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Show Thursday, December 21, 1931 THK NKI'III TIMES-NKW- I TAII FIVE PA. - McrcolizctlVaK THAT HOLIDAY FEELING L3lf!ip& tfJfl'ST before CI.'Mihs tlu-all fflt no !..! '1 he y had bwn busy il :!' muili sluniplng, kfi'i'i'i! 'H willi work that lial t, In- ultli!inM mil I. ne, muklng lilt-- , cranlierry J'Hy. oli, there ut o m i. li f.ir every one to Jo uiv;jih t'lirlKtmas time. j wan Kvery one If flf lm I Vr KipJr - ljl A ikhA 1 :flA Inf. v 5 lny - It with or other n;!.;iiK KoinelliliiB to et everythliij: tliiisl.i l In time. !. Ami every one The tired feeling ' P2. l'.ut Just as thrlliii.is i,p liroacliej It seemed tlmi new si hlrenslh entered Into ca.'li It was the liantifu! (Hit. fi'elliig, the f. ' i.n of Imlldny ! Joy ami K'O'ety, of tli:niKf iiisi for friends, of tS.ml.f for home, of for families. :nWf. Keeps Skin Young 9mmf r 'Srei if ' " 4 CTfltWuil ! . " 1 " ill 1 . iKWfrt 1 1 LA VIE - i fV 1911. i . ili. wrinklM U dfflt tuck U. (liMiriMa,. la ibM mrt louk. imii fOUIi,M UhJ1i1 iin.nty .l i.ui mttm. Te im l'.-- mnmmm , fuwi.rl tewjtte S. March to the Arctic Summer eMiirsioiix to the Arctic regions by airplane and diriilile are promised for the near future, hut It will not be Ro Ion;; before the nuto-- , mobile tourist will he able to mako roads all his way to Alaska with The distance between the way. Seattle and Kairbaiiks Is a trltlemore than 2,'-'miles, and nt the present lime there are stretches of good roads for nearly 1,XMI miles, so that ihpre are comparatively small por-:loyet to be constructed. drew cd contentment over the lasting to belonging possessions mankind the possessions on which one could never nut a price. That holiday feelin? broucht all that was good Into the foreground. No one would have missed It for anything In the world. Mary Graham Bonner. t Vu Wealth Put lata the Earth The L'nlled St'iten, with alout 8 per cent of the world's population, uses approximately 10 pr cent of the world's hiiiiuhI output of commercial fertilizer and ranks second only to (ieriimny as a producer. anninil production la The world worth S.V.rj.'J.'t.'.iKMi on aHsumed value of f0) a ton for nitrogen it, the warehouses of the pioducer, and n value of $"0 a ton each for phoa-- ' phoric tcid and potash. The total amount of plant food used by Atner-- : lean fariiwin Itu iiasecl 4." per cent fr.mi l'.IU to 1 -- 1r .1.-- "J awuy Into tlie backtiruiu.il. In s place came the holiday fecllnc the feellni: of good will to all, of peace and of feat - uuttl eft i Muta. bniix. wa,'Mty. KILL COLD GERMS Wwttm Newffpapr I'nlon. wJ Holiday Goods Jamee K. McGuinneu in Life) mm cI JVIotHeiVs Letter To Clears heain$tantly," Stops cold spreading, Sprinkle yourv;; . handkerchief during thVday '': ' SantaConn ai 2j TTtary Grakon J.V--yp- - j. '5 drape the cotton snow about Our imitation Christmas tree. With flowing cup and cheery thout We'll laud synthetic chemistry. Our presents tied with ribbons gey. From paper fashioned, let us ope. Thus truly shall we keep the day Of what will be good will we hope. The yule log leaps with Uncelilce flame. So bright it hardly seems like gas. That Same Claus is In whiskers. Oh, well, let it pass. The evergreens were dipped in dye. Our holly in no wood did grow. But one real thing attracts the eye At least, there's honest mistletoe. crft- - a - . pillow, ur at nighty KJ L-i- bl v g is3 lift Fxfi WtM?LljM WlVTI m' jiS 4$!s5K22j At Christmas Eve B5 Rev. Abram Ryan In PhUad.lphla Record 1 AH1 there' nothing like F-T- .l&SW&fj' a3" 5 "'VfT yyV R RANGING decorations at Cliristmas time affords great pleasure in the planning and execution as well as in the beholding. This is especially true In the home, but the merchant takes pride in his displays and strives to outdo his competitors. Decorations to be most effective must be in perspective to allow for the distance between the object and the eye. For Instance, an Intimate view permits the use of small objects or small units of objects, as for a Christmas tree in the home, where- - X k Christ- - To change life's bitter Ball to sweet, And change the sweet to gall again; To taka the thorns from out our feet The thorns and all their dreary pain, Only to put them back again. To take old stings from out our heart--Old stings that made them bleed and smart Only to sharpen them the more, And press them back to the heart's core. Ahl there's nothing like a Christmas Eve To melt, with kindly glowing heat, Prom off our souls the snow and sleet, The dreary drift of wintry years, Only to make the cold winds blow, Only to make a colder snow; And make it drift, and drift, and drift. In flakes so icy cold and swift, Until the heart that lies below Is cold and colder than the snow. decorations often include colored lights at the Intersections, crossed from corner to corner. The natural thing Is to arrange the strands with a red globe, then white, then blue. Looked at as a single nnit at close range the ef- These strands of bad, but as the general view Is of several blocks, having all the lights at one intersection Christmas Tree In the Home. red, at the next white, and the next as general decorations to be viewed blue, gives an almost Incredibly finer from a greater distance say, across effect. the street should be composed to ((E). 1931. Western Newspaper Union.) allow for the diminution of the object by the greater distance. In a general way, the longer the view the larger the object, or the larger mass of small objects of the same kind, as In a store window ' display. A large number of small scattered haphazard over a objects given area, when viewed at a distance, lose effectiveness, while the came objects grouped as to size, E. 23S color or shape, with proper spacing, render the display much more 3 striking and effective. In a large hall or room, strings of lights give a finer effect If all the lights of one strand are of a nni- - fect Is not ill rf2f3Sf OSaW jTrptiTyC?! XM41lSr 'CStjji oWKSJitl (. the aisles crowded again, but the 'worriedlook had left her In the face. time she short had taken to rest and think she had tried to put herself in the place of three persons for whom she was seeking gifts, and now. Instead of Just taking anything, she had a very definite Idea of what to get for the amount she had to spend. She re membered that Uncle George had a pet weakness for fancy socks, that Cousin Essie liked nothing better than new fiction, and she felt sure that Mrs. Brighton would welcome a bedroom slip pair of bright-colore- d cities and towns of late years have done considerable street decorating for the holiday season. 5:30 her selections were all way to do Christmas shopping, she thought not the haphazard way she had Deen aotng it ior years. She re By made. sions. Many This was membered now, the with a pang, the rather Inappropriate gifts she had chosen sometimes. Never again, she vowed, last p?-".--;,-VVx- (A TUm CL pers. For the Holiday Season. jrm color, the contrasts being between the strands as a whole rather lhan between the various colored lights on one strand and all strands alike. Alternating colors of a strand serves to neutralize the value of all; while the strands of solid colors give the contrast desired by the heavier weight of color In proportion to the room's dimen- I3onrwfv(f CPPOSE for instance that you were walking along ft country lane at night, That It was very cold and frosty, that the snow creaked under your feet, Jrfl and the twigs on the bare trees snapped when the wind touched them. You are thinking of nothing but getting home to a warm fire and a good supper, when suddenly a new light pours down from the sky. You stop and look up. This light Is V 4 soft and golden ; many colors grow E1 and dissolve in it You stand transfixed. You hear voices, a whole choir of HE biting cold of a zero them. Angelic and sweet the muday, coupled with finding floods sic the night. Gradually you merchandise stocks badly discern floating figures lifted on depleted, filled many last great and shining wings. The voices minute with shoppers good resolutions to do swell toona rich crescendo and go through the world "For ringing their Christmas shopping Christ the Lord Is born !" early next year. The light fades. The music dies Marion English was one of those Yon are left alone In a away. in the now was late jam. It caught in the afternoon, the next day country lane. It Is dark and cold. But the familiar lane takes on a would be Christmas, and there still was Uncle George, Cousin Essie and different aspect. It Is leading you Old Mrs. Brighton unchecked on her not home but to a low stone buildlist. What in the world could she ing. There are voices within. You Helplessly she wan- hear many people moving about. get for them? dered up and down the aisles. Why Without realizing the direction your hadn't she heeded all the warnings feet are taking you find yourself to shop early? Well, they Just would stepping over the low threshold of have to be satisfied with anything a stable. You advance, finding she could pick up now. yourself confronted by a scene of great simplicity. A mother and her Yearningly, she looked up toward a manger, the big eyes of catthe balcony of the big store, where child, In the shadows. The several persons tle glowing that was In the skies a litwere occupying glorywhile tle ago seems centered above com f ortable the baby's head. chairs. And then Anl How would you feel? What would an idea flashed lltroi through her you do? When the vision faded, would you ever again forget the LP brain. Ten minutes beauty and meaning of Christmas? 1931. Western Newspaper Union.) later, she was walking through --- CHRISTMAS m JcMorMut would she wait until the minute to make selections. From now on, she would heed the many warnings to shop early, and so bring an added share of happl ness to herself and others. . 1111, Western Newspaper Union.) g 1931 gg- - A Forest Christmas Arthur Guiterman MmhM TBy u l. fTNEEP in the heart of the timber.. lands Christmas The fir of the rooodfolk stands, The Wbi lds Christmas Dinner ONE knows better than Santa Claus that the United States Is the only country that could give a Christmas dinner to the world. This Is the only country that has food enough, and the generous spirit, to feed the dinnerless poor of every nation. Stretch a dozen tables across the continent, from ocean to ocean. thousand miles of tables. Thirty-siSlaughter the chickens and the The English will want turkeys. roast goose. We have the geese, and millions of ducks. Drive the fat porkers and the big fat beeves down to the slaughter pens. Place the big platters two feet apart. We have roasts enough to pile them all full. Kansas can furnish the wheat for the rolls and Minnesota can grind It into flour. Idaho can furnish the potatoes and California and Oregon have fruit enough for every body. Florida can Join with California and pile the golden oranges on the tables for the whole crowd. The South can send up the vegetables and when the food is on the tables it will be the greatest dinner the world ever saw. Let the people Dinner is ready sit down or stand up as suits them best. But I e t O x ith the glitter the Frost King loans To its rich green tassels and its dark broum cones. Bright Andtheiroodfolkcome through the drifted snoro For their TJuletide gifts that are heaped below ifj Bark for the bearer, sprouts for the Qolden honevj for the drornsrj bear. Moss for the doe and the antlered buck, IPildujood apples for the graq oxjodchuck, Nuts for the chipmunk, hams for the mouse. everybody eat I Let the Chinese and the Russians eat. Bring the underfed of every country I This old world needs a good A good dinner dinner Is the best medicine that could be down poured the old world's gullet! hite-fo- ot a Unbreakable Spectacles Unbreakable spectacle lenses are a recent invention. Two pieces of glass EAR SANTA CLAUS: with a piece of celluloid between "Will you please bring are cemented together under them me for Christmas a good pressure, forming one solid piece. supply of appreciation for This glass sandwich Is slightly all the cooking and mendthicker than ordinary glass, but It Is ing I do throughout the Just as transparent, the celluloid beyear? ing Invisible. Unbreakable glass has "Will you please bring for some time been employed In the those kind words for days windshields of motor vehicles and airplenty of when I am tired, but must keep on planes and In goggles, but this Is Just the same? believed to be Its first use In spec"Will you please bring me plenty tacles. of patience so that on days when Golf Is Golf The Movie Magnate I'm going to ;lay golf today. His Secretary Hut you were to get married today, sir. The Movie Magnate Oh all right have her get to the links k 2 clock sharp. my nerves seem "on edge" I will Cruel not take It out on my children? Mr. Grump A woman who really me a pack "Will you please bring loves a man will bake a pie for him of unselfishness so I will not make low and then. too many demands on my children Mr. Grinn Yes, and If she really and so I will not act as though loves him she will give the pie to disat was my their time entirely he Iceman and buy another at the posal ? "But will you also bring me a iiakery. supply of willingness on their parts Diameter of Jupiter to help me? has a diameter 11 times Jupiter col me a "Will you please bring hat of the earth, a volume 1,300 lection of thoughtful deeds so that all of us may be thoughtful of each Limes, and a mass more than 300 other, none of us expecting or de- times that of this planet. manding too much? Each one try1 'ni inr inn ing and wanting to do his share. othEach one ready to praise the er? And give credit for what is done? k ' 7 . ' 1 "Will you please bring a collecT tion of compliments so we may be IT hi ready to admire and say nice things to one another? "Please bring me what I have asked for If you possibly can, dear Santa Claus, as I try to be a good mother, and I want to make our home as happy as possible. "I am not a little girl, but I hope Recently Said: CHIMNEY? OH, SAY I "... Reduced advertising appropriations will mean we shall continue in reverse gear, while advertising to tell people about the things which will enable them to live fuller and hap pier lives willplay ils part, as it always has, the fight Christmas Seals the Christmas dinner and if they want to stay As usual. It is expected that Dora all night we have ham and eggs this year will think that Christmar So bring the nations to 1931, seals I Western Newspaper Unlon-- k Hodges Advertising Federation of America are fur coats. in keep-in- g business moving." El Talk It Over El enough for breakfast T. PRESIDENT "A MOTHER." stomachs of the Visitor How did Santa Claus world , are full there will be small disposition to come down this Christmas, Willie? Modern Kid Came down pretty fight and quarrel. Jealousies and hatreds never mix with a good din- handsomely, I'll say. ner. Men would rather eat than (). Gilbert can overlook that. "Your affectionate friend, you 1 When hare, grouse. 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