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mggggggggggggggga Mggggggggfiggfigggm 35 Third Avenue Hollinger Townsite Timmins CLEANERS and DYERS M ANAGERâ€"MISS E. SINCLAIR 21 Fourth Avenue, 'I‘immins 31 First Avenue SCHUMACHER HARDWARE 'AND FURNITURE COMPANY THE STAFF OF THE PIONEER STORES Extend to All Old Friends and New the Compliments of the Season and Best Wishes for Prosperity in the New Year. PIONEER STORES LIMITED BEATTY WASHER STORE A JOYOUS CHRISTMAS At this Season of the Yeér we wish to express our thanks to our customers and friends for their patron'age during the past year, and to Wish them All a Merry, Merry,‘phrist_mas and a Happy 365 days are not enough to hold all the Good Fortune we are Wishing you this Christmas. Prosper friends and be everlastingly happy. r“ SINCLAIR THE VALET THE SEASON’S GREETINGS To Our Patrons, Past, Present and Future we extend Best Wishes for a Happy , Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. GROCERS ‘AND BUTCHERS New Year. Dome Mines South Porcupine Phone 625 and ru'nning. Old wrong: we stm'im- We stand on the threshold of an- other Christmasâ€"the thirteenth slnee the war that was to make everything better for everyone at home, and soon weahellheeraealnthemusicofthe Christmas bells. Music? 01' mock- ery? For we are going to celebrate anewthébmhorchnst. Howfardo our standards of life. our conditions of labmzrmrometfltudetmrdsthemor- al low reflect the spirit of that birth? Little enough! Vast wealth on the one hand and abject poverty on the other still turneradies into comm. 4 Pmfiteers "and thieving combines in industry Still pursue a. weary of busi- nee; M spits at Christianity. The enmity and Weds that the we: was ‘0 813! we still painfully alive. The old sores‘ot civilization ore still open Vvu-v â€"â€"- â€"__._ that those who were left have experi- enced as the years pmd by. Do they know. they who iaid down their lives so “that things might be better for everyone at home,” what has happened since their passing? I some- times hope taht spiritualism are wrong, and that those who have passed over cannot piece the veil, for I can imagine L.-__ so. Besides, you know, we are fighting for a good cause, so that things will be better for everyone at home.” During the war there must have been thousands and thousands of letters like that sent from the trenches to anxious mothers at home, and thousands on thousands of the writers never lived to oome home to the bitter disillusionment During the war a. soldier wrote to his mother: “I hope you are not wor- death to die, only mothe'rs don'_t§l_11nk I often 'wonder if Christmas is a reality or a mighty sham, a hollow mockery. a gross orgy of sloppy sen- timent. Do we mean itâ€"or do we just deceive ourselves? It is very easy to give away a little money, to subscribe to a charity in a sentimental moment in order to provide a Christmas din- ner for someone or other, to pack up a few unwanted toys and send them to some hospital or into some slum. It is really hot much trouble to help to provide a Christmas treat for some ragged and half-starved kiddiesâ€"and _ when we have done it we feel quite a comfortable little glow at the heart don’t we? Our consciences feel beau; tifully and smugly at ease, don’t they? We can draw the curtains and light the lamps and feel that everything is now all right. I think, somehow, that as the straightest challenge to both our hearts and our heads that I ever heard. It is no good murmuring pious platitudes about “Peace on earth and goodwill towards men” it we mean to do nothing about it once Christmas is over. It is no good celebrating Christâ€" mas at all unless we are prepared, every one of us, to do something to translate our aspirations into a code of social conduct that approximates at least a little. to the simple and human philoso- phy of life laid down by Him whose birthday we reverence on Christmas Day. If Christmas doesn’t mean that to us, it means nothing. “But that's not ‘keeping ChriStmas.’ The only way to make Christmas a reality is to face the contrast between the kindness of Christmas and the cruelty of life, to let the pain of it sear you to the soul and drive you to an honest effort to make a better .world. Christmas means nothing, 'means less than nothing. unless love becomes the law of life. War must be ended and hatred killed. Cruelty to children and tyranny of greed must be abolished.” That has always remained with me thing to me I have never forgotten. “‘miristmas?” he said. “Anyone can buy a Merry Christmas for the price of a. bottle of whisky _or a. night but! Men and women will drink and dance this Christmas, not because Christ is born, but because Christ is dead and buried in the grave of out-worn creeds, impossible ideals, and silly superstitions â€"-or so they think. we have forgotten that éhristmas means Christ‘s Mass. One of my dearest friends, the late Rev. Studded-Kennedy, known to m1]- lions as “Woodbine Willie,“ sat in my room one Christmas Eve and said some- ° " ; Givesa SantaClausandHis Challenge to World Packsack of Toys . was PORCUPINE ADVANCE, mums, ONTARIO lbWholePII-pouc. map-to do in reality what not one o! uswouldbeunwmmgtodointhe glow of the Christmas spirit. We have pretendodtor almost 2,000 years. Do notyouthinkitissbonttimethatwe Christmas alive all the year round? If for one day in the year we can brighten little forlorn lives and fill empty plates we can do it just as easi- ly on all the other 364; if we can be- stir ourserves to think kind thoughts. to spread smiles and joy and happiness around us on Christmas Day, we could, if we would, do it just as easily all the year round. ‘ It is sixteen years since that soldier wrote his letter home. He was one or those who did not come back. He died the soldier’s death of which he wrote. Maybe he was lucky'not 'to'return; for if he had come back he would have found his parents and his little brothers and sisters living in two rooms at the top of a slum ttenemant, and all around him he wouldehave found hunger and want, misery and squalorâ€"and he would not have understood. ‘Teaee on “earth and goodwill towards men” . . . how could he have understood? It is because we behave like that that there are still slums and sweatvshops. and the whole devil's trade of arma- ferem: until that day comets round again. It is because we behave like that that even today there are hungry children and homeless children, work- misndtgnodenoughtobecharlt- able and well-meaning on one day in the yearâ€"end to be careless and indif- Idareyoutofaoethechallengeot Christmas fairly and squarely and ever again be content to shirk your duty towards those who are not as fortunate Christmas my be a. festival, but it is more than that. It is a challenge. and a terrific challenge, to every man and woman who call 'memselves Christian. Have you ever faced it? Dare you face it now? Why, dOn’t we? Why don’t we all make an effort to .keep the smrit of Things will never be “better for everyone at home" until we really learn to differentiate between the true and the false. Ring out: the old, ring in the new. Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going; let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. righted. Goodwill to the Hungry and Workless Adam and Eve improvised the first dolls, clothingthem in the simple fash- ion of the day. One of the oldest actu- al relics of childhood days, however, is a. tiny clay horse made by a potter of Ur of the Chaldees to delight the heart of some small Methuselah. Many toy relics have been preserved from an- cient Egypt consisting chiefly of dolls ' made of wood. stone, earthenware and metal. In the British Museum on his last visit there the editor saw a wooden Egyptian doll with mud beads repre- senting hair, also a number of other Egyptian toys including a wooden calf. a porcelain elephant, and leather and papyrus balls stuffed with hair or straw. In the museum at Berlin there is a small limestone glion fashioned much like a toy of to-day, but which was the property' of a child of Persia. about 1100 3.0. Greek and Roman children played with go-carts. building blocks, balls, tops, rattles, dolls and many kinds of games. One of the most popular toys with (the children of the middle ages, however, was the tin soldier, and next in popular esteem came the pup-â€" pets. These puppets originated with" the Greeks, and were taken to France in the reign of Charles IX by an Italian named Marion. In the sixteenth cen- tury the puppets blossomed out into the famous Punch and Judy shows, and to- day they are represented by the beau- tiful marionettes." abroad. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 1931, Canada imported toys, including dolls, to the value of $1,974,- .434. Of this total those imported from the United Sta‘tm were valued at $830,- 634; from Germany. $837,179; from the. United Kingdom $241,416; from Japan $192,679; from France $28,544; from Czecho-Slovakia $17,374. “The origin of toys is lost in the mists of antiquity. Probably the children of “Many of the toys enjoyed by child- ren or this country ,are purchased ”The toys are not all made at home. although many are. and 0am even exported to other countries. chiefly to the Uni-ted States, New Zealand and Newfoundland, toys and other fancy goods valued at $28,342 during the last fiscal year. tide Joy, to good Canadian chfidren?" asks The National Revenue Review in its last issue, and answering itself as follows:â€" “Where do the toys come from which are in the pack of jolly old Santa. Claus as he climbs down the chimneys to de- light the filttle hearts, and bring Yule- Around um time of year toys have an interest Im- adults that ls. perhaps. lacking at other seasons. Some young- sters think the adulis have so much lnterest 1n the toys that the poor kid- diesthemselves who have received these toys from Santa Claus do not have full chance to play wlzh them. However. that may be. adults show particular general lntemt in toys around this time of year'. tnaybe on the principle Notes About Toys. for .-.‘-A Timmins, Gordon Block Phone 212 FRANK BYCK COAL AND FUEL MERCHANT 64 Spruce Street South : : : .: Timmins Dominion Bank Building Wishes you a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and if you Eat Here you will Have Them. 21 Pine Street South ‘i and may this year bring you the Merriest One of All. For 1932 we can only Wish that Each and All enJ oy the fullest mea- sure of Health, Wealth and Happiness. SIMMS, HOOKER DREW INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE we extend Greetings for a Real Merry Christmas, and extend the Sincere Wish that the New Year bring in its wake, Happiness and Prosperity to All. and we take this opportunity to thank each and everyone for the patronage accorded us during the past year, and hope that happiness and prosperity be yours in the coming year. TO OLD FRIENDS AND NEW THE GOLDALE CAFE CHRISTMAS GREETINGS A MERRY CHRISTMAS JEWELLER AND OPTICIAN L. HALPERIN : Timmins Phone 7 7 0 Schumacher. Ont. DEL: U ‘1 ““3ng Deezlth, 1931 : Timmins ',