Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 20, 1918, Page 24

Christmas js‘ : Cli_g_dren's Day] The message .of Christmas is love. Jts emblem {s radiant, thankful, con- _tented childhood. Without love and “without children there could be no ‘yeal Christmas.” The form might sur- wive but the substance would be lack- ing. . . Unhappy must be the adult who can- ‘mot make himself a child again in epirit at the Yuletide. For Christmas is the universal children's day. Men and women'are superfluous except as _they make themselves partners with those whom the day glorifies. Let us, then, lay aside the affecta- tion and arrogance of manhood and “womanhood and be children again. -Let us adopt their point of view ané _put . ourselves in their places—in the places of these sons and daughters of ours and of the sons and daughters of “our nelghbors. It was only a year or ‘two ago, as it seems, when we hung . our well-worn stockings in a row along .the mantel shelf, while our fathers and mothers looked on with unfeigned pleasure at the innocent confidence we showed in what the morrow would bring forth. Even as you and I It all comes back in a flood of memories. Life was simpler then, Our desires were less pretentious than those our chil- dren volce now. Modest remembrances they were that bulged toe and heel of the stockings mother knit. Life and its circumstances change, but the essence of Christmas never. The same happy childhood, the same restlessness, the same snall-like creep- ing of time as the hollday approaches. The same parenthood, too—the same planning across the reading table after the boys and girls are abed, the same loving consideration of what this.or Rhat child most desires and how far “the family purse can properly’ be stretched tc permit some further pur- chase. Hvery home is assured a Christmas it it has a great, warm heart pulsating in tune with the hopes and Jjoys of childhood.—~Exchange. A Christmas Wireless. To you and yours a wireless Along the Good-will line It brings a Christmas greeting With love from me and mine. &::-@.s_—_:; His Guess. “Who was it said ‘to him that hath shall be given?'” “I don't remember, but I presume it was. some fellow who had eight or nine necktle holders and had just recelved four more for Christmas.” : el 7t ; IN AFRICA i | | | Pelican—There goes Hippo on the way to the Jungleville mask ball s But why all those spots painted on his hide?- Parrot——Oh, that is his ball cos- tume. He’s going as a giraffe. r: HONEY CROP OF 1918, i The honey crop of the United Btates for 1918 having been placed by the department of agriculture at about 250,000,000 pounds, the American Botanist estimates that, &s the nectar of flowers does not be- eome honey until worked over and partly evaporated, the bees must move as inuch as 150,000 tons of material to produce this crop, exclu- .sive of the honey eaten by them- selves. Of this product, about one- half is from the nectar of white clover, with two other leguminous plants—alfalfa and sweet clover—as the next important sources. A honey that can be recognized is pro- duced by a few plants, including cotton, basswood, tulip tree, buck- wheat, goldenrod. and mountain sage. USING TRUCK AS HOIST. Several concerns which have sdopted the industrial truck and tractor eystem of internal haulage have found novel uses for their ve- hicles. In a government warehouse & platform type truck is being used to pile cork in tiers. ~With the use of a simple arrangement of block and tackle the loads are placed at the right point with little trouble and labor. The action-is similar fo & horse hoist but much faster. 4t | -+ | | t ! not surprising, therefore, that things| [ MANY”ROADS TO LONGEVITY People Who Have Reached Advanced Age by No Means Unanimous as to the Best Path. | —— Records show that more women live to be centenarians than men. When the census of the United States was taken in 1000 it was found that 6,298 persons between the ages of ninety- five and ninety-nine were living, and of this number 3,636 were women. Miss Hliza Work, who reached the age of one hundred and five, gave as the reason for her long life that she never drank ‘tea or coffee; Mrs. Mar- garet Neve, who lived to be one hun- dred and ten, gave as her reason that she never lacked resources and was I always busy, and Mrs. Sylvia Dunham, aged one hundred and one, lived to en- joy the enthusiasm of 22 presidential campaigns. Born in July, 1800, ut the age of five she rode In a stage coach, at forty in a canal boat, at ninety-nine in an electric car, and at one hundred in an automobile. Abraham lived to be one hundred and seventy-five years old and Sarah lived to be one hundred and twenty- seven years pld, and Isaac, thelr son, lived to be one hundred and eight, but whether a year was reckoneg then as we do now is not known. ‘Willlam Gladstone lived to be eighty- nine, and at the tim of his death his intelleci was one of the finest that the world has ever known, and he was called “the Grand Old Man.” This is Just one of the many cases proving g2 man s just as useful, if not more 80, when he Is old than when he is young. INSOMNIA NOT HARD TO CURE Easy to Tell ‘the Cause of the Afflic- tion and Remedy Is Matter of Common Sense. o “There are two kinds of insomnia, and each has its cure,” a doctor said. “In the first kind you go to bed ap- parently sleepy, and as soon as your bead touches the pillow, you become wide awake, and the most vivid and feverish thoughts whirl through your mind for hours. At last, sick with ex- haustion, you fall asleep, but it's too late then. Too much time has been lost.. You rise in the morning unre- freshed. “In the second kind of insomnia you go to sleep all right as soon as you go | to bed, but in an hour or so you wake up. You lle tossing a long while. You rise unrefreshed here, too. “The first kind of insomnia is due to rich, undigested food clogging the stomach, The remedy is simpler meals in the evening—no pork or game or cheese or pastry, but, instead, fish or chicken, whole-meal bread, custards or milk toast. “The second kind is due to lack of l exercise. A dally half-hour’s gymnas- tics, followed by a cold bath and @ rub- down, will drive it permanently away.” Defense of Rhythm in Poetty. When a poet discards rhythm he is disearding perhaps the most powerful I single artifice of poetry which s at his disposnl—the particular artifice, more- over, which, more than any other, en- ables the poet to obtain a psychic con- trol over his reader, to exert a sort otl | hypnosis over him. Rhythm is persua- slve. It Is the very stuff of life. Itis! can be said in rhythm which otherwise | cannot be said at all; paraphrase a flne passage of poetry Into prose and in the dishevelment the ghost will have escaped. A good many champlons of free vorse would perhaps dispute this. They would fall back on the theory that, at any rate, certain moods more colloquial and less intense than those of the highest type of poetry, and less colloquial and more'intense than those of the highest type of prose, could find thelr aptest expression in this form, which lies halfway between.— Courad Atkin in the Dial. Helping One Another. Ve do far more than we think to stendy one another's principles, to hold one another up. A thought of the boy who must not be allowed to inherit a dishonored name has held many o man in the hour of tempta- tion. The remembrance of wife and child has barred the way to many a wrong transaction. The qulet courage of every day, that does Its best hour by:heur and accepts as part of the day’'s work the losses and penalties that steadfastly doing right must often bring—this is the highest courage of all. Many people add unnecessarily to their own anxiety by assuming cares that do not belong to them—which form no real part of their duty or their work. Some of these burdens are pure creations of one's own ex- clted or morbid Imagination, while others appertain to the life or duty of others and not to us—Erchange. e - Carrat and Radish Seed. ““California {s the largest producer of carrot seed. Sacramento and Yolo counties rank first, with San Joaquin, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and San Benito counties ranking as misor pro- ducers. In the production of radish seed the situation is reversed, the coast counties of Callfornla producing the bulk of the crop, and the river distriet being unimportant as a pro- ducer. It is also grown in the Pacific Northwest. Beet seed is grown in both the river and coast districts of California, but is probably growa more extensively around Sacramento than in any other portion of the state. Let- tuce seed is grown almost exclusively mear the coast sections of California. POSTSCRIPTS According to & Russian sclentist ex- ceasjve talking. 18 a dangerous discase. An Individual Soffee percolator has been Invented to be clamped on a cup. Pronged grips ‘that fit the palm of the hand have been invented for hand- 1ing cakes of ice. -An avlation school has been estab- lished pt Lima under subsidy of the Peryvian government, Amendment Hard to Repeal. A law of congress can be quickly re- pealed or altered if it fafls to work well, but a Constitutional amendment s practically beyond repeal. Though 86 stutes are required to put an amend- ment into the Constitutlon, it takes only 13 to keep it there, even against the will of all the others. Preserve the THE BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEER s . ami pool wbles are cleaned by wenns of an electric brush. cPart of the organizution of the Chinese court in the days of the em- pire wns a staff of five astrologers. Sir Charles Wyndham, the famous Buglish actor, served as a surgeon in the American Clvil war, _ The sugar ration in Zurich, Switger- land, for @ recent month was 1.1 pounds, and of bread a half-pound 8 doy. R R . Disappearing Lake. In the canton of Valais, in Switzer- land, at the foot of the great Aletsch glacier, Mes a small body of water, Lake Marpeled, which at irregulir in- tervals, every three or four years, completely and suddenly disappears. The phenomenon always occurs during the last days of August. Pictureé ‘of - Your Boy’s War Activities It ip safe to say that fhere is hardly a family in Bemidji with a boy in service but what has already received pictures of the camp, of the military unit, or of scenes that depict his activity in the war. These should be carefully preserved. A mount alone does not do it—they should he framed and framed well. If you have watched our window, you have seen the quantity of work that we are doing. Hundreds of the big panoramic views have been framed and ad- mired. If you have pictures that have not been framed, g now is the time to have the work.done. The com- pleted picture makes a most appropriate -Christmas present and will always be treasured. You owe it to your boy to preserve the pictures he will want to show to future generations. Suitable patriotic frames for war pictures. M. E. Ibertson PICTURE FRAMING Beltrami Avenue Bemidji, Minnesota B erning the bel tions have a remark: annual movements of the:insect world, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1918 4 ot sttt oSN B “ ‘Bird and Insect Migrations, A sclentist who has given partfcu- lar study to the migrations of insects, states that the principles and laws gov- petter-known bird migra- able parallel in the of certain members both birds and lo- T e s D A SRR R SR sects belng Influenced by meteoralog- fcal and geographical conditions which deflect and determine the routes; and the psychologies of both birds and In- sects reacting to the traveling fm- pulses which are unsatisfled in gome cases with anything less than a world- wide distribution. 1115 IllllIIIlllIllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllll“Illllllllllllll"lllllIlllllIIIlllllllllllmlllllll_l!I"lll.lllfllllllIIIIIIIIllllIllllllIIII|IlIlIIIllllII!!ulII £ flmlmlllllllllIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIlIIlIIIIIIIllllillllllllllllllllllllllIIllllllllllDIIIIIIII!II"IIIIE PPLE FOR CHRISTMAS Johnathan {prles “C” Grade - Per box $198 A delicious Apple for the Christmas Table I, P. 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