Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 13, 1912, Page 17

' THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE VOLUME 10. NUMBER 195. J cH".DHOOD s HAPPY CHRISTMAS MORNING Iln each, the girls standing at one end iof the corridor, each one with an en- | velope, and the men at the other, each one just behind the special basket in which his partner's pattcrn may be matched. I At a signal the men run down the corridor to the spot where the girls | are standing, and each one receives l‘he envelope held by his partner, | opens it, takes out the pat‘crn before ;dasbing back to his basket to match Throwing Cards Into a Hat. {t from the pile of cuttings “fancy dress materials” within. The competitor who first succeeds In matching his "pattern wins the from ‘GAMES FOR CHRISTMAS They Will Add Interest to the| Family Home-Coming Party. | By GLADYS BEATTIE CROZIER. | AKING the Christ.| mas home-coming party enjoyable ta A | efforts of the players to perform this| apparently simple task afford much merriment to the onlookers. To begin the game, place a lighted candle on a small but steady table or pedestal at one end of the room, while the players stand at the other. To | start the game, the competitors are blindfolded and turned round three | | i i | {How About These Christmas game, which, if more convenient, may be played in heats timed by stop- watch. The silhouette cutting competition, 8s & rule, provokes the greatest mer- riment. A cheet is hung up against a wall and drawn flat. The competitors are sorted into couples, and take their places beneath it seated on a row of BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1912, R THIRD SECTIO! COAITS. MACD DIAYer I8 uexi prescateud with a sheet of black-backed paper and a pair of scissors—no pencils are sllowed—and thus armed must pro- ceed to cut out the si’houette fortrait of his or her next-door neizkbor. After a ten minutes’ time-limit has expired, the hostess must ccllect the silbouettes, and, turning tiem back side outwards, she pins them up on to the sheet. Voting papers are next passed round to the entire company, and a first prize awarded for the makers of the best and worst portraits displayed. Scientific Fact Established. A number of rabbits upon whom coffee was tried to determine the effect of the caffeine it contained died, prov- ing beyond a doubt that coffee never | was intended as food for rabbits.— Louisville Courier-Journal. Mr. Meekton’s Mean idea. “Why did you insist on having your wife join the Suffragette Club?” “Be-. cause,” replied Mr. Meekton grimly, “I want to see that Suffragette Club gef all the trouble that's coming to| it Willle Wise. Sunday School Tewscher—And what ehould we do after breaking a com- mandment, Willie? Willie—Muzzle de papers and hire a good lawyer.— Life. | ! Voice of the Charmed One. | Fair Buffragette—"And now, if any one who has heard my speech wishes to ask a question, I shall be happy to answer.” Masculine Voice (from rear of hall)—“If you haven't any omeri company, may I see you home this evening ?”"—Judge. “Seaside Cocktail.” | Mix a pretty girl with a holiday boy and soak them in moonlight till mid- night. Squeeze into a tiny corner ot‘ the pier. Stir well with the music of love waltzes. Serve with an engage- ment ring.—Marquis of Queensberry, ENTERTAINING THE perhaps, are sometimes discharged To# inadequacy with the last hideous bad tle of buying. But those who are be: hind the scenes know it all and every heart open to human justice mus§ surely see this side of late Christmag YULETIDE ANGELS | “ososice s oo By PRUDENCE STANDISH. HERE are these an- gels, invisible tc¢ mortal eyes, and how may we enter “tain them? They are in the spirit of Christmas, in that| glad feeling in the| heart which knows | there is reason for Jjoy and which tells us to do all we can for others. When we trans | gress against the laws of joy and kindness we are turning the Yule tide angels from) our doors. When ‘We open our hearts fully to the Christ mas spirit, in ev- ery sense of the word, we are finging wide the portals to the winged ones and spreading the banquet they love.| To come down to plain, everyday speaking, here are 2 few of the sina the most well-meaning persons com. mit against the holiness, love and comfort of the Christmastide. Everybody knows that year by year the shops make a strenuous effort ta encourage the early buying of gifts. Christmas goods are put on sale quite’ six weeks before they are mneeded, while many & mercantile advertise ment openly pleads the case of the shop people. When we put off our buying until the eleventh hour, men, women and children—all of whom| have a right to their own share of Christmas — must work overtime. Nothing is said of the awful heat of the crowded shops, of the exhausted air, of the toiling beings who swelter, etand in icy draughts, who faint and, _— Rifts?| | present bought under such conditions { —the usual cenditions in cities—te | express the rightful Christmas senti | ment. Instead of telling of Christmas joy if it could but speak the gift would say: “I bring you a friend’s irritabilities, and a sales-woman's white cheeks, and a little cash girl's sobs, and wish you a miserable Christmas.” In short, this belated purchase, obtained with such effort to all concerned, carriea with it the unheard tears and sighs of the Yuletide angels, those shining epirits of gladness we turn from our doors. There is a way to escape this very great annoyance to ourselves and Injustice to others. The shops are never crowded in the early morning, B0 do the shopping then with the very first hour. Or if you are a business person and cannot spare the time, write the friend whom you recall at this late hour a nice little note full of Christmas feeling or else run around the corner and buy her a bunch of bright berries from any of the temporary stands, which if not patronized would mean ruin to their owners. At any rate, however, you solve the problem, keep one thought in your heart: Peace on earth and good will tow- ard all the poor souls hired to eell Christmas presents. The next sinners against the Yule- tide angels are the family ogres whe deny the home children their rightful share of Christmas joy, who fret gbout having the little Christmas tree Wwith its trifling gifts, who shatter in fantile idols by revealing the sacred mystery of Santa Claus, and so and 80 on. Ah, me, ah, me, could I not tell weeping stories myself of the hardness of grown-up hearts at this time—stories of the dark and dread- ful day when a silly aunt of seven- teen mocked me for my belief in good krhu Kringle and when, a little Iater, the edict went forth that I was toa old to “think much of Christmas” any more. Is anybody ever “too old” te think of Christmas? Ia the heart eves too hardened not to suffer whep_the dearest of its saints s ruthZesly ta ken away? < o7 1 grubb® all members of the iné!/ gfggu family, young and A g m old, is, always a Joo) ! 8T0 binking 8~ problem. . Grand:| A Hardware Store Is the Place | o etz Thors ar mother is particu- | . mas Hd Christmas_frees, and larly anxious to| to Buy GOOd and Useful Qlfts the cheapest GAd littlgst may | please the little| | Just as Tich Jo¥ to & ’7 folks, and in doing| i ) : | the most expensive ones. In 1 so she ;vm iisc We have all the goods generally found in a hardware store and have also the | bave seeq little Christmas trees bur = please the older i ] ones. But the chil- dren are best en tertained w hen their pleasures are participated in by parents and aunts and uncles, and to accomplish the de- sired end nothing is more appropriate than games. The ones described below are sim- ple and easily arranged for in any home. There is an added interest in them when inexpensive prizes are awarded the winners, and these prizes will be especially attractive if they are made by grandmother’s own ‘hands. A program of games may be out- Hned as follows: (1) Blind man's buff played with ‘wooden EBpOODS. (2) Blowing out the candle blind- fold. (3) Throwing cards into ‘a hat. (4) Pattern matching competition. (5) Bilhouette cutting competitioa. For blind man’s buff with wooden spoons, a small chair, a cushion, a large handkerchief for blindfolding Blind Man's Buff ' With Two Spoons. ‘purposes, and a ocouple ‘of wooden spoons will be required. To begin the game, a “blind man” is chosen to sit blindfolded on the <¢hair, a wooden spoon in each hand. The rest of the company are then marshaled up to kneel before him one by one, when the “blind man” endeav- ore to discover their identity by feel- ing them with the wooden spoons. The “blind man” is only allowed one guess, sv that a good mumber of the com- pany have, as a rule, te go through the ordeal before one of them is guessed aright, and has to take the “blind man’'s” place, whea the game Z0es on as before. Blowing out the candle blindfold is a far more difficult feat than it would &ppear at first sight and the fruitless Blowing Out the Candle. times before groping their way to the spot at which they imagine the candlg to be situated, and endeavoring to puf! || it out. Throwing cards into a hat makes a very amusing competition, in which much skill may be exhibited. A top hat, a couple of packs of carda (with different backs)—and a piece of white tape to mark out a barrier, from behind which the players must kneel to compete, are all the accessories re. quired. To begin the game, the two players throw in turns onme card at a time, and whichever succeeds in getting the ‘highest number of cards into the hat wins the game. In a large party this would be play- ed in heats, on the principle of a tour nament, and to expedite matters sev- eral hats and packs of cards might be provided. The pattern matching competition is most exciting, and is best played in a long hall or corridor, so that the Jompetitors may bave a long runm “home.” A large number ef pleces of stuft Pattern Matching Competition. Irom a rag-bag must be placed in sev- eral baskets, and from among the rags In each basket a small pattern must be taken and placed in an envelope. 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They were set up with love, and trimmed with love, and revealed with love; and the children and the grown-ups were all as happy a8 happy could be because they had invited every one of the Yuletide an~ gels to the fun. % So don’t rob the children of their good Christmas saint, Santa Claus, but leave them to find out the facts of Christmas giving themselves. And, be your home ever =o poor, save some- thing from the housekeeping money to give the children their righttuk Christmas joy in another way whea the tree cannot be managed. Am Ofange, a big, Tosy apple, and a walk- Ing stick of striped peppermint candy cost but little. Yet the bunch of cheap things will seem like Christmas, the real true—true Christmas, when it is dumped out of the little stocking. Concerning more important gifts than these, they also may be of the cheapest sort. All a little child ex pects is something new, so the trifles bought at a reasonable hour at the ten-cent store, the cheap, home-dress- ed doll, the nickel watch or fifteen cent box of paints, are all equally prized. What the kiddies want is ta feel their Yuletide angels near them, and a little extra bother, a little em tra patience, will achieve this bless- ing. Remember, too, the child withe cut the gates, for it needs a share o2 your joy. Sit up a little later for the next six nights and see what you ean make out of pretty scraps of stuff om hand, the colored pictures in the ol fashion books, etc. Let all the chil d@ren who cross your way feel some ]