Volume 5 Article 1 Number 7 The Iowa Homemaker vol.5, no.7 1925 The oI wa Homemaker vol.5, no.7 O. H. Cessna Iowa State College Elizabeth Johnson Iowa State College Elizabeth Hoyt Iowa State College Florence Faust Iowa State College Margaret Ericson Iowa State College See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker Part of the Home Economics Commons Recommended Citation Cessna, O. H.; Johnson, Elizabeth; Hoyt, Elizabeth; Faust, Florence; Ericson, Margaret; Harp, Dorothy; Corsaut, Louise; Brown Sherborn, Florence; Rapp, Miriam; Johnson, Anna; and Whistler, Margaret (1925) "The oI wa Homemaker vol.5, no.7," The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 5 : No. 7 , Article 1. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol5/iss7/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oI wa Homemaker by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The oI wa Homemaker vol.5, no.7 Authors O. H. Cessna, Elizabeth Johnson, Elizabeth Hoyt, Florence Faust, Margaret Ericson, Dorothy Harp, Louise Corsaut, Florence Brown Sherborn, Miriam Rapp, Anna Johnson, and Margaret Whistler This article is available in The oI wa Homemaker: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol5/iss7/1 • • VOL. V DECEMBER, 1925 yo-u·-----------------·-----·-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-• 0 ---~ • I i I I· i I I TABLE OF CONTENTS The True Spirit of Christmas ------------------------------------------------ ---- --------- --- ---- ---- -- 1 By Dr. 0 . H. Cessna I I Something Different for Christmas Greetings ---------- -- ---- -- --- --- -- ------------ ----- --- 2 By Elizabeth Johnson I I The Purchase Price of Beauty --- ---------------------------------------------------------·-·····----- 3 By Dr. Elizabeth Hoyt Can You Visualize Your Hat Problem -------------------- ------- ---- ------------------------- ---- 4 By Florence Faust I Decorating the Christmas Tree --- --------- --- ------------------------------------------------------- 5 I By Margaret Ericson Christmas-For Him ------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- 5 I By Dorothy Harp and Louise Corsaut With the Iowa State Home Economics Association ------------------------------------ 6 Preparing the Girl fur Motherhood ---------------------------------------------------- -------------- 7 I By Dr. Florence Brown Sherborn Girls' 4-H Club Page ----------------------------------------------- --- -- -- ---------------- -------- --- ---------10 Fuel Economy in the Kitchen ---------------------------------------------------------- -- ---- -- --------11 By Miriam Rapp t When We Are Very Young --------------------------------------------------- ----------- -- --·-----------12 By Anna Johnson f l Editorial ------------------------------------------ --- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------13 Who's There and Where --------- -- --------------------------------------------------------- -- --· -----------14 Eternal Question ------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------- --- -------- --- ---- --------16 If You Would Have Health -------------------------------------------------- -- --------------- ------- ----17 I By Margaret Whistler i ·>~-D-D-D-~o-~~~~-..o-~t-~o-I ·------+ ·THE lOW A HOMEMAI(ER "A Magazine for Homemakers from a Homemakers' School" I VOLUME 5 DECEMBER, 1925 NUMBER 7 The True Spirit of Christmas DR. 0. H. CESSNA Chaplain Iowa State College. like the ring of sincerity in thisotopic. even great nations at war have been those same eager, dancing eyes I The emphasis seems to be on the word known to declare a truce for the time be­ That couldn't fault or blemish view; I'd "true." Evidently the desire is to go ing and the soldiers of opposing armies like to feel the same surprise, beyond the mere surface observance of frequently mingle in friendly converse The pleasure, free from all alloy, that the day to its deeper meaning. 1 think and greetings. They lay hate aside in the has forever passed away, this attitude is a true characteristic of presence of the great spirit of good will When I was just a little boy and had our serious minded young people of to­ of the day and mingle freely in friendly my faith in Chri&tmqs Day. day. They become impatient with what associations. has been when it is enforced simply be­ It is the day-the joy-day of children. Oh, little, laughing, ro'ugish lad, the cause it has been. The touch stone for Some of the happiest scenes of home life king that rules across the sea them is not simply the traditional but the are those of Christmas week. The days Would give his secpter if he had such real. before are filled with mysterious doings. joy as now belong to thee! It seems to me, as I check up on the Packages are slipped in and hidden away And beards of gray would give their thought of the present day, there is a and a kind of mystery is thrown around gold, and all the honors they possess, very manifest note of seriousness. The the occasion. The tree is prepared; the Once more within their grasp to hold terrible cataclysm of the Great War and bright decorations are strewn over it; the the present fee of happiness. the disillusionment following have had candles are scattered about in the midst Earth sends no greater, surer joy, as, their effect. Men have turned to the deep· of the display. The presents are labeled too soon, thou, as I, shall say, er significance of things. They have come and brought in and hung about on >the Than that of him who is a boy, a little to realize that •the difficulty was deep branches or piled on the table beneath. boy on Christmas Day. seated and constitutional in its nature. The children are in a very riot of joy Who would want to kill Christmas day They have come to feel the inadequacy and an eye is kept on them lest they slip with all its joys and delightful associa­ of mere liuman agency to meet >the need in and made dis·coveries before hand. tions with home and childhood. And yet and have turned to God and religion. Indeed it is the day of all days in child it is too true that the day is frequently President Coolidge has recently given life when the family is all together. The spoiled by a spirit of dissipation and com­ strong utterance to these convictions: day is spent in feasting and joy and some­ mercialism. Some have even thought that "We do not need more material de­ how the home-fires are rekindled and the it resulted in more harm than good and velopment, we need more spiritual ·home-ties are cemented more sec'urely. have even called for its cessation. Voices, development. Edgar A. Guest has beautifully pictured however, have been raised against this We do not need more intellectual pow­ the childhood joys of the Christmas time treatment of the noble day and new em­ er, we need more character. in his delightful poem, "A Boy on Christ­ phasis is being put on its true signifi­ We do not need more law, we need mas Day" given in his "A Path to Home." cance, A very s'uggestive article appear­ more religion." If I could have my wish tonight it ed in the December number of the Delina­ So this emphasis on the word "true" would not be for wealth or fame, tor, entitled "The Man Who Tried to ·Kin is in harmony with both the sincerity It would not be for some delight that Christmas." It is typical of the appeal of thoughtful young people and also with men who live in luxury claim, being made by many thoughtful people. those who see clearly the needs of the But it would be that I might rise at Two rather striking statements show this times. The suggestion "The True Mean· three or four a. m. to see, attitude. They are as follows: ing of Christmas" may mean that there With eager, happy, boyish eyes, my "I am taking Christmas off my pri­ have been associated with Christmas a presents on the Christmas tree. vate calendar. Hereafter I will discon· lot of things that have drifted far from Thruout this world there is no joy, I tinue the custom of ·offering gifts or its real purpose and intent and the effort know now I am growing gray, other Christmas tokens, and earnestly is to call us back to its "true" observance. So rioh as being just a boy, a little boy request you all to do the same with me. There are two aspects of this matter­ on Christmas Day. The modern Christmas is now actually the primary and what we might ·Call de­ a day of much worry, distress, sorrow rived interest. To reserve the order, on I'd like once more to stand and gaze and ill-will." the one hand, Christmas has ~orne to enraptured on a tinseled >tree, "I think Christmas is the year's great­ stand for one of the great "~orne Days" With eyes that know just how to blaze, est day. Men look to it as a source from in our yearly calendar. It is marked by a heart still tuned to ecstacy; which to draw the power and will to vacations and holidays in o'ur s·chools and I'd like to feel the old delight, the surg­ daily express ·their devotion to highest business. It is the time when those who ing thrills within me come; ideals, as a day when the brotherhood are away turn thoughtfully to home and, To love a thing with all my might, to of man embraces the world." if possible, find their way to the old home grasp the pleasure of a drum; One man wrote both those opinions of town. It is a time when we r-emember To know the meaning of a toy- a mean- Christmas. He wrote them both from the the loved ones there with our gifts and ing lost to minds blase; . heart. It was a heart f'ull of bitterness greetings. Step into any book store and 'fo be just once again a boy, a little boy when he penned the first lines; a heart see the great assortment of Christmas on Christmas Day.