Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1942 — Page 22

By MARGUERITE ‘YOUNG Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 17—This is going to be a bright and cheerful “green Christmas” indoors despite the fact that transportation and labor shortages will make Christmas trees scarce in many localities. Also very scarce will be traditional tree decorations—gleaming glass balls and tinfoil icicles. So the family will bring out decorations saved from previous years and ‘use home-made ones to create warmth and cheer: in the 1 cup sliced, pitted dates house. These, and many fresh A 2 tablespoons melted butter. flowers, will be studded into “at camp as they. da when you| Mix and sift flour, baking powder,| growing plants and fragrantly. wrapped them up. salt and spices. Beat eggs until] fresh boughs and branches. The That doesn't: fear: sending just|light and frothy, add sugar graduthe same "old, every day favorites/ally. Add nuts and dates and meltlike brownies and hermits, but it|ed butter, Bake in a greased 8 does mean exercising ‘a little -in-|inch square pan for about 30 min-| one of Manhattan's smartest genuity to tuck Christmas into a|utes in a moderate oven (350° de-| florists. : : box- and make sure’ it ‘comes out|gress F.). Cool slightly and cut on =» intact! into small squares. “THIS IS NO YEAR to overdo,” Make the Christmas specialties] CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE | Miss Hayes advises, “but neither that will stand transportation, such is it a year to skimp on the festive as gingerbread men and fruit bars,|1 Ib. dried prunes, pitted touch. Especially since so much «lecorated with a little hard, white|’ 1b. apricots deing and a tiny bit of red cherry|* cup candied cherries “and slivers of angelica—or green[% cup nuts cherry if you can’t get angelica. [1 teaspoon grated orange rind , Then fill the rest of the box with|2 tablespoons orange juice \ especially rich and chewy things,| Put fruit and nuts through food such as Dream Bars, Date and Nut|chopper. Add orange rind to juice

Squares and Christmas Fruit Balls.|and mix thoroughly into frujt mix"DREAM BAR : ture. Form into balls and roll in

granulated sugar. Dates may be 35 cup butter substituted for prunes if liked—or 1% tablespoons sugar

any combination of fruits and nuts 1% cups graham cracker crumbs may be used. : 3% cup walnuts, chopped

% cup cocoanut, shredded Mrs. Dalton

3 teaspoon flour : To Entertain

13 teaspoon baking powder 1% teaspoon cinnamon % teaspoon ground cloves Mrs. Lawrence Dalton, 24 N. Kit3% cup sugar ; ley rd., will entertain this evening - 1 egg yolk with a 6 o'clock dinner for Mes‘1 egg white |dames Alvin Storey, Charles McMix butter, sugar and’ crumbs. Cord, William Watkinson, Melvin Spread in the bottom of an 8 inch|Demaree and Lawrence Clark, Miss _ square pan, pressed down firmly.[Dorothy Dugan and Miss Helen Mix flour, baking powder, spices|Miller. : .and sugar together, reserving: 1| The group of eight was formed tablespoon sugar for egg white. Mix | eight years ago when the members _ Walnuts and cocoanut. Add sugar|were employees of the Indiana‘Bell “ mixture. Blend well. Telephone Co., and has, met reguAdd well beaten egg yolk. Add|larly since.

remainder tablespoon sugar to egg| Following tonight's: gathering, the white. Beat until, stiff but not dry.[group Is suspending meetings at| plenty of blooms in most Ameri-

- Stir into . the cocoanut mixture. members’ homes for the duration.| can cities this Christmas season. Spread carefully over crumbs in : : £ 8 =»

,and bake in a moderate oven 3 (56 Geer sor bows in| ONTISHNAS Party | ap mg vmams wo un Righty, then out into svt men wag | 101d by Legion Es DATE Ad Now SQUARES ~ | The annual Christmas dinner of parsionjesty plenitial in the Sesh the John H. Holliday / post 186, orida gladioli, excellent keepers,

% cup sited flour i Jam Leglon, was held last night are beautifully colored, and so are P v at the Riviera club.

1 teaspoon salt =~ © 14, teaspoon nutmeg The committee in charge of arY% teaspoon cinnamon rangements for the old-fashioned 2 eggs Christmas program included M. L. Mulane, Elmer Krueger, Ray Dorr

35 cup sugar 1 cup chopped nuts and Paul Whipple, /

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: CHRISTMAS. TIME is cookie time. All kinds of cookies—from gingerbread men to hang on the tree to the flimsy lacy things that we decorate 80 exquisitely with different colored sugars and candy bits. ~ This year our cookie making will have to be governed by many new 7 We won't have time—or sugar—for a great variety, and we'll want to share our good things with the boys in the service. © So it's a_ better idea to concen- . trate on ‘the - kinds. that will look and taste as’ ‘good When they arrive

decorative scheme. So, at least, thinks Irene Hayes,

still-plentiful things. “People have been greens-con-scious for some. time now, and they can, and no doubt will, use the plants which they have in their homes in new and interesting’ .arrangements. They'll have a, great deal of mistletoe—hunks of it combined with those won‘derfully smelly pine branches.”

. Philodendron is one plant, possessed by a great many home‘makers and still plentiful in most flower shops, that lends itself-to interesting decoration. It is a delicate green vine with heartshaped, ivy-like leaves. Ivy also is plentiful. Two plants like this can be used to flank a fresh flower arrangement for a thoroughly festive mantel decoration—or one plant can be flanked by two vases of flowers. Though florists who are in touch with their fellows throughout the country are pretty uncertain about the supplies, de-

labor and transportation, reliable sources expect there'll be

this year. ' The inventive homemaker will try her hand at creating more than a bowl of flowers for her mantel centerpiece or her Christmas table. Try, for instance, an

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Arrangements such as this one can give your Hv ing room a festive air at Christmas time, even if trees

and the traditional decorations are scarce. Bright holiday colors: are provided by the magnolia leaves in the vases and green boughs behind the picture, and by fresh red roses in the old-fashioned sleigh pulled

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arrangement with ceramic figures. A group of these figures, generally available, includes & shepherd and three angels, one kneeling, all in. beautiful cocoa and brown colors. ‘These can be placed in a circle amid the fern used with a low bowl of flowers. Or any symbolic Christmas figure—glass rein~deer, for instance—can be used. A low poinsettia plant surround‘ed by a wreath of holly or other greens, flanked by fat red candies, would make an effective centerpiece. Or use an all-white mass of gladioli, carnations and roses, banked with pine cones. Or you might, particularly if you have no Christmas tree, Bet up bright leaves like magnolia in a conicial mass, with a boutonniere or corsage on it for everyone at the Christmas board. 8 = = GREENS . ARE EFFECTIVE when massed informally at the _ windows, on the mantel, at the door. Here, too, the festive spirit of the season can be shown with original arrangements. Miss Hayes’ original and timely idea is a doorway flanked by drums on stands. Evergreens spill out all around the drums, and sticks are put out with the drums so that guests can announce themselves by drumbeat instead of a knock. Sleigh bells—or any bells—add to the effectiveness nf a wreath or bough at the door. A red sock stuffed with greens or with the most modest -of Christmas toys or goodies is an effective spot at the door or window. There is a substitute for tinsel, whose import the war stopped. It’s a flber-glass decoration which looks quite like the pre-war product. This is not available everywhere, but garlands of evergreen are to be had in every corner of the country, ; Wind these as a frame around pictures, mirrors, or any particularly decorative object in your living room, If you have a spinning wheel or some other beautiful or interesting piece of furniture, garland that, and bring it into the: spotlight near the fireplace or a window. It might be the key to an unusual, homey, warm Christmas setting.

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claced in an airtight chest or trunk. It’s a good idea to air all the woolens about twice a year and repack them, and to wash the linens though they have remained untouched in the chest for that length of time.

Dr. Shullenberger To. Be Speaker

Dr. W. A. Shullenberger will talk on “A Just and Durable Peace” at the dinner meeting of the King's Daughters of the Second Presbytérian ¢hurch tomorrow evening. Mrs, William’ Clark will lead the devotional - on. “Let Us Confess. Our Sins” “Miss Blanche Maine is chairman of hostesses and will be assisted by Mesdames June Thomas, Charles Dyer, Walter Bass, John Hill and Henry Ayres, And

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