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Show r' I, OFF DUTY. 1N Ml . 0 J - Si- X.-- E'f-- LI E rl K 'I a I 3 X r . ' k ri f L"'1 a., a., v ii 'Tf INf iajiiit -J HE Potomac river does not bemark the boundary I s tween the southern and northern Christmas. The sea-eospirit of the holiday makes of south the Miss Smiff Oh, doctor, do you know yqlL.Jook perfectly killing thia Itself felt through the District of Columbia, through Maryland and well Inevening?' Doctor Thank you, but I aia not. to Pennsylvania. Here It is still the Christmas of the candlelight and of Vfa off duty, you know, the blazing log, the Christmas of the Jlstinctlve old England cheer. SUFFERED TERRIBLY. It Is probable that there has been How Relief from Distressing Kidney 1 Christmas tree In the White House it every holiday season In every adTrouble Wat Found. ministration excepting that of Tbeo-ior-e Old residents of Mrs. Elizabeth Wolf, 388 W. Morgan Roosevelt, Washington say that even the bachEL, Tipton, Mo., says: "Inflammation elor and the widower presidents had of the reached its climax Christmas trees to remind them of their own childhood, or to be used as last spring and I n attraction for specially Invited chilfered terribly. My back ached and dren guests. President Taft's youngest child, pained bo 1 could hardly, get around "Charlie," is of Christmas tree age and. the secretions and Inclination. Both the president 'were scanty, fre- und his wife are young In heart, and quent of passage the Christmas tree has always bad a and painful. I was place in their holiday merrymaking tired all the time and very nervous. I The president's two older children. .began using Doan'B Kidney nils, and Hobert and Hlen, are in college, .the after taking, a few boxes ws.3 cured one at Yale and the other at Bryn Mawr. Like all other college students and have been well ever since." Remembejr .the name Doan's. Sold who can make the journey borne, the president's older children are with by all dealers. BO cents a box. Foster-Milburtheir parents. Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Christmas In the White House is Slow Recovery. very much like the Christmas In the "Is the editor out?" asked a visitor homes of all American families. When to the office of the Rldgevllle, Banner. there are children in the great colon"Yea, sir," answered the editor's ial mansion stockings are hung up, small assistant, "lie's gone out to and the expectation and excitement of put away a jug of llckcr left by a sub- Christmas eve are Just as great as scriber." they are In any of the humbler homes "Do you think it will take him long In the land. Christmas Is a home to put it away?" day for the president and his family. "Naw, sir, It won't take him long All business Is given over, and the ter put It away, but after that he White House clerks and employes, to won't be able tcr do nutbln' fur a say nothing of the cabinet officers and week." the senators and representatives who. make dally journeys to the president's Important to Mothers. know that on Christmas day of Examine carefully every bottle of office, all In the year the president the CASTORIA, a safe, and sure remedy for wihhea days to throw off the cares of state Infants and children, and see that it and to have the same privilege that Ttonra t Vtrt , any other American citizen may have Signature the privilege of enjoying his family In Use For Over :tO Years. and of pirtaking with It undisturbed The Kind You Hare Always Bought of the Christmas cheer. It has been said that there was no Coming to Terms. Christmas tree at the White House in Possible Hoarder Ah, that was a the holiday seasons when . Theodore ripping dinner, and If yiat was a fair Roosevelt was president. There were sample. of your meals, 1 should like to six children In the Roosevelt family, come tbi terms, , all of them of Christmas tree age Scotch Farmer Before we gang when the colonel or Rough Riders beany further, was that a fair sample came president There were always a' yer appetite? happy times at Christmas In the Roosevelt household, but the ChristTaking the Tips. mas tree was barred because the presll bis hotel?" "Why did DolUrby "He wasn't making money fast ident being a strong advocate of the preservation of the forests, thought enough." that It was little less than a sin to "What Is he doing r "He's luxuriating in the position of cut down trees and of necessity kill them, in order to use them for merely head waiter." lecoratlve purposes. Rheumatism and Neuralgia never could It Is said that on one occasion Wizard Oil. youngest boy of the household hadtha along with Hamlin a Wizard Oil always dnvrs them away tree give nhim, and thinking that In. from the premiaes in abort order. asmuch as it was already cut down Our idea of heaven is a place big he might as well keep It, be put It la enough to make It possible for people the closet off bis room and there trimmed tt. It Is also said to be without neighbors. l 1 n bladder mm n , srry, ft lui. Bocks of forPoton.ac with the mer years; it may b that the quail, the Virginia partridge, numbers Its kind by hundreds where once It numbered It by thousands; it msv be that the Virginia deer, tbe deer of tbe of eastern North America, Is fast passoo ing; iut no evidence of an approaching or aa aemr.Hthed scarcity Is to be found In the markets of the southern cities or In the homes of eourtwrmers who keep Christmas as their forefathers kept It. The Cbrlstma of that part of Virginia which Ilea close to WahWgton Is still the Christmas of other days, but waning has come of a change. Northern capital tund northern capitalists are entering tbe slate an the candle t gbt to electric and the blaring leg are giving Ight and steam host which are as aun to tbe Old Dominion home as are the llvrlp Wklo ho soon will displace tbe old "uerl 'Jbe old "mammy" In tbe "quarters." The steel man and the packer are Invading Virginia to become neighbors of the men who v lords of the soil since the daya of clo-Byln- CALIFORNIA Fio SOLD ft Z Syrup Ca BY ALL LEASING DRUGGISTS Only refijlsr price SO per bottle. I'lCt far 'Baby and" Eett for MotLf PICURE i tit tWT VltUll TCI U turn (orcMffcne ami mI tr tram t lake SaM )St,t,e6S jh, very pfeet anotlwt Pputr, M to boHi bwHt and cl.ddL . As. Prwaalrta. . tf n . V 11 1 II I J I I I t 1 W W. T4T 1 II 1 and most touching of Yuletlde doings In England, the Christmas carol. That, too, came first Into being when serfdom was England's common law, when the lord of castle and of keep was serenaded by bis dependents, and. In hla munificent turn, gave them lordly to drink his noble health. But the beginning waa not then. Farther and farther back we must go, carol and of the song of England-e- ven back to days of the wandering alngers the jongleurs and the minstrels, who came from Normandy with conquering William, and were gentlemen adventurers as Independent aa you please, and very ferocious fighters in the bargain. -'So tbe "Christmas gift," In tha -C2 I f Iff A course sssv(r3rrA; m. of the agesthas bad its ups and downa. ranging from the lordly acceptance by a titled minstrel of plain yet royal wages to the humble appeal of of ail tbe old es the first Lee. Tbe change, mayhap, will not b Virthe dependent aerf, whose welfare waa woodthe the to tates and of so, possibly, Invader, congenial at bis overlord's will and pleasure. ed country. ginia will not be sorry If this specific kind of The spirit In which, at various periods. northerner recroxses the Potomac. Arlington now is It has been given and received waa a sad enough place, Virginia, the District of Columbia and Maryland have the holly habit Tbe holly has grown and the Christmas really what determined Its social significance; and there have been times here In profusion from the day that no man feasting la the when that spirit waa precisely tb bouse where Robknows, but It wilt not continue to grow unless ert E. Lee married there is a reform in habit and In law. The spirit of the most polite highwayman who ever bade atartled traveler stand Is negroes bring to Washington great branches of Mary Custis and deliver. but a memory. On the holly, hscked Trora tbe parent stem with does not have to travel lar. however, through darky dlsrcgsrd for saving anything. The holThe Christmas waits of England, with their the aisle of tbe Carters, the Boyds. tbe ly trees are among tbe chief beauties of the "God rest you, merry gentlemen: let nothing Potomac hills. They are going tbe way of othand the Randolphs, to find In this holyou dismay," soon established the precedent er trees of the Appalachian range, and before iday season the scenes of cheer that once that, wherever they chose to Intone their carlong It will be necemary for tbe lawmakers to gladdened Arlington. ols before a door, that door must open to them follow the lead of the Massachusetts legislatWashington make the most of Christmas. hospitably, and a table must be" furnished ure hlh was compelled to intervene to save In Its feasting and thanksgiving It Is a thorforthwith with good things of tha season for (he trailing arbutus, the tnayfiower, from the their prompt refreshment. oughly southern city at tbe holiday season, hsnd of the vandal. tt has Its cheer and its charity In full measBut there were curmudgeons among them ure and these things together make "A Merry No part of the country perhaps can claim a then as there are now. Persons who happened Christmas " to have other pleasures on their hands, and monopoly of tbe natural beauties of tbe season, but there Is a glow about Christmas in realizing keenly that the jovial waits came unthis semi southern country that Is not found invited, could not perceive why anyone should in the colder north. It may b the glow of explay reluctant host The curmudgeons unquesternals only, but it sppoals to tbe eye sod to tionably had the right of It, but the carol sing- the sympathy. Out of doors there are contrasts ers, many a lime, burst In doors and wrecked An Gustorr) In the Potomac regions that are not to b bous furnishings In their wrath at the refound farther north except In sections wbera fusal. There waa a Christmas hold up In grim tbe evergreens abound. The mountains ar reality. When the universal Christmas hold up conwhite topped, and blow them In the valleys "Christmas gift" Isn't altogether bad, as It are the dark greens of the bolly, the laurel and fronts you, don't explode. Isn't altogether new. It Is only a recrudescence (be wild honeysuckle, and the dark browns of Refuse, If yon want to; but don't dwell In of an old, old custom by a humanity whose natbe oaka whose leaves do not fall before tha your thoughts upon the Increasing depravity ture. In the rcas, changes slowly. of the human race; don't exalt the rugged Inspring com ps. And when It Is all sifted down to Its esour of forefathers. dependence Scattered through the country south of you are getting a rather sincere complisence, You may not yield cheerfully to the spirit of Hie same compliment his Jongleurs paid ment Wabrgten are old plantation homes still octhe season when tbe time comes to remembar cupied by tbe families who have held them bold William the Conqueror, and his fellow office wait-erthe the the hotel bootblack, boy, shice the of the colonies. Tbre seems paid trick Wblttington, who became lord the restaurant force, tbe ashman, the garto be a gn-ra- l belief In tbe north that most of London. mayor bage tnsn. the messenger service, tbe newsof these :d placfs are forsaken and deolat, boys and others. Somehow you picture the but there are many, more than the city dwellChristmas "hold ops" of bygone days, when a er know, still remaining prosperous and showdaring highwayman barred the progress of tha OLD CURE FOR COLDS ing scarcely a trace of change aa the result of lumbering stage coach and coolly took bis toll. age. Is almost' as old aa Christ mss large It was Mid tbe other day by so old south, Christmas. A library could be made of the various cures emer In Washirition that no home loving Vithe In If to have been recommended for colds. Tha be south. secIn that you happen next ever wove after the would "until any rginia tion that preserve even a modicum of the old F.ngllsh cure, disrovered more than 109 Cbrlstrras." Tbe neit Christmas coms and . atmwph'-reyou are liable to encounter years ego by Dr. 3. B. Williams, called tha "dry goes, but there is still another to come, and everywhere, on Christmas morning, from such cufe,' has lately been revived after decades of the moving is put off, and Hill be put off until disuse. It conpMs simply In abstaining from negroes ss have some claim to knowing you, tbe hoiiciay srlrtt has grne from the eoutb . tbe familiar r.hras: all liquids for 4S hours or so. starting with tha a spirit that will gr vhr n the tojtn "Chrl-msvery first motncht the cold declares Itself. gift" Arllns'on, tbe old hoire of the Cu:.tts Sfcd of lioberi B. It means, as one of tbe class favored by fortts.m!ir as It bss sfrxd for Bread, flub, vegetables, "white" meat and a century, ft i tituatprt J ist acrwif the Ptr-matune, from you the less lucky are free to ask pudding way be acn. but no soup. If there Christmas largesse, and that with no sinking of Is great thirst a spoonful of tea or coffee may , and It I typical rlvT from Wablr tw, taken In the morning and a srra'I glass of Inrtependente, with no sacrifice of self respect the old mnion bru ie of Virginia. The Tbe cr.itom dof-- assume the scp riorlty ol r a nafioral cemwine srd wafr during tbe .lay. gome modern gr'nM of Arlington a giver does. Indeed, assume It hot very far authorities confer this cure very c.T.cMnt. tb If beauty is ehata.lr$.-?S- c o', that etery, fs ' nnpir-ouau- 6Ys bmJtaX il' 4 WArtAOMjay TO riM ANYTIirn IMPOftMm.K r for wifnwtie, bartaho or MiU'h than t hr 1nr lw. it U iiw "f IwW Pamtiltor. U as Bl (t Ur Jar-ges- se nr-w- waxTa, 1 h at least to tbe sweetest . tc t from the level of overlord and serf. But that Is because it has passed through the slough of slavery, which was serfdom. In literal fact. At any rate, tbe custom goes back rt(Juty&ZcUV. that bis father discovered the tree, but the historians of the household do Dot or at any rate do not say, what hapknow, baa". At annuel , XJc. : l4 mk pened then, and so the end of one story of a It's ww thing to run into debt and former Christmas tree celebration la tha exanother to crawl out. ecutive mansion must forever remain unknown. In this Potomac river section where the old AnmClptMen esanes on erilv (line Virginia Christmas spirit still dwells, there I'mnt l grualra. lib; Is an openness about the holiday that Is like Better a poor man at large than a the openness of the Virginia home. Perhaps but here the ready doubter probably will Interrich man la Jail. pose objTtlon It is the transmitted spirit of the old days still indwelling in the hearts of the Inhabitants the spirit of the cavalier who generally made too free with his means of Inward cheer, but with whose "vices" charity always kept pace. The war did not kill Christmas In Virginia, it survived battle and poverty and It Is as hapas it was In the seasons py and lusty lod when the slaves brought the oak logs to the firing. It Is the great feast of the south and Ccawscs System of the northern country which lies adjacent to the Msmb and fjlxon line. . j$ccXxay, Washington Is on the dividing tine between DxrpdsaUs m& Hca&aahcs mont things northern and southern, but the dusXo CcusWpaXvotv; Washington Christmas Is wholly of the The markets of the city are (at and drlpi.ing. acXsXrvX Ads The tnarkclmen sell and ll, and yet the Mores Of Christmas things seemingly never dwindle. aLaxaVvvt. It Is tbe season of game. Washington reverses Bcs Jot MenKoTnexv an&CViUr the rule of New York and Chicago. Its holiday markets give the quail and the raova back the places of bonor, while the chicken and tha To 5$ecs. lutkey stay Inandthe shadow.is true, that the lld - aXwoys Vuy h Gcvtume It may b, probably lurks no longer darken the water of the lower I , Pen-dleto- I "CHRISTMAS GIFT" Arjc'srjt cit-Ixe- a, , old-tim- e gw-s- s 1 c tt fo-di- s " |