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nag he could never walk again . - - . 1 And
digin he took gruschen.
;lfy doctor told my landlady that I could
'lever walk again. I had rbeuuuatism set in
about Christmas -time, "slid was confined to
lied for two months,
I am nearly sixty years of age- After taking
tax bottles I am starting to work next week.
' Up till two years ago I had been a Cham -
Von Racing Cyclist. I have won a prize every
*mei have ridden. Being an athlete, but a
poor scholar, it would take me a week to write
the facts about S o Igtrn Salta." ale for m i; n.
$ruschen salts is obtainable at drug and
department stores in Canada at 75c. a bottle.
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devotion, in the sense of mere • wor-
shiup. Thie was a call•to toil, service,
work. Jesus said, "Follow me, and
I will make you fishers of men."
Thus were these humble fy„sjrermen
summonsed to surrender 01 things.
"Leave your ship, leave your friends
and follow me." When God calls
men to follow Him it always involves
less, When Moses was called, he
counted it greater - honor to follow
God than to enjoy the pleasures of
sin for a season and to enrich him-
self with all the riches of Egypt.
When Hadad astounded Pharaoh by
saying he wanted to go back to Edom
Pharaoh said, "What hast thou lack-
ed?" and the young•man said, "Noth-
ing, howbeit in any wise let me go."
The Lord had stirred up the heart of
Hadad, and Hadad went from Egypt
to poor Edom, from rest to battle,
from assured and continued. prosper-
ity to all the perils and 'adventures
of hazardous war. We observe fur-
ther, from this incident of pie call-
ing of these fishermen, that' Christ's
calls are always to something high-
er. They were fishers in the ordin-
ary sense of the term. Jesus came
to them and said, "I will make you
fishers •of men." From this we learn
that our secular positions in life' are
types and hints of the call which
Christ is addressing to our souls.
Whatever we are, we will succeed in
it only in proportion as we have been
called to it. Some men and women
are in wrong positions because of
being turned into them by providen-
ces over which they had no control.
But making the best of the positions,
they are cheered by the knowledge
that God who audits the account of
life is an all-knowing and merciful
Father. These fishermen immedia-
tely responded to the call and enter-
ed upon training for life -service.
We read in verses 23 and 24 what
a world it was that Jesus came into.
And he knew it before he carne. If
the world had been less sin -inflicted
he need not have come. In these
verses we have a picture of the real
state of humanity as Jesus Christ
found it. Tell us where the lepers
are, where divers' diseases and tor-
ments dwell, and where those live
who are possessed with devils and
few of us will want to look them up;
but what are horrors to us were at-
tractions to the infinite heart. The
description given here is the real
condition of the world in every age
and the only price that will redeem
it is blood. There are those who ob-
ject to the expression, "The blood of
Christ." They have refined it into
the Love, the Example or the Sweet
Influence of Christ. No; redemption
is always by blood and Jesus spent
his life healing all manner of sick-
ness and all mermen of disease among
the people; and at the last He laid
down His life for sinners. To this
service He is still saying, "Follow
Me,"
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
(By Isabel Hamilton, Goderich, Ont.)
Thou to whom the sick and dying
Ever came, nor came in vain,
Still with healing words replying
To the wearied cry of pain,
Rear us, Jesus, as we meet,
Suppliants at Thy mercy -seat.
Godfrey Thring.
° PRAYER
Almighty God, source of health
and healing, spirit of calm and peace
in the universe, grant to us Thy chil-
dren such a consciousness of Thy
indwelling as will give us utter con-
fidence in Thee. In pain and weari-
ness and anxiety may we permit Thee
to give us health and peace, through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Selected,
S. S. LESSON FOR JANUARY 19th
Lesson
Iinistry.
Lesson Passage—Matthew 4:17-25.
Golden Text—Matthew 4:17.
We are not to understand that this
event took place immediately after
eur Lord's temptation. He had been
exercising something like an eight
months' ministry in Judea, when he
heard that John wascast into prison.
"Now when Jesus had heard that
John was cast` into prison he depart-
ed into Galilee" And there beside
the lake of Tiberias he came into
tench with certain fishermen. We
are not to understand that these men
never saw Jesus Christ until that
day. They knew him well and al
ready sustained the relation of a kind
of nominal" discipleship to him; but
the time was now ready for them to
take over a more definite service. It
was not a call to piety, to religious
Topic—Jesus Begins His
Arthur Brisbane or James Branch
Oabell? George M. Cohan or Rudy
Vallee? Calvin Coolidge or Al Smith
or Jack ,Dempsey or Irving Berlin?
Even Charles Chaplin? We are in-
clined to think not. He was a happy
and unique combination or James
Whitcomb Riley, Will Rogers and
Fontaine Fox. As an ingenious wit
and humorist he was inferior to Fox
who probably scores a higher percent-
age of amusing cartoons than any
other American comic artist. He
lacked the power and Gargantuan
laughter of Darling but he made a
wider human appeal. He never
preached. There were few solemni-
ties in his drawings. There was no
vulgarity. These was just human
nature. The fun, that he depicted
was not his fun`but the fun :n the
everyday folks whom he drew. It
arose out of the characters themselves
and 'was not a brilliant addition by
the author. His contribution was the
eye that perceived it, and the sure
and kindly hand that could draw it.
His genius could only have welled 'up
out of a delightful personality, and
Toronto men who knew him well, like
Lou Skuce and Arthur Miller, testify
that he was of the very salt of the
earth.
From time to time The Mail and
Empire has presented Briggs' car-
toons, specimens from some of his
most famous series such as "When a
Feller Needs a Friend," Kelly Pool,"
"Ain't it a Grand and Glorious Feel -
in'," 'The Days of Real Sport" and
"Close Harmony." For years the
Star Weekly has been presenting his
"Mr. and Mrs." a full page series,
which to our mind, is in a class by
itself. Our own favorite was "Kelly
Pool," drawn in the old days before
national prohibition arrived, and later
discontinued. ProbalbIy the \palm
would have to be awarded to i'The
Days of Real Sport," which brought
back memories of childhood to mil-
lions with "Skinnay" being hailed to
"Union over" and the trailing infant
brother having trouble with his nose
and being instructed in the use of a
handkerchief; the embarrassment of
the juvenile sweethearts, and the rude
buying of their companions; and the
dog at once full of delight and at the
seine time displaying a shade of wary
wistfulness, maybe expressing the
subconscious memory of an occasional
kick in the slats, or of a can once ties:
to his tail.
We think Mr. Briggs earned every
dollar of his annual salary of $100,-
000 which was the amount he receiv-
ed when he Ieft the Chicago Tribune
to go to the New York Tribune, with
which paper he remained until his
death. In addition he made a large
income from advertising work and
other sources. As a bonus for sign-
ing this contract he was given a Rolls-
Royce car, and this contract, includ-
ing the Rolls-Royce car was given
Sidney Smith, creator of "The
Gumps," when he went to the Chicago
Tribune later on. Six weeks ago Mr.
Briggs entered a New York hospital
to .be treated for an affliction which
threatened the sight of one of his
eyes. He did not make the quick
recovery confidently expected by the
surgeons and soon was fighting for
his life. He seemed to be winning in
the fight too, but had a relapse. Then
there was an operation on the brain
to discover whether a tumor was re-
tarding his recovery. This was de-
scribed as "merely exploratory" and
nothing of the kind was found. Pneu-
monia, the,scourge'of hospitals, final-
ly carried him off.
Mr. Briggs was 54 years old. He
was born in Wisconsin, and spent
some of his boyhood years in Illinois.
He early showed some aptness with
pen and pencil. His first newspaper
job was with the St. Louis Democrat
where he earned $10 a week as a
sketch artist, He was a good man at
the job but soon the photo -engraving
process was to make newspaper
sketch artists somewhat of a drug on
the market, and in this period Briggs
becalm.. a sign painter and catalogue
illustrator. There was a time when
he went from one newspaper to an-
other in New York vainly looking for
a job. The fault did not lie with the
blindness of art editors, but with Mr.
Briggs himself who had not yet dis-
covered the fact that he was a natural
Porn cartoonist of the purest ray
serene. The discovery was made for
him by the night editor of the New
York Journal whose name ought to be
held in reverence, and would be here-
with saluted if we happened to know
it.
He got his job on the Journal
through the friendship of William J.
Kinsley, a handwriting expert, who
was convinced that the young man
had unusual talent. The doctor had
a friend on the paper and sent Briggs
to him, armed with a letter. He was
given his chance, and sent to make
some sketches at a sensational trial.
When he returned with thew the
night editor glanced them over and
said: "You're no sketch artist. You're
a cartoonist." He thereupon gave a
half page to the sketches and within
a few weeks William Randolph Hearst
sent Briggs to Chicago where his work
appeared for the next half dozen
years in the Herald and Examiner. In
1907 he went to the Chicago Tribune
and in 1914 to the New York Tribune
which at that time had probably the
most brilliant staff of special writers
and feature artists ever any news-
paper had. It included, besides Mr.
Briggs, Jay Darling, the outstanding
figure in modern American journal-
ism; F. P. Adams, Heywood Broun,
Deems Taylor, Grantland Rice, Bill
McGeehan and' half a• dozen others
who have since become celebrated. Of
these Rice, McGeehan and Darling re-
main,
WORLD MISSIONS
In a statistical table recently pre -
ed in the- offices of the Interna-
onal Missidnary Council, the' aggre-
gate annual income of foreign mis-
sionary societies in different coun-
tries reveals a total of sixty millions
of dollars spent annually on foreign
missions around the world. The
churches of the United •States and
Canada lead with an annual expendi-
ture of, thirty-five millions. Great
Britain spends eleven milions each
year, while the Protestant churches
of Germany, Norway and Sweden
each average slightly over a million.'
The Protestant churches of South
Africa are giving an average of half
a million annually to the extension of
the Christian faith in the hinterlands
of that great continent.
CLARE BRIGGS, CARTOONIST
WAS UNIQUE GENIUS
Since hearing the sad news of Clare
Briggs' death we have been wonder-
ing what other American could so ill
be spared, what one touched so many
people so happily and tenderly as this
great cartoonist. Taft or Ruth?
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JAN CHRISTIAN SMUTS SOLDIER
AND STATESMAN
Canada welcomes to -clay one of the
most distinguished visitors who ever
entered her portals in Gen, Jan Smuts,
and to -night some hundreds of `hous»
ands of us will listen to his voice over
the radio. Some who hear „hini will
no doubt he struck by the 'reflection
that it seems but a short time ago
when Smuts if he had been discovered
in Canada would have been lynched
unless the pollee reached him first to
put hint in jail. That was the time of
the South African war when Canada
Sleeted With patriotic fury against
the eta. Smote was one of til:
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most distinguished of the Boer leaders
and emerged frim,that -struggle with
an international reputation as a tact-
ician. His millitary reputation was
increased in the World War when with
Botha he led the Royal Afrikanders
against brother Af, ;ikanders who un-
der De Wet and Byei-s-had seized the
opportunity to try to wrest absolute
independence from Great Britain.
There were also some German colon-
ies to be sterilized from a millitary
point of view and these campaigns
were as neatly and swiftly executed
as any operations in the whole course
of the struggle. Smuts may well be
recognized as one of the most bril-
liant of the military leaders In the
war.
But that is not the reputation he
most values nor is it the reputation
which gives him the distinctive qual-
ities which all Canadians ,will recog-
nize and admire in him. He is a
constructive statesman, one of the
greatest individual forces for inter-
national peace in the world to -day.
The first elaborate draft of the
League of Nations was drawn un
by him, and it was Smuts who, on
behalf of South Africa, signed the
treaty of Versailles. Here, too, the
man stood out, for he added a reser-
vation protesting in the name of his
country against the savage repara-
tions exacted of Germany. In Smuts
the statesman was never submerged
by the soldier. He fought with ter-
rific energy but always without hate,
and as soon as the fighting was over
his mind instinctively turned to the
future, dismissing thoughts of re-
venge. Indeed Smuts had a -philoso-
phical background such as was pos-
sessed by few of the men who were
chiefly responsible for the terms of
peace. In that respect he was much
more like Woodrow Wilson than he
was like Clemenceau or Lloyd George
though as a practising politician he
resembles the latter.
Jan Christian Smuts was born in
South Africa where his father was a
wealthy burgher. After exhausting the
educational facilities of his native
land he went to Cambridge where he
distinguished himself by taking a
double first in law. Later on he be-
came a bencher of the Middle Tem-
ple. He returned to South Africa
and following in his father's footsteps
adopted politics as a career, and be-
came.a suppofLer of Kruger. It was
not long before the South African war
broke out, Smuts hated war as any
civilized man must hate it, In pol-
itics he was a Liberal of the Glad
stonian school, and he had ties and
roots in England. But he felt that
theoers' cause was just and that
the principle of states rights was be-
ing invaded by the British govern-
ment, so he did not hesitate but
mounted his horse and started for
the nearest front. His services in
the struggle brought him so far to
the front that he was one of the Boer
representatives at Vereeniging where
the peace treaty was signed. It is
recalled that his safe conduct through
the British lines on this occasion was
signed by a British officer who then
wrote his name "D. Haig."
Smuts agreed to terms, of peace
which he felt to be unjust and op-
pressive, but he felt confident that
they would be revised. Here was
Campbell -Bannerman rolling up the
greatest British majority ever given
a prime minister, and he had denounc-
ed the South African war as barbar-
ous. Smuts thought he knew British
Liberalism well enough to be confi-
dent that the treaty would be revis-
ed, and revised it was some years
later, giving the Boers as generous
terms as ever were offered a brave
but beaten foe. Indeed it was the
fairness with which the ancient
grudge was settled that made it pos-
sible for Botha and Smuts when the
great war broke out to carry their
party and their people into the strug-
gle on the side of the empire. At
the time the treaty was revised there
were those who thought that it was
opening the door°for South Africa to
walk out of the British family of na-
tions. It is too early to prophesy con -
Husband and Wife Both Find
Them Beneficial
ONTARIO LADY STRONGLY RE-
COMMENDS DODD'S KIDNEY
PILLS
Mrs. N. Beauderie Used Them For
Lumbago and Her Husband
For Rheumatism.
Madoc, Ont., Jan. 16th.. --)(Special)
—"Having obtained great relief, from
Lumbago by the use of Dodd's Kid-
ney Pills, I would never be without
them," writes Mrs. N. Beauderie, R.
P. No, 3, Madoc, Ont. "I always keep
two or three boxes in the house My
husband takes them for Rheumatism.
He says there is nothing helps hint
like Dodd's Kidney Pills. 'We trust
that these few lines may be the means
of helping others."
The natural way to treat Rheuma-
tism and Lumbago is to treat the Kid-
neys and the natural way to treat the
Kidneys is to use Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Rhpnmatism is caused by the presence
of uric acid in tine blood. If the Kid-
neys are doing their duty they will
strain all the uric acid out of the
blood and there can be no more
Rheumatism. Therefore, put the Kid-
neys in shape to de their duty Witt-
ing
ynthing llodd's Kidney
fidently on that point. But we know
at least that if South Africa walks
out Smuts will remain. There is no
more loyal British subject than this
Boer.
Smuts is no longer premier of
South Africa, that post being filled at
the present moment by an old school-
mate of his a few years . his senior,
to wit General Hertzog. Smuts leads
the most powerful opposition party
and it is quite on the cards that once
more he will be premier. Hertzog
leans toward complete independence.
Smuts favors the present arrange-
ments. They differ as to what course
should be taken should another great
war break out, but this is a merely
academic matter in the opinion of
General Smuts who believes that
there will not be another great war
in the preient century. The two men
differ, also, in their attitude toward
the natives. 'Hartzog favors drawing
the color. line. Smuts believes that
the black man has the same right to
vote as the white. In office Smuts
showed the iron hand on occasion and
when he deported strike leaders on
the Rand he alienated the support of
the labor party and probably never
will regain it. As intimated earlier,
he has in him a streak of "slimness"
that is the admiration of his support-
ers and the despair of his opponents,
Once he was asked how much South
Africa had spent on military re-
mounts, On inquiry he learned that
it would take a staff of clerks four
months to work out the answer. But
the next day in the house the prime
minister announced and gravely re-
ported that the amount spent was
£80,169,000 lOs 6d. When asked how
he had the harihood to make this re-
ply he said that he knew it would
take a month for anyone to prove
him wrong.
SPELL OF TERROR STILL BINDS
D USS'ELDORF
Some short time ago we gave an
account of the extraordinary series of
crimes committed in Dusseldorf by a
German "Jack the Ripper." Up to
the present time 20 murders have been
definitely traced to this murderer, and
scores of arrests have been made-• Yet
the slayer remains at large, and Self-
ridge Hannagan, a special corres
pondent of the New York World, says
that the best police in Germany are
thoroughly baffled. After visiting the
city he reports that probably more
that one murderer is involved and
that the crimes have been committed
by a club of sexual perverts. The
victims have been women and child-
ren, but at least one man was mur-
dered, presumably by the Ripper, and
the theory is that he was despatched
to prevent his giving information to
the police. Behind this there looms
something sinister. There are hints
that the murderer or murderers, if
not a member of the police force him-
self, has at least allies there. Facts
which are supposed to be known only
to those actively engaged in' hunting
the criminal, become speedily known
to the hunted and almost as speedily
to the newspapers for the assassin
either telephones the news or sends
postcards containing it.
Mr. Hannagan was taken to the
spot 'where the body of one of the
(victims, Maria Hahn, was dug up,
following directions given to the news-
papers by the murderer. It was on
a farm near a summer resort outside
of Dusseldorf, and less than a quar-
ter of a mile from farm buildings.
Said his guide, "Look at it. This
hole is five feet deep, six feet long
and four feet wide. It is dug in clay
soil, in winter and within sight of
the farm house. How long do you
think it would take a man to dig such
a hole? How could anyone have
done so undetected? , Where did he
get the spades and picks? How would
he explain the clay that would be all
over his clothes when he went home?
To -day in Dusseldorf every man
watches his neighbor, and if anyone
deviates in the least from a normal
course of life he is denounced to the
police." This stolid German observ-
ed that Germany was one of the best
policed countries in the world and he
added, "It is not luck alone that per-
mits a man to commit 20 murderous
attacks in a great city and escape un-
detected." Dusseldorf, by the way, is
about the size of Toronto, but the po-
lice there do not patrol the street
They wait, apparently, for a crime to
be committed before they appear, and
we might inquire now what are they
waiting for•? ,
All ordinary police methods have
failed. As' remarked, numerous ar-
rests halve been made, but the num-
ber of discharges precisely equals the
numlber of arrests. If the murderer
has already been in the hands. of the
police he has been able to convince
them of his innocence and is again at
large. Star detectives from Berlin and
famed criminologists from Bonn have
gone to Dusseldorf and extraordinary
methods have been experimented with.
For example there was recently pre-
sented a peculiarly neurotic play—at
the suggestion of the police, it is be-
lieved. At every performance detec-
tives swarmed through the house
scrutinizing every face. It was ex-
pected that the neurosis that the mur-
derer is undoubtedly afflicted with
would attract him to that play and
that he might have given some sign.
But he did not do so. Did he, per-
chance, write the play, or was he the
chief actor in it? At the exhumation
of one of the 'victims only the police
were present and the utmost precau-
tions were -taken that no news of the
discovery should leak out. Twenty-
minutes
wentyminutes later somebody telephoned to
a newspaper giving the whole story.
One thing peculiar to all the crimes
is that the victims are invariably
buried either in vacant land in the
city itself or in the suburbs. Mr.
Hannagan reports that throughout
the night figures with lanterns are to
be seen prowling over likely stretch-
es of unoccupied ground with spades
and picks, digging in places which
look as though they had recently been
disturbed. There is a reward for the
discovery of` any new ° bodies, and•
since in a city like Dusseldorf people
are frequently being reported as miss-,
ing the fear is that the Vampire may
have murdered more than he is of-
ficially credited with. But in opposi-
tion .to this theory is the apparent
fact that- the murderer it only too
anxiousta,-�;eport to trig' ''wepapets
where a 9sody may be found. But the
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nocturnal excavations indicate the
state of mind of Dusseldorf. The
people are panic stricken. Some of
them, otherwise sound -headed, believe
that the"'Devil has returned to earth
and is punishing Dusseldorf for its I
sins. Few walk alone' at night. The
children going to school are assembl-
ed in guarded places and conveyed in
-motor vans.
How desperate the detectives are
in their search for a single clue is in-
dicated by an incident that occurred
at Flingern, an artisan suburb, The
World .correspondent and a compan-
ion went to a place where in a huge
hall dancing was going on to the con-
sumption of beer and sausages. The
orchestra was playing Germany's con-
tribution to current music, "I Kiss
Your Hand, Mada :1." Suddenly the
orchestra stopped playing and three
men appeared in the middle of the
dance floor bearing a box which look-
ed like a coffin. There was a fanfare
of trumpets and the glass front of
the casket was 'whisked off, revealing
a life-size wax model of one of the
Ripper's victims. One of the detec-
tives then addressed the awe-stricken
audience and explained who the vic-
tim was and asked anyone who had
known her in life to come forward.
Then the grim box was paraded round
the• hall confronting every person
present while the hawk-eyed detec-
tives sought to read every counten-
ance that looked upon the shocking
simulacrum. It seems time for Dus-
seldorf to send for Philo Vance or
Dr. Thorndyke or perhaps both of
them in addition to Messieurs Han-
aud and Poirot.
MANY SHOPS IN OLD LONDON
CATER TO WITCHCRAFT TRADE
Many people in this country are
without being aware of it, practising
various forms of witchcraft. There
are others—not a few—who pin their
faith consciously to charms, amulets,
talismans, and "magic potions" as af-
fording them protection from ill -for-
tune, illness, death, the malevolence
of witches and the evil eye!
Even in London there are girls who
use love potions, mothers who hang
holed stones at the head of children's
beds in the belief that they have pow-
er to ward off nightmare, and strong
men who wear necklets of amber
beads beneath their clothing to pro-
mote good health. Most of the mas-
cots carried to -day have their origin
in age-old superstitions.
In the Wellcome Historical Medical
Museum one •of the most complete
collections in the world of objects con-
nected with withcraft has been form-
ed. In it are to be found a remark-
ably large number of queer things
still used •by superstitious people in
all parts of the kingdom.
In a section devoted to the survival
of witchcraft in London all manner of
modern (yet really very ancient)
amulets and talismans may be seen.
They are to be bought at little shops
in the meanest streets of the metro-
polis -
There are tooth -shaped btones
which the credulous believe will pre-
vent toothache; pieces of cork such
as are carried about by some people
as 'a remedy for cramp; "dragon's
blood" and tormenting rddt, of which
many a girl secretly compounds a po-
tion wherewith she hopes' to win
back the love of a cooling sweetheart;
beads worn by - men and women to
save them from 'colds and attacks of
bronchitis—heads similar to those
worn by African natives to secure
them immunity' from the attention -df
evil spirits!—crystal balls into which
girls gaze at night, seeking knowledge
of their prospects in love and mar-
riage and future fortune.
In a general section there are, lit-
tle 'medals which are carried by sail-
ors in the conviction that so long as
they keep them they will not be ship-
wrecked and drowned; dried frogs,
aa`ied in cloth bags by the stlper-
atitious to 'prevent fits; glass "walk-
ing sticks" filled with the tiny pink
and White sweets called "hundreds
and thousands," and hung on cottage
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doors to protect the occupants withiD-
against witches.
The idea is that a night -calling
witch will pause to count the "hun–
dreds and thousands," and as it wilt
be impossible for her to count theme
all before dawn •breaks she will haves
to scuttle back to her boiled over caul–
dron, sped by her fear of the light!
Then there are specimens of dried
moles that in Devon are hung up int.
bags to banish any and every dis-
ease; necklaces of red silk worn in
various parts of the country to pre-
vents nose bleeding; the skin of as
l:ingfisher which, nailed to the mast=
of a sailing vessel, is' supposed to -
bring fair weather, and the toad --
stone, which for centuries has beeale
regarded as an infallible antidote for -
poisons, and to give warning of their -
presence by becoming exceedingly hot._
The so-called "toad -stones" arty; to-
day merely stones, but in Shake--
speare's time there was a popular be—
lief that they were to be found ii>a,
the heads of toads.
Among the most interesting facts:
revealed in the witchcraft collectiorn
is the origin of the custom of em
bellishing umbrella handles with silk-
en tassels shaped like acorns, speci-
mens of which are shown. Acorns
amulets have been used for many cen—
turies because it was • held that the':
oak -tree was sacred to the thunder -
god, •and it was believed that the
amulets would avert Lightning.
Hence their use as umbrella tas-
sels.
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