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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1919-12-18, Page 2G, D. MOTAGGAI1 'At P. oierAGGA1VP McIaggart. Bros. A GENERAL BANKING pus!. t4Ess PRAA'SACTND, NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE.. POSITS. SALE NOTES PEE - CHASED, -- H, T. I ANCE —_ --+ NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY: ANCER, FINANCIAL REAL ESTATE AND TIRE INSUR- ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT. ING 14 FIRE INSURANCE • COMPANIES. '' - nivrsION COURT of 'ic i, CLINTON. tY, BRYDQNE, BARRISTER,' SOLICITOR, NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC. OIfce Sloan Block -CLINTON DR. GUNN Office cases at his residence, cos. High and Kirk streets. DR. J. C. GANDIER ' Cake Hours: -1.80 to 8.30 p.m., 7.80 to 0.00 p,m. Sundays 12.30 to 1.80 8.m. . Other hours 1sat. appointment only. Ofmiee and Residence—Victoria SL CHARLES B. IIALL3, Conveyancerr•Notah7 Public, Commissioner, Etc. • REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licensee HURON STREET, — CLINTON, 6ARFfELD MCMICIIAEL, Licensed Auetioneerer for • the County of Huron, Sales con ducted in any part of the county. Charges moderato and satisfac- tun guaranteed. Address: Sea- forth, R. R. No, 2. Phone 18 on 286, Seaforth .Central, GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of. Huron. Correspondence 'promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling Phone 13 on 157. Charges moderate and satisfaction 1 guaranteed. B. R HIGGINS Box 127, Clinton - Phone 100. Agent for The Huron & Erie Mortgage Cor, potation and The Canada Trust Company C0mm'er A. C. of J., Conveyancer, Fire and Tornado Insurance, Notary Public Also a numbeer of good farms for sale. At Bruce/laid on -Wednesday each week. ilh�6 r --TIMI: TABLE -- Trains. ABLii1—Trains will arrive at and depart front Clinton •Station as follows: -.- BUFFALO AND GODERIOH DIV. Going east, depart 6.38 a.m. 2.52 p.m, Going West ar. 11.10, dp. 11.16 a.m, '' ar, 6.08, dp. 6.47 pin. ar. 11,18 p,m, LONDON, HURON & BRII . cn DIV. Going South, u h, ar. 8.23, dp, .8.23 a.m, 4.15 pan, Going North depart 6,40 p.m. " " 11.07, 11.11 a.m. The IoK.lop Mutual Pilo Iusurailcf0oinpaily Heat. office, Seaforth, Ont. DIRF,CTOl:Y pavement, Janes Connolly, Goderich; Vice., James Evans, Beechwood; lice. -Treasurer, Thos, R. Hays, Sea. *firth. Directory George McCartney, Sea - forth; D. F. McGregor, Seaforth; J. G. Grieve, Walton; Wm, Rni � Sea. forth; M. Mcl8weo, Clinton; Robert Ferries, Iiarioek; John Benneweir, Brodhagen• Jas, Connolly, Goderich. Agents: Alex Leitch, Clinton; J. W. Yeti, Goderieb; Ed. FIinchley, Seaforth; W. Chesney, 1gmondvilie; R. G. Jar. meth, Srodhagen. Any money iso' be pad ;b may he paid to Moorish Clothier; Co., Clinton, er at Cutts, Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiri:,g to effect insurance. or transact other business will be promptly attendelel to on applicationto any of the above officers addressed to their respective post offie`a. Longs {rspeaited ''ay the director who lira Leered the teen. OWnton News- Record CLINTON, ONTARIO. )('erens of subscription -31.60 per year; in advance to Canadian addresses; i 0,00 to the U.S, or other foreign countries, No paper discontinued Until all arrears. are paid vniess et the option of the publisher The slate to which every subscription i* paid is denoted on the label Ad'crtising rates --Transient adver. tisaments, 10 cents per nonpareil line for 'first insertion and 6 rents lm' line for each subsequent inser- tion, Sinai! advertisements not to eseood one inch, such as "Lost;' "/prayed,? or "Stolen," etc., inserts ed once for 06 cents, and each subse, spent insertion 10 cents. Cororai2icati0ns.$ntended for publielt, Hoe nerd, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name 61 the ,enter, t R, STALL, M, R. CLAIM, Proprietor, 1r;tliter, Here la tr yr!1t!ant end unieme Chrlstmas Story from the pen of the late C. Henry,' now recognized as ono of the world's preatoet story -tellers, it lea oher:tning tole, full Of character, sentiment -and surpr(seei 0110 dollar' and. ninety -leer nate', h'e • -I t cit eve/ n 2 • a Y if 1 t every time i 0 Pawed, ;iu That was all. And seventy.four cents to see hint pluck at tie beard fee of It was in coppers saved, one olid envy, two at a thee by bullriez(ng the grocer „So now Peila's beautiful hair fe tend the vegetable men and the bait- about bee, rippling and obinittt" li tiler, until one's cheers burned. with a' monde of brown '/eaters. It noel the silent imentation o$ parsica mony ed below her knees that ouch close dealingimplied. Three r 1 ees and made itse p almoe-1 a garmalit for 11Pr. And the times Della counted it. One dollar and -1 dltl it Up ag'atn nervously at ninet -four' cents, And the next de? quickly, Once dbo faltjel'ed for a m! Would be Christmas• ute and stood still while a tear , oxtnv There was clearly nothing loft to do splashed an the worn, red carpet, but to flop down on the shabby little On went her old brown acicet; couch 'and howl, So Della did it, went her old brown hat. With a whi tial Which !flatmates the moral reilection of skirts, and with the' brilliant spark/ that life le mado urs of sobs, sniffles, still in her eyes, site fluttered out o sobs, and smiles, with sniffles pre- the.door and down the stairs to th dolnlitatltrg: street. While the mistress of the home is ` Where she stopped the sight. read gradually subslddzing from the first t'Mme. 1Sofronie. Halt: Goods ofi Al stage •to the second, take a look at Wade." One fljgllt up Della ran a the home, A fuinishecl flat at•$7.60 collected hersel•1', panting, Madam per week, It did not, exactly beggar large, too white, chilly, hardly Tooke description, but It certainly had that the "Sofronio." word on the bolt -out for the menti- "Will you , buy my hair?" acke cancy squad.. Della. In the vestibule below was a letter. {"I buy hair, said Maclaine, "Tak box, into which no letter would go, yer hat off, and, 1et'.s tinea e sight a and eu electric- button, from Which no the looks of it!" Mortal finger could eons: a ring. Also Down rippled the brown cascade, appertaining, thereunto was a card "Twenty' dollars!" said Madam bearing the nlamo of "Mr, Jetties Dil- lifting the mass with a practice linghetm Young." hand. Tho "Dillingham" had been flung "Give it to arra quick!" said.Della to the breeze during a former period 0'h, and the next two hours" ttippe of prosperity, when its possessor'tvas by ma rosy wings! Forget the hasher being paid. thirty dollars per week, metaphor. She was •ramsaeking th Now, when the innate was shrunk to stores for Jim's ,resent. twenty dollars, the letters of "`billing- She found 9t at last. It surely had ham' looked blurred,'as though they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming "D." But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he way called "Jim," and greatly hugged by Mrs. Dillingham -Young, already introduced to you as Della. Which is all very good, �'� eiee- Della finished her cry and attended : 'f ff with the 1...,....>.- ,y. ilk 1ia'11P4 She stood byto her Vthe windtfv and looked out dully eta grey -cat walking a grey fenoeina` greybackyard. To -morrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only, • one dollar and ninety-four cents with which to buy Jim a present. She had been •saving every cent she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far. • Ex- penses hacl been greater than she had calculated; they always are. Only one dollar -and ninety-four cents to buy a present for Jim! Her Jim! Many a happy hour she had , spent planning for something nice for him, sometlting fine and rare and sterling, something just a little bit neat to be- ing worthy the honor of being owned by Jim. There was a pier -glass between the windows of the room.. Perhaps you fob -chain, simple and chaste in design, have Bern a pier -glass in a $7.60 flat? properly proclaiming its value by sub - A very thin and very agile person may, stance alone, and not by meretric'fous by observing his reflection in a rapid ornamentation, as all good things sequence of -longitudinal strips, obtain should 1o. a fairly accurate conception of his It was even worthy of the watch. looks. Della, being slender, bad mas- As soon as she saw it she knew that tered the art. it must be Jim's. It was like him. Suddenly she whirled from the win- 'Quietness and value—the description dew and stood before the glass. Her applied to both. Eighteen dollars eyes were shining brilliantly, but her they took from her for it, and she hur- face had lost its color within twenty' vied Home with. the two dollars. With seconds. Rapidly she lulled down lar that chain on his watch Jim might hair, and let if fall to its full length. properly be anxious about the time in Now, there were two possessions of any company. Grand as the watch the James Dillingham Youngs in was, he sometimes looked at it on the which they both 'Wok a mighty pride, sly, on account . of the old leather One was Jim's gold watch, that had strap that he used in place of a chain. been his father's and his grand- When Della reached home her in - father's; the other was Della's hair. toxication gave way a little to pru- Had the Queen of Sheba hived in the dunce and reason. She get out her flat acroserthe airshaft, Della would curling, irons and lighted the gags, and have let her hair hang out of the titin- went to -work repairing the lavages dow some day to dry, just to depreci- made by generosity added to love. ate her Majesty's jewels and gifts. Which is always a tremendous task, Had King Solomon been the janitor, dear friends—a mammoth tack. withall his treasures easnre piled. lied„ nWithin o 1i the W h forty minutes upty her 'head was basement, Jim would have pulled out covered with tiny, close -lying curls, st 112 11 re }1t 1a an n^ 0 on rl 0 e 1 an Madame d d e C Madame been made for Jlrn and no one else There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out. 1t wasea platinum Delia looked long- and anxiously In the mirror, Which made her look wotulerfulil' like o truant schoolboy, She looked at Ilei' reileetion h1 the mirror, long,, cone- fully, and critically, , "If Jun doesn't kill me" she said to lietwelf, "before he takes •d seeond look at me, he'll say T look like d Coney Island chorus -girl, $tut what could 1 dol. 0h, what could fele witli one dollar and ninety-four mete?" At seven o'eleek'the coffee wee made and the frying pan wag on: bite ''back of the stove, hot and ready to cook the chops. Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob -chain in her hand and sat an the corner of the table near the door that he always -entered. Then the heard his step on the stair, ertvay clown en the first flights and she turned white for just a moment, She had a habit of saying little silent prayers' about the simplest everyday things, and now she whispered: "Please, Iletaven, make him think I am still pretty!" The door opened, and. Jdm stepped in and closed it, He looked thin and .1 very sel;ious. Poor fellow' He was I only twenty-two—and to be burdened With a family! He nee8ed a new over- coat and he was without gloves, "Dell," he said, "I sold my watch to buy the combs for you!" Jim stepped inside the door, as im- movable as a setter at scent of a quail. His eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could nob read, and it terni- fled her. It was not anger, nor sur- prise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for, He simply •stared t at her fixedly with that peculiar ex11 - pression on his face. Della wriggled off the table and went for him. Chtistmas Cakes 1oioe Plain Feundatlo0 Cake--% eapfu shortening, '/;, eup£ul sttg#tr, 1, egg, t cepfel intik or wutee, 7:i tsaspooeful salt; .3 tttet poouruls baking Powder,teeepoont'ul vanilla, illus cupfuls flour Cream the butter wed theep ar then oughle, then aid the well -beaten egg Birt the flour tend salt and add alto/ netely with the thin 14, keeping the mfx tore .of an e'ven,auns.iai=ency, i1i1 gulf;lcly, peat: hard end fold in,ljgftly the baiting powtlee eltted over the tee and the flavoneµ. Tura into well greased pall unci bali.e in a ntodot•ate oven thirty to forty 111h)21000 .11fa130 one layers Varletlone of {'/din Founclatlen .Calvo.. White Cakei Use throe egg whites. • in place of the whole egg, Mold Cake; Dee four egg yolks in place of the whole egg, Mochaa Cake: Use cold coffee it place of the liquid called f01e. Chocolate Cake: Add two squares of melted chocolate and a little less dente Nut Cake: Add one-half cupful of chopped nuts, slightly floured. tiptoe Cake:. eteld one-half teaspoom fat of cinnamon, one half teaspoonful of uiited ellaptce, nutmeg and pone, Variations in Tins and Shapes, Leaf Cake: Bake tit a small loaf pan or double the ingredients and bake Iq a large loaf pan, Loaf calces keep well. Layer Cake: icor a small calve cut the one layer in two and frost, making a two layer cake half sin or double site the amount and bake in two layer pans. • Cup Cakes: Drop the mixture into well -greased nithfpn pans, fining. the pans about two-third3, full and bake about twenty-ilve minutes, Or use tho small multln pals and bake fifteen minutes. These make dainty little cakes for all purposes: Fancy Cakes: heat tiny fancy - shaped pone, thou brush with a good brush dipped in melted fat. Drop a teaspoonful of cake mixture into each pan and bake ton to fifteen minutes. Or a one -layer cake may bo cut into fancy shapes with a cutter, but there Is a waste unless great care is taken to pian the pieces. Chrlstmas Plum Pudding. 1 cupful dried bread crumbs, 1 cup. ful chopped beef suet, 1 cupful brown sugar, 1 cupful seeded raisins, 1 cupful currants, r/$ cupful finely cut citron, 3 cupful finely cut figs, 1 tablespoonful candied lemon peel, 1 tablespnonful candied orange peel, 1 tablespoonful salt, t/4 teaspoonful' cinnamon, ?4 tea- spoonful cloves, .tie teaspoonful ginger, 1 cupful fruit juice, 1 cupful flour. Mix In the order given and acid enough cold water• to make a stiff mixture, Turn into a well -greased pudding mold or into two smaller molds, filling the molds only two-thirds full. Cover the mold tightly. and place in boiling water and boil six to seven hours. Remove the pudding from the mold when cold. i This may he macre two weeks before Christmas, but must be reheated by boiling one hour just before serving,I Plum Pudding With Honey. i 2/3 cupful brown eugar, 1 cupful chopped suet, % capful extracted I 3 eggs, I teaspoonful salt, t/ easpoonful c ' loves; teaspoonful cin•'Immo,In, Ise teaspoonful mace, 3 .. tea-; poonful soda, 1 cupful 'soar milk, 1 1 cupful bhug11si1 salrl'a11ts, 1 copra/ Mire 1218,13 eopfals flour, :Cillo the sugar slue the suet tor., the/ then heat la 111e 1. honey, Ada filo li e'1 ' .t s,0n oggli: 51 -ft the ep?cels, cotta tui; flew',, find add • ptwivsllly to the leg311102200 aIternat. tag with the iiillk fleet constantly, acid the frit, e)! if fy floured and steam 1a a w'etteS e e„o:t covered mold three 11(1112, Seevo w1tli v anile ranee. Venula 1x p•- 'rsn sceet .cupful sug- er, 0 tablesliodnlui c'ornetarch or 2 of • Sloe, 1 cupful boilhlg water, 1 tea- 0300nf111 vaulila, 1 tenepe011101 hatter, llMix.0ugar and co;'ltataz•ch lu n sauce. van, 00211' 011 belling water, atltying rapidly, 13011 and stir 112011 (dear, Add butter and vlu1l11a. Serve, bot o1' oold. Fruit Cake With Honey, Iia cupful sugar, i, aep0211 extracted honey, 4), 012300 sour, cream„f4 cupful ! ehorteniug, 2 eggs, eft teaspoonful soda, 1 toa8pooilful chntarnan, 1,6 tea. 030011ful cloves, 1 cupful rals111s, 1 cap' fur currants, 2 cupfuls flour. Cream filo sugar, simeteuiug and- honey to- gether, ..,Acrd the well -beaten eggs, beat bard, then add the sour'erealn, the flour mixed and sifted with the soda and fences. Add Oho doused £.raft, spread in 2 we11•greasee and paper"lined pan and beimo in 0 moder- ate oven about ono holt1', ii2f11.turss.w!th honey require model' - ate heat. Filled .Cookies. "Jim darTiing," she cried, "don't look at me that way., •I had my hair cut off and sold it, because I couldn't have lived througlti .Clutistmas without giving you a present. It'11 grow again. You won't mind, will you? I just had to do it; my hair: grows awfully fast. Say 'Merry Christmas,' Jim, and let's be happy! You don't know what a nice—what a 'beautiful, Lice gift I've got for you!” "You've eat off your hair?” asked Jim laboriously, x s y, as ,if he had not .ar- rived at that patent fact yet, even after the hardest mental labor. 2 cupfuls oatmeal, 2/3 eenf21l sol*-ar, 1/3 Cupful corn syrup, rrt' cupful thick sour 1111111, % tettapean0Ul salt, 2?fa n18cnl 00, 1/s teascupfpoonffloul soda, 13oapfat the sugar05lifng' and shortening together add the sour milk, the floor sifted with the soda and the salt;' Roll out thinly 011 n well -floured board aiatl, out with a cocky cutter. Bake it1 a hot 0 i Flllinp- .1 cupful0011. sugar:, 1 00 01 11 water, :L package of dates or 1 cupful ehoppecl lige, Stone the dates and put through a fine chopper. Cook with the eugar and water until the mixture `thickens. Place a spoonful of the mixture between two cookies and. press firmly together. Store in a dry' place. 1 Venation' to Plain Sugar Cookies. Vanilla Cookies: Use one teaspoon- ful vanilla and omit the nutmeg. Ch000late'Cookies: Add three tale spoonfuls of grafed chocolate after it is melted, nee vanilla for flavoring, Cocoanut Cookies: All one-half cup- ful of shredded 000.oanut to the dry Ingredients in plain sugar -cooky rule and roll one-fourth inch thick. Nut Cookies: Use half as much shortening and add one-half cupful ttf finely chopped nuts to the dry 17121• torlals in plain sugar -cooky rule and roll out ogre -fourth of an inch thick. Finely chopped nuts may be sprinkled over the top before baking, Candied Orange and Lemon Peel. Peel of four oranges or lemons, 2 'quarts water, 2 cupfuls sugar, pulver- ized sugar. Cools the peels in the water slowly until tender, Drain for two hours, remove all the white por- tion ortion from the peel and, whit scissors, cut into fine strips. Boil the eugar anti ono -half eupfnl water shins a thread, add the peel, boil for eve luhmtes, remove with n fm'k and roll lightly in pulverized sugar. Stere in glass jars for use. Coached peels add a variety to the holiday candy boxes, "Gut it off and sold it," said Della. "Don't you like me just as well, any- how? I'm me without my hair, aren't I," Jim looked about the room curions- ly. "You say your ,hair is g• one?" he said, with an air almost of idiocy. "You needn't look for it," said Della, "It's sold, I tell you—sold and gone, tool It's Christmas Eve, -boy. Be good to me, -for it went for you. May- be head bo the hairs o f m ad were number- ed," Y it ed," she went on, with a sudden seri- ous sweetness, "but nobody could ever count my love for you, Shall I put the chops on, Jim?" Out of his t1'ailee ,him seemed quick- ly to wake,. He enfolded Della. For ten seconds let tie regard with dis- ceeot scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction. Seven dollars a week 00 it million a year `what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer. The Magi brought wonderful gifts, but that was not among them.. This d arlc assertion will be illuminated later on. Jim drew a• package from his over - a 10 ,joy of the holiday season is in gayly decorating the Home. You can easily make your own Christmas decorations attd the little ones can help yotl with your labor of lova Gare lands and chains festont ed about the tree may he made of reel end white peppermint st,)ek•e tied with narrow scarlet ribbons, Tin foil makes an effective decoration ereeeents and stars may Ito etit from oa1'dbotrd and coveted with tinfoil and suspendeJ by a silver cord or pietz':omire, Christmas bells May be lnade from scarlet or white bristol board, White eardboe,d gilded or silvered makes pretty bells, a circle four inches across will 1na1-e two bells,- 'ti7Iiite crystals are made of rice lan;ei•. the ve _tat; lrst: •,vay to /noire the crystals is to'fele a c.rale about 4 i21e1121 in dian2elcr meriting the wee tern with n lead ] eecil cr. the folded teretes'and there getting ,!t pelt, 0.e..e the1tl_;er is enfolded a cry tai r„r^e00s sehi Yh may lie . ire wits tnreal 1;o rte tr, feral .1 (.1 (. h' If eves—tail 3lietci 1113 ty1!th (!.meat/ dart. • Red arel green 11r a the 'Clime, 3•sc 1 principally for d --0-:,t:11[ the t'hri tw Inas"festal beere,, 'the i:lddies w,111 have a tables with Nanta Claus statuling 011.a snowy cattn1i' :noun(' dressed in reel crepe impel- with etrimmings of white 't it to cotton to r,ivttllata white. for. The flair and i, -1V0 ;ere ;1=.0 'of white eo'tc n. Secede 1 i ltar 111 07 mound nra 1:t,.,t lr,; to :.111, el lt.i'i, , Y, •,arr1,er, , civet relt1e^nte is 1 . e'eme, to a king c're/r 1'11/1011 the 11 71 'nal n to the alien end vete! 2 'tt, e.t.) 1::a^;, - Tr) ca 1rlr: 1' en( Is the 1,.11dle sticier t, •.21 :ti: • cls .111311' 2}rat}e1 ),,:.af•w,,.: t::nn1011d 1 4030 and e:le}1 c,,1 i' s.° 1, ir , n.:,irele6 teeth a wreath) ,rf .:mall everlasting flowers. The bon hon bones nee little i,1133) in the shape of snow balls hdovned with a gay spray of holly and filled with roil ant, lg!t1te st :t /Meals, While the 31e-ts ,t mated, Itt1'ts tele lents nee. 1•e disoriented /shill,., ere, !alu eterre'1,,1 cltl^lst.1,.1:1 geoei,i,,:;s. The (Maes (k (.2' IJh ebereleilt r may be euvcre:l w2)1 Cheedeees pea :roe' chit cut end ete ire .:,1 thei.Yset A table with he elm far ibo 3r ncs-I pal feature lee 1 leree tear 1'e:1.r•1lnped box out1 1131' wEch (36122lonl dins. hold= till the cu, £con':, From the ehendelier! bl moans ref wire are 'suspendedI etriege of ;;mfrs. l no 1=uird>'•ichr:s pray- be cut til star 1 ela]•r, and the rakes iced with red I,..11, 210992 •.2', ed 1f• Thu ,•, t(h grexn randirs, ht ir.e :item na:iY he ,(:;rv0r_t •i1t sno,v, ball eiv(p0 0prir'tled with eacoei:nt ! (it. u bit ,i tvt„ can to e i(?1 roil `. Motile, T'o 1c::rn \)',99P)2 2,i (eive firms iris; the tool.. 1 ,.; .11eh keroc1' 102)Erato en 1,d11'.0 1110, Alite 12n10 f.1t'm� ill eercles, HAVE YOU ROF A Flow Said to 00 a8 Often Acquired a9 inheritgd, ltt is g0ilerally and chiefly indicated by .eruptions anti sores, but in 10an;y cases 1t enlarges tits glands of GbB nock, ,affects the internal organs, c pooially the ',liege, and if ;aepleettl0 may develop into consumption. It 801169£ 2410 i/ ,aggravated by impure air, Me -whole: some food, bad water, too much hex's :or cold, and want of proper exotcis,. Hood's Sav'sapae'illat, the medicine that has been need with so mu2011 satisfaction by three generations, is wonderfnll,y successful ar) the treat meat of serofnia, Give it a trial, • If a cathartic or laxative is needed; take Hood's Pills, -there is nothing better, for biliousness or constipat : ei, coat pocket and threw it on the tat )ie: "Dont make all Mistake,.i)ell,i' et s lel "about an , T do 't ' think there's a o 8 anything in the way o4 21 haircut or. tl shave or tr ztampoo that -could mace Pie like thy girl any lees. Ilut Ai youl11 unwrap that package, yeti may see Why you had me going a tulle at first,,' White fingers and nimble tore at the string •and paper, A.nd then an eeeta= tie 'ocean of joy, and then, alas! g galelc feminine change to , hysterieal tears and walla, necessitating the ism, mediate' erenloyment of all the come forting. powers of the lord of the flat .IY'oe there lay the eoliths—the set of c0mbsl site and back, that Della had worshipped in a downtown window. Beautiful combo, pure tortoiseshell, with jewelled aims, just the shade be wear in the bezniti0ui vanished hair. They were expensive combs, site knew, and her 11e.,1rt '•ad simply craved and yearned over the: t tvithoue the least hope of possession. And now they were hers; but the tresses that should, have adorned the coveted ornaments were gone, But she hugged them' to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up with the dire eyes and a smile, and say 2 "My hair grows so fast, Jim.” And then Della lea pt lhp like a little singed cat and cried, "Oil, ell" Jim lad not yet' seen his beautiful present fehe held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm. The dull, precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit. "Isn't it a dandy, Jim?.,hunted 011 00111 the ten to find it: •You'll have to leek at the time a hulidrsd times a day -now. Give me your watch! I want to see how it looks on it.” Inrtead of, obeying, Jim tumbled clown on the couch, and put 111a hands under the back of his head and smiled. "Dell," said he, "let's put our Christ - ma; presents away and keep them awhile. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to 'buy ,your combs. And now suppose you put the chops onl" The Magi, as you know, were wise Hien—wonderfully 10110 men-' who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giv- ing Christmas presents. Being wise, their gilts were n0 doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of ex- change in ease of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their homer But, •in a last word to the wise of these (Lye, let it be said of all who give gifts there two were the wisest. 0f' all who give caul receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest: They are the Magi. Christmas, 1919. Again, the 'clave bring Christmas Day, The di1y of the holy Story! And son f s a leo. c in th g are pair g And merry bells peal everywhere For the Holy Child Who came t^• earth And chose a stable for Ms birth And stripped Himeelf of 11is glory. "Peace on earth, good -will to men!" We hear the angels singing, And our hearts rebound to the glad- some sound, And we–set the bells a -ringing! Eager, we welcome thoughts of peace, Balllslt our long -worn sadnses: Glad that the battle's noise is dila; Glad for the thoughtof gladness! Anxious to spread some joy and mirth Whore hearts were full of sorrow; Clear, from the star of the Baby King, Rays of ;he brightness borrow. Cast away care, ye sons of 1110! Set aside gloom and sinning; Into the stable, with the sheep, Come, with 'Ore shepherds' winning, .Estee from the pain of yesterday Strength for 'a bravo to -Morrow! Purest joy for the King's blrtbdase And it heart's surcease from sorrow, "Pence on earth, good -will to men!" Still, I hear theta singing! "Pones on earth," Tis come at last! "Good•wili to unite" as their wings brash past; - And hearts have found the Chrletnla0 joy' t While the Christmas bolls are range Ing) – - h--- "Ever seett Santa 0100" whisper, ern eight'yrar-cid. 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