Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skagge Edwards.
CONSECRATED MOTHERHOOD.
On the first Christmas, on the Holy
Night, God consecrated motherhood.
Woven into that wonderful night of
the angel’s song is peace, hope, re
demption, love and as a means to
these blessings—motherhood and a
little-child.
Christ came to the world not in
pomp and power but in simplicity.
“He became a little child,” thus hon
oring motherhood and giving prom
inence to child life. Is not mother
hood then a great blessing? Is it
not one of the greatest tasks com
mitted to human hands?
Let us not fail to link the life of
the child with the life of the Christ.
What is the child? The wise of all
ages have asked this question over
and over again but it remains still
unanswered but God is its creator
and has made it his highest creation.
He has given it to the mother w-ho is
greatly responsible for the develop
ment of its body, its mind, its soul.
At the time it makes its greatest
growth it comes into close contact
with its mother. The child looks at
her with the innocence and purity of
.nildhood and who can tell that its
eyes cannot read the soul better than
older people? Everything about the
cradle is educative. The impressions
of early childhood are not easily
erased by the later rough usage of
the world.
Love, which gave to the world its
greatest gift—The Christ Child—
should be the motor of every home.
Give a little love to a child and you
get a great deal back. In many homes
it seems that God who is love, is for
gotten. Too often children must
gain their knowledge at other fire
sides than their own. Out of our own
lives made purer and sweeter by our
love of God, will grow a care and love
for our children which will be more
tender, more wise. What wisdom,
what grace, what consciousness, what
prayerfullness there must be from
day to day.
God does not regard lightly the
work of motherhood. Mothers are
the keepers of little souls and the
moulders of little hearts. Christmas
has a deep spiritual significance to
motherhood, beautified, blest and
consecrated on that night of long ago.
—L. S. E.
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THE CHRIST BABY
By Henrietta E. Staege.
Ah, motherhood has grown divinely
fair,
All motherhood that's worthy of the
name,
Since in the calm of Oriental night
The long expected, Blessed Baby
came.
And father-hearts re-echo thru the
years
The glory-anthems of that Angel
Choir,
When to their arms a little child is
borne
In answer to their soul’s supreme de
sire.
If you can doubt the glory and the
song,
Go where earth’s truest, purest moth
ers are,
And see reflected in each love-lit
face,
The fair, faint radiance of that East
ern Star.
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There wondrous peace and glad good
will to men
From human hearts arise and over
flow
To all the world, akin to that deep
joy
Which came to Bethlehem so long
ago.
O Holy Night, thou art recurring still
To reverent souls, thru all the earth
abroad,
And Wise Men worship yet when they
discern
dan’s sacred, mighty partnership
with God.
“I'M JUST A LITTLE BOY”
Tom Daly in “Evening Ledger”
Lord, I’m just a little boy,
Bom one day like You,
And I’ve got a mother dear,
And a birthday, too.
But my birthday comes in spring,
When the days are long,
And the robin in the tree
Wakens me with song.
Since the birds are all away,
Lord, when You are bom,
Let Your angels waken me
On Your birthday mom.
Lord, I’m just a little boy,
Hidden in the night;
Let Your Angels spy me out
Long before it’s light.
I would be the first to wake
And the first to rise
In this quiet house of ours
Songs of love and praise.
You shall hear me first, dear Lord,
Blow my Christmas horn;
Let Your angels waken me
On Your birthday morn.
HEN
BOARD 1
NUTS AND RAISINS.
THE old Idea was that nuts were
Indigestible. Thut is because
folk of gruudmotlier’s day usual
ly ate nuts after they had already
dined too lavishly and had worn out
their appetites on six or seven heavy
dishes first Truly, nuts are as sub
stantial as meat, richer in fats, and
one might as well expect to eat sirloin
■teak as a deadly tidbit after a six
course dinner as a fair serving of nuts.
But nowadays heavy dining has rath
er gone out of fashion. The fact that
nobody loves a fat man and that the
too fat woman Is hopelessly out of
ashlon seems to have penetrated most
folks’ brains, and most folks know that
the surest way to keep from getting
fat Is to dine moderately, to avoid
many courses and to take but one real
ly heavy dish in each meal.
In no place in the world probably are
walnuts so highly prized as in Eng
land, and this in spite of the fact that
the very name wal-nut la derived from
■ome sort of root that school men
tell us meant foreign nut. The nut of
nuts, the nut they thought of when
they used the single word nut, used to
be the filbert some hundred years ago
before the walnut had been introduced
from Italy, and for some time it was
as often called the Italian nut or Jupi
ter nut as It was walnut.
The filbert, which is really just a
highly cultivated hazelnut, is still re
garded by many an epicure as quit*
the finest of all nuts in flavor.
The almond also has Its admirers,
but It must be remembered that the
almond is rather indigestible even
when not taken on a heavy dinner. II
Is really not the almond Itself tbal
causes the trouble, but the skin around
it, and for this reason the almond
should always be blanched by allow
ing It to remain a minute or so In boil
ing water and then removing the outer
skin. For this reason when almonds
are served plain they are best served
blanched and slightly salted. Almonds
that have been blanched and sugared
are delicious as a luncheon sweet.
Often a course of nuts and raisins
served after a good consomme makes
a delightful luncheon. And remember
that nuts are always most attractive
when served In the shell, with the ex
ception of the almond, whose tough
skin makes this Inadvisable. They
should be heaped up In an attractive
dish or bowl and garnished with fresh
green leaves, preferably those of the
nuts themselves. As this Is usually
Impossible, any other leaves will do.
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CHRISTMAS I
Piano and Player 1
Piano Bargains... 1
AT PRICES THAT TALK.
$225 Conover Upright .$ 68
$450 Chickering & Sons Up
| right .$ 75
$275 Erbe $120
$325 Mueller .$135
$300 Bradford $130
$325 Kimball Upright .$145
$700 Whitney Square $ 30
$300 Schmoller & Mueller
Upright .$155
$1000 Chickering & Sons
Grand .$150
$600 Schmoller & Mueller
Player Piano .$348
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Terms, $1 to $2 a Week.
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Holiday
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We can always count on great
business before Christmas. We
made preparations this year
earlier than usual, because of
scarcity of desirable goods and ad
vancing prices.
RESULT:—An extensive stock,
splendidly assorted—at moderate
prices.
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