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THE TRYON NEWS, TRYON, N. 0. Chrisfmias De Lusle Fferree Cass HEN Tom left the farm to go to the city to make his fortune he did it contrary to the ominous head shaking and phophecles of disaster of all the neighbors. Even , his fa ther and mother, with past years of toil rapidly be ginning to tell upon them, were pes simistic of his chances of success, nor could they resist expressing their fore bodings. - The old folks loved their boy too well to reproach him for his desertion now In the first flush of his young manhood, but their hearts did ache at thought of the separation. "You'll soon get tired of all that hurly-burly there In the city, Tom." his old father told him. "And when you do, I want you always to remem ber that we've still got a place for you back here at the old homestead. It mayn't be as fine 'and showy as lots you'll see there In the city, but It's more the sort that the good Lord In tended you for. Ma and I are hoping the best for you, son, but when you do find out that your fortune's not away off there Just pocket your pride and come back here to us who love yon.n So young Tom" left the farm with shining eyes and a high heart and ad ventured into the great, far-away city in quest of fame and fortune. How he fared there and all the sor ry disappointments that repeatedly overtook him during that year of ab sence would be a long and harrowing story to tell. He chased his rainbow to its end. yet found the fabled pot of gold not there as he had so confidently and blatantly expected. Tom. made applications for all sorts of office positions only to find himself quickly rejected because of his lack of expedience In those specific 11' "Well, anyway, I'm young and hus ky and used to hard manual lebor," Tom consoled himself. "I can at least get a job with a contracting gaig, as a painter, or plumber's assistant, or teamster. That will suffice to keep me going for a while until the sort of po sition I want turns up." But even In those lines of work the green country boy found himself sud denly brought up short against a blank wall. He had no references as to past city employment and nobody would hire him after once finding out that he had no union card. Huddled In his shabby overcoat on a street corner In the squalid section of the city the icy wind whistling around him and 'biting through his threadbare garments poor Tom stood on the evening before Christmas, won dering where he might find a shelter in which to sleep that night without freezing. Just how long he had stood there, shivering In the chill wind on the street corner bitterness against the great, unfeeling city rankling in his heart Tom did not know. He was startled from his moody reverie by hearing a hoarse, wheedling voice at his very elbow, saying what was In tended as a confidential tone: "How'd y'like a nice hot feed and some coin to jingle in yer pants, bo? Ain't hungry, are yaF Whirling about, Tom saw that his accoster was an under-sized, burly fel low with a tough, truculent visage and hands shoved deep into the side pock ets of his coat. He wore a battered cap with the visor pulled low down over his eyes and spat malevolently upon the sidewalk each time before he, spoke. "How'd ylike the idea, huh?" he re Iterated in his raucousgrating voice, sidling closer as he spoke and casting a wary eye up and down the nearly deserted. -gloomy, wind-swept street Tom regarded him with distaste and undisguised mistrust. He looked like a typical thug. But misery cannot be too fastidious about the company it we'll split on the cola we get after wards. I've got another guy with a flivver that's ready to meet us about 2 o'clock this morning to haul away the stuff as fast as we pass it up to him through the alley windows. We've got it all framed for a fake capture and tying up of our other pal, the night watchman, so that the bulls can't get wise to him. We're willing to split four ways on the swag if y' wanta go in on it with us. Whatcha say now, bo, huh? Safe and easy as falling off a log!" The sinister appearance of the ruf fian repelled Tom, and the very thought of the crime they contemplat ed struck him with fright. It meant jail, disgrace, if they were caught. "But I I never have done any thing like that in my life," he stam mered weakly, teeth chattering in the bitkig wind. "It would be criminal. The whisky doesn't belong to us. It would be illegal for us even to try to sell it afterwards." "Pah !" spat the ugly-visaged man, sneeringly. "You look pretty, a bird like youse, talking that way about what's lawful and all that! Lots that these rich guys have cared how you got along since you came to town, from the looks of iyou ! They've got fine, warm homes and coin and every thing. Wotta they care whether poor bums like us have to go hungry or freeze in the gutter on Christmas eve? Why .should you care about them when they don't give a rap about you? You've got to go on living, ain't cha. huh?" Tom hunched his shuddering shoul ders against the wind, trembling as much because of his own moral irreso lution as from the terrible cold. "Well, bo, how about It? Are y on or are y still so almighty particular BOY SCOUTS ir?lf Conducted by National Council or in Boy Scouts of America.) SCOUTS MEET VERDUN HERO SIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIUIIU I The Kitchen J Cabinet Hiiiiililiiiilililliillllililiiiliiiiilllliunnn ((cj. 1920.' Western Newspaper Union.) (. 1920, Western Newapeper Union.) The Boy Scouts of America were honored by being selected . to greet Gen. Robert Georges NIvelle, former commander-in-chief of the French army and famous hero of Verdun, up on his arrival in this country recently to attend the Pilgrim Tercentenary celebration. A hundred and thirty scout took part in the reception. At the French line pier five picked Eaghj Scouts met the general as he ?ame off the steamer which brought him to New York. They were with Dr. Charles S. MftcFarland, field scout commissioner, who is the general sec retary of the Federal Council" of Chutches of Christ in America, on whose invitation Gen. NIvelle came to this country. From the pier he was escorted to the Waldorf hotel where five troops of boy scouts, a troop from each of the boroughs of Greater New York, carrying American flags and a French flae- fifteen feet long, were lined up at salute and were reviewed by General NIvelle. The scouts were greatly Interested in the blazing star of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor which the gray haired general wore on his army uni form. His eighteen military honors other than the Legion of Honor "were represented simply by five rows of ribbon bar across his left breast. A diminutive thirteen-year-old Man hattan scout, Frank Tobin, who wore a tri-color ribbon was singled out by General NIvelle, who had him come forward to shake hands while in very good English he told the assembled scouts how pleased he was to be wel comed by representatives of this great organization whose Jamboree party of 300 picked scouts last summer gave an exhibition of scouting in Paris which opened his eyes and those of many other men of affairs there as to the great value of scout training In the formation of sturdy and useful manhood. S3 STANDARDS IN GOAT "How'd Y'Like the Idea, Huh7w about how y' handle the stuff belong ing to all them rich guys?" "God I" groaned poor Tom in the abyss of his wretchedness. "Yes, I'll do Itl I will! Twill !" ; The other clapped him roughly on the shoulder with a saturnine leer and attempt at jocular fellowship. "WellJ I thought cha would, he rasped hoarsely. "We'll meet cha at the corner by the lumber yard at 1 :30. Don't you fall to be there now P "I won't ! I'll be there all right !" Tom muttered brokenly. Already in his cringing soul he felt like the thief he had pledged himself to become. Oh heaven. If only To kill time until the appointed hour, he dug his numb hands deeper down into his pockets and wandered aimlessly on. He had no particular objective In mind save only the need to keep moving lest he freeze or go mad with the strain of waiting. He shrank from letting .himself think of the deed to which he was about to be party. :' Involuntarily his dragging footsteps took him back into the more brilliant ly lighted retail shopping district, where the crowds already had thinned, hurrying home to their families and happy, expectant kiddies with the holi day celebration in mind. The hours dragged slowly by. It came near the hour for the stores to close. But still there was time. ' If GEN. WOOD PRAISES SCOUTS. In the recent Boy Scouts of America essay contest on the subject of fire prevention Mnj. Gen. Leonard Wood, ommandor of the central division of the army, acted as chairman of the board of judges. He took keen Inter est in reading the essays, which, be cause he was unable to leave Fort Sheridan, 111., were taken to him from New York by a representative of the. National Board of Fire Underwriters, under whose auspices the contest was conducted among the entire member ship of the boy scouts in the United States and its possessions. At the conclusion of his work Major General Wood issued the following statement : "I cannot tell you with how much interest and appreciation I read the essays from the hoy scouts contest with reference to fire prevention. The idea of this contest was a fine one. It served to bring to the attention of the boy scouts throughout the country a !The memories dear that come to ua at quiet hour, The dreams we have that do not all come true. The songs we love, a book in shaded bower. These priceless gifts are all for me. for you." SEASONABLE FOODS. The following is a different way of serving ham, making a dish which la a whole meal, 8 e r v e d In one dish. Baked Ham With Vegetables. Take a slice of ham cut an inch thick; place7 In a casserole and around It place two Bermuda onions sliced, five tomatoes sliced on the same amount of cooked tomato, one- half cupful of water. Cover and bake in a moderate oven one hour. Spiced Bread-Crumb Pudding. Take one cupful each of bread crumbs) sour milk and brown sugar, one-fourth of a cupful of shortening, one-half cupful of flour, one-half teaspoonf ul of cinnamon, one-fourth teaspoonful of cloves, two tablespoonfuls of molasses, one tea spoonful of soda and three-fourths of a cupful of raisins. Soak the bread crumbs In the sour milk one-half hour. Cream the shortening and sugar to gether and add the molasses and flour sifted with the spices and soda. Add the raisins, then add to the bread crumbs and milk. Pour Into a buttered baking dish and bake in a slow oven 45 minutes. Serve hot or cold. This recipe will serve eight. Chestnut Salad. Shell one pound of chestnuts, boil until tender and re move the skins, being careful not to break the nuts. While hot pour over the nuts one-fourth of a cupful of French dressing and set away to mari nate for two hours. Add one table- spoonful of pate de, f ols gras to one half cupful of mayonnaise. Mix with the chestnuts and serve on lettuce. Serve very cold. Potato Dumplings. Grate potatoes and drain in a cheesecloth ; squeeze out the liquid and let it settle. Drain olT carefully and add the starch which has settled to the grated potato. Sea son; make Into balls the size of wal nuts; cook in boiling water 15 min utes. . Serve with hot bacon fat or browned butter poured, over them. These may be .served with crisped rolls of bacon as a garnish for a luncheon dish. STYir. y.v?.wiwwww:xw:)w.: 1 ' ' GOOD THINGS FOR THE FAMILY TABLE. It is so easy to prepare some good conserve from a can or two of left over fruit such as peaches and pine apple, and the combination of flavor makes something very attractive to the palate. Of course this conserve may those shown above may be de;fct upon to give satisfactory wear vA i II'aI 1 J.....,! 1 vAl. .1 11 v cn-vii c..-nrvi iwn iur uus ana two t more succeeding winters. Ttey u long and full, which gives op;rtu5! to change them a little. Like netr all of this year's coats, ther are be coming and look the part of w3.'oa The coat at the left has a podet m capacious that It matches up ttii a general ampleness of the parae:;uil it is ornamented with a little rus bar trimming of braid. Its shcpiad yoke at the back is not a traced style point, and its full niuS-r collar of fur appears to have come to ny. Even simpler than its ccspiioa, the straight coat at the xgx of tti group depends upon a simulated piael at the sides to give It special incest, and this is not going to po unnoticed, far-sighted buyer, coats of heavy wool for it is adorned with six ha:oe fabric cut in such loose and ample and large buttons, joined by cori of manner and on such simple lines as the cloth, that call attention to tL rOW Js the season when merchants find it good business to turn whatever ready-to-wear garments they have on hand Into cash, rather than to carry them over to another season. The woman or girl who is not yet pro vided with a coat can buy now to ad vantage, for in coats, and even in' hats, there are good, standard styles that vary only a little from year to year and may be relied upon to give at least three seasons' service. When they have done good service for this length of time they are still promising material for making over into children's wraps or even remodeling and taking another lease on life for the use of their orig inal wearers. It pays to buy good quality in cloth, and to choose con servative styles. Answering all the demands of the Inviting Comparison be made of the fresh fruit and be still most Important fild of effort, namely, better. Take three pounds of peaches. that bf vigilance in measures looking to fire prevention and the dissemina tion of information concerning the sources of danger and what can be done to prevent. The fundamental cause of fires is carelessness, Combined one small pineapple or the equivalent in canned fruit, one orange, one pint of water. Cook together until Well blended. Pare the peaches and cook until soft, if fresh are used. Mash or rub through the colander, add pineap- with a certain amount of ignorance. If P!e. cut in bits, th orange, rind and the boy scouts take up the campaign Pulp, discarding seeds, and cook until in behalf of fire prevention and speak as intelligently as they have written I feel that we shall soon reduce the danger from fire." PUPILS WRITE SCOUT ESSAYS. thickened slightly. Add three-quarters as much sugar as fruit and cook a3 ihick as marmalade. If canned fruit is used the sugar can be lessened. Hungarian Cauliflower. Cook a cauliflower whole in boiling salted wa ter until tender. Lift out carefully, Great interest is belne manifested Plac ln a deep dish, sprinkle with but- poor Tom had only had money, to ln a11 larSe cities in the experiment tcre(1 crumbs and Pour over a cupful hnve rushed in, bought the presents made by the board of education of of rlch sour cream- Bake in a mod he wanted for the old folks and chll- New York city in making the writing erate oven untl1 the crumbs are brown. dren, and caught the midnight train of a essay on the subject "What Bov Cranberry Punch. Take one pint of back to the country. He easily could Scouts Can Do for Greater New York a part of the regular classroom work on one day foT the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades of all elementary public schools. To make the prepara tion of the material and the writing. And right then, suddenly, he espied and specially the study of the Dur- ,anKe and lemon juice and freeze until u lying tnere, almost at his very feet poses of scoutine more effective nnrt Pruy sun. a big, fat wallet, with not a person reach there by morning and appear as a joyous surprise to them But ah I Why drive himself to dis traction by thinking of that when there was no chance that cranberries, one and one-half quarts of water, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, fotrr oranges and two lemons. Cook the cranberries, water and sugar until the berries are soft; strain and cool. When cold add the strained or- attractlve, the work was made corn- keeps. Finally Tom scowled blackly nearer than a hundred yards of him. petitlve, with the following prizes: and answered: Plainly someone had lost it In their For the best essay in each school What's that to you, anyway?" nasie lo gei nome- in Greater New York a bronze medal, Well, you're outta luck, ain't cha. Im $t0Pped and scooped it up like for the best in each school district, a pal? Yer on yer uppers, stony broke and maybe with an empty belly, too, ,huh. bo? Well, I guessed that much! I ain't blind yet, I ain't I Well, I need a pal for a little Job tonight and we both can make a lotta jack out of it, see?" You you mean burglary?" Tom muttered hesitantly, with an Involun tary contraction of his heart. "Humph 1 Not anything like- safe cracking or breaking Into a bouse, I don't. Too many people staying up with the kids over Christmas trees to night. 1 ain't keen on takln' fool chances like that, I'm tellln' yal Naw, this 1 wantcha for Is something soft; safe and easy as falling off a log. You know the big prices people are willing " pay for real booze since the coun- wni ary, aon't cha? Well, rlirht a flash. Around the corner he snrren- titlously examined it. Bills both green and yellow, of large denomina tions they fairly stuffed Itl There were seven hundred dollars or morel a small fortune to the miserable boy who had not even eaten for fourteen hours. Money 1 Money 1 Monev ! Far more than he possibly could need even In his most extravagant dreams. With a gurgling cry, Tom stuffed the wad of bills Into his trousers pocket, threw away the fine leather purse and nonde a mad dash for the nearest de partment store. No need now to keep his sinister, criminal appointment no more neces sity for w m m silver medal, for the best in each of the five boroughs, a gold medal, with a special grand prize for the best es say in the :entlre city, all prizes given by the Boy Scouts of America.' "This will give an admirable oppor tunity for the principals to discover the' effectiveness of the teaching of practical civics in practical ways, and will focus fresh interest on the vital essentials of good citizenship." Ham Pie. Take five large potatoes, sliced, one pound of ham, uncooked, two medium sized carrots. Place a lay er of the sliced potatoes In the bot tom of a baking dish, grate one car rot over the potatoes, cover with one half of the ham, cut ln serving-sized o CCASIONALLY there is a woman who can undertake to choose the superb In her apparel, and much more occasionally there Is one who can af ford to be daring. To do these things pteces; place another layer of the po- requires a personality that is re-en-tatoes and grated carrot; cover with forced and expressed by such attire, the ham. Pour boiling water to half But these are the exceptional women GOOD TURNS FOR BOY SCOUTS. fill the dish. Cover and bake until the potatoes are soft. It will take about one hour In a hot oven. The last fifteen minutes uncover and add more water If needed. Cheese Cake. Take one enpful of sweet fat, two and one-half cupfuls .of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking the rare blossoms, greatly admired, but less loved, than sweet, familiar ones. Two evening dresses are shown here, one of them deserving to be called superb and acknowledged to be dar ing. Being ln black, it carries off its eccentricities better than it would ln young Tom's homecoming that next r here I know a certain warehouse day Was h,s blusn,n8 announcement to ' goi 2U cases of whisky stored tn a ro,KS inat ne nad had enough ui me Dig city; mat be had come home to stay, as they had prayed h would. t2X list. Wertent Nwrpr CalMk Camp Ktwanls, built by the Klwanls club of Saginaw, Mich., for the boy scouts of that city, has one of the finest log cabins in the country, plans But the most gladsome feature of for whlcn are beIng soueht Tom many -v.uu nea, oonaed stuff l tchman is an old pal o mine mtn to let us swipe it if cities by other clubs who want to boom this big bo movement Troop 12, Spokane, Wash., provided clothes and food as needed by two odor families, gave $10 to Near East relief and furnished two scouts daily for1 two weeks to run errands for the Social Service bureau ' fv", ur oncnair cup- color. A full draped skirt of supple ful of sugar, and one-half cupful of panne velvet and a draped bodice that rich American cheese, gratea. Mix leaves the body uncovered to the waist the flour and- butter with the baking ime. under the arms, make a founda- powder until like fine meal; arid the tion for an' oversklrt of beaded net. grated cheese ; beatnhe egg yolk into Above the waist, a long scarf of ma- the cottage cheese and add the flour lines veils the back and arms, an u mixture to this, then fold in the whites sert of mallnes Just above the waist of the eggs and the sugar. Bake ln line saves the day for modesty, ln a muhvv pau iu a moderate OVen OX hrrt1r vhlrh rhnM trt onr, pad 1 m ln muffin pans. of the back than its predecessors have. For ornamentation there are large ro nettes of flitter Jet and they are In buck, also. Trota head to foot, this costume relies upon shlmraerw revealing no color except a green that faces the train. J perb feathers in the fan ana dress match the costume In o" and one Imagines them in tree Such a costume makes a against which simpler resse more sweet by comparison. e Georgette and silver tissue the pretty five-tiered frock tn&'tt sumes to dare comparison l splendid rival. The bodice Is a wide band of silver tissue. row straps over the shoulders. back and front with 0T (ril placements edged with a il There Is a girdle of silver ti frills of georgette beneath a Ished off with sprays of fl0 Ve ends of ribbons, a im - tbe drapery Is caught to the ham shoulder. Color in tnis - matter of personal choice : In any light tone.
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