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thejolfse of x by edgar daniel kramer thp fnrfgft is glowing on the pine boughs and the holly jn the house of christmas that my dreamings ever know id sweet childish voices jubilant and jolly hymn the babe of bethlehem born long years ago through the starlit stillness the christmas bells are ringing from the highest hilltop to the deepmost glen and the house of christmas joins them in their singing christ is born in bethlehem peace on earth to men t once again the wise men walk in the ways of dreaming till they fid the manger where the christ child lies on the breast of mary in whose eyes are gleaming all the lights of glory from beyond the starry skies once again the shepherds come across the hills and meadows bringing gifts of soft white wool and flax that they have while the cattle solemneyed wonder in the shadows and the wise men kiss the feet of mary and her son the house of christmas fills my heart and oh the bells are ring ing the christmas candles beckon me and i grow young again as i hear child voices and nil the glad stars singing christ is born in bethlehem peace and good will to men by mrs nestor noel people are very particular to give their children enough to eat i have seen breakfast consist of fruit por ridge eggs and bacon toast marma lade and coffee this would have been enough for a good dinner but it was simply a breakfast imagine what the dinner in such a home would be certainly most children nowadays provided their parents are able to supply it have more than enough to eat yet while their little bodies are stuffed their hearts are often starved for want ot oys i suppose you are busy buying toys i remarked to a mother one day a few weeks before christmas oh noi she said my children are too old for toys the eldest one was not yet nine what do you give them i asked she told me that she filled their stockings with peanuts oranges and candy more to eat from time cleaned time i had taken these children toys and i knew by their delight in my gifts that they would have appreciat ed toys more than anything else some mothers are quick to say my children- arc- too old for toys i often think they say this because they want the children to helpjnore with the work after all it is the children themselves who should decide whether or not they are too old for toys childhood can come but once why force your children to grow up too the childrens festival on christmas night the angels say a babe was born far far away a little child so fair to see he lay upon his mothers knee from fields afar then shepherds came and wondered at his glorious name a king they sought and found a child a babe so pitiful and mild there at his feet they knelt and laid their offering down and humbly prayed oh twas a blessed sight to see their lord in such simplicity and ever since we know it well christmas the childrens festival the night when christ came down to reign to conquer death and sin and pain i have noticed that when there were many in a family the eldest was al ways supposed to be too old for toys of course the child was not necessarily so i knew a girl once we are ready santa the minister made a jolly plump santa claus and the little ones wait ed before him in breathless eager suspense suddenly one little voice piped up are you coming to our house santa immediately there was a chorus ive been good are you coming to my house finally one little girl cried we worked hard and all up for you santa are you coming to our house tonight the last child had the right idea and i think there must have been a happy busy christmas at her house with mother and the little helper working together to keep the joyous time too many things at christmas time are done by mothers for children when the ideal way is to do them with the children in that way there are never any fussy restless bothersome children but a willing interested un selfish group of youngsters having the real spirit of the day wheres the pretty things wailed a fiveyearold laughter as she survey ed the dining table on a- holiday i havent had time to get the usual decorations replied the- hurrying young folks community christmas tree we had one last year and here is how we did it about half a dozen of the young folks got together und de cided to have this tree we knew it would require some money so a com mittee visited every man and woman in the community and fully explained the project and as a result quite a substantial sum was raised one man donated the tree a big evergreen and we had it dug up by an expert and planted in a central position this tree will be used again this year as it kept right on growing we were fortunate to be near elec tric light wires so for a very nominal sum had the electric light company string a wire to our tree practically all the work was done by the young folks we wired the tree then bought various sizes of red white and blue electric light globes also metal stars and some red balls we also bought peanuts oranges lollypops and small boxes of candy we invited every member of the community to be at the tree at eight oclock sharp christmas eve every body was there the lights were turn ed on and we distributed printed copies of christmas carols we had a good sing for about twenty min utes then sleigh bells were heard and to the great delight of the youngsters mingled with a little fear santa claus with a big pack was seen com ing down the road the lights from dozens of parked automobiles were thrown on him and excitement ran high santa came to the group shook hands with all patted the children and gave each child a bag containing peanuts candy orange and a lolly- pop that ended the entertainment and all went home feeling happy the same program will be repeated this year better health through setter bread qinmiiiiit7 products ask for browns genuine 100 pure wholewheat bread nothing added nothing removed from the wheat berry ost of the socalled wholewheat flour sold is not genuine wholewheat dour practically all such flour has certain important elements removed from it in the milling process so that it will keep longer that is why even when you bake your own brown bread you are not assured of getting gen uine wholewheat bread buy browns 100 wholewheat commun ity bread and you will get the genuine who had been treated as if she were mother then noticing the disappoint- a grownup since the age of four it ment on the childs face she suggest- eame from being the eldest of the ed you know where i keep them in family at the age of seventeen she the attic why dont you get them and found herself free with money to spend one of the first things she bought herself was a doll she did not play with it for her years in forever she sewed for it however making it exquisite clothes and she kept it in her trunk looking at it fre quently perhaps she realized how many games she might have played with a doll and all she had missed in childhood because her mother had persisted in saying she is too old for toys a way to prove that your child likes toys is to provide an opportun ity of choice for the next present nine children out of ten will choose toys at christmas time and birthdays i so often have seen disappointment in childrens faces that i feel like writ ing in huge capitals mothers attention 1 please give your chil dren toys arrange them for me the little girl trotted off happily and much to her mothers secret sur prise did get the simple napkins and which one plays with dolls were gone crepe paper runners and flags and gifts for city friends are the cousins and the aunts of whom you are so fond packed away in modern apartments in the big city does it bother you tremendously to know what to send them for christ mas something different from the things they see for sale and that you are sure they can use you perhaps have right at hand the things that would prove most accept able but which at first thought may seem too ordinary home canning is one of them why not then from your big stores of jelly jams and pickles pick put a dozen or half dozen cans of uniform size wrap them attractively in papers and use the christmas stickers box and send to the city perhaps you have that wonderful sausage which seems to be made no place so well as on the farm and perhaps you have bees and the bees have fed from your own clover fields and made you honey with sausage and honey provided at christmas cant you imagine the feast completed with waffles i know a man who looks eagerly among his christmas packages until he finds his box of glasses or orango marmalade each jelly glass wrapped in orangecolored tissue tied with a green ribbon and a green sticker on it this has been his gift annually from a cousin and im sure he would be terribly disappointed not to receive it it may be many a day since these cousins and aunts had the black wal nuts and hickory nuts of their child hood so wouldnt a box of these bo different and acceptable and those good crisp juicy apples why not some of them if it be a smaller offering than these mentioned what could be cheerier than to see on opening a box a mass of the bittersweet berry which is so abundant in some localities and just wanting to show its glory to the i closcdin folks of the city placed them very daintily on the table the proud delight of the child was a revelation to the mother and after that she always said a few days be fore a holiday well daughter we must soon be getting ready to make a nice holiday and have everything clean and pretty then would follow plans for a few simple ways the child could help the best christmas of all to the children would be the one when they helped make table decorations chains and paper flowers for the tree helped pack the box of food or clothing and gifts for the unfortunate ones and worked hard and cleaned all up for santa claus lydia lion roberts c- a fine old custom the christmas season is upon us and our minds naturally revert to such oldtime customs as christmas caroling but the point is do we made enough of this fine old observ- ance after all it is a beautiful thing this christmas caroling isnt it the a birds christmas tree is an inex- writer remembers having been in old pensive bit of charity that is often white christmas when christmas hangs on high the holly bough and christmas trees bear fruit of varied blisses and traps are set with waxen mistle toe as bait for kisses let me not hear the crying ghosts of i rain beyond the uncurtained pane let snow fall in the night as soft as breath and clothe familiar things with frosty change till every bush and fence rail wears a wreath lovely and strange let frost shut from tho window with frail laces those fragile peering faces what should i do remembering to night those footsteps that i knew now light as air rather i choose to hear tho laughing light child feet on tho stair what should i do holding the door for thin frail ghosts who come not in dorothy stockbridge natural resources bulletin christmas in the farmyard there was once a small girl who insisted upon giving every animal about the place a christmas dinner london england one christmas eve highly entertaining of course she was laughed at a good deal and assured that the eats and dogs and chickens did not know christmas from any other day but she stuck to her point and the pets were lined up and fed all orts of forbidden goodies how they must have viroored what it all rjeant it wasnt very much and of course the popcorn decorated with cranberries pieces of bread a few years ago shortly after dark- ress had fallen on the city the and suet the outdoor tree is certain waits began to appear on the to attract an excited gathering of streets and in a short time delightful i feathered guests there is a pretty fragrant inspiring carols were being scandinavian custom of the sparo wafted upwards on the evening breeze sheaf at this time of year the farm- the spirit of christmas was there the singing sent thrills up and down ones spine one could hardly help animals promptly forgot it they but think of old scrooge in dickens acted very much like humans after all christmas carol so much like they stuffed disgracefully then sat christmas was the whole atmosphere next summer s crops from i1j organizations on this side of the er puts out close by his barn a sheaf of grain at the top of a long pole who shall say that he does not there by propitiate some kindly spirit who sees to it that the birds protect his a yuletide legend aiilgrim walked with weary tread he sought the flower of peace in vain though he found other blooms instead blossoms of worldly wealth and gain these blossoms dazzling to tho eyes soon faded now the earth lay bare as neath the cheerless eastern skies this pilgrim searched with zealous care men scoffed at him why labor on for that which you may never find why strive with evil peace is gone tis easier to be resigned but though this counsel made him grieve undaunted steadfast on he went till on that first glad christmas eve his heart was filled with deep con tent the natural resources intelligence service of the dept of the interior at ottawa says fishing through the ice in winter is one of the activities of farmers and settlers in many parts of canada especially in the neighborhood lakes this industry is one of con siderable importance in western can ada particularly among the northerly lakes the lack of railways or high ways and distance from markets pre cludes the taking of the fish in the open season as there are no means of packing the fresh fish for market with winter however fishing is car ried on very extensively and large numbers of teams are engaged in de livering the frozen fish to the nearest railway point the most important fish taken is the whitefish although pickerel lake trout and other species are taken in considerable numbers when taken the fish arjs allowed to freeze solid and are brought in piled up like fire wood on sleighs the cold waters of the northern lakes produce fish of exceptional qual ity the flesh not becoming soft as is often the case with that of fish taken in the warm waters ofthe more south erly lakes and streams good prices are obtained for the win ter catch of fish in ontario and quebec however the winter fishing in the smaller lakes and rivers is done for the purpose of securing a domestic food supply and while there is no means of knowing to what extent this is carried on there is no doubt whatever that con siderable quantities are taken in this way the fisheries provide a valuable source of food and a change in the diet of many who are not always within reach of a fresh meat supply a happy christmas to all ye christmastide hath come again ye joyful time of all ye yeare god rest you merry gentlemen and bring you health and all good cheer i have alwaysthought of christmas time as a good time a kind forgiv ing charitable pleasant time it is good to be children sometimes and never better than at christmas when its mighty founder was a child him self charles dickens do not give children too much at christmas there is nothing more nauseating than a blase surfeited youngster encourage the children to think more about giving pleasure to a large trade has been built up those who have very little and less with the cities of canada as also in j about their own things teach them the middle and eastern states and to divide up better rubber footwear at the regular price he knew his weary quest would cease for in a humble cattle shed at last he found the flower of pence growing beside the christ childs bed leslie m oyler atlantic are at work trying to create more general interest in caroling tho salvation army mu9t not be forgotten in this connection this body has been pioneering in this direction and re ft uriiind and licked their chops and pnws which was their way of using tablenapkins and finger jj wis they played a little in a feeble stupid sort of way then they lay down in a quiet corner and went to sleep but tho instinct that prompted the small girl i suits have been most encouraging to sec that even the animals joined in is said the fun grew and blossomed and bore people will not however get the fruit so that in after years it enabled right slant on caroling until the cus- hor to do something lasting and worth- j torn is more widely taken up by music while for the animals that suffer so levers are church choirs and choral needlessly from peoples carelessness j organizations of every kind doing and cruelty i their share in this direction if rhino rubber foot wear wernt better if it didnt wear longer we would not support the ironclad guarantee that goes with every pair these facts hold good with all rhino rubbers note the protector flap on rubber shoe illustrated it is an exclusive patented rhino feature it effec tually prevents dirt manure snow or moisture from getting inside this footwear is made from rhino rubber the toughest and most wearresisting that science has yet discovered which will wear up to twice as long as 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