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SHIVERING CHILDREN OF PARIS PRAY FOR YULETIDE ' HltMIIVIHHIHHi7
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BY STERLING HEILIG.
PARIS, Dec. L It is called hot air
Christmas because there is none.
In Paris they make Christmas
cheer (who have the luck) by follow
ing the stove from room to room. It
is on wheels.
A million of these rolling stoves (in
various patented models) chared
Paris flats before the war; and for
IS francs extra, you can now buy a
transformer permitting them to burn
wood but the trouble is to get the
wood.
The thing is a slow-hurner of an
thracite or coke, peculiarly adapted to
Parisian economy and polished hard
wood floors, rugged, not carpeted, for
rolling. A tight iron stovepipe end,
quite short, projecting from the back,
form part of this rolling stove. It
fits snugly into an oval pipe-hole of
the sheetiron curtains which come as
necessary and adjustable accessories
to fit each onen fireplace. You roll
your stove up to it, back the pipe-end
of it into the snug oval pipe-hole, and
click! draws and burns as if sta
tionary, quite perfectly. When you
need the heat in another room, you
thanquilly pull your rolling stove
away from that chimney click! the
lid of the oval pipe-hole snaps shut
with a spring; and you deftly clap a
hermetic little iron lid, equally oval
and rather heavy, on to the iron pipe
hole and at the back of your stove, to
keep the carbon di-oxide at home for
the trip; and, whoop! you're off, with
a red-hot stove galloping through
the hallways to mamma's bedroom!
An average chambermaid can hike
it through the rooms and corridors
at 11 miles an hour. It never drops
a single hedhot coal or whiff of gas.
Now you know why everybody is
crying for coal in Paris. All the lit
tle wonder needs is coal!
In our street, most children warm
themselves by taking exercise the
poor, pale tots! You see them having
a grand time; they run, collide and
tag each other, silent, grave, with
never a squeal or giggle, never a
laugh or smile! It's no laughing
matter. It's to keep warm.
When evening comes, mamma
spreads the coal-cards on the center
table, snug and cosy, and they all
sit round them, in their furs (If they
have furs).
They sit, generally, in the kitchen,
Tirst, because it is regularly the small
est room and, secondly, because the
kitchen range has regularly a little
charcoal grilling place, at one side,
where you can burn coal-dirt with
out having It fall through the grate
and get lost.
The coal-cards call for coal, but
these nice families are happy to get
a little bituminous dirt, called mine
run, unsifted. A glance would certify
it to be well-sifted but the wrong
Bide of the sift!
Coal Situation Is Bad.
No coal without coal-cards! The
French government has taken coal
away from commerce, and is dividing
it up equitably among those who can
get it.
The coal-cards call for coal en
cumbering French docks and mine
dumps. Plus coal promised by the
Belgians, English and Americans. Plus
coal owned by the Germans in slight
and wretched compensation for their
having deliberately flooded and dyna
mited the mines of north France
(after begging for armistice and even
on armistice morning) in order to put
. France to this misery for five years
to come! When you read Ludendorffs
pleadings, remember this dark, cal
culating malice.
You understand, there is some coal:
only, cars and locomotives lack to
bring it. There are cars and loco
motives; only the lines are too crowd
ed to make room for them. There
Is room on the lines; only; there are
not men to crew the trains. There
are men to crew the trains; only they
are needed, all three for other traffic.
Other traffic might find place for
them; only it Is cheaper to bring coal
by canal boats. There are plenty of
canal boats, only they are being used
by factories and utilities. The fac
tories and utilities lack canal boats
because because oh, well, there has
got to be a break somewhere, and
let s put it here.
This is why the children of France
are shivering in a hot air Christmas
They may park the children on us
who have one or two heated rooms
The story began to run the street day
before yesterday. "Those who have
fires will be asked to taxe six chil
dren each, to sit warm a few hours
each day. By order. . . ."
You understand, clean kids and par
ents, nice folks, whose only sin Is
that someone has stole their coal, be
gin at once to apologize for being
cold :
"By order, m'sieur," murmur par
ents, "we should never ask it!" "Papa
Is ashamed, m sieur, the children
whisper, "he says he will burn the
botks, first!
This is almost a rich street, all
apartment houses. Some lew have,
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1 Ready for Christmas surprise. 2 Lnckj Parisians make cheer by following the store from room to room.
3 "Perhaps I'd better not," meditates Father Christmas. "She's a bit too expensive for this family!"
actually, mild central heating, by
mysterious good luck of the land
lords around last September. Per
haps a third of the total flats have
heat, warmth or some kind of miti
gation. "What are your folks doing with
all those books and newspapers, Mar
celle?" I asked a nice child of 11.
Gravely, she examines Mack rims
under her pink ringer nails.
"Coal dirt. Can't get it out," she
meditates. "We're making balls, mon
sieur. Balls of damp paper and coal
dust, pressed tight. I sit on 'em!
When they're dry, they burn almost.
We've got 96 already!"
Jeannlne, the beauty, is her pal. The
tots cling round them, downstairs,
in the doorway. A blue-nosed girl-of-all-work
is taking the bunch to
the park.
"If we make you visit by orders,"
says the belle-bud, "these kids shall
be safe. It's understood."
Quiet, chubby Georges makes a
rumbling noise.
"Bourn!"
"W thinks it's ' the Oftthns Don't
you remember how we made you visit
in the cellar, by order "
Don't ask Georges if the German
work continues.
ThpRfl children will become anaemic.
says the mayor of the yard, if their
psysique has not some repose from
combatting cold in the 12 waking
hours.
Children Write Letters.
Lucie, upstairs, is a wizened little
tad of 9, with great eyes. Do not
underestimated Lucie. She has ar
rived at persuading herself a great
deal that a tin gun and a pasteboard
cartridge and belt are Just what she
wnts to find in her shoes for Christ
mas.
(They do not hang up their stock
ings in France, as every doughboy
can tell you. They put their shoes
before the open fireplace.)
Her little sisters, 4 and 6, are get
ting ready to give fervent thanks for
brassy trumpet, toy sword, villainous
drum and four tin buckets and shov
els, to dig in the park. .Yea, there
will be some figs, raisins, oranges.
But where is the toy kitchen and
dolls' tea set complete which the lit
tle one3 have been secretly desiring
and where is Lucie's big red book
with 100 pictures The Chevalier
Bayard?
The tots write letters to the Little
Jesus to, tell him what they want.
mere was one Doy wno countermand
ed his order on the quiet:
"Dear Little Jesus," he wrote,
"don't send those clothes. Send candy.'
(Candy is 16 francs a pound in
Paris; and half the families have not
had their November sugar, one pound
and a half a month a person, on the
suKar-card if you can get it.
It Is, of course, the Infant who
sends children's gifts, St. Nicholas be
ing only his white-whiskered facto
turn, practicing an almost abusive
liberty of judgment in details.
. Long ago (in Paris) he discovered
a deadeasy ready reckoner in the
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. DECEMBER 21,
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look of your chimneys. Nearly every
body, rich and poor alike, live in
flats or apartments, ten or more fam
ilies to a house; and almost every
room of every flat has its open fire
place with an Individual pottery pipe
straight up to one of numerous brick
chimneys on the roof. You can look
up and (theoretically) see the stars.
Evidently, St. Nicholas can look
down and see Lucie.
He don't need to.
Where carved stone monumental
chimneys, great but comparatively
few, proclaim the private mansion or
rich, spacious flats, St. Nicholas can
go the limit. But on roofs with for
ests of rickety pots, he is thoughtful
not to embarrass parents and make
neighbors jealous. These are houses
packed with many families, whose
small sized rooms must not be lit
CHRISTMAS MUSIC PREPARED
BY PROTESTANT CHURCHES
Programmes Announced by Portland Congregations for Services This
Morning and Tonight.
Wtiiit; unristmas proper does
not begin until Thursday
morning, religious denomina
tions in this city other than Catholic
and Episcopal will hear Christmas mu
sic sung and played in their respec
tive churches in churcn services this
morning and evening Presbyterian,
Methodist, Episcopal, Baptist, Con
gregational, Christian. Lutheran and
others. The reason Christmas music
will not be rendered today in Catho
lic and Episcopal churches is because
in these two denominations it is the
season of advent and no reference
will be made today in church ritual
to Christmas, until Christmas actually
Degins early Thursday morning.
Today's programmes of Christmas
music will be heard In these churches:
Presbyterian.
First, 10:30 A. M., anthem, "Sleep
of the Child Jesus" (Gevaert). "Song
the Christ Child" (Osgood), "Glory to
God in the Highest" (Kriens), and
And the Shepherds Came" (Paulsen.)
The quartet composed of Mrs. Blanche
Williams Segersten, Mrs. Virginia
Spencer Hutchinson, J. MacMlllan
Mulr and Otto T. Wedemeyer will be
augmented by a double quartet con
sisting of all solo singers of experi
ence who are trained In quartet work,
and their names are: Mrs. T. L. Free
man and Clara Myers, contraltos; Mrs.
Donald Lamonte and Velma MacMas
ters, contraltos; William L. Paul and
E. C. Davis, tenors; C. H. Savage and
R. L. Crane, bass; Otto T. Wedemeyer
is director, and Edgar E. Coursen, or
ganist. Rose City Park, services A. M. and
P. M. Carols, "Hark! What Music
Fills the Sky." (ancient melody);
"While Shepherds Watched" (Old
English); "Silent Night" (Gruber);
"All This Night Bright Angels" (Gur
ney.) Anthems, "The Child Christ"
(Marzo); "A Quiet Night" (Neid
linger); "Christians Awake" (Stults):
"O Holy Night" (Adam.) Solos. "A
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tered up with numerous or large
sized gifts.
This admirable delicacy is some
times not understood by children.
They know that he Is Invisible be
cause he (regularly) wears a magic
cap. "Should think he would!" says
Hegesippe, the child refugee, whose
memory loses itself in five bum
ChWstmases. But hopeful little Lucie
(wizened, pathetic, heart-breakingly
cheery) stands up for the old cook
altruistically: "He can't bring much
when the chimney is clogged."
The kids meditate before the empty,
chilly fireplace.
"He won't risk to singe his beard,
this time!" says Loif.
"Ne," meditates Miche.
"No," meditates Mad.
There's been no fire in that grate
all winter!
Song of Glory" (Faure); "There Were
Shepherds" (Lynes) ; "The Birth of a
King" (Coombs).
Central. A. M. and P. M., anthems.
"Rejoice Greatly," chorus; "Glory to
God," a chorus of women's voices;
"Let Us Go," (Berge), men's voices.
J. William Belcher is music director.
Calvary, 7:30 P. M.. organ volun
tary, "The March of the Magi" (Har
ker); "Scotch Carols" (Guilmant);
anthem, with soprano obligato, "O
Little Town of Bethlehem" (Neid
linger) ; anthem, "While Shepherds
Watch Their Flocka by Night" (Gar
rlt Smith) ; 'anthem, soprano obligato,
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"
(Sullivan); anthem. "Silent Skys are
Full of Speech" (Nevin) ; solo. "Our
King Has Come" (Neidllnger) ; an
them, "Everywhere, Everywhere
Christmas Tonight" (Nevin); post
lude, "The Hallelujah Chorus."
Methodist Episcopal.
Centenary, A. M. and P. M , with
sacred concert at the 7:30 P. M. serv
ice, under direction of Miss Minette
Magers. Processional, "Hark the
Harold Angels Sing"; anthem, "The
Christ Child" (ComDS), with soprano
obligato, Mrs. Mountain. "Tenor solo,
"O, Holy Night" (Adams) ; anthem.
"Brightest and Best of the Sons of
the Morning" (Combs); soprano and
tenor solos; baritone solo, "Nazareth"
(Gounod), Eugene Walters; offertory,
violin solo, "Christmas," Mrs. H. N.
Standenmeyer; anthem, "Hail the
King" (Bartlett); contralto solo. Miss
Magers; soprano solo, "Angels of
Light" (Marshall), Mrs S. E. Moun
tain; mixed quartet, with obligato,
and soprano and contralto duet, by
women's voices, on "Christmas"
(Shelley), sung by Mrs. Mountain.
Miss Mayers, W. Drake, Mrs. Hoyt,
Miss Lennon and E. Walters; anthem,
"Gloria," from Mozart's "Twelfth
Mass."
Central, A. M. Anthem, "R i s e.
Shine for Thy Light la Come"
(Elvery). chorus choir; solo, "Christ
mas Song" (Adam), Ferris Abbett;
anthem, "Sing, Oh Heavens" (Tours),
chorus choir. P. M. Anthem, "It
Came Upon a Midnight Clear," chorus
choir, James A. Oakes is director.
First, A. M. Organ selections:
Anthem, "How Lovely Are. the Mes
sengers" (Mendelssohn); quartet,
"Christmas Anthem" (Prideaux), Miss
Goldie Peterson, Mrs. Esther Cniyn
Chatten, E. T. Jones. W. J. Stevenson:
sono, "Nazareth" (Gounod), Walter J.
Stevenson. P. M. Organ selections:
Anthem, "Arise! Shine! For Thy Light
Is Come" (Frey); solo. "Babe Divine"
(Hamblen), Mrs. Esther Collin Chat
ten; quartet, "Joy Fills Our Inmost
Heart" Berwald): choir, Christmas
anthem: solo, "Star of Bethlehem"
(Adams), E. Trevor Jones. Mr. Jones
Is chorus director and Mrs. Gladys
Mongar-Farmer is organist.
Sunnyside, P. M., Christmas music
will be rendered by the adult vestlc
choir of this church, under direction
of Jasper Dean MacFall, with Miss
Verl Butler as organist. Solo parts
will be sung by: Marie Keller Fish
er, Daisy M. MacFall. Dorothy Rob
ertson. Mrs. H. C. Beltz and John B.
Matthews.
Congregational.
Sunnyside. 11 A. M. Anthem, "There
Were Shepherds" (Birch); soprano
solo. "Come Unto Me" (Handel), Miss
Marlon Bennett. 7:45 P. M. Anthem,
"Sing and Rejoice" (Nevin); soprano
solo. "The Birthday of a King"
(Neldlinger). Miss Marlon Bennett;
women's quartet and chorus, "Voices
of the Sky" (Shelley); anthem, "It
Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (Sul
livan); duet, "The Guiding Star"
(Bragdon); anthem, "There Were
Shepherds" (Neidllnger); baritone
solo, "Silent Night" (Gruber), Gor
don Onstad; anthem, "O Holy Night"
(Adam). J. A. Holllngworth Is music
director.
First, A. M. and P. M. Christmns
music by the quartet, Luclen E.
Becker, organist and director.
Atkinson. A. M. and P. M. Prelude.
"Romanze" (La Forge). Miss Ida May
Cook: "Ring Forth Ye Bells" and "The
Shepherds" (Schnecker), quartet; "The
Star of Bethlehem" (Adams), John
Claire Monteith; "The Wise Men
(Schnecker), quartet; "Hark! What
Mean Those Holy Voices" (Hawley),
Mr. Monteith; "Hail, Royal Babe"
(Schnecker), quartet. The latter Is
composed of Miss Gladys -Keeney, so
prano; Frank Lewis, tenor; Mrs. Mil
dred Pharis, contralto; Curtlss Beach,
bass. Miss Ida May Cook Is pianist
and director, and John Claire Mon-
tleth Is special soloist today.
Baptist.
First (White Temple), A. M. and
P. M. The choir will render the can
tata, "Christ, the King" (Dicks). The
choir is composed of Harold Hurlbut
tenor and director; Mrs. Herman A.
Politz. soprano; Mrs. Eugene Moore
contralto, and Axel Osterholm, bass,
assisted by Ira D. Morgan, second
tenor, and Byron Truchot, baritone
Lutheran.
Trinity, .3 P. M. Chorals will be
rendered to the deaf of this city. "The
Apostles' Creed," in unison; "Silent
Night, Holy Night," Misses Seipp
"Quartet. Mrs. Sanford Spratlen, Miss
Selma Hagen. Mrs. G. W. Kreidt, Miss
H. Isaacson; Lord's Prayer, In unison.
Grace, Sunday school music cele
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bration, participated in by: Nell Mil.
ler, Lydia Reich, Leroy Pederson.
Lydia Kllngbetl, Charles Pederson.
Glayds Quail, Charles Josle, Marjorie
Brandes, Henry Kobersteln, Charles
Woelert, Olga Kyio, Annie Reich.
Evelyn Jackson, Eleanore1 Blanchette,
Leona Tonslng. Emma Wilhelm, Carl
Garbe, Rudolph Jost. Margaret
Woehlert, Louis Kylo, Adeline Woeh-
lert, Eugene Klingbell, Herman Kylo,
Dorothy Smithson, Virginia Brandes.
Catherine Vadney, Vernon Horncamp.
Johanna Kobersteln. Nanny Thorn,
Dorothy Atkinson, Evelyn Pederson.
Asta Kylo, Leona Tonsing, Olga
Kling. Frida Wilhelm, Martha Kling
bell. Hilda Kylo. Ida Kruger. Mal
vern Gross, Alfred Kruger. Carl Ba-
dura, Richard Doyle, Gordon Blan
chette, Clayton Henricksen, Gertrude
Doyle and Alfred Kruger.
Christian.
First. 7:45 P. M. Anthem. "Gloria
in Excelsii" (Patten); trio, ."Praise
Ye." from "Attllia" (Verdi); quartet,
"Thy Light Is Come" (Wilson); con
tralto solo, "O Babe Divine" (Ham
blen). Miss Nina Dressel; anthem.
"Glory Be to God" (Lorenz). Mrs.
Fred B. Newton is choir director.
Ensliah Lutheran.
St. James, A. M., an antiphonal
service to be sung by these soloists:
Miss Ruth Agnew, Mrs. Petronella
Connolly-Peets, Mrs. A. B. Holder-
man. Mrs. Carl Hansen. Master Allan
Balda, Halfred A. Young. Dr. Harry
B. Moore. Ballord Smith and Louis
G. Stany. Mrs. J. Harvey Johnson
is organist and choir director.
NEW BILLS AT THE MOVIES
(Continued From Pare
attraction at the Majestic theater.
Douglas Fairbanks In "When the
Clouds Roll By," will come to the
Majestic on Christmas day.
"Bearcat" is the nickname given to
the young boy who is the hero of the
picture. He returns from h(s exile
whither he has been driven by reve
nue officers who are seeking out il
licit stills. As the boy looks down
from the mountainside he sees Blos
som, the girl he loves, in another
man's arms. From that day on there
Is war to the knife between Bearcat
and Henderson. Yet when the time
comes for his revenge the boy tries
to save his enemy's life, in one of the
most thrilling scenes ever depicted on
the screen.
Henderson is dying from wounds
fie received in a fight where Bearcat,
too, is terribly wounded In trying to
save his life. As the boy bends over
to hear what he thinks are the last
words of the man ,that stole the af
fections of the girl he loves and hears
him say. "I m dying," Bearcat says
"I hope ter God yer air, but afore ye
dies ve're aKOin' ter be married. May
be I'm dying, too I don't know
but I aims ter last long enough ter
stand up with ye tlrst.
The terrible mistake was righted In
the end and Bearcat and Blossom ful
filled the prophecy made on the moun
talnslde that summer evening: "When
I've done something worth dour an
I when ye're a leetle bit older yourself,
an' we're goin' ter dwell thar to
gether." "FAIR AND WARMER" COMES
Special Christmas Attraction Is
Booked by Strand.
Did you ever see the room spin
round? Did you ever see three doors
where there ought normally to be
one? Did you ever try to walk to
your bed and find the bed spinning
around In the most unusual manner?
May Allison did in "Fair and
Warmer." The screen version of this
funniest of all Avery Hopwood farces
will show at the Strand theater this
week as the special Christmas attrac
tion.
The story of "Fair and Warmer" is
that of "Blanny" Wheeler and Billy
Bartlett, the one a model wife and
the other a perfect husband. So per
fect had their married lives been that
their better halves were restless.
wishing new excitement and Interest.
One took to dining with an old-time
suitor, while the other took to poker,
which he disguised to his Baptist
wife under the term his "mystic
shrine." Then came a day when the
Baptist wife overheard a discussion
about another husband who went to
his mystic shrine, according to the
story he told wlfey. but who in reality-
was "stepping out." And on that
same day Billy's wife told him he
was too good to be intere-tlng, and It
was the divorce court for her. The
spirit of revenge is seized upon by
the despairing two and. in their in
nocence, they decided upon a fearful
course.
A liquor table attracts their atten
tlon. Something must be done, so
they busily agree to sample each of
the pretty liquids. Then they decide
to mix them together and find out
how the mixture tastes. By that time
they are trying vainly to hold on to
the furniture In the room as It spins
about, but ultimately they are inter
rupted by the arrival of their better
halves.
ELSIE FERGUSON AT GLOBE
Dorothy Glsh and William S. Hart
Also Attractions This Week.
"The Society Exile." In which
charming Elsie Ferguson plays the
role of an English girl cruelly ban
ished from her social world In her
homeland, is the feature picture today
and tomorrow at the Globe theater.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
the feature attraction will be Dorothy
Glsh in 1 11 Get Him i et. and. on
Friday and Saturday William S. Hart
in "Money Corral.
Typical British life is shown In
"The Society Exile," which also por
trays the wonders of Venice and Its
many waterways. A specially con
structed canal made from a huge
glass tank to be used in a reproduc
tion of a Venetian canal is one of
the most artistic pictures In the en
tire production. The production also
shows life in India. . The story centers
in the fact that one must suffer for
the sins of others.
"I'll Get Him Yet" Is a comedy
through and through. It is the story
of a rich little girl in love with a
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newspaper reporter, who thinks, after
listening to the man he had hoped to
have for his fond father-in-law. that
his sweetheart has only been making
fun of htm. She proves to nlm even
tually that father does not always de
cide all things for her.
William S. Hart is In one of his
finest roles In "Money Corral," a pic
ture breathing of sturdy, open pio
neer life.
THEDA BARA AT THE CIRCLE
"A Woman There Was" Will Be
Feature Today and Tomorrow.
"A Woman There Was." with beau
tiful Theda Bara in the leading role,
is the picture which will be featured
at the Circle theater today and to
morrow. Miss Bara is seen in an exceedingly
emotional and descriptive role in this
production. She typifies a class of
women little understood by the ma
jority of their sex. She plays the
role with understanding and rare
beauty.
Beautiful gowns, which no one can
wear to a better advantage than
Theda, are attractive features of the
play. A beautiful estate consisting
of a huge home surrounded by giant
trees and rolling grounds is one of
the charming scenes in the play.
"A Woman There Was" is described
as a thrilling drama with a South Sea
island setting. Including all of the
'atmosphere" of that wonderful trop
ical clime. The thread of the theme
winds around the beautiful daughter
of the Majah of the island, who falls
in love with an American missionary.
Her love is not reciprocated, as the.
missionary remains true to his fiancee
back home. Notwithstanding this the
princess thrice faces death to save her
sweetheart, and finally dies by vio
lence that he may live.
Among the sensational scenes is one
showing a tropical typhoon which
sweeps everything before It. The
drama is said to demand great emo
tional acting the sort of work in
which Miss Bara excels.
"THE HOODLUM" AT SUNSET
Return Engagement of "Mickey"
Will Start Saturday.
"The Hoodlum." Mary Plckford's
second picture produced from her own
studios and declared by critics her
greatest character role, is the attrac
tion offered at the Sunset theater all
this week.
Landing on sordid Creighton street
as a snob. Amy Burke (Mary) is soon
converted into a star crap-shooter, a
nlmble-flngered potato peeler, the of
ficial style setter for the girls and
the most kindly and humanitarian
person in the alley tenements.
From his Fifth avenue estate hep
rich and aristocratic grandfather
watches his favorite with acute curi
osity. He Is more than surprised on
night to discover that his favorite
grandchild and a tenement friend are
cracking his safe.
Beginning next Saturday, the Sun
set theater will show a return en
gagement of Mabel Normaud's great
est success, "Mickey.'"