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TWELVE DA Y r Awaking Merry With Others ICopyrlaht IBB glanced up from her paper pretty good advice oho mur mured read the once Tlio custom of for getting oneself merry with 1 vrH K wholesome 1 1 why dont why yonare here Mis Alken hut you to take the next train with me to your mothers home You hove lost thai babydoll expression that the picture girl find you he the name Why one of the Inducements that Jack offered me wan that his sister would he home for Christmas Ill run In and buy that doll and then wo will proceed to Mica As they entered Miss apartment they uttered a cry of sur prise for In middle of room was a child Why heres Just looking for Heres beautiful doll for you I Look little Hoi- dont wont dolls cried tot they want soldiers and guns and steam cars and But why you dressed like Q lit tle girl to i I a J ax IS ll 1 i believe Ill- along the streets to tec If I cant And someono equally lonely action to the donned her coat ami left the house colling to tho mold Probably Ill bring homo some guests for din ner Looking along street for to Bhftre her I on el I DW spied a young girl walking listlessly along apparently without any destination as If she had missed altogether Joy ous meaning of the holiday Merry Christinas sold putting her band forward The girl paused a then repeated Merry Christmas adding It may be merry for you but not for me Why you so lonely on svich a glorious day said Miss Ihe fllr Just to tingle with radiant light It seems to tell ones troubles to stranger but I left home because I thought I could and I have been unsuccessful In my attempt and I am too proud to let the folkB know When I think of the tree at home the turkey dinner only myself minting I Just cant bear Her big blue eyes filled with Cheer up girlie I No one en- Joy a Christmas day alone Von can only have a merry Christmas If others hare It with you Lets celebrate to gether I have a dinner already pre- pared but no guests find one or two others qul- fy and maybe wo can all get together and have a good time May be we have something In common I left home years ago because I thought I could write something worth while But the only real human Interest Is not In books magazines but all around us But questioned the girl can you go up to strangers Just like that with a wuve of the hand Hardly must be moved by the Christmas spirit Look at that man over there blaring at that In the window The man turned at the sound of her voice and asked Pardon do you know any little girl who would love to have a doll There must be hundreds of Utile girls Just aching for one That doll is the counterpart of a picture my partner bos on Ids of fice desk dark curl blue eyes and all picture has been a mascot to me and I would love to buy the doll But I missed my train and I am not acquainted In the City Talk about bachelor being lonely at Christmas Why Christmas In a big city alone never never again for inc Miss HoIIIlter8 face beamed with pleasure You are Just the person we want We will form a triple alliance of hasbeen Ion el I You Just come along to my place its only around the corner ami share my Chrlstras din ner Christmas 1k really the childrens day so lets just we are cull- Because my father dont know any bolter Ho left mo homo nil on Christmas I Just came in hero turkey Knelled so good Suddenly a voice was heard full of anxiety Is my boy here Yes sold Miss corao right In John I she added In great aston ishment Yes Mary rmld tho to think I found you after nil these years died year and this Is nil I have he said to the boy mm J J A ft Vic f- J i ox THE fliodo 8kaUi KlifdleKara Waggons czr3 Dig lino of Toys Hookey IOW I Knives Guns Thermos Kit Aluminum War War Ware Lamps IVaahora Fine NEWMARKET fa r A Practical Present TE of A tt -lie- tut a hundred In A will It ThoMop or hapo to in ii mm la an Mis 1- BEING PLEASANT Oho Added In Qreat ment Mary la It loo late for you to take both of for Christmas present How wonderful 1 This Christmas no lonely and now It Is so full of happiness I had always hoped for a Chance to explain everything but when I heard you were married I thought there was no chance Cornel all ko in to dinner and talk It over Yes said Mr Morton I was Just Miss Aiken that when we know doll J each other better maybe I will Johns sister something hotter than a doll Take it from me Mlas Aiken said Mr the best is yet to be and bells as well as wedding bells may rlnK out the same merry tune for all of us To be able to or write may be all right Miss Aiken but I think to write the words wife or mother after ones name Is more Important than writing the beat sellers ever written added Mips Homo of us fail to nealizfi I Ins of making waif compares very favour ably the other talents all know young people who pleasantness hey go- They can themselves at IhoniG vilh and everybody- They can enter enthusiastically into the of Hie little child listen with intercut lo of an old man Iirybody likes and their presence brings pleasure Hut he rrVajority of people do not regard this gift with Wio respect they feel for a talent in music or for writing verse after all why hot If is as much of an art to play upon that complex human nature so as bring out sweet strains as it is to- elicit music from an organ or a violin Knowing what lo and what to suppress in order to give pleasure lakes quite as fine perception ami skin as knowinghow to combine ia mm ARE MANUFACTURING BUYING UNSUITABLE TIES Tragedy Enough In Chrlatrnaa by Woman but They Might Do i f A Do You Know Any Little Girl Who Would Like to Have a Doll dren and dont need any Intro duction Just My I think you must be Mrs No Im not Im Miss and this la Miss Aiken Interrupted the girl Why partners name Is Aiken I was on my way to Join him at his mothers house You mean Thomas Aiken Sure enough Oh he is my brother Well declare I Then I buy that doll for your Doesnt It look like I havent any little aUter have been my picture I a Ilia Look at trouble that Is being stored up there sneered the morbid pessimist as he pointed to a group of women around the necktie counter It would be funny he continued If It were not so tragic Why It Is that lovely woman with nil her eye or the beautiful and with all her accomplishments cannot select neck tie for a man Is one of the things that rank with the unfathomable mys teries of life I would sooner send a blind man to buy me a warranted sound horse than I would enlist the services of to select a neck tie Think of the fat men that will wake up on Christmas morning to find In their stockings a delicate emaciated baby pink necktie that will look like a consumptive shoestring when It re poses on their bountiful expanse of white shirt bosom Then on the other hand Bones the human skeleton will get delirium tremens when made the recipient of a spotted necktie big enough to make a shawl for grandmom Of course nothing will do for the nice dignified old gen tleman who never wears anything but a little black bow but a flowing sash of passionate hue Willie the gay sport on the other hand willget some thing that would look nice on grandpa and so It will go on down the line Oh the Christmas necktie 1 What tragedies are written In thy name I The pessimist paused Then he added thoughtfully I would though rather have my wife buy me a necktie than pick out my cigars Philadelphia Inquirer colors in painting a landscape Where person will profit by the art of a musician a hundred or even more will benefit by oilier art the art of being pleas ant Our natural endowments have much lo do with our success Ibis life is as natural for some tactful as it is for others lie blunt and blun dering The tart of adapting ones self to ones environments seems horn in some people and left out of others And yet art of pleasant can I he cultivated Many a plant for from the locality where it is If tact is hoi indigenous it can be transplant ed and may flourish in a foreign soil One of chief factors in suc cess is the art of being pleasant Other things being equal young people who can make themselves agreeable will outstrip the whom nobody likes Few things contribute more to pleasure than tins gift of being pleasant for its fortunate possessor brings sun shine wherever lie Do not Hospital for Sick TORONTO Upkeep of Dig Charity Requires Fifty Cents a Minute i I FOR BURNING underestimate the gift if it is yours And if you do not pos sess it study the tactics of your agreeable associate and imitate him Do not go through handicapped and held hack by not how to make yourself agreeable THERE IS ONLY ONE GENUINE ASPIRIN A man at sixty years of aye is either a failure or a success PULLS made for sixty yean Lave largest bale of any medicine in world ii In for Jack Weve put the chest of draw- era In of the fireplace Harold Jack You tied the airing to the handle of the Haroldyes and tied the other end of the to waterjug Jack Then we ought to find out real facta about Cleue TOO Little Hobble to sweet heart May I climb on lo your knee Mr Drabble Mr Drabble Yes Hobble you like Want to pull eh No I want to It I can word What word Why I heard my that if ever a man had the word noodle written on bis face it was you Only Tablets with Bayer Cross are Aspirin No others my moustache find that If you dont see the Mayer on tablets refute them they are not Aspirin at all on genuine Bayer of Afapirin plainly stamped with the safety Bayer Aspirin prescribed by for and proved by millions for Headache Tooth ache Lumbago Colds Neuritis and Pain generally Ii tin boxes of larger Made in Canada is lh6 In of Manufacture of of While it is well that Aspirin means Bayer manufacture to assist the public against Imitations the Tablets of Company Ltd will be stamped with their general tie Cross Lifes told comes out of fur naces Of affliction tlitj UK Dear Mr Editor The annual report of the Hospital for Sick Children Toronto shows a notable advance in every department of its service to suf fering and crippled youngsters of this province The ward accommo dation has been taxed to Its capacity and the summer annex the Lake Bide Home was opened for the first lime since the outbreak of war The daily average of cot patients has- Increased during the year from to including children from practically every county In Ontario Even had the cost of sup plies and labor remained stationary the substantial Increase in the num ber of patients would alone account for the addition to the charitys debt which at the close of the fiscal year was This debt has become an embarrassing burden further increase must threaten impairment of an enviable efficiency The Hospital is in the forefront of all institutions upon this continent devoted to the care of sick children It to maintain last year This great sum not only puts at service of the children of Ontario all the of medical science but In addition provides for a training school for and for unaurpasscd clinical facilities for the University students who are preparing lo engage in their pro fession throughout province The Income which be forth coming to finance this absolutely essential work figures out at coven hundred dollars a day and there Is no endowment fund all but a fraction of that amount has to be derived from individual benevolence Therefore the Trustees are making a Christmas appeal to every lover of children to foot the bills for period of time no matter how short it may be A minute of mercy coats fifty for churches societies lodges etc who have more ample funds wherewith to assist the youngsters to a fair in life the naming of Is suggested A number of memorial cots have boon dedi cated In honor of the overseas ser vice of fellowmembers This pri vilege Is extended In recognition of gifts of to the Main Hospital or to Home which can be paid in annuel If desired of all branches of patt years to gether with other information desired wilt be gladly on application to the Hospital for Sick Children Street Toronto Contribution a should be the Chairman Committee Bertie said his mother sorrow fully every are naughty get another gray hair My word replied you must have been a terror Look at Grandpa 1 Buckwheat Coal is selling in Toronto this week at per ton delivered in the City bO Sectional Steam Boilers Sectional Hot Water Boilers Tubular Vapour Boilers for Residences Schools Churches Factories a I I I a fit May be seen THE SPENCER HOT WATER FURNACE in Operation at the Residences of Dr Stephenson Aurora and Jackson kef Address all comiiiUiiiicatioiiS to SPENCER HEATING CO Adelaide Street East I ARCHIVES OF ONTARIO- TORONTO I