i A pretty >oung girl, well wrapped
up agtiinst the cold night, and si half
grown boy carrying a large basket,
were crossing the street when an
automobile swung suddenly around
the corner. To save themselves, the
girl and the boy had to make u sud
den retreat, and In so doing they
dropped the basket and It was crushed
under the wheels.
There were four young tnen In the
automobile. They were singing and
laughing and enjoying the license of
Christmas eve. They jeered at the
boy for dropping the basket, and they
raised their bats in mock courtesy to
the girl.
“Miss, I didn’t go for to do It!” apol
ogized the boy, who had been hired
as a messenger, and who had been
told that the basket contained food
for poor families In the tenement be
yond.
“I know—1 know,’’ replied the girl.
"It wasn't your fault, but I'm so sorry.
The sick woman and her children
won't have the food and toys now, but
I have a little change In my purse and
I can still do something. You needn't
go any farther; It is just across the
Street. Good-night to you."
“Missy," said the boy as she was
•bout to move away, "you gave me a
dime to carry the basket. Here It Is.
Give It to some kid up there who,
wants a mouth-organ. Oh, you must
take It, and if you say so I'll wait here
till them fellers come back and hit
’em with a rock.”
"But how about your Christmas,
Jimmy?" the girl asked
"Oh, I can skirmish around, same aH
I always do. Night to you. and l hope
that sick woman will get better.”
The girl crossed the street and e»
tered ihe hallway of the tenement
and climbed to Ihe third floor Three
children were walling for her on the
landing, and uttered glad shouts at
sight of her She had been there be
fore and had promised them that she
would come on Christmas eve With
in the poverty-stricken rooms called
home a sick woman was lying on a
bed. She smiled and was glad at
eight of the girl.
She told them the incident of the
auto and the loss of the basket, and
then she counted over her scanty
change and went downstairs to the
nearest grocery. It was little she
could buy. There would he Christmas
eating, but no feast. The little stock
lngs with their holes would he hung
but there would be no Santa Claus to
All them. The children stood with
their faces to the wall and wept, and
the girl held the hand of the sick
woman and shed tears.
As they sat thus the door opened
and let In the cold air from the hall.
An old tnun stood outside. He was
ragged and unkempt, and hunger had
given him the face of a wolf. There
was not a soft line in it. Peering out
of his own door on the same floor, he
had seen the girl come bearing pack
ages. There was bread on the table
before him.
The children cried out as they saw
the look on the old man's face, and
the girl rose up and barred his way.
“I want bread and I'll have it!" he
•xclalmed nercely.
"I it you can't take It from this
sick woman and these helpless chil
dren.'’
I tell you I in hungry—I want
bread! Why didn't you come to me
Drat? I am old: there is no work for
me, but 1 will not die like a dog.
Stand aside! You will not? Then—"
He selz her by the arms and there
was a a: 'uggle. The children were
ihouting for help, and the man-wolf
was nearing the coveted loaves when
lome one entered and seized him and
whirled him about and thrust him out
tato the hall, shutting the door on his
eaths and snarls. The children ceased
their cries and the girl looked up to
lee a young man standing in the cen
ter of the room, gazing around him
"It is your fault!" she half sobbed
“You were in the auto that almost
ran me down. You laughed in my
lace as you raised your hat. Hut for
you there would have been plenty of
food and some presents here."
“Yes, I was one of them,” the man
answered. "It Is Christmas eve, and
we were out for a lark. Yes, I looked
straight into your eyes, and in five
minutes I was ashamed of myself. I
came back and hunted until I found
the boy. When he told me that you
were a Christmas angel, and that he
bad given his last dime to help out, I
was still more ashamed of myself and
of my friends. Can you forgive me?"
"Yes, It is Christmas eve." she said
In a voice hardly above a whisper as
■he seemed to listen to the merry
shouts from the street. "There are
tens of thousands of persons on the
btreets in merry mood, but what have
■we here? What have vye in every room
1n thie old rookery? Were you think
ing of It "when you crushed the basket
$ was bringing?—when you smiled in
io my face?”
“I was a brute,” he answered
“l was bringing my little mite," shs
continued In a deprecatory way. 'T
have a widowed mother to support,
and I could not spare much. I was
weeks saving up to buy what was In
that basket You are rich, perhaps.
It would h vo been nothing to you."
The children stood hushed and
awed, and the sick woman dosed her
ej es and wondered at It all. 1'he
young man and the girl looked
straight into each other's eyes ns they
talked, and her words seemed to cut
him like the lash of n whip. When
there had hi on silence for a minute,
and the oia man-wolf was heard
snarling as he paced the hall, the
young man said:
"1 am ashamed and sorry. Let that
answer for the moment. Will you
come with me?"
And without the slightest fear In
her mind, and with a smile at the
mother arid her children, she arose
Intuition told her what was in the
stranger's thoughts, lie carried the
bread and butter out into the ball and
placed them in the hands of the
lierce-faced old man. lie fell to de
vouring them as il' he had. Indeed,
been a wolf of the forest, and when
another tenant came out and asked
for crumbs he was frightened away
by snarls and growls.
"Now come," said the young man.
Up one street and down another for
an hour, they went. Wines and jellies
and fruits, they bought for the woman
whose aliment was starvation more
than disease—-food to last for days and
days. They selected, next, gifts and
| new stockings to receive them—what
ever money could buy and the two
could bundle Into Ihelr arms, they
picked up. And all the time, though
neither one knew the name of the
other, they talked and laughed and
were like children In their delight.
The return to the tenement was like
the arrival of a lord and his lady.
There was something for other chil
dren. too, and a policeman, pausing In
"I Have a Widowed Mother to Sup
port, and I Could Not Spare
Much.”
the lower hall, heard such shouts of
pleasure and so much childish laugh
ter that he glanced up the dimly
lighted stairs and said to himself:
‘Old Santa must have Changed his
route this year and come among the
poor.”
And at a late hour, when the Christ
mas angel and her guardian walked
downstairs together and she was put
into a cab for home, they still talked
and still luughed. nor did they know
that they would ever meet again. She
had lashed him for his heartlesness.
She was hoping that he would see that
she had forgiven him. He had been
almost brutal. He was hoping that
she had seen his better side No cards
—no names.
‘Goodnight," they said at parting;
and when he raised his hat she knew
that it was in courtesy instead of
Irony.
Hays later, when the girl visited the
old tenement again, the sick woman
and her children had vanished, but
had left word behind for her. The
man wolf was still there, but instead
of growling and showing his teeth, he
smiled at her. In another place, with
light and air and food and comforts
in abundance, the girl found the j
mother and her little ones. It was
a glad surprise, and to the look of In- i
quiry the widow, no longer in bed, I
whispered:
“He did it: He did it all!”
One evening when long weeks had
passed, the young man was waiting at
the home of the gtrl when she came
from her place of daily employment
‘i have been talking with the
mother," he said, quietly. "She says
I may call. What does the Christmas
Angel say?"
(Copyright, 1910.)
A Simple Gift.
When one wishes to send little
more than a remembrance at Christ
mas yet does not care to use cards,
a novelty that can be made by the girl
who paints is a match scratcher *n the
form of a card.
Have an oblong background of col
ored cardboard, and on it paint a
quaint figure cut from fine emery pa
per In soft tones of brown, heighten
ed by gay touches in the costume. It
is then cut out and pasted on the
back, which may be left plain or
painted with scenery to correspond.
Sometimes these scratchers are
done in entirely monochrome. Chil
dren with huge muffs, picturesque
colonial or Greuze figures, or quaint
Dutch peasants can be copied in
colors.
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_ KST and men u t ot nil
"ir * NrtNBtfc
_dim iTf ll it cl I’i.ris'i
k extra the grit and put forth,
extra < Tort that it may bo
set forth In state At the
tall of some one, whore heart is "good
toward us, we gather round the bright
table. Sweet with fir. beautiful with
holly, gUsbinii g with white riapery and
twinkling glass and all lit with rosy
candles, it sets the heart aglow, be
speaking a loving kindness, which is
the salvation of our workaday world.
The dining room is the heart of the
house and its great day Is Christmas
day. It is really very little trouble to
decorate It for a Christmas dinner,
and dressing the table cannot be
spoken of as a trouble—it is a pleas
ure.
The dining room must be entirely
clean—the windows newly washed and
the walls and furniture wiped off and.
polished up a bit, before the placing
of decorations begins. These should
he simple and in green so as not to1
distract the attention from the table
If a hanging lump or a chandelier
Is suspended over the table, nothing
Is much more effective thnn the fes
toons of green from lamp to the cor-,
ners of the room. Hopes of ever
green are made by cutting off small
branches and winding the steins with
dark cord or heavy black thread. The
lamp, or chandelier supports, may be
dressed with sprays of evergreen and
holly and the evergreen festoons ar
ranged along the walls, underneath ,
the plate rail, the festoons to be j
caught up with sprays of holly. |
Branches of green over the windows
and door casings and wreaths pinned
at each window, on the curtains, are
the time-honored Christmas decora
tions that cannot be Improved upon
and are dear because familiar.
But in setting forth her table the
hostess lias a chance to exercise her
Christmas Candle Shades and a Mica
Shade for Protection.
ingenuity and he as original as she
may please.
The table Is to be made amply long
so that it will not be crowded, and
spread with a protecting pad, and an
immaculate cloth, smooth and shin
ing. Silver and glassware are to be
scoured and polished and the china
treated to tlie same freshening proc
ess. until everything shines. Uny a
dinner napkin at each place and pro
ceed to decorate the table.
A centerpiece is to he provided. A
very handsome one is made of a bolt
of No. 80 red satin ribbon. Two
lengths of this, each 1% yards long,
are crossed at the middle of the table,
lying Hat and the ends extending
toward the corners of the table. Ir»
the center an ornamental fern dish
is fashioned of the ribbon about a
plain fern dial).
The ribbon is made into standing
loops, each about six inches in length.
These are placed in a row about the
dish with the loops upstanding. The
dish used may be an ordinary milk
pan previously covered with red pa
per in crepe or tissue. Kill the pan
with moss or sand. In the center
stand a miniature Christmas tree, a
natural baby tree if possible. Deco
rate the miniature tree with tiny can
dies and the smallest of red tinsel
Dalis. The candles are not to be
lighted. Place few decorations and
have them all in miniature. The effect
is charming.
Another pretty center piece is made
with five ordinary tin candlesticks,
supporting five red or white caudles.
Set one of these on an inverted paste
board box In the center of the table
and the four remaining candles one
at each corner of the box, on the table.
Use a small box. not larger than the
bottom of the candlestick. Cover the
candlesticks and the box with sprays
of evergreen and holly and sprinkle
over these the "diamond dust" which
may be bought, or made by cutting a
piece of tinsel rope into little parti
cles. Make shades for the candles,
using red paper. Buy the fireproofed
kind for safety.
The shades are very easily made by
cutting four petals of paper and
mounting them over an isinglnss pro
tector on the brass shade holders.
Pull out the edges of the paper to
get the ruffled effect. Tie the shades
about their support with a small cord.
Over this place a piece of tinsel, fin
ishing it in a little bow or knot. Each
candle will appear to spring from a
nest of green. The candles are to be
lighted when the dessert is served. A
candle shade such as is described is
shown in the picture.
A third pretty centerpiece Is made
ot a small round hand mirror and sil
ver tinsel in the form of a five-pointed
star. Cut the star from a piece of
white wrapping paper, making it 12 to
18 inches across. liry the paper star
in the center of the table and place the
small mirror in the center of the star.
Cover the paper star completely with
silver tinsel. Place a tall Blender vase
in clear glass on the mirror and fill It
with poimettia blossoms or red carna
tions or bright re! rosea. If natural
flowers are not available a tall candle
in a glass stic k, surrounde d bv shorter
candles in -hotter < andh ricks, will
do nicely.
At each place at table, a little bas
ket is to be sc t containing salted pea
nuts or almonds, or red cinnamon
drops and green mints. These has
A Bonbon Basket for the Dinner
Table,
kcts are made of red paper with a lit
tle spray of holly fastened to the
handle. Or they are pretty made of
brown tissue paper twisted into cords
and gilded with gold paint. A basket,
of this kind is shown in the illustra
tion.
It the table is long, candles may be
placed at intervals around it, but
itberwise, the centerpiece, with one
or two candles at opposite ends of the.
table, will be the better arrangement.,
Place these candles diagonally oppo
site. White candles with red shades
are as pretty as red ones for the din
ner table.
Cranberry Jelly, which is nearly al
ways a part of the menu, served in
glass dishes, or set in a glass bowl,
is decorative. Gellatin in two colors
(red and green) in tali sherbet glasses
is also fine as an aid in carrying out
tiie Christmas color scheme. Triangu
lar slices of bread or rolls of bread
tied with red baby ribbon and placed
on the bread and butter plates gives
an additional little finishing touch
When the silver is laid and tlie wa
ter glasses placed, a small spray of
holly for tiie buttonhole or corsage is
to be placed for each person at the
table, it rests on ilie napkins.
In order that the candles may last,
out the dinner ii is as well to postpone
lighting them until the dessert is serv-.
ed. Other lights may be turned lower
at this time. Tiie effect of glowing
candles is very inspiring to the guests.'.
Often the Christmas dinner must be
served in the early afternoon. If arti
ficial lights are desired the hostess
must darken the dining room. But
there are pretty decorations from
which candle light is omitted. The
center piece for such a table may rep
resent any familiar winter or Christ
mas scene. One may buy, at a trifling
cost, a Santa Clans, on a chimney top,’
about to descend. These are made of
painted pasteboard and a doll. At,
the confectioners' there are all sorts
of Christmas pieces in the form of' i
large candy boxes. Santa Claus and
his reindeers are fine for the center
piece mounted on a small box, con
cealed by evergreens and holly
A table for daytime light may be
arranged with a small mirror in the
center about 18 inches square. Sur
round this by evergreens to represent
a skating pond. Dress two or more
Decorations for the Christmas Dinner
Table.
tiny dolls to represent skaters. The
closer you can come to making it look
like a real pond in miniature the more
you and your guests will be delight
ed. At the ten-cent stores one may
buy small red houses and even glass
icicles. Icicles may be represented
by little pieces of tinsel also. After
you once get to work the thing will
grow under your hands and you will
be enthusiastic at the end. When all i
is finished the Christmas table Justi- j
ties the thought and work put on It—
the play is Indeed worth the candle. I
If one must count expenses careful
ly the decorations will be found to be
more a matter of ingenuity than
money. Evergreens and red paper,
wax candles and cheap candlesticks
are within reach of nearly all of us.
Of all days Christmas is, for that veTy
leason, the one for which we should
make our very best endeavor.
— —————— (
Christmas Precaution.
"Mother, if Santa Claus comes
down the chimney, he'll have to walk
through the kitchen, won't he?”
"I suppose he will, dear ”
••Well, don’t you think we'd maybe
perhaps better lock up the pre
serves?”
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NOTICE
I have for sale the 40 acre trac
belonging to Charles Portrcy,
lying North of the city and ad
joining the Meyers land on the
North, was a part of the Sarah
Iihine land. Can sell the tract
in 1, 2, 3, or f> acre tracts to suit
the purchaser. Can give 3 years
time on twothirds of the purchase
price. Mr. Pprtrey will have the
land surveyed and give a road
from the city to each tract. This
is a chance to get a nice piece of
laud for a home near town at a
very reasonable price and on ex
ceedingly reasonable terms.
For further particulars call at
the office of
John W. Powell.
1st. floor of new office building
south of Court House square.
Falls City, Nebraska.
Office Phone 252, Home 51.
Land Sale.
I will sell at public auction to tho
highest bidder on December 20, 1!) I a
at the front door of the Farmers
State Bank in Shubert. Nebraska at
two o’clock p. m., the eighty acre *
farm belonging to the estate of the
late George Evans, being the west
half of the northwest quarter, sec
tion 24, town 3, range 15 Richard
son County, Nebraska. This is a
good eighty acre farm, fair improve
ments and only one and one half
miles from Shubert, Nebraska.
Termsof Sale—$1,000 cash on day o
sale, balance in 30 days.
Respectfully,
30-2t .1. M. Evans, Shubert. Neb
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