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Show THIS IlEKALl) 00X000 Tte Plum lofce i I you. , And I couldn't lose you Dou't you see It was because I loved 1 jovj so that i iie,j t0 your Bnfc crled i wveu you so," she repeated. "My darling, rm so relieved," he ld. "All I care about Is that n love me." know that," she told him. 'Wut of my life has been punching me. Even though I know you don't nfftnk now that children make any difference I know I cheated you. whom of trll others I cared most for." "Marjorle, Marjorle he dear," caressed her, "I am so relieved' that I know now what has beeu worrying you. I was afraid you had ceased to love me." "It was never that, it was never that," she said. "You see, Marjorle." he went on, . "Iit . ... ui ursi you j;ai tola nieyoit were to have a child I would have been de- lighted It would have seemed the nua or the completion of married life wlrlch I had pictured In my mind. Afterward Finalized that the most Important of all was that I had you and loved you and that you loved me. "Lately I've become very Jealous of your desire for children because I though I didn't count so much, How" dreadfully we've groped in tile dark even though we have been so close together." y. She was then us she hadn't been before, happy in the love that he now gave her, the love for which she bad braved u lie. And even as he held her close she thought of ft and life so full of per- plexing moral issues. Had she not lied to him would she. have fulfilled CIKe Coming nl Bjr CHRISTOPHER tile-herit- age of the Chile! T7 By Mar? GraKam Bonner a-- Gregory Morse added, "a Fver always said, I think i people should tie honest 'with each other be- -, fore marriage. I don't approve of divorce curious thing to he speaking of on the very evening I'm asking yon to marry me, but It has utesrltts' on the subject. No," he emphasised, "I don't approve of divorce. Of course there are very extenuating cirBut I Uiiuk cumstances at times. most of them could be avoided If bepeople talked openly and candidly fore they were married. ND children, that they would mean a treat deal to him. ' She felt herself growing more and more tense. The whole of her ached for him. Tea, she had waited all her life for him, never mistaking In any of the others, the substitute for the real. "I feel as you do," she said softly, "I love children -- r h But yet a she spokejhe truth. , truth that was only half a truth. They were married. In the Utile And . Copyright. IMS, We carina 11 liiii,, "I Feel aa You Do." eacb other and sink their hopes aud aspirations and ambitions "iiil emotions and dreams .into the coming of another generation tbey had sworn and believed before '"d and man that they would only love each other. Did they love each other so little? I)ld they care only for tbe sake of the family? It couldn't get about be. That was too cold a belief. Another year passed and they begun growing apart. Marjorle had become restless, unhappy. Was It becnuse of children? Gregory, asked himself. Couldn't she liave been happy with hi in? yvas kit marriage to be a disillusion? ltut one evening the came to him. "Oregory," she said, "I hate so much me negin irom me ii ieu yon. orglnnlng. I've been going to tell yon this eo many times. "When I married you I lied to yoa. New, don't Interrupt me, dear. Yes, I Med about my age. I loved you. I was afraid If I told you that perhaps 1 wt s too old to have children that you wouldn't marry mt-rt- hat I would , nt .... knrm TfL j MNETESN TWINTT-THRE- I AT th Hww Ttar kt threaded throat VYVhitraa4oiMadoMlaryaa; I oingl a 1st and pretwaa, Itr tad nat. To tana, iaapir e. dclih aad ikorn I Uillllllllil ' liay KeV X If A v , illlllill ' And hert we tttnd to say "Good-by- !" Brief itorda and yet we team knowa why. They brine a motatnra to tbt eye. And to tbe heart tome Quxkea and achat) We apeak them Tery tenderly Wtth hiD a tob and halt a alfh "Old Year, rood-bOld Year, load -- by!" II mm ' TJERE Freshening Rolls. Frequently muffins, gems, cornbread, branbread etc.. are a part of the eveare all eaten ning dinner and seldom some being meal, during the evening to the left over. The question comes i conscientious housewife. "How can their In original again gerve them It can easily be done. freshness Grease a piece of lirown paper, using In It the mufplenty of grease. Wrap in hot oven for I'laev fins bread, etc. serve. ten or fifteen minute, unwrap, would you not know, did Bnd If you think they were just baked. r K- - we ANIMALS AND NEW YEAR'S DAY Oxen, Cows, Sheep, Blessed i ' ' Goats and Rigs Churches of Italyf Spain and France, In TN ITALY, Spain and France more Is made of New Year's day than Christmas and on St. Sylvester's eve as the last day of the year Is called the utmost joyousness prevails. Lvcn the animals are blessed in the churches A correspondent who attended one of these quaint ceremonies, writes: 'The priest lifted high the host and sfld some words of benediction at which the people fell on their knees with a response. An acolyte with a r sprinkler passed through tbe columns of animals deftly throw tnff the sacred water noon thein. The oxen and cows were thus blessed first, then the sheep and gonts and lastly the pigs. A moon nearly full glittered high above the mountain stones and combined with the licht from the can dies revealed the long, polished horns and heaving sidea ana sleek coats or tbe oxen and cowa and the white weoDy skins of the sheep. The acolyte passing among them, incenscu uiem and their bellowing, bleating and tnneflllmi arose to a tumult. But, high above all, the voice of tbe priest was hMuti. as he chanted these words . "Mv childrea. God In his goodness sends me, bis unworthy servant here m bless tout flocks, according to an VKfcnt custom of our mountains, so that these anhnala by whose aid yonllva may Join In our religions cerowhich usher In the 3Sew Tear, . than tin?" a loud bosanna of we 1CI Lord so nraiaa to the sinners." to lenient holy-wate- ever-mercif- NEW YEAR CALLS PASSE imar4Min mKtnm of New Ywr ps.m aiuvi In tbe social life day calls, so prevalent vo of this country in mo nmcr-u- iir tary, is little . practice iiiiiiigmi8mitt Boriden. stand again on the borderland of Welcome and Good-by- . There Is so little between them and so much either side of them. When the great bell of time strikes the midnight hour, and 1922 passes Into the laud of long ago, there Is one simple resolution that we can all make with pretty-goosurety that we can keep !t till the next mldDlght chimes that we will be a better mar or woman in the next year than in the last. That won't be a hard resolution to fulfil in some degree, and If ' everyone is even a little better, there will be a heap more goodness, kindness, success and love In the world when 1923 rings out that there la novt The untried year brings with It another chance for all a chance to mako good where we have failed u chance to benefit by what w have counted as failures In the year that is passing out. The old year has been a difficult one for many. Some have lost heart. The new year, which give promise of so much that is better, will bring new courage and hope to them. If we can let the unhappy part of the past year go witb it, and only remember the good, it will help toward i.ll that is best in the new. One of the best things that we can hope for the untried year is that It will be a busy one for everybody. Work Is the best promoter of goodness and happiness, and the best cure for trouble and sorrow that there is. When the solemn, happy bells "ring out across the snow," let them ring out with them the bad things and ring In all that is good and true and beautiful that Is within the power of each one of us. "And It's to Be ?n Anniversary Child." their own happy destinies? Would they have not rather gone their separate ways, yet two more unhappy mortals whose lives were but a makeshift? e had lied and In that lie Yet she had cheated him. the one whom of all others she had cared most for she had cheated most completely, l'erbaps be didn't care for children now. Perhaps lie would never think of them again. l'erbaps, oh perhaps, a hundred conjectures,! But clearly standing above the others were these two Issues she had lied to win him and because of that lie she had cheated and played false to the one she loved. A lie is a vigorous parent, imbuing Its offspring wit Its ever powerful blood of doubt and worry. Always, she felt, she would think from time to time that she had cheated him, and that In tbe deep recesses of her mind he w'ould feel her love hail been a very frail nnd weak thing. Yet again and again reverted to her mind the knowledge that had it not been for that lie when she had spoken It Gregory and she would never have been happy. these doubts nnd worried And He thoughts "were the heritage of a such as hers bad been. She bad Tt seemed ilk.- a miracle. Still at times the given up nil hope. lie she had told In the first place of all haunted her. because she felt she had cheated Gregory. He never referred l ft. I'e seemed radinnHv happy. But she bad worried. inrl then some time after she had told him. she knew. She was gl:id she She was chid that he bad told himknew her weaknesses anil fauns ami all. Her happiness over the coining child was so much greater because sl'c had told him. "And It's to bean anniversary child." The Christmas carols were pealing forth when a small boy opened his to him. eyes upon ibe world so new "I'm sorry It's not a girl so we can call her Marjorle." Gregory smiled. "I'm delighted It's a boy and that we cap naiiK' him Gregory." Marjorle whlsncicd. a "Merry Christmas." Gregory suld, struck Hock Just The little later. twelve. an"Merry Christmas," Marjorle swered. And the small boy gave n shrill little cry. "That's bis way of saying 'Merry Christmas,'" Marjorle added. I'm delighted to have It explained to me," her husband chuckled. W. ouij. YOUR "LITTLE NEW YEAR" Relic of By MARTHA B. THOMAS New Year" Is a very eager youngster.--jpops Into view overnight; in fact, one second's difference Is the marghi between his being nothing at all and then appearing as something very definite to reckon witar- - From the minute he clups his eyes on you, he belongs; ho Is your "Little New Year" and you've got to decide pretty quickly whut to do with hlra. There Is no possible way of escaping this parenthood. He's going to stick to you like a burr for 805 days, every minute, every hour. It's really quite alarming. the Are you going to bring-nl'.ttle fellow on underdone resolutions? t Are you going to make blm a present of malnutrition by feeding him on irregular meals of npUE Little Saxon Days w Western THE "NAKIANhadner-- a , Western Newspaper it. "Yiiii kn.'W she Is going to get mai lied in the spring that is her appreciate Is all but announced. "Iion'l you think it would be a good idea? She vias so helpful about my wedding and she has told me, quite t . the-- wedding wilt nlident'iiHy. be in the spring. '"It would If a good idea to give her nary 2. The festivities marking this occasion, says Hereward Curriugton, scientist and author, nre very ancient, and in old Saxon days It was- - the custom tu partake of a bowl of spiced ale, which was passed around with the expression "Wussliael," which meant "to youi health !" Ilence the origin of the Wassail, or W'assel bowl. Are you going to ruin his character (aud maybe your own) by rowsaud rows of pleasant fibs to prevent u feeling of discomfort about his growing up into a harum-scaruboy? Like human children, he needs watching and You'll guiding and discipline. never have the opportunity of this particular lad "raising" again. He will slip from your fingers on the night of December New Year" SI your "Little grown into whatever manhood you've permitted him. Let's send him out a fine, sturdy fellow J 022, Newspaper Lniuu.i New Year begins precisely ai and almost everyone nowadays sees the New Year in by general festivities and many good resolutions, which are promptly forgotten on Jn- - procrastination? , X,'jff Union.) 0 HOW JAPAN GREETS NEW YEAR Custom of Oriental Countries Is to Give Special Performances In the Play Houses. We now keep New Tear on January tbe first ; but the Chinese, Jews, Turks and many others do not observe it on this day, Even Christian emmtries hava not always go observed it'; the Romans began the year with the March equinox. The later Teutonic nations for a long time continued counting the beginning- of tbe year from March 25. It wns only In 150 j, by an edict of Charles IX, that France changed the time of the beginning of the year to January 1. In lGOtl Scotland mads the same change, and England only did so in 1752, when the Gregorian systom was adopted there. It will thus be seen that the New Year, ob- served on January 1, is relatively now, though we are accustomed to think that it dates back from time Iw memorial. It was Julius Caesar, In the yeat 4C, B. C, who first reformed the calcndar nlded by the Egyptian astroniimei Sotdgenes. He made it a few minntei too long, and a second correction wai Pope Gregory made cer neceswiry. tain changes hi 1582, A.. IX, and ad dltionnl minor changes were made latei on, from the "old style", to the "new style" calendar." We now employ th new style. After the French revol jtjon France decided .to set up au entirely new or dor of things. A nvw tulendar was made. The Christian en was wiped out, and was replaced by the new French era, beginning September "U. li'.C Instead of our w.ek of seven was estab days, a week of ten du-lished in accordance win the doi im.n system the tenth day bxii'.g sot aside for rest. Instead of thii mythological names of the months, others deduced from tin1 prevailing deusun of :hn year were methods of greeting differ jrrpBtlv from ours. In Japan, as well us in other Oriental countries, special performances are given in the theaters. In the temples and shrines priests and attendants entertain the people with special dances. The Kagura, or Sacred Dance 'With Music, Is the fa vorite, for while it is being given prayers are offered for the continued happiness of the nation during the coming year. This very old dance is performed by young girls, while the priests are. the musicians. All are In appropriate costume. Another ceremonial, which has been handed down for centuries, Is the Shu-Saor Dance of the Ancestral Sanctuary. Tills Is given within the palace substituted. Everylhlnc was to be based upou by the imperhd family on January 3, and it celebrates the founding of the reason! The Notre Doino was eon- verted into- a "Temple of Benson." imperial bouse, centuries ago. lime. Momero, (ho .voting and boantiful wife of a Jacobin printer, wis chosen A NEW YEAR'S CARD to represent 'ileasym." And so it went hrre Now what won! of cheer The months were chosen nnd given To herald In another year; names which were thought ti French May all ru flays rc irea oi dibido be characteristic of them. Thus, a little nobler than yojr aim: artumn had u vintage rrontb, a foggy Mv all Its labor be cotifeat A little hotter than your beat. month and a sleety rretnth. Winter And all the Joys wtuiln Its scope a snowy month, a rnlpy month nnd A little brighter than your hope; Spring, a hn'Mlim And may each year be found, when r9t. a windy month. A little dearer than the month, a flowery month and n pnsturo Arthur Gulteiman tn V'oman'e Horn month. Bummer, a harvest menlh, a Companion. hot month and a fruit month. e Each month began somewhere tween the" 19th and the 22nd accordlng to our reckoning. Thus the flrsl month of the autumn trio began on September 22, and lasted until Oc yjjjTht Lord bktWiiid WepTfjffiV tober 21, etc. Uiea. The Lord aula hit Uca Vffl With tbe restoration of a stable X L.ikia upoa thee, and be tneioa eC In France; this calendat government V 2 mo Owe.' Tk Lord lilt op was repealed, and the usual one subhie CDimiraaK afoa that,. JaJLl jfPjHL stltuted. But Ibr a Umo, as wo have u VjQj (iv the peace, seen, New Tear day did not. begin ob January 1, in France, so late as 'ih last century, and It l es not bogit cuo on that date In trtea even today' THE Oriental New Yir ; l, -- er before cooked at to speak W&firWSi Mftir of until sh had married Bert , that summer. She bad made a great success of It, but she was a little nervous afterward when she realized that she had invited all of Bert's family and near relatives for a Christmas dinner. And that they hen all accepted. "Now Marian dear," Bert bad samV "just have a simple dinner. Don't bother about the ordifrills. Our nary Sunday dinner will do beautifully. Anyone who gets our usual Sunday dinner Is getting a tine meal." "Well, 1 guess Ibat Is about all I can do -- and for so too," many, Marian suld. "You're a "wonder to attempt It," Hert said admiringly. ""But don't think you have to overdo it." Km 'miys"" and days Marian planned her Christmas he made dinner. She sailed nuts, cranberry sauce. She ordered a fine She wasn't nervous young turkey. abou' the turkey that wus Just about as easy as chicken. Yes, sbe was planning to have tbe She Christmas dinner. wouldn't tell Bert. She would surprise him. And then, if she did tell him. she might be inore nervous about Ibe things she bad planned to do, feel-- i lug that he was going to be so promt of her that she couldn't fulfill bis ex-- j pei'tations of her success, So she worked and planned and j schemed. t ATidthnt Christians eve when Hert she smiled to kissed her good-nigherself as she beard him say: "Well. It's quite true. People have always eaten too ranch at Christmas time In past years." lien's family all arrived In due season for Christmas dinner, "Well, were you jiemyisoywyflur first Turkey?" TiNKeaATrnFEmllIna.'" And how happy Marian was that she could say that she hadn't been norv-hiand that It was going to come out nil rigid, she thought. "I bet It was a job making your Cnele lirst plum pudding," said fleorge, utid Ben looked angry and grieved, lie didn't want anyone to make bis Marian feel uncomfortable. And now his own family were doing It. "I'ncle George," Bert said, "we meant to tell you. We're not going dinto have one of those ners. We think that people have ul ways felt wretchedly nt Christmas, and after ChristmasIndigestion and all. So we're just going to have a nice simple dinner." Marian bad left th" room now. But she could bear the defending note In Bert's voice, and at the same time a note of sadness that their dinner was going to be so simple. She wanted to rush In now and tell thein all that It wouldn't be so simple, nnd' to put her anas around Bert's nock' and kiss blm. He was standing up for her. And they were all trying to be critical. And sbe had them all to her bouse. This was Ibe v. ;:y they were accepting her hospitality ktiii. "I'.ol follou-inii nllmhpr ninri liar remarl s on how did she get along .with her mince pie, and did she bum herself salting the nuts, sbe at last announced that dinner was quite ready. Admiringly, Increasingly admiringly, the guests ate and ate and ate. There was nothing that had ever been a part old-tim- old-tim- i Give It to Molly Stevens Christmas Present." for Cbilsnnas tint she could have for her new home. 'We really can't afford to buy ilibi just le'w ami that will dn beautifully." r.in the monogram''" her husband !iMoin'd. , uli. thai can be taken off you I. now. and another one put there in Its pbi.e. I lieal'il some one ordering Hun to be done in one of the sliver slio;m I hp other day." "Yes. that's a splendid ide.i" her husband heartily agreed. "I'll go down town and attorn! to It I haven't miuh lime tomorrow. ( 'brisi mas i.s utmost here." "mr first 'hristnuis,'' ald the young bushand as be clasped his bible to him. "Our first Christmas." she mursi'ir:iMhliig ' ; i mured. The next evening he asked her i j i j I ; t. ; i - j , 1V iuVa til s j 1 J fm w : xooosi presents mtt Hilt turn M of tWi ptn. Tim Mr eddhua Be fiUad wilfc tuinr wit ami Mftl Aad Pudding Br MARY GRAHAM BONNER Every present she had received was very welcome. She had on depended to furnish her new home. When she hud received du plicate which were not Initialed she hastened to the place from which flioy hud been purchased and picked out other articles of beauty aud of household necessity. Her friends bad really been remark ably kind. She had been surprised to find how ready the 'shops hud been nbout taking back gifts and substituting wtth others, or In engraving presents which had not already been enOnly one had clmrged for graved. ongrnviia' the gift had been purchased at " liub siile rate" and so engraving wns imt included. Altoucihei; trom the puint of view nf presents as well as from the point -nf iew of n Tll.lte sbe bad done re This would enable lomkably well. them In mak" a very good appearance 'ln their home Without baling to draw from tbe none too plentiful savings. She viewed everything over again one evening, pie cuts nnd those wb'cb wore exchanges. There was just ulie rhtng among them .that was not necessary and not particularly pretty. It wns a grayy-dlsh- . She knew of no particular use tn which she coubl put it she had nc of Ibe kind she really liked. She could not exchange II. It bad a 'monogram In the cenier "I know what I'll do with It." sh said to her husband. "I ll g';e It tn Molly Stevens for a Christmas pies cut. She has been so good to us and I'd like to show her how much I SOMETHING NtW . BHTO At fake, dw tnt, Bctwtaa Ik laarel 4 jew, Tkaak God tar tairffcn roue; aad mrmi tail a bride. dread f Joke ka feyms that 0 mr-- VltniHIinawiMi tread h it t A Christmas X KKKK00 an eat mrrtfcu We Mf M Aial aat (tacit 0 By MARY GRAHAM BONNER TJaloa, uroSELrsa' ' - Nnrtjxpw f ASSURANCE . vil- lage church on Christmas Eve and when later the carols pealed forth they fplt as though even the carols were for their happiness alone 1 several They had been married years. Closer and' closer had they crown together. How glad she was she had waited until she was sure she loved. She had had so many proposals, and there were glrlswho had had so few. She had often thought of of the girl to whom, the simplest pleasures bad come as a complete and magnificent Joy. This girl had had no attentions, her life had been almost manless. At last came a man into her life, very slowly, very unemotionally, hut each slow step along the way was one which thrilled her and which mounted-u- p to huge and great proportions. It had to be a great deal to rouse Marjflrlfi.but Gregory lad roused her fully. She had always kept her fresh charm' and her appeal though she hud Her skin loft youth behind. her color good, her eves da nnd lustrous and her hair had no traces of gray. But during this time no children had come to them, flregory now didn't seem to care whether they came or rot. He was quite content with licr. "People chnnge their Ideas after they marry If they really love the ttoninn they marry." he. used to tell her. "Before they have theories. Now If children came, all well and good. But I couldn't be any happier than I am now." She knew he spoke the truth. She knew It. He was even jealous of her Was this eagerness for children. what It meant to marry, he some times asked himself. Did people for- - WHtin O. HAZARD TEe Spirit of 1923 - If sbe bud nrr.ii.ged about sending the gravy dlsfc ifMI'dly Stevens. "I cotildn'' send It," she said. "Why nor?" he queried. "Iteoaiisc of Hie monogram In the liter." she s.vd. "f'.ut yiin told roe that that could be erased by Ibe silversmiths ale' a new monogram placed there" her husband persisted. "I know I did." the yeiit g bride" answered, 'but you see they told me today at the shop that It would be IMissiide to do It were It not for the fact that it bad been done mi often to this gravy dish that they wouldn't dare take a chance with i( again. They'd not he able to avoid boring n hole th!e time! 1 has been given away once ton often for me to put to any use," she sighed sadly. "And I shall just send Mollv a f'hrlstmiw card. After all sl e did no more than any one elsl5!" Celery and Banana Salad. Cut the bleached portions ol crisped lengths. Mix with celery Intn It quantity of diced banana.. Arrange In small mounds In lettuce cups, dress with mayonnaise nnd gar n!sh with I'ngllsh walnut meats, or If novel'y Is desired, serve In banana ! of half-Inc- , cases. I i ! o Christmas dinner that Marian did not have. And Bert grew prouder and core boastful of her by the moment I How. liurt loved to boast of what she could do! At Inst came the dessert mince pie and apple pie and plum pudding, too. How Bert's eyes opened wide with surprise when lie saw the pudding. "What did you menu when you said you were going to have a new kind of a dinner without any of the Christmas trimmings?" asked Uncle George. wife likes surprises,' Bert "My beamed. And after they bad fcll gone, Bert said: "They behaved atrociously, bnt obi How proud l was oi you. Ana Mt '""" rlsn thirling--- " , "Yes, dear?" "The plum pudding was "the best that has ever been served at any Christmas dinner at any time! know." "I thiuk It woa a success," 31arU am!lA |