If Grandpapa were Santa Claus, When toyshop toil was finished He'd tell us all his secrets and how happy we would be! he would take us on each knee. he'd name the preity toys We have a real, live Grandpapa ! And he is quite a bosom friend o He visits us each year, f Santa Claus, | hear. If Grandpapa were Santa Claus, EMOTIONAL VALUE OF DAY Christmas Spirit Almost Universally | Felt, But What It Is Remains a Mystery to Many. - The emotional value of Christmas | may be sald to be universally felt. | Something happens at Christmas that, | it only for a day or two, does the | whole world good. What that some | thing is remains for many a mystery, | A number of persons who feel the renewing impulse are like Faust when | the notes of the Easter song arrest | his suicidal intent; they take and en-| joy the moment's deliverance and con- tinue to regard the source of the boon as nothing more than mythology made | potent through human associations. | Others are moved through superst!. | tious fears; they approach the great! season with consciences crowded with | uncomfortable memories; Marley's | ghost is after them, but. unlike | Scrooge, their new heart is only for Christmas week. Another group sim- ply fall in with an ancient custom | and are surprised, and indeed pleased, | ing minds come together, take on flesh, and begin to live. A vast mul titude meet the great day with buoy ant expectation, take with thanks its new happiness, return to thelr work in this exalted mood, and ask no ques tions about cause and effect. A few philosophize on the phenomenon, and they are willing to stake their lives on the substantial truth of their in sight—George A, Gordon, in Atlantic Monthly. A —————————————————— we could not love him more! GENE MORGAN, NS in Holiday Fire Caution Do netpermit children to light candles, Do not leave matches within reach of the children, Do not place Christmas tree near window curtains or gas fixtures, Use metallic tinsel and non-infiam- mable decorations only. Use asbestosfiber to represent snow. Set the tree upon a substantial stand. A house of merriment is better than a house of mourning. Have an extinguisher or a few buckets full of water near the tree, ready for use in an emer. gency. ————————————— ee — When and Why. “Do you go to Sunday school now] Georgie?” inquired Georgie's uncle. “Yep; Christmas is comin!” “Don’t you go except just before Christmas?” “Yep: I go just before the summer plenie, too.” RR Xe etna Lr in Druidical Religious Festivals. iis, a Belief Which Still Exists in Some of the Remote Places of Europe. our iu mist] time but tae histor symbol kis deal of fun and Apropo of it, but think of how is or bho thought to be every bod? HAS Druids of E£ decorate } sprays of etoe at Christ ¢ £1 mas i . Vy Know (a 5 Y ulet -r gi a great i carried on to ri ar: NOT Ke that the to do with the g In both gathering a sacred “Natural ony. Speaking o worship of the oak that whatever grows trees is sent from heaven that the tree god himself ve to be met it is found they { ceremony. This they do especially on | the sixth day of the moon, because the sixth day the m has n un haif its course “After the preparations have for a sacrifice and a feast o as the Christmas tivals the Tr Was his cerem rite History | Druids’ he says They believe | these and | | a sign has be { by the Th - y er wie hy ry rarely with, gather it with solemr oon has P gor and 1 itn ad ¢ they hall it univers: nd bring hose horns have n A priest clad in white been a white to the spot wy Byer ST ore imbs the ; the mistletos caught in a white cloth sacrifice the victims, pr may make his with those upon whom stowed it “They ’ . irom Luts Then t} aying that God to prosper he ey own gift has believe that a pared mistie will increase their flocks that the plant {3 a remedy against all poison.” It was believed to be a remedy many ills, and this bellef is found in many remote places in Eu- rope. Ino Holstein, for example, the mistletoe is regarded as a healing remedy for wounds, and in Lacaune, it is always administered by potion pre- toa di and for poison. In the northeast of Scotland people used to cut withes of mistletoe at the March full moon; these they bent in circles and kept for a year to cure hee tic fevers and other troubles. In some parts of Germany the mistletoe is es- pecially esteemed as a remedy for the ailments of children, who sometimes wear it hung around the neck as an amulet In Sweden on Midsummer eve mis- tletoe is diligently sought after, the people believing it to be possessed of many mystic qualities, and that if a sprig of it is attached to the ceiling of the dwelling house, the horse's stall or the cow's crib, the trolls will then be powerless to injure either man or beast. Pranches of the plant are com. monly seen in farm houses hanging from the ceiling to protect the dwell: ings from all harm, but especially from fire, and persons afflicted with the fall ing sickness think they can ward off all attacks of the malady hy carrying about with them a knife which has a handle of mistletoe, Like thelr Swedish neighbors, many toe a powerful charm against evil spir its, A similar belief seems to have lingered among the Romans, whose re. ligion at a very early date was some what similar to that of the Druids, When Aeneas descended into Hades he gathered to protect himself from the infernsl powers a branch of mistletoo, which Vergil calls the golden bough. J \F a dat hit so, En dey countin dey know, dey talk » ter bring, "Twell dev net en sing I tell ‘en come Wid a doll drum En dey dri’ off ter sleep wid a smile dey face. En dey aln' not a cent place! En up En w'y aho' 'n & sled en a rallrcad en I kin spaih in de Hit's de las’ thing T heal when 1 4 de light “Ia ‘ee comin’ ternight, ternight *™ I laughs wid dem whut dey do Wid de things dat he’ hit’s all true’ En de white chillun up dey ‘low at ale Banty he'll Te ‘en nohow ‘e comin’ hit "ud be Dat he's com hivul In out mammy? Comin’ Fn all w'en dey plan il bring-—en 1 say whah I's wukin', me, en won't miss mes “Is terni Lawd, T wisht =n fix up dis ‘poblem g— become as on I Except ye | tittle child ye shall in no wise enter into the joy of Christmas time. The Christmas Robin. In many parts of England the robin is associated with Christmas-tide. There is a belief that on Christmas eve theso birds will sing near a house where a person is dying, to cheer him. WHAT YOU GAN Se Helpful Christmas Present Sug gestions for Those Who Are Puzzled. Unabridged Dictionary Will Be Appre ciated by Children of Kindergarten Age—Qther Suitable Gifts for Young and Old. of pr nt of the germs bes and man; he long word Hed and the { and see wi} tis In the | rather do this In is nothing Prof. T. L { trum Caught On in Saturn.’ { highly original historical tale tells | how the spectrum revealed the secret of Saturn's rings, showing that the | planet wa® warm and dry and that the | two rings were for ice water. It | comes in four large volumes, with 22 | Pages of logarithmic calculations that are gure to delight young and old | hat the line of pure there entertaining “How the romance » yy more irom Escopex's Spec As a gift book for a member of a temperature family pleasanter than keeper.” there is nothing “The Complete Nar- mouths to steal away their brains, and will he of valuable assist nee to any person who wishes to apply sat- isfactory tests and determine whether | or not he has been equipped with | brains and would inspire larceny “One Thousand Ways to Cure a Cold,” by Burton Dales, is a beautiful. ly written book, giving all the reme dies for cold that were suggested to its author in one day. There are 89 variations of the quinine and whisky | treatment, and the other 911 reme dies consist of the same prescription { without the uitter quinine. This is i a good book to have in any house. | awer” will deceive many people, but | it might do for a gift to a young mar ried couple, The answer is quaintly given: “Board” WILBUR D. NESBITT. “They are to be Tred on Chiat mas day.” “Would you call that ‘Yuletied? dt a dl a Ad ANI AlN NPP VALUE OF A CHILD'S GIFTS Those Made With Own Hands Teach Good Lesson Give Inspiration. Their “ ang think giving we 112 the giver elves stop to “Can you suggest gomething for me to get for my wife for Christmas? fie asked of the shopkeeper “You'd better get her a box of cigars, 1 expect,” sald the shopkeaper. “She was in here this morning aad bought a lace parasol for you" MORE SLIPPERS COMING. ————— “The time is at hand,” said the preacher, With wrath showing plain on each Tonle or, “When silppors wil be : Showered dows upon me ’ By every feminine crcncher™
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