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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1924)
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Because of its merit and pop ularity GREEN’S AUGUST FLOWER Is found today wherever medicines are Isold. 30 and 90 cent bottles.—Adv. They Always Do Sam—Jones is the proud father of a girl. , Hamm—When was it born? “Saturday morning.” “Just like a woman to show up on !pay day.”—Judge. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine Treatment, both j I local and internal, and has been success* >ful in the treatment of Catarrh for over forty years. Sold by all druggists. !F. J. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo, Ohio Statesmen’s Fate Similar James G. Blaine and Henry Clay suf fered similar fates when they sought • to be elected by their respective par ities to the Presidency of the United ! States. Botli were twice defeated for jthe nomination by their party during ! years when the party nominees were jeleeted and both similarly were de jfeated when they were chosen aa [standard bearers. [DEMAND “BAYER” ASPIRIN [Aspirin Marked With “Bayer Cross" , ! Has Been Proved Safe by Millions. j - i Warning! Unless you see the name “Bayer” on package or on tablets you !are not getting the genuine Bayer [Aspirin proved safe by millions and [prescribed by physicians for 23 years. Say “Bayer” when you buy Aspirin, imitations may prove dangerous.—Adv. Gold Railway Bed Passengers on a railroad east of Denver are to ride on a roadbed of [gold. The right of way for 400 miles twill be ballasted with the slag from [the gold and silver mines of Colorado. [Each ton of this slag contains at least [$2 worth of gold ore, but the amount is too sinull for the smelting companies to get out profitably with the ma chinery now in use. tHaisalr for Colda. New device. New discovery. [Works while asleep. Send $1 or write. |W. P. Co., 1121 Howard St., San Francisco. BUY GOOD LAND IN CENTRAL SOUTH jlJAKOTA, where one crop, in many instances, ipays for the land. Write for prices. jGottlieb Winckler, Harrold. South Dakota. I f HINDERCORNS m u. louse* etc., (top* all pain, ensure, comfort to UvO baby Loves ] A Bath With CH'RISTMA^T AS A SCIENCE A -TTO'RV OF TOyS, TOyLAJVD AJVD THE MACHIJVE'Ry WHICH MOVES THE HO LID Ay In these latter days, when every branch of human activity has been systematized and we are brought, whether we like it or not, un der the spell of scientific manage ment of the smallest business, what is more natural than that we should now be obliged to accept the scien tific management of Christmas? Christmas as a science! How our grandfathers would have gasped at the idea! In their time Christmas was a spontaneous holiday. Christ mas Eve they hung their stockings on the mantelpiece in full confidence that Santa Claus could find his way through a six-inch stove pipe. Then : there was the Christmas tree, with a grandfather to distribute the gifts and a strong force of uncles and aunts to maintain peace among the ; cousins. And there was skating In the afternoon with the choicest sort of melee to give the finishing touch to the day. There was no need of science there; it would, in fact, have spoiled the whole thing. But now the spirit of Christmas has changed. We still have our Christmas trees, subject to the regulations of the fire depart ment, but we are really slaves of our Christmas shopping list. From Thanksgiving to Christmas most of us live in an atmosphere of deepen ing gloom. We have continually hanging over us that dreadful prob lem of what would be the best thing to give So-and-so, and when we have made a selection our hearts sink at the awful thought that, per haps, “What’s-his-name may give the same thing.” It Is to relieve this situation as much as possible that science has been called in to our aid. Of course, even science has not yet been able to prevent two people from sending the same gift to one person. But it has been able to display unusual gifts and a larger number of them for our consideration, so that it v/ill be easier to select a present which we may be quite sure another person would not think of. And the great est advantage of scientific Christmas shopping is the increased speed with which the ordeal may be gone through. These are two things which have brought about this result. The first is the establishment of exhibits of gifts for children in the schools of the large cities of the country. And the second is the scientific arrange ment of gifts for sale in the shops and department stores. On one floor we have a department devoted en tirely to toys and other gifts for children; in another place presents particularly suited to men; and else where sections for women and boys and girls. It is all the direct result of the card index and the filing cab inet. You look under the particular heading you wish and you find dis played before you a vast quantity of suitable gifts to choose from. A good example of these school ex hibits, which are merely for the pur pose of offering suggestions about things to give, is that in the Teach ers’ College Museum in New York City, where the suggestions are ar ranged by the Kindergarten Primary Association, an organization of moth ers connected with the Horace Mann Bchool, acting in co-operation with the department of kindergarten edu cation. That the exhibit meets a distinct need is evidenced by the goodly number of visitors who wan der from case to case, often armed with a note-bood< and pencil, or stop to question the experts who are present to give advice when it is de- I sired. The object of this undertaking is not so much to save mothers labor, worthy object though that might be. Nor is it to display the latest and most ingenious products of the toy market. Child welfare is the pri mary purpose, and there we have an other side of the scientific Christ mas. It is to save the children from being deluged at the Christmas season with inartistic, unhygienic and useful gifts. Aesthetic and hygienic are words that loom up larger in the vocabulary of the pres ent than that of the past. And so, although Noah’s ark will remain Noah’s ark to the end of the world, no twentieth century young ster whose family attends one of these exhibits will feel constrained to suck the paint off Shem, Ham or Japhet. For, lo and behold, they are entirely Innocent of the familiar red and green and blue of that unsani tary century we have left behind. The sons of the patriarch and all the animals that ‘‘went in two by two" are of reasonably hygienic w'hlte wood. By the same token, dolls will be dolls. For here again the scientific Christmas has produced a change to a more aesthetic and hygienic pro duct. Instead of the big rag doll, whose features have been kissed into obliteration by several generations of children, there is a stockinet suc cessor, equally unbreakable, far more beautiful, and absolutely impervious to washing. For older chllldren one finds mar velous all-wood dolls, again embody tig the three important virtues. They r.re unbreakable, washable and artis tic. Their naturalness Is evident at a glance, and the visitor Is not sur prised to learn that they are repro ductions of American children mod elled by American artists. And yet, the thought rises, will modern Dorothys and Nancys love these charming creatures one whit more than their mothers and grand mothers loved the china and wax dollies who preceded them? There was Henrietta, a gorgeous Parisian, you may remember, whoso pink and white loveliness is still a happy mem ory. Poor Henrietta! She died the victim of a bad small brother who tried the effect of midsummer heat upon her waxen complexion. Then there was Juliet, she of real brown hair that combed and a warm bru nette complexion, and a host of others who may have had untold attrac tions. But you must put them out of your mind in this scientific age. Real hair harbors horrible microbes and complexions do not digest well in small stomachs. Then there are other suggestions which are the result of the prac ticality of our time. Housekeeping furnishings, for example, such as tea sets in pewter, cooking utensils in granite and metal, an ironing board and iron which can really be used, and an iron cook-stove upon which things can be cooked. In the matter of musical toys, £3lence has gone even further. The pianos for the child of today are marvellous in struments. Alas for the prestige of the tinkly toy of a generation gone by! These have from two to three octaves of the chromatic scale and are accurately tuned “to concert ' pitch.” But all such marvels cost money and are not likely to avail much for the household where five or six must live on a small income. So it is good to discover a case containing a number of toys at a minimum price. Not one exceeds ten cents in cost. It is surprising how many at tractive things may be had for this money, aud the hard pressed, busy mother, dofing grandma, conscien tious aunt or inexperienced big cous in is very likely to find there the very thing to buy for Tommy or Ruth. In fact, these exhibitions are filling a great need in the simplification of Christmas shoppng. “Indeed, I know i of only one more heartfelt Christmas need,” said a tall woman in an Ama zonian toque, at the Teachers’ Col lege exhibit, “and that ia an exposi tion of gifts for men-follc.” But there is no need to worry about that The scientific Christmas has only begun abd before long we will have exhibits for people of all ages and both sexes. As it Is, the department stores, by their scientific arrange ment and the catalogues and lists of suitable gifts, classified according to ages, have done much toward making even shopping for men a simple mat ter. This, however. Is a very recent in- 1 stitution. In the old days, a woman went to the large shop, without the slightest idea of what she wanted to buy, and after ten minutes in the crowded, heated aisles, surrounded by thousands of elabor.ate, alluring, gaily colored possibilities with no apparent order or arrangement, be wilderment and not decision was her portion. Under such conditions, even the most conscientious of them seized the article nearest. She was at the mercy of the saleswoman ? e cause she did not know what she had better get or where she could get It. But the woman's bewilderment was nothing to the man’s. He didn't even make an attempt to shop; he simply bought. He espied a shelf of lamps, for example, made his way toward it, and demanded curtly: “How much is that—the green one? Fourteen with the shade? Very well. Send it to Mrs. So-and-So, 48 Channing Place.” In such a rush and crowd he never could remember with sickening accuracy that Mrs. So-and-So’s drawing-room and li brary were done in red, and already supplied with so many lamps that the housemaid was threatening to leave. He simply had his wits about him enough to get to the next counter, which was perhaps fitted out in di| t copper. “How much is that ink well? Nine seventy-five? I’ll take it. Send it to Mr. Scribbler, 22 Rutherford Square.” He went through the ordeal as fast as he could. And Mr. Scribbler, whose desk had been slowly acquiring an outfit of silver tools, would find its simple belongings overawed on Christmas morning by the arrival of three magnificent inkwells—copper, bronze and brass—from three friends who had to select the nearest thing j at hand. _ But all these things are different now'. You get a list of things which such-and-such a store has to offer for man. woman and child of any given age. with the floor on which It may be found indicated, and you have only to walk in calmly and de liberately and purchase it. It is literally an index of the peace and good will which you may wish to dispense. You do all your thinking beforehand and have an opportunity I to remember that Mri. So-and-So's library is furnished In red, and that a Kaiser Sinn vase would be more acceptable than a lamp. Then When you have made your selection you may make your way to the store with a fairly calm and tranquil mind. Of course, it la crowded with a deijdty which makes ^ progress almost impossible, blazing hot with multitudinous lights and noisy with many clamoring voices, but all that can have no effect on you. You are a scientific shopper and know just what you are going to get and where you are going to get It. Science saves time, money and nerves. There Is another way In whlcn Christmas has become a science and that is in the methods which the big shop keeper employs to attract the crowds of holiday shoppers. Go Into one of their establishments and you cannot fall to see it. They are aglow with light, bright with the colors of unnumbered fabrics and you hear far and near the clash of music from many Instruments. That Is simply to lure you In and once you are there you see at first nothing but ’ a spectacle of confusion and a con- ■ flict of sounds that would make Babel lose caste as a synonym. But if you start to buy what you have , come for you will find a remarkable state of order so far as the things offered for sale are concerned. It Is not really a store; it's an exposi tion. There Isn’t a man in the world who has a keener understanding of the human makeup than the big shop keeper. He knows every string of the instrument and plays diligently upon them all. He lures people with advertisements which are wonder stories. He halts the passing crowd , in the streets with a windowful of Christmas waxworks, and once they have come inside, whether with a purpose or out of mere curiosity, the machinery is there to hold them fast. For weeks the designers, decorat ors, scene painters and dummy mak ers have been at work devising and constructing some sort of living pic tures fraught with the spirit of the Christmas tale. There is the papier mache church, still and beautiful, with snowcovered trees about it, light shining from the tall windows, men, women and children mounting to the portal, and from away in the inside sanctuarj somewhere come the music of a .nighty organ and . voices singing Christmas carols. It is expensive, but it Impresses the people who enter the store. It is the idea of it all that the hearts of the shoppers be mellowed and the spirit be moved to buy more and still more for the holiday giving. That ' may seem a little "far-fetched" ns . you sit at home with a "grouch on” because something went wrong yes terday, or a man you thought was your friend went back on you, bu* get into one of those stores, where "you can’t hear yourself think” of your troubles for the noise, and you will realize that it is really a very clever conception. Up there before the eyes is an in- - spiring presentment of the great un selfishness. And here before you, behind you and on either hand are the goods. Just the things for all your kith and kin. It is the shopkeeper’s plan that you shall buy while the spell is still on you, while the dim religious light beams out and the Christmas carols burden the air. And you do. You would be less than ' human if you didn’t. You may not think that has anything to do with it but it has. The shopkeeper would not go to all that expense, you may be sure, if he did not know what results it would bring him. Even the small street fakers use their wits to sell all they can during the holidays. It is their harvest time of the whole year. And they select the spots on the sidewalks which will be most advantageous for sale of their particular wares. They invent innumerable little devices for the purpose of attracting crowds. They, too, are scientific. The toyman chooses a spot where the greatest number of children will pass, and spends the day showing the workings of his clockwork ve hicles with metallic horses and driv ers, his fighting roosters and climb ing monkeys, and his automatic ani mals full of plaintive voice. About the corners where most people pas* are stationed the familiar men and women with baby rabbits and be ribboned puppies of divers breeds. They know just how to make a wo man imbued with the Christmas spirit take pity on the little animals on a cold day and buy them in order that they may have a comfortable home. The Christmas greens man with his huge boxes of holly and mistle toe, and—moie power and less glucose to him—the candy man and something like ten thousand others display their W'ares from all sides, entice the passing throngs with a hundred little devices, appeal to their sympathy and torn peace and good will into hard cash. To both buyer ; and seller, from the biggest to the smallest, Christmas has become c science. Bags Three Squirrels With Single Shot Woodsfleld, Ohio—Hunting season honors for Monroe county this year have been awarded to Frank Elliott, , who bagged three squirrels with a single shot. Elliott explained that the aiuirrels were caucusing on a lot MOTHER:- Fletcher’s Castoria is a pleasant, harm less Substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups, espe cially prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ages. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Proven directions on each package. Physicians everywhere recommend ft Trace Causes of Odors in Metals Experiments have been made to prove that metals have odors com posed not of tlie atoms of the metal, but of the products of their chemical changes. At ordinary temperatures the odors frequently could not he detected, or tfere almost imperceptible, but be came more pronounced as the metal was heated, and then disappeared af ter the heating had been continued for a considerable length of time. The ex perimenters also have succeeded In isolating the odorous matter.—Popu lar Mechanics Magazine. P. D. Q. Balthasar II. Meyer, chairman of the interstate commerce commission, told a railroad story at a Madison banquet. “We’ll call the line I have in mind tho P. L>. Q.,” he said. "Well, n man under suspicion of hog stealing was being examined in court, and tire mag istrate said to him: ‘“You claim that on the day these hogs disappeared you were at the P. D. Q. station from 0:15 In the morning till 11:50 at night. What on earth were you doing there nil that time?' “ ‘Your honor,’ said the suspect, '1 was waiting for the 10:20 a. m. ex press.’ " Cheese Basis of Long Life Metchnikoff, the successor of Pas teur, declared that the “microbe of death” was located in the great intes tine and that long life depended on keeping it at bay by means of nn ap propriate diet, of which cheese was the principal ingredient. As this, with the famous sour milk, is one of the staple forms of nourishment of the Balkan peasants, it may account 'for the long life of the Serbian and Bulgarian peo ples. To this must be added the pure mountain air and the rude but healthy lives led by these remarkable people. Time to “Take Stock” Many a man who boasts that he Is self-made wonders why his fellows do .not share iiis admiration of his crea tion. Such a man should go farther and give serious thought to his achieve ment. Introspection might reduce his conceit.—Grit. Cuticura for Pimply Face*. To remove pimples and blackheads smear them with Cuticura Olntmeut. Wash off in five minutes with Cuti cura Soap and hot water. Once clear keep your skin clear by using them for daily toilet purposes. Don’t fail to in clude Cuticura Talcum. Advertisement. Keep Your Credit Good Ef you don’t pay de fiddler, you'll have ter depend on de wind ter whis tle for you when you wants ter dunce. —Atlanta Constitution. Some men object to dogs and some vomen object to men who object to logs. Measure Lightning Photography determines the dl* tance of a lightning flush and hence the dimensions of any of its features. Two cameras are mounted side by side and exposed at the same time, says Nature Magazine. Objects of known distance from the point of ob servation are photographed along with the lightning, and a comparison of the two pictures, plus a little mathe matics, gives the distance of the llght-j ning much more exactly than the oldi process of counting seconds between the flush and the thunder. 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