that night, her mother said to her: "What are you going to say. In ybur prayer tonight, about Jhat poor little biinu noy you saw So Hilda asked God about him. The very next day she took the lit- tie blind boy a big orange. ftrwiwiow Ituth's turn. "Once I asked a little girl If that was her sister," said Ruth. "The little girl said: "t, ain't a sister. It's a IA io-aa- OEMs m I II 9 . JtYsfS Ity f H. 1 fW G? T'W.'irWKlM v , Christmas Wedding Bells Bt MART CRARAU BONNER bary.'" One' of the other boys now had a , story to tell. "Once I saw a ryelone coiue around the corner of a street," he said. "A man had a tent there with a lot of c WW 1 lOJ dolls in it. The man wanted to sell the" dolls, but the cyclone took the tent right up into the sky, with all the dolls In it. "Another man naked him: 'What'are you making stub a fuss about? Weren't your dolls for sail?' and, everybody laughed except ' the doll I. o Oh, Folks decided that it WHS time fur tbetn to lie young again. No, I hey set tip a ('hriMiiiiis tree in a corner of l lie big dining room. 1 Santa Clan came bustling tn mid began to make things Tied to pleasant. Ids lielt there wus Its hell a. ringing Qn Ida. in clock. like even thing. This was to wake the ML Old JV.I UZABETH had always, it i Irue, admired Howard. I!,, was so; fHith M and goci nan." . and mother and his sister. - The 014 .ftflirJf 'having such a good t tin IKISrJiirf tw the stories that they thought the children ought to have a good time, too. So they took all their presents that hud come off the tree and gave them to the little folks who bjid come In. Every boy and every girl had a toy and a box of candy Lucy, Peter, Billy! Alary. ' Sully, .Hilda, and the irmt-i.-s- . Then, all the. young Old Folks and all the children inarched around the singing. dining They sang '.Merry, Merry Christmas"' and' so the fun ended. lint I guess it didn't quite end then, elthnr. For. as the young Young up. lii'M, Ite called the roll, to .see if Then, the) were all up and awake. lie hean to pick the presents off the tree. Moon the room was gay with dolls, horns and Jumping jacks. A doll w as Ming in her carriage, squeaking and rising up every few feet lis she rode along. , There was a talking doll. too. she sung and talked when they pushed the hut tons on her dies.-.- . There were hot d.ills for cold nights and ('hps ami hulls for the old Folks to play with when tluy could not sleep. Tiie Old Folks all plajcd with their presents. They blew on their horns, and amused themselves w ith the .and .sent ,tjie,.jupviug toys running about the room nil at once. But, after all, the Old Folks thought It wasn't so very much fun because there were no real children there. So they sent out to see If they could find some. They found Lucy, I'eter, Billy. Mary, JSally. Hilda, Uulh, and some other children, who all came to see the Old Folks' Christinas tree. Lucy told the I lid Folks the story about her dog Trump. Trump was a tramp dog, but he He loved to be could do some tricks. dressed up in a, blanket, with a belt. Then, with a berihboned straw hat on his head, he would walk across the room upon his hind teg'. After Luojrcame I'eter. I'eter said that he did not know any stories, but once he carried the flag for the big boys' baseball team, and they let him go In to see the baseball game. free. Then Billy told a story. He said that once he sat up all night, waiting for Santa Clans to come Thnt is, he and fill his stocking. tried t up all night; but Santa Clans didn't come and so he fell asleep In the dark. The next (lay the doctor came to see him. The doctor told hlni be had had "stocklngltls." Billy said, too, that when he woke up In the early morning and found that Santa Chins had forgotten to fill bis stocking, be was going to throw himself on the floor and pound his Hut then he heels on It and holler. happened in remember how ugly his ard. ,j By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN VER my cabin on Twin Sisters' slope In the Rocky Mountain National Park ydr f Tahosa In "Valley the XkJfiivi Mountain (Bl 1 1 1 JJ J Every Boy and Every Girl Had a Toy. Ahvayfthe TraHWonptfish worth while challenges his ambition, his courage, In setting worthy of the Master's art. With glories worthy of the glad New Year: Behind The Sisters grows a pearly glow; festivities of those long-agThe King's o'ertopplng crown glows ruby" red; times. An account of this Important elouds In The Pass to the south perSomige has been preserved by the Are shot with gold ; the of the pines historian wind untiqnary, John Stow, Against their glory stands raggedly out. who lived during the reign of Queen The rim of a great golden disk thrusts up Elizabeth and during the Jlrst year of Above the silhouetted Sisters' crest. the reign of King Charles I, and was, Deer, Meadow, Meeker, Lady Washington, therefore, a contemporary of Shake Battle, Lily and Estes Cone change white speare. For rose tints. Wooded slopes doff black for 'In the feast of Christmas," writes green. Stow, "'there was in the king's house. The Sisters, as the sun mounts In the sky. w herever he lodged, a Irfnl of MIsruleJ Call back their shadows from the Valley tloor, or Master of Merry Deports, and tho A breeze wakes up and dances forth to help like had ye In the house of every no The trees shake off their hurd'ning robes of white. bleman of honor or good worship. A crested Jay flits In a shelt'rlng pine. 1 lie were in- spiritual or teniporal. rabbit goes sedately past k snow-shomayor of London, and either of the And makes flie first mark on the untracked snow. heriffs, had their several Lords ol Across Tahosa Valley smoke goes up-- Blue Misrule." chimney-smok- e that tells of kindled hearth, At Cuiiibiidue university ttie Lord of With family astir and llt and love ! Misrule whs u master of art. elected And there stands Longs unchanged, unchangeto superintend the representation able ! of Latin pla.s h the students, besides Now I know glnd spring shall come, again. taking chaise "f 'heir games and di Summer time, harvest time, another year. versions durum the Christmas season. e A similar Master of Kcwls was chosen And so Is born to us this glad New Tear, at Oxford. Anno Domini Nineteen Twenty-thre- e in the Inns of Courts in Loudon, Year of Our Lord," the Son of God, "In the where the barristers had their oflices Who taught man, "Do as ye would be done by," and belongings, u Lord of Misrule Who died upon the cross to save manktnd. reigned with great splendor, "being surrounded with all the parade and There is an old saying and wise: "Let the dead ceremony of royalty, his guard of hon- past bury Its dead!" Its wlwloni, however, lies M.tL'i'LJJsta whal R realty means lather than In wha before him In the Tetuple mrKprjr lU'enched It actually says. For burial does not mean both church," and forgetting. And It should not. What On the Twelfth day he abdicated his burying the adage means Is this: we ami are informed that sovereignly, "Let's turn over a new leaf on New Tear's day, in the year ItillTi. tills 1923, and try to make a better looking page than Impor-t-y Low-lyin- g sky-lin- did of royalty expended In the exercise of his oflice about two thousand pounds from his own purse, and at the conclusion of Ids reign was knighted l.y King Charles I at ; -- n- e . ' i h'-s- wt-- )i- ! ' e ( : . - -- r The poet speaks troth. Providence- - has so created man or evolution has so shaped him, If you prefer to put It that way that there Is no greater spur to his soulthnn the incentive of thetan-aeWeve- we did In 1922!" There Is said 'to be "no new thing under the ouliln'i sun." Certain It is that We are digging up records and he didn't. nowadays that show human nature to have been !.:Mary told uhorii the ng about the same In 4,000 B. C. that It Is now. So l her doll. donbttess man bos been making New Year's resoShe said that the s.,t, iliai her doll lutions ever since, there was any New Tear's day. Saving the Leftovers. liked the i ws And doubtless he has been breaking them just as Instead of always frying up any leftAnd doubtless the cynics and the pesI'. tnc marki-- l ic.wn, The litilc over potatoes, why not ums them for regularly. With our t oI up. ii ,,in taut ,l,,vn, and the professional jokers have been simists llu! wtlt'n nnul.K pt;trt am' u hot lea They o;ily take a over the performance through the ages. It,' jaiuced rlf-- i t Mil (, Co few minutes to make. half a laughing Nevertheless, this recurring New Year'aper-fonminelie alw,is jiilnpeil Mai') said lliut pound of old potatoes aOd !vo ounces Is a lot more than merely the material her loll al the "Juiiip" part. of Hour and u tonspno:iri each of for a Jest. In fact. It Is one of the things that Sally thought that it wa a long salt and baking powder. 1'nead them alive the faith In human nature and the time since she liH(l known a stun all together, then add just enough keeps that the world Is progressing" year by year hope " 'most as long as the night before milk sour milk If )ou like to make a toward better things. Ch list mas," but sin did rcmemU-Boll out and cut into stilt donli. There are, of course, msny foolish people wlio i rtde slie once iiHiTon a little ibnike cither squares or rounds with a pastry live only to eat, drink and be merry. And there She said ihe) had to send tin- ,,( cutter or tumbler and bake on a tin are (he jjre1tory onea, who take what they want diriike) on ahead to make the llttfe in n quick oven. If they can get It. Bnt most people believe In d.mke) hurry. a future life and are always trying, often vaguely' Then she remembered about the cu To Sweeten Musty Teapot. to live the kind of a life and ai iier gniiKimn s nouse. 'l liere was a To sweeten a metal or enamel ten-pthat seems to them' lit to survive. Hence their K cat for the big mice, and ;l littl which has Income musty, fill it New Year's resolutions, Many a man In his heay rat for the ilttte mice. with boiling water and drop in A red-hn New Year's day would be, with Robef Browa Hilda Vjhl a tor' hIhmii h little blind cinder, close the lid and leave for tng, oy she once saw. a short time. Then rinse out with When he ald her evening pray clean water. he A oarer turned bla back but marched breast : forward, Never doubted clouds would break Never dtauned, 'though right were worsted, wrong ' would triumph, Held we fall to rlea, are baffled to fight better. Sleep to wake. of .Misrule wus an fl" HEtautLord functionary at the Christmas - Roll. brother llarr) hKiked wlu-that. So Billy tlioiijjn hr aS3li ... iKwk. One who Folks went out of the duor and down the street, the young Old Folks could Is bear lbein laughing, long after they The hours pass on. The moon sinks and gone. flres like beacon blaze stars that Myriad turned the corner. moon has quit. Besides, the young Old Folks have Take up the watch the weary comes In the New been talking about their "Old Folks' The Old Year pnsaes out; Without a sound, a token or a sign. Christmas" ever since. There is no hint of Hfe. -- Con it bfr irm The sun will shine again and day come back FESTIVITIES OF OLD TIMES Amritfe leap 1n the gtaa green spring once "more And Time grant unto us another year? " Lord of Misrule Was.,lmportant Funcat Yulctide Celebrations tionary And now Is staged with ceremonious pomp of the Long Ago. The recurrent miracle of the dawn IV. th- .ff at Across Tahosa Valley looms Longs Peak, "King of the Rockies," with its tow'ring crown Atop Its monstrous, dark, grim precipice In the flood of silver light. Behind me rise The Twins to timberline, Recumbent in silhouette as If carved , By the chisel of the Master Sculptor A part and parcel of a perfect whole Planned by the Master Architect himself. Perfected, through the ages by His will That with sheer beauty makes the heart to ache. ' He Called XjlEr KS' r ? s ."We" wish you two would get married.' ...We're tired of seeing you courting all the time." ". , flowardgjnileL "It'a Up to Elisabeth," be. said. One woman spoke; to. Elizabeth one day In a Very serious fashion. The trouble with you," the woman al(L "U that you've always had so much attention. Not only Howard, but everyone' has been charmed by you, and you think that will go on to the end of time.' You'll find It won t They'll atop, and then, where will " you be?" . "I don't want to be married so to escape being an old maid," Elizabeth laughed, "rve seen too many happy ones ;to be afraid. What ' Brims over with the silv'ry radinnce. - Fint, - We ... to-si- fTJ Every- one knew he would be good to a wife; and they all knew,, too, that be wanted Elizabeth for his wife.- "You're foolish not to take him." all know, you have they sald.-t."the opportunityto do so every .time he" goes to see you. We would waer he'd proposed any number of times." "I doiCf jknow about that," Ell.n-betwould laugh. " "They could get nothing out of her. Once some of them spoke to How ' f relluhh-H- had been good . to hla t' i m ' atrial ance and protection of Providence In overcoming the problems and difficulties. St the- - future.. For America was then a child among the nations and Its way to maturity looked long and perilous. America has now come to that maturity. And he la a dullard wha cannot see the hand of Providence In our national history since the beginning. In the 133 years since George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation . America hasccom-pllahe- d much. It has made Its maturity rich and Today America stands the wealthiest powerful. and most favored nation of the globe so rich and r so favored that a, prediction has come truer America has emerged victorious and unharmed from the Great War and without a'friend America Is too among the nations of earth. wealthy, too powerful, too resourceful, too well able to move on toward Its destiny without "entangling alliances" to please the rest of the world. America Is so favored that it must have a care lest In Its complacency it thanks God It la not as other nations are. It Is true America Is not as the Turk, who Is pounding on the gates of Europe, with all the assurance of a victor who asserts that he has wiped out past defeat by present victory and demands new opportunities tor crimes against civilisation. It Is true America Is not aa the Bolshevists In Russia, who apparently . are growing rather stronger than weaker, seeming to gain strength from the rnln they have wrought, and parade their Bed Army as an object lesson to the nations of earth. , Yet America sadly needs to take heed of the Eleventh commandment, "Lore one another." And It needs a Twelfth commandment, "Thou shalf n profiteer." For the profiteer, It has been aald takes .the KLgnin canunanaaaeni oy me inroat, imnoita the Tenth commandment on the head and ;Jiejt4Mhjyoj handed down from God at It Is Increasingly evident that It la the task of the good cltlsen and the church and the press to build up the moral manhood and womanhood that, Is suffering alarming deterioration. ' . There are many who believe that tn acceptance and practice of practical Christianity tie America' only hope of emergence from the greed and lawlessness of 1923, Anno DotnlnL In this- - connection the progress ef a movement begun In the United States by ."Christian Business Men" will doubtless be watched with Interest by natlofL In some American city probably Detroit will be held early In 1923 the Drat convention of the Federation' ef '.Christian Business Men's clubs. 100. clubs In the principal cities ef the Probabl country will be represented. To search .out and apply the laws 6f God in all commercial relations between ourselves and all men" la the atated pur, poae ef the federation. All member agree to roak the golden rule fundamental In their commercial dealings. The clubs reserve at all meetings a cliali for Jesus Christ, "the unseen Guest," whom the members acknwlcdjgejUkAe-tttv- r bead." At a recent conference In Kansaa CUyalov.delex Kanaaa gates were present representing clubs city, New xora, rnuaaeipnia, mncoia, jvenx, Tulsa, Okla Bt Uuls, Wheeling, W. Va- - Chicago, Rocheatea, m . T Cincinnati, Celumbus, O- - St, Paul, Winn., Jacksonville, Fla, Columbia, Ifo. e?t Ten commandments Mount Blnai ).'''.- f . Detroit she should marry Howard. They stopped telling her what a wonderful hushaml he would make, and bow much he loved her. Tbey were speculating on which vis it It could; have been when the trng edy occurred. And had the mysterious man married or had he been already married and so Elizabeth, a a nice, quiet girl had quickly taken herself home and out of-tway? It yas snowing hard. Elizabeth was getting together her Christmas presents when the door bell rang Outside stood Howard. thought perhaps you'd not mlml If I went with you when you took around the presents," he wild. "1 "" knew UT was Just snout your, time The How lovely It was. outside. snow was falling, the a'tr was so clear and coot and here was Howard. tTIonsTeriToppe-femnirh- pre-wa- mankind. from a complete collapse. It la not contended by them that Christianity contains a Daoacaa that will at once ear ail in. and ecwoffltejnaThM know h.a, such panacea exists, xney admit that Christian jty does not teach economics ; does not Instruct as to production and distribution; does not, In short, set forth a system of Industry In any form or They start from a different basis and shape. their reasoning Is about like this : Christianity, however, does set forth a moral formula that can be applied, at all times to all systems. This moral formula la an active solvent-owrongs uader any system. Its application can rare the defects of any. system, not so much by changing the system as-bchanging the attitude v of men toward one another: Practical Christianity would ot tolerate JnJua-i,v ..I mi iiijuiKj ninu. (in Kinds banished from the affairs of men and nations existing economic and Industrial systems would either remodel themselves of would be oast aside. In short economic regeneration would come about as a byproduct In connection with the larger moral regeneration of mankind through the acceptance of Christianity. For In the Inst analysis the faults of systems have their source In the hearts of men. A stupendous undertaking? An impossible vision? Well, they ask, what other course Is there? The converse of the proposition has been tried to the uttermost. And where la the world? Apparently clvfllxatlon. In .tlifs Twentieth" century Is fac-' Ing the great crisis. 1( 133 Washington.' George years ago, as America's first president, proclaimed America's first national Thanksgiving day. And Ida preamble declares: "It la tba duty of all nations to acknewledic are-tha- e,vKv his determination. Man has already accomplished much on this earth so much that he has now a vision of what his goal should be so much that he Is now able to see how far he has fallen short of reaching that goaL And no age has been so well equipped to move on to that goal as this present age. Never has the Incentive to the achievement of that goal been so strong. Tor man cannot stand still. "He must press onward to the goal or fall back and lose much that he has gained". Failure to reach the goal emphasizes the Incompleteness of all that has been accomplished. And this shining goal Is nothing less than the message of the season: "Peace on earth, good will to men." Practically this means the reformation of human nature. And the reformation of human nature means nothing less than the world-wid- e application of precepts of Christianity to the affairs of Christianity was blamed for not preventing the great war. It has since been blamed for not pre-- ' venting tho Industrial strife and the economic Ills and other evils that have afflicted the world. Per haps the best answer In brief to this charge is the utterance credited to George Bernard Shaw : "Christianity has hot yet been trled.' It Is a noteworthy fact that during the last year men of affairs, speaking from the viewpoint of business and not that of religion, bava publicly declared that in the application of the teachings of the Gospel ilea the otie cure for the Industrial Ilia growing out of world-wid- e economic warfare Some of them have gone so far aa to declare that nothing bat a sincere acceptance of Christianity can save society from utter ruin and civilisation more :I think a tot more of a person who la faithful "" to someone they've the Providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for HQ benefits, and humbly to im- loved than to marry for the sake of marrying. Lots of the "old muhls" plore Hla protection and favor." Some of the married ones As everybody knows, George Washington wai have been ao afraid they'd be thought no liar. So that when be wrote these words b and unwanted that they've " unpopular, wrota them because he believed them. married; out of sheer cowardice." In short,-- the United Statea of America was conThis was puzzling. Had KHz ceived and established In exactly the spirit set abeth loved very someone In her earlier forth In Washington's words. The nation of his had gone days perhaps when she time, was a Christian nation. Its sense of deaway on a visit? No one knew. Bm realGod-wapendence upon s very real becaus of - So much puz ization of perils past and difficulties to come. It everyonfirwas puzzled. no more ones iI cled asked that they new 4t.K mMIhm n .1 nuiAnllnM kanil A DttMrldnflrta er he 7t , straight and tall, hlr' face glowing with health, his eyes so clear, so keen and so devoted. It-- made even the cold,, crisp air seem warm and soft and affectionate. They had delivered the present and were now passing the small church. Inside someone was practices on the organ. That was doubt- - !essnrirtrtprattc music for the service In the morning. There was much beautiful music alwonways for Chriatmaal So many an auch atmosphere derful hymns, and about It all. "I wish," Howard said, "that he'd stop practicing the Chrtstmaa music and play us a wedding march." "Perhaps be would," said Elizabeth. Howard ahouted. "Do you mean "On yea, my dear, of course I mean It. You're not aald a word about seen marrying the laat four times I've yon and I've been about to o u myself.- The people they 4rled to keep me from seeing how wonderful you were by talking about yod, making not giving you what they saw In you me a chance to see for myself." The organist played the wedding over march-- The clergyman came two bringing them, to marry hurriedly Wm. witnesses with "The Christmas bells and the wedfor ding belle are Joining together us," Howard said a little later. had the basket-which They back home. had the presents to-Then they announced to all the people" what they had, done;', v nwarrta Chrtatmasr .,' everyone wished them, But Elisabeth anawered, Itr -- "we QoB - it i neeu w om Christmas,' laa aamefj wmm but' we thank yea all Just ; ,