THE WILLAMINA TIMES
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VOLUME 21. NO. 19
11.60 A YEAR
WILLAMINA. YAMHILL COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1928
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BflL AND MR8. pfinjp were
IwJ nice people, but somehow or
oilier they had missed out on
the general prosperity of the
times. They bad no automobile
to take them to the “movies”) in
fnct they rarely went No radio kept
them at home evenings, but while
Mrs. Philip darned stockings and
patched clothing, Mr. Philip would
read aloud to her from the great
poets, or from a classic novel. Day
times they both worked hard, she
with her housekeeping, and he at his
bookkeefier's Job. By strict economy
they always managed to pay their
rent on the first and they always bud
an extra dollar in the bank when
some unforsecn trouble sent one of
the little family to the doctor or the
dentist. But Christmas wus always
a hurdsldp. Plan as they would, they
never seemed able to get anything
ahead for this holiday. A broken wa
ter pipe In the small home, extra
books for little Phil’s school work,
or perhaps new paper for one of their
tiny rooms always seemed to take the
small surplus on which they /tad
Planned to make a festive Christmas.
They all hung up their stockings
Christmas eve and they bad a roast
chicken for dinner tho next day. Mr.
Philip would rend some Christmas
stories to the family after breakfast
And that was the extent of their cele
bration.
Being nice people, they wore a hap-
PF little family, and never com
plained. Of course they were sor.-y
not to he- able to do more for little
Phil, but he was well, was receiving
a good schooling, and was being
brought
should go.
In fact
child.
In
his amali way ha seemed at twelve
as mature aa hia parents. When he
came in from play he would take a
book and read till It was supper time.
He had a magaxlne route that occu
pied him Saturdays delivering papers,
and in that way he earned all of his
own spending money, about thirty
cents a week. At Christmas he would
give out of his small savings some tiny
ornament to his mother, and a lovely
tie to his father.
Just the day before Christmas Mrs.
Philip was thinking of what a nice
little boy she had when she heard
aim talking to three of his playmates
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Äsesas Beddoe«, an alert physician
of 1» years ago in England, noticed
tejnE this remedy in lafge dooes by
t/lt B|i a cow and standing the suf-
In front of her to inhale the
rwsdb exbnltatlons through a large
tan**. Vo geewf cures were record*
“d. taw the unique treatment recalls
’he V^yimorr pbrslrtm’s patient, who,
wSMbbl to a tn Ie of pre-Civn war
dhyai bernwir dfearwtrrnged with the Ht-
u "Tes slr-ee-ee," he was
re’re having a ten-pound-
. for just three. That’s
a and more for each I”
lip was thunderstruck.
new phase of little Phil
and lying. She couldn’t
believe beg. ears, for of course they
weren’t hU/M • turkey for Christ
mas and S fact ft was even doubt
ful If they would havo a chicken this
year—chickens were so tilgh.
But being a nice mother she didn’t
yell at her'son, and waited till eve
ning to talk It over with her husband.
They then decided that since it wan
little Phil’s first lie—almost his first
offense, they would overtook it until
some further evidence of corruption
should appear In him. Besides, it
was only natural for the poor child
to exaggerate on the day before
Christmas.
,
What was the surprise of Mr. and
Mrs. Philip next morning to find un
der their stockings a nice ten-pound
turkey, which was not from Sant.
Claus, either, but from their owi
dear little Phil, who had denied him
self bls small extravagances for
months in order to make this a reel
Christmas for them all. So little Phil
had not lied, nd this together with
his sacrifice, made Mrs. Philip much
happier even than the ten-pound
turkey did, or could.
(A lilt. Waters Namsaser vataa.)
banishing
the doctor
MEtmEMMBEMfiMMMMMMNMfiMM
FACTS AND FANCIES
?! mas day Is regarded aa
the sign of a lucky New Tear
Turkey
first became the
Christmas dish In the reign of
James 1, who could net eat the
boar’s bead usually provided.
One kiss for each berry was
the original mistletoe ritual, a
berry being removed aa a klan
was taken.
The first Christmas card was
published 80 years ago.
Christmas carols originated
la the Eleventh century, being
sung between the scenes of the
miracle and mystery plays of
the period.
Chrietmas trees originated tn
Germany,
and
crackers in
France.—Montreal Herald.
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Chriatmoa Boa Brand
According to a* old superstition,
bread baked on Christmas eve will
never become stalo or moldy.
Tha Yola Log
In England, one of their oldest cue
toms Is bringing in the Tule log.
at the Neward museum was fnnnd tc
have a round place In the bottom, evi
deatly for the purpose of reaching the
Interior. This cover was removed re
cently. revealing a great collection ef
small articles wbkb had been sealed
up in the statue, centuries agn Each
trinket, according to Albert E Andre,
orientalist on the museum staff, repro
sented a real sacrifice on the part of
some native of the interior of Tibet
Articles found In the figure included
a heavy, well-worn jade ring of a sine
to fit a feminine finger, a wooden
comtK a wooden bowl, ivory chop
sticks and knife with scabbard. a
tower
Inches
spun cloth of various colors, silk and
cotton scraps, several manuscripts
written on parchments and wrapped in
silk, a silver Image of a seated
Buddha, tiles, beads, a piece of rock
salt, beads made of human bone col
ored red and strips of copper, tinfoil,
silver and gold.
Mr. Andre said the statue had come
to the museum about ten years ago.
According to the records, it was to the
loot taken from the temple of Tsando
in Tibet when Chinese soldiers sacked
the temple tn 1918. The exact age of
the statue has not been determined.
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to try a treatment be
had Ihonrbt
The physMan believing the case
be^M* »«>M his iwtimt to go ahead
if Mft method required no great exer-
was much surprised when,
stx months later, the men came back
the very picture of health. Asked
who* be had dime, the patient said
that each morning be had risen and
with nothing but a bathrobe around
him bad run a mile to an Ice-cold
spring, leaped In and stood there im>
maned to Mo sect for IB minute*,
'"bw story, a writer to the Detroit
Newa comments, has few believers to
CAristmas Rightly Obttntd
No Christmas is rightly celebrated
which baa in it a sting of neglect.
Fiaharmon on Shia
In Dungeness, England, It k to
shingly, that the fishermen wear a
kind cl ski which enables theta to
walk with ease along the vast stretches
<it shingle.
It is made of a fiat piece Of wood
that straps onto the foot, very much»
after the manner of the ski, and it
make* walking «rite a pleasure where
without them tt to aimoat impossible
to get along