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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1915)
i Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards. XMAS PREPARATION. Thanksgiving has past. All the worry, and bustle, and hurry for Christmas no\v begins. Everywhere appears the slogan: “Do your Christ mas shopping early.” We are pondering in our minds “what shall I give him?" What will she like?” In the midst of all this preparation, let us stop to think of our real motive in giving. Let us prepare our hearts for this season of love and cheer. Let us remember that Christ mas living is as important as Christ mas giving. Dr. Frank Crane, in l he Woman’s World has beautifully brought out this thought in an article from which we quote in part: “The greatest Christmas gift in the world is appreciation. You cannot give anything that will please everybody—relatives, friends, and acquaintances—more than that. If you do not give that, all your other gifts will amount to nothing. There is hardly anything it will do so much good to realize as this fact. It will not only save us from heart aches, but it will operate as a saving sauce and a redeeming flavor to all our other gifts. And the day after it will leave us with a real Christmas taste in the mouth. So, if you want this to be the most Christmassy Christmas of your life, lo be fullest of joy and cleanest of all disappointment and inward wounds, the very best apd brightest season of all tno year, as indeed it should bt, just undertake, first of all, to forget your own self—and set about to find something in every human being with whom life brings you in contact, some thing that you can and do appreciate. You pass through this life but once. God sends you this and that man or woman to touch you here and there. Are you a fool to despise them. Or are you wise, to make of every human relationship a vehicle in some measure of that love and helpfulness that transforms the world ? If into every family could come this most precious of gifts—appreciation! What widening chasms of estrange ment m:ght bo closed! What sore and suffering hurts might be lightened! What inner bitterness purged! And how the gentle and genial Spirit of the Christ Child would spread through and among us all, like a widening, shining river, reflecting back the sun shine of that Eternal Love that shines ever down upon us from Him who made and loves us all!” THE SIN OF FRETTING. There is one sin which is almost every where underestimated and quite too often much overlooked in valuation of character, and that is the sin of fretting. It is so common that unless It rises above its usual monotone we do not even notice it. Watch any or dinary coming together of people and see how long it wil be before some body frets, that is, makes more or less complaining statement of something or other which probably everyone in the room knew before, and which prob ably nobody can help. Why say any thing about it? It is cold; it is hot; it is dry or wet; somebody has broken an appointment; or ill cooked a meal; or some stupidity has resulted in dis comfort. It is simply astonishing how much annoyance may be found in the course of every day’s living. The Bible says: “We are born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.” But for sparks that fly in the blackest smoke there is a blue sky above them, and the less time they waste on the road the sooner they will reach it. Fretting is just “time wasted on the road,” and more than wasted.—The Messenger. SOMEBODY’S BIRTHDAY. This is somebody’s birthday, Just as sure as fate; Some little boy is six years old, Some little girl is eight. Some little boy is three today, Some little girl thirteen; Some little twins are exactly two— Two apiece, I mean. Someone is eating his birthday cake And laughing over the plums; Some one is counting her birthday dolls On all her fingers and thumbs. Someone is bouncing his birthday ball, Or winding his birthday top; Some one is not too wise or tall For birthday butterscotch. Think of the beautiful birthday books, Think of the birthday cheer; Think of the birthday happiness Every day in the year! Every day in the year, my dear, Every day we’re alive, Some happy child is one or two Or three, or four, or five. —Advocate and Guardian. Patronize Our Advertisers. .» ********4 i 26 Piece Rogers Chest, regular! I value 89.50, our price. $5.95 i I Convertible Bracelet Watches.! I ext ra special.S5.00 i 1 Wolf Jewelry Company ? ♦ 1504 Harney St. I Phone South 701 Phone Webster Floral Designs for All Occasions F. H. SWANSON \ FLORIST Cut Flowers and Potted Plants f Office. 532 N. 24th St. Graanhouat, 1418 N. 18th St. ! South Omaha Omaha J Tailor Made Corsets to Order j i at All Prices ! BURGESS CORSET CO. 318 South 18th St. | Phone Dour . 4113 I GET NEXT TO THESE PRICES S Plain Shins . i Pleated shirts | Collars . ! OMAHA LAUNDRY CO. J I Tel. Web. 7788 i . . ............ ORRIES.HULSE C. HT. KIEPEN 1 Harney 6267 Harney 56(14 ® HULSE a RIEPEN § Funeral Directors | Doug. 1226 701 So. 16th St. K . C. P. Wesin Grocery Co-.! J. L. PETTEYS, MKr. J Fruits and Vegetables l 2005 Cumino St. Tel. D. 1098 i •»8 « 8 »«« 8 8 » > | ^.^ NOW’S THE TIME TO PLANT BULBS Tulip Hyacinth Narcissus Crocus Lily For Winter and Spring Bloom STEWART SEED STORE 119 North 16th Street (Opposite Post Office) .. DO NOT buy your Fall suit until you see us. Most reasonable and reliable ladies cloak and suit store in Omaha. Always high price samples on hand at reasonable prices BONOFF’S New York Sample Store 206 No. 16th St. Autumn Signs Browning and falling leaves again call our at tention to the promise that summer and win ter shall not cease. Prudent people pre pare. Are you ready with your autumn dress? If not, why not? We can help you. Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. NORTHRUP LETTER DUPLICATING COMPANY •LETTEBOLOGISTS” TYPEWRITTEN CIRCULAR LETTERS Phone: Doug h68o Office: R,.g. Web. 429.’ 50fi Paxton Hlock --...... T HENRI H. CLAIBORNE * Notary Public Justice of the Peace Beg. uouiTtiN 512-13 Paxton Block f 4... .. ««■«■■«-* ."-t I Established 1890 C. J. CARLSON Dealer in Shoes and Cents Furnishings 1514 North 24th St. Omaha, Neb. Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account in the J Savings Department 4 of the * United States Nat’l Bank 16th and Farnam Streets | EMERSON LAUNDRY F. S. MOREY, Proprietor 1303-05 North 24th Street Phone Webster 820 Moving Vans and Piano j Moving, Packing, Shipping \ * Gordon Van Co.{ 1 lth and Davenport Douglas 3941 I TAKE PLEASURE in thanking you for your patronage. 1 want your trade solely upon the merits of my goods You will profit by trading here. H. E. YOUNG Phone Webster 5i5 2114-10 N. 24th St. We Print the Monitor WATERS I BARNHART j PRINTING CO lF»7V Omaha 522-24 South Thirteenth St. Telephone Douglas 2190 ■'••• — li