American Agriculturist, December 6, 1924 
First Aid to the Cheerful Giver 
Suggestions of Acceptable Presents for “Him’’ and “Her” 
401 
r | ''HE question of the Christmas gift 
* list looms up about this time every 
year. For perplexed mothers and fathers, 
sisters, brothers, relatives or friends these 
short lists of acceptable offerings may 
prove useful. They have been compiled 
to include some useful things and some 
more frivolous “extras” and also to cover 
quite a range of passible pieces. In the 
several issues before Christmas, American 
Agriculturist readers will give other sug¬ 
gestions for home-made presents they 
have found to be most welcome. 
FOR THE BOY 
Radio set or the materials to make his 
own 
Sled 
Cap with ear-muffs 
Rubber boots or arctics 
Sweater 
Howard Pyle’s “Book of Pirates” 
Subscription to boys’ magazine 
Set of carpenters’ tools 
Small “printing press” and box of type 
Thoroughbred puppy 
Camera and films 
Watch with compass attachment 
Boy Scout knife 
FOR THE MEN FOLKS 
Silk or wool muffler 
Fur lined gloves 
Neckties 
Socks 
Automobile accessories: First aid kit, 
robe, road map, etc. 
Fleece-lined jacket or mackinaw 
Rubber boots or arctics 
Shirts 
Handkerchiefs 
Subscription to farm magazine 
Smoke accessories: pipe, humidor, etc. 
Good pocket knife 
Watch 
Portable typewriter 
Safety razor and blades 
Thermos bottle 
FOR THE GIRL 
Party dress 
Sewing basket 
Bureau set 
Books 
String of beads 
Sweater and tarn 
Things for her room: pictures, cur¬ 
tains, bureau scarf, bookshelf, lamp 
Hair ribbons 
Fudge-apron * 
Shoe-bag 
Ice-skates 
Wool or silk stockings 
Folding lunch box 
School bag 
FOR THE WOMEN FOLKS 
Set of silverware (from the family) 
Set of dishes 
Bread mixer 
New range 
Set of furs 
Dressy blouse 
Table linen 
Aprons 
Loom for home-weaving 
Glass baking dish 
Vacuum cleaner 
Washing machine 
Electric iron 
Subscription to good woman’s maga¬ 
zine 
Books—Mother likes a good story once 
in a while 
Material for a dress 
Pretty underclothes 
Handbag or leather purse 
Lamp 
Card file for her recipes 
WHOLE FAMILY 
Phonograph records 
Lamp 
Radio 
New rug for sitting room 
Picnic or camp-kitchen set 
American flag 
Growing Early Onions 
W INTER onions furnish green onions 
very early and are good if we have 
no other kind, but I like the onion sets or 
some of the multipliers, scallops, or 
potato onions better. Better yet are 
onions grown from sets planted during a 
warm spell in winter when the soil is 
thawed out. Most seasons we have a 
spell of warm weather long before regular 
planting time, when the soil is in fairton- 
dition to work. If we plant onion sets at 
this time, they will grow during every 
warm spell until it becomes settled 
weather and we will have onions long be¬ 
fore we could by waiting until we can 
plant them in the spring. A surplus can 
be sold at a good profit. Onion sets are 
perfectly hardy in the ground and many 
plant them even in the fall, but I prefer 
the later planting.— Bertha Alzada. 
Dry Your Green Peppers 
CAREEN peppers can be dried for win- 
N-X ter use, and used in seasoning pickles 
and cheese. 
Steam the peppers open, till the skin 
softens, then peel them. After peeling, 
split them and remove the pulp and 
seeds. 
They can be placed in the warming 
oven to dry, or in the sun. Be sure they 
are dry before storing away. When 
wanted for use, soak them in cold water 
over night.— Pauline Carmen. 
Do You Know That—- 
In baking pork and beans, put both in 
pan and parboil. Drain, .remove the 
pork and put it through a food chopper, 
then return to beans, stir thoroughly and 
bake. This gives a delicious flavor.— 
Ella D. Hull. 
* * * 
Try sprinkling soda on scorched spots 
in pans and dishes where food has stuck 
fast, let stand a while and see how easily 
it will come off. 
* * * 
Try kerosene to remove paint spots 
from porcelain or glassware. 
* * * 
Try peroxide of hydrogen on ink stains 
and scorched spots on clothing anc let it 
lie in the sun several hours. 
A. A. Cross Word Puzzle, Number 2 
Across 
1 Mores with Hopping mo¬ 
tion 
6 Familiar {arm work animal 
11 Block on which metal* arc 
hammered 
12 Tear-bringing vegetable 
13 Child’s plaything 
14 Wet earth 
15 An extension ot a house 
16 Brace of a wheel 
19 Thus 
20 Not fart 
21 Several foods cooked to¬ 
gether 
22 Initial* meaning morning 
23 Like 
24 Supporting bar of wood 
' 27 Inhabitant of Arabia 
30 Preposition giving alterna¬ 
tive 
31 Smallest unit of money 
34 Negative 
35 To furnish with weapons 
37 Terrible confusion 
38 Cleaning compounds (pi.) 
40 Noise 
42 An appointed meeting , 
43 What makes up an orchard 
Down 
1 Satisfies, fills up 
2 A little hill 
3 A poisonous plant 
4 To scramble type—print¬ 
er’s word 
5 To hit with the palm of the 
hand 
6 Noise made by an auto¬ 
mobile 
7 Upon 
8 Edge of tire 
9 To soak pickles in brine 
10 To deed money to 
16 Marsh 
17 Belonging to 
18 An attempt 
24 To brag 
25 Mistake 
26 Upon 
28 Baseball unit (2 words) 
29 Investments 
32 Direction of the compass 
33 Bird’s home 
36 A spring month 
37 Owing 
39 Postscript (abbr.) 
41 Alternative preposition 
'HIS is the second crossword puzzle Black spaces indicate the beginning or 
and a little harder than the first one* the end of a word. Abb. means abbrevia- 
You remember how to work them: con¬ 
sult the definitions and compare them 
with the numbers in the white blocks. 
Words must be correctly spelled and com¬ 
pletely fill each row started by a number. 
tion, pi. plural, obs. obsolete, etc. Any 
other variations are always indicated. 
The small diagram is the answer to 
last week’s puzzle. Look for the solution' 
of No. 2 next week. 
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