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'CIRCULATION THIS WEEK * 3675 COPIES "THE - BARRIE: EX -------------VITH WHICH Is AMALGAMATED----- THE BARRIE SATURDAY MORNING SECTION 1 PAGES 1 TO 56th Year MacLAREH Editor C. WALLS, 'imanager BARRIE, CANADA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 235, 1919 4 Single Copies 4 cents $1.56 Per Year (in advance) No. 52 about our last few y Reading the accompanying little poem by Sandford Martin leads us to wonder if we need not indeed ask that we have returned to us more desire fo make of Christmas « real day of kindliness to others and sweet, old-fashioned observances such as our grandparents knew. When we stop to think ars, we are bound to admit Ope that we have not been overly blessed with the ot onvavaeenvarezversewenge A Christmas @G eeting PRVEPRVEVAYEIIAGERIATE vis whieh thrift Good Christmas, whom We love you loo! Lift Our cares. our fea welpful felle Vid back to le a -- "Come tous, Christias, geod ald day Soflen us, eh Us, sity vor say To bonds, while fellow feasting sleeps our small our hearts and stir the fires yship wilhin us, mand kindness win us.' fou eager, keeps of our ability. aur ebildres love, Ms So we must grasp the helm of our own par- ticular little ship of state, be it-ever so insignificant, and with the real spirit, carry on to the. best No caviling, no dodging issues, no slanderous talk, but just honest day-to-day living. have Next week is the time for new resolutions, but this week is the time for action. Let us start now and try by doing for others and keeping a stiff « 9a FOYRFRIITVERIRIEVRIEV AVE spirit of the day. True, for four dazed years what- ever spirit any of us had was a borrowed kind, a --Faward Sandtord Machin upper lip, to see this epoch through. It is just up to us, that is all. | RVOBS & , bravado we lind for the sake of our morale. And -- We can never hope to return to the good old a last Christmas we recked not of other problems, but their selfish ends. Everywhere there are heart- days as depicted above; we would not want to. But a had what might be called a continuance of pea rending sights and plights to sadden our hearts. who knows but that with our hest efforts we may B day celebrations. Our long months of forbearance Surely now if ever is the time to recall the kindly, hot arrive at something even better and more to be and grin-and-hear-it being at an end, we just let go, unruffled spirits of our ancestors to help us through desired ? : and those of us whose hearts had not been touched sthe rough seas of the times. There are lots of miserable folks around you, hy sorrow were rather prodigal in our fun and We must remember that they, too, had their miybe very close. Look them up, if you cannot giving. problems which were seemingly insurmountable, do more, shake them firmly by the hand and wish t 'Problems of grave nature, involying personal their days of darkness before the dawn, their in- them "Merry Christmas.". Dig deep and find for a t 8 and national honor, are at our mind's door for solu- triguing statesmen and even their bolshevists. They yourself and those you love a well of unfailing q > tion; social unrest is gnawing at our vitals; men did not always come out victorious, but they kept human Kindness. You will be glad for the rest of c #2 who see only their own glory and gain are seeking the faith and did their levelest best, and we must your life, . 4 S daily to sacrifice the good of their fellow men for admit they did rather well so far as we can see. 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This is ne tine foe folk to feel ble sleigh aid tel Bul there fon better hit With all ats hospitable tram. Walter Seatt, Cheer scanebady ap and that will eheer you, pimire furry robes, the observance af Christ . W. J, Lampton, fpehe: to the sees * and sway and that is keeping Christmas. | "" Whe wreen bay ' ry a ha ing music from Are yon willing to forget what) Mheve shall he mirth taday! o' blessed day. which giv'st the eternal lie Ave n 7 Isa ss the sno you have done for other people! Olt joennd mirth Vo self, and sense, and all the brute within, Keule ten Wie tees at sinber what other pro. ; : i es later the chil- andl in mine 7 hat ' iH : a ' a Pecerown the Christmas hearth !--seallard arles Kingsley dren swarmed up the broad steps, what the work owes yeu and to alla true then, fo one labors, . . _ . Mrs. Dale met (her the top. think what you owe the world: to Ha tie fe@eL nil cchumnke aa boron Pp eminently is Christmas 4 feast of the ab- "ALL cizht of you here?" she ask- put veur rizhts in' the back- * ie . sent, a stival of the Far-Away, for the =jed - ownd and soir duties in' the And be merry as the custom of our caste most prosperous ingathering of beloved faces 5 Re PT et ney rvildjedlatance.and sour rhances Kipling. about the fire ean inelude bul a small number of Rekieriok's talker slormed «hort duty in the: foragreud; te, ee D*.." aldays to the whole work dear, those we fain would have there. "But Leounted vight." he declare that your fellowmen just as AE srowned With the premise of Hope and Cheer --Richard Le Gatlienne. ed, | and try ta look! The gladdest day of all the soar is here ican children did mal knew how ~ to their hearts! ' "Pegs '5 7 F " so tiiiilen rey hal could : they had thought hungry for jay: fe own that probe | 5 Treadwell. uile ian "me for smil and play, he was counting Roderick in, they ably the only. wand reason for} ; Ae ought te carey himself at this holiday SE And vet withal a day said, : (Cour existence isnot what vou ave season us an orange tree would if it eould Vor though! ful deeds and geod a t u canine them again eriod voing fo gel ont af life. but what e . ae WBHEGHie fearon Of brotherhood.--dolin Kendrick Hangs oderick. So in the light thal 5 uot ot Salhi i Elviciic LETSELae walk in theigan 8, swinging perfume from every me oe Hh Render ary strenmned from the hall he count lose your of complaints little censer, Henry Ward Beecher. his guests refully. Vhree agningl, tlie managemeal fat the ing oul vld shifpes of foul disease, Prestons, (wo 'Torreys, a Morton universe and look areund you for Fu: to oe mt i hapninnse sincere, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold: and 7 Ray---tha! jpaaile seven a place where you can sow a few * nowhere to be found. or everywhere; Ring ont the (hausand wars of old ii Rae Har Pn seeds of happiness---are vou will- "Tis never to be bot ' se a a S " . of w dark, silent little figure that ' ing tn do. thee (hinge even for: is never to he bought. but always free---Pop King in the thousand years of pence stood apart from the rest day?) Then you ean keep Christ- G od humor is the vil and wine of merry meet- --Alfred 'Tennyson, Pied no is te ny hens mas. re" jay / Sure enough, who was he? They 'Are you willing to-stoop down "ing, and there's no jovial companionship © shall we learn to understand hurried into the lighted hall, and . and 'oandiler Ihe snecds And thé equal to that where the jokes are rather small 'The simple faith of shepherds then. all eyes were turned on' the - desires of little children; to re and the laughter splendidly large, stranger, He was very sinall and member the weakness and lone- i liness of people who are growing i old; to stop asking, how your friends love you and ask yourself whether you love them "enough: fo hear in mind the things that other people have to bear on their hearts; to try to understand what those who live in the same house with you really 8 Want, without wailing for them fo fell you: to trim your lamp so that it will give more ligt and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings with the gate open--are you will- ing to do these things even for a day? 'Then you can keep Christ- mas. Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in thé world<-stronger than hate, strong- er than evil, stronger than death --and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem _nincteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christ- mas. bs . And jf you keep it for a day, why not always? But you can never keep it alone. . 8ay Something you want to turn into money? Use the Adlet col- gunn, page 8. mueh |. SEGELEELEGS EGG tSS SLES teeLeseLas charitable time. -- Washington Irving. bh sorrow! Care will kill a eat,' And therefore let's be merry.» ' 'orge Wither. have thought of Christmas time, apart from the veneration due, its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can he apart from that, as a good time, w kind, forgiving, Charles Dickens. vy and plenty in the cottage, Peace and feasting in the hull; And the voices pf the children Ning out clear above it all--Old Carol. indness hus resistiess charms, All things else but meekly move. --Ear! of Rochester. i" us never forget that an act, of kindness ix of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after fhe event can compare with the sweel reward that went with it. --Maurice Maeterlinck. any kinds of fruit, grow on the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree, its blossoms and fruft appear at the same time, -full of refvesliment for sense and soul.--- Lareon, Ana vlasping kindly hand in hand Sing. "Peace on earth, good will to men!" --James Russell Lowell, liey's a feel in the Christmas air goes right Yo the spot where a man lives at; It givés a fellet a appetite 'There ain't ne doubt about that. J ames Whitcomb Riley. nvexed with thoughts of want which may betide a Or for tamorrow's dinner to provide, This night, at least, with me forget your cares. ~ John Dryden, isions of very heavy meals arise That tend to make your organism shiv Hoast beef that irks, and pies that axonize The liver--Owen Seaman. ho shuts hix hand has lost his gold; Who opens it hath it twiee told. ---George Herbert, mus is a time for the consideration of a bit ¥ of the unfinished business of the world. , --Samuel McCord Crothers on pale_moon serene Looking down among the lowing. kine On Mary 'and the Nazarene.--Jobn- Masefield. was bundled up ina big over eyes stared solemn What is your name Mrs. Dale. The boy replied briefly th Iwas Timothy. Pimothy what?" "Baxter, And Twas Baywood. father?" Mrs. Dale turned to her band. "0 William, how did get hold of this child? Wis ple must be so anxious!" Where is my boy must have thought the ductor called "Baywood," said. "And then [ scooped up with the reat and didn't tice." Ho hurried away to elep! to the other station, while the odd little stranger. and 80 mothy will slay with us." and afterwards withdrew corner, where other children's games with dering eyes. - Continued on Page 8) Ta ae ee De Dh DD DRED RDROD 'coal Between his coat collar and his y peaked cap a pair of large out at at going alone to visit my grandfather at Brand. hus- you peo - Mr, Dale looked worried, "The con- he him no- hone the children took off their wraps and began ;to laugh and talk again, still casting curious glances at "L'ye talked to his grand- father," Roderick's father said, coming back. "It's all right. There's no other train tonight, here Timothy ate his supper slowly to a he watched the won-