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CHRISTMAS '-
IN FICTION,
• H GEORGE II. PICARD
feo,yrlgbt, sew
by
American
e can Press Assn.
b
OT until the first
half of the last
century was well
spent did the spe-
cies ot iiterature
which has come to
f *� be kpown asChrast-
Inas fiction effect a
permanent 1 o d g-
ment In the hearts
of English speak-
ing mankind. The
ancient parable
pIaya and the
rhymed holiday
n }, legends of the mld-
Im1110. die ages are still In
ore the continent, but the more
trccnia minded Engnsh had only the
`rude Ytttetlde jingles and the quaint
carols of f Dating antiquity.
(Itinerary the prevailing notion, the
Inventor of t : e tale with a distinctive-
' ly
isttnctive-
ly Chrt.Tntla -aver was an American.
It I Berle that t would occur to few
Americans and t • no Englishman to
4..•.,•nt Ir tt wer asserted In their
presence that Cha Dickens or1t i -
tinted the Christmas .ry. Itis name
1.1 nn. Inseparably con tel with so
oni:h of the holiday teratere, pn-
.lirioed in, the popular hen t that 1t Is
.t„all wonder the mention f Christ -
et - ,iagtesrt him. The •cre. t of the
':literary stud," however-, must giver;
h. '11•••her, n man who was at t end
nr hi+ thirties when Dlekens was rot,
win Irnl Ihrn at Malta when Netso 'S
t,•i•1 sailed away to Trafalgar, who ha •
rv,•e 1 Sir NV:Alter at Abbotsford and
had captivated him and who was aft-
i'ru'.rd secretary to the United States
6•g•'tinn in 1:ngland. That, of course,
' tn.-'e. Washington Irving.
Uri io^ s first book, "The Sketch -Hook
of r:e .Rory ('rayon. Gent-," had pleased
ever) body, so much so, indeed, that 1t
ops republished by John, Murray In
i felon and tranalatoOlInto several con-
iinrnf:rl languages. Sloth the publisli-
ei, rn,l the public were urging him to
.1 . something equally meritorious. No-
b.;J;c t.- 1lized more keenly than did the'
nnll...r•of the exquisite work the dit11-
end t or predocing Its mate. and he
was hot a man to he driven into medi-
ocrity. Three years later he published
•Bracebridge Hall," and the chapter of ,auyt-ai>a ling
that masterpiece of literary workman. dentals m. dt Is a master('
whip enttiled "Christmas at Itraecbridge
was the pioneer holiday tale of
I rush literature and has furnished a
model for subsequent tietionisty which
has seldom been equaled and never'
,excelled 'its easy grate and felicity nt
expression were n revelation to every -
boil) in those days, and the wonder
end the charts are potent still.
Wil4i.hl M-akepeace ThacIeray, mal-
let of a realism that Is the wonder and
tht• despair of those whn base followed
him, needed no
model and chose
niche. II s+ "firs
l'erklns P.a1.' re.
sovnbles nothing
ever conceived In
the. mind of any,
other man. The .
public was (tedsml
with It, hue never '
M. u, u c 11 an was - -
Th.a: 11111.altnau. of THE RATIONAL
Most amazing •1' all,
, the author of the 1
tate professed to betierc that It was
"Mrs. Perkins' (tall" that had made
he. reputation that, too. in the face of
t6.• (ret that "laaity [air" had just
(*wen puhlished. This l.erversion of 4,', __
mortal restriction in regard Is (.eoRao- 1
tion that eowe to us when we bid Mem
and vanish politely when wsare*rearp
of their presence.
Bret Herta ewer grade a secret of
has adlniratlou for tlse creator of tattle
Nell aad Tom Pined hike Peal a1
the feet of Gametic!, be was cosiest to
receive kis lemons from the Rana Ds
acknowledged t0 be bis master. Not
until after Dickens had subbed hda.
work dM the young literary light who
stood revealed in the far western firma-
ment learu that his model bad meta
that exquisite elegy "Dickens 1■
Camp" and had been heard to ezpres
Ids admiration of It a use meat gen-
erous terms. The dying novelist des
elated that the work or tate new Amer -
lean writer contained each subtle
strokes of workmanship an DO other
writer In the language had yet ex-
hibited. And then he asked, with a
humorous gleam in his weary eyes.
"Dou't you think that Ws manner b
very like my ownT'
Like Dickens, ITarte had a genuine
fondness for the doings of Yuletide.
One who knew him best nays that up
to the last day of his life "he thought
much of the Christmas season and to
the last kept up the fond and fooliab
custom of sending generous presents
to his friends" Better appreciated in
England than in his native country.
!Tarte spent the tater years of his life
abroad, but his stories were to the last
distinctively American. In that ad-
mirable performance entitled "How.
Santa Clans Came to Simpson's Bar'
there is no flavor of the old world
Christmas, and Johnny. clothed in the
stars and stripes, as a young American
of the most unmistakable sort
Two of the most strikingly dissimi-
lar Christmas stories ever written are
Hawthorne's
"Christmas Ban-
quet" and Hiss
Mitt owl's "Cheat-
mas Party.'!
There is little of
Christmas in
(1awthorne's
grewsome to 1 e.
The joyous festi-
val la onlf a lit -
entry makeshift
around which is
woven a weird
at drives all re;
,•. a season from
hosts
.s not the so -
.d spooks of
f rmless .and
hey nre tho
the frig -
ism, and
a strong
nscen-
e con-
n Uon
ake
or
DT
paychologie
,membranes o
the mind. 1b
chuble and east
Iickens. They
creepy and all nerve
'fearsome spectersth
id vapors of German
they are made icier still
TNS
stndrt
the hi
6
•h
are
Mg.
rise
With
t
c
q
(option and in treatment—no
at all about that—bot it does
rye Yu(a tog rime more
.lend a better flavor tq the. stea 1nb
bowl.
MaryRussell Mntford does not d
In ghosts. All of her Christmas char.
actors are flesh end blood people, and
they are oyt of the sort that. -will not
stay dead when they di :" Her "Christ-
mas Party" L asdain In its work-
manship as anything wh h ever came
from her careful pen, and hat 1s' say-
ing
ayIng much. - It 1s as restful and- non-
anggectfvc .•ts a pastoral. and is Inlla-
encc els ea soothing as the elicate
' sai•or which escapes when the cover
of a potpourri Jar 1s lifted:' o the
drawer of an old time cabinet is o s-
ed—the faint, pervasive odor of erns
Ied rose leaves and dried lavender.
n
•r
Or
CHRISTMAS,
ttterary--
• vain.- of this sare, and his lack of faith
In tris masterpiece—be had NO little
toebdeu, c w the success of "Vanity
Fair" that after It appeared he applied
'or a small gosern,nent position—are
.rvt t auOielt:nt that the man who cre-
ek-- a masterpiece may bare a dipu-
r:ot• eptton of artistic values.
701 The- maters of- groat fiction are
mer,- or less under the spell of their
imii,edhet, surrehndIngs, but �etv-finve
tsiele 11- mores apparent than Charles
Del us. 'Phos: who knew the circum-
{
!deuces s maw• plaluly shut he had put
hinoelf and his sad childhood into
ur.:uy of Ida pathetic short stories.
sere Thk is especially true of -The Ghost
In blaster Ire Room,' which 1s an *C-
rowd. of things which happened to
/11n In his troubled boyhood. As a
"3° rho in• was a limn „believer In ghosts.
mei a is pr'obante that he nes et ettire-
ry abalidoses1 Ittc Yalta to Spectral ap-
pr:•rance, Many of his tales are pee-
ylr'1 with disembodied spirits, and .they
ire like the ghosts of no other writer.
1'1- y ere the spooks that nppesl to one
on 1 11i ll.e one bsltere in their genuine -
Me -s. -J hey are frequently more ,regi,
Role the living characters who cnneort
• MA. thein Although they are dead,
they conduct theulaelvcs like living en•
fv°r lilies•
i+f^kena' 4:heistmas ghosts are unique
In the realm of literature. Of all tho
„ atlent whnpes that
, Karg leen sum -
S,' moned from the
upper and nether
•worlds to lend en-
s Y:TC chnulment to the
Christmas tole
els n1 .ne have
one neclimat-
reT-t sero
er an,lhine re-
pul:aive *bon
leo" i *teem \ The n
„ 1"7.•• t tie Inns empan
br ' - tv•••eiks Aver inverse & The
I IR - : h s-ptite1W b, but are ' ere-
gtro ;te.-: rut. They are not the
Acro ktlllh awl never to be
rob, And phantoms oh, She fairy
Mt :nal persona Mies, tJled from erish
v•
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re
"sr•
SANTA AND THE
LITTLE MOUSE.
$r FRANCIS TAYLOR.
(Copyright, Iter. by American tress Asso-
ciation"
Oae Christmass eve when Santa
Claus
Came to a certain house
To fill the children's stockings there
He found a little mouse.
1v ELLIS FRANL_- -.__-
Ecopyrlght, 11.., by American Press Assts.
ci*Uon.1
"Let us sloe in reason this year," she
suggested; trl
"Not etely for the sake of giving
things.
It's the invested
the money investe
Let us, therefore, turn from toots*
squandering!.
Let the netts we give ba things that mar
be needed G
_instead of trash soon to be at aside"
'lay darling, your suggestlo shall -be
heeded, -
For there to wbdom In It," he replied.
Shedid her shopping early, being guided
By lessons learned from much experi-
ence.
010 would show tier Lord and muter. she
decided.
Bow excellent a thing was common
sense.
For tbelr baby boy she purchased a
French corset
And an oriental rag that caught her
eye. Mining 'Though this longed- to have a
rocking horse, It m•
Wasn't sensible," she .murmsd, with a
sigh.
They promised not to buy things for
each other.
They would merely get a sew things for
the child.
Ohs would sacrifice her sister and her
mother,
And It gladdened her to see the way he
smiled
Al he paid his penile, too, should be omit-
ted.
*o the wise and winsome woman, day
by day,
From shop to shop, with sweet emotion,
flitted,
Moving dry goods bound up and sent
away.
"A merry Christmas, little friend,"
Said Santa, good and kind.
"The same to you, sir," said the
mouse.
"I thought you wouldn't mind
"If Ishould stay
awake tonight
And watch yon
for awhile."•
"You're very
welcome, lit-
tle mouse,"
Said Santa,
with a smile.
And then he
filled the
stockings up t' r
Before the
mouse could
wink—
From toe to top; from top to toe,
There wasn't left a chink.
"Now, they won't hold another
thing,"
Said Santa Clans. with pride.
A twinkle came in mouse's eyes,
Eut humbly he replied:
a4,trN,, "It's not polite
to contradict.
Your pardon I
implore.
r e But in the fall -
e s t stocking
there
I could put
--1
1
one thing
tar more." -
"Oh, ho," laugh-
ed Santa, "sil-
ly mouse!
Don't I know
how to pack?
3y 1 lling stockings all these years
I should have learned the knack."
And then he took the stocking down
From where it hung so high
• "New pmt in, nueg
more.
I give you leave to try."
•
The mousic
chuckled t o
imself,
An. then he
sof stole �h
Right t h e
stoc' ing's
crowded' toe
And gnawed a
little hole. A
"No* if y o
please, good
Santa Claus. C '
I've rut -in one
thing more,
Po you will own that li hole
\. 's not in them before."
okt
fie bought a pipe and splendid smtlg
Jacket
To cryo their darling glee on Christmas
morn.
With these the child could snake no sura
n racket
.Aa Intent have train produced with drag•
Ile nungot the work*, enezpurkated.
torr cod Itnecacctn and Itabelats.
On that their little one mtaht he 41.1.0
And, Ion,; have glad reroembranee qt the
day.
•
On Chrtstmu when their -presents wen
distil.eyed -
They t upon the *ora aide by aids,
n
AOA whit. thechild looked up at tststa.
dl* Bayed,
i lie hnd ne
a culprit's ar. and NO
.., cfjlilirWi?k
How �• nta Claus did laugh and
lau: , !
And the he -"gayly spoke,
"Well. you hall have a Christmas
cheese
For that nic little joke."
THE DEAR
1
1_D
TREE
By FRANK It. WELT.
There''sa dear old tree, . evergreen
tree,
And iblossoms once a
'Tis loaded with fruit fro top to
root,
And it brings to all good the
.
41
n
•
rcr its bloi:orns bright are
eandlcs whits.
f.nd its fruit is dolls and toys,
tai bath -you
and me
If we're good little girls and boys.
Th. Chri.tm.s Manger.
in France mny be almost milversally
*ren rrf.reeentaSIone of the manger Is
which Cbrfrt wart burn. wttll enures ot
Nary. Joseph and the taNdAlemeo distil
Icat�syategr bre
I ama-
small
When the Music Played.
A correspondent writes :--I was re-
minded of tau Highlanders who vis-
ited Edinburgh. The only instru-
mental music they had ever beard
wart the bagpipes. On the Sab-
bath they entered a fashionable
church, stook (oseesaion of an aristo-
crat's pew, and sat spellbound while
the introductory voluntary was being
played. The titled lady who rented
the pew cense in before the conclusion
of the voluntary, and touching one
of the Highlanders on the ehouider
motioned bow to come out, broking
up' be raid quite audibly, 'Ns, na 1
fah' Tonal' : he's a patter dancer than
we 1" Smothered laughter w a s
beard throughout the sacred edifice, --
Scottish -American.
•
. A Moving Scene.
An Englishman was motoring
through a remote part of Ireland,
when he caws upon a poor old woman
seated with all her humble furniture
about her in the middle uC the mad
before her little cottage. The Eng-
lishman was deeply moved. Here be-
fore his eyes an eviction—a genuine
Irish eviction—was lreou enacted. He
alighted trove his car, and generously
prevented the ofd woman with a five
pound note. "Tell nue," he said,
"what is the 'Avse of alt your trouble,
coy poor old creature?" Bowing
nearly to the gro i with her grati-
tude. the old woruan replied—•'Shure,
aur, me ould man's a -whitewashing
the inside."
8
\\Tian's
bleakness
A woman's reproductive
organs are in the most bo-
tense and continuous s7m•
ppsathy with her kidneys.
The slightest disorder inthe
kidneys brings about a
corresponding disease in
the reproductive organa.
Dodd's Kidney Pills, by re-
storing the kidneys to their
perfect condition, prevent
and cure those fearful die -
orders peculiar to women
Pale young girls, worn-out
mothers, suffering wives
and women entering upon
the Change of Life, your
best friend is
Dodd's
Kidney
Pills
f
The avi-rage woman oris .M if a 111411
ought to apologize when lie dura hes At
favor.
TAKE A FLYER!
Don't Be 'the Wrong Mr. Wright
Holiday Advertising Is the Aeroplane rp',
•' ""' / That Gives Business' a Lift.
GET • ABOARD! F;}, TAKE A FLYER !
I
HOLIDAY FOOTWEAR
What better remembrance can you give
your friend than a pair of comfortable slip-
pers? We have the finest assortment in
Felt ur Leather you will find anywhere, as -
well se the most reasonable in prior. slur
stock of
evening dippers
•
For ladies includes the woes dainty designs
of tbe shoemakers art. Al wore acceptable
gift at this season cannot be found, it will
glve you pleasure to see our footwear for the
little tots.
i'.
Downing 8 MacVicar
tarl.Y AURYTK yids
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Out I ne this y.•ar roust -le of :
TOILET SETS in leatlmt cases
MANICURE SETS in Iee.nthet' ense.r
)i s"w
Combination Ttill.l•I' ASI I.IAN[l'1'ille. I:r
Ebinv ilAllt 11l0"*ali•:4 E
} epi a lr I•:lt,rly 51 I1(111 tit'
a •�-.
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I•`aney Pilus, Cigars. cigar (Cases. Fancy Perfumes, in hulk sn.l
Is .1tles. Big range +toil close pricey at
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that'na'll enjoy int flavor about
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other make.
Tt costs yon no more than ordi-
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better, and more wholesome in
every way. It is the greatest
food for growing children, and
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When yon bey "Crown Brand"
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