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Show :r, THE OAY NOT LIKE IT VAO FIFTY ; YGARG ACO. The Old Customs of the I? 'rahcr: Have Bsen Forgotten by tho drawer draw-er GMieratlon In the Made i Hub of Empire. Z? pMEHICAN mill h igl'sh a newspapcru . nt Ihrist-Ac.tHwl Ihrist-Ac.tHwl iaus time oftw liavo j plcturcaqiio accounts i I I of the Gorman Christ- ' l lT mns' wn'cn conjure up , ftNp&y a c'oar Ir0slv ntmo- st sphere nml reecho tho If I J song of tho pkutcs on I i tno frozen lnko-5. For fl tho Anglo-Saxon notion of I ho Gorman I ' Chrlatninu Ih drawn from Uioau child- I I, hood Iioiir spent over IImib Andermm I , , , nnd Grimm, and tho sight of a Christ- I , ' ' ninB tree brings to mind tho w-iod-cut- ter tramping homo through tl . snow I ' laden forest, tralli"g behind '. Im tho ; fir tree for his family Christ" n col- j obrn'.'on, while, In the towns, tho j 'i ' black imadrurgle of tho venornblo 'T ; mnrlc.it j.lato Is picked out In lights i 1 , blnzifg on tho trees In tl)o windows ! of the gabled houses. L' F'Uy yours ngo. before tho youns , Goraan giant had awakened from tho I ; sleep of centuries, this Idea of tho j peaceful Gorman Christian 'van cor- j rent, tho Dcrlin correspondent of the Now York Evening Post says. Uut If 1 ono pt tho burghors of old 11 irlln, re- , turning from making his C'lrlBtmua , purchases on Christmas evo, were to I bo transplanted Into tho roaring hub j of empire which Ills haups ndt has j - becomo lu tho year of graco, 1009, il.o jj j good man would probably expire on I (' the spot. F'.'ty yonrs ngo, when Heiitn was a J: dirty, unpretentious, provincial town, h . with Hl-L'e'itod, Ill-nnved stirots, w'. h 12 a population renowned oven in those I doys for Us surly mnnnors and un- 1 coutbness. and with tho Iron hand of i Militarism .nirheckod over 1. all, tho I ; Christmas festival was tho tranquil M i ' cc'.'iiatlon ol which ono h.ui read H i . , thi- LusMrnrtfi', before the castle, - ' '', ' ClirlstmaH fair was tiiinutiUy obIiiIi- , ' Hel'od, Wilch die king and .uyal fain- ' " , ' Uy "sod tc visit to buy jumping Jncka H l t an'd glngirhroad for tho palaco Christ- Wt , L ... ' nna trees, like any other Gornmu ' far lly. Tae Lustgartcn fair l.us t -rt? i ; pa,red av.ny, tho king or Prussia has H 1 if' i ,', j lr omo German emperor, Ilerltn litis B 1iWV' developed Into n fair and beautiful H W M.' city, and nil that remains of tho Hi m- ' f ' Christmas of onco upon u time Is tho H 5 W ;- flP'rlt. Indeed, a precious Inhorltnnco, H 1 thai still. holds tho brandies of tho (It W , myriads , , of Christmas troim which B m H 1 '' ' ,r'?-' a"- l,oor a,,10 Bot up ,n the,r H B f houses i on the evo of the fenst. I We acknowledge this week tho rocoipt of Calendars from tho Howard Brokerage- Co., Los Angeles, Cal. and the Metropolitan Me-tropolitan Life Insurance Co. of San Francisco, Cal. Tho latter was a handsomo color-plate color-plate of a little miss of 5 or (5 summers. yet yn i |