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Show I z. T WAS three weeka be- fore Christmas. But al-- J ready the atmosphere of the holiday season seemed to cover the city. Paul Italner felt it as be boarded the street .car that took him home each evening; already men and women were loaded down with packages that had alt the earmarks of Yule-tid-e T gifts. There was something about Christmas that always thrilled Paul ; he even liked to repeat the name over and over to himself. He often wished that he might be selling toys and things at Christmas In- stead of being office boy at the big lumber concern where he worked. Gee, mother I" he yelled 'as he went In the door; "the Dally Mirror is, giving prizes for the best decorated homes at Christmas. Wouldn't It be great If we could win one Xt them 7 But, Paul, Mrs. Rainer spoke as If she hated to throw cold water on his enthusiasm, you know we can't afford to do anything of that sind. I I only wish we could for your sake, she added. "Maybe next year " Paul looked around the sparsely furnished room before replying: "Never mind, mother, be said, for the time, I forgot about things Darn money, anyway; why does It always have to block the way when we want to do something we like 1 "It It doesnt always block the way, Paul ; In fact, most of the time the absence of It la an Incentive to do big things. If everybody had money many of the great deeds that have thrilled the world never would have been accomplished. And and, Paul, don't you think we have been fairly happy without a lot of It 7" She looked anxiously Into his face as she put the question. Paul was bis old happy self when he replied: Bet your life we have. Why, all the fellows say theyd rather come Vi our house than anywhere else. And and, mother. If dad had lived we could have been as well off as the rest of them I" In the hours that followed Paul seemingly forgot about the newspaper prize, but his mother did not That night, after be had retired, Bhe, Ml doypn.jn. the. .lltUe living room and pondered the matter over. Was there any way that she could help him to carry out his desire! What a happiness It would be to give him the joy of competing In the contest I Suddenly she started from her chair and a smile came over her be taking on real Ilfs, and an unconsciously their voices grew low and bushed as they worked upon It, And slowly from the paper letters were formed, bugs letters along simple lines that told the message that the angels sang to the long ago, "Mother, It's going to be great Paul would say every now and then In bis enthusiasm. "Thera eouldn't be anything better than this; why why this star seems as If It were really alive 1" But Mrs. Rainer knew of the many lavish and expensive decorations thst were going up all over town. The simple things that they were fashioning would probably show up very small beside such display. But she tried to keep faith with the faith of ber son. And even though they should not get a prize, this work that they were doing was bringing them a great amount of happiness; a deeper and finer spirituality than they ever had known before. They seemed to have canght the very spirit of Christmas; each day seemed to be bringing them nearer to Bethlehem. In a week the decorations were finished, and Paul took a ladder and set to work. Across the high side wall of the house that faced the street he placed the letters that had been woven from scraps of paper, When completed, they read: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." Above this he placed the silver star which had grown to be so real. With long extension eords and three reflecting lights that they had been able to hire from a nearby electrician for a small sum, the lighting system was complete. Paul could scarcely wait nntll darkness fell to turn on the current His hands trembled with, excitement when finally the moment -- SANTA CLAUS UXXXXXSXO xexexox. C.OOD evening, Giidrenl Through As mike j-- m just say this before I hike: No monkey-busines- s goes tonight Run off to bed, turn out the light; Dont snoop around or by to see What chance you have detecting me. , I 7 ' f y-'- ,yr rsTs h -- - r 4 iX .fr.rv I Vmm- drink-of-wat- ' AA 3 - Fve always found of going round. Is just play square with Santa Claus, For helms certain rules and laws Which make it necessary Yes, That you cut out your snoopiness! How sweet it is when children do The dungs old Santa asks them to. They never have a sigh or tear If they believe in him each year. Say, sometimes, children who are good Get more than what they thought they would 1 VOT'V "VK How to Make Old Santa White Beard Fireproof bravo woman she used to gather her family about her and say gaily, "Now I will make some graham gema, and open some marmalade, and we will take a little comfort." And comfort was theirs lor the taking, and with comfort, no doubt, came courage and strength and some measure of wisdom for the trials when they had to he faced again. Most of na spend too much time in taking pains and too little In taking comfort Martin Luther once advised Philip Melanchtbon to give up managing the universe and let the Almighty God do It An old colored mammy, asked how she could be ao cheerful when she bad no easy time of It replied, ."Lor, chile, I wears the world like a loose garment P And ao It ia suggested tor a Merry Christmas this year that Christs teaching of peace In the world was not a teaching for principalities and powers, bnt for Individual men and women each of., us, personally. My peace I give unto you," was hla personal pledge to ua. Of course we cannot put aside the demands of life upon ua nor evade Its Issues, but wa can take tome time out of life for the deliberate cultivation of a peace and contentment that will Increase onr efficiency, enrich-ou- r. beings, and make the whole of living more tolerable. Farmers Wife.- - EVER l -- one-thir- d Niw Peace and Contentment trials pressed In upon WHEN household of a certain f -- Fm pretty slick at ketchine kids close their lids; Who only half-wa- y hesitate dont even I Why, Where amarty children stay up late! stuff Dont pull that You cant fool me that s just a bluff! Best way to do In all my years Christmas Suggestion FORGET By William Hcndwl! ia Missouri Farm a Christmas passes wlth- out accidents from lire. Last Christmas a schoolmaster who had dressed np as Santa Claus was badly burned through the cotton-woo- l of which his white beard was made catching lire. It la not easy to find a substitute but It Is not diffifor cotton-woo- l, cult to make cotton-woo- l fireproof. Dissolve an ounce and a half of powdered alum In hot water and oak the wool In It Then dry the wool and flnff It out again. Cottonwool treated In this way will smoulder, but not blaze. Even tissue paper can be made quite safe by dipping It In a solution of ammonium sulphate, boraclc add, and water. It must be dipped quickly aod dried at once. Canvas or similar material used for stage decoration may be fireproofed by a solution of ammonium sulphate, gypsum, and water. Take four ounces of each and use just enough water to make a liquid "Mother, It's Going to Be Groat I about as thick as thin paste. Then came, and his heart almost stood spread it on the fabric with a still as be looked np and saw the brush. message that has thrilled the world for nearly 2,000 years stand out In bold relief. Above It the silver star gleamed brightly; to Paul It seemed more alive than ever. ST. NICHOLAS DAY Through the days that followed mother and son thrilled as they noday Is ticed the many who people ST. NICHOLAS 6. Is a chilIt stopped outsider Cars from all over dren's festival In Holland, the city drove by each night, and Belgium and parts of Gerthe comments and praise that they premany, and serves ai beard was. as music to their care. Is' Christmas. It to liminary do we could think "Paul, yon 5th the on of that the night have got as much happiness out of St. Nicholas comes ' with this If we had lots of money and gifts. Christmas day Is obcould have bought anything we served as a holy day rather wished?" Mrs. Rainer Inquired of than as a holiday. her son one evening. No, mother, I dont," Paul answered There very quietly. wouldn't have been half the fun In It that there has been. I just dont care now whether we win a prize or Uncle Sam Now Leading not. To see how much beauty we Germany in Toy Field have been able to make out of so no flood little has been reward enough. And GERMAN toysmarketslonger at ChristIt has taught me a lesson I will mas time as they did before the never forget Oh, mother! his voice war. grew excited, yon are just wonderGermany's world monopoly In the ful you are! Who but you would manufacture of toys has been defihave thought of such a thing! nitely broken, statistics showing But Paul did win a prize to the that she now 'produces only surprise of his mother and himself of the world's entire supply. he woq the biggest prize the paper The CnltedStates has taken Gerhad offered $200. The simplicity of manys place as the greatest maker the design, the artistic skill that of toys, with Japan as a formidable love and care had woven Into It competitor. the contrast between It and other One of the reasons for the huge elaborate decorations entered, and drop In Germanys production is the evident spirituality of the mes- seen in the high tariff walls which Had the Earmarks of Yuletlde sage all lent their Influence toward have been erected against foreign the final decision. Three times the Gifts. competition by those countries Judges drove by to see It and each which made themselves Independent Her thoughts had drifted time face. they grew more Impressed. of Germany during the war, by creback through the years; back to There seemed to be a strange radichildhood days. She remembered ance about this particular exhibit ating their own toy Industries. Another is believed to be Germanys out on the farm how her mother that they could not account for. had taught her to fashion many They could not know that It came slowness to adapt her type of toys to the continually changing market beautiful Christmas decorations out from all that had been put there demands. Qt scraps of tinfoil and colored pa by loving bands. But all were unanper. Always there bad been a box imous In deciding that It merited In the attic where everything of the first and best prize. tlds sort bad been stored away. It Is doubtful If any two ever Why Childr.. Are Goii And, as is often the case, the spent a more wonderful and JoyJoke makers would have us think things we do In childhood stay with ous Christmas than Paul and his that the children are very good us; so she herself bad continued mother. They could scarcely credit now so that they may get more just and to save bits of paper and other the fact that their work had been finer presents. A keener observer as mother her had, and now counted the best in the whole city. would note that they are good bethings there was a huge box of It stacked And the prize meant much to two cause they are busy planning and away In the closet Perhaps out of who had to scrimp and save for so making the little gifts they will give It she could fashion something that many years. To them $200 was a to others. Colliers Weekly. would enable Paul to enter the con- very large amount It would, buy test! many needed things. For a whole week two busy perBut over and above thla was the sons worked across the table from Giant Christmas Trae that the thing they had thought each other every evening Carefully Englands biggest Christmas free fashioned from almost nothing but small rolls of tinfoil and rolls of was that at the Crystal palace la faith and been had love considered d 1878, It was 120 feet high and paper were smoothed of a prize, - out and fashloned luto Ch listings worthy built from 1,500 small trees fixed np And as stoodln front of the to decorations. Out of tha discarded modest theyhome a central stem. From the free after little the Judges pieces of sllrer paper and tinfoil had left and looked np toward the hung 250,000 presents, flags and bonbons. a great gleaming star began ta taka great, glistening star that seemed shape, a star that seemed to fill to smile down at them, they were the whole root! with Its radiance. both filled with the deepest and For, from the moment that mother most wonderful happlnessttief even Parpatnal Calendar Ussf ul and son begun working upon It, It Christmas can bring. Love and faith If you get a perpetual calendar seemed to them as If the Star that had once again fonnd a way! Its for Christmas, preserve It carefulled the Wise Men was shining again star was shining brightly for the ly. It will be fine to pass on to From the love and care-- they bad grateful pair I somebody twelve month henoe. pot Into its making It seemed to CaUw.1 A 1MX Venn green-and-rp- "T - NOW, DON'T SPEAKING 10 Keep Harmony in Mind When Giving Presents IS not unwise around ChristITmas time to reiterate ones color scheme. Members of a family who have no color scheme should be given one. Br!ng Joy to yonr family by planning to do over the hit and miss rooms. And before you tie up the six or ten rolls of new wall paper for Its place under the tree, Inform all other members of Its tones. So that the pincushions and pictures and even the dressing gowni and slippers may be chosen tq harmonize. And when giving your best friend a vase, remember her wall paper. A blue jug may be lovely In the shop but terrible against her black and red walls. Not only should one remember a color scheme In choosing gifts but the period motifs and price scale as welt. Too elegant a sofa pillow might throw a friend's living room entirely ont of tune. Chicago Dally News. was , entertaining the bridge club of which she was president with a Christmas party. The group of - lively young women about gathered the tree for their annual election. "Before -- we- takanp.the election, of officers for next year," Maxine announced, "I want to review with you a little of what we have done this past year.' It was at our last January meeting that we decided that good times alone' would not keep our club alive. Then It was suggested that we carry the Christmas spirit through the year by considering the 25tb of every month a ChriBtmas anniversary, and doing some act' such as we would do If It were really Christ"mas time. "On January 25 we helped the Stone boy get a new 8Ult; on February 25 we took out and cooked a real Christmas dinner for the Perkins family; on March 25 we arranged to buy music for the postmans boy, and-- got Mr. Williams to give him free violin lessons, and by the way, 1 understand be is In April we showing real talent took care of Mrs. Perkins while she was sick; stopping In every noon to fix lunch and straighten np. May 25 was a Sunday, and we took all the poor children we knew to the park for the day. In June we gathered discarded winter clothing for the Welfare society to put ' In shape for fall use. "On July 25 we started Phylla Bivens off to a tuberculosis sant-- tarlum. In Au gust we bought school supplies for Sarah Stone, and in September we made drive another for discarded clothing. AX1NE . . October helped . we In Chest campaign ; watted- - until Thanksg I v 1 n g day, when we five distributed turkeys; and here It Is December agaltTWhat are we to do tbla month!" Well," said one of the girls "of course we have been working all month on toys for the Community tree for owor children. So I suggest that this month we spend the 25th at home, but that next year we follow the same plan, and I nominate our President Maxine for & 1111. VTwtOTS Ktw !) ?1 Friday, December 18, 1931 MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA, UTAH said Mr. Jameson, "I dont see but that Im a failure after all. Even though I could probably sell out this minute for a coot I cannot give yon the only happiness you ELL, Jennie, balf-millio- it , j 1W TZLJ Our Christmas '! m v Qwa A$ee old lady told me something strange one time, "Santa Claus," she said, is the saint of Uttle children. Bat there Is a grownups' saint at Christmas time; too, who stands beside ns measuring our gifts and recording them truly. He wouldnt Judge by the means we use. For," the old, old lady smiled sweetly. "love makes a jfltt great at Christmas time. In a small bungalow at the edge of a western town, a woman named Martha, and her daughter, Ruth, sewed. They and their honae were a bit shabby. But that does not matter at Christmas time.. "Dear me Martha sighed as she took the last stitches, "I dread Christmas every year. It means work and sacrifice. I could have had a good pair of stockings for what I paid for Aunt Carolines present But Id be ashamed to send her -leas" - - - - "Yes I" Ruth snapped "She and Anna probably think were trash anyway. And look at what they give ns 1 Last year Anna sent a bunch of fancy boxes. Imagine what on earth wed do with them I "Annas selfish, thata what I" Martha nodded with sudden convlc tlon. "She wouldnt work the way youve, bad to. Shed think It was beneath ber. The Idea enraged Ruth. She glared. "Ill show ber some day, the insane snooty thing 1 Im going to be somebody. And she with her pampered life I Martha nodded. "Shes just Uke her mother. Caroline always had to have her way. Always haughty and N OLD, , 1 - . ! (ME FOR CHRISTMAS HAVE often thought," says Sir Roger, "It hap-pevery well that Christmas j should fall out In tha middle of the winter. It la the faost ( . dead uncomfortable, time of JU the yetr. when the poo pee-- , ( pie would suffer very much j I from their poverty and cold, not good cheer, j j if they had !; warm fires and Christmas it gambols to support them." jl Joseph Addison. I nt "Annas Selfish, Thats Whati Mar. tha Nodded. proud. I never could understand why yonr uncle married her." 'Hub!" Ruth-wrotheir .named on the tags. "Me, either I What s life he must lead with those two." "Don't you suppose I know how you "With them It's always me and are going to miss him this ' first mine. " Christmas birthday of hla that he "And Anna Is as crude as sha has not been home. Dont you supcan be. Remember the time " pose I realize as well aa you do But the recording ealnt went on. that he la our life, our joy, our only He bad found the value of their gifts And he was anxious to see Aunt Caroline and Anna. Yule Candle and Holly They were In a large living room Foretell Good and Evil before a merry fire. There were great holly wreaths in the beautiare many odd THEREconnected ful windows And from the kitchen with Christmas came the song of the cook. v candles and holly. One Is that If a Anna smiled across at bet moththree leaves under her er. "Almost through with Aunt true wealth; that moneyed things girl puts each the name of a are really worth nothing to us In pillow, giving Marthas present!" possible husband, the one that has him!" with Aunt Caroline nodded. Yes And' comparison In turned the morning will reveal "Of course," answered Mrs. JameIf youve finished Ruths handkerber marriage destiny. The Christson. But you are a success, nevermas candle la still lighted In some chief. well get the package off. I been theless. If It hadnt for the Ukea this" of the old Yorkshire farm houses, hope Martha She wilL Aunt Marthas a dear. money youve made by your bard with and la carried great ceremony 'Wouldnt It be work, we never could have given all around the house and Into great If they could every Richard the advantages he has had. spend Christmas with na some room. The bearer must be most He has that splendid, opening In careful to shield the flame aa each time!" Annas eyes glowed. "Wouldnt It I Too bad you and 1 Chicago, and even If he Is too far for It would be the door la Ruth can't know each other better. away to come home for just one worst ofopened, luck the should candle Youre so near the same Marday, I am glad that he has the ophappen to "waff ont In a draught tha writes that Ruth laage. portunities which our wealth has working must Yule candle be the Especially hard. Shes going to amount to given him. Of coarse our more to ua than all these things, helT over the churn. This is done something I In to evict that malicious litbut we still have each' other, you tle order Anna arose to write the name who sprite,' know." on tha tags TU bet ahe does therein and hides spoils the butter. "Yea, my dear, we still have each when aba waa a Uttle girl, other," he said. ahe used to be ao ambitious!. Pm Mrs. Jameson kissed her husband going to use (his pretty tag on her affectionately and led him toward First Christmas Card ' package. Isnt It fun getting things the window. The Christmas card. In its presen- off to them! I wish we could send "Look P she exclaimed. "A plane P t-day form, was nonexistent until them something nicer." . Sure enough, high over the great about 1800. Before that date there .Caroline smiled. "Martha la senexpanse of white lawn before the were Christmas cards of a sort, but sitive and I wouldnt hurt her by house circled a tiny plane the sonnd they were very expensive, and bat ending things ao much better than little used. The Idea for such a card she could afford for us Little originated with Sir Henry Cole, and things can express onr love Just ns the first card printed waa Issued In well. Id be happy with only n card 1840 by a London artist, Joseph from them. It'a the thoughts, you know. . , ," Cun dab Anna amlled and placed each package tenderly Into a box. And the packages passed each Use for Christmas Envelopes other In tha malls By chance they The gay linings from Christmas had the same kind of tags: of whose motors Just barely reached shape of "Merry Christmas and love from their ears. Nearer and nearer tha envelopes cut Into tha earth It came, and Mrs, Jameson flowers make pretty . and unique Ruth and Annt Martha.". She backing for Christmas tree lights. Merry Christmas and love from glased her husbandagaln. Or, cut Into silhouette shapes, they Anna and Annt Caroline." knew that In the plana was Richprovide something original In the But the grown-u- p Santa mads ard, their boy, their treasure. "It ia my Christmas present to way of seals for decorating the very different notations For Christmas Is a memorial to a Prince you and to him," Interrupted hla gift packages, whose greatest commandment waa wife. "Just as twenty-on-e years ago him to you as your "Love one another" and who said today son and heir, today I give him back "Judge not and "Revile not." Twe CMiIoh Mudi Wbat will our Christmas gift recto yon. With thla machine ho can There are two Christmas Islands, ord be! For who can visit u on holidays, for now we are one prove that the in the Pacific and one In the old. old waa not.rightl twelve hours nearer Chicago." lady Indian ocean. mu Wastan Smpti Uilom.) (ft Dll Wotwi Ntvmpv Ula.t reallyJKaat. this .rlstmaa .eve." . What'a that! queried hla wife! "Why, our son!" he exclaimed. te son-mea- ' - , .1-ga- if |
