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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1915)
1' 1 I When Jane Fixes the Knickknacks I LIKE to loaf In tlio kitolicn whllo Juno In her wifely way Is puttln' tlie finish on knlcltknacka for tlio dinner on Chrlntrmu) day. Say, tolllblo early o' mornln'B, when tho coffeepot's Blminerln low, An' tho roostortf Is crowln' for daybreak llko nobody olso didn't know An' out through tho wlilto curtained win der tho stars Is beiilnnln' to fade, An' tlio itfUs thnt was hid In darkness Is ntTOt comln' out o' tho shndo. DIrcc'ly a silence cttles, bo plain It la mighty nigh seen, An' mo an' tho past Btand together, with scurccly a inlnlt between, Tor I fed unusually tender In a glad, half sad sort o' way Whllo Jano Is llxln' tho knickknacks for tho dinner on Chrlsttnus doy. 'A ivorson don't never, I reckon, dtsremem- ber thd old folks nt home, No matter how fcoblo ho grows an' no matter Jost whoro ho may roam, An thoy nhow pretty clear nt bucIi mlnlte, truo an' bruvo na In dnys gone by. Till I push my chair In tho shudders n-hldln' tho mist In my oyo. I ceo thu gravo fuco of my father as ho roads by tho candlestick there, An' I hoar Botno hymn of my mothor as cho rocks In the hickory chair; Then tho firelight falls on tho cellln' with tho ro3u o' tho old tlmo glow Ah I dream only dreams o' tho futuro 'stld o' dreams o" tho long ngo. Ilclgh ho! What u world o' changes from tho lad to tho man now gray, Watchln' Jane as tlio fixes knickknacks for tho dlnnur on Chrlstmua day I Then my thoughts travels on an' onward from mists whoro tlio old folks be, An' I wondor If our own children Is think- In' o' Jano un' mo; If thoy hoard nonio organ scndln' tho song, "Do They Miss Mo nt llomo7" Through tho holy Chrlstinus inornln', through tho holy Chrlsttnus gloam, If they heard th'olr children shoutln' In pleasure bcsldo their toys, Would thoy think onco nioro o' tho home stead, whoro they lived when girls an' boys. Tho young has tho world before 'cm, but for us It lies bohlud A dim, dear land o' momorlcs, whero oven I keep In mind Wee, faded clothes In tho attic, broken toyu long laid away, As I watch Jano llxln' knickknacks fcr tho dinner on Chrlstmua day. -Will T. Ilnlo. ELECTRIC CHRISTMAS GIFTS. Still Now Enough to Hnvo Novelty Element Doar to Americans, Electric Christmas Rifts Btlll possess that clement of novelty dear to tho American heart and thus solvo tho problem of giving Christmas gifts that aro "different." Imagine how pleased most men would ho to receive nn elec tric shaving cup or electric cigar light er Instead of neckties, socks and hand kerchiefs "as usual." A teakettle for grandmother, n sam ovar for mother's 5 o'clock teas, a chilling dish for tho college girl, u disk stove for tho bachelor, a llntlron or sewing machlno motor for thu prac tical housewife all these novel and useful gifts will bo appreciated by the recipients. It should not bo forgotten that these electric Christmas gifts tiro all useful gifts. Each of these devices Is de signed to do some one thing better than It enn-bo dono any other way, whother It Is to percolato coffee, toast bread or furnish thu power for run ning a sewing machine. Tho presence of au electric perco lator on any tablu adds a touch of something different and something better. Tlio electric tea samovar Is rapidly becoming qulto tho thing for the modern tea table. "Wassaill Drlnkaoll" Tho wnssall bowl, which Is still usoil In soniu old European families at Christmas, succeeded tho skull of tho Norseman's foo as a drinking vessel. In these old wassail bowls, somo speci mens of which nro of brown waro and others of masslvo silver, wero placed the ale, tho ginger, tho sugar, tho nut meg and the roasted crab apples. Where the old custom still provalls tho nlo Is served spiced and sweetened In tho wassail bowl, but the apples nro omitted. Still Bring In tho Boar's Head. Tho ancient Christmas ceremony of bringing In tho boar's head Is regu larly performed on Christmas aftor noon In tho hall of Queen college, Ox ford, England. Tho head Is horno In on a silver dish, shoulder high, at tho head of n procession formed by tho col lego choir augmented for thu occasion Blnglug "Tho Hoar's Head Song." w Not only In costly gifts or 2$ v2 rich rnro food Ties Christmas TO 5 Joy or blessing. It lies no 5 W one can tell another where It lies. The finding must be for a5 one's self alone. I can only Kfc . . say to all little children, to all 3 w grownup children, to all who ' are looking back as well as to jfir. those who are looking forwnrd, v to them I can say with Tiny $1 W Tim, "God bless you each this JVC M happy Christmas time," and V$ ?. If you would be very sure to M get Its meaning best make a jH? v9 real Christmas for somebody y M who might not have It but for fig you. Kuto Ijuigley lloshcr. Christmas In The Farmhouse When as a child you read stories of Christmas celebrations where the houses were decorated with holly and mMletoe and the people had such Jolly times putting them up, didn't you look around your own house ami wonder how that would look It trimmed with those same greens? And didn't you long to smell their spicy fragrance und to have n hand in putting them up where you thought they would look tho best? And didn't you long to feel that peculiar Christmas spirit that Is In the very air In cities and villages for more than a week before Chrlsmas day itself? And then did you Just settle bade and sny to yourself: "Well, It's no use. "As long as I live on a farm Christ mas must bo Just the same as It al ways has been an exchange of gifts and Afterward nn unusually big din ner?" I Wflnt to tell you that you arc mis taken that you can have Just those very same things, even to bringing In tho old time Yule log, If you are so fortunate as to have an open fireplace In the farmhouse. City people pay from 05 cents to $1 for a small house Christmas tree, and every one who can afford It buys a tree every year for his children. How often do farmers' children have trees? And why not? Because tho parents say, "Wo haven't gifts enough to make a pretty tree." Many people never put a gift on simply make It a tree of beauty for the children. Strings of popcorn, wishbones and canes gilded, gold stars anything bright nnd shiny hung on a tree delights a child a bag of popcorn with a few candles In It tastes live times as good If It has only onco hung on a tree. Even If tho gift must bo underwear, shoes and things actually needed to wear, have them come as surprises and In as "Chrlst masy" looking packages as possible. It Is well to keep the Christmas spirit In the home. It seems a pity for us country people, surrounded by these beautiful things deemed luxuries by our city friends, to make no use whatever of them nnd to lot our lives become so common place. Christmas Is not solely a day for gift giving nnd receiving nnd cntl Ing. It Is n day for doing everything In your power to add to tho Joy of the children a day to remember tho feeble nnd lonely old people a day to think of tho Btrnngers and tho poor. If you haven't money to spend for gifts for them you can give some of yourself and of your own homo Christmas cliccr. There are homes that It Is an Inspiration to enter, becauso of the Christmas' spirit they breathe forth. I trust tho farm homes will not be lack ing In Christmas beauty or Christmas cheer that nil of them will truly "keep Christmas." Bertha O. Mark ham In Country Gentleman. ff- When tho dawn creeps up from tho darkly slumbering 'k ocean Christmas morn and px speeds brightly around the . world, circling it with a gold- fK Sjil en girdle of light, myriads of Jr bells In many lands awake W and from steeplo to steeple Aj SjV ring out tho glad tidings that V$ Mj "the Messiah Is king." mH' Elotse Boorlmok In Crafts- g. imn' .jg A Happy Troo. "Oh, look nt mo!" Sang thu Christmas trco A Jolly young ovorgreon "I'm drcBged up hero For n show, that's clear, And I'm anxious to bo Been. To grow In a wood Is very good Of air you'vo n trlllo more Hut 1 declnro It cimuut compare To a block on tho parlor floorl You may stand In tho cold Till a century old, Not a blo8om to speak of comes, Ilut hero In nn hour I'm all In llowor With mittens and dolls nnd drums. 1 know ho wiU And daren't to toll So much thnt I'm llko to burst; Thoro's a mystery hung Or a Bocrot swung On each branch from last to first. How I'd lovo to shout All my feelings out! Hut I daren't oven cough; And Just tho half Of u groat big laugh Would shako all my oandloa off. Co I liavo to hide All tlio fun lusldo Till I'm full as I onn be. Whatever folks my, I'm king of tho day!" Sang the Jolly Christmas tree. -Youth's Companion. J. VEUY year the little grc n Imy 'J berry c-umlK-s are sent as lurk bringing gifts to nn even greater extent than during the past few holiday seasons. , The rea son for tills Is that tho people who re ceived them tho past year or two and who did not? thought that they really did seem to bring them good fortune; hence this Increasingly rapid growth of the candle's popularity as a substitute for tho conventional Christmas card or as constituting In Itself an unpre tentious little gift symbolizing every good wish. Ilut, wlille n great many people both send and receive bayberry candles as gifts, thero are but few who know whenco they come or why the luck su perstition Is inseparable from them. Tho candles, or "dips," as they were first called, are the product of a re vived Industry started a few years ago In tho old Massachusetts towns of Deer field and Ilinghnm and In tho kitchens of tho Capo Cod people, nil of them using tho old pewter or tin molds thnt hnvo descended In tho families from colonial times. Old southern villages have not as yet realized tho opportunl- y offered Its women In this revived In dustry, nlthough tho bayberry candles wero made by tho early settlors In all tho coast colonies where the berries row, never being found Inland. As to tho origin of the good luck Idea, wo seek It In vain among colonial chronicles as applied to the candle Itself. Yet from times far curlier tho bay tree and tho laurel wero consider ed sacred to good fortune, nnd It Is IjIOUTINa THE Il.VYllEltltY CANDLE. from this Immemorial belief that wo must traco tho present day faith In the virtues of tho bayberry candle. Tho bay Is a species of laurol, and ns poets and victors were crowned with tho laurel or tho bay, wishing them long life and happiness, so Is tho same wish convoyed In tho bestowal of u candle made of tho waxen berries horno by tho sacred tree. Bayberry dips aro also made as well ns tho molded candles. These dips are smaller and less oven in shape and show us how candles wero made by re peatedly dipping tho wicks In the molt ed wax of tho bayborrles and drying each layer till tho dip was of proper Blze. That was beforo molds wero in troduced, early In tho eighteenth cen tury. To uccompany n bayberry caudlo one should send In tho little box in which It Is daintily Avrnppcd a card on which Is printed, In red and green lottorlng, tho legend: ON CHRISTMAS EVE. A bayberry cnndlo burnt to tlio socket Hrlngs luck to tho house, Food to tho lnrdcr And gold to tho pocket. When these cards aro not to bo found tho luck rime may bo written on tho back of one's visiting card and wrap ped with n candle, but In that case It must not bo forgotten that tho hi closure of writing necessitates extra postage. Their color, a soft ollvo green, blends beautifully with other Christmas decorations, und they burn with a steady llame, emitting a delightfully pungent fragrance, and they aro con sumed evenly all around without mak ing unsightly gutters or ridges of wax down tho sides as ordinary candles do. From New England comes tho tradi tion that if lovers sepurated by dls tanco each lights u bayberry candle In honor of tho other at tho same hour tho aroma or Inccnso nrlslng from tho burning wick will drift In tho direc tion of tho absent one; henco the candles make a strong appeal to young peoplo of romantic temperament. A candlo must bo presented to you, not bought by yourself, In order to in sure good luck, and you must not light your own; that must bo dono for you by somo other person, not necessarily tho donor. Christmas ovo Is tho time for burn ing, olther at dinner or later, and to follow out tho old Idea of tho laurels and tho bays to tho victor a candle should surely bo bestowed on tho rela tive or friend who has recontly achieved somo success or won a dis tinction. Philadelphia Tress. Have You a Piano in Your Home? A home is not complete without a Piano. It gives the girls and boys pleasure, and keeps them at home and fits them for a better life. Don't say you can not afford to buy a Piano, but come in and talk with us, and we will make it so easy you can not afford to be without one. We handle the best makes, Knabe, A. B. Chase, McPhail, Price & Teeple, Smith & Barnes, Kimball,' R. S. Howard, and several others. Gaston Music Co., 511Dewey St. The Nurse Brown 1008 WEST 5th ST. NORTH PLATTE, NEB. PHONE 110. Moral. Ethical. This hospital is open for the reception and treat ment ot Medical, Surgical, and Obstetrical cases. This institution is modern, sanitary and well situated away from the noises and discomfort which are attendant on the city's center. MRS. MARGARET HALL, Supt, J. S. TWINEM, Physician and Surgeon. I A DAINTY M CHRISTMAS Sf I REMEMBRANCE Jpt" FOR LOVERS Mfflfff OF TEA J ' LIERK-SANDALL CO, NURSES REGISTRY CITY HOSPITAL NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. PHONE 82 GRADUATE NURSES Wo are In position to furnish competent nurses for physicians on short notic. ' Call Phono 82 and stnte whether you want graduate or domestic nurie and v will complete all the arrangements for you without charge. CITY HOSPITAL 607 LOCUST STREET NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. PHONE 82 Sanitary Newly Furnished Fireprool "-Ptinnnd Tr.atment of Surg- L. L. WALKER, Mgr. Memorial Hospital DOMESTIC NURSES J. II. JIEDFIELD. PHYSICIAN & SUKGEON Successor to HYSICIAN & SURGEONS HOSPITAL Drs. Itcdflold & llcdlleld Ofhco Phono 642 Res. Phono G76 BERYL HAHN, TEACHER OF PIANO 112 East Third Street, l'honc Red lOi. Geo. B. Dent, Physician and Surgeon. Special Attention given to Surgery and Obstetrics. Office: Building and. Loan Building Phonpn 'Office 130 i nones Kesidence 115 JOHN S. SDIMS, M. P., Physician nnd Surgeon Offlco B. & L. Building, Second Floor. Phone, Offlco, 83; Itesldenco 38. DR. j. S. TWINEM, Physician and Surgeon. Special Attention Given to Gynecology Obstetrics nnd Children's Diseases. Offlco McDonald Stato Bank Building, Corner Sixth and Dewey Streets. Phones, Offlco 183, Residence 283 NORTH PLATTE ..General Hospital.. (Incorporated) Phone 58 723 Locust Street A modern institution for the scientific treatment of medical, surgical and confinement cases. Completely equipped X-Ray and diagnostic laboratories. Geo. B. Dent, M. D. V. Lucas, M. D. J.B. Redficld,M.D. J. S. Simms, M.D. Miss Elise Sieman, Supt. Office phone 241. Res. phone 217 L. C . D R O S T, Osteopathic Physician. North Platte, - - Nebraska. McDonald Bank Building. Hospital Phone Black 633. Houo Phono Black 633. IV. T. PIIITCHARD, Graduate Vetcrinnrian Bight years a Government Veterinar ian. Hospital 218 south Locust St, one-half block southwest of the Court House. T Am Poirlnir rVfnvn o HIDES than anyone else. Before vou sell come and see me. We are paying $10 Per ton lor Dryu Hones. North Platte Junk House Lock's Old Barn. Cigars in the Home For the next fl will spend their evenings indoors, and pleasurcahlo thnn a box of cigars nt uiiMT, cuBiiy iicccssiuio wlicn you hnTO nn Inclination to smoke. Try n box of our honie.nniilA fITlfl lm ml .111 ml n it pars, tho kind that nro a Hltlo better uiiui j ou wuy eisewnoro tor tlio snmo price. bncco nnd smokers' nrticlcs. J. F. Schmalzried. e 11 Bought and highest market prices paid PHONES ResidenceJRed C3G Office 459 OjESMtt C H. WALTERS.