i Thursday, December 18th, 1913. AN OLD TIME CHRISTMAS. HE damsel donned her kirtle sheen. The hall was dressed with holly green. Forth to the wood did marry men # gO gather in the mistletoe. n opened wide the baron's hall vassal, tenant, serf and all er laid his rod of rule aside, i ceremony doffed his pride. heir, with roses in his shoes, lt night might village partner chuse; lord underogating share vulgar game of post and palr. balled with uncontrolled delight i general voice the happy night t to the cottage as the crown bught tidings of salvation down. fire with well dried logs supplied nt roaring up the chimney wide. huge hall table's oaken face, bbed till it shone, the day to grace, then upon its massive board mark to part the squire and lord. n was brought in the lusty brawn old blue coated serving man; \ n the grim boar's head frowned on high, ed with bay and rosemary. Il can the green garbed ranger tell 'w, when and where the monster fell; hat dogs before his death he tore hd all the baiting of the boar. e wassall round In good brown bowls, hed with ribbons, blithely trowls. the huge sicloin reeked; hard by um porridge stood and Christmas ple. failed old Scotland to produce such high tide her savory goose. n came the merry maskers In hd carols roared with blithesome din, unmelodious was the song was a hearty note and strong. ho lists may in thelr mumming see of ancient mystery. hite shirts supplied the masquerade, nd smutted cheeks the visors made. t, oh, what maskers richly dight n beast of bosoms half so light? nd was merry England when 4 Christmas brought his sports again Christmas broached the mightiest ale; Christmas told the merriest tale. Christmas gambol oft would cheer he poor man's heart through half the year. \ ~S8ir Walter Scott, AN UNORTHODOX CHRISTMAS WENT to spend the day with Rose, and then A Christmas greeting passed between us two, "twas not “Peace on earth, good will to men.’ We only sald: d'ye do?” “Good morning!” “How ND then to her [ offered smilingly The present she expected me to bring j were no hanging hose, no Christ. J mas tree. The box was tied In paper with a string. didn’t blaze We just turned on the radiators steam. i dinner, unlike those of storied days, ' Gave no plum pudding, but some bisque ice cream. AE sit beside the Yule log's didn't hear the church bells’ solemn toll, And when we bad our Christmas even- ing lunch We didn't have a steaming wassall bowl, But just a jug of simple claret punch \/ ! \ trampled on traditions, I suppose, Yet one rite we observed with care | but, no; Although [ well remember kissing Rose, It wasn't under the mistletoe. - Life A WONDERFUL TREE. HERE'S a wonderful tree, a won derful tree The happy children rejoice to ses, Spreading its branches year by year It comes from the forest to flourish here Oh, this wonderful tree, with Its branches wide, Is always, is always bloomin mastide! “hrist But not for us children did this tree grow With its strange, sweet fruit eaoh laden bough For those we love we care Bach pretty thing you see hanging there May this wonderful tree, with its branches wide, Bring joy tide! on have made with to our friends at Christmas For a voice is telling its boughs among Of the shepherds’ watch and the angels song, Of a holy babe In the manger low The beautiful story of long ago, When a radiant star threw its beams 0 wide To herald the blessed first Christmastide Then spread thy branches, wonderful tree, And bring the pleasant thought to me Of him who came from his home above, The richest gift of his Father's love He came to show us how to spread far and wide The joys of the holy, tide ~"Songs and Games For Little Ones.” sweet Christmas HAT shall I send you for Christmas, dear? What can a penniless rimester send But the wish that when skies are filled with gloom For you blithe April buds may bloom And that every throb of the heart of you May whisper of days when the skies were blue? i What shall sweet? What can a friendless minstrel send But the prayer that when days drag drear and long Your heart will sing snatches of sweetest song And that every flake of the Yuletide's | mow May cpeak of the dreams of the long ago?! What shall 1 send you for Christmas, my own? What can a lonely bardling send But the wish that when life grows dark and chill The roses of summer may bloom for you still i And in moods when the fond old dreams still cling to you i That the birds may return, my sweet, and sing to you? | «Irving Dillon In Life I send you for Christmas Advance Information, “Was it a cane of love at first sight? “They call It that, although before | they met she had heard that he was wealthy, and be had been told she was an heiress.” - Detroit Free Press | ! | | | Enough Said. She—Do you know Mr. Boreleigh the author? He-No. But | have # nodding acquaintance with his works «Boston Transcript. A man of honor never purchases happiness at the expense of another's Sorrow. i ——————— i" y poem and thought it | about 2 shillings of our money | Hill in the Imprint, | of old books with | fire | good annuity | lining years THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, The Finding of Omar. It was the late Mr. Bernard Qua- ritch's father who published FitzGer- ald’'s “Omar,” and, finding that the thing didn't sell, he relegated it to the penny box. Its subsequent success was due to a fortunate accident. Two friends of Rossetti came across the worth reading. Rossetti read it and recommended It to Swinburne. What followed SBwin- burne has himself told. “Having read it,” he writes, “Rossettl and I invested upward of sixpence aplece—or possi bly threepence; I would not wish to ex. aggerate our extravagance-—in copies at that not exorbitant price. Next day we thought we might get some more for presents among our friends, but the man at the stall asked two- pence! Rossetti expostulated with him in terms of such humorously indignant remonstrance as none but he could ever have commanded. We took a few and left him. In a week or two, If 1 am not much mistaken, the remaining coples were sold at a guinea, I have since * * * seen coples offered for still more absurd prices. I kept my penny- worth (the tidiest of the lot) and have it still.”—London Chronicle. Twelfth Century Football. In the twelfth century football in England was a game for the streets. The chronicler of that period tells how after dinner the city youths “address. ed themselves to football,” and how the scholars of each school and the apprentices of particular trades would each have their peculiar ball. There were spectators, too, In those days— enthusiastic spectators. Fathers would come to watch their sons and “become as youthful as the youngest, thelr nat- ural heat seeming to be revived at the sight of so much ability.” In later years one recalls a famous ball game played In Hyde park. In 1654, then. “there was a hurling of a great ball by fifty Cornish gentlemen on one side and fifty on the other. One party played In red caps, the other in white.” And-—here the historical value of the contest—Cromwell was a spec- tator and applauded the “great agility of body" displayed. Aldine Editions. The introduction of the sloping Ro. man letters which are known to every- body as italics was made by Aldus Manotius of Venice in the latter part of the fifteenth century. He was the most famous printer of Italy and per haps of the world. The books he printed, known as Aldine editions, are much sought after by collectors. His first volume In the new type was a Yergil published in 1501 at the price of Al dus, In fact. was the pioneer of cheap literature. The Aldine mark is a dolphin twined about an with the name “Aldys.” If any reader, says Mr. J. A finds a cartioad anchor : | this mark In his | | attic or Inmber room, he is duly ad- | | vised not to use them for lighting the | | They would probably buy him a | for the solace of his de | How Koreans Advertise. Although the Korean has stubbornly refused to adopt western ideas, he has always recognized the value of adver. | tisement When a Korean nl pew shop or has any particular wares he Is anxious nobleman desires to opens to dispose of or when a | a certain | plece of intelligence to the people he seeks the services of the sandwich men In the Hermit Kingdom, ever, these men do not carry boards upon which the desired Information is made known to all and sundry, but re sort to the of picturesque flags, upon which the announcement is inscribed Anything from one to a dozen flags may be requisitioned, and these are carried through the streets by boys and men, forming a pictur | esque moving advertisement. — Wide World Magazine Not His Fault, i belonging to the | onvey how medinom One of the women Mothers’ club at the settlement house | came to excuse herself from the meet ing with her face swollen and highly discolored hiding It with a shawl, and she explained earnestly: | “He wounidn't have done it for any thing not for a hundred dollars. But he wasn't himself, and | sald some thing that crossed him it, but he's sorry. 1 black awful easy, | anyway.” Everybody's Sunstroke. She was Bunstroke 1s caused by Invisible vio | let rays from the sun and not by heat. | The temperature to which stokers on | Atlantic Miners are exposed is far high- | er than the heat from the sun in the | most tropical countries, yet the men | are not affected In the same manner Woman's Two Ages. Joax say anything about woman. Hoax ages of woman? Joax~The age she | says she is and the age she really Is.~ Philadelphia Record Husband and Wife, Husband means house bound; wife weaving one; son Is the cleaner; dangh ter is the milker: spinster Is the un married sister of husband or wife, who is the spinner Sootiand's Grouse Moors. There are some 3.000 grouse Moors in Beotiand alone that are regularly let by their owners at an annual rental of about £1,000.000. Always to think the worst, 1 have ever found to be the mark of a mean spirit and a base soul. Bolingbroke, Then he done | Shakespeare told us all about the seven ages of man, but he didn't | the two ages of | And what are the two | Insects That Walk en Water, Insects that walk on the water by means of pneumatic floats are the fa- miliar water and the pond skater spi der. Not many people know why they can walk on the water. The pond skater really walks on pneumatie floats, There are tiny hairs on the feet of this insect, so fine that they cannot be seen, that are arranged to collect alr. The amount collected in and about these hairs is sufficient to allow the Insect to float or walk upon the surface of the water. As each foot is put down it forms a cuplike depres sion or tiny pit in the water, The foot does not sink because the air bubble that has been formed is too light to let it. A fine covering of hair protects the water spider, too, and even if it is sub- | merged in the water it Is never really wet. The hair keeps a layer of air be- | tween its body and the water. It looks! like a white pearl when below the sur- | face. The scientific name of this curl: ous insect is the Vella currens.—Chi- cago Tribune. Ben Most Civilized Nation. The question “Which Is the most civilized nation on earth?’ Is difficult to answer. Civilization Is a very elas- tic term and is understood differently In different times and places. In scl entific attainment, education, wealth and all the things that go along with | wealth the United States, Great Brit- | ain and Germany would appear to lead | the procession, with some other na- | tions following closely; but, taking all | things Into consideration, eliminating the sole matter of wealth, the most efvilized country on earth is probably Norway, In that far northern land the | fdeal civilization—that is, the civiliza- | tion that rests on common sense and justice—seems to have matured to a greater extent than it has any where | else. —New York American | uncomfortable | | Lightship Risks. It would seem that the perils of a Hghtship crew in a gale exceed even those of a lighthouse keeper. Mr, Tal bot, In his “Lightships and Light- houses,” gives an example of the havoc played by one Atlantic wave in the case of the lightship that guards the terrible rocky fangs known as the “Seven Stones,” which le between Land's End and the Scilly Isles: “Once a wave tumbled aboard, crash- ed a man against the pump, knocked him half senseless; picked up the life- hoat and threw it against the deck- house, and In so doing caught another member of the crew, mauling his thigh badly in passing. Two out of the seven men formin: ‘he crew were thus put hors de combat by a single wave.” The lightship Is a British idea, and the first ever used was placed in the | mouth of the Thames in 1718. A Custom Well Forgotten. Children used to be reminded in an manner that Dec. 28 was innocents’ day. for it was con sidered wholesome on that morning to | give them a good cuffing or other form of punishment, presumably to remind them of the sins which were not com mitted by the innocents whom Herod ordered slain on that day. Fortunately every vestige of this fashion is now blotted out Inherited Traits, Knicker—Jones is very keen of hear ing. Bocker—No wonder! His father was a pastor who always beard calls and his mother always heard burglars ~Judge's Library. Laughing cheerfulness throws sun Mght on all the paths of life.— Richter RS aoa LIASSSRRANYT for a cheerful and ment in a room, or shade, NNN SST TTI TS. 0 Lamps A Rayo Lamp is one thing needed pleasant home. Its soft, white light is the best for your eyes, and its attractive appearance —solid brass, nickel plated—makes it an orna- Can be lighted without removing chimney Easy to clean and rewick. Simple, durable, economical. 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Get in line and drop me a card asking for prices. JEREMIAH ZETTLE, Dealer in Raw Furs, Middletown, N. Y. JUST THE THING A CAMERA for that boy or girl—you could not give a more suitable gift, nor one with a more lasting pleasure. You get the benefit of your photographic experience with the camera yon buy here. Get it soon, our supply is going fast, CRIDER'S EXCHANGE, BELLEFONTE, PA The Photographer in Your Town® Carefully Selected Securities The Bonds offered to investors by this bank are only such as the officers and directors consider accept- able as investments for the bank,s own funds, Ask for the Mellon Bond List. Mellon National Bank Bond Dept. Pittsburgh 2b D, Coard Mar. = FITZ-EZY | THE LADIES SHOES THAT. CURES CORNS SOLD ONLY AT we Yeager’s Shoe Store, HIGH STREET, BELLEFONTE, PA. w— por——— pram START AN ACCOUNT for your boy at this institution. It will take only $500 to do it it may be the making of him. When he sees how money depos- ited in the bank makes more money in the shape of interest he will be very apt to save where he now spends—often foolishly. You can do no better service for your boy than to teach him the habit of saving. The Bellefonte Trust Company BELLEFONTE, PENNA, oloBoNoNoRONINoNONINI Nolo Christmas Footwear your “May your Christmas Joy be as bright as the berries on the Holly Wreath—and your Christmas Memories like the Christmas Tree— Ever Green I” By the way, what's so suitable for Christmas Gifts as good Footwear ? Practical, useful and always appreciated. Our Christmas Footwear is on display and the showing is It's well worth seeing. We'll make any exchange desired after Christmas, Come, see our Christmas spread-! MINGLE SHOE STORE fine.
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