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HOMEMADE COOKIES SAY 'MERRY CHRISTMAS’ OVERSEAS Dear Cece: My boyfriend is in the service and won’t be home for Christmas. I’d like to send him a box of homemade rookies. How can I paek them so they won’t crumble? Linda. Dear Linda: For shipping, forget select a bar-type cookie, such as brownies or chewy fruit bars'. You might ship two different types such as a Chocolate Chip Bar Cookie and Butterscotch or Date Nut Squares. These cookies pack and ship well. For maximum pro tection. start with a sturdy box and line it with paper towels. A bright yellow or turquoise paper towel will add color to the gift. Cut the cookies into bars and wrap individually in Cut-Rite Wax Paper or Plastic Wrap. The new plastic sandwich bags with the self-sealing flaps are ideally sized to hold a number of the bar cookies. Put a layer of shredded paper toweling in the box and lay the packaged cookies closely together on the paper. Alternate layers of cookie packages and shredded paper toweling and finish with enough shredded paper filling over the top of the cookies to act as padding. The box should be so full that’you have to press Questions at id comments should be addressed to Mrs. Cece Allison Room 1440, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. ~ ANTIQUES AND CRAFTS MAY WE HELP YOU CHOOSE? • : THE f uSn / v * J *.. V _ _ i • West Mole St. Burnsville N.C. THURSDAY, DEC. 23, 1965 down on the lid to get it on. Don’t forget to wrap the box tightly with heavy paper and cord and please address it plainly. Dear Cece: Do your other read ers know that colorful cookie ornaments make charming edi ble placecards for a Christmas luncheon or children's party? I bake jumbo molasses or sugar cookies a few weeks before Christmas and freeze them. Be fore the party I decorate them with tinted frosting to resem ble an oversized Christmas tree ornament with the name piped on, and package them individu ally in a plastic sandwich bag with a seal-tite flap. They serve as a place card and as a little “extra” dessert, or guests may take them home and deco ih.^.ooki. to the branches with a bright red ribbon, held on with trans parent tape. Carol. Dear Readers: Are you looking for some party ideas for Christ mas? Send me a postcard at the address listed at the end of this column. You will receive a free copy of “You’re Entertaining "”r America’s Junior Miss Party Plan ning Guide.” Merry Christmas to ' you all. “ Cece New Books Listed By Regional Library By: Ashton Chapman Listed here are a few of the timely, interesting new bcoks acquired for you by your Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library. They may now be borrowed at the pub lic libraries in Bakersville, Burnsville, Newland and Spruce Pine or any of the bookmobiles operated in the three counties. OUR VIET-NAM NIGH” MARE by Marguerite hi - gins. The story of the V. involvement in the Vietna meses tragedy, with thoughts on a future policy. THE BARRIOS OF MAN TA by Rhoda and Earle Brooks. A personal account of the Peace Corps in Ecua dor, with photos. SO THE HEFFNERS LETT McCOMB by Hodding Carter. What happens to an inno cent family when violence goes unchecked. THE AUTOMATION AGE. Pauline Arnold and Percival White discuss how society is—all will be—lnfluencel by automation. THE STORY OF NURSING by Bertha 8. Dodge. The hier tage and promise of a great profession in America. - A NEW WORLD HISTORY OF ART by Sheldon Cheney with many pictures. This re written and completely re set edlt’on is longer but in $ MERRIEST CHRISTMAS SEASON 13GS mj 9 RAjH , m f Accept our wishes for an old fashioned Christmas, filled with joy nmCjood cheer '} B.B.PENLAND & SON CO. THE YANCEY RECORD more compact format and with nearly 100 new pictures not included in the 1937 edition of Cheney's original WO p LD HISTORY OF-ART. THE STORY OF DESIGN by Marion Towner. Illustra ted with numerous museum photos. For students, and for the layman, too, the au thor’s commentary accom panying the pictures 'will lead toward a greater en joyment and understanding rot only of this book but of all other ant books. FOLK AND FESTIVAL COSTUME OF THE WORLD by H. Turner Wilcox, with over 600 drawings by the’ author .a survey of tradi tional dress all over the world. COSTUMES FOR SCHOOL PLAYS by Barbara Shook, with muvy line drawings by the author. Although pre pared primarily for school play-production, there are few amateur societies which will not also value this ex pert and stimulating hand book. McCALL’S NEETLEWORK TREASURY—A Learn and Make Book. Photos, draw ings, patterns and designs; 379 stitches and needlework techniques, embroilery,, knitting, quilts, rugs, croch et, tatting and hand-)oom weaving. McCALL’S DECORATING DOOR takes you from the initial planning stage in ma jor or minor decoration through the innumerable details and decisions that accompany any decorating project. Profusely illustrat ed, in color. THE BOOK OF DIAMONDS by John Younger Dickinson. The history and romance of diamonds, from ancient India to modem times. More than 200 pictures, with prac tical guide to selecting cuts and carats. PART OF THE TRUTH; an Autobiography of Gran ville Hicks, critic, novelist, essayist and one-time pole m cist, who holds a signifi cant and secure place in contemporary American let ters. THE SUN IN SCORPIO by Margery Sharp. In spanning more than three decades, which include two World Wars, this novel shows Cat hy as an unwilling symbol of the “average” Briton’s gn durar'ce of years of radical chanee. FATHER H t LAR’S HOLI DAY ; a novel by Bruce Mar shall. After winnlnrr the ra tional lottery, tangling with a rebel general during sev eral suspenseful attempts to escane, the good Father winds un making a most e*r traordinary bargain and winnir.* a last-ditch point of principle. ChrlMsHSts BraMlMt
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