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LL Chr istendom
again celebrates the
nativity of the- foun
der of the Christian
faith and the Inaug
uration of the new
year The hoart
yields to the pre
vailing spirit and
sentiment despite
intellectual dissent
Not to observe in
some form the
Christmas festival
is felt to do vio
lence to the best
instincts of humanity This holiday
eclipses all other birthdays as tle
sun makes the electric light to cast
a shadow At this season a large
majority find delight In giving It
gives occasion for springs of human
kindness and good will to flow It
challenges the charge that man Is
innately and persistently selfish
More than Is believed practice the
truth that is more blessed to give
than to receive
Christmas is the festival of children
and women Christs conception of
childhood and youth and his treat
ment of women made it possible for
them to commemorate his birthday
with joy and gladness At the out
set of his career he foretold the reg
nancy of the cradle and the glory of
the woman Christmas celebrates the
birth of a child to whom the world
owes the progress of 1900 years and
whose work will endure so long as
earth shall continue and influence oth
er worlds
centuries ago a peasant
NINETEEN
woman of Judea in a stable gave
birth to a child destined to do
the greatest possible work to free all
women from bondage and all children
from slavery the evils which
graced past ages Jesus influence
upon humanity as a child a man a
teacher and as a Saviour as one who
put the eternal right of man above all
established customs and precedents
is the greatest inheritance of the hu
man race The king of the Jews has
become the king of the world A He
brew mind with no racial bias is now
ruling the nations The spirit of the
Christ most deeply moves modern life
and thought His name has passed
over our institutions and his mind has
penetrated into onr social and domes
tic existence The inspiration of true
liberty and education the benediction
of the beautiful the elevation of let
ters literature and morals are
ascribed to him
influence upon the centuries is
HIS as clearly marked as the cur
rents of the Gulf Stream bring
ing verdure and beauty to inhospitable
shores light to those in darkness and
making the wilderness to blossom as
the rose Innumerable poems dramas
and songs have been developed
through his teaching Art taxes itself
fittingly to portray his life architect
ure struggles to build temples suitable
for his worship Universities col
leges schools and all systems of edu
cation attempt to realize his esti
mate of the dignity and worth of child
hood Government itself said Glad
stone is but the translation of the
teachings of Jesus Christ into human
laws and institutions His thoughts
and ideas toil like a giant for mans
proguess The single historic vine in
Santa Barbara carried to California by
a priest has changed all the industries
of that land so Christs ideas carry
energies for civilizing worlds As the
sun upon the horizion rolls forward
pouring forth warmth out of its in
visible urns so we perceive an atmos
phere of hope and joy has been
poured over the continent out of the
heart of Christ and those who loved
him The world celebrates at Christ-
mas the advent of this wonderful be
v ing It looks Teverently upon the face
of him the feeble infant in the man
ger and upon other children to whom
he gave so much
and Christmas are the
CHILDREN of civilization Edmund
Burke defined civilization as
the spirit of a gentleman and the
Spirit of religion in a life lived in the
presencte of man and God
The beauty purity humility faith
helplessness and the promise of
A QHjrijsimas aroj
dren educate the parents in affection
and gentleness and through them the
community The spring whence civ
ilization flows is the Babe of Mary
and the babe in every home The
Christmas spirit incarnated in deeds
of kindness of solf forgetfulness love
mutual helpfulness is the secret of
Christian civilization
It will inoculate all the world with
that purpose to do justice and deal
kindly with our fellows Christianity
has been defined as a beautiful civ
ilization slowly journeying across the
earth It is the only civilization
worthy to bo named It presents
ideals with the power to realize them
were Individuals who re
flected ideal virtues in other
periods but were unable to mul
tiply themselves dying like Beatrice
who took her beauty as they carried
their moral excellences away with
them The first Christmas dawned on
a world of selfishness and Sin and
dark with folly and cruelty There
was beauty for the few slavery pov
erty and starvation for the many
death for the -unwelcome child and
degradation for woman There were
375000 paupers in a population of
1000000 in Rome It was a period of
intellectual chaos moral and social
desolation and individual hopeless
ness Into this gloom came the star
of Bethlehem beaming light hope and
sympathy The contrast between the
manger birth and the Christmas morn
that will dawn this week with its
carols songs gifts joy and gladness
is the most striking contrast earths
history holds
With that first Christmas childhood
became sweet and sacred woman was
crowned queen of the heart and home
the slave made free the ignorant poor
and wretched found education shelter
and sympathy and the joy of gener
osity became contagious As the sun
rises earlier and lingers longer than
yesterday so the spirit of Christmas
will usher in the golden age of happi
ness and good will In the great pic
ture of Coreggio the light on the face
of the babe lends a glow to shepherd
and wise men The Christmas spirit
lends a glow to all the instruments
and forces of society
humanity falls below the
WHILE the effort to practice it
is not wholly nugatory The
drift of the world is upward The
people are climbing Interest in chil
dren is increasing Woman is coming
to her own Labor is entering the
reward of work War is becoming
unpopular Racial prejudice will hide
in shame The Christ spirit is vic
torious Gods good will becomes tri
umphant in home street and legis
lative hall The triumphs of the past
dictate new struggles for the future
When Pericles gave his oration over
the Athenian dead pointing to the
graves the great orator said Their
silence is eloquent These heroes ask
us to go and live for the city for which
they died Thus past achievements
pledge us to fresh fidelity Christ
mas asks us to lend the impulse of a
new love to home school street and
city to be a friend of the friendless
a benefactor to some dumb beast or
deserted child to be voice for the
dumb eyes for the blind springs of
water for the thirsty trees of shade
for the weary food for the hungry
refuge for the smitten
Be an angel of mercy bringing
peace on earth and good will toward
men and thus hasten a Christmas
which will not simply come to-morrow
but will stay all the year
Christmas Salad
For a Christmas salad select the
largest and brightest red apples and
cut a deep slice from each at the
stem end Scoop out the pulp drop
both the covers and apples into cold
water and leave them until needed
Cut crisp celery into small pieces with
one third the quantity of English wal
nuts or pecans broken mix with very
stiff mayonnaise Wipe and polish each
apple and fill with the salad fitting
each cover carefully and set on a bed
of crisp lettuce leaves just before
serving
HE night was darker than ever
before
So drrk is sin
When the Great Love caie to the
stable door
And entered in
And laid Himself in the breath of
line
And the warmth of hay
And whispered to the Star to shine
And to break the day
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A STORY FOR CHILDREN
Letter inclosed in u box which will ar
rive about 7 a m Christmas day for
Fred the protege of learned sprites
EAR FRED Within
this package you will
find some little things
just a crumb or two
of pleasure such as
any fellow flings to a
friend hes met but
once or twice and yet
considers rather nice
and thinks of what
the jolly season brings
We remember sir
your courtesy in sit
ting while we lectured
on the knowledge that
is proven also that
is conjectured To our utter
gratitude you were never never rude
for your heart indeed is very finely
textured
When the series of discourses found
its most untimely close we assembled
in a cornfield and indeed we nearly
froze Wed forgotten were so old
there was such a thing as cold and
were much too smart to think of
things like those But our hearts are
always warm and in thinking Fred
of you such a warmth arose as any
time would boil an oyster stew Then
a basking in the heat we did all of
us compete in discussion of what
would and wouldnt do Once the argu
ment grew fierce but over this well
draw a veil We are all of us so
learned that we thought you know
the tale that we each of us knew
best what would lend the greatest
zest what a modern boy would not
consider stale
We consulted sundry lists which
only mixed us up the worse we re
jected some suggestions far too long
for any purse and we bickered and
we snickered while above the moon
light flickered and discovered that
ideal things were scurce And at
last we gave up trying to decide it
for each other and departed saying
Give him what you like my learned
brother So each made his own se
lection which accounts for the com
plexion of the articles we hope youll
show your mother
On the top youll find a ticket for a
trip around the earth This of course
is from old Jogerfy the chap who
had a dearth of ideas but in fact was
rather diligent than lax he is hoping
that you realized his worth
Next in order is a dictionary dont
turn up your nose Its no ordinary
volume as its queer appearance
shows When youre stuck for what
to say turn the knob the proper way
and the word is in your month and
out it goes In this book is every
language een including that of birds
and the speech the cows are using
when they stroll about in herds Why
you cannot go astray as to how and
what to say if you use the present
sent you by old Woi is
With apologies mention what
you get from Anglo Hes the
chap for whom the speech of other
nations had attractio i He sat down
it seems and wrote cu a promissory
note You will never get the coin with
out exaction
From Numero a resent that will
comfort you we feel Its a table with
a marvelous unusual kind of wheel
Yes a multiplication table turn the
crank if you are able and youll have
before your eyes a luscious meal
Old History the -grandpa of the
whole great human race sends a Pat
s
ent Iron Memory a thing you cant
replace Put it way unto your ear
and youll find that all you hear youll
remember quite distinctly for a
space
And lastly Hy G Ene the man who
gave you such a scare puts in some
thing you can always use and some
thing you can wear Its a thing that
makes for health indeed for happi
ness and wealth Its- an everlasting
bottle of fresh air
So remember when your toys are
spread about you on the rug that the
Learned Sprites have tried to make
you happy they have dug in the present-mines
of China than the which
theres nothing finer and were send
ing you as much as we could lug If
you use these little gifts that we are
forwarding just right you will never
have to listen to another learned
sprite But theres one thing more
to wit Merry Christmas that is
it
So we hereunto subscribe in black
and white
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ANGLO SAXON
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GRANDFATHER HISTORY
PIY G ENE
TWO DINNERS FOR CHRISTMAS
Menus In Which Roast Beef and Goose
Are the Leading Entrees
For the Christmas feast roast beef
or roast young goose are the prime fa
vorites taking the precedence of tur
key which very soon after the first
of December begins to lose its delicacy
of flavor The English dinner of roast
beef and plum pudding is historic and
in recent years Americans have
erally followed the custom of serving
an English dinner on Christmas im
proving on the old country menus by
the addition of dainty entrees and
salads
Here are some suggestions for
menus for Christmas home dinners
MENU NO 1
Grape Fruit with Sherry
Olives Radishes
Small Oysters Roasted in Snell
Cream of Chicken
Roast Sirloin of Beef
Macaroni au Gratin
Bermuda Potatoes New- String Beans
Endive Salad
Toasted Wafers and Edam Cheese
Plum Pudding
Fruit Coffee
MENU NO 2
Oysters on the Half Shell
Cream of Celery Stuffed Olives
Fried Smelts Sauce Tartare
Hothouse Cucumbers
Roast Young Goose
Apple Sauce
Mashsd Potatoes Boiled White Onions
Stuffed Green Peppers
Romaine Salad and Toasted Wafers
Roquefort Cheese
Plum Pudding or Mince Pie
Coffee Fruit
She Had Tried It
Belle This holly in my hair Tanta
a little relief its too red
Aunty Well why not put in a sprig
or two of mistleto dear
Belle Nonsense aunty Why I
should have all the young men kissing
me
Aunty Indeed no my dear Theyd
do nothing of the kind Ive tried
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Mr Whim Well sharpen this lead
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An Experienced Walker
Champion Hayes of Marathon fame
praised at a dinner In New York a
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He is a walker someone said
Yes said Mr Hayes and the next
race he enters mark me ho will win
Why I didnt know ho had had
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