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TWELFTH NIGHT
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'nRJSTMAS ends In Ercland
on the fifth of January, ohl
Christmas Day, or Twelfth
Night, with a great party for
the llttUt folks, whleh Is the oc­
casion forlthe rutting of the spe­
cial "Twelfth Night cuke,” thus
winding up the season; nnd If
you have hot tasted at least
twelve samples of Christmas
pudding during'the twelve days
between new and old Christmas
- well, you are out of lurk.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1!>2fi
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Primitive Bookkeeping
D oíí Babies
The old Acadlans, or Cajuns, of
southwestern Louisiana were a prim­
itive people. Their customs. If quaint,
were often Ingenious. In those early
days the sole intruders from the out­
side world were the commercial trav­
elers. They saw some curious things.
One of them, making the round of
the,prairie In Ids buggy stopped at a
boutique, or small Cajun store. The
.L c . proprietor could neither read nor
■ ui>jte. Nevertheless, he had a card
index system of credit of Ids own.
This he kept upon pieces of plank,
putting down first the mark peculiar
to each debtor. Afterward he added
a picture of each article that was
bought find charged. An admirable
system.—Advonture Mngnzlne.
[IIS. JONES h ii H boon raaklu’
pics," observed IJuth. “Mince
pics?" replied her sister.
"No, Jones pics," answered Ruth. It
wns promising for somebody, for lie-
turah Jopcs never made pies without
making one over. The hatch might be
mince, apple or pumpkin, but there
wns alwnvi an extra |)ie for good na­
ture nnd good luck.
This time It was a Christmas pte*
an>l destined for-the. old *toy maker.
It was his only chance of holiday Joy,
for, while he could whittle out boats,
carve dogs that could almost hark
Plaster of Paris
and cats that seemed afraid of them,
Plaster of paris Is derived from a
and make doll
mineral called gypsum. Burned first
houses, he could
to dry off the superfluous water, this
not conk, and he
gypsum yields a title chalky powder
lived alone.
which, when moistened again Into a
He was an old
paste, and pressed into n mold, hard­
man, queer but
ens into a perfect replicn of Its model,
kindly.
Ills old
so making an Ideal material for cheap
house seemed to
statues and the like.
be falling down,
Gypsum Is found in many pnrts of
or at least It wns
the world, but as a large part of Paris
leaning that wny,
happens to be built over whole beds
hut yet It shel­
of it, that city was the first to discov­
tered the toy shop
er this particular way of using it.
brnvely and tried
Hence models and statuettes so fash­
to feel ns young
RTIIUR BENTON hud been born
ioned were spoken of as being made
ns ever because It
the proverbial silver spoon
of plaster of purls.
‘ with
had seen old Hans
In his mouth. Ever since he
stand on his head could remember he had never felt the
Just to show how need of n single thing that money
Old Babylonian City
young he was. On could buy—there wns scarcely a wish
Hnrnn as a city of note is often
the way to him with the pie the chil­ of Ids that had ever been left ungrntl-
mentioned In Babylonian Inscriptions,
dren wondered If he would sing for fled. Ills father had left him a large
and had many historical connections,
them again ns he had done the last fortune before lie was twenty-one and
though the excavator has not gone far
time they watched him at Ids work. It things had always been very easy for
with his Investigation of Its ruins yet.
was the song about the miller's dog him. His father, shrewd business mau
Naboillns, the last Assyrian king of
that they wanted, but they found him that he was, had left the money so
Babylon, for instance, speaks of be­
working on a toy horse, nnd when they thnt there would be no chance of Ar­
ing inspired by his god to rebuild the
noticed that there wns something thur's running through It In n hurry,
temple Eliulhul (or House of Joy),
wrong about the horse they forgot were he so Inclined. But he need not
which the Scythians had destroyed
about the dog. "You haven’t got that have worried on thut score, for so far
when taking Muran, and describes in
right, Mr. Hans,” said Itutli; "you It seemed as If Arthur was truly fol­
a glowing inscription how lie had re­
shouldn't put a necklace of sleigh hells lowing In Ids father’s footsteps—his
built aud adorned the city.
around his stomach.” "Well, well,” one desire seemed to he to add to the
said the old man, "I’ll have to see pile.
He did not even spend one-
about that; hut perhaps I was think fourth o f the lavish allowance he had
Attributes of Wealth
lng about something to eat when 1 put been left which would come to him
Wealth Is not the real prize of life;
the bells In the wrong place.” "Well, each year until he was twenty-eight.
it Is only a trophy, a symbol, and nny
H e w n s now
here It Is," said Ruth, uncovering the
carry with it no satisfaction; indeed,
twenty-five a n d
pie, "nnd we wish you n Merry Christ­
it does not carry with It genuine, last­
there s e e m e d
mas." "Sure,” said Mr. Hans, "sure
ing satisfaction unless won and em­
great danger of
It will he merry, and you shall be
ployed fairly, honestly, honorably.—
merry, too," and he took down a
his developing In
3rlfc
to a money-mak­ body again. What u wouderii.i .vork
bundle ns he put the pie upon the
■heir.
ing t y p e .
Not
it would be—how-
V/eU-Mcant, but Ill-Tim ed
that he d e n i e d
It was a very Interesting bundle,
great a privilege
A physician had been called In to
Fren!:
L.
himself a single
but the children suddenly remembered
to have even u
treat the spoiled child of a certain
t h i n g that he
Stanton, in
the song and forgot the bundle. This
part In Its mak­
family. After his departure the moth­
cared
for,
hut
like
wns the song:
Atlanta
ing !
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By Mil,na Irvin£ er returned to the room and told the
many others who
Constitution
Finally t h e r e
VAJdl
in Town Tonic? youngster that the doctor hnd com­
The minor's hlg do g lay on the mill
have ha d every­
came a day when
floor,
plained that the child had been very
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And It.inco w ns his nnme, oh
there seemed no
rude to him.
A wo nderlnc what hi* lay ttioro for,
lives,
Arthur
further need of
IE earth on Ctuislmas Eva exclaimed
And w hy ho w as so lame, oh.
“Why. mother,” replied the kiddle,
never stopped to
ELCOME, Mister Christmas 1
Arthur B e n t o n
B -a-n -g-oo o
To winter, raith a pout,
"he’s just an old fogy, that’s all! He
think that there
O B a n g o w as his name.
here is where we live,
staying at t h o
“ Mi) old broum coat it shabbq nou),
got mail because 1 put my tongue out
were many whom
With room for you, and always
h o s p i t a l . The
tn fact it’« all worn out,
The mi lle r he said If the dog was
before he told me to.”
he could help to
Just
e'l
you
have
to
give.
dead,
doctor had pro­
U’t raqqed here and raveled thera
W h y , that would he the end. oh;
happiness by a
Come in! The fire’s burn’ng
nounced him ns
And torn the other waq.
But slnoe he only lame Instead,
And
fine
the
tehle’s
set,
little
o
f
what
was
fit ns a man could
Old Hans would soon him mend, oh.
t ouqhi to have a brand nevo one
Reasons for F rV vre
B -a -n -g-oo o
his.
And hear us sing the old song:
be and he, him
To uiiar on Christmas Daq.”
The
“small” man remit’ns small by
O B a n c o w as his name.
“ This life’s worth living yet!’
Three days before Christmas he stood
self, felt thnt it
reason of his own ■horteomlngs, not
at
the
counter
of
one
of
the
largest
Old
rainier
blustered
Jor
ev.-h.ile
was t r u e , yes,
The special fun o f it wns when they
because of the persecution of others.
It wns during the
And loudlq bdiujed the door,
even more than
■pelted the dog’s name around the stores in Iowa
Welcome, Mister Christmas!
We too frequent!' go far afield to
rush
hours
of
the
day
and
the
clerks
And
then
qave
in
as
he
has
done
true. For In ad­
circle, each singer taking one letter,
Wc love you more and more
learn the reason for our failure, when
So manq times bejore.
-
dition to regain­
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and then all Joining In on the last line. were nil busy. Arthur chafed at the
When wc see you on the threshold
And lot when Christmasmorninq dawned all w<> have to do Is to look around
dcluj
''Hang It all,” he thought to
ing the h e a l t h
Of the dwellings of i!;e poor.
Then the children forgot the song
n hit at home.—Grit.
Alt qold and blue and briqht,
You bring the weary wanderers
and remembered the bundle. It was himself, “ why won’t they wait on and strength that hnd been his before,
Earth
wore
a
trulq
reqal
coat
The old-fashioned girl who used to
From where their feet may roam
well wrapped, for they took off paper somebody. I'll go somewhere else and something new and wonderful hnd
OJ ermine pure and white.
come Into his life— something that
To the light, and cheer and comfort
tremble very time she was asked to
after paper, like peeling an onion, get service.”
Leaving the store hurriedly he made him feel hotter and happier than
Of all our hearts at home 1
recite “ Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”
•util they came to the girl doll that
President Calles of Mexico seems in the parlor, now has a daughter of
eould call for mother and the hoy doll started Impatiently across the street, he hnd ever felt before. For he hnd
von the love of a girl so wonderful
thnt could play on a month organ. forgetting to look for passing cars,
It is saidthat four-fifths of the to be the man who r jises the nick her own who isn’t afraid to sing “ Yes
Then, with both the presents going lie never could tell afterwards how that he marveled each time lie thought whiskey sold for medicinal purposes in Nicaragua.
Sir, That’s My Baby,” anywhere.
about
It.
Helen
Goodman
was
differ­
It
happened-
there
was
the
feeling
of
they also went, leaving a pleasant
ent from all the girls he hnd ever is watered. But as long as they
some
huge
hulk
Itenring
down
upon
■mile on the old man’s face and all
known-—there was no question about don’t put anything worse than water
the toys looking happily at each other. him and he knew no more.
When he awoke he wns lying In n It in Arthur’s mind. He had also in it there’s no cause to worry.
Mrs. Jones welcomed the travelers cool, white bed In a very hare and learned the many wonderful tiling
back with a taste of tier cooking for spotlessly clean room. Beside his bod that he could do with his wealth—
Now that Irving Berlin is a proud
themselves, and was as happy as all sat n whlte-rohed figure, n trained
low much happiness he could brln;
good Christmas cooks are. She said, nurse, he saw at a glance. He wns to humanity by using part of It to <F father we can expect some new lul­
"Toil can’t make chocolate almonds In n hospital! Yes, he remembered :he things for which there was sue' labies. This is to remind him that
out of horse chestnuts, hut those all now! He tried to ask the nurse
crying need—nnd how much happ' the word "diabolic” is one that
youngsters surely did put In their how long he had been there, hut his
ess he could also bring to hlmr l rhvntes with “ colic."
thumbs and pull out plums,”
strength »a s scarcely enough for even in doing all of this.
that. She told hint very quietly that
A few weeks la:er there was a ivn
Now a movement has been started
he had been there a little over n week ling and the two who had !»•
for full dinner pails for working
— that he had been badly Injured, but
rought together during the Clirlstr
was well on the wny to recovery now. time started out ns one, on a rou girls. But most of them will contin­
and thnt the doctor had said lie would that was straight and shin: lg—th ue to prefer the noon-time salad
be as well as ever very soon If he
aid to happiness
I with ice cream.
would do Just ns he win told, lie
looked more closely Into the nurse’s
face as she spoke—yes. this was the
girl that tiad been In Ills dreams so
much—the dreams must have been
really true.
In the days that followed, Artliui
Benton began to he more and more
Interested in the sweet-faced young
nurse She wns so very good to him.
so gentle and so kind; no one had
ever been thnt good to him before
He realised now thnt with all his
wealth he had missed something In
CUTS MORE
life— something thnt money could not
buy. She read to him a great deal,
SLICES
too. aud he enjoyed listening ns her
soft, melodious voice rang out In the
still room. But often he would And
T0 THE L0AF
himself losing the thread of the story
or poem In watching the piny of her
delicate features or the glint In her
An ideal slice-size for toasting, sandwiches and
shining hntr. But he liked best of all
children's between-meal snacks.
when she sat and talked to him and
told him of herself and her ambitions.
She mid her father were very much
ECONOMICAL FOR LARGE FAMILIES
Interested In little crippled children
and they were planning to build a
home where they could he cared for.
The same Holsum quality that won the Harry M.
H e father was a doctor and the moot
Freer Trophy the second time in two years. The
noulerful man In the whole world,
lie had done so much for the poor of
same price as the regular large loaf.
the city, but she rather feared that
this time he was trying to do more
Sold at Your Favorite
than was possible—he was finding the
financial aid for the home n greHt
Grocery and Restau-
problem As she spoke he could al­
most visualise the mnltttuiie o f little
rants in Estacada and L O N G
L O A . F
ones that would come to the home
Vicinity.
fU
w
ut
n
u
m
in
ef
tfit
Vcikunfum tif
through the years and pass out of Its
doors again Into the world strong In ,
Tk 1 \<>; k ] to
Edelman.
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Room for
Christmas
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The Christmas
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The Portland-Estacada Stages
wish you a
Santa Fetched
Dolly
Very Merry Christmas
W e wish you
M E R R Y CH RISTM AS
and a
H APPY NEW YEAR
L I N N ’S
HOLSUM