Remove Malaga grapes from stems. Wipe each grape separately and take out seeds. Make a cut in each grape beginning at stem end and extending the entire length. Insert in cut a narrow strip of canned pimento. Pare two seedless oranges and at the same time remove the white portion from the fruit; then separate the fruit into sections, discarding the tough portion. Arrange crisp lettuce-leaves on a shallow salad-dish in the form of nests and fill each with grapes; between nests arrange the sections of orange. Pour over French dressing made as follows: Mix one-fourth teaspoonful each salt and powdered sugar, one-eighth teaspoonful paprika, four table-spoonfuls olive oil and one tablespoonful each vinegar and lemon juice. Stir until well blended.

A Pretty Christmas Salad

A pretty Christmas salad has celery and cream cheese for its foundation. Mash a ten-cent cream cheese and work with a fork until smooth. Mix with one-half cupful finely chopped celery and salt to season, and make into little balls. Put a half English walnut meat on each side of every ball, arrange them on leaves of lettuce in the shape of a star, pour over all a French dressing and sprinkle with paprika. - E. P. T., Palisade, N. J.