December
And the last month of the calendar! Of all the months this is the one when cook holds sway, and some sign of greediness may be permitted.
The hostess housewife girds herself for the fray of entertaining friends and relatives, and with a determined mind prepares her Christmas kitchen battery.
Pardonable that she should feel a kindly rivalry towards those who will receive her hospitality.
She naturally wants her entertaining to be the best, for she is a proud woman. Amid the congratulations of her guests enthroned on the kitchen table with her rolling pin sceptre like in one hand and her cookery book in the other.
A happy Christmas! Tired out, but happy in her triumph, the crockery washed up, the children packed to bed, the guests all gone, she reaps the reward of her labour and of her enterprise.
In the morning she will awake to another day, the same as before, but after the twelve month?s experience easier and happier.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.