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3 y \ y \** CLEANING AND. PRESSING sHOP 10 Cedar Street North Phone 1120 ‘orner Fourth Ave. and Cedar Street *URBISTMAS CHEFA December GREEN APP LE PIH 1 Y Our Y our This (MRS. SHEPHARD, Proprietor) your joys be adde« sorrows subtract wealth multiplied is the Christmas I we give to all. Timmins (Â¥ THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, Old Ontario Story of Christmas Faith could hard. married daugnhters caown with her tw< sailor husband the docks most of the time. Tessie, Mrs. Dayton‘s granddaughter, brought sunshine into the old lady‘s life. When Tessie came running to "Grandma" (as she did more often than to her mother) Grandma was like another woman. She lived through that child, but how her heart ached when she found she could not even offer Tess a cookie when she came running :nto the kitchen. Christmas time came roung to the Dayton home. Grandma knew it when the first white blanket of snow lifted the drabness from the town. But to Grandma Dayton it was as if the sun had ceased to shine. Kiddies in the nouse and no Christmas. Tess had hearg of Santa Claus. He had vis.ted her house last year and left the most prized possession of her young life a~sturdy rag doll. Where goldenâ€" tressed Tess was, there was Patsy, the darkâ€"eveq doll. Patsy was astonishingâ€" "Wrote to Santy!" burst out Teéess, as Grandma looked away quickly, "and he‘s gong to bring a carriage for Patsy Do you think he will, Grandma?" Grandma qgidn‘t answer at once. She seemed to be busy with somethmg else, "Will be, Grandmo? Will ‘he?" "Yes, child, yes. Surely he‘ll bring Patsy‘s carriage. But you must pray, Tess darling. Ask God to help Santy." Grandma realized afterwards that she had made a mistake. Asking God for things was all very well but what would hapopen to Tess‘s faith in the Alâ€" mighty when Christmas morning came and Patsy was carriageless? God had refused the one thing she asked, so in Tess‘ estimation he wouldn‘t be much of a God. Oh, what a fool she‘d been to put such a thought in the child‘s head. What she had really meant in her own heart was that Ged would provide some means of making a Christmas for Tess, "What‘s the matter Grandma?" Tess kept asking her for days after that. "You look so cross." But Grandma wasn‘t cross. She just didn‘t feel like smiling. To hear that child every night finish her prayâ€" er with "angq please God, don‘t let Sanâ€" had the 1 life tress aark lv w Little sAIIOr n the dock ty forget Patsy‘s carriage. Amen" was enough to take the joy from life. Grandma had looked in all the shops. Doll carriages were few and far beâ€" tween that year for so few people in the town could speond anything on Christmas. But what few there were just made Grandma‘s heart sink within her. Dollars asked where she had cents to spend. One shop seemed promising. It wasâ€" n‘t much to look at and there was a sign in the window "Girl Guides Tradeâ€" in Store." All sorts of things, from shotgunsâ€"to rosarn.es were shown there. None of them were new. She went in and asked if they had a doll carriage. "I‘m sorry Mrs. Dayton." said the Guider in charge, "We haven‘t one here just now. But someone may bring one in any day. Yon see, the way we work our store is that people bring things here they don‘t want or don‘t need around the house. We take half the proceeds and the people get the other half. I might ask a few if they have have a doll carriage around the house their children have outgrown. How much woulg you like to pay?" Mrs. Dayton hseitated. It sounded so cheap. "Well, I could pay a dollar and maybe just a little more if T could get it before Christmas." The Guider didn‘t laugh. She didn‘t even smile. "I see Mrs. Dayton. We‘ll do the very best we can. But don‘t hnope too much." Day after day Mrs. Dayton went to the CHuide shop. Each time she brought the ‘dollar and the few cents she had savegq from her own food. Each time she went more slowly up the street. It looked as if God would surely not be able to help Santy. And it was all Grandma‘s fault. The Guider wasn‘t idle. She couldn‘t forget the look on Mrs. Dayton‘s face when she came in every day and the change that hag come over it before she left. The Guider asked and asked but there didn‘t seem to be a doll carâ€" riage in town that wasn‘t in use. One day one of the Guider‘s friends was at the Guider‘s home. She had a daughter now grown past the doll stage. "Bertha," said the Guider, "has May a doll carriage left from her doll days?" "Why yes, I think she has." "Would she let us sell it as the Guide 1 pp Â¥I iimost gC Mrs. D owns. Ht¢ 1is life t store?" Bertha didn‘t know. The carriage was May‘s and it was hers to do whatâ€" ever she wished. But she‘d see. And nd eved 11 pr Bv "SHAKE®" (Timmins goOnt Dayv , Mrs. Dayton‘s granddaughter, sunshine into the old lady‘s hen Tessie came running to ma" (as she did more often her mother) Grandma was like woman.. She lived through ild, but how her heart ached he found she could not even ess a cookie when she came daught O1 pension. d perhap 1 rh ame roung to the ima knew it when ket of snow lifted the town. But to was as if the sun ie. Kiddies in the did you?" asked ‘and what would vou wouldn‘t tell but h The lights on our church altars are but tribute to Him Who is the Light of the World, Whose words brought light into dark places and Whose first followers, as they worshipped Him in caves and catacombs, perhaps before going to martrydom for His sake, have transmitted through all the ages the tradition that Christmas must ever be a festival of light. So the lights on our dining tables and on our Christmas trees have a meaning of their own if we but seek it. Let us all seek to make this a happy Christmas, stressing not so much the merriment as the help we can give to Lights of Christmas Go Far Back in Time a candlewhich is lit at midnight to welcome the coming of the Christ Child. Every nook and corner of the house must be ablaze with light. until the dawn comes. Something of the same sort prevails in the rural districts of Q@uebec where : those returning from midnight mass look for the light in the windows which on cther nights would be dark many hours before. But Santy 11 ltor ages? â€" From time mmemoriai light has always been the emblem of religion in lands where the revolution of the months brings the darker days. Perhaps it is a development of the sun worship in other lands; perhaps a deâ€" monstration of the sentiment that light means life. In our own far north the return of the light is an annual festiâ€" val with the aborigines, as in all northâ€" ern lands. In ancient Britain, before In Iceland, the land of Thor, Christmas is a festival of light. The housewife makes a large number of candles for use at Christmas, using candle moulds which have been in the family for genâ€" erations. On Christmas eve every member of the family is presented with Now, when electricity has sent its benefits to city and country alike, we multiply a thousandfold the scant illuâ€" minations of candle and lamp. The light of Christmas takes on new signiâ€" ficance. We poor humans do our best to express by our Christian lights our joy at the birth of the Redeemer, but magnificent though some of our disâ€" plays seem to our human eyes how far short they fall when compared, with the light of that first Christmas when "The glory of the Lord" shone around the shepherds watching their flocks by night. How wondsrful are God‘s lights! We see the now again when the aurora borealis sweeps across the sky, making everything alive with the throbbing of amber and viOlet, sometimes hanging like streamers of gold from the blue bowl of the sky, to quote an Ottawa post. (By Fred Williams in Mail and Empire) Do you know that when we light up for Christmas we are following the traâ€" ditions of dwellers in northern regions foaor ages? From time Aimmemorial the advent of Christianity, the festivals in honor of Woden, Thor and Saturn in December centred around the fires at which the Yuletide logs were consumed. merriment as the help we can give to those around us. To some the day will be sad because since the last Christmas some dear one has passed over, but they should remember that those who have gone are now enjoying the greater Light which encircles the throne of Him whom Hoiunmnaun made visible through his wonderful masterâ€" Light Always the Emblem of Religion and of Happy Progress and Content. We have Biblical authority to eat, drink and be merry, for to everything there is a season, but let us all take heed of the advice to be moderate lest in the morrow the whole head is sick and the whole heart faint. May good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both! piece (Paul Rayson in New York Sun With the approach of Santa Claus The sternest individual thaws; Parental discipline demands Less, and the heart again expands Angelic faces, all scrubbed clean, Enliven the gdomestic scene. It‘s Father this and Mother thatâ€" They have their manners now down Eager to please our every whim, A flock of perfect cherubim! And one must be obtuse indeed Who give these many hints no heed. Weli, we must 100k around, before Sleigh beils start jingling at the door Next Saturday perhaps we‘ll do Some windowâ€"shopping; Junior, too, Might like to see what kind of toys Have been devised for little boys, That model motor boat, I feel, Should have a positive appeal. Skates or a bike? Get out that list And jot down anything we‘ve missed! Meanwhile, I‘m hardly reconciled To so much virtue in a child! D hough Great Expectations 1€ Te 1€ Ist of December came. Mrs. ippeared at the Guide store as till no carriage. The 22nd 23rd passed and the Guider ave up hope. Mrs. Dayton had ceased expecting but she still t dollar, "just in case." e night before Christmas Eve, honeg the Guider. "May says 1 the carriage if vou‘ll get her heart. Dayton smiles again, even he can‘t bake cookies for Tess, Mrs . we 11 did the Guid one transaction the Guide t realize any real profit on ind God were fixed forever AT bu Dayton saw the beautiful t. She just couldn‘t help she apologized to the ut ho mâ€"~mâ€"much is r she still had but the we could manage a do inder do e ol ol ol ol ol l l or ol ol e oc ol e o Li HZ K SE KSE EKEA L : TN °2 71 Third Avenue Corner Kirby and Birch We wish one and all and friends a Very and a Happy and Y ear We thank our many customers and friends for their suupport during the year. To one and all a Merry Christâ€" mas and a Happy New Year. May a wealth of deep contentment And a host of lovely things Be some of the many blessings This happy Christmas brings. MORANDIN BERNARDI, Proprietars hone 935 Christmas Sectio Timmins Timmins