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The Wingham Advance, 1909-12-23, Page 3A LESSON .LEARNED liow Christmas Came to a Lonely Little Boy In Far Away Japan (Kathrya Jarboe in Jestruae7 St. Nich- else.) The sneW was falling in soft, fugitive flake e dewn over the gray land, sifting through, the branehes of tho dark pines on the hillside, elipping from the carved ernes of the old teenple in tile shadow of the pines, drifting iuto the E$114:40 to touch the gildea Image of Buddha that, for oenturies, aad looked unmoved on sun and snow alike, For this all hap- pened in Japan. In the pretty garden in front of the little iniSSIOnary house, the anawflakea flecked the feathers of the bronze crane, rested on he broad back of the stone tut/e, and heaped themselves upon the dwarf oypresses, the miniature hills and dales and tiny little bridges . Almost as unheeded, they fell upon little Davy 13rewater, who sat upon the steps over- looking the garden, his elbows on his knees, his chin cuddled into his pink palms. The feathery atoms rested on his yellow curls, on his little black shoul- ders, his thin black legs, and. his shining blaok shoes. He knew well enough that ft was snowing; he oven watched, with moody eyes, one huge flake, bigger than all the rest, thee sailed on and on, lif lug now and then as though it were all unwilling to alight in the toy garden, as though it would float on acmes to the temple vete to the golden Buddha itself. Davy knew, too, that it was Christmas eve; that, after weeks of weary waiting, Christmas had come to every one in his own far-off and. But not to him and to his mother. He could hear her chair rocking softly backward and forward just inside the door. He knew juet how she looked, sitting there in her new black gown, He }mew that if he went in to speak to her she would .draw him close in her arms and whisper: "Oh, Davy, Davy - boy!" He knew that if he asked her the same question she would give him the same answer; that U he asked her if Santa Claus seas coming to -night she would say tenderly that there could be no Christmas for him or for her, be- cause they were left all alone in the world. He was sure that he could kiss her tears away; that if he held his hands on her eheeks and told her how much he loved her she would stop orying; but he knew, oh, yes, he knew very well that what she had said was true—that Christ- mas was not coming for them. It was suoh a little time ago that his father had been -with them, though, that his father had told him that Christmas would. come when the snow came. Now the white flakes were flying down from the sky, nestling everywhere upon the ground, but—but it wasn't Christmas, it wasn't Christmas for him. He won- dered if it woe Christmas in the heaven where his father had gone. The snowflakes fell faster, the grey eight slipped over the land. The temple bell boomed heavily down from the shad- owed hill, and its waves of magical music rolled acrose the thatch -roofed village, across the fields, away to the misty hori- zon. Into the silenoe that trailed behind the child's blue eyes gazed in a new ter- ror of loneliness . Scrambling to his feet he fled into 'the house and flung himself into his mother's arms, sobbing uncon- trollably. - Mrs. Brewster held him close and whispered: "Davy, Davyboy!" For just an instant her tears fell on his yellow curls. Only for that inatant, though, did he forget the promise he had. made to his father—to be a brave boy. Sude denly mindful of it, he cuddled. her cheeks with his hands and kissed the team from her tired eyes. The Christmas sun flung down upon the white sneezed a flood of golden light and. glory. The branches of the pine trees drooped under their burdens; the temple roof was all smooth and white and. undefiled; the lap of the golden Buddha was heaped with snow; the bronze crane stood knee deep in the feathery mase; the stone turtle showed only his pointed head. Davy, sitting again on the steps that led down into the garden, looked out toward the hori- son thet was shimmering blue and pink and white and. wondered where Christ- mas did begin, wondered iu.st how near to him.Santa, Claus had come. From the horizon his eyes svenclered back across the village of thatched* roofs that lay at the foot of the hill. A bright line of vivid color, red and blue and green, was moving slowl yalong the snow-covered rad that led from the village to the hill. Davy knew that it was the children from the mission school wearing their gayest, brightest kimonos. He watched them as they ttunbled along over the snow in their high stilted clogs, and wondered where they were going and what they were doing. Then he saw that they were climping the hill, slipping and sliding, but always climbing. He heard. them laughing and chattering in their high, shrill voices. All at once he was terribly afraid that they were com- ing to his house. He had not been down to the Mission since his father had gone away; he had not seen any of the chile dren since then, and his only impulse was to run into the house and hide. He did not move, though, and soon the line of boys and girls looking like giant birds. and butterflies of brilliant plum- age, filed into the garden path, past the bronze stork, past the turtle's head, past all the tiny little bridges, and tiny trees. Their fates were grave, their voices were hushed as they looked up at the sombre little boy sitting on the stepa. They huddled cleee together, each :trying to hide behind his neighbor—all eave a Japanese boy called. Otoyesan. He was but a few years older than Davy, end bad been a constant compan- ion of the small American lad. Otoyasan bowed kw and all the line of his little followers ducked their heads in greeting. "Good morning!" Davy spoke gravely, and returned the low salute with an awkward bow. Ohrrissmusl" cried Otoyasan. The other children tried. to echo the strange words. "It isn't Christmas here, Otoytiatin!" Davy stood up now and rammed .his small clenched fiats deep into his tiny pockets. "It can't be Chrietunia for muvver and me." Otoyasan looked: at Win curiously, rubbed his hands together, and, for a ntoment, did not speek. "It's Christmas for ever'one, Davy- san," he said at lest. "It's Chrrissmus for all the world. Your father, Revere Brewster, said it's Christmas for ever" - one." OA* 1 Was Nervous, Anaemic, Sleepless LOOK AT ME NOW AND SEE WHAT A WONDERFUL CURE FERROZONE HAS MADE. "So ill and miserable was 1 for nearly two years," writes Mrs. J. E. Nimmo, of St, Armes Bay, "I began to look upon my life and its future as a sort of living death, I tired so easily I could not go anywhere. 111;xen the thought of slight exertion made my heart flutter and ex- cited me to trembling. Then came the misery of the bug nights, with their dreads and forebodings. Medicines and tonics seemed fruitless to help me. Noth- ing did me any good till I used Ferro - zone. At fitst 1 think Ferrozone must have made my blood richer and 'redder. My ears began to lose their thin, waxy look which had been a sign to everybody that I was sick, My weight increased steadily—I got stronger, and at last be- gan to sleep better and become less nervous. Look at me now—a stronger, heartier, more vigorous energetic woman you -can't find." The one tonic that will build up everyone in poor health ir Ferrozone— try it—just one or two tablets at meal time; 50e. per box, six for $2,50, all dealers, or The Catarrhozone Company, Kingston, Canada. MART1IY MINTER'S XMAS PRESENT. Got the notion In my head That it would be kind of pleasant, Somebody a Christmas liresent, When the time came round to give, Not my pa, and not my ma, I give thent one every winter; But the nicest gin 1 know, Au' her name is Marthy Minter. Worthy's got a double chin, For she's as fat as me, or fatter; Red cheeks with tome dimples in, An' she laffs if- you look at her. Hair is just the nicest red, Geel she has a cloud of it, Only when she braids it down, Guess she's awful proud of it. Up an' asked me in the Mass, What I really thought of it, All that 1 could think to say, Was: "You've got a lot of it." Thought a comb of turtle shell Was about the proper caper, (SaMe as ma wears everyday), All wrapped up in tissue paper. With a card so nice and neat, Folk's think I was a printer: "Bobby Bennett Sends His Love With This Comb to Meetly Minter." I had forty-seven cents, For I'd been just awful savin', So I bought my ma a case, An' my pa a mug for Wavle% Then put all that I hal left In that turtle comb, an! sent her; That same evenin' she came in With a picture book I'd lent her, Myl her face looked queer tun' big When I got a good look at her; After ma took off her hat could tell what was the matter. Red hair rolled up in a bob— Just as slick as ma's, or slicker— An" my baok-comb stuck on ton— Then we both began to snicker. "Marthy," says X, "throw that thing Far's you can out of the winder, Stick it In the stove an' burn Bach tooth in it to a cinder." And I clawed the hair pins out TIn the curls fell on her shotilder, But she hung fast to the comb, Said 'tould do when she got older, An' wo had such lots of fun, Ma called out: "What is the matter." "Nothin'," says I, "Marthy laughs It you poke your finger at her," A VANITY FAIR CHRISTMAS. "What did Mr. Noblestack give you fee Christmas?" asked Mrs. Du Aboute. "A set of Upton Sinelair's works" an- swered Mrs. Nohlestack, "a chaplet of pearls for the dear little clamp, a tank of attar of roses with which to sprinkle the lawn, a, six -cylinder touring car, with a man -killing attachment which throws the body int e the woods and registers the wrong number behind the car, a string of vanishing diamonds to be worn when passing 'the customs officers, end a beautiful, chseipated Marquis, with a glamour of scandal about him, for our dear daughter, Aimee."—Puck. SHIP TO US YOUR FFS, G, CO CO in IN1EW Out advice is to ship at onto betause we have many orders to fill, and are ready for your shipments, foe which we can pay you the highest prides. We cl0 not know how long the demand will keep up. We remit sante day shipment is received, in any form you request. 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It cures coughs ef the most obdu- rate kind and breaks up a cold in a few hours, • A ) Write for Free Sample. For Sete ler ell Drillable sod Dealers $0e. & $1 per bottle. Pr. T. A, SLOCUIVI LIMITED, THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE. Faith, Hope and Love Lighted It, Runs the Pretty Legend. When Ansgarius preached the White Christ to the vikings of the north, so runs the le,gend of tee Christmas tree, the Lord sent His three messengers, Faith, Hope and Love, to help light the tint tree. Seeking one that should be high aa hope, wide as love, and that bore the sign of the cross on every bough, they chose the balsam fir, which best of all the trees in the forest met the re- quirements. Perhaps that is a good reason why their elings about the Cluisemas tree in my old Immo that which has preserved it from being swept along in the flood of senseless luxury that has swamped so Many things in our money -mad day. At least so it waa then. Every time I see a tre studded with electric lights, garlands of tinsel gold festooning every branch, and hung with the hundred costly knickknacks the storekeepers invent year by year "to !nuke trade," until the tree itself disap- pears entirely miller its burden, I have a feeling that a fraud has been prac- tised on the kindly spirit of Yule. Wax candles are the only real thing for a Christmas tree, candles of wax that mingle their perfume with that of the burning fir, not the by-product of some coal oil or other abomination. What if the boughs do catch fire? They can be watehed, and too many candles are tawdry, anyhow. Also, red apples, oranges and old-fashioned cornucopias made of colored paper, and made at home, look a hundred times better and fitter in the green; and so do drums and toy trumpets and wald-horne, and a rocking horse reined up in front that need not have cost forty dollars, or any- thing like it.— From Jacob A. Riis's "Yule -Tide in the old. Town" in the C/hristmee Century, HIS PAINS AND ACHES ALL ONE Dodd's Kidney Pills Cured Chas. N. Cyr's Rheuma- tism. Statement of a Man Who Suffered for a Year From Different Forms of Kidney Disease and Found a Speedy Cure. New Richmond Station, Que., Dec. 20. - —(Special.)—In these cold fall days when Rheumatism, Sciatica, Backache and other Kidney Diseases are working havoc in every corner of Canada, thou- sands Nvill be interested in the statement of Mr. Chas. N. Cyr, the well-known barber of this place. "I have been a sufferer from Rheu- matism and Backache for a year," Mr. Cyr states. "My head also troubled me and it was hard to collect my thoughts. I heard of cures made by Dodd's Kidney Pills, and made up my mind to try them. The marvellous effect of the first box on my system at once raised my hopes, and by continuing to use them I sen now a sound and well man. All my pains and aches are gone, and I am able to do my work without pain." Mr, Cyr is only one of thousands -whom Dodd's Kidney Pills have cured of Rheumatism, Sciatica and Backache. For Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure sick or disordered Kidneys. And if your Kid- neys are well you can't have Rheuma- tism, Sciatica or Backache, A PRAYER. God of the lonely soul, God of the comfortless, God of the broken heart—for these, Thy tenderness! For prayers there be enoegh Yea, prayers there be to spare, For those of proud and high estate; Each hath his shore. But the beggar at my door, The thief behind the bare; And those that be too blind to see The shining stars; The outcast in his hut, The useless and the old; Whoever walks the city's streets Homeless and cold; The sad arid lone of soul 'Whom no nian understands; And those of secret sin with stains $ Upon their hands, IsSittlefe4.441+04.1•4444.1-ataeatiats CLIMAX Of THE 1 • CURISTMAS YAR ereee*.e•Seeseseees.:44.4.40:4444~4 Christmas, the climax of the Chris. 14an Year, the festival of love and of life, divine end immortal, the anniver. say of the day when the Giver of all gave His richest gift to Man, is about to recur yet once again. When the shades of night shall have been drawn Dec. 25, in all lands the celebration will. begin, and the morrow will find millions of happy people giving thanke and. singing the praise of the Carpen- ter of Nazereth. "The spirit of Christmas Is love,' said a famous preather when tteked for an expreseion of the spirit of the day, "and," he Added, "this spirit takes hold upon all elasses of people carrying into every soul the sweetuees and purity of love's ministry. :ft 'W- ishes gifts in the homes of wealth and it finds its way in the direst poverty. "It is not necessary that the gift be great, but it must 'be a token of friend Mile, We should particularly remem- ber the lives that are east in hard places. Lift a mortgage, send fa eheque or money to the brave woman who is fighting for her children, bring the poling man or yqung woman who is ,away from the loved ones to your own fireside, and send a Christmas dinner where you are sure there would. be only a scanty one if you did not. FRIENDSHIP IS BEST GIFT. "13ut this spirit of Christmas 'Math is to find its expression in the gift of loving service is hot ehe spirit of mere benevolenee. Kindness that le not in- spired by cutmedeship IS not heautiful at all. It may be pity from a proud. heart, but that is not friendship, end it is not the brotherly love of Christianity. Alen need friends more than they require alma, and so we all need eaoh other's friendship, for we are all inseperably bound together as men of one race aud. men of all races. "Let us gles gifts, by all meens, end among them that large gift of 1 wing service. Thus will the spirit of ehrkt- mas be shed abroad and melte the world better and brighter.' After a little more time 1,000 years from the birth of its founder, Christ- ITUIS has become the most generally observed religious holiday on earth. There is scarcely a land beneath the sun that does not witnees some cele- bration of the day set apart to com- memorate the birth of the Carpenter of Nazareth. While in many Asiatic countries few participate in these cele- brations, there are yet enough so that all peoplPS aro leaning the signift canoe of the ceremony. Then, too, the number of actual partieipents is in- creasing year be year, se, that it takes no great stretch of the imagivation to picture a time when Christmes ()beer- vances will be practically universal. MASTER'S CHARGE (5 OBEYER The charge of the Maet)r to earry His Gospel to all the world has been religiously obeyed, and the prophecy of the thousand years of peace which were to follow close on that consum- mation should be on its way. Of the six continents Olnistianity entirely do- minates four and is rapidly winning its way in the other two. Both North and South Amerce are Christian in every part. The same is true of Australia and the surrounding islands constituting Australasia. All Europa follows the same faith, with the single exception of the southeastern corner belonging to Turkey, and even a considerable part of 'the Turkish Empire, including Armenia, Bulgaria and others of the Balkan states, embraces Christianity, while Christian miasions exist in Tur- key. In Africa, where the British. Govern - Egypt and all South Africa, while France has virtual control of Morocco and other European powers have colo- nies throughout the continent, 'the faith of the Nazarene has a larger following than any other religion. Asia, teeming with its wet Chinese and Hindoo hordes, is emetically the only continent in 'width Christianity is not the dominant faith, and even here it has incalculable political and strate- gical advantages that are rapidly work- ing a transformetion. Siberia, occu- pying nearly half of the entire contin- ent, is ruled by a Christian power. MISSIONARIES WIN THEIR WAY. India, on the south, is under control of England, and the missionaries are .gradually winning their way. Thibet, the stronghold of Buddhism, is under Russian influence and is being in- vaded by England from India. Pal- estine, Syria and Persia contain im- portant Cluestian missions, though as nations they are still under Moslem control. The Boxer uprising was prac- tically the last gasp of She virulent op- position to the advance of efaristiaeity in China. The lesson received from. Europe at that time, the important concemions granted in thet chief poste of • the great Christian powers, the in- vaeion of Mancherim the introd. .otion of the railroad and the ever increasing number of missionaries, all of -these things are gradually working a change ie the Chinese empire. Mission work is rapidly increasing in Corea . Japan has borrowed mos% of her civilization front Christian nations and is seriously ds - cussing the proposition of aaoptleg their religion also. The Philippines belong to the United States, and a considerable portion has been Christianized. Cleristma.s morn in 1008 will there- fore have a meaning to more nations and mote people than auy previous Christmas morn in the history of man- kind. The feet that the day will be celebrated by such widely variant types and hi such widely separated nations gives a pewerfel suggestion of unity in the human race. .And stains upon their souls; Who shudder in their sleep, And walk their ways with trembling hearts, _Afraid to weep; For the childlees mother, Lord, And ab, the little Alla Weeping the mother in her grave, Unreconciled— God of the lonely soul, God of the tomfortlese, For these ,and such as these, I itek Thy teliderness! WhOse sin be greatest, Lord; If each de.serve his lot; /f Oath but reap as he halt own— / rude Theo tiot. I only resk of Thee The marvel of A spaee When these forgot and blind may look Upon thy face. Elia Higgineort, in the Deeember (Christreite) Seribeet. May—Plertee, sir, the ail stove Jute gem out, Master—Well, take ft match and light it again. Mary --Yes, sir; but '"e gone out through the tea—Kansas :is journal. MADE IN CANADA iiigh ,Calf„1111!: ...co* !I AluT 401',cu, (!1:11Cr.i.R4:111uf.: Oracle Guaranteed Chernica ly Pure SOLD IN PACICADES AND CANS Same Price as the poor Adulterated Kinds E. W. GILLETT C(1, LTD. Toon:Nola. Old loIks. Coughs Because Resisting Power le Weak Pneumonia Often F011OWS. Tells of a Sure Cure and a Never -fail. ing Comfort for Colds, Coughs, Catarrh, One of the worst terrore of old age 13 that dietressing chronic cough. Colds settle ou the chest, are wrougly treated with drug -laden and clieet-weakeuing cough syrups, and front year to year the coudi- tion has grown wotee. Formerly the cough went away when fine weather mote, but mew bad weather inakee it woree and fits of rack- ing., tearing, coughing maim life a burden Bemuse you are old is no reason for Wieling with everlasting eough- ing—those terrible chted: troubles and difficult brc'athinogo with th,t;)31.sougltly ., tarrhozime. You simply breathe the healino np. or of Catarrhomove and instantly its rich bal- Klink fumes are carried by yea breath into the tiniest, recesses of the nose, throat, chest, bronchial tubes and lungs.ius direct breathable inede think of it—a eine, full of soothing an- tiseptic pine essences that reaches every sore congested membrane, in in two seconds, No drugs BR LATH b to take—nothing to CATARRHOZONE harm the aged or the infant, because Catarrhozone is the pur- est, eafeet cough, catarrh and cold rem- edy ever devised. Mrs. • M . E, Walford, the wife of a well known grocer in East Sheffield, writes: "Pur three years suffered with a hard rack- ing ceugh and bronchial irritation whioh annoyed me so much at night I could- n't sleep. I tried limey remedies, catarrh tablets, sprays, syrups, etc., but they only helped for a short time, Catarrho- zone brought me wonderful comfort from the first. I inhaled its balsamic fumes every hour or two and am now free from any trace of cold, bronchitis and catarrh. I can go out in all kinds of weather and don't take cold." There is no remedy so certain and safe as Cataerhozone, but being a good Tem- edy it is imitated. Beware of the sub- stitutor. Large Catarrhozone lasts two months, price $1.00; smaller sizes 25c and 50c. All reliable dealers or the. Ca- tarrhozone Co., Kingston, Ont. The Christmas Tree. Every time I see a Christmas tree studded with electric lights, garlands of tinsel gold festooning every branch, and hung with the hundred costly knick- knacks the storekeepers invent year by year "to make trade," until the tree it- self disappears entirely under its bur- den, I have a feeling that fraud has been practiced on the kindly spirit of Yule. Wax candles are the only real thing for a Christmas tree, candles of -wax that mingle their perfume with. that of the burning fir, not the by-pro- duct of some coal -oil or other abomina- tion. What if the boughs do catch fire. "They can be watched, and too many candles are tawdry, anyhow. Also. re& apples, oranges and old-fathionell mime nuoopias made of colored paper, and made at home, look a hundred times bet- ter and fitter in the green; and so do drums and toy trumpets and wald-horns, and a rocking horse reined up in fron that need not have cost $40, or anything like it.—jaeob Riis in the Century. -4, 0 06 CLEAN BREAD, WELL WRAPPED Everyone who makes, handles, buys, sella and eats bread mat realize the great danger from impurities to which bread is subject from the time it leaves the oven until it reaches the mouth of the consumer, 'because of exposure to so frequent, and often careless, handling. Bread Wrappere were first made in Canada by The Eddy Company foe Wm. Feeley, a baker, in Hull, P. Q., with suck satisfactory resulte that they have since been adopted by leading bakers of Ottawa, Montreal, 'Toronto and else- where So that Bread Wrappers are com- ing in'to more general use. From a clean, wholesome, sani.tary point of view, the advantage of bread Wrapped immediately upon being taken from the oven, appeals to every consum- er, as an important move in the direction of pure food. When there are impuritiee in tale water supply of any of our cities, the public immediately demand that the authori- ties do everything at any that to pre- vent contamination, and to stay disease; it seems quite as important that our knead supply should. be as ortreftilly guarded. esgarten ust child, whose Christman joy Will boon 1 If a pretty sweeping -cap, Mamie's in ii.:(b.nd #1::::11.,,idovit_ogstes,toanifetstipr:Ittbilell:totti4.,4114.e.rytiogilig.tb!ot"Iet:atinali,7"2,age4ispit.juatt.tU"ati. earnt the great world'e bent anew 6811111:1;(ttnitIviotiriv,onf.snia.11 daughter being the old, and at the thee of this writing elle is et home aloue with me in the 4. PUTNAM'S PAINLESS: # The Shovel Side A Vora getrecteir. et itever mune, Wesel ne Mr, 0., of Christmas want te put in a plea far the little Little Elizabeth is over two yeara' with our children." Thus only can we to xniniature, were edcled, this gift would y use.. Cure simianterd. eold ta'y Oneeststs If mantes noa eels le harmielie !mouse eompooeu A inaY of healing pine and balms Fifty yearet COF1N EXTRACTOR "Come, let us live with our children." like the apron of a grown.up person. famed saying, "Come, let us work I want to add humbly to that world - be complete. The rreebel whom we all love, says: N s CURED y one e ..er Now, wlutt plays does Ole choose, or choose oftenest without suggestion from anyoao else, when playing alone at lonnee This is what interests ine; and, sitting at my sewing, I like to observe my little one living out her itnpressions of life in her play. In her baby mind her play is not play et all, but work; for many times she will kelt up seriously front it end renuirk, "1 busy, Mamma," thus seelc- lug recognition as a person of useful - nese and importance. Part of Elizabeth's morning play el - ways centres around what she calls her "baby brootn"--a popcorn stalk with a husk at one end. With thie proceeds to "fweep" the floor and the rugs, industriously poking inte the cor- ners and diving under the bed, as she has seen ine du. When this amusement palls, she knows where another delightful plaything hangs on a low wall, It is nothing but an old damp cloth, yet my wee house- maid seizes it with joy, And with it scrubs the window sills or floor, back and forth, a half-hour at a time, until rag and little hands aro grimy enough. During the afternoon, little Elizabeth is kept out of doors as long as the sunshine lasts. I have been interested in notking what most attracts the at- tention of this little girl, as her hand In mine, we travel down the city street, Is she drawn to the gay and beautiful costumes of the elegant ladies we meet? No she is -utterly indifferent to those: The shop windows are very alluring as We pass ou ; yet the baby eyes never seein to sea the rainbow show of dry goods, not even the beautiful baby wear. Little Elizabeth is pleased, to be sure, with the toy store window and its dis- play of dolls and hobby horses. But what is that pleasure to the ecstasy with which she stops in front of a hardware store and utters the two words, "Shub- beNulost, Mevaeunmith3e1"gioups of playing chil- dren have the same fascination for my dainty, white -gowned little maid as have a row of dirty laborers, shovel in hand, digging on the street. After regarding these sons of toil in silent rapture for some time, she spreads wide her arms with a most expressie gesture and ex- claims iu a tone of deepest self -commis- eration, "Not any shubbul, Mamma 1" I have come to the conclusion that the artietic and poetic sense is decided- ly embryonic in very little thildren; hence that beautiful. toys, beautiful books, beautiful clothing can make but little ingression upon their minds; that not even lovely nature herself appeals to the very little child as does hard, coarse, common human labor. God said to man, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread," and the little child comes into the world cheerfully ready to acquiesce in the God- given mandate. Alas, how studiously find systematically do we go to work to eliminate this likewise God-given in- stinct I It is always "Not any shubbul," from the baby times up, if wo can pos- sibly manage it. So uow, • dear mother -reader, I want to ask you, as the busy holiday season comes on, not to spend all your money at the toy counter, nor in baby -wear de- partment, nor among the children's books—beautiful as these may be; nay, As I sat sleeking with Harry Lauder do not even let the kindergarten supply. after dinner on Christmas Day I not - companies get all your spare change! iced he looked rather gitun. "What's But with your purse still unemptied of quite all its contents, descend to the wrong?" I asked. "You don't look hap - nether, gaslit depths of the mysterious wonder -hiding basement regions. There your wandering eye may per- chance light upon the nicest little brooms, designed for real uses but small enough for baby. hands to wield. There, also you may find those de- lightful little washboards, meant for actual grown-up use, but oh, how per- fect for baby's really -truly washing of bibs, handkerchiefs and dusters! Then, too, off in another corner you must look for tins --charming little square tins, round tins, "kitty-corner- ed" tins, not make -believes at all, but things useful in any kitchen. With what satisfaction Miss Baby will pat down pieces of dough in those little pans and clap them into the oven with the family baking! Also small baskets are in order—rrot the fancy, Indian, sweet -scented affairs upstairs, but market baskets of the base - met type, small enough to .hang com- fortably on a baby arm, it is true, but also big enough to carry to the store and hold what the grocer boy forgot to bring for the dint:ter. Look areued further in the basement and you might find the wee -est, daint- iest, darlingest scrubbing brushes, just right for window sills and doorstops. But there!' perhaps I am too radical! :ell:: mechanical calf instead, if you wish—but it will cost you more money and give the wee folk far less pieta Last, but not least, before you leave my Christmas fairyland, the baseineet don't forget --the shovel! For mercy's sake don't try to find those "two -fet- a -cent" trumpery affairs thee amine pany sand pails and are enut4hed in a twinkling. Get a good shovel; sena% of course, but stihstantial enough to ehovel snow and coal with this *win- ter, and t) garden with net summer. Afiether thought: Aro you old- fashioned enough to do a little sew- ing at this happy time of the year, or do you let the department store de all your Christentsing for youP If yu sew, go home, sit down, and hem with red tambour cotton a pair of cheesecloth dusters. Let them e.dorn a Christmari tree and they will make a pair of baby eyes shine. I know a little gild whose Christ. Inas gifts ieeluded Jewelry, furs and dolls but who east all these aside hi. differently when her old grandseather ."Eieree wliere 1 go on the water produced the gift which ehe had pro. wagon." annormeed the milkman AS he vided—a, little print work-eproit with climbed lo his sea. its deepest glow of love end tendorress. 18 the intereots of this dear little child and the approeciting Chrietma3, I have been making a bit of practical child- • 1. A Merry Christmas. (Blanche E. Holt Murison, in Canada - West for December.) A Merry Christmas !—how old the phrase, What millions of times sung; Yet where is the man who would erase The message from any tongue? Where is the heart that does not respond With. quicening throb to this world- wide bond? A bond it is, that from zone to zone Engitcleth the earth with cheer; And never a heart can be alone With the Christmas spirit near: And never a cloud that will not flit, When touched by the soft sweet breath of it. A Merry. Christmas I—the same re- frain lie -sung to the same old theme, Re-echoes mi -down the yeas again, To whisper of love supreme: And to bid th.e world be glad and goy, Because it has got its Chrietmtts- day. o - Locking Out Santa. "'Mother, if Smite Claus come down the ehinthey, he'll Imo to walk through the kitchen, won't ke4" "I suppose he will, dears" "Well, don't you think we'd maybe Wham better lock up the preserveet"— Brooklyn Life, "T am looking for a quiet place to test," staid the theft -looking man. "1 think ire ean promise you all the mill - forts of home," aseured the goobers% hotel eletk. "Not on your lifer es. elaimed the tired -looking mon. "I've been married nine yeas and have hetet eltildren," live with for all children are bora laborers. SMART GLOVES FOR CHRISTMAS. Now,. es always, the glove .is mi standby Christmee gift, Other itoms 111 feminine adorning last for months, and yet others for generations, but gloves aro always going the wey of most things earthly and one's stock constantly requires replenishing. Generally speaking, white gloves are not in the highest favor save with white dresses, or dark dresses with white guipmes er white lace trimmings, or Navollieku derreesssiense, le worn with these same For evening a pastel tone shading in with the drone is the correct thing and these are preferably sof suede. All the equisite tints (the merest tints) in cream, corn, rose, mauve, green, blue and the rest are to be found in le and 20-butto31 lengths (the latter turning the elbow) at $2.75 and $3. All these colors were designed to blend with the modish Persian tints and ade as smart for teas as for full evening dress. That's the story of evening gloves. The great tailor glove novelty is. the oak.color capeskin, with two big pearl buttons on both the short glove (which costs $2) and the 172 -button length, at $3.25. The color, by the way, ie on the apricot tone, the warm yet pale sbade ono sees in autoumn's oak leaves. The short ones show the outseam while the long ones axe pique sewn. The stitch- ing on both sorts. is topped with "crow's feet." The long ones are dressy enough for daytime receptions and the most feshionable promenade wear. Almost in the same class with the short "oaks" are the white bucks, which are, rich, white, ease= beauties at $1.75. They fasten with • one pearl but- ton and are up to any long-sleeved tel. lor wear. English tan shades in a heavy kid, a rather broad cut, are the correct Ordin- ary wear for morning walking in the etahrloto• r siiiilit.theAlcosountfroyr twrietvhelltilnieplaln g. The handserne sorts, among them the Rey- nier elievrette cost $2.25. These gloves are, of course, fine sporting weer for all save those who go in for oddities. In addition to the tans these gloves are to be had in blael_c and white a,nd an exquieitely soft chinchilla gray. Ayik 14 Karats Solid r mu • Gold Shell Rings We will give yon your ohoioe of oueof those beau- tiful rings, guaranteed le karats solid gold shell, plain, engraved, or oat with elegant simulated Jewels, for the sale of boxes only. at Ole. a box, of Dr. Maturin'o Famous Vegetable Pills. They are the greatest remedy for indigestion, constipa- tion, rheumatiem, week or impure blood, catarrh, diseases of the liver and kidneys. When yon have sold these t boxes of pills, /lend us the money $1. and thosizo of the ringdesired and we will send you, your choke of one of thosa handsome Rings, plainen- grayed or set with precious stones. Send your name and address immediately and we will send you, post-paid, the Pills and fancy pins which s.re to give away to purchasers of the pills. We do not ask any money before the pills are sold and we take back what you cannot Nell. Address The Dr. Itirrio”le Mediates Ca. • Ring Dept 409 Torente, Ont. a; repestemermumli CHRISTMAS WITH LAU DER. HARRY PY?" "My boy," he replied, "you clon't know the terrible trouble Pm in." Then he went on to explain. "You know my popularity as a fun - maker.' Well, now, I am the innocent c.s.use of great suffering to thousands. They come to hear me sing, and. laugh till they are lockjawed. At every town visited I leave the hospitals full of lock- jaw patients." "Well, Harry." I said, "you must just stop your tickling." "My boy," he replied. "that's just what I can't do. I have signed con- tracts in advance for years to come. Think of my predica.ment. I tickle the nation till it is loekjaweril I have pro- posed to change my songs, substituting 'Close the Shutters ,Willie's Dead,' Little One That Died,' Old Jeff,' and so on, but the managers say this thane -would only result in the people dislocating their saws with yawning. I have thought of leaving the stage for the pulpit, but there again I fear my eermone would have the same disas- trous result. Every day I fear arrest for being a danger to the public." At this point we were interrupted by the arrival of a policeman. "You see," said Harry, "the blow has fallen." . He was then marched away to dur- anee vile, followed by a crowd of his ad- mirers who had just come out of hos- pital. *• • What Shall Santa Bring? P11 toll you true, my own dolly, Thought yew only a clothespin, dear, You're the SAWootest and lovelleet ettildle I've had for many a year. We've been through a lot together, You and your own mamma, And I feel you're -part of me, roans— Yes, roaby and truly, you ere. And I think though I'd like some more babiee As every true mother shotild I conk' hardly bare for anctlier, (Though she :night be awful good), AS yet 1 care tor my Wiliest daughter, And yet, dear, Christmas is here And I might ask the Christmas angel That cable In a dream lest year, If Santa \Mead bring me it dolly With dresses, red cheeks, red curls, Like the ones he brings every Christine:I To thousands of other nice girls, Hut oh, I can't, ray Own dearest, For Itwould hurt you, X know, it did, Thonah you'd t ve In your deer woodmt body To keen Your feelings well hid. geese we will Just ask the wise! To bring us it tea Set and sleigh; Ate We'll love melt other, deer dolly, Poe ever and ever Idayl t «, 4,20P1 41p4 tia 'rrinISTEMPE AshiP:Ingzsv°4v.„ it Pink Eye' EplzOotler Surocuro end noeitlye PreventiVe, no matter how horses at any age are InIceted et "exposed," Liquid, 'given, en UM tantrum Otta an 05 Blood and Gla ads, eSpele the 061Stit6118 reermetretti the bed 30. 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Tlwre were malty people ;model feathery suowflekes obeettred skeigh, and hie eight reintlee'r were speedeng along as &dotty se fell the etiowelakes, or toys of any kind in his sleighs be - There !ere no done or eke tee •or elm& muse he had post finished filling thf) stockings. • Now he had other work to des $o he gave a low whistle to his reindeer'. and guided them down a narrow street to s. stuble, 'rho hostlers were Weep. Santa Claus glided past them into the etalis •tuel quiekly lengtheued the haltees 01 tiro horses so thee they ould down and reet their tired lege. Theetening fienn stable to stable he went to the bar. nese rooms and let out the checkreins, and took away sotne of the gruel bite, leaving other bite in their place. He put sugar and apples into the umegera, and Ito gave a double quantity of apples to the docked horses, at the same time saying: "Poor ereateres I'm going to put a stop to this eniel 'lewdness of cut- ting off your beautiful tails," Then, jurnping into his sleigh, he drove to another part of the city, where he found. lame areel sick horses, Taking off his far mittens he rubbed the poor ani. nials' stiff and (telling legs with liniment, and filled the empty mangers with hay and oats, awl in a jiffy he mended. all the loose blinders he could find. In an old tumble-down shed he spied a galled mule shivering with the cold. Quick as a flash Santa Claus put a blanket on the half -frozen animal, gave it a bundle ef ben and nailed boatels over the holes 14 the shed place to place he threw a blanket over As this good-heerted friend rode from eveaw horse that stool exposed to the snow storm in the streets, and he threw food to all the stray cats en•d does, In every house he nye sod and water to the negleeter'd caearks, fresh water to the goltlfish The sparrows roosting t of the buildings, and the doves on the church towe heads from under their this merry old elf flying as he threw a shower birds, and in the twinkli out of Seigilhthe fled to the yards, where he surprised horses with apples and s cattle and sheep with el kine and a supply of rock pigs be • gave long ears of y and he flung a shower of gra hens, (leeks, turkeys, geese and Having finished his Christmas r witit the domestic animals, Santa gay long, shrill Nvhistle, and away he spe to the woods, where lie found the owls wide awake, watching for him. "Merry Christmas, my wise friends," cried Santa, tossing packap,es of meat u) into the titit-who,.eesa merry Christmas to vou," sane beck the owls from far and "Saat..nta had been very shy while. inetkee city and around the fannyterg—learA• when he reached the woods he felt per- fectly at. home. There many animals were waiting for him. The woods were all aglare with bright eyes, watching for the jolly little man and his reindeer. There was ti. rustling of little feet, and suddenly a troop of rabbits and wood- ' cirueks appeared close up to Santa • Clans' sleigh, standing on their hind legs Lo receive heads of cabbage and celery. The squirrels and chipmunks were fast Id Santa dropped nuts into the hollow ItilstelentTio be out of their nests...Bite-kind. trees. a . happy animals. the weather being too. eold for surprise for the little All the birds were ready for their Christmas dinner, nor did Santa Claus even forget the wild bees. They all wished Santa a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. ' What Woman Art Thou? What woman art thou in the churchyttiel here, Alone in the even gloom? 0, 1 am a woman full of sin, And I lie by my small babe' e tomb. But what woman net thou by a tomb that was filled Full long and long ago? 0, my heart it dies for nty small babe's. eyes, And I am spent with my woe. But why are you weeping here alone By a tomb so old and small? 0, 'tis many a year since they laid him here, And in sin I have spent them all. But what women art thou that smilest now Through tears of thy misery? 0, my small babe's eyes have come out of the skiee, And he smileth down at me. Hie hands they were pink as the meadow rose, Blue are his eyes like the sea; And his face is bright like the morn- ing light With the love lie beareth me. But what woman art thou that weepest 11•CAV? And why are ye weepingUow? (:), his blue eyes see in their purity The sin -stains on my brow. He dwelleth in God's dwelling -place, Where but the pure go in; And God shall see the steins on me, And turn me Away for my sin. 13u1 what woman art thou that smikst note, Dead on the cold, cold sod.? 13, a babe from the skies filled. her heart with his eyes, And she's gone away mire to God, —E. M. Yeoman, in the Christmas Cana- dian Magazine. 4 • 40, His Christmas Gift. Whet Santa. Men shall find you, Sweetheart on Christmas Day, These roses shall renlind you It, their -aluring 'why Of ene who knOws how kind YOU To flowers and friends can bo. Dear fierier and friend, Read this and Mid An answer bait to me; These erintsen hearts of beauty With love's (flack remotes beat, These fragrant .1111s Velentes tender words repent; Delight, desire and duty— They win theni all in yeti. Ali, Mien well And hear them tell Their were% sweet and tree: Their fre/lt 4114 Mining faces knoll your smiles tlt•OVO; 111 their ribbente plesee, TI.eir Only dream la love; f1.1,1 11 311y semen treeee neves pathway, net by nee; 'Po ens red rose *Your heart disclose, And tot that rese be Mies: . -Plonk De:tipster Sberinan, in auniky Mag - At Guthrie, Oklahoma, Governor Close. X. lin shell Was TAM' With au 1gerevat. sd iitttitek of indigestion, tind are 111 ettenderice et hie betleitl?. Tlie enfferinge are intensi‘, mil his condition eamos pima' nlarm.