TITO NORTn PLATTE SEMT.WEKin.Y TRTTW XP
CORMHUSKEH ITEMS
Hows of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout
Nobnmka.
f0F INTEREST TO ALL READERS
J. O. Ludlam has been
postmaster at Llnoln.
appointed
President Wilson has nominated
.Herbert S. Daniel for postmaster at
.Omaha.
Muck G. Warrington has been nom-1
diluted register of tho land office at I
Broken How.
Tho twelfth annual session of the
state farmers congress will be held ut
Omaha December 14 to 10.
A postal card mailed at Lincoln
eight year ago to n lady at Colorado
Springs, reached Its destination last
week.
The largest wolf ever seen In
I'awnee county was killed by hounds
In a pasture near I'awnee City lust
week.
Dr. Fred Brother, aged SO. said to
be the oldest free mason In the stale,
died lust week at his homo In Bea
trice. Seward L. Mains, postmaster at
Crete, has resigned his position and
will report at Fort Omaha as a second
lieutenant.
In full view of many onlookers, nn
unhlentllled inun suicided by leaping
from a bridge Into tho Missouri river
nt Omaha.
The Fremont rotary club has stock
ed the sandpits near thot place with
f.0.000 fish, procured from tho state
hatcheries.
The Fremont Commercial club has
asked the Nebraska representatives In
congress to urge an extension of credit
to the fanners.
A Beatrice cafe proprietor found n
"oll of nearly ?r00 on the tloor of his
place of business. The owner has not
applied for It.
C. C. Smith of Exeter was elected
president of the State Manufacturers'
association at the session held In
Omaha lust week.
Citizens of Beatrice who brought
suit to enjoin the collection of paving
taxes lost out. Tho amount in quos
lion was nearly $50,000.
Nebraska unisons are planning the
establishing of a homo whore orphan
tind homeless boys may And a retreat
(ii congenial and suitable surroundings.
Fire Chief Hurry Whiteside, who
was overcome by smoke while fighting
a fire In a printing plnnt at Beatrice,
hos recovered and Is again at his post.
There are 3o counties In the state
without public libraries of any kind,
according to Miss Nellie Williams,
secretary of the state library commis
sion. The Lincoln traction company bus
)oen granted a raise in street car rate's
and will get 8 cents fare, or 30 cents
for four fares, with fl cents for trans
fers. State university fraternities will
combat high prices by refusing to pat
ronize hotels, cafes, Movies, dunces
and other places until prices are re
duced. Fire, starting In the I'lezall bakery
at York, threatened destruction of an
entire business block for a time. Two
of the firemen were overcome by
smoke.
Four business houses nt Burcliard
were entered by burglars who escaped
on a velocipede which they stole from
the Burlington railroad. They left the
machine at Pawnee City.
The Hobl) Motors company and the
Putrlot Motors company, two Lincoln
corporations, have been held to be In
holvent in a decision made by United
Slates Judge T. C. Munger.
At the stnie sheriff's association
meeting at Grand Island last week
Carl Qulnton of Palttsmouth was elect
ed president for the ensuing year und
Peter Duffy of O'Neill, secretary-treasurer.
Tho new Platte county courthouse at
Columbus was dedicated lust week by
the Masonic grand lodge. Grand Mas
ter Frandenberg of Omaha and Grand
Custodiun Robert E. French of Kear
ney had charge of the services.
The Western Older Boys "HI-Y"
conference at North Platte last week
wns attended by delegates from Kear
ney, 131m Creek, Lexington, Cozud,
Well Fleet. Maxwell, Ft. McPlierson,
Stupleton, Brady Island and Farnain.
The Richland State bank was looted
of bonds, valuable papers and possibly
some cash by bandits one night last
week. Wire communication with tho
town was severed and the plnco was
practically Isolated from the outsldo
world.
The Cuss County Farm Bureau, co
operating with the state and national
organizations, is planning a big mem
bership drive for the week of De
cember 13.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. MIkkleson cele
brated their r0th wedding anniversary
at Seward last week. They were mar
ried in Omaha In 1870 and later home
steaded in Seward county.
George Knight of Falrbury was ut
most Instantly killed when the motor
rycle be was riding ran Into a chain
used as n gate to the city park, hit
ting him below the chin nnd severing
bis windpipe.
Thirty-four organizations of farm
ers, live-stock breeders and related In
dustries are scheduled to meet In Lin
coln during the week of Organized
Agriculture, January 3 to 7.
Western Nebraska Is experiencing
the mildest December In ten years,
the average temperature during the
duy time at Alliance having been
nround llfty degrees for over a week.
The first death from anthrax, re
ported In Omaha for some time, was
recorded by the health department, in
the case of Putrlck Spellmun, 00, la
borer, who died from thut cause at tho
City Emergency hospital.
NEBRASKA RELIEF COUNCIL.
Organized to Help Feed the 8tarvlng
Children of Europe.
Omaha. For the purposo of assist
ing to feed 3,500,000 children In Europo
who will dlo of starvation this winter
unless America feeds them, the Ne
braska relief council has Just been or
ganized by the state committees of the
Red Cross, Y. M. 0. A., Knights of Co
lumbus, Y. W. G. A., Church Federa
tion, Friends' Service association,
American Relief association and tho
Jewish relief. The organization was
perfected nt a mooting In Omaha last
Monduy, at which representatives of
tl eight state-wide organizations
chose 0. W. Wattles of Omaha chair-
man and L. w. Trestler executlvo
secretary. The council will conduct n
campaign during the holidays for
$300,000, every cent of which Is to bo
used for the children pf Europe.
Tho Nebraska campaign Is to be?
waged as a portion of the nntlonwldo
campaign of which Herbert Hoover Is
chairman. The organlzntlon through
which Mr. Hoover carried on tho great
relief work In Europo Immediately fol
lowing the war will bo utilized for this
wyk among tho children of Europe.
"Unless America feeds and clothes
these children this winter they will
die," snld Mr. Wattles, reading from
n telegram from Mr. Hoover.
"This is the last campaign In which
America will be called upon to assist
Europe," said Mr. Wattles. "And this
Is for tho children. Not a cent goes
to grown folks It's for the llttlo
children. They must not bo left to
starve."
Arrangements .were made to organ
ize the European Relief council In
every county In tho state. Representa
tives of ench of the eight organiza
tions which bnvo merged Into tho
Europenn Relief council will get to
gether In each county Immediately nnd
will arrange to conduct a local cam
paign beginning nt once nnd ending
with the year.
The Norfolk canning factory has
been closed down until next January
due to lack of buying on the part of
jobbers.
Dr. Harold Glfford, Omaha eye spe
cialist, is going to South America to
spend several months studying eyes
of birds and reptiles.
The Farmers' State bank of Verdon
Is a new banking Institution, which
hns made application for a charter
from the state banking bureau.
An explosion In Uio gas plant at
Kearney set lire to the building and
caused a damage of $00,000. The
i' shock of the explosion wns felt all
over the city.
Replies to a questionnaire sent to
county agricultural agents by tho col
lege of agriculture Indicate that be
tween a third and n fourth of the corn
crop was still In the field December 1.
The Gothenburg Community club
has deckled to bring some of the big
muslcnl attractions to Gothenburg this
winter and tho tlrst number will bo
the Polish pianist, Leopold Godowsky.
The report of State Land Commis
sioner Dan Swnnson shows a total In
crease of $103,4(57.(50 In receipts from
hinds leased and lands sold by tho
state for the two years ending Novem
ber 30.
Nebraska university Is now a full-
Hedged member of the Missouri Valley
Conference, ready to comply with all
the rules of the organization and will
compete for the football championship
In 1021.
Nebraska will be required to enlist
0.-100 ofllcers nnd men for tho national
guard In the next four years, accon!
Ing to a statement Just Issued by
Adjutant General Paul, who has plans
for the reorganization of tho guard al
most completed.
Patrolman Joe Troglln Is to bo given
the first mednl awarded under n new
plan for rewnrdlng extraordinary
bravery and efficiency In tho police de
partment nt Omaha. Treglla thwnrted
an arson plot to destroy a restaurant
and rooming house In that city, by
carrying out of the building several
blazing basins filled with Inflammable
material and oil soaked shavings.
Walter E. Anderson, an Ogallala
cowboy, rode all the way from that
place to Omaha, a distance of 300
miles, on his pony, to Join tho army, I
but was turned down for a slight
physical blemish. Claiming to bo a (
champion rlllo and revolver shot of nil ,
tho cowboys In the west, skeptical re-1
crultlng sergeants escorted him to tho
basement of tho army building, and
banding him nn army Colt, told hlni to
snow somcining. ai u.iny puces j.u
hit a twenty-five cent piece four times
out or lour, unu put out a iigiucu
candle twice out of four shots nnd was
enlisted for three years' service ut
Honolulu.
Plattsmoutb business men nre mak
ing efforts to obtain city mull delivery
servlco for that place.
At a special election held In Wy
more last week, voters by n majority
of 321 adopted Uio referendum. It Is
believed that as a result of Its adop
tion tho question of Sunday moving
picture shows will soon bo brought up.
Under the now National guard reor
ganization plan npproved by the war
department, Fort Crook Is headquar
ters of Soventh Army corps area,
which Includes Nebraska, Kansas,
Iowu, Missouri, Minnesota nnd both
Dakotns.
More than 10,000 farmers huvo Join
ed the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federa
tion In the Inst month. Nine counties
have conducted membership campaigns
and several more nro now In tho midst
of nddlng new members.
Potato growers at Kearney, on tho
market for aboift 30,000 bushels of
seed potatoes, were relying on tho
fields of western Nebraska to supply
their needs. It now nppears they will
buy Minnesota seed Instead. The grow
ers have learned that It will cost BS
cents a bushel to ship seed potatoes
from Alliance to thut point, na no
commodity rata Is available to them.
PRE8IDENT QEND8 MESSAGE.
)Uroi Legislation that Will .Make
Democracy a Permanency
and a Power.
Washington.- President Wilson In
his message called on congress to en
act a program of legislation which ho
said would put the United States In
tho forefront of n movement to make
the spiritual powi'r of democracy pre
vail throughout the world.
In his tlnal regular message to con
gress, which was sent, to the two
houses Tuesday by messenger, the
president said there are two ways In
which the United States can lead In
establishing the doctrine of "right
makes might" In the world. These
ways, he said said, are:
"First, by offering the example with
in her own borders of the will nnd
power of democracy to make and en
force laws which are unquestionably 1
Just and which are equal In holr ad
ministration. "Second, by standing for right and
Justice toward Individual nations."
He did not mention the peace treaty
nor the league of nations In his
meSsnge, but submitted the following
program to carry out tho alms he out
lined :
Immediate passage of the budget
bill ; strictest economy In government
appropriations; Immediate revision of
tax laws: adequate provision for (lis
ablcd soldiers and sailors; a govern
ment loan to Armenia: granting of In
dependence to the Philippines.
TEACHER SHORTAGE SERIOUS.
Not One-Flfth Enough Pegagogs
Fill New Vacancies.
to
Washington. Between 300,000 anil
I
i
i
ami -100.000 children were deprived of ,Uck here nt the old homestead. It
schooling lust year us n direct result mayn't bo ns fine nnd showy us los
of the shortage of teachers, according you'll see there In the city, but It's
trt estimates made by P. P. Cluxton, more the sort that the good Lord In
federal commissioner of education, In tended you for. Mn and I are hoping
his nnnunl report. No relief for the 1 the best for you, son, but when you
situation Is seen by the commissioner, j (j0 nn(j oUt Unit your fortune's not
who added Wat while from 110,000 to 1 ,nvnv off there Just pocket your pride
possibly tno.OOO new teachers would i nn, con)( i)nck here to us who love
be needed during the coming year,
we shall have at the outside, 30,000
prepared teachers to fill vacancies or I shiiK eyes and n high heart and nd
a deficit of at least S0.000." j ventured Into the great, far-away city
Nebracka and Iowa Patents.
Omuliu, Neb. Official list of letters 1
patent Issued from the United States . overlo0). ,,lm (mrlng thut year of nb
Patent Olllco ut Washington to res- j wnCQ wmM be R lonB n,, imrrowliie
Idents of Iown and Nebraska for the
month of November us reported by
St urges & Sturges, patent attorneys,
432 Peters Trust building, Is us fol
lows: Frank II. Lee, Elgin, Neb., toy
aeroplane; John Dolau, Hastings, Neb.,
railway rail fastener; Anthony C. Ru
der, Alta, la., feeder for fountain pens ;
Wlliner G. Buck, Fremont, Neb., valve
rotor for engines; Geo. W. Holtsclnw,
Gowrle, la., seed corn stringer; Geo.
P. Connealy, Decatur, Neb., collapsible
truck body.
Widespread Industrial Depression.
New York. 'Official reports from
forty-five stales reveal n widespread
Industrial depression, In spite of
which no serious or general unemploy
ment bus as yet developed the nntlonnl
Industrial conference board declared
in a statement Issued here. Thls situa
tion has developed when seasonal
agricultural employment Is nt Its low
est ebb in most sections, with Indica
tions that unemployment slowly Is In
creasing, It was stated.
Withdrawal of Troopo a Preliminary.
New York. England must withdraw
all British troops from Ireland and
liberate all political prisoners as a
preliminary to restore pence In Irc
lnnd, Enmon Do Vnlorn, "president of
the Irish republic," declared In n state
ment here. "The removal of the ag
gression obviously Is both the Initial
and nlso the final step that is, as I
have said, the whole essence of tho
trouble between the two countries."
Investigating Irish Question.
Washington. Charges that the Brit
ish government hns kept alive and
continuously stirred religious hatred In
Ireland and has sought through n "rein
of terror" to starve that country Into
submission, brought to a conclusion
eight hours of testimony by Miss Mary
MacSwIney, sister of the lute Lord
Mayor of Cork, before the commission
of the committee of 100 investigating
the Irish question.
Kansas City, Mo. Bankers hnve
confidence In tho live stock Industry
! of the southwest, and will carry stock
, , ut ho,,, nit(.H mi(.r
i a(,n,,,nu,nt readied nt n conference be-
tween local bankers and officers of
the tenth federal reserve bank, It was
announced here.
To Fight Volstead Bill.
Baltimore. The Volstead act will
be the target when the next congress
convenes for the fire of Association
Against Prohibition Amendment. The
volleys will' be directed on Washing
ton from nil sections of the country,
for the organlzntlon, In existence for
only u few months, bus members in
every state in the union.
Thousands of residents of New York
City nre members of the association
and will lend their aid In tho light to
lime the Volstead net repealed or
modified.
Washington. "If you have brandy
season the plum pudding or mince
meat ami make the holidays festive
and guy. G ahead with your Christ
ians plans, drawing us heavily upon
the 'private' stock as demands may
warrant. But I wouldn't advise try
ing to buy brandy for culinary pur
poses. It can't be easily done." This
brief advice to house wives from
John F. Kramer, dry Inw chief, wns
given to refute erroneous reports thnt
government dry law officers looked dis
approvingly upon Yuletlde delicacies
with nn exhilarating punch.
loirumd the
nstma?
L.S DeDusle M
m Fervee Cass
II EN Tom left the farm to
go to the city to make his
fortune he d'd It contrary
to the ominous bead
shnklng and pliophecles
of disaster of all tho
neighbors. Even bis fa
ther and mother, with past
years of toll rapidly be
ginning to tell upon them, were pes
simistic of his chances of success, nor
could they resist expressing their fore-
codings.
The old folks loved their boy too
well to reproach him for his dosertlun
now In the tlrst tlush of his young
manhood, but their hearts did ache at
thought of the separation.
"You'll soon j,vt tired of all that
hurly-burly there In the city. Tom."
his old father told him. "And when
I you do, I want you always to romoni-
her that we've still got a place for you
...
voting Tom left the farm with
In quest of fame nnd fortune.
How he fared there and all the sor
ry disappointments that repeatedly
story to tell. He chased his minnow
to Its end, yet foudd the fabled pot of
gold not there as he had so confidently
and blatantly expected.
Tom made applications for all sorts
of olllco positions only to find himself
quickly rejected because of his iuck
of experience In those specific lb'
"Well, niiywny, I'm young and bus-
kv and used to hard manual labor,
Tom consoled himself. "I can nt lenst
get a Job with a contracting gang, ns
a pnlnter, or plumber's assistant, or
teamster. Thnt will sulllce to keep mo
going for n while until the sort of po
slrton I want turns up."
But even In those lines of work the
green country boy found himself sutl
denly brought up short against a blunt
wall. He hud no references ns to past
city employment and nobody would
, hire htm after once finding out that he
bud no union card
Huddled 1 3 his shabby overcoat on
a street corner In tho squalid section
of the city the Icy wind whistling
nround him nnd biting through his
threadbare garments poor Tom stood
on the evening before Christmas, won
derlng where he might find n shelter
In which to sleep thut night without
freezing.
Just how long he hud stood there.
shivering In the chill wind on the
street corner bitterness against the
great, unfeeling city rankling In his
i heart Tom did not know. He was
startled from his moody reverie ny
hearing a hoarse, wheedling .voice ut
his verv elbow, saving what was In
tended ns a confidential tone:
"How'd y'llke a nice hot feed and
Borne coin to Jingle in yer punts, bo?
Ain't hungry, uro yu?"
Whirling about, Tom snw that his
accostcr was tin under-sized, burly fel
low with a tough, truculent visage and
bunds shoved deep Into the side pocl
ets of Ills cout. lie wore a buttered
cap with the visor pulled low down
over his eyes nnd spat malevolently
upon tho sidewalk each time before lie
spoke.
"How'd y'llko tho Idea, huh?" he re
Iterated In his raucous, grating voice,
sidling closer us he spoke and casting
a wary eye up and down the nenrly
deserted, gloomy, wind-swept street
Tom regarded him with distaste and
undisguised mistrust. Ho looked like
u typical thug. But misery cannot bo
too fastidious about the company It
keeps. Finally Tom scowled blackly
and answered :
"What's that to you, anyway?"
"Well, you're outta luck, ain't chu,
pal? Yer on yer uppers, stony broke
nnd mnybo with an empty belly, too,
huh, bo? Well, I guessed that much.
I ain't blind yet, I ain't I Well, 1
need a pal for a little Job tonight and
we both can make a lotta Jack out of
It, see?"
"You you mean burglary?" Tom
muttered hesitantly, with an Involun
tary contraction of his heart
"Humph! Not anything like safe
cracking or breaking Into a house, I
don't. Too many people staying up
with the kids over Christmas trees to
night. I nln't keen on tukln' fool
chnnces like that. I'm tellln' ya ! Nnw,
this I wantchn for Is something soft;
safe and easy as falling off a log. You
know the big prices people are willing
to pny for real booze since the coun
try went dry, don't chu? Well, right
near here I know a certain warehouse
that's got 20 cases of whisky stored In
the basement. Renl bonded stuff 1
The watchman Is an old pal o' mine
und Is willing to let us swipe It If
we'll spilt on the coin wo get after
wards. I've got another guy with a
tllvver that's ready to meet us about 2
o'clock this morning to haul away tho
stuff as fast as we pnss It up to htm
through the alley windows. We've
got It nil framed for u fake capture
and tying up of our other pnl, the
night watchman, so that the bulls can't
get wise to Mm. We're willing to split
four ways on the swag If y' wuntu go
In on It with us. Whntcha say now,
bo, huh? Safe and easy as fulling off
n log!"
The sinister nppoarnnce of the ruf
fian repollod Tom, nnd tho very
thought of tho crime they contemplat
ed struck him with fright. It meant
Jnll, disgrace, If they were1 caught.
"But I I newer have done any
thing like thnt In my llfo." ho stum
inerod weakly, teeth chattering In tho
biting wind. "It would be criminal.
The whisky doesn't belong to us. It
would be Illegal for us even to try to
sell It afterwards."
Pah!" Hpat the ugly-vlsugod man.
sneorlngly. "You look pretty, a bird
like youse, talking thut wny about
what's lawful and nil thnt I Lots that
these rich guys have cured how you
got along since you cnnie to town,
from the looks of you I They've got
fine, warm homes and coin and every
thing. Wotta they care whether poor
hums like us have to go hungry or
freeze In the gutter on Christmas eve?
Why should you care about them when
hey don't give n rap about you?
You've got to go on living, ain't chu,
huh?" v
Tom hunched his shuddering shoul
ders agniust the wind, trembling as
much because of his own moral Irreso
lution ns from the terrible cold.
"Well, bo, how about It? Are y'
on or are y stilt so almighty particular
"How'd Y'LIke the Idea, Huh?"
about how y' handle the stuff belong
ing to all them rich guys?"
'God I" groaned poor Tom In tho
abyss of his wretchedness. "Yes, I'll
do It I I wllll I will!"
Tho other clapped hlni roughly on
the shoulder with a saturnine leer and
attempt .at jocular fellowship.
"Well, 1 thought chu would." ho
rasped hoarsely. "We'll meet chu ut
the corner by the lumber yard at 1 :30.
Don't you fall to be there now I"
I won't! I'll be there all right 1"
Tom muttereu brokenly. Already In
bis cringing soul he fell like the thief
he hud pledged himself to become. Oh
henven, If 'only
To kill time until the appointed
hour, he dug his numb hands deeper
down Into his pockets nnd wandered
aimlessly on. He had no particular
objective In mind save only the need
to keep, moving lest he freeze or go
mnd with the strain of waiting. Ho
shrank from letting himself think of
the deed to which he was about to bo
party.
Involuntarily his dragging footsteps
took him back Into the more brilliant'
ly lighted retail shopping district,
where the crowds nlreudy hud thinned,
hurrying home to their families and
happy, expectant kiddles with the boll
day celebration In mind.
The hours dragged slowly by. It
came near the hour for the stores to
close. But still there was time, If
poor Tom hud only hud money, to
have rushed In, bought the presents
he wanted for the old folks and chil
dren, and caught the midnight train
buck to the country. He enslly could
reach there by morning nnd appear as
n Joyous surprise to them
But nb I Why drive himself to dis
traction by thinking of that when
theru wns no chance thnt
Anil right theji, suddenly, be espied
It lying there, almost at his very feet
a big, fat wallet, with not a person
nearer than n hundred yards of him.
Plainly someone lind lost It In their
mnd haste, to get home.
Tom stopped and scooped It up like
a Hash. Around tho corner he surrep
titiously examined It. Bills both
green and yellow, of large dononilnn-
tlons they fnlrly stuffed Iti Thoro
were? seven hundred dollars or morel
a small fortune to the miserable boy
who hud not even eaten for fourteen
hours. Money I Money ! Money l
Fnr more than he possibly could need
even In his most extravagant dreams.
With a gurgling cry, Tom stuffed tho
wad of bills Into his trousers pocket,
threw nwuy tho line lenther purse and
inndo n mad dush for the nearest de
partment store.
No need now to keep his sinister,
criminal appointment no more neces
sity for
'
But the most gladsome fenture of
young Tom's homecoming that next
dny was his blushing announcement to
the old folks that he had had enough
of the big city; that he bad como
home to stay, as they juid prayed bo
t .i
(. 1920. Wtern Nempaper Union.) J
Daddy's
?4 Eveiii&
Fairy Tale
dyAPF?f GRAHAM BOJWER.
IN THE SHOPS.
"This Is such nn exciting time of
the year," said tho big ',oy boat to thu
little toy submarine. "This Is tho
time When children como and look ut
us. What an honor It l, too, to be In
the window.
"Of course, toy submarine, I can un
derstand why you would be put In a
window. You're a very modern, up-
to-date sort of toy. And I'm an old-
fashioned kind of toy. That Is, they
have had bouts such as I am In shops
before Christmas time for yenrs and
years and years."
"Well, you're always loved, that's
what It means to be a boat such as
you." snld tho toy submarine.
"Every year," saltl the big toy bont,
"I've heard that the toys In the shops
get pretty excited us Christmas tlmo
comes. . .
"They don't know Just whether
they'll bo chosen by parents or
whether Santa Onus will come bnck
and get some of them on the night
before Christmas or Just what will
happen.
"You see," the big toy boat contin
ued, "some of us will be chosen by the
daddies and mothers. Others will be
bought by boys and girls for other
boys and girls who nre their friends.
"And then n, great many of us will
be taken back by Santa Uluus on- the
night before Christmas as he Is on
his rounds, and sometimes he will get
a gout! many several nignts in ad
vance as he knows the night before
Christmas Is such' a busy night.
"Tho great majority of us ho mnde
and then let tho shops huvo us,, for
ho.. Is such u grent toy maker. And
when I say the great majority I mean
the greatest number of us.
"Yes, he comes and gets many of
us for he has nn agreement or ar
rangement such as thut with the shop
keepers.
"Now there are a number of tho
snme old friends nere tins year as
In a Bathtub.
usual. That Is, there are dolls Just
like dolls who were here last yur.
They may not be the snme ones but
they are of the snino family of dolls.
And there are trains such as there
wero before and have been for years
and years. And there nre always boats
such as I am mnde ench year.
"There are toy animals, too Santa
Clans uinkcs the sumo kinds which ho
knows nre always 'populur and which
will always bo liked. And, oh, I'm so
glad children still like bouts. There
are some of our nice little relatives,
too the sailing boats. They are of
nil sizes. Some are small enough to
sail In a bathtub. They're so small
they won't know that the bathtub
Isn't ii big ocean."
''Well," suld the submarine, "I found
out on coming here that there wero
many Christmas shops. Yes, lots and
lots of them. I don't supposo I should
say Christmas shops but I should say
top shops, und they're especially lino,
nt Christmas time.
"Snntn Clans made me In his work
shop Just ns he did a great many like
me. I thought to myself when ho
mudo me that there certainly must
have been n lot who asked for our
family, for In addition to tho ones ho
niuJe In answer to special requests ho
made so many of us for the shops.
"Then I found out how mnny shops
there were. Oh, there are Just loads
nnd loads of toy shops.
"And we're only In one of them."
"True," said the big toy boat,
couldn't be In more than one shop nt
a time. But It's grent to bo a part of
any toy shop around Christmas tiro."
"It mo'l certainly Is grent," suld tho
toy submarine.
"They've asked for some of our fnm-
lly, too," said a pair of skates. "Yes,
and many of us went to tho different
toy shops for this Christmas time." j
"And they usked for us," suld a
whole lot of sleds In u corner of tho'
shop. "Yes, the old sled frlenda'
haven't been forgotten."
"They asked for us, too," said soma
hockey sticks.
And all the tops began to sny that
they were naked for too. And also
ninny of them had been already spoken
for as Christians presents for certain
boys and girls.
So every toy In the shop was ex
tremely happy to think It belonged to
such an exciting time of tho yenr.nndl
that there were so many toy shops, so
thut It gavo them all a chance.
Still Hungry.
Trim Tli'litu'iiil Himti'f tlilu linmi n
nice little dinner?
Tho Girl Yes, Indeed. Very, nice
and very little.
