.

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Making Merry

HEN three generations get together on Christ- mas Day they are sure to have a lot of fun.

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The only person who may not enjoy it as much as she might is the harassed housewife, for the success of the Christmas Day festivities usually depends entirely on her efforts.

Here is a well-tried plan that works well in one family circle. On Christmas Day there is always a large party: ages range from Heventy-five to seven.

Two main meals are as unthinkable as they are indigestible. Yet-the-young-people don't want to be tied coming in for a big midday dinner, and a heavy late dinner is too late for grand- parents and children. A compromise has been arranged.

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INNER is at six and there is a light, help-yourself

luncheon at noon.

So that the serious business of decorating. the dining-room table shall be got over early, a buffet-bar is put up in the hall.

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is used for the fork lun- pose. It cheon that is available from noon to 2 p.m. Before dinner it is trans- Last formed into a cocktail bar.

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which should After dinner, over about 7.30, the children have their innings. Children like every one to join in their fun, so any kind

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dressing up or churadea is likely to be suggeted It is

as well to sort out some old "props": beforehand. Otherwise father's best bowler will be used for a football serum and mother's fur cont to re- present a llon.

When the children's hour is over, and every one fairly exhausted, some new card games which will amuse the older as well as the younger Beneration will be tried out. Later on still there will be dancing to the radlo for the young married people and their friends.

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Nothing remains to be done except to choose the bird.

It must, of course, be plump for its size, but, as a test of its youth, go to the windpipe. If it cracks easily, all is well. If it is tough, so is the old bird.

SWEET

TOOTH

Orange Jelly

This is the tedy to make the nicest tasting orange jelly in the world. Take a lot of oranges, one between two. Cut them in half Out the and carefully comp Drange,

Strain the juice, and to every pint adil three-quarters of (171 ounce of melted gelatine. Add stigar to taste. Pour carefully back into the orange skins and allow to set.

Chocolate Mousse

Chocolate mousse involves next to no cooking, which is always an advantage at this time of year. You make it from the kind of lain chocolate that can be broken into little cubes, "Count ̃five ̃of theac squares to each person, and for very Avc squares take an egg. All the cooking required is to melt the chocolate.

Then separate the yolks from the whites and stir them in one by one. Then beat up the whites and pop them in. By this time the mixture should be paler than chocolate and just pourable. If it is a little too stl add another

eat.

Pour it into separate glasses for each visitor, and let it set. This will take about two hours.

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ALTHOUGH the Christmas

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dearest wishes and saves time and labour-sometimes it heals quarrels

or reunites long absent friends. On as we know it, was invented by one occasion a self-centred old wo W. A. Dobson, R.A., men have sent man, lying on her death bed, received greetings to each other from time a Christmas card valued at about 2d. immemorial at the Christmas festival, from a ne'er-do-well nephew who Dobson's first card, which he drew years ago had emigrated to Austra more for amusement than anything ta. else, was a sketch of a family gather

At the moment her lawyer was

ing round the festive board, toast with her and he deciding exactly ing absent friends. The iden caught what charity should benefit by her

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cord on and spread to such a tremendous demise. Evidently degree that nowadays as many as must have struck the sole sentimen- 100,000,000 are sold annually in Bri- tal chord that the hardened old lady tain alone.

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-near Rome. It is a clay impecunious relative. carthed

Some of the finest modern artisia medal, moulded in 70 A.D., and on it

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Our present Christ- Three years ago Philip de Laszlo, the painter, was mas cards have travelled a long way distinguished portrait from that ride medation and-some-asked-to-do-calendars-of-iho-Duke of them may justly be described as and Duchess of York. He was al- works of art.

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lowed only one sitting, yet the ori- ginals which now hang in the Duke's Piccadilly mansion are considered to commissioned. be among the best paintings of either Some years ago un unknown man the Duke or Duchess, in spite of the visited Sir Adolph Tuck, a member fact that they were painted in less of the famous firm that has done so than half a day.

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