CHRISTMAS is the apotheosis of
enfeeblemeut. It is the exaltation
of childhood. It is the glory of
the little child.
We celebrate this festival in bleak
December, the uncrowned mouth in our
northern zone, lighting its dull skies by
the eternal tires of love in human heai ts
There is not in all this land a home
where the rain beats through the roof,
where the mother and father gather the
children more closely to shelter them,
but the Christmas truth is shining.
"Blessed are the poor.”
There is not a homeless hoy who hi
the December night creeps out of the
snow into an empty dry goods box iu
the alley, not a little fellow up under
the rafters of the poorhouse on the
county farm, not a foundling left in a
basket at the rich man's door, not a
shivering, tiny girl unfitted for a light
with the storm, hut the new truf-i of the
Christinas spreads its wings over them.
“When I am weak, then am I strong.”
Who is weak? Who is infirm upon his
feet and walks with a crutch? Who is
afraid of thenortheast w ind? Who says:
"I am better: yes, I think I am getting
better. But somehow I do not get my
vigor hack?” Who leans up against the
bale of goods ou the half hidden coun
ter and knows that she came bark to
work too soon? Who was born blind?
Who hears the unfeeling call for an
iron will and lias it not, for a tireless
energy and confesses that he lacks it,
though he prays to heaven for this
force that others have?
To all of you the Christmas has its
meaning. There never was a conqueror
chosen the weak things to confound the
mighty. I'or 2,000 years the history of
the world's civilization has been the
story of the gentler virtues, the poem,
the song ami the triumph of suffering
well. The race Is not to the swift nor
the battle to it he strong. Every letter
of that sentence is eternally true.
The grandest things that were ever
done on earth were done by men and
women who had the spirit of the child.
The sublimest work of the Creator Is
the sweet faced little child. It is
everything for.the child, heaven please
—all harvests".all gold, all schools, ull
trade, all government, all the coming
better times. Christmas means, “And a
little child shall lead them.”—Emory
J. Hayne in New York World.
Few Christmas Toys Then.
Throughout the colonies in the sev
enteenth ami eighteenth centuries toys
were an almost unknown factor, but
wherever Christmas observances were
not frowned upon by religion feasting
and good cheer were abundant, and
rich ami p<> r, old and young, shared
in the ;tn s. abundant food and gen
ial atmosphere. In the eighteenth ceil
tuiy toys began to make their appear
ante in tile colonies. Some of them
were brought from overseas and hail
the enchant:! g quality of novelty. Lit
tie girls \ 1 o had helped to mother
their younger brothers and sisters were
delighted with dolls that were all their
own, to fondle and coddle. A toy was
a thing to be-cherished in those days
—Churchman.
If people kept their home-grown
teeth as clean as they keep their
false teeth, they wouldn’t be wearing
false teeth.
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SURGICAL FEATS
PERFORMED AT
FRENCH FRONT. Dec. 22.—Almost
incredible feats have been and are
being accomplished every day of the
war by the surgeons who treat sol
diers wounded on the battlefield.
These remarkable feats have increas
ed in frequency as the stricken men
are more quickly gathered in by the
ambulances and brought to the field
hospitals for surgical intervention.
At the beginning of the war it was
not always possible to clear up a bat
tlefield of the casualties in less than
three or four days, and on many ocas
sions wounded men waited even long
er before their injuries could be handl
ed. The result of this was that large
numbers of the wounded succumbed
from gangrene or blood-poisoning, or
were rendered so feeble from loss of
blood that they were unable to under
go operations that, were vitally neces
sary. It was at that time regarded
as a satisfactory result when sixty
per cent of the wounded brought into
the hospitals recovered eventually
from their injuries.
This percentage of losses among,
the wounded men would at present be I
regarded with horror by the military
surgeons, who now reckon with per
fect assurance on saving about nine
tenths of the wounded men coming
under their treatment. During the
battle of Flanders the percentage of
recoveries among wounded men'
brought to the hospitals amounted to
eighty-six.
This striking figure was still furth
er improved on the occassion of the
battle in which the French wrested
from the Germans the fort of Malmais
on and caused them to evacuated the!
Shernin des Dames after throwing i
away hundreds of thousands of the!
Crown Prince’s best troops in the ef-i
forts to retain it. The French sur
geons' report s after the conclusion of j
the fighting and the treatment of nil j
wounded show that ninety men out oC
every hundred brought to hospital re-'
covered from their hurts.
Speed in collecting the wounded is
the greatest factor in bringing about
this progress.
Americans have had much to do.
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with the speeding up of the ambulance
service, for their ambulances have
been present at every point where
fighting has been severe and their i
work has been highly praised by thej
army commanders. Americans have
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done much in providing hospital ac
commodation near the front as well
as at the bases.
One instance of American effort in j
providing for the accommodation and^
treatment of the wounded is that un-,
uer me management oi ivuss ixamieen ;
Park, of New York, at her chateau of|
Annel. There she has-worked almost,
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since the very beginning of the war.
While the battle for the fort of Mal
maison was in progress the hospital
dealt with a considerable number of
wounded, who were first bandaged
on the battlefield and then brought'
down the river Aisne on board a barge
fitted up as a float’ing hospital.
Miss Park says there is only one
i
I thing needed to make her hospital
| complete and that is what is known
I as an "autochir,” composed of a travel
! ing surgical outfit carried in five au
I tomible wagons—one for the operat
j ing room, one for the radiological ex
| animations of wounds, one for carry
ing bandages and supplies, one for
the staff and the fifth to convev the
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tent for the beds on which the men
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lie after the operations and while
waiting to be conveyed to the barge
for transport to the hospital base in
the rear. If she possessed this port
able hospital she is convinced that
many lives would he saved, since ra
pidity of treatment is the main factor
in dealing with -wounds.
Miss Park has working with her in
conjunction with the French military
surgeons a number of American doc
tors, who all participated in the handl
ing of the French wounded during the 1
battle of Malmalson. Also she has
with her several American trained
nurses and helpers. Among the doc
tors are Richard Bolling and Robert '
Schrock. from New York; George de!
Tarnovsky, from Chicago; John J.1
Moorhead, from the New York Post
Graduate hospital; and Doctors Paul ‘
R. Sieber. J. H. Wagner, Froldy, Ja
cobs, B. B. Cashmar and H. G Clarke,
of Pittsburg. The nurses comprise 1
Misses Sweet, Kilgrew and Holley, I
from the Detroit Harper hospital;
Miss L B. Smith from New York hos- |
pital, and Miss Ptomley, from the
Roosevelt hospital of New York.
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GEN. VON BUELOW ^ ’
General von Duelow is commander, ■
under Field Marshal von Mackensen,
of the German army that has broken
through into Italy.
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In the days of old Rainier was a:j
famous beverage, ’round all the rim 1
of the Pacific. Now times have
changed, but Rainier is still here, re- i
introduced to the people of Alaska. :
in the form of Rainier, a cereal bev- t
erage, and Rainier Special, a rich,1 f
mellow drink. | *
Both these new drinks are products, (
of the plant that made Rainier beer! t
so widely known. This plant grew!
to be one of the greatest brewing ,
concerns in America, under the opera-it
tion of the Seattle Brewing & Malt- '
ing-company. Ownership is entirely U
the same, but the operating com-1
t
pany now is the Rainier Products
company, which is building up a big- i
ger business with non-alcoholic bev- *
erages aiid other products than ex*
{ r, * ^ ^ *
When Washington, Oregon and
other statefe of the west went “dry”
the skies were dark for the big Rain
ier institution, but Mr. .Louis Hem
rich. the president, and other offi
cials of the new Rainier Products
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company soon realized that they could;
soon turn their works into an im-/
portan| industrial plant with a num- ^
ber of staple products.
This Rainier plant was practically t
the first in the United States to intro- i
duce the scientifically advanced pro- t
cess of manufacturing pure grain al- s
cohol. with non-alcoholic beverages j
as auxilliary products. The plant
now turns out large quantities of al- f
cohol, now used so extensively in *
munitions and war materials.
Now Rainier and Rainier Special c
are going in car load lots by rail and 1
big shipments by water to practically |
all the extended territory originally, t
reached by Rainier. The new bever- J
ages are proving more popular, if! .
possible, than their earlier namesake. '
Mr. Hemrich is vastly pleased with j
the success of his plans, and soon will 1
be ready to introduce Syro, a syrup 1
made from rice, a new stock food, and
other products.
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\t’s Christmas
Time Again
["here's a fire in the grate and a
light in the hah.
For it’* Christmas l int again,
tnd the sleighheils ring and the
children call,
For it’s Christmas time again,
t’s time for a Christian land to raise
ier loudest paeans of love and
praise
:or the Holy Babe of the Bethlehem
days,
For it’s Christmas time again.
[here’s a wreath of green at the
windowpane,
For it’s Christmas time again,
Ind the church bells echo the glad
refrain,
For it’s Christmas lime again.
)h, it’s time to turn with the golden
smi’e
o the friend we doubted and
scorned awhile,
o rid our hearts of their greed and
guile!
For it’s Christmas time again.
Laha Mitchell in Lathee ’ Home Journal.
Passing Christmas
Eve Outdoors
FTTH nil slept under the stars, as
y y usual, on Christmas eve. To
shut oneself up in a room from
lie delicious South African night Is
imply to miss one of the joys of liv- ;
ng. “No one knows the stars who
as not slept, as the French happily
’.it It, a la belle etoile. He may kuow
II I heir names and distances and mag
itiides and yet be Ignorant of what j
I.. concerns mankind—their serene
nd gladsome influence on the mind.”
leveuson surely would have loved
ihodesla for Its nights alone.
One great advantage of the long ;
I fought from which we had been xuf. 1
eriug— in Rhodesia one must needs be
in optimist or die—is that t u.e were
iraettcally no mosquitoes and very few
ip's, so that the stuffiness of a mos
uito curtain wus unnecessary.
The night was cool and silent, ex
ept for the distant howl of a jackal
nd the occasional hoot of an owl.
tbout 5 o’clock the life of day began
o stir, and the sun gradually turned
he uaopani and mimosa trees to a
olden green and bathed us in the
cent of mimosa blossom, the go away
'ird called impertinently from a bush
lose by, and two green parrakeets
lew over our heads.
Then one little sleeper after another
ulibed his eyes and crept to the foot
f the bed to fathom the treasures of
he Christmas stocking. As the sun
o o higher tongues were loosened. Hinl
oon crackers cracked, and trumpets,
lx of th’ra. were heralding the morn,
f not exactly In the manner of the art
els.
The noise worried no one. But when
re had had enough we dispersed to
eek baths, and some of us were even
iiergetie enough to have a round of
olf before breakfast.—“The Heart of
he Veld,” by Madeline Alston.
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Carrying the “Star j
of Bethlehem” I
rHE Star of Bethlehem ns seen In ■
Holland Is u pretty, but u cheap I
sight, for it costs nothing. ’Tls i
he harbinger of Christmas, a huge
Humiliated star, which is carried
hrough (he silent, dark Dutch streets. ;
liiuiug upon the crowding people and
yplcul of the slur which once guided
he wise men of t he east.
The young men of a Dutch town who
o to tlie expense of this stur. which
* carried through the streets as a sig
ial that Christmas has conic once
gain, are swayed by the full Intention <
f turning llie Stur of Bethlehem to '
(•count.
They gather money from the crowds i'
or the poor, and, having done this for
he good of those whom fortune has
lot befriended, they lietake them to
he head burgomaster of the town,
vho is hound to sot down tlie youths
vho form the star company to a very
oinfortable meal. 'Tls a great insti
utlon. the Stur of Bethlehem, in many
>utcli towns and cities. And may it
lever die out. for it does harm to no
mm and good to many.
Fine pastry with fresh whipping
treani—just received—City Bakery.
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