The Wingham Advance Times, 1933-12-21, Page 7'Thurs!day, Deck 21st, 1933
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:EIRISTIVIAS mor-
ning broke bright
and clear, sending
revs of glistening
sunshine over ,a
thick blanket of
new -fallen snow
with its ever won-
derful message of
love, Nowhere in
all the world, was
there a keener appreciation of Christ-
mas cheer than in the heart of win-
some Ina Walton, the affectionate
and resourceful young sister of Edith,
just now recovering from a long and
desperate illness;
Seventeen -year-old Ina, the only
living relative of the sick girl, ° had
gone down into the ; valley of death
with her, suffering in mind and spirit
as severely almost as did Edith, phy-
sically. But now, Edith was so great-
ly improved as to be able to sit up
in' bed for her breakfast, Near her
stood a small table on which was a
vase of red -and -white roses, and dish-
es of 'very tempting food. She took
up the saucer containing a half -or -
lige and looked in bewilderment at
,te well -buttered toast, eggs and
.offee.'
"1 don't .understand;" she announc-
ed, "I simply can'tsee how you man-
age to do all this, Ina," with a sig-
nificarlt gesture toward the. table.
The sister smiled sweetly. "Don't
you known is Christmas?" she naive-
ly asked by way of reply.
"Oh, yes, of course, I know it is
Christmas, Ina, dear, but the season
does not put anything into our pock-
ets, you know: We can't afford it."
"But I'm quite sure we can. So
don't you worry."
Edith diel not seem satisfied. IIer
expression of perplexity called for
further explanation and Ina contin-
ued: "I've been a daring creature
while you were ill. I'm quite sure
THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES
Took From a Messenger Boy a Large,
Well-FilledBasket. '
Ou'l1 not approve,' even thdttgh I did
for your sake; but it really doesn't
latter, now that you are getting well.
T othing matters but just that. Oh,
Edith! You are my precious Christ-
inas gift."
"You've beenso good to me, dear,"
responded Edith, ignoring her
quickly
sister's claim of daring, "but you have
not satisfied my curiosity, How do
you manage to spread such sumptu-
l
•ous meals?„
m
"By boldness." Ina tossed her
Y
bead coquettishly and strode defiant-
lyY
across the room, as if to character-
ize her words. Then she paused and
leaned on the footboard of the bed,
smiling teasingly. "I knew you would
think it very dreadful, It is true,
nevertheless. 111ac1 to do it."
"Nonsense, Ina. You couldn't be
bold, even -If you tried. You don't
know how,"
"I was though, very bold, I guess.
Listen, When I went to pay the gas
bill last 7
week, `I just told the clerk at
the window all about it—your illness,
n-ny giving up my position to be with
you, our lack of funds and our very
great need, and just as good as asked
him for helP !"
"Ina!" Edithpaused with the spoon
half -way to her mouth.
Yes,Idid just that before, I real-
ized what I was saying. I was clesc
perate that clay. I was quite ,ready
to ask aid of anyone to save yott life,
and the clerk at the gas office was
the one 1 happened to strike at the
psychological moment,
Edith tittered a little
moan of vex -
the spoon into
atiari as she droppedpoo
the saucer,
"You Isrere le a critical state," Ina
'Went on, "and sometlrlrtg had to be
tike at onee. The new druggist who
„ntly bought out our old friend,
es no credit business, blc refused
to let me have anedicine.without -the
money; you had to have medicine"
"But, Ina, think of a Walton beg,
EXCUSABLE FOLLY
It is true that nten and 'wo-
men at Christmas time do many'
things which are foolish, espec-
ially in the giving of presents,
But when did cold wisdom ever
make people happy? Who wants
to see 'a Christmas when no-
body spends more than he
should, or when there is no giv-
ing of things that are trivial or
needless or foolish? A truly
sane Christmas would be a mis-
erable one. --American Maga-
zine.
ging! What you did was actualbeg-
ging," and the pi;oud girl's face reg-
istered her humiliation.
"But the, flowers?" Edith question-
ed. "Why the flowers? You ,surely do
not consider them: 'a grave necessity?"
For reply Ina walked around to the
table on which the tall vase stood and
buried tier face in the roses. "But
they are so lovely," she said, "and I
just adore. flowers!"
"So do I, dearie, but you should' be
more prudent with our scant means.
Did they cost much?"
"Much?" Ina hesitated. "Yes, they
really were very expensive.
Edith was growing ` extremely an-
noyed. "You extravagant little .imp!
How much?"
Ina made a grimace at her and
drawled, "Oh -about three dollars."
"Three dollars echoed Edith with,
a frown. "Why, we didn't have more
than three times three dollars the last
time I saw you count the money."
"No," blandly acquiesed Ina.'
Edith looked really troubled. "Ina
you are too provoking for anything.
this morning. I never knew you to
behave quite so foolishly"
"Foolish, am 1?" crooned Ina, div-
ing for her sister and kissing her on
both cheeks. "Am I foolish for lov-
ing you? Suppose I' had beld.on to
my Walton pride and refused all help.
You could not have had what your
condition required, and I should not
have—" Ina stopped abruptly, clap-
ped both hands over her mouth while
her neck and face went scarlet,
"What?" Edith waited, but her sis-
ter only burst into a confused laugh.
Then, "Sh-sli-sh—" she whispered;
laying a finger on her lips. "Some
one is at the door." Tripping across
the room, Ina opened with an expect-
ant air and took from a messenger
boy a large well-filled basket, which
she carried straight to ` the bed and
set 'down by. Edith. "There," she said,
"It is all for ydu."`
"Olt, dear!" exclaimed the wonder-
ing girl, shaking her head. "You puz-
zle' me sorely. Flowers again!"
"It is not all flowers, I'ni stare," an-
swered radiant Ina with a provoking
little toss of her head. "Let me see."
With this she lifted the covering of
carnations, laid them lovingly in Ed-
ith's lap, and delved. into the basket's
remaining contents. "Look! Here is
a young chicken, a pound of butter,
rolls, 'eggs, a bottle of . milk, and
more oranges; Oh, Edith, it is all so
lovely!"
"But where do all these lovely
things come from? We haven't so in-
terested a frend that I can recall."
Edith was both pleased and' curious.
"Now, that's where you are mis-
taken," corrected Ina, shaking a wise
finger in her sister's face. "We have
got.a friend who is just that interest-
ed -one whom you have not met and
who has done even more than all this.
This new friend has procured, me a
position, and I shall go to work text
week if you are well enough for me
to leave you,"
Edith surveyed her sister critically.
"'Who is it, pray?"
Ina rippled another merry laugh,
then tried ;to look very serious as she
leaned heavily on the footboard of
the bed and answered deliberately,
"The—gas-loan."
The two stared at each other` for a
moment in silence, the younger•smil-
ing roguishly at the elder's dignified
disapproval. "1 knew you would
thinks me dreadful," said Ina filially,
"that is why i have kept it from you
until now. 13ttt listen to me, Edith, in
all seriousness, I must make you
understand. When I left you that day
to pay the gas bill, because to have
failed would have meant no beat, with
the thermometer standing at zero, and
you with pneumonia, I was nearly
crazy.- I returned as soon as possible
and found you tr1TCotlsci0tus, The new
woman across the hall had already
called the doctor. He said yott could
not live unless there was a change for
the bettermidnight, and I am quite
by
sure he dict not expect that change
Next morning, Mr. Clark, the clerk
of whom you say I begged, carne to
sce if there was anything he could do
for its,"
"Poor little sister," from Edith.
Inacontinued:
"He took in the situation at once
and sent his own physician, 'Doctor
panics, Itis to Doctor Danks that
we owo your life, Then Mr. Clark
Silent night ! Holy night!
All is calm, all is bright ;
Round yon virgin mother and child!
Holy infant, so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
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by Carreggio.
Silent dight ! I-loly night!
Shepherds quake at the sight !.
Glories stream from heaven afar,
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia.
Christ, the Saviour, is born!
Silent night! Holy night!
Son of God, love's pure light!
Radiant beams from thy holy face,
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at thy birth.
senteverything that was 'needed for 'Wreaths Garlands Gay
Your comfort and mine, too. No IShout "Merry Christmas!"
doubt, the doctor made out the list
1
for him. Nothing helpful was omitted.
You were too sick to notice, and I,.
too anxious to refuse whatever might
be of benefit to you. I simply used
my common sense, instead of cling-
ing to that old family pride: that
What a joy it is to conte into a
home scented with spicy pine and
hemlock, so suggestive of Yuletide
that each room fairly shouts "Merry
Christmas!" And what a real pleas -
use, too, to gather the greens and
dispose them so that they express all
the kindliness of the blessed season,
intensifying the delights . of the
"friendliest" period: of the year!
As garlands, the various types of
greens' may decorate windows and
doors, or they may be massed on
mantels or tables,
To make a ,flexible rope of, green-
ery, supply a foundation of heavy
twine and to this attach the short
sprays of pine,lhemlock or spruce, i
terspersed regularly with `clusters
laurel; or for a more decorative
fest usetheartifical berries with t
greeris, Fine .flexible wire is best: f
fastening the sprays in place:.
Another use for teens is in l'
AG1 S:
row
it CHRISTMAS DAY
It is not definitely. known
vsrhen Christmas was :first cele-
brated, The institution of tlre',
festival is attributed to Teles-
ig pltnrus, who flourished in the
y6 reign of Antonitis ,l'ius (131-161'
6 1,1. 1).) The reason for the fin-
al choice of December 2'" can -
„
he determined s' Christ-
, 'reality spread the feast of the
winter solstice, the timetvlicrt
1 the day begins to increase, and
light to tritium!' over darkness,
was changed into the 'Feast caf.
Christ, the Light of Life.
THERE IS A
SANTA CLAUS
"When: little junior comes to you.,
And climbs upon your knee,
And looks right up into your eyes,
As earnest,as can be;
With' little lips a -striver;
And a heart that seems to pause,
He says, "Now tell me, Daddy,
Ain't there no Santa Claus?”
Don't mind about the scriptures
And the wickedness of lies
Just give that little tot a. hug
To clear those tear -dimmed eves.
And then just start a -talking,
But be sure you -make it stick,
Tell hint "There is a Santa Claus,
Sometimes he's called. St. Nick"
Then warm up to your subject,
Enlarge- it as you go,
Bring_ out the many reasons why
The things you say are so.
Then say, "If there's'no Santa,
How on earth would little boys
Get stockings filled with candy, and
—
A lot of pretty toys?
And how would little sister
Get her.dolls and other things
If it were not for Santa Claus
That Christmas always brings?
He only conies at yule -tide,
But perhaps I ought to say,
He .makes his presence known -to us
Each year on Christmas Day.
He's really with .us always,
Though he's trampled in life's race
At Christmas" time lie pops up, and—
Assumes his proper place,
You can't see dear old Santa,
But he's with us just the same,
Dispensing love and kindness
Undeer a .different • name,
Thank God! There is a Santa Claus;
I wish that he might be
s� lAs prominent throughout the year;
t tis lie is 'round the tree," t !,
1 ..a
Christmas Essentially we can bestow upon our children is a
the Dayof the Child capacity for feeling just such tender
and generous and helpful emotions as
today stir in the breasts of all good
December the 25th is the Day' of men and women,—Seattle Post -Intel -
It is upon this day of days that
countless men and women and little
ones barely able to speak their. lan- Ancients Gave Presents
guage utter the great rejoicing: For
Peacock Dinner English
Custom Many Years Ago,
Fashions hi Christmas dinners coin
and go, In olden days al 11 10itiatrnias
feast in England, next in impOrtaiice
to the boar's head as a Christmas
should have spent itself long ago. as Most People Do Now dish 1vits the peacock. To prepare title
Tiiis basket is from him also. See?" unto 'us a Child is born, unto us a bird for the table was a task entail -
Son is given!
Even those who hold creeds in
which there is no Christmas feel the
splendor of that cry, and those who
have no formal creed at all, still
konw there is one of the 365 portions
of the year.which is essentially the
Day of the Child. •
It is the day when even the most
unsentimental adult, long since ;cost-
Baled and hardened by the year's,
can hear in his heart the footsteps of
the little ones. Today they are run-
ning about so eagerly a over the
world ; pattering to see what good
gifts may have been received, ardent:
with a hope that only young hearts
can feel.
On this day the austere scientist
who has almost quit believing in the
very laws of astronomy which recent -
handing her the card on. which were The custom of making presents of i;'g no little trouble. The skin was
iri andhis Christmas is derived from veryan- Ernst carefully stripped off with the
inscribed holiday greetings
full name,"And, gsped, Edith, he is a
plumage adhering'. The bird w151;11@dl;.
dear!" Ina clasped her hands over , roasted; when done, and partially
her heart to dd emphasis to her en- cooled it was sewed up agaia.;.in its
a P
thusiasrn, Edith listened' in amaze- feathers, its beak painted with gilt
b and so sent to elle table, Scimetirnes
mein` while she rambled on: ( )
"I ant sure you will like hirci, dear.
cient usage. It was a Teutonic inven-
tion, In Latin countries gifts were ex-
changed at New Year's, writes James •
Waldo Fawcett in the Washington
D. C. EveningStar.
The decoration of churches with
mistletoe and holly is likewise a pag-
an. -survival.
Nativity plays and pageants trace
back to a pre -Christian era, The
sports of the .Lords of Misrule in
England are supposed to be an in-
heritance from the Saturnalia of hea-
the whole body was covered with leaf'
You just must, for my sake, because gold and a piece of cotton saturated
because-" A. mery twinkle lit the with spirits' placed in' its beak and
happygirl's face as she hesitated, "but g lighted before the carver commenced
now—I'll operations. This "food for lovers and
Ill not '.tell you let- you P
guess," meat for lord" was stuffed with
1 It spices and sweets, basted with yolks
of eggs and served with plenty of
gravy.
it was not served
The noble bird a aby
common hands; that privilege was re-
served for the lady guests most dis-
tinguished
is
tinguished'by birth or beauty. One
n
of them carried it into the dining hall
to the sounds of, music, the rest of the
ladies following in due order. The
dish was set down before the master
of the house or his most honored
guest. The latest instance of pea-
cock eating recorded was at a dinner -
Printed Christmas Card:
Was Issued Back in
There is more humanity about, the
Victoria and Albert museum than its,
stiff brick exterior. suggests.
The, director has sent me a Christ-
mas Picture Book, says a writer in
the London Star. It reveals the fact
that the first Christmas card ever
printed was , issued- only as recently
as 1843, I
The card, Willett was printed for Sir
henry Cole, first director of the
South Kensington rnuse'tiut, is repro-
duced, along with malty other efforts
by artists, to celebrate the nativity.
They range from a walrus ivory re-
lief from Cologne to a modern wood-
cut by Eric Gill. It is strange to see
how the artistic wheel has turned fail
circ1
e hack to the inedievai austerity,
c
But I can't help liking the first'
"features" as.
tiles
Christmas card, which
the films say, a, hearty
fat boy 'would say, +t 1
hest.'
Meal, As the
eating
rt -
01
ef-
fect
for
the
formation of window wreaths; Ar-
range the small sprays ort a heavy
wire foundation, taking care to keep
the wreath symmetrical. Small red,
berries in groups, regularly placed, 1 seemed so sure and stable btit'
y ,
give character to such a decoration. which new seem dissolving in a mist
ofrelativity—this careful profession
-
"A Merry Christmas," as
al skeptic becomes as a child himself,
Other Nations Say It
This is how the nations of the
world express the wish "A Merry
Christmas"; Prance, Bolt .Noel;
China, Tin Ngo Nian; Portugal, Boas
Festas; Japan, I(inga Shinnen; Tur-
key, Lchok Ylara; Hugary, 73oldog.
Xaracsonyi Unnipeket; Greek, Chrys:
tovjella; Croatia, Sretan r3o✓ic; Hol-
land,, E'en Vroolijk Ker.strnis; Spain,
Felices l?asettas; Germany, Froclrliche
'GVeilnachtan; Swencdit, Clad Julen;
Italy, Felice Natale; Romania, Crac-
and considers it hard indeed if lie
cannot believe in Santa Claus, beard-
ed fairy godfather of thel children.
On this day evert those who have
been the, most careless feel like say-
ing over reverently that beautiful
prayer for wisdom in the rearing of
children
7,i
Almighty God, heavenly rather,
s.. us the joy and
who hast blessed withjoy
care of children; Give us light and
strength so to train there, that they
may love whatsoever things are true
snaicl pure and lovely and of good re -
rum Pelicitatitinc; Bohemia, Vesele port.
Vano e; Poland Wcso1 tai S'wiat; hot on this Day of the Child we
a
'Denmark, Glaedclig ; Jul, remember that tate most precious gi
11
ft
then Rome,
Father Christmas or Santa Claus is
identified with St. Nicholas or Nic-
olas, and also with :Knecht Rupercht
and Robin Goodfellow Grintin says
that in some parts of Germany
Knecht Nicolas is merely an attend-
ant on the real gift -giver, who is
son etimes' the infant Christ and
sometimes Dance Bertha, but who is
also frequently conceived as an ugly
dwarf, called Kranipus.
Carol singing by waifs, strolling
street' musicians, is an old 13ritish cus-
tom.
The first Christmas cards dais from
about 1846.
The setting up in Latin churches of
a Christmas creche is said to have
beeta originated by St. Francis.
Christmas to the Heart
It is Christmas tt h
rs i the 1VTatlsintl.
'yule -log fires and silken frocks;
It is Christmas in. the Cottage,
Mother's filling little socks;
It is Christmas on the Highway,
In the thronging busy rn'art;
But the dearest, truest Christmas
Is the Christmas in the Heart.
*Dora 1.1 Stockman,
given to, William IV, when duke of governor by` the of Gren-
ada.
Keeps Candles frond, Dripping
To keep table candles from drip-
ping, stick a pin in the candle along-
side
g
side the wick and leave it there. It
keeps the wick upright, the candle
burns longer and mare Steadily and
f y
decorations and tabletloth are leapt
free from grease.
The Christi/1as ivtince lie
The irrevitobility of hot mince pie
on Vie Christmas board explain, why
it is well for 1110 national di;;c-tion
that there is only one t;",fieri ,41 vas. ttiii-
tier a year,