| YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT If
We usualy think of Christmas as a time for toys and joys, but it is also well to think of the days and years
that follow. With that in view we again wish to call attention to the value of a
saving book as a Christmas present.
For the old folks a savings book may spell greater contentment and more comfort than anv other oift Fnr rk«. k,,,. j • ■
ing book may be the foundation of future success, not on account of the intrinsic value of the eift but on r a sav"
: of the habit of thrift which it will aevlop, a habit which will be of lasting tenffit
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Just one comma cost the United
States government two million dol
lars once. It was in the tariff bill
which provided that “foreign fruit
plants” should be admitted free so
as to encourage the raising of for-(
■sign fruit trees. Waen this bill wasj
printed, this phrase read “foreign
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fruit, plants" and that little comma
after the word "fruit" allowed or
anges, grapes, lemons, bananas, etc.,
to come in free of duty, and before
it could be corrected it cost Uncle
Sam over two million dollars in cus
tom revenues.
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Reviving Old Time
Yule Customs
SPECIAL efforts are being made by
women In many communities to
spread a revival of the old cus
toms regarding Christmas. Some years
ago a Boston woman with a tomb of
antiquarian spirit managed to stimu
late Boston to revive n pretty Yule
tide custom by celebrating i*s coming
by singing carols in the streets and by
Illuminating the houses through the
placing of candles in the windows.
Other cities emulated Boston in this
matter. In Carlisle, Pa., a community
Christmas tree was lighted in the pub
lic square, and its glowing joy was
continued all along the streets by light
ed candles placed in the windows,
many of which showed in the middle
of the rooms so lighted up, displayed
to tiie passersby in the night, private
Christmas trees, the glitter and beauty
of which thus were shared with all.
An objection to this attempt at glad
ness—at least so far as roipgrns the
use of candles—has bee,r^evrisk of
fire. But these days of electricity or i
even of gas seem to minimize the ideai
of danger, and there are different d«r- j
vices that may he applied to do away !
with all risk in the carrying out of |
tiie friendly suggestion. It is advised i
herefore-that “the gladness and bright- |
ness of the home on Christmas eve he
hot kept behind closed blinds." and to
that end it is suggested that the light j
from every window, whatever its na
ture. be permitted to shine into the
streets until midnight. The Idea of
light is associated with all that is good
in life. The glow of the crackling Yule j
log betokened the hospitality ready to i
greet the stranger at that time, but i
there was more to it than that. Light j
in days gone by was supposed to keep j
off evil spirits.—SaHie Wistar in Fhila- I
dolphin Public Ledger.
The Christmas Bird
ROASTED swan was the Christmas (
piece de resistance in Chaucer’s
day, hut this dish gave place to
the peacock, and the peacock in its
turn was conquered by the turkey,
when Captain John Smith, fresh from
his Virginian wars, came home to tell i
the amazed English folk of the bird j
that iie saw parading the new world
forests, “exactly like a proud Turk j
showing off before his harem."
When the peacock was In its glory ;
at Christmastide its plumage was gen- j
erally restored to the roasted bird and ,
its beak gilded. Sometimes the whole |
bird was covered with gold leaf and a j
strip of cotton, saturated with spirit, !
set alight in Its beak—a relic possibly,
with the English snapdragon and
blazing pudding, of the lire worship oP
pagan days. A lady of noble birth and
great beauty was always chosen to
bear the bird Into the banqueting ball.
In the days of tournaments it was
over the peacock that the knights, with
uplifted swords, swore their oaths of
chivalry and valor. The last record of
such fare seems to have been not upon
a Christmas, but at the banquet given
by the Duke of Granada to the Duke
of Clarence, afterward William IV. of
England.
It must be admitted that golden pea- •
cocks and boars’ beads have most al
luring sounds to one with a iaded ap
petite, and the England of old, with
its roistering carol singers, seems a
most attractive land to have lived In.
But the Englishman of today is more
thau well content to have his carol<
sung by a little cockney lad, to laugh
at the pantomimes in his magnificent
ly comfortable theaters and to feast at
home on turkey, mince pie and the
blazing pudding. /
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Our store will remain open Monday
evening. Blum, O’Neill Co.
Don’t slip going up and down these
lills. Get your creepers at the North,
western Hardware Co.
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