The SAND SKATES FOR CHRISTMAS FF ALL the things that Bobby vanted or had ever wanted or would wunt, skates were at the head of the list. He had had a palr several years, out they were the kind which he had to strap on nis boots, and they came off just when he wanted to go fast, and they never helped In the least. Some of the boys had been given skates the year before and It really made them skate faster and better. Yes, Bobby wanted skates, or rath- er he wanted skates and boots. He wanted the skates that would be fastened on the boots. Then he could play hockey. quite sure of that. So long, long before Christmas he He felt Long Before Christmas He Wrote a Letter to Santa. wrote a letter to Santa Claus, and this is what he said: “Dear Mr. Santa Claus: “My name is Bobby, and 1 live at 52 Elm street. It is the street be- tween Chestnut and Oak, “We have a great many trees in our town, and lots of the streets are named after them. We have flowers, too, and one street is named Geranium street. “But there aren't any flowers now, and there aren't any leaves on the trees, or anything. “lI don't mind you? “l think trees and flowers are all right, but you can't have them and winter, too, and winter is too nice to miss. “That is If one has nice skates. “And now [I'm getting to the point of my letter, “1 have horrid skates. They won't stay on or anything, and If I try to that, though. Do 00000 HOOO00 ' fod go after another fellow a skate comes off, and first thing you know, Santa, he has made a goal. “1 would give unything for a good palr of skates—ones that come on boots. You know the kind. You gave them to Billy last year. But I'm his age this year, and I'm hoping you'll be so kind as to give them to me, “If you want to know about lessons and all that stuff, 1 got good marks on the whole, One or two weren't much, but you wouldn't expect them all to be good, would yon? “But the skates would be fine, And when | made a goal I'd think of you. 1 don't want anything else at all—1 mean If | can have the skates. I hope it will be all right with you and that you have a pair to spare. 1 hope you have a good Christmas and a nice plum pudding. Do you eat plum pud- ding, too? “Maybe you don't get back in time, But perhaps they save you some, 1 should think you'd have a whale of an appetite going over the country as you do and out in the cold and all. “lI hope we have ice for Christmas -that is, of course—well, you know what 1 mean. “But a cold Christmas is great, isn't it, Santa? | like the cold weather, and I bet you do, too. You never stayed away from our house even three years ago when the thermometer went way, way below zero and the pipes froze. “And the plumber was having his Christmas, or trying to, when every one telephoned him and begged him to come to their house first. 1 felt sorry for him and I gave him one of those big oranges you had put in the toe of my stocking: They were fine oranges, too, “Well, I must close, as maybe ['ve written too much already. “Your loving friend, “BOBBY.” as he too, “There,” sald Santa Claus, read the letter, “I knew when | was fixing up the skates-and boots list that some one else would want them for Christmas. “I've got the pair for Bobby. 1 hope he wins plenty of gonls, and won't it be fun if he thinks of me once In awhile when he's out in the crisp, cold alr, skating over the smooth ice! “It looks as though there'd be ice in his part of the world for Christmas, too. “Yes, it looks very much that way.” And Santa chuckled as he wrapped up a tine pair of skates and boots for Bobby. (Copyright) How It Started By JEAN NEWTON Why We Do by M. K. THOMSON, Ph. D. OQOOOOOO0000000L ‘ON A WILD-GOOSE CHASE’ SEARCH for something that can- not be found, a useless effort, an impossible cause, a hunt for something that will probably not be attained, is spoken of as “a wild goose chase” The reference of the elusiveness of success in a chase of the wild goose, is, of course, obvious. But there is more than that to the story of the phrase, The modern phrase “on a wild goose chase” owes its origin to a story told of that skillful sportsman, Charles | of England. Charles liked his hunt. ing, and according to the story, a sim: fiar fondness on the part of the nobles sometimes interfered with his enjoy. ment. It irritated the King, on the trail of his quarry, to find other hunt. ing parties beating through the wood and sometimes crossing his path, On one occasion when he was par ticularly desirous of getting rid of them, an idea came to him. He pub lished among the nobles an offer of fn prize to the one who could capture the greatest number of wild geese. Off they went to the seashore, and the king had the woods to himself! And so though the object Is not It erally wild geese, a not unfamiliar method of getting rid of a nulsance today is to send her “on a wild goose chase.” {Capssianty (@ by McClure Newspaper Syndfeate.) msn Abundantly Financed Historic records show that Aristotle was rich in his own right and had an appropriation from Alexander the Great amounting to more than $4,000, O00 to devote to research work and Intellectual pursuits. 000000 CORIOOIOORORROORROYS WHY WE FIND FAULT \ JE FIND fault because we don't want to pay. The pay may consist of actual eash, recognition of superiority on the part of another, or an apology. All of these come hard and we prefer to find fault as a means of getting out of paying. If you are too enthusiastic In your praise of the good job the plumber does for you he is likely to ralse his price a little or slight his Job. Con: tractors find that If they appear to show too much appreciation all sorts of demands are likely to be made for extras on the assumption that they are making a lot of money. It seems to be the wise policy to grumble a lit. tie. Criticize the job and the plumber will be giad to get a fair price. Give the impression that you are losing money on your contract and the other fellow is more likely to be reasonable in the thought that he has «driven a sharp bargain and is getting some thing for nothing. Football coaches practice the strat- egy of underestimating the ability of their team to guard against over. confidence and unfaithfulness In train. ing. We find fault partly because we think we get more for our money, We find fault also becnuse we hate to give 1 the other fellow credit. Finding fault Is one way of discrediting another per. son and raising “ourselves by com. parison, The fault-finder Is a critic and the eritic assumes the superior role. At least he feels more important to himself by this practice, We find fault frequently to cover up a mistake of our own. [It Is a means of shifting the blame to somebody else, An apology Is humiliating. Faultfinding and shifting the blame is a means of bulldozing. Not infrequently genuine dlssatis- faction and disagreement with the views or methods of others ieads us to find fault, Finding fault is a common practice. With some It Is a matter of getting out of paying something, with others it Is a chronic attitude—a matter of habit and temperament. (@ by McClure Newspaper Byndicats,) sess) Citizen's Duty The whole duty of citizenship 1s to care most for the things that are most worth caring for, and to care least for the things that are least worth caring for.~Prof, John McCann, Gloria Swanson QP pp ppp ppp pp PLY Gloria Swanson’s siaging and talk. ing voice recently was heard for the first time oyer the radio, over a coast. to.coast hookup, She sang songs ren. dered by her in “The Trespasser,” her first all-talking picture. mses Posamscsn SOONONONOOON OO OUONOOUOONNG | For Meditation By LEONARD A. BARRETT COCOO0 A TRUE STORY YOUNG man walked Into the A office of the president of one of our schools of technology carrying a bundle under bis arm. Upon placing it on the table, he inquired if all the windows were shut and the doors locked. Being assured that this the proceeded, with care, to his precious which represented many years of hard work and the expenditure of all the money he pos sessed. The pres! the recognized ‘he WAN great . bundle case, he open dent of school at that presented wis a very im. portant invention in the field of elec trical engineering He in- viting into the econ. ference the head of in the school, but was immediately re proached by the soung man with words, “No this Is mine, can yeolf once article to him suggested the department L. A. Barrett no ohe ever have It but m After meditating on the advice given him by the president of the school the man ret This ti the windows were permitted to be opened and the doors unlocked. The head of urned, me He of rare merit factured nd put to popular use wot be of practical value, The young ventor sas persuaded to trust ‘to others his Invention with the result that before many months he had the satisfaction of seeing the product of his skill made In large auantities, and from which he received a rorailty which proved to be a substantial In. come, ! This true story suggests an Inter | esting paradox. The only way we can have anything is to first give it away. If the young man had decided to keep his invention all to himself he might still have It wrapped up In a bundle and still be carrying i* under his arm: but when he was willing to let the public have It he received his reward, When we keep to ourselves whatever we possess, we lose if, and when we give it away, It is returned to us many fold more, This rule holds true in the field of human virtues as well as in economie values, We possess whatever we give awny; we lose whatever we (ry to keep. (Es 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) recognized that It was it could be mann aid in set 1 and | GABBY GERTIE ——— “When a girl has a heavy date she may be said to lean toward obesity in the days of yore the Puritan maiden served the Thanksgiving turkey just bons of mocdro maidens will do it this year Leading Cereal Crops Let us set gantie out to visualize the gi of our crops, that we may the belier appreciate the rea for thankful Start with carn, wheat, and oats, the th lead proportions san hearts, ree ing cerenl crops, providing foods - ¥ - man an and city slike, d beast, prosperity for country Manhattan York city stands, of {hese island, on which New wi 8 Khouls ’ nnd surfa three inre miles I we eiapty nrgest i gathered grain would cover the island th of 120 under ten stories would be buried be Ta! feet—eversthing to a deg ng neath the avalanche of breadstu Or, let gether and would us suppose we lumped it to Make a bin, If you three great cereal rer please, our fin a cubic mile If It were ret half mile would tower seven times as high ng the Woolworth the bin would be twenty city blocks long by blocks wide, To grow the wheut required a feild as large ns nail New York state, and billions of bushels of corn were grown on a field York, New England, Scotland. Ireland Wales And so on nature bas can country folks crops n titantic sure one-half in dimensions, cuble up on Broadway, this building, and ten alone of ns large as New with and column, Amer a far dif down the Kine Surely, right been most to ferent situation confronts us than that which faced the fathers of T} ing against that harvest, and we should the better ap preciate for our thankful — Earl W. Gage, in the Michigan Farmer, ikugiv Contrast this first the reason nous CHAMPIONS BOTH Expressing Our Gratitude Gratitude must have an object. It must recognize the source of the debt, It must express a feeling toward some. thing exterior to itself, If our favored position and condition are due to our own efforts then we owe nothing, have fio reason for gratitude, and there is no object to which thankfulness ean be directed. Or If this Is a material world and nothing else, if life is mere ly a mechanical process, there is noth ing outside of ourselves to which we should be grateful. And if we are ma: chines, automatons moving about In rigid obedience to physical stimuli, any sense of gratitude to anything, or for anything, is only a mechanical reac tion that has neither meaning nor value.~ Exchange, Cause for Thanks Lord, thou bast given me a cell Wherein to dwell; te hotse, whose humble roof iit jifl i | Thanksgiving the bounteous harvests thaaks may be For given, For the purpose of owr day thanks may be given, Our abundance is amazing. Our grain snd oll and go'd run inte billions. The physical impossibilities of yesterday wre the accepted facts of today, We sail under the water and into tar alr in ships In 8 material sense we have wrought pro. A billion-dollar trust is an ephe. meral thing compared with the creed of de mocracy Likes flux, that has resolved unnumbered men of scores of cone flicting races into the type of manhood hall- marked Amorican. digiously a wizards creed Idea of Thanksgiving Inherent in All Ages This brings the day we dedi cate to turkey, cranberry sauce, foot. ball, and the giving of thanks. Per. haps the matter of giving thanks has been permitted to slip a little into the what Week background. It may be histo. rians would eall a trend of the Well, there is sound for this mingling of foothall prayer. The humanities, If youn can call them that, times, precedent and have always intruded upon days of devotion When Pope Gregory IL a man Augu Anglo-Saxons, he Curistian festival ench heathen feast, But, he Instructed his much In the pagan manner of celebration must be allowed to remain, “to the end that, whilst some gratifications are outwardly per mitted them, they may the more eas sensible convert the that substituted sent tine to some for directed he missionaries, of the Grace of God” By we the Yule log, various diverting Easter cus- other pleasant practices such tolerances have toms, find that in the beginning were not Chris nt all Thanksgiving background, There Is mixed dis- Man hag =n nothing too, tinctively American in it ha niways had the habit, HARD TO UNDERSTAND “You say Jock couldn't play the Thanksgive “Yes! “Hub! He flunked in economics.” the world.™ November Fields November fields le brown and sere Beneath » bieak, gray sky But Lame records another year In centuries gome by When pilgrims knelt in silent prayer Of thanks for harvests yield, And blessed the soil that was so bare in a November field November fields were red with blood Beneath dark clouds of war; Then came a calm o'er Flanders mud Stilled was the cannon’s rear. Grimm men bowed heads in silent prayer And sores of bate were healed, When bope was born from out despair Service to Humanity dering homage for the blessings which have come to us, we should earnesily testify our continued and increasing means of helping and serving, ns best Warren G, Harding, ‘m thankful for my dad, & 0 For my good friends and kindred I'm thankful for my lessons : Ret ound dst ach di d [ hape TU more thankful, Unnumbered Blessings Once in a while, it may do us good to be thankful, not so much for the particular fortune that has come to us ns individuals, as for the general blessings that are showered down im. partially on all of us. Sunshine, moon rise, the feel of rain on one's face} the sight and the scent of earth, green in the spring. dun.conted in the fall; the sound of birds In the morning, the sight of young stock gamboling In pas ture these come even to the poorest, Let us be thankful.—-Wallace's Farmer, neglect a COLL ISTRESSING cold in chest or throat —that so often leads to something serious—generally responds to good old Musterole with the first ap plication. Should be more effective if used once every hour for five hours. Working like the trained hands of a masseur, this famous blend of wil of mustard, camphor, menthol and other belpful ingredients brings 1elief watur- ally. It penetrates and stumulates blood circulation, helps 10 draw out infection and pain. Used by millions for 20 years, Recommended by doctors and nurses, Keep Musterole handy —jars and tubes, To Mothers—Musterols is also snade in milder form for babies and small children. Ask jor Chile dren's Musterole, Rough on the Farmer Topkin-—Recently & biplane was used to pull a plow, Popkin—And 1 know what the farm- er said: “By heck, I never took jumps to hold in rindle call,"—8t Louis Globe. a rod long since 1 tried that b Democrat, Yellow n is never streak In a ma + staken for a heart of go of digestive difi- acid, cannot and it burns the The common culties Is excess alter this condition, stomach, Som ng that will nen tralize the 3 the sensible thing to take, That is why physicians tell the public to use Phillips Milk of Magnesia, One spoonful of this delightful prep- aration can neutral any times its in acid. It acts instantly: re. lef is quick, and very apparent, All gas is dispelled; all is soon gone : the whole m is sweetened, Do try this perfect anti-acld, and re- member it Is just as good for children, too, and pleasant for them to take, Any drug store has the genuine, pre- scriptional product. PHILLIPS Cause Soda acidity Is ize n volume EOUTrNess yet So It Seems Ida—Fashions may come and fash. lons may go, but there's always a de- mand for cosmetics, June—Yes. Woman can't go wan forever—Pathfinder Magazine, My business is to teach my aspira. tions to conform themselves to fact, pot to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.—Huxley. Bpringheld, 0, minator, Alld as much) $2.00, you. K-R-O Co., Kt R KILLS-RATS-ONLY Health Giving mmsihhin All Winter Long Marveloos Climate «= Good Hotels = ampeSplendid RoadsGorgeous Views. The wonderful desert resortof the Write Creo & Chaffey alm Spring CALIFORNIA bis enon W. N. U, BALTIMORE, NO, 47-1929,
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