cCP n xB Thursday, Decembe: Phone 300 Cedar Street North The management and our entire personnel join in wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We sincerely hope that we may continue to serve you throughout the Coming Year. INTERNATIONAL HOTEL We‘ve been wishing folks a Merry Christmas for a number of years . and aren‘t tired yet! So once againâ€"Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year w tad 4 4 *A 4 Timmins Timmins How ciaim our loOve faAnd Ccare. How proud we were of our child and Robert, a finer lad Or a nobler on>, no mcther in all country had. We never thought it a hardship, even when we mortgaged the farm, To send him away to college, for we the boy could learn. And Jennie, she wanted music: we could hardly see the way, Love seldom denies its object, so she learned so sing and play. And as TV knittin With yvour And But times grew hard and harder, and we, we were growing old, And at last our home in the valley under th> hammer was sold; Our Jennie was rich and petted in the city where she lived, But the money was her husband‘s and she had nothing co give. I remember you that Christmas (sixcyâ€" four since then we‘ve known) When I took you to the cottage that I proudly called my own: You so young; and how I loved you, to me you‘ve kept growing fair, Till now your face I imagine, has che look that angels wear. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO But iat last in tender pity God h your e@rnest prayer And sent us Robert and Jenni claim our love and care. Today I saw in the paper but I didn‘t read a word, That a speech in the halls of Congress had all the nation stirred. I saw by our Robert, and I alâ€" most cursed him there, For T felt that in his triumph, for us he‘d no thought or care. And as I thought of both our children, how they‘ll spend their Chrismas day, That I cannot read my Bible; and motherâ€"I cannot pray." From her trembling, aged fingers knitting had fallen down, And her hands lay idly folded on lap of her homespun gown, Lifting one, she gently laid i in resting by her side, And raisinz her eyes all swimf with the tears she could not And evet And Robert was working faithful, but fame.and wealth came slow, Before he reached the summit he‘d a long, long way Lo g0o And here in this hut on the hillside, that can scarce c keep ou. the cold, At last we have found a refuge from the poorâ€"house, now we‘re old. halfâ€"forgo Played over h her voice Pressing clos "Let us pray," said the old man softly; and kneeling cogether there, The waiting angel bore to heaven a broken and contrite prayer: ‘Forgive me as I have forgiven; ‘neath â€" the shadow of Thy wing The fire grew dim on the hearthstone the embers to ashes burned, o pain, o we cried when our two first babies side by side in the grave were lain sometimes you thought ‘twas loneâ€" ly as the years flew by apace; alone we had reached life‘s noonâ€" day, and none came to take their somenow wronged sake, mile like ood CIOSe such love nothing in them, have fortsâ€"that 1 mother, those days were happy, thouzch mingled with sorrow and nut was buried in silence; shadows to blackness turnedâ€" love Him ind forge Their Last Christmas VE require vVin M n my Joy close sid 4T bu t tha nts of years and cal ch soft., warm finge: h 121 m WA da ct.o my cart 2r, theres fic> vhHe fIOr US §i hough 0 Christ d iere and watchod yoru llent away, so calm and pavient I could pray, seems I wronged you i for our children‘ e hiliside, ak and cold Decemb riends of childhood dden my home. and sorrow we have by side: bbed you of com 11 amp ours my darlit can divide. ong nkle in a measure cled features, and ar and strong, iand beside her, ‘s no mistake; ‘ve given, not for of our children off rhyvthm of a iged fingers the 1€ pity God heard L il ky 1inkir hildren. H« we wWandetr swimmin not hide mistakt mA the heâ€" Christmas is Held Early in the Kingdom of Holland 1O Foods from Many Far Lands for Christmas them. district farn with Montre Cranb>rri}: (Montre Trade routes world find their Christmas dinner Canada raises i of them coming plains wher> pra frozzsn varisctles availlaijle as Surprisingâ€" ly low prics. If she chooses these, she will know that a large part of her Christmas dinner is "madeâ€"inâ€"Canada." According to the manager of a proâ€" vision shop, the only vegetable Canaâ€" dians need import during the winter is che sweet potato from the South. He ticked off the list of Canadaâ€"grown fresh vegetables and fruils available in the semiâ€"frozen statg: Peas from the Gaspe Peoninsula, beans, spinach, brocâ€" coli, : berri( sumed in mo bw© er, visiting British Culumbia during past summer, heard complaints that Quebec canned fruits had captured the market here which formerly was held by produ««s from the Okanazan Valâ€" So many countriscs contribute to the Christmas pudding and cake that these confections almost might serve as emâ€" blisms of the League of Nations. The flour and beef sucet, of course, arse Canâ€" flour and beef suct, of course, are Canâ€" adian; the sugar comes from the West Indies. Ths raisins and currants are grown in Australia and enier Canada dutyâ€"frse. Molassss used in Canada comes from Barbados, British © West Indies. Ceylon provides cinnamon. Nutmeg is sent from Africa or from Grenada, BW.I., which also supplies mace. Ginger comes from Jamacia, and shellsed almonds from Spain or Ivaly. Th> citron and Oorange poerl, which beri Ask for canned vegetanp. chose pack>d in Canada : for fiavour and food valu« er, visiting British Culi nast summer, heard cor Th> citron and Orange p goes into Christmas cake an comes, in its ‘raw" state, f1 according O what happen ves.. Lachine ing with disposed Australia Christmas dinner this year will be eaten on a Sunday. Hard luck, say those who would have had an extra holiday had December 25¢h been any other day of the week. But they might console themselves with this old verse â€"and try to put i) info current Engâ€" lish : St. Nicholas paid a visit to good littl: children of The Netherlands on St Nicholas‘ Eve. With his Nezro servant, Black Pote turned most of her onceâ€"famous walnut trees into anvique furniturse, we go to France, Rumania or China for our walnuts, Brazil nuts, however, still come from Brazilâ€"along .with cofâ€" norse,. cembe Trade Routes Wind Around the â€"World to â€" Bring Christmas Dinner. 1206 This "Ear Drcember € Archbishop poverished citizen supposedaiy the ecustom of presents on St. Nicholas‘ Eve â€"a custom later transferred to Christmas Day in many countries. One the Hollanders cried to abolish St. Nicholas‘® Day in favour of Christâ€" mas, but St. Nick and Black Pete were prelates S dowries on npoverished ¢< 1@ 1 ve iC Turkevy mt wberri 10 o hail from Caps Cod, y, thouzh the Maritimes contriâ€" a few of the tons of these conâ€" d in this city on December 25th. sh vegetables? for the they are impor:ations, unless jomemaker shops for the semiâ€" 1 variscties availa‘jle as surprisin2@â€" OY ADC paragus . Island informed saint i his behavior, and â€" ) the wholse family. Go¢és Back to A.D. and trimmings, ignited brandy of, on come 5 â€" TAisins.» . En From an Exchange) mM ts to a. 10 Ne:sro s ippeared s, corn; Nova Scotia 1 of Orleans and Ni Niagara peaches and , LAne yYyEeAar WICIL â€" f Myra (St. Nichol ng imprisoned by Dioc d by Constantine. 1 bu and l winding ; terminu «able. 1J own turk from the agciovw choC 2 housewives from Chateau tma vyeal Gaz Destowa cake and pudding, state, from Siciliy, importer.â€" Then goes to Lachineâ€"â€". ibles and fruit int, BJ 1€ appetite L Caps from France he nuts and zland â€" having amous walnut puddingz blazâ€" 145, when the St. Nicholas) iml the wints the South erC UL his whit »very Ds inrivall« The wri neé matâ€" ons eacn V it AarC Lt mo hop UT 12 r t T umm nz s y n mm in n en on o P eP P eP P i i mmRAAA IFIIIE® on TR TNE "us â€" P95 » 20 .\ °PJC . Christmas Sectioi Timmins