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PAGE FIFTEEN, ° replace the wishbone doll of this sea- ristmas n son whose voluminous skirts sup . plied provisions for keeping clean the Th » pens of steel or gold which penned . e S the letters of the period which were of frequent writing and always hand The Christmas shopping days of the penn "00's--they fell in an age, as some Moth Conversion of ¥ - wisecrack Bas remarked, "of more other's pile of bright materials 4 took on size and increased in variety bustle than hustle," and we did our |as November stretched into 'Decem- Christmas. shopping later than we |ber and, when many skeins of yarn have been taught to do it now, quite | bad Jes converted Ao fascinators close to Christmas day itself, in fact. thick ou Cer apes alg I Bice That is, we may have indulged our | Grandfather and the uncles, when the leisure and waited until the last min |last of the mittens had been knitted ute to. tardily and frantically load up and Bysierjosly Yidsked out bi on Er herd sight right under the noses ol 13 wm actual gift buying, but there very boys and girls for whom they bo} Certain portion of the shopping | were intended, when all the babies of pos ad to do with our Christmas |the family and neighborhood had Jt parations that had to be done|been re-booted, re-sacqued and pro- yr uite early. vided with knitted dollies, then the hese were the days when, by | winter evening industry took the Sally Delober the lainps Jere Jit, and more frivolous turn, / py we? out of the way | Then came. into play the silks and -- by six o'clock, and when the family | ype satins, the Ain Be of sachet ' Wg gus Syosed fiom Selves a7 Snad he ens and laces, and there were evolved white cloth and bare ie 2 Bg ong such stock of cases for gloves and beneath the hanging | Vering, 3p handkerchiefs, fine lace 'kerchiefs the brand new ET thane themselves, hand-hemstitched and busied themselves with lessons, Fa. july ued with Tact, dainty ions he took the newspaper and retreat- ope Af Palo i bio Doing MCking chars and : towels, fine dainty dresses for dolls. was soon lost to all but ne yoom and delicate baby garmentings and the the day in the world without 8 like as would delight the heart of to- ' Mother Starts Earl t day's gift shop proprietor. Today the But Mother, who ry i gift shop dealing in these articles of ? Y. Con | hand work is substitute for the labor settled itself down to a long evening 1 ach i / ied occupati owder (for everything was daintily of vavied pation. : The boys and ves! in those iim the fine lin- | I Tl i in Prosperity Ahead | ALARM Hato or ELECTRIC CLOCKS : ; Be ' PADS Good timekeepers, Of- % yi Bring comfort te fered in Assorted ' J 5 by ch ing pastel colors; a heating pad. In 98¢c featured at .. bright wool coverings Priced to Save! Priced $2.98, $5.50, $7.50 Hundreds of items, all suit- able for gifts, are presented in our present holiday. se- lection, noted for its gqual- ity as well as low prices. Here you can find the gift you want for every mem ber of the family and friends, Sf, NF FACIAL SETS Yardley's Sentrated on me perpetual pile of of the home and the ubiquitous hr a. or big peiPetua een church bazaar that every Christmas | displays both in the small towns and S darn 5 i ; A 1s season of | (.2¢on demanded in the days of the |the cities large and small. The thrill ay er nF ho Pongo '00's. Y that came once in a lifetime had its ting of i rong ot I Dolls Dressed at Home first mspiration every winter when rocker beside her work table, sur-| Dolls, to be quite satisfying i par- Lie SKY bapers Ravicd their rst an ' i ittle irls, were always ; at Santa aus hac rounded by a gay conglomeration of | ticular li BIS Y® come into the stores and offered in i i i t home; but dolls fine |! bis of colored. silks and satins and dressed a : evidence their advertisements of tovs | velyets, lengths or bright ribbons, | enough to suit the young ladies could | skeins of DE so aurs silk and balls | never be made at home, of course, so lone, drums, horny Blac Khoards of yarn, wooden embroidery hoops dolls were one of the important items foc king 1orses, Mag 1 Jante J 1s, steam steel and wooden knitting needles, {of Christmas shopping that went Sngines Te phidren am spools of Barbour's lace thread and|down on the preparations list early | for dolls, and such 'delights that sci "crochet cotton," reels of lace braid |in the autumn. It was a common |a-clamor the houschold with the and steel crochet hooks and her tat | practice too, for Mother and the chil: | scribbling of letters and lists fon ting shuttles. For most of the dren to visit the photographer about | Santa Claus, and the cagerness t Christmas presents were made at [this time of the year, that Father |yisit him and see for one's sclf al home and by hand decades ago, and [might be surprised with a new phot | these alluring things as the great day itself came nearer, |of his family among his Christmas Go to City to See Toys even the children caught the contagr [joys. And Mother might drop in at} o =.=". 55 0 C0 ous frenzy «for gift-making, hurried |the jeweler's and select a watcl | oh S000 HE TF CEECEDET: & the school work through, and then [charm, a locket or a little ring, nap i eS a RE veh A Re si set to work with wax and wishbone | kin rings of silver--things that would | *Vme a 5a A wiih ig and bits of colored felt to fashion a [have to be engraved before their giv on Bunt, won $ fey 1s : A few pen-wipers intended to thrill |ing; and this meant early shopping | JWR ESICES JOKES i one's aunts and teachers Christmas| But the great item of the real shop fe hog Pr fo t Tet tl i A iy morning, and to grace their desks the | ping, left until the last days close te the city to "sce the: 'tovs™ And new year through. Then next year's! Christmas day itself, was the toy h Hii rapture erely of the tri model in pen-wipers, perhaps a minia | These were the bulk of seasonah tself! The cl ae and ia of of tin ture glove or mitten of felt, wor! | stock brought out for the holid: | noisy strects the brightness of the lights along the way if the d he day wa a dark one and foggy, the glitter of the windows and the rapture of the aisles and counters where Toyland lay exposed to little eyes almost un comprehensive of sich magnificence Few little jaded or. apathetic interest there were to deal wit then for 'boughten" tovs v ore an item Sacre o the Chris'mas season and se'dom ¥| seen in b hidays. The y | ten cent st not come into be 'ng to make t an expecte m- of ev towr (K at The ear! achant ily b loyed A Men's Store #0 md place ble inside hin and give tus to send him somer- san! low an incline, or Santa (laus wld de tack to tack down the length of the adder, but that was as near mecha nical ~ motion asthe great bulk « hristmas toys had arrived. Little Gloves $1 50 to $3 95 irls were lost to' the world when nd . hd . they surveyed the long rows of dolls of every size and sort, and every lit tle boy wondered just which drum or jack knife Sapta Claus would seleet Neckwear . .50to 2.50 sh, Jo Everybody Joins In : There were games, too. Games 4 were so natural an accompaniment te Pajamas 1.79 to 5.00 long winter evenit after the holi days that every household had a stor ; of them and elders and youngster joined in play with them. The young ickok Bel 3.00 er generation of that day learned i generation of that day learned it 1 o - ts 1.00 to - first literary concepts from the game of Authors; it learned quick-think ing with its Lotto; its geography 3 5.00 much of it, was easier because on Shirts : 1.29 to . frequently put together a dissected map of the United States. Every- body had a parchecsi hoard and . a checkers, tiddle-dec-winks and a fish Dressing Gowns 4.95 to 15.00 pond, its game of Old Maid and j ¥ | Peter Coddle, and its crokinole board Then there were books--always a part of the children's Christmas -- Imported Scarves 1.00 to 6.00 : Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Prince and the Pauper, the Five Little Pep pers, Elsie Dinsmore, the Horatio Alger stories, The Wide, Wid Hosiery . 50 to 1.50 | World, a new Mother Goose every Christmas, so long as there were lit tle folks in the family, and the cur rent annual issue of Chatterbox. A . #0 | subscription to St. Nicholas always S| appedted at this season of the year AR, 4... AS . and one to The Youth's Companion J But all the shopping was not done i | for the children, although the greater part of it was devoted to their christ mas. There were always those for whom the homemade gift never seemed quite elegant enough, or those for whom it was too elegant So Mother browsed about the de partments where there were gifts of china, for instance; cracker. jars and chocolate pots ornamented and swank, cake plates or butter dishés "sugars and creamers" or pickle dish- es, cups and saucers in assortment (it was quite the thing to give a sin- gle set to cither adults or children) including a mustache cup with its china barrier to keep Father's whis- kers out of his coffee. Or Mother sought out the section where the no velties were displayed--silver toile and manicure sets everywhere at this time, liandsome banquet lamps, sofa pillows, silk table scarves, linen table cloths and napkins, foot stools and the like. The Rush Before Christmas Shopping reached its height Christ mas week, and although stores wer kept open evenings for perhaps th entire month of Dee Vor, the rus did not begin until 1 were Just a few days left for sloping. Then there was an exhilaration which per- yg liver a ladder of tacks and a wooden | ATW 'Tampty-Dumpty that scuttled from | ARAR ONAN $2.25, $3.00, $5.00 CR i EE LAR {Ho for the Christmas Turkey RL | And a Jolly Good Feast! | i SS Hudnuts $2.50, $4.50, $6.00 TOILET WATER Shari Toilet Water Duska ...,... Three Flowers $1.50 June Clover ,, $1.00 Vanity ...,... $1.00 Paradis ...... 98¢c LL) ---- ty, \ PERFUMES Shari ,...... $150, | Cara Nome | ot a | with the taste of those persons wh choose goose or beef for their Christ mas dinners. On the contrary, every No one has any otcasion to quarrel | t | me who is not a vegetarian by cor all | | | viction may admit that these are excellent and seasonable dish While that is so, a host of persons, u this country and elsewhere, with iking for turkey, will maintain tha ' { that succulent bird has succeeded to lis both practical and experimental," DuBarry | the place occupied in mediaeval t | by the board's head "with garla gay and "rosemary," as the ; prite central delicacy of the 18 feast, {'hat being the case; a gr wlians, young ed with healthy appetites, will have | med the news that turkeys are | now plentiful on the markets in ountry and are obtainable at lo vices than they have been for a nur her of years. Increase of | of turkeys in Car large extent for this situat Then years and more urkeys were raised in On 1 any other part of the ind turkeys were shipped fro 1 rovince to the prairie provinces. Fi some reason or reasons, the poulti raising industry suffe cline in Ontario P time, the farmers of the 1 that they could devote the re necded to protect m disease, feed the hem for the market, to | intage in some other department of roduction. At any raté, in view ot WILL SAVE MILLIONS The use of movable partitions in stock-cars will not only permit the shipment of mixed carlots of live stock but by reducing the possibil- ities of injury and bruising to a minimum, will save the stock in | dustry literally millions of dollars annually, As a result of the find ings of a national committee, on | which Dr. J. H. Grisdale, Federal Deputy Minister of Agriculture, was chairmpn, the Live Stock As soclations~ df Kastern and Western Canada joined forces in presenting a petition to the Rallway Board seeking to compel railways to in stall and use at least two movable partitions of a suitable type in all cars used for the transportation of live stock, The suggested speci- fic toll for cars so equipped is One Dollar ($1) per car per trip. The annual loss through bruising alone under present conditions is placed OUREWLESS LAUNCH IN WAR That the Germans used in the World war an engine of destrue- tion off the Belgian coast about which practically nothing has been revealed, was the assertion of Rear- Admiral G. R. Blount of the British Navy in an address in opening a Missions to Seamen exhibition in Leeds, Bngland, recently. This was an electrically driven crewless launch controlled from the shore, capable of high speed and quick turning and carrying 500 pounds of gun cotton in its bow. It was de- signed to ram its prey. It took very skillful seamanship to dodge the craft, which conld port, starboard, or run with its helm amidships and took a lot of shaking off. Warships were able to sink it with gunfire once its nature was recognized, hut merchant ships were at its mercy, Barracks Tragedy Lance-Sergt. Fred Parkes, aged 27, of the 2nd Battalion Cold- | stream Guards, was found dead at Chelsea (8.W.) barracks, shot through thé head, and his rifle lay near him. vaded the air of festivity which hung around every aisle and counter where there was' the least , suggestion of Christmas. Friends, came upon friends in 'the candy shops at the toy counters, in the fruit stores and on the street, and exchanged the season's greetings joyously, It was a social indulgence, this Christmas shopping business, and while considerable bustle®got into it at the last minute there was none of the frenzy and distracted exhaustion that makes it a misery to many in this day of hectic hurry. Somehow it managed to be both the heydey of the merchants year and the heydey of the customers' Christmas pleasure, and it brought t( a merry Christmas some of its mer: riest hours, (Continued on page 17) ( turkeys has declined greatly in* re- pacts .. $1.25, $1.75 af sepulchre in the greatful tomach of the judicious epicure," or n the no less grateful, if less dvs cruninating, stomach of some god ad anadian who does not profess to be cure, If the farmers of the 1" 1 r nl 1 Violet see .... $1.00 $2.50, $5.00 $6.00 Arden's Lilac , $1.50 Three Flowers $1.00, $2.00, $3.00 Maja $1.50, $14.00, $8.00 Lavender 65¢ to $10 Evening in Paris $1.00 and 82.50 Seventeen $1.00, $2.00 Caron's Nar. cisse .. $3.00. 85.00 he state of the turkey growing in- lustry, the poultry department of the intario Agricultural College estab- ished a turkey farm on 400 acres of and, in Norfolk county some fou cars ago Ihe purpose of this un- lertaking Presa G L. Christie of COMPACTS he Ontario Agricultural College ex shari, Single lai in a bulletin issued a year Compact 0. "I'he object of this work, which Pouderette by SIM NENN a ~ 10. 1 BATH SALTS Lavender $1.00 $3.50, $6.00 Yardley's Rose $1.00 and $3.50 Cara Nome ... $1.50 Dalrose Cubes 5c, DOc, $1.78 Duska Bath Salts ........ $1.25 Atbden's Pine Crystals Rose, Violet and Lav. Cubes Georgia Rose .. 1c wrote "is to gain mformation Leanville | 1 will be of 'value to the farm $2.00, $3.00, $4.50 of the province. The raising of Duska Com- For the Smoker Monk Briar Pipes 25¢ Consol Pipes .. BoOc Sashar Pipes . $1.00 Hend's Pipes . #2.50 Rouson Lighters $5.00 and $6.50 Elgin Lighters ., 98¢ Ash Trays 25¢ to $2.50 ent years and if anything can pe Yardley Com- ne to restore what should be a pro pacts. .... . $1.00 ible sideline on many farms, and Lorie Enamel 5 a spec alty on farms particu Compacts . 65¢ su tuble, it should be done." Ihere has been a steady increase Du:ting Powders turkey prod | O tario in re | ron re | Georgian Rose RL years and a still greater incre Vanity Dusting 1 the prairie pio 5. (onsequent Powder: ...... $1.00 Jan caormous mn er of the popu Yardley's all s will have reason this year t odors $1.50 ui Jam Ardens Dusting tn, curs'd man, on turkeys preys Powder £3.00 { hrstmas shortens all our Shari Bath Bly Powder .. B3.50 While that is so, each turkey will Narcisse Powder $1.00 like Elia's roast suckling pig, ARNANCHNARN a > Pens and Pencils Desk Sets Over 500 to Choose From--- Waterman's Sets £3.75 up Parker Sets 806.50 up Sheaffer Sets £3.75 up bi FA AT a ww PENS CIGARS -- TOBACCO CIGARETTES Every make, Every size and Every Price 2HANLANAALRARR CHAAR LESNAR RAR LAAN OANNRS no Soe King East--Phone 28 Simcoe South--Phone 68 New Jersey specialist says that ? : sing could be prevented entire- ; ! . 10 years, tuberculosis would a luced 50 per cent. If the snow could be kept away winter be pring. --Edgar A. Guest. and various other attributes, abundant water powers Is such |gources of electricity. that, with modern means of trans- More antomobil ' CENTRAL ELECTRIC STATION | mission, low cost hydro-electricity ie ] Ta TR , . Ie i, Smoller ore being re- INDUSTRY for industrial, agricultural, and Rumor has Mr. H. H. Stevens, ved into Norwa 1an a year ago. Fimalcietidals lI N ! as } Yeas ag Canada's central electric station | gomestic use is available to all but | Minister of Trade and Commerce, in 9 | try--the generati or dis- : : GYPSIES AND CHRISTMAS inguetey. A EonermL on Ye a small proportion of her pogula- {line for the post of Finance. Mr. Gypsies credit. the Christmas- | public use-- has attained record |tion. In sections remote from | Bennett could go farther and fare born with powers of divination proportions because the wide dis- | water-power, abundant supplies of | worse.--~Ottawa Journal. ability to remove the 'evil "| ianan and accessibility of her native fuels constitute potential The Oshawa Daily Times is the hristinas SHOPPER' GUIDE , 5 ph RP RSERRNEN -- a