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SPECIAL FROM NOW TILL
AFTER CHRISTMAS IN
FRUITS, NUTS, CANDIES.
Mixed Candy, 2 the. for •£5.
Satin Mixed Candy
L re .me, Chocolates Sr Gum Drops 19c
Large •-lb. box Choen•lates 9$c'
Utak Cut Rccic 19c
Light Cut Rork ' `17t.
Ittix. Nuts without Peanuts, 2 lb43.
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Large I'o,ts in Shell, 2 lbs. 23:
1.tudaed lwahtuts pir ib. 25:
Brazils, Almond and Filberts, ib23c
Christmas Pop Corn Balis,
3 for 5e; 2 for 5e, or 5`d• each.
Christmas Candy Stick, each 5c
Rhe Best Sun -Kist Oranges—.
25c, 29c, 35c, 39c • 49e, 59c.
Grape Fruit Seedless, large, 6 for 26'
( hetes California Circa:s, 2 for ..251.
('hoice Fresh Cranzerries 25r
Choice Ileprt Celery & Head Lettuce
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THEIR WAYS ARE DIFFERENT
BUT THE SPIRIT IS THE SAME
TO women in all parts of the Empire
Christtnas means December 25 and
turkey, plum pudding and crackers,
pork pie and a Christmas tree, mince pies
and presents, writes Janet Garrick in the
galready
Cap a -Ar us. But Sweden has
celebrated Christmas the previous day
with fish and rice porridge, Holland has
had her festivities 20 days before and is
spending the day in worship, Scotland is
waiting for the end of the year. and all
Hungary is quiet at home.
Holland celebrates Christmas as early
as December 5 and calls it St. Nicholas,
The original saint is said to have been a
bishop who rode on a white horse from
Spain, and with his colored slave; Black
Pete. distributed money and gifts to the
poor.
For weeks before this day children in
Holland sing songs and hide notes in their
1' s thehearth for the hovering
slippers on
spirit of St. Nicholas. The notes are often
replaced by sweets before morning—assur-
ance of a later visit from the saint.
In the evening the house and a chair of.
onor are decorated and servants collect
in one room, and by the time a rattle
comes on the door the children are agog.
Suddenly the door opens and a handful of
ginger nuts are thrown into the room to
herald the arrival.
St. Nicholas wears bishop's clothing and
carries a crook. Flack Pete has a sack on
his back full of presents and a bundle of
sticks "to beat the bad children."
Along with their presents everyone of
the household receives their Christmas
initial in chocolate—it often weighs a
pound.
Then St. Nicholas shows an uncanny
knowledge of the children's bad habits and
suggests ways of improvements. He in-
spects their school reports and comments
an the drawings or other school work
shown to hint.
That day everyone eats cinnamon bis-
cuits in animal shapes, marzipan fruits,
tough shortbread figures of Black Pete,
or special. St. Nicholas cake of almond
paste in a pastry crust.
Part of the decorations of a house in
Holland is a miniature manger scene with
the Three Wise Men and the Angel. It
is lighted and around it the children say
their prayers.
December 25 and 26 are spent quietly
athome and at church, and the fare is
simple everyday food.
Sweden, too, spends part of the Christ-
mas festivities before the Christmas Day
on December 13, Lucia, or Little Christ
Inas.
The young people of Northern Sweden
particularly, dance, perhaps, the whole of
the eve of Lucia, and in the early hours
of the morning one of the daughters of the
family takes the Whole household a cup of
coffee. It is the dress and ceremony of
this custom that make it so charming.
A long white dress down to the floor is
worn, the girl lets her hair flow down her
back, and round her head she wears a
wreath of whortleberry leaves and lighted
candies. On the tray of steaming coffee
are flickering candles.
Present -giving day is Christmas Eve in
Sweden and the other countries of Scan-
dinavia. The midday meal that day is a
community meal in large households, All
the family take that meal in the kitchen
with the servants. In the middle of the
table stands a huge stock pot containing
a mixture of boiled ham, sausages• and
silverside Whole slices of bread are
dropped into the pot and when soaked are
served with the contents of the pot.
Dressing the Christmas tree takes up
the afternoon of that day, then comes the
traditional meal of Sweden's Christmas
Eve -fish and rice porridge.
While women in the Empire are making
Mincemeat and plum pudding weeks be-
forehand, Swedish housewives are pre-
paring lutfisk, dried ling, their Christmas
fish. Lutfisk when bought is as hard as
wood, and to prepare it for eating it is
treated with batterings with a wooden
club and soaked for days in liquid made
of birch wood, ash and lime or a soda
d
Frequent changes solution. I- quer hon,, of water and
scrubbing eventually prepare the fish for
tying ina cloth and boiling, It is served
with melted butter and peas or cream
sauce and potatoes.
Then comes the thrill of rice porridge—
rice
orridge-rice boiled for hours in milk, sweetened
and, flavored with cinnamon. But this
insipid mess determines the fate of the one
who finds the blanched almond hidden in
it and marries within a year.
Santa Claus knocks at the door later in
the evening, riot so much bent in the back
with the presents he carries as the amount
of red sealing wax stuck on each parcel.
Perhaps the gayest ceremony of the sea-
son in Sweden is burning a sugar loaf over
a copper pan of glogg—a mixture of
brandy, port wine, almonds,raisins and
cloves.
The sugar loaf is placedon a grid over
the copper pan which shines brilliantly on
the table Glogg is poured over the sugar
and a match lit against it. Theflames
rise up and as the sugar melts it sweetens
and heats the glogg.
Christmas is not Christmas for any
Scandinavian until he or she has received
a marzipan pig. It may a little piglet
with match stalks for legs or a huge mother
pig and all her litter.
Marzipan pigs in Scandinavia are like
the Christmas tree in Germany. Each
person in a German household receives a
miniature Christmas tree and each per-
son's gifts are arranged round 'the indi-
vidual trees. 'A miniature tree is always
sent along with gifts from home to Ger-
man friends and relatives abroad. Nearly
every German town and village has its
communal tree in a public square lighted
and decorated, with children singing carols
round it.
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IN BETHLEHEM WAS BORN
THE HOLY BABE
E'LHLEIIEM or The House of Bread,
was more anciently known as
Epitrath or Fruitful, but in modern
times is called Beit-lahm or "House of
Flesh:"
All three names are significantnificant to Chris-
tians
ris-
tions whose interest in it arises from the
tremendous fact that is that little town
was born . Him Who was rightly called
"The Bread of Life::" - Who was to be the
Thither came the widow Naomi and
her daughter-in-law Ruth, the Moabitess,
mourners, bereft of all they had held dear.
There the young widow Ruth was wedded
to her wealthy kinsman Boaz, thereby
becoming great-
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randmother of the Psalm-
ist -King ing David, and also one of the pro-
genitors of the Christmas King, the Lord
and saviour of Mankind.
Rehoboam, son of Solomon. made a
race, fruitful Head of a new r a widespread as
the world itself; and Who.was there born
in human flesh, though the Almighty son
of God.
Its history was by no, means all bright
and holy. Jacob hurrying along with a
deathly sick wife, was compelled' to halt
nearby, while his greatly beloved Rachel
gave birth to the little Benjamin, and then
in her husband's arms died there. Her
grave is still marked by a rough stone
monument!
It was in Bethlehem that the young
Levite Lived, who Micah hired to be his
n
chaplain, and with whom is connected the
tragic story in the last chapters of the
book of Judges. The terrible tale of
wrong doing and reprisals came perilously
near to the destroying of the whole tribe
of Benjamin, within whose limits Bethle-
hem was situated.
Yulteti e
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THE "GOOD OLD DAYS" HAD
WAYS OF THEIR OWN
TURKEYS have always been a popular item of the orthodox Christmas ban-
quet. It is recorded that, on De-
cember. 24, 1793, a total of 1,700
birds were dispatched from Norwich
to London.' Some of them must have
arrived rather late for dinner. The boar's
head, as a Christmas dish, is mentigned
by Chaucer. In the days of our ancestors
it was served up with great ceremony,
and at Windsor Castle the State bruin -
peters were instructed to "sound a'fan-
fare" when it left the kitchen.
Pantomime, which has a close connec-
tion with the festive season, was intro-
duced into England in 1717, the first speci-
men being called "Harlequin Sorcerer."
The nursery legends that afterwards be
came popular with librettists were not
drawn upon until a much later period, A
hundred years before pantomime was
thought of Ben Johnson wrote a "Christ-
mas Masque." This was played in 1616,
and one of the characters was called
"Minced Pie." A somewhat similar piece
was written by David Garrick in 1773.
In the "good old days" the singing of
carols was part and parcel of the recog-
nized Christmas observance in all web -
ordered households. Some of the earliest
had their origin in folk -lore and legends,
and thus madea wide de appeal The sing-
ing was accompanied by dancing. The
"waits," who added music to the Christ-
mas festivities, seem to have gone into the
limbo of discontinued customs. Originally
these itinerant musicians were attached to
the Court. With the passage of years,
they held an official post under the Lord
Mayor, and were provided with a badge,
to prevent them being "moved on" by the
police.
The custom of giving "Christmas boxes"
isas old as the festival itself. Older, in
fact, for it existed in the days of the
Druids. Where England is concerned,
Royalty did not disdain to accept a Christ-
mas gift from loyal subjects. Queen
Elizabeth put her entire household' under
contribution, and it is on record that she
graciously accepted "one pye from ye head
cook, and two rolls of fair cambric from
ye dustman."
fortified city
a fled of Bethlehemlir
(2
Chronicles
X1. 16)d later ter a famous khan (cot-
responding to our hotel) was built there
probably by Chimham, sbn of Barzdlai
the Gileadite who befriended David (2
Samuel XVII.) when in trouble and was
named after him (Jeremiah XLI, 17).
This khan appears to have been a place
where caravans were made up for long
journeys, and it was from thence that the
rebellious Jews, disregarding God's orders
set off for Egypt, carrying the prophet'
Jeremiah with them. It may have been
that same khan, or in New Testament
terms that inn, at which Joseph and Mary
(Luke II) applied for lodging, but could
find no other accommodation than a
stable in a grotto under, or near to it,
wherein to spend the first of alt Christmas
Eves, although they were both of royal
descent, descendants of King David him-
self!
That poor stable became the most fam-
ous bed -chamber in the whole world, for
there amidst the cattle was born the holy
Baby, Who was God, the Creator of ail
things, clothed in mortal flesh, that He
might become the Saviour of all who
wished it from their sins!
To the stable came the shepherds called
away from their sheep -folds by a herald
in the heavens, accompanied by singing
choirs of angels, who macle the thrilling
momentous announcement: "unto you
is born this day in the City of David, a
Saviour who is Christ the Lord" (Luke
II, 11).
Some months later, when the greatly
blessed parents had found better lodgings,
came Magi, Wise nen,—tradition asserts
that they were kings—from the East to
worship and present kingly gifts to the
Infant Jesus.
And came also the wicked Idumeans,
King Herod's brutal soldiers, to butcher
in cold blood every baby and little child
in Bethlehem!
A noble old stone church built by the
British Princess Helena, mother of Con-
stantine, the first Christian Rotnan Em-
peror, in the fourth century A.D., now
stands over that stable site on David's
royal city. Its walls are decorated with
colored pictures made of inlaid precious
and other stones, upon a groundwork of
gold.
The church is built in the form of a
cross, its nave resting on forty-eight
pillars of pure white marble, its chancel
containing the high altar forming the
upper part of the cross. On each side of
the chancel, a staircase leads down to the
grotto directly under the altar. ' T h e
grotto is about forty feet long, twelve wide
and nine feet high.
On its eastern wall is a niche inlaid
with marble, marked by a silver star, sur-
rounded by a halo. An inscription tells
us that;
''Here Jesus Christ was born of the
Virgin Mary."
Nearby is a smaller niche now also in-
laid with pure marble, which, it is thought,
might have been where the "Mother laid
her Baby in a manger for its bed."
Countless thousands have knelt in
sacred worship before that most holy
shrine, once "a lowly cattle shed," the
only shelter this evil world could provide
for its Maker, Redeemer and King, when
in pitying love and` tender saving mercy
He came to visit it, at the. Christmas
tide!
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SANTA CLAUS wants. to meet all the children in town, and sur-
rounding country SATi7R2DAY, DEC. 12TH, AT 3 O'CLOCK.
Fancy Cellophane Packages:-
BISCUI'rs, RAISINS, CURRANTS, APRICOTS,
AND ADPL
PEACHES.
g FRUIT BASKETS MADE TO ORDER.
New Nuts, Candies ' and Christmas Luxuries.
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CHRISTMAS TREE CANDY AT NEW LOW PRICE.
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clearer. Yen know we've r.lrvaye tried before, to makthis season
brighter.. We've done our hest to turn this store, with all its stock
and stuff galore, into e place where more and more, the people's
hearts grow lighter.
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AT THE PRICE YOU CARL TO PAY.
a If Variety is an Attraction, we think we have it.—
BOORS.--are the best of friends—The best of friends give books.
For the sick room give flowers and books, Books do not fade,
P they make children happy, bhild character, delight and instruct:
GIFT WORTFI WHILE.—New and Novel, the line of innovations,
some practical, some for ornament, each in a box (not any old
n box) but in a box measured to fit the article.
GREETING CARDS.—Exclusive and smart, many are exceptional
value, a basket full at le each. Another basket containing a
much 'superior and more attractive assortment at 2 for 5c, and fl -
then the mare important announcement, a box containing 22 lit
0 Cards and Envelopes, for 25e.
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PAPETE_RIES.—In an alluring range of reasonably priced boxes.
They have eye appeal as well as price appeal. r
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dollar will do its duty in gift value. ai
What is gift value? The measure of enjoyment, inspiration, Solid ei
appreciation your gift gives. We invite inspection of our stock.
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