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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-12-19, Page 7Pare to Do Get into the thick of it—wade in. hoy! Whatever your cherished goal; Brace up your will till your pulses thrill, And you dare—to your very soul! Do something more than make a ©Oise; Let your purpose leap into flame As you plunge with a cry. “I shall do or die,” Then you will be playing the gams * * * Pert and Pertinent “Every man should take as long and as distant a vacation as pos­ sible.” ...the change is sure to do his associates good. ‘‘It is only about 10,000 years since masiadons and mammoths roamed about what is now Chi­ cago.” ......turn backward, turn backward, •0 Time in thy flight! “There are men in New York,” ©aid Rudy Vallee, “who would stop at not, Ing to drag down one who has achieved fame.” ...has someone been rude to our Rudy? “Our idea of a hard-boiled guy is a fellow who can swallow a dose of castor oil without gagging.” ...and tlFii lick the spoon.* * * Trees I think that I shall never see Along the road an unscraped tree, With bark intact, and painted white, That no car ever hit at night. For every tree that’s near the road Has caused some auto to be towed. Sideswiping trees is done a lot By drivers who are plumb half shot, God gave them eyes so they might see, Yet any tool can hit a tree.* * * Out of 21 civilizations that have arisen since the dawn of history, 14 are known only by their ruins* * * The Money was Paid Few ever got the better of the artist Whistler in a battle of wits, but there were exceptions. A flip­ pant reply to the secretary of a ■London Club where his account was past due produced this re­ tort; “Dear Mr. Whistler: It is not a “Nocturne in Purple” or a Sym­ phony in Blue and Gray” we are after, but an Arrangement in Gold •and Silver ”* * * Can , You Originate Some New Ones? - According to Wilfred J. Funk, publisher of the New Standard Dic­ tionary, the ten most overworked words in current American speech are; Lousy, okay, terrific, contact, gal, racket, swell, impact, honey, and definitely. All those in favor of giving these words a well-earned rest say ‘Aye’ ...opponents ‘no’, the ‘ayes’ have it... be it so resolved. * * * As long ago as 157*5, a case of .asthma was attributed to feathers and cured by removing the feather bed. In that year, Jerome Cardan, a great physician of 'Padua, was call­ ed to -Edinburgh to see the Arch­ bishop who suffered from asthma. The Paduan physician probably had no idea of ‘allergy1’ or hypersensi­ tiveness to feathers...certainly, he was not able to make skin tests of his distinguished patient.* * * A tourist returning to the U.S.A, from Canada tells this -one: In grat- titude for a ride, three chickens laid eggs on the seat of an Alberta citizen’s car and provided him with a free. ■ breakfast. In the U.S.A, chickens leave powder compacts, lipsticks 'and -bobby pins -on the •seat of the car and you don’t get any breakfast at all. Bilious Attacks Liver Complaint Biliousness is just another name for a dogged or sluggish liver. It is a Very common complaint, but can be quickly remedied by stimulating the flow of bile. Tliis softens the accumulated mass, the poisons ate carried out of the system, and the liver and bowels are relieved and toned up. Milbum’s Laxa-Liver Pills quicken and enliven the sluggish liver, open­ ing up every channel, by causing a free flow of bile and thus cleansing the liver Of the Clogging impurities. They are small and easy to take. Do not gripe, weaken or sicken, Th* T. Milburn Oo., Ltd.. Toronto, Ont. But Cardan was able to observe and to make logical deductions from his -observations. He finally advised the Archbishop to give up certain articles of his diet and to get rid of his feather bed. Relief of the asthma followed.* * * Dr. Granville Moody, a popular army chaplain d-uring the Civil War, could forget the cloth, when necessary, with evangelic tact, At Lookout Mountain, the Colonel of Moody’s regiment went tearing up and down the lines/ yelling to the troops, “-Give ’em hell, boys!” The chaplain was at his heels, yelling, “Do as your Colonel tells you, boys! Do as your Colonel tells you!”* * * Josh Billings once remarked that when some speakers strike oil they forget to stop boring... After an hour and a half of preaching, a clergyman who was given to both long-windedness and fanciful flights of oratory, was just getting warmed up to his sermon on immortality and as he continued he shouted, “I looked up to the mountains and I said: ‘Mighty as you are, you will be destroyed; but my soul will not’. I gazed at the ocean and cried: ‘Vast as you are, you will eventually dry up, but not I.” And then, he wondered whv his hearers smiled.# ❖ ❖ 'One week from today is ‘rent- paying-day’...would that our land­ lord were as genial and as generous as the Baron von Stiegel—of glass works fame—who, when he deeded a plot of ground to the Zion Evan­ gelical Church of Manheim, Pa., stipulated that the rent be paid in the form of ‘one red rose annually in the month of June forever’...... beginning in the year 1772. The terms were carried out dur­ ing the Baron’s lifetime—then for- fotten until the old document was found in 1901 .and payments were resumed. Yes, sure enough all back rent was paid up in 19 02—1'5 6 roses being dispatched to the Baron's heirs, paying the past due rent in full.* * * In a Garden The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth; You are nearer God's heart in a gar- iden j Than anywhere else on earth. I —Fred J. Roberts * * Hi The average human mind does not. comprehend how much money a billion dollars is. Here is an illustration which may help such persons to realize the enormity of that amount of money: If Pontius Pilate during his term of office in Jerusalem had begun spending $1.00 a minute, twenty- four hours a day, 190 O' years ago, this spending spree being passed on to descendant after descendant and continued through their lifetimes, the last of the billion dollars would have been spent along about 1910. ♦ * * Curious Cynic writes in with these observations....... A man with a small salary should court a girl with a slim waste. It seems that it is not only wrong to ca^l her ‘friend wife’, but it is more than often in accurate. When the flaming youth was hailed into traffic court Friday morning, the arresting officer charged that he had been driving while in a state of extreme infatn ation.* * * The best definition of the week was sent in by Par Ticipate who says a ‘committee’ is composed of important individuals who singly think they can do nothing; but to­ gether—agree that, nothing can be done.* * * Fire ! ! A news item tells of a fire in a newspaper office caused -by frac­ tion which ignited the naphtha and varnish contents in the ink on a rotogravure press....... And, while there is no connec­ tion, we recalled the other ‘friction fire’ story that went the rounds several years ago....... “Did you hear about the fire at Samuelson’s over on Seventh Ave?” “No, what caused it?” “Friction.” “Friction?’ “Yes, a twelve thousand dollar policy rubbing against a lot of un­ paid equipment.”* * * “War is the quintessence of beauty," says II Duce’s boy VJt- torio. ...we might get the Institute of Public Opinion to poll the citizens of Finland, Belgium, Holland and Franco on that. THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THVHSO.n-, 1®C. l»tll, 1!HU The wicked stand in slippery places. The others keep moseying.* $ * * * * * The turkey is not huffed when not impressed into a Christmas dinner party.**** **** Yes, it's been a bit difficult to harvest beans ’n’ sugar beets ’n’ things this last while back.******** We know a merchant who bought the best goods his market required, marked them at an attractive price and employed good sales help. His goods are still on his shelves. You see, he did not advertise.***** *** Let us put our backs into everything that is good for this tine town and so make this week a real record breaker for every­ body. Let us think prosperity, act prosperity and bring prosperity. We do not like the- folk who sit up and sit. We prefer those who* git up and git,***** * * * The unrestrained attack the Germans are making on British shipping is terrible. It is intended to bring the British people to their knees through sheer starvation. However, the severer the attack and the longer the fight, the more terrible will be the con­ sequences to the German people.«**>■**** ' LET US TRY, ANYWAY Even if we have to swallow hard in the doing, let us join hands with the kiddies and scamper about the Christmas tree. Bombs may fall and 'cannons may roar, but the Christ Child lives on forever.******* * Exeter merchants have taken advantage of the Crisp Christmas weather to supply their customers with a fine line of warm cloth­ ing. They have kept in mind that this is a “practical” Christina® where the demands of comfort go hand in hand with the Christ­ mas desire for attractive things for seasonal gifts.***** * * * There was a man in our town '» Who would not start complaining; He bought great goods and whooped it up And kept his business gaining.* ***** * * (With apologies to an old song) Good business is coming, hurrah, hurrah! Good business is coming, hurrah, hurrah; Good business, is coming, hurrah, hurrah Good business is coming, hurrah, hurrah. Good Santa, our saint, he goes before, He brings the kiddies gifts galore. .His spry reindeers have come to town, He lets no gingery -business down. Great times, you see, have come to town, Each dad now brings the bacon in. Ma’s bonnet is fine, Kate's dress is braw; Good business is coming, hurrah, hurrah!$ Ht $ IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN LONG AGO German, French, Polish, Hungarian, Japanese and Italian re­ sources, all of them pooled against Britain! What a spectacle! Why did not the United States own the corn and get into the war on the side of her best friend? The longer she stays out, the worse', things grow, and are growing. Had Anglo-Saxondom but dropped selfishness and acted sanely, ten years ago, this war would never have taken place. Instead, the democratic nations jockeyed for position when they should have been winning the race. There’s no appeasement of the ape and the tiger.***** * * * JUST WHAT WAS WANTED Last Saturday was a real gloom enaser for the merchants and for everybody else. Word came in the morning of the high suc­ cess attained by the British forces in Egypt and of attainment by the Royal Air Force. While snow made motoring difficult, coun­ try roads were firm and passable. The bright sunlight put vim into -the veins and drove away dull care. Our merchants wore their’ brightest smiles and outdid themselves in offering attractive bar­ gains,that were eagerly seized upon by folk out on business b'e'at.'* The rise in the price of butter gave hope to the farmers. The ice- never was better, allowing the school children and their friends to enjoy winter sport to the top of their bent. Rarely has a winter Saturday been finer or more enjoyed.******** THAT CHRISTMAS LIST Astonishing, isn’t it, how the Christmas list changes? Any­ one who compares such a list in 1'940 with the lists of 1900 or 19 20 is amazed at how the one differs from the other. We have but memories where once we had warm handclasps and friendly faces. Someone else now carries on where the loved and lost once filled their place with laughter and achievement. But the, mem­ ories are there and with the memories are spiritual presences that fill us with joy and gladness. As the years pass life becomes richer every hour, for we are a part of all we have met. We do not need to do any culling of our Christmas lists, Time will attend to all that. The stocking that mother filled for us half a oentuly* ago is as full today of good will and cheer as it was that first snowy but sunshiny Christmas day of our earliest recollection.******** HE HAS PAID THE PRICE Lord Lothian, the British ambassador to the United States, has paid the price of public service. He has stood for the best., things in government and in national life. He chose the way of public service, leaving self-seeking to those whose natures fit them for that way. Instead of gathering facts and merely mulling them over .as a mere theorist, .he applied those facts to the welfare of his nation in the light of history and of his own mature judgment. Instead of proving himself a sycophantic, supple-bracked courtier, he did a statesman’s work in drawing together the great Anglo- Saxon families by promoting a mutual understanding based on ac­ curate information and by holding high the ideal qualities of jus­ tice and good will. 'Such work has been terribly hard for more- than a score of years. At last it took its full toll of his vitality and the busy mind and the eloquent tongue and the busy pen are still­ ed forever. But he rules Anglo-Saxons from his urn. ******** *TW|AS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS We’ve asked and ask.ed for a really fine edition of this immor­ tal poem but we simply can’t get it. Is it because the artists real­ ize that they can’t set forth in line and color the real meanling olfi this exquisite bit of literature? Is there something in the twinkling eye of this jolly old elf, St. Nicholas, that the painter’s brush can­ not catch? Does he know that he cannot portray to the eye a due sense of the overflowing vitality of those tiny reindeer who con­ quer the air like the down of a thistle? We have waited and wait­ ed for the trained public reader, like Mrs. Agnes Black, to read this poem for us, but they only smile and shake their heads. They know they can’t do this work of art anything like justice. It is 16ft for dads- and mothers, around the Christmas tree to read these words that make the good will of Christmas more real than ••iny other work of art in existence. And so- to our readers and to al^ the world “A merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.” Tiny 'Pirn knew all about this poem in its essence when he prayed “And may God bless us everyone!”*** ***** TOWN BUILDERS "Great day, this, though underfoot it’s nothing to brag about," a country lady remarked to another, one day this week. “That absent North bridge gives us an extra five miles drive,” was the reply, “but it is worth it. You see, we know of n-o other place that is as good as Exeter to shop. And so the good lady chat­ ted as she waited her turn in the busy store. ‘‘I wish it were a little easier to get from one side of the street to the other, though,” and she looked at the piles of -snow the snow plow had left in its Wake. Just as dusk was getting down to business that same day an old chap was diligently plodding liis way homeward with the smell of the evening beans filling his soul with pleasant anticipations. There were about four inches of! mud and snow and meanness with a whole lot of slush thrown in to make things interesting. “Say, buddy, try this sidewalk. It’s clean and the going’s fine," suggest­ ed an open-eyed pedestrian on the other side of the street. The aged one heeded -the admonition and reached his home thinking of how much is accomplished by telling reasonable folk where “the Walking is fine”, and incidentally of how much joy is added to life by those humble, but diligent folk who clean their sidewalks to tho bone. “Trifles," you say. True, but they help to make up civilization —and build a town, S' ** * Candies for Gifts . . . for the family , , « for friends. Candy, § a token of good wishes. Some crunchy nuts . . . some chewy | toffee with a dash of rum . . , the curious flavour of fruit jellies . . , It’s not the low cost . . , it’s the good taste that counts when § you have candies for gifts. § Delicious Luscious Nut Filled Candies PER LB. 50c Mixed Nuts, Oranges, Choice Selection of Candies. Fancy Boxed Chocolates. Pipes and Tobaccos, Cigars in Xmas Boxes Special Candy for School and Church Christmas Concerts f GRIEVE’S SANDWICH SHOP | g LUNCHES AT ALL HOURS K Advent Timothy n verses 11 to 14 Advent is derived from the Latin words ad- to and venio- I come, Published by request Advent tells us Christ is near, Christmas tells us Christ is here. In Epiphany we trace, All the glories of his grace. These three Sundays before Lent, Will prepare us to repent. That in Lent we may begin, Earnestly to mourn for sin. Holy week and Easter then, Tell who died and rose again. Oh that happy Easter day, “Christ is risen indeed” we say. Yes and Christ ascended too, To prepare a place for you. So we give him special praise, After those great forty days. Then he sent the Holy Ghost, On the day of Penticost. With us ever to abide Well may we keep Whitsuntide. Last of all we humbly sing, -Glory to our God and King. Glory to the one in three ■On the feast of Trinity. Tickets and complete information from any Agent. 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