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liedearliyttledimpled darlinsll ,.•
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tut n'rretalo her ahera1 tIb, e
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Sgoh llttlo pink toos.its baby's
Awayfrml the frost and cold.
But then, ter the baby,il,Chrlstt�aiae
Tt will never de at all;
Why, Ratite wont dn'tbeleokleg
'4fiauythala half sR smwli,
'7 know what will dots thobab ,
I've thought, of .the very best plan--
7'11 borrow attoclrliig of grandrna,
The "hon ost that evert can;
i FAnd you' hung it by Mine,. dear Mother,
• And 731;¢!tt alerts In the corner, sot
write a letter to Santa, '
; .44d hasten it en to the too.
Write
This is the baby's stocking'1 hat hang$ in the corner hero ;
Xouf have never seen her, Saute;
li!er she only cern() this year,
'But gates just the blossodeetbabv—
And.now, behore you go.
Just.orant her atooking with goodies.
Wein the top clean clown'to the tee"
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11$.1100 !Serve iturkey,
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ad ia,toll often overlooked. In the dinner
menu, notis because it, a delicay, but' for
TTthe reason that it,oasseto a a: little e t a
rrozblenot always planted for; .
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More delicious than en erettuce mixed
with af wsli oftamat o. lecmix R
Ng". should be daiie.. no the table,.. so when
the salad dish iabrought it eboul
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ook free
and crisp, LetGnee should dried w. h
a
napkin, OA
few drops of water v
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inure he taste aftha Paled. The Fro,*
dressing gonaiste of. salt; a very little pepper,.
oi. i vinegar, a se
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•,t,iustead if prQfor{rbd,
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1'tzbnz.a.r tee -While nniuve and gump'
z iu pies have the best chance ler being sere.
laud as dessert on Christmas day, if a pudding
,s desired, in addition none gould be better
than one made of figs. The ingredients are ;
One pound best 1 ge, tbree.quarters of a
pound bread crumbs, six ounces Iiugar, six
ounces suet, one egg, half pint milk, oue
teaspoonful of nutmeg. Chop the suet and
figs separately, then add the bread crumbs
(grated); put in the sugar and powdered.
nutmeg, and the egg, well beaten. The
milk, etirred in at the last, will give enough
Moisture to the mixture, Butter a basin
that the mixture will justfill, tie down
tightly with a floured cloth and place in a
saucepan of boiling water sutfieient just to
cover it. Boil for four hours, and 'serve
with a sweet sauce.
Sow And When to Make the Christmas
Fudding.
-A Christmas Pudding, if wanted in per-
fection, should bo made at least two weeks
before Christmas, add hung to ripen. Mix
thoroughly three-quarters of a pound of
beef suet chopped fine ; one pound stale
bread crumbs ; one pound of sugar ; - one
pound of raisins stoned and floured •; one
pound of English currants washed, dried
and floured ; aquarter of. a pound of citron,
thinly sliced ; a grated nutmeg, a tablas'
spoonf al each of .cinnamon and msec ; a tea-
spoonful of salt ; the juice of an orange and,
a lemon°; a teacupful of milk, and last of all
eight well -beaten eggs, This will fill two
two -quart moulds. Place in a steamer five
hears. Turn out upon a cloth, and when
cold hang up (where ib will swing free from
the wall) in a dry cold place. Steam for an
hour and a quarter on the day when it is
to be served.
SAUCE. —Beat a teaeupful of nice, sweet
butter tree cream and stir in gradually two
teacupfuls of powdered sugar; add the
juice of a lemon, beat until it becomes a
light froth, set the bowl in a saucepan of
boiling wa ter and beat till it begins to grow
creamy (from one to two minutes), pour
into a hot sauce -boat, grate a little nut-
meg over the top and • send hot to the
table.
`F ere•.is somebody who has a little home,
Metnebody of whose bread andsaltyou have
4.Itartaken, somebody of.,w om you are fond,
what; shall you send to her ? I am not
;talking to the girls who can go into the big
alma and send sets of silver or
.'any mtrvelously rich presente. I am talk -
a, fugto the one who !Banta to show that she
L', • r'oinks of all in these days of good will,
but who Cost consider . the pennies. In
the housbliold a pretty' cushion is always
appreotated, because ono oannot have too
h; malty of them ; curious crape staffs, that
,are net'expensive and are very wide may be
gotten et the Japaneep shops and used for
covering the fancy pillow, or if yon have
'"the time these odd stuffs may be made still
Oder by a threading through them, follow-
'
the'patteaus in au irregular way. of silks
of :differentcetera, with gilt thread andhere
and there a spangle, An odd Oriental effect
produced, and thougliyour cushion may
' not be as comfortable the effect is decide lay
•
decorative.
If you aro fortunate enough to live inthe
country, and to be near some woods where
the ferns nestle quietly and warmly, all the
year round, then you can make a beautiful
present to the woman who likes to see her
table look pretty. You can buy for a 'very
few cents a low bowl, then, going to the
woods, you can easily find three or four
good ferns, which when planted in the bowl
must be so arranged that seine will stand
• upright while some fall over the edge.
Arrange this two weeks before you send it,
and during that time spray the leaves
of your ferns with a little water, but do
not water the earth more than once a week.
This is what I call a daily gift. It stands
in the center of the table always, and it
seems to say„
: Good morning, Miss
Thoughful sent me to remind you of her,
and of the deep green woods.” Most city
women have to get this decoration from a
florist, and yet you can so easily and at so
slight an expense arrange one that is much
daintier than that which the florists would
select, and one which will be an every day
delight. Most of us are glad to get a new
purse, and the gladdest of all to get one
that opening easily, will take in the pennies
and dimes. Such a one is a little kid pouch
with a silver gilt top that spreads out in
gate fashion, permits the coins to go in and
then closes as hermetically as the most care-
' fol of us could desire.
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Christmas Cookery.
ZQVNG' VOLES,
A Sent“- ;
The yutre•Iuta.gght eraowinllllds aledo ahealow;cily a witbgttt:
the
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Amas.s ohasteet eaa6yrol ed • up in
glt@tonifg sheets, •
The of $look ort the mantle taco. ke t up
its tick4ao On p R
tks .g,
,With deli d . et e g to
. a ul Rad steady most, oa , e. . a
dead howra wore along.
The Th t
� #ul ;glare from ;the open hearth dtar
emit
the eomher gloom
And mt unsteady shadows all around the
oozy -room..
The old arm,ehair stood near the hearth;
unnioving, still as death;
Twas empty, hut behind it crouched a lad
with bated breath.
Secure from view was Tommy Tibbs, a
hopeful eix• ear -old ;
His eager oyes and listening ears an awful
secret told.
Young Tommy weeks before lied planned
old Santa Claus to ace—
A deed so "awful dreadful" nede holder
ROAST Tuattalr.—Put the turkey in the
aa-even'eon•• a-•raok-in-a pan•,--firat rubbing it
with butter and dredging with salt, pepper
and flour. When the flour is brown reduce
the heat and add -one pint of water. Baste
often, first with butter and then with the
fat in the pan, and dredge with flour and
salt after basting. Three hours should be
allowed for an eight -pound turkey, but cook
till the legs will separate from the body.
Stuff with soft bread or cracker crumbs
moistened with a cup of melted butter and
bot water, and .highly season with sage,
thyme, salt and pepper.
To make a gravy, boil the giblets, neck,
liver, gizzard and heart in.one quart of water
until tender ; the water will then be re-
duced to one pint; 'Mash the liver and chop
the giseard and heart ; remove the neck.
Pour off fat from the dripping -pan in which
the turkey has been roasted, and put the
settlings into a saucepan. Rinse out the
dripping -pan with the water in which the
giblets were boiled and pour this water into
the saucepan and put on to boil. Put three
or font table j r,t. fuls of the fat into a small
frying•pan ; sad 1 enough flour eo absorb all
the fat, and t , :n brown add the giblet
liquor gradoa re, stirring all the time.
Season with .aftand pepper, ana if it is not
smooth Meal it.
Christmas Oakes.
•
Much of the hurry and bustle that tends
to make Cl-ristinas a season of weariness to
the busy housewi e may in a great degree be
avoided by beginning preparation several
weeks before the holiday. Many fine cakes
are the better for keeping, while plum pud-
ding, mince -meat and candies may all ,be
made and put away for the Christmas din-
ner and'holidays. Pumpkin may be stewed,
apples prepared for pies, and various other
sweetmeats prepared and in readiness, all
of which will very greatly lighten the labor
of celebrating the great festival.
It is a pretty custom in preparing for
Christmas to make cakes and dainties by old-
fashioned recipes ; this isparticularly pleas-
ing if there are old people in the house.
And mothers should always see that the
favorite cake, jelly, or other dainty of each
member of the family is served at the Christ-
mas board. It is a graceful emnpiement, and
is sure to be appreciated. The following re-
cipes for Christmas -cake- will be found -tae.
ful, as the cakes made by thein will keep
for a considerable -length of time.
there could be,
He'd hide himself near by the hearth and
hear old " Santa" come
A•rumbling down the ehimney'and see him
crawl therefrom,
The real, ave Santa then he'd see, with his
wooly suit of clothes,
Hie funny face, so red and fat, and his
stubby little nose ;
With his loads andloads of goodies peeping
from a great big sack
Strapped across hisbrawry ehouldere, slung
upon his broad' stout back, -
Yes, he'd wait until the lights were out and
all had gone to bed,
Then steal down stake and hide himself and
wait for Kris, he said.
At lust eventful Christmas Eve had come
with right good Cheer •
To every one but Tommy, whose anxiety
and fear
iTpaet him so that early he'd been hurried
off to bed,
Where a thousand nervous fancies crowded
through his dizzy head.
He had lain; awake and listened till 'twas
silent all below,
And he thought that all had gone to bed
- and no ono'd ever know ;
And then he'd tiptoed softly down the
staircase to the room
Where stood the faithful armchair 'mid its
shadow's deepest gloom.
He'd huddled down with beating heart, and
now midst awful pause
He held his breath and listened for the
stealthy Santa Class.
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glanced Ocala t}e
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WM. lagiaeleSely he. tltarte4 to unload hi!
all v
big,
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4ut8 fillgno;»air o .htositings,dangliug from.
the Mantelpiece,.. ;
«uesaVI'l sit down in
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T iemuttered , o£tlyrahiof off as 4 .r
Thus work herifled.
zie,.el' :united, action to hiswords, with
a WO
relieving sight
When guddeniyfrontbehind him there arose
a frightened cry.
lie gasped and started nervously, then
looked behind the chair,
Where cowered oar friend Tommy peering
out witi?*7?rtetlipg:hair,
"Ha 1 hat my lad," cried Santy as he
quibkly seised the spy ;
"I've oryugktyou. Come along with me.
I'll take you where, you'll try
No more such tricks •as these, my boy -to
Kringle -land you'll go."
And`off, up;through the chimney out into
the flying sn w -
He marched poor frightened Tommy, plac-
ed him in the boggan'a aft,
Set the flying wings an motion --off then
flew the novel craft.
O'the housetops swiftly speeding, soon
upon the inclined pheet,
•
Whence it started on and upward—how
poor Tommy's heart did beat l
Santa kept the spindle going, winding in
each yard a slack ;
Up, still upward the toboggan slid along
the icy track.
Now, at last, .they've reached the summit
of the long -extended slide, -
And as Tommy looked bank downward, to
grave Santa Claus he Dried:
"Oh, take me back, please; Santy ! I won't
do it any more 1" •
But Kris sternly shook his knowing head.
"I've heard that tale before,"
W as his answer. Then poor Tommy sob.
bed aloud in bitter grief.
"IN on't I ever get back,Santy, to my hornet"
A silence brief
Followed close upon this question. Then
with -quickly filling eyes
Santa turned his head and answered 'mid
a -many heavy sighs :
"You'll have to stay here rovy, my boy.
According to the law
Of Kringleland all captured spies, with ham-
mer, bit, and saw,
Must enter in our service, ma'aing toys and
other things,
And never leave our workshop till the bell
of Doomsday rings,"
Then he led the moaning Tommy toward a
' building near his home—
A vast, artistic structure, surmounted by a
massive dome.
A sound of noisy buzz -saws, humming
shafts, and whirring wheels
Came from within, commingling !with the
clash of various steels.
Soon the much bewil lered Tommy, led by
Santa, stood within
CIIRIsTAIAs BLACK CAKE.—Beat twelve
eggs until light. Cream a pound of butter
and sugar each together, add the eggs, with
a pound of sifted flour, one grated nutmeg,
a teaspoonful each of allspice, cinnamon and
cloves, half a teaspoonful of niece and black
pepper, beat all together well. Seed a
pound and a half of raisins, wash and dry
a pound and a half of currants, shred half a
pound of citron ; mix all the fruit and flour
well, then add it to the batter, squeeze in
the juice of one lemon and two oranges, stir
the cake well from the bottom ; grease a
very large cake -pan, pour in the mixture,
and bake in a moderate oven tour hours.
When cold, ice handsomely.
CRANBERr-. SAUCE —Unless a strained
jelly is prof,. ed, to one (inert of cranber-
ries add nee teacupful of water, and put
/' them near the fire. After cooking ten
minutes, add two heaping cupfuls of sugar,
and cook about ten minutes longer, stirring
thein often. Pour them into a bowl or mould
and when cold they can be removed as a
jelly. The berries will seem very dry when
the sugar is added, but if more water is used
they will not form a jelly. Cranberrtee or
redcurrant jelly should always be served
with turkey.
-SCALLOPED OYST ERB. —Butter a shallow
•dish and put in a Layer of stale bread crumbs
moistenedain melted butter and a layer of
oyvters, seasoning with salt and pepper and
a little Worcestershire sauce or lemon juice..
Some of the oyster juice is also an addition.
Follow this process till the dish is full, being
liberal with the butter on the top layer.
Bake in a hot oyen for about twenty min-
utes. It requires about one pint of solid
oysters (washed and drained) one-third of a
cup of butter and one cup of cracker -or
bread crumbs for a moderate sized dish.
STEWED CELERY.—A delicious vegetable
to serve with turkey is stewed celery. Break
off the stalks, wash them thoroughly and
cut .them into pieces about an inch long.
Boil until the piocesbegin to be tender, then
throw ,
off the water and aid milk allowing
the celery to simmer for ten minutes.
reason with salt, pepper and a little butter.
he celery maybe boiled in the stem • and
served with dawn butter sauce poured
ever it if preferred. The first method
given is an economical way of using up the
green part of the vegetable, the white
being served cold or in a salad.
SWEET POTATOES.—Moet boueekeepere
think they cannot nae sweet potatoes in
°lrlace of white ones, but where they are liked
at is best to make a rule to serve them and
do without the others—that ib, not have
both kinds at the same meal. Probauiy
‘both
sweet potatoes are liked better than
boiled enies, but the skins of the former are
So unsightly that it is better to off -r the
latter on the occasion of an "extra" file I The society bud is a beautiful apecimen
• other. of haughty culture, -
'A stormy night.," said Santa as he rose up
iron his couch ;
"And I must be up and movin'—wonder
where I left that pouch ! ..
Things are different, quite a 1)it, now, -from
some twenty years ago—
Feller couldn't take a nap then—had to
hustle so, you know.
Yes, things are changed a mighty deal—
new ways fpr all that's done ;
It used to take me all night long to make
my yearly run
On 'Uhristmas Eve, down"on the earth, my
goods to pass around ;
'Cause why ? 'Cause then my district cover-
ed every inch of ground:
"But now the system's diff'rent—got a Santa
for each town ,;••
'Done away with nein' reindeers -fact, we
do the thing up brown.
Ah i here's that piagaey gitt-pouch—guess
I'll fill her up and go.
.$tally
avealunch awaitfiz;.fee; rn be back
in an hour or so."
And soon the mammoth present -sack Kris'd
filled up to the brim
With boxes, bundles, parcels, toys—a load
by no means slim.
And then a whistle shrill he gave, and
promptly these appeared
A throng of little Santee in costumes strange
and weird.
A motion from the elder Kris ; they closed
in on tile sank
And bore it all together toward a glistening
icy track. -
•
There stood in readiness to go a toboggan
long and wide.
The pack was fastened firm thereon ; and
then off down the slide
Went Santy as the others gave the big
' machine a start ;
With frightful spend it dashed along, un-
swerving as a dart.
l)own, clown it sped as o'er the verge of
Kringle -land it flew,
Straight coward the Earth, far, far below,
beyond the reach of view,
And as it sped it left behind a cable of
stoutest brand,
From a spindle spun, its free end fast to a
stake in Kringle -land.
As the spindle reeled with a constant buzz,
while the sled dashed o'er the ice, -
Kris smiled and again began to muse on the
old way's sacrifice.
CHRISTMAS JELLY-CAKE.—Cream two Cup-
fuls of sugar and half a cupful of butter,
beat eight eggs and add with four cupfuls
of flour and' two teaspoonfuls of baking -
powder ; pcur in a cupful of milk. Take
out a third of the mixture and bake in jelly -
pans ; add to the remaining batter one tea-
spoonful each of cloves, allspice and cinna-
mon, with a teacupful each .of chopped
raisins and citron ; bake in jelly -pans. Put
the layers of cake together together with
currant jelly between ; put alternate layers
of light and dark ; ice the top.
CHRISTMAS PARTY CAtt E.—One pound of
sugar, half a pound of butter and six eggs ;
mix, 'sift in a pound of flour, with two tea-
spoonfuls of baking -powder, and one teacup-
ful of citron, ono of almonds and raisins, all
chopped, with a grated coclanut, mix, pour
in a greased mold, and bake two hours in a
moderate oven.
HOLIDAY SPONGE-CAKE.—Pour One gill of
boiling water on three quarters of a pound
of sugar, stir and let stand ; beat the yolks
of six eggs, add to them the grated rind of
half a lemon ; beat the whites and pour the
yolks over, add the syrup and beat until
thick ; sift in half a pound of flour, mix
gently, and add the juice of a lemon. Bake
half an hour in a moderate oven.
SANTA CLAUS CAKES. —Beat a cupful of
butter and two of sugar together, add two
eggs and half a grated cocoanut, add flour
to make stiff enough to roll thin, cut iu
rings, bake and roll in pink sugar.
FLOWERS IN FRANCE.
All of the Southern Cities Have
Great Gardens.
Immense flower plantations exist in al-
mostmost of the south of
everydepartment
France, but devot-
ed
the Riviera is especially e of -
ed to this type of dainty agriculture. lGrasse,
Nice, and Cannes, and the neighboring vil-
lages provide the greater part of the per-
fumes of commerce. Each city has its
special product,
Nice supplies violets and orange blos-
soms, as does also Cannes, and the latter
place is also famous for its roses and tube
rosea and jasmine. Grasse supplies large
quantities of the last-named overs. The
quantity of orange blossoms gathered an-
nually on the Riviera amounts to the aston-
ishing *eightbof 1,250,000 pounds. After
that one learns withdiit surprise that the
violet crop of Nice is 50,000 pounds per
annum.
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14,e4 4e00,1� ralAppcaxbneesi
lr?bl distant pert* of the world,. notably
Scottish, wpm,. the Sea se nt'ba* of lat4
been
Scottish,
ting, Ottlf i#► .ie oharaoteriatio
hgxrlflsi
and fearsome manner, .a,ffrigbtta
as
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as
ars a . t�
ai, leers and: tarrifyt;�g timid p . 6,
xtalneet resent appearance .was 'aevArell'
weeks ego'tu. the North Sea, and preotigally
within sight of the Scottish Palliate just off
Pcterheadr The eo Coe audent sends to
paper e. Meat: thrilling'etory of the "extra'lr•
dinaryexperie�ice with
thennknownmonitter
of he
deep"? and• .avers that a the,.parties
alleging to slave seert'the ocean horror vouch
for the entire and unverntehed truth bf
his -narrative, mit vessel was the good
andshe, was lin
herring boat er, s
nBHarbtng ,g
to b , her note, about filer "miles froth
laud, y The to .of the event is most
oiro. ice tial, log
members of the
u twu
Drew were on dock and three below at tea.
Suddenly a dreadful mouetermade its ap•
pearauce on the port side, 4' greatly alarming-
these
larmingthese on deck." The account continues : The
monster deliberately placed two fore feet on
the gunwale of the boat • at a distance of
about thirty feet from each other, the one
resting near the pump at, while' the other.
was placed at the fore block. The weight
of the animal was the means of pausing the
boat to•list to .one side to a depth of three
planks,. One man sought refuge in the hold.
The,leviathan made a sudden dart with its
head at one of the two men remaining on
deck, who was . immediately, seised by
his companion and pitched into the hold, he
himself quickly following. The curiosity of.
two men lselow had by this time been aroused
by the ahouting,of those on deck, and they
came up the companion way in-time:to see
the monster disappearing beneath the
waves. The Drew state that the animal re-
mained by the aide of the boat for fifteen
Minutes. The head and neck, they say, were'
similar to thole of a giraffe, and were cover-
ed with a thick coating of hair in black and
white patches. Its mouth contained two
sots of powerful -looking teeth, and eves suf-
ficient., as one of the men said, to swallow
an ordinary sized omnibus. The ears were
of extraordinary,diimensions, and resembled
those of a water spaniel. The length -of the
animal cannot be accurately stated, but it
must have been some hundreds of feet in
length." It ,
This awesome and circumstantially relat-
ed tale encouraged a gentleman named Mr.
Robert Grigor of the boat Star of Coiarty
of Dunbeath to pluck up courage -and tell
hiastory to an Aberdeen paper. He and
his boat's company encountered his horror
in the Moray Firth, and thirty miles off the
coast of•Buckie. A strange commotion was
observed in the sea, and, " uttering a fearful
cly, there rose out of the water such a fear-
ful monster as made our hair stand on end."
Mr. Grigor continues ; " E`er a time we were
speechless, every one of us. To our great
horror the monster shaped toward our boat
and placed two heavy fore feet, with big
claws, onto the stern. We all flew forward,
leaving the part of the boat in charge of
this terrible monster, whose eye; shone -like
green fire, and whose mouth, with large,
white, shining teeth and lolling tongue,
struck terrorinto our very hearts. It was
The great Kris Kringle factory 'mid its con- observed that George Simpson and Gerald
Stant deafening°din. Robertson both had fainted away. The
A sight so strange and wonderful here met enormous weight of the animal had the stern
[i g o' our large craft quite submerge.!, and we
his wond'ring ng eyes, really thought that every moment was our
It nearly took his breath away so great'waslast. Our skipper rushed aft, carrying with
his surprise, him a long boat hook with an iron shod on
A throng of little workmen odd, no big it. This he sent into the monster's mouth
ger than himself at least fifteen feet, and, to our great relief
Were .busy snaking knickknacks, piling and surprise, theanimal sank back, boat
hook and all. The monster must have
weighed many tone, as it would take at least
twenty tons to put our boat down by the
stern as it. did. It had long seaweed -like
hair, and was dark in color. Its head was
not unlike the unicorn of fiction, with a
large and -fearsome mouth. Its fore claws
spread out over several yards of the after
part of the"boat, and the five deepnoratoha
es of each eti11 show where it rested. Such
an animal could have swallowod ten boats'
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theil the .comma.!, vibretione of tilrrOatrial
metals sot ng4 upona corporeal vibrator um,/°'
likei'the'aouud pee,^den•a wire 'in..EOne on
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eayeDr. Richardson, "after we gesso. to
elay. on thein;" a»d ii wo. bring tbe..ima+
rophone into use wo can 'hear the dream;
This is as near poetry ar ;clone° will per-
mit ne to a'pproaoh in expltiuting'the phew.
omena of thought going en during sleep
for the a000mplishedUlecturer proceeded to
inform hie audience that dreams' not ex-
plainable on physioal grounds—there is -no
mysteryabout them save that whicheprings
from "blindness to fee's." "
high each spacious shelf
With unnumbered hosts of playthings fit
for children great and small—
Such an endless store of treasures figures'd
fail to count them all,
Dressed like the elder Santa were these
busy little -men. •
Who plied their tools so deftly, though
their years ranged under ten.
Silently was Tommy wond'ring who they
were and whence they came,
When the voice of Santa roused him, gently
calling him by name.
" Tommy, now, I'm going to leave you.
Here forever you must stay
With these busy little workmen, toiling on
from day to day.
Once they, too, lived where you came from
—down on Earth in native state
Till they spied an old Kris Kringle. and
were, caught and met this fate."
"From the eighteen hundreds back," he
said, " to the time my work began
I used the sleigh and the reindeers when
down to the earth'I ran.
The doer cost more do keep tem shod then I
ever thought 'em worth,
And they'd stumble on the smallest clouds
when.I drove 'em toward the earth.
But now, in 1020, we don't use naryadeer—
Just go kitin' in toboggans down to the
terrestrial sphere
Like astreak of greasylightnin', slidin'down
a slippery side,
Get our Christmas job done early ; have a
cheerful hraein'ride. -
Bnt, here we aro in Christendom—i' the
s indle'e humming ceased
As slowly the toboggan its terrific speed
decreased.
The reminiscent Santa quickly from his beat
climbed down,
And prepared for distribution of his gifts
in Welcometown.
He took from 'neath the high -built seat a
few odd-looking things
And fastened themmto together till the,/
a pair of wings,
Which mounted the toboggan's sides with
Santa in between—
Then up along the housetops rose a grace-
ful air machine.
It swiftly flew from roof to roof, alighting -
soft and still
As Santa down each • chimney slid each
stocking full to fill.
" The nest house is the Tibbs'a if I recol-
lect aright,"
He muttered as a cottage, quaint, old-fash-
ioned, came in sight.
A Moment latter on its roof he landed with
hie sack
And forthwith down the chimney crawled,
a big load oh his back. ?` -
"Ah, yes ; this is the place," he said, as he
reached the floor below
Mr. T. M. Armit of Leith, a reputable
and responsible citizen, promptly identified
the grisly terror as the self -same monster
that appeared to him in the South Pacific,
off the coast of Ecuador, some sixteen Sears
ago. He wrote to the scoffing papers and
told them that whatever they and the public
might think of the anecdote related by the
fishermen he was not in any way iucredu-
Saying this old Kris departed—left behind acus.
the hopeless led, The <creature they describe,"
he says,
Never more to welcoino Chtiatmaa with a "resembles greatly the beast or fish that I
heart so light and glad— and six others stood and looked at, in broad
Never more to rent his parents like all daylight, for fully ten minutes We were
on^ board the disabled ship Columbo of
Greenock, and were being towed from Pan -
eine to Callao in July, 1870. The sea was
very smooth, and when ]nearly abreast of
Guyaquil a solitary wave arose alongside
six or eight feet above the main rail amid-
ships. While wondering what could have
caused such a phenomenon, we were greatly
surprised to see a creature rise slowly out
of the water until it stood from twenty.five
to thirty feet above the sea at a distance of
three ship lengths' astern. The neck ap-
peared to be three or four feet in diameter,
and gradually swelled toward the water to
double that size. We gazed at it for fully
ten .Minutes, when it slowly retuned below.
We saw nothing in the shape of fins or feet
about it, nor could we discern whether it
was provided with double rows of business.
looking teeth, but since that day I have al-
ways been convinced of the existence of un-
known sea monsters."
other Earthly boys
Eternally in Kringle -land to whittle out
new Christmas toys. ,
Christmas Toys.
Dear old Santa has a sack,
Which ho carries on hie back,
Filled with many sorts of toys,
For our little girls and boys.
There are donkeys. thorn are dolls,
There aro guns and rubber balls,
There are dresses nice and neat,
There aro shoes for little feet.
There are ribbons pink and blue,
On • for Jennie, ono for Sue;
There's n workbox nice and neat,
With every needful thing complc te.
There aro clowns and .lumping -jacks,
Thorn aro candies, nuts and wax,
There are oranges so yellow,
There aro apples large and mellow.
Datesand peaches, pears and figs,
And some little candy pigs,
There aro pipes for blowing bubbles,
Certain cure for all your ttoublee. •
There's a rocking -horse for Ned,-
- And for Billy there's a sled
That is warranted to go
When the hills are,wpite with snow.
There are fans and flags and fishes,
There are drums and little dishes,
There aro watches that will tick.
There are horses that can kick.
• There's a funny Noah's ark, •
There are doggies that eau bark,
There's a trumpet for the baby,
Or for little Tommy, maybe.
There's an album forinamma,
There's a muffler for papa,
There are slippers large and small,
There's a cradle for the doll.
There's a story-bookfor r
Nell
There's a rubber bird for Belt,
There's a box of tools for Harry,
And for Bess aline canary.
There's a dolly's buggy too,
With cushions soft anri blue;
There'.; a ship for little Celtic
And a toy house for Allie,
There are building-blocks of stone,
That are sure to stand alone
And not tumble on the people,
When they try to build a steeple.
There are many other things,
Bach as watches pine and rings,
For our boys and g rls grown tali,
There are presents for us all.
A. M. M.
Encourage the habit of saving in your boy
but draw the lino of his saving cigarette
pictures.
After dividing dreams into subjective
and objective, anri mixtures of both, he
went on to class among the first epeoics
dreams produced by indigestion, pain„or
fever; while objective dreams are those
started by noises or other events going on
outside the sleeper. This is a fair eamplo
of the ruthless way in which science die -
poses of "superstition.” Against the imagi-
natiVe view of the significance of dreams.
men of science protest, and will probably
continue to protest as long as there are any
men of science left. They quote the old
lady in the Spectator, who believed that the
earthquake of Lisbon had some mysterious
but quite unexpected connection with the
fact that a few days before she had happen-
ed to spill sore ,salt at table,
Perhaps the rnostpractical lesson taught
at the Royal Institution lecture was ono
which may aesiet• us to kpoty which of oat
dreams are signe,that something is wrong
with our bodily organization. Asa rule, said
the lecturer, itis better motto dream at all.
Dreamlesenese is usually a symptom of all-
round health. A ohild'e dreams are invaria-
bly signs of disturbed health, and should
be regarded with anxiety. For adults it is
a good thing to know that we may be sure
that our brains are being overstrained when
our nightly dreams relate to events of the
day, and if we aotuully seen, in sleep tJe
continuing our daily work this is a danger
signal which must never be disregarded.
When we feel wtaried in the morning very
likely it results from dreame that we have •
forgotten, and then the beat thing to do is
to take exercise.. Without coming to any
decided opinion as to the supernatural
memiinge attributed to dreams, we can at
least profit by these practical hints.
Considered as products of bail digestion
dream cannot be reasonably expected to
tell ue anything of a useful character or oto
supply ue with any warning, except one •
directed against the continuation of deprav-
ed dietetic habits. If is ?a true that the
sleep of health ie dreamless, then it becomes
difficult to believe that the only persons to
whom visions in sleep are vouchsafed should
be the victims of indigestion. It is always
a puzzle for persons of an unimaginative
turn of mind to understand how the future,
which does not yet exist, can be supposed
to have any effect on the present, and it
Must be admitted that dreams of warning
are much harder to believe in than the ,
"brain waves" and " thought transferences"
which members of the Phychical Research .- .
Society take as matters quite in the ordinary
course of things. There is a considerable .a.
mass of testimony in favor of the po er of
the mind to produce results at an enormous
distance by some system of psychical
telegraphy of which nobody hasyet discov-
ered the secret.-"A'man 'Who goes to ereep"
and dreams that his brnther is being killed
by a wild tribe in Central Africa, and who
afterwards heard that he dict meet with
that fate at the precise time when the vision
occurred, need not fly to any supernatural
explanation of the phenomenon. It is quite
different when a dream tells of something
whiclais to happen ina few months' time.
In the latter case most people will perfcr to
join with science in attributing the fact
either to a law of coincidences or to a
simple delusion.
We must do science the justice to admit
that if she increases the'gloominess of life
in some direction, as by her doctrine of the
straggle for existence, she decreases it in
other respects, one of which is by aiding
in the gradual t auishment of any eon- •
fidence in visions and omens and "weird-
ness" generally.
•Ohinese Wills,
From a curious report on Chinese wills,
prepared by Mr. Watters, Consul General
at canton, it appears that though the
Chinese eta€uta book contains no reference
to wills the courts recognize them and do
not even required them to be in writing.
If, however, they are mere oral declamations
they must be made in the presence of wit-
nesses, whereas written wills need riot have
witnesses at all. As a matter of fact, the
testator generally writes out his will private-
ly and then entrusts it to his wife or hides.
it away in some safe place. In theory 'a
man in China may dispose of his property as
he:pleases, but this is baited on the assump-
tion that he Will not do anything contrary
to the dictates of reason and natural af-
fedion. Thus aman may will
away his prop••
, but from his sons
the court mayset
the will aside unless sufficient reaon is
shown. The most common reason given is
unfilial conduct. Chinese wills do not, it
appears, know anything of executors or ad-
ministrators. The legal representative, with
the assistance of senior relatives and the
elders of the district, carries out the pro-
visions of the Will. In the interpretation of
a will and in the carrying out of its arrange-
ments when there is any doubt or difficulty, -
it la the uniform custom to consult with the
elders of the plane. The first appeal, how-
ever, is to the $dein or other local author-
ity.
Charity knows how to forget.
The mantle of oharity is sometimes cut
entirely too short.
Population.
The increase or decrease of population:
by natural and artificial causes, and the die-
trihution of mankind over different parts of
the globe, aro the dominant fac.,ors of the
history and condition of .the human race.
The rise and fall of nations and of Empires,
the progress or decline of civilization, and
the domination of man over the uncultivat-
ed parts of the earth, are all due to the
waves of population which are driven by
various causes to new scenes of existence
and new seats of power. These tidal move-
ments of humanity have occurred over and
over again at many periods of the world's
history, but with great irregularity. There
have been times when the increase of popu-
lation has been slow and its habits sedentary.
There have been times when the whole hu-
man race seems to have been in motion,
driven by some mysterious impulse to seek
new lands to cultivate and new homes.
If the progress of population had been
continuous from the remote periode of an-
tiquity, it is evident that the numbers of
mankind would be much greater than they
are, and the globe, would be already over-
stocked with human beings- But other
causes not less mysterious in their opera-
tion, have checked thatprogress:• Many of
the populous countries of antiquity have
become depopulated and apparently unable
to support life, It is uncertain whether,
at the present moment, the population of
the globe is greater than it was two or three
thousand years ago. There is congestion in
Europe, in India, and. in China; there are
innumerable tribes in Central Africa on
whom even the slave
p
trade makes no per-
ceptible impression. But the vast plains of
Asia, which swarmed with men metier ' the
Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Empfret
are deserted. The civilization of Europa
is no longer threatened by the Eastern
hordes which swept over the Roman Em-
pire in the earlier centuries of the Christian
e, a ' But that prodigious migration laid the
foundation of the States of modern Europe
His Preference.
Bingo—" I'd like to know what you earl
these shirts you got 1ne?"
Mrs. Bingo (sweetly}—" They aro c"sfed
the Liberty shirt, my dear, or of -,:punt of
their freedcto of movement."
Bingo -"If that's eel pyre ens With."
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