Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 16, 1922, Page 8

mysterions personage, who ublquitous- | - nuisance and that savages, by natural gag-¢ ; “In the perfection of - ey o - ey 8t I ; e peclalists aré ‘making rapid progress fag'to spend years'In the perfection of - yyrey gtc. - Gaod ‘stoples—brief. and... felt that they h A statnte of Hefiry VII's : ey o e A B amanay | I8 restoring the-diseased minds. inclination, make short aheift of all othar arte ae loth to devote It wei‘tolg__may be repeated pllesicags A 2 e SR P&;’I s o — and'‘leaving. behind him everywhere| The reclaiming of s lost mind s ::;‘_;;};;h‘l‘;!:‘f ooyt gy, * tlme. dally to the interchange of §901 timy. What is esséutial In to acqire | § UOr out of charity! 7 | the!Cnristiias Holdays. Of course this ¥ A Q " § an !u;o_mhm of * cheeriness and and. . Practice three the habit of ready conversation. > S L m&;‘g extened.only.to) : genlal:happiness, - * 3 rZa3 . = = v © I The, beneficent -beliet in this Old ¥ Sir Boger De' Coverley took care to World: spirit-has, happily, spread to RS AR A it a pravide both creature comfort: and alnost: every corner of the- civilized P . sl o amusement £or hig i hors at €hrist- mak by sending “s of hog's pud- 1 THE FEATURE OF CHRISTMAS .!.'I\rlt of Generosity and Happiness and ‘Arrival of Old Kris Kringle Completes Program. JHE happiest feature of. Ohristmastide is the spirit ‘of, .generosity it engenders. mak, Knight Rupert, or: some -other world. In America the German Christ- Lindlein or Infant Christ, becomes the Krls Kringle, who like Santa Claus in Bngland, pursues his unimpeded way through keyholes and down sooty chimneys - to bestow his gifts upon children that are “good,” while Pels- nfchel ‘or “Nicholas With the Fur” fol- | lows. closely upon his heels with a birchen rod for the “naughty.” Long may this belief in Kris Kringle maintain its: virile existence, and may the “weans” see little of that chasten- ing rod of: Pelsnichol. A IO ————— SANTA BANNED BY PURITANS Christmas Was Utterly Denounced as Evi-and Ungodly in Early Days. N THE early days of Amer- Ica’s history- Christmas fes- tivities were not generally observed. 5 In one state the observa- tion of Christmas was utterly de- nounced as an evil, ungodly and per- nlcious custom, and any child daring to think of as much as a plum pud- ding on that day would make himself lable to reproof by the authorities. - All ‘along the stern and rock-bound coast, Geraldine Ames writes in the Churchman, the only Christmas trees in the days of the Puritan domination were ‘those that nature had planted there and had adorned with fleecy snow. The fires burned brightly on the open hearths, but as far as the children knew, Christmas was just liké ‘any other day in the calendar. Even after the Puritan reaction againgt the forms and customs of the old. church had spent itself to some extent the children of the Seventeenth century still expected no gifts in hon- or of the birth of Christ. ————N AR 0N ———— ASK. FOR' CHRISTMAS PEACE Let AH Pray to God for Perfect Rost | and Perfect Power and Perfect Love. HRISTMAS peace is God's and he must give it himself, with his own hand, or we shall never get it. Go then to God himself. Thou art his child, as Christmas Day declares: Be not afrald to go unto the Father. Pray to HI tell Him what thou wantest; say, “Father, I am not mod- erate, reasonabl’ forbearing. I fear I cannot keep Christmas aright for I have not a peaceful Christmas spirit in me; and I know that I shall never get It by thinking, and reading, and understanding, for It passes all that, and lles far away beyond it, does peace, in the very essence of thine un- divided, unmoved, absolute, eternal QGodhead, which no change nor decay of this created world, nor sin or folly of men or devils, can ever alter; but which abideth forever what it is In perfect rest, and perfect power and perfect love. O, Father, give me Thy Christmas peace.”—From Town and Country Sermons. GOOD SCHEME. Dolng your Christmas shop- ping early, ain't yot-Jones? ‘Well, you see I want to git my wifée's Christmas present before my ditora git around to buy- their - wife's vresdents. Christmas Trees and Stockings. Two Christmas practices, both old and.yery pretty, that have corhe down to-us are the Christmas tree and the hanging up of children’s stockings on Christmas eve. Each provides a way of making gifts, and the way provided by-the stockings is especially pleasing to chlldren. Perhaps it 1s going out, but in homes where it is still followed there are-delighted children on Christ- mas_morning when the mysteriously- fllled stockings are examined in some- thing like ~awe . blended with great pleasure. The Christmas tree sur- vives, ‘and .no Christmas -school festl- |. val' 18 complete without one, hrilliant -with lights and loaded. with .presents, presided over by a merry yet vener” able Santa Claus. ————eE e ———— i | are curing great numbers of patients S — W ¥ew Ttoates ot -« e, durln = i > iy o —— perhnps the greatest blessMg science age tribes believe that their demented ,.oapfagt Juncheon and dinner, will @ SUDEr | opghe the shyest boy or girl to be- can bestow. An eye, a lung, & 16§ OF | yopers gre possessed ¢ CHRISTMAS DINNER :ln',‘":‘ i lb“es 'r'n:?h::;z;]y?tl::;l natural presence, and tredt them kind- ‘come & ready conversationalist, : Em! Oth they in- mbgn::TMch can comprehend and T i uell. Pable talk need not be brilliant, but | ¥ vited ona ‘or two to have dire¢t the world. But when the mind The treatment of those mentally‘de-! g nygt ho ggreenble. Jmpassioned ar-| ¢ Christmas dinner with - them in gone, everything is gone, a8 far as fictent by modern civilized people haa gyments; maliclous. gossip, shop'talk, who would othetwise have heen m.‘ ufltonnr:anumdlvldu'l is cop- | DEeRsdnistimes cruel and, until lately poygekeeping troubles, detalls of hos-| 4 alone. It gave ‘them g0 much mearly ‘always unwise.—Jacksonville pita] gperations or dental seances— pleasure that - they never: feit c«;be:‘lnltude toward lunatics of sav- ) these and kindred topics are not social | # they were being ‘“kindly” nor GREAT VICTORY FOR SCIENCE ¥ Cure of Insanity One ef the Most Su- preme Blessings Bestowed on Human Race. Insanity Is no longer considered hopeless in most cases. The hospitaly through sci¢ntific treatment, Physical t g 8 : 2 4 T ..., subjeets. ‘Youn, ople;ghould: be en- that they were “doing a real gl:lt ‘::'—”dl';::: arq‘Ch:l‘;? infections nn"s?:m found Ho'pe'the | 8ge or semi-savage l%eopl:“i: "mh:r \ : I couraged to npert. p?:qhfilmtr table,| 4 churity.” 'S4 1 ‘l?‘ sipsts season = 33 cause of many mental cases; and even | 00d, when oné considers NIt AD | . ¥he Fine Art of Conversation | any pleasant incldent of the day,pr {9 % Gways ‘Bad & Feal - OhHiatosss a few of a where the causé™ = purely m-:tal.‘ becile ls dlways 1nore or I Quite often people who are will- ;yiee comment upon books, music, pic- | 4 * With real Christmas chieer. For Shessssasssssssssseds Network of ,Nerires 1n the Effected by the transformation of thé;_yfi,aérious rays of light pass- ing through a lens that is scien- tifically made for it. The Marvelous Construction of Glass ’ Used :for, | Eye .G]asses THE CLEARNESS OF CRYSTAL THAT WE USE IS MOST WONDERFUL IN EFFECT TO THE HUMAN EYE Glasses for cameras -and microscopes, etc., will NOT do for the eye glass lenses, any more than glass that is used for .electric . light bulbs. There is but one kind -of glass that WILL do and this is ground to exactly coincide with each individual eye.” No two human beings, in all the world, look alike, talk, walk or think alike. "E No two human beings _have eyes alike! When we examine your eyes with mod- g ern appliances, it means that the lenses ] for such eyes are different than all . others in construction. The untold value z in having a set of glasses that fit your eyes, but which fit ho other.person’s eyes is what you receive when we examine your ieyes, and make glasses for you. AMOST VALUABLE CHRISTMAS PRESE NT TO YOURSELF OR FRIEND AT A COST SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU PAY FOR AN ORDINARY ARTICLE OR GIFT .. - Drs. Larson & OPTOMETRISTS OUR MOTTO “Conservation of Eyesight” Specialists in one Specialty examing of human eyes and fitting glasses ground in our own laboratory to assure absolute correctness which means' conser- vation of eyesight. 3 ? ! “'Not Disquatified; ENING, DECEMBER, 16, 1922 e CARD GAMES AT CHRISTMAS Thin Pasteboards Afforded Means of Entertainment in England During ' | Yuletide Season. UNIVERSAL Christmas cus- tom ' of England in olden tinies -was playing at cards. Persons who never touched ge-and & pack rds” to every mtmny in’ the parfsh. Even the pulpit comes in for ‘its share of anecdotes regarding playing cards. Fuller. gives an example of a clergyman preaching ~from Romans 12:3, “As God- hath' dealt to every man the measyre of faith.” The rever- end gentleman in question adopted as an illustration of his distourse the métaphor of “desling” as applied -to cards, reminding his congregation that they ' should follow - suit, ever play above bo:i:d, improve the gifts dealt out “to them, -take care of their trumps, play promptly when it came their turn,-etc. .- p Short notes were frequently written on the backs of p'aving’cards, In an old: collection of. puetry s found the following lines: - _%To's Lady Who Sent Her Compli- ments to a Clergyman on the Ten of Hearts. . " B “Your: compliments, dear lady, pray forbéar, “Olg; English _services. are more sin- “You seiid ten hearts—the tithe Is only mnine, : “Give me but one and burn the other nine."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. —— e VR ———— ORIGIN OF .CHRISTMAS- TREE History of the Yuletide Emblem Ex- tends Far Into the Mists of *_‘Antiquity, HE history of Christmas tree usage. extends far into the } mists of antiquity. Some say its orgin is connected with the legendury Tree of ‘Timé; Ygdrasil, the great tree of Norse mythology, Within whose roots and branches heéaven and earth are bound. Some say the custom way be traced to the Egyptians who, at the time of the winter solstice, decorated their portals with branches of the date palm. To a Scandinavian Tegend may per- haps be traced-our custom of illum- inating the tree when darkness comes. Among the Greeks, Christmas is known I"as the feast of lights. . ‘0 ‘people of different localities to- day the term Christmas tree may mean fir,; spruce; pine, cedar or even mag- ‘\nolia, for each particular region makes use of the most suitable species that Is to be found near its markets. In the vielnity of the mid-west, a short-needle pine found in Michigan and Wiscon- #in may be used. On the Pacific coast “i the white fir finds favor, while through- out Ohio, the Norway spruce is largely. used. In Maryland and Virgioin, the scrub piue and farther south cedar and holly. Best of all is the sym- metrical balsam fir, each tiny ‘leaf of which sends out a breath of aromatic fragrance, AN OLD CH{IIST‘M'AS CUSTOM Village Boys -in ‘North England Re- ! produce Play-That Is as Old as ‘the Race. ——azaur N THE North of England some of the oldest of our j Christnias customs are still ; - faithfully observed. One of £y the' ‘quaintest is that of the village boys who call themselves “The ‘Mummers?” At Chiistmas time they | perform a little play that i3 as old i as the Eagligh race. P | - Tlhere are three chier charncterp—i St.” George, _resplendent in _silver-pa- pered -armor, “and brandishing- ni ! “].wooden aword; Beelzebub, who Is, of course; ‘the famous dragon; and the j Doctor, who wears a.battered top-hat. ;| At the.beginning of the play it is«f ! 1 aniounced ‘that the ceuntryside is be- * ing laid waste Py Beelzebub. Vm'lons‘: Jninor. characters- make an appeal for | deliverarice from' themonster's sway. | Then St. Géorge bursts upon the scene. A flerce batfle takes place, In which * he ‘slays Beelzebub, but is himself i badly wounded. At this point the Doc- tor rusiies in with & bottle, which he Places to the saint’s lips. ‘ “Tak''soom o' -mah niff-naff “dahn thy. tiff-taft,” he prescribes. So George drinks apd is cured,” * - S . Some: of the- “used in the play | ave so old that”nejtlier ‘the -boys mor the, majority of the ‘audience can‘un- [ derstand thent. *. 2 i | JOLD STORY, i i H 1 ! " What“aid your Christmas Neckties. , st o o “Finaly, k2 LM o th Some ndly 2 et Z > Pl g .| ‘rudimentary and cultivation, the ©/0 C . g —_— coblats mi;d‘xl'?::l fl:ul::d :nl::“:fim"sl;:'l Buflafls o—a——-‘E SR he was ctitictsing. He whs mable to the turfedip Mk ,“l“fl_ . :"““‘}; coffee fields havelost their originall ""rt’ 1i“wonderful what''gooa reasom },-o,",‘:m:,:,m 'T":::: out of every 100 men recelve a necktie | 1n Oid Times Thers Was Good Rem| answer the ‘1“;’:“"‘“’ Tl“"‘"‘;::;";“ :;‘;i b4 d.;m ;‘::: o gm“t‘;m“;)“:{;m. prndu‘;fl\':t: -hx:dk, :/:uve dbo@m; osér- men Navé for ndt ser¥ing off Turies, but W |last night? < aTtE. TS g ; on laugh was on him. The sy ned: doved: > spread with thickéts and weeds. To-| g pright judge Is genérally equal te ‘ he said “Just as & Chr giit. The estimate is son fot:the Present Merely Or e sadly oraamental, extra buttons | mepely fraa)iomel. day there are scarcely Sny cléarly de- | the oocasion, gefierally eq w.s“' :;‘" J“‘r conservative, but how many of the néckties so hestowed are worn by their " nagntal? Apbandagh. o il fined coftee fields, the plants being al- lowed to_grow wid and to become on n-man's dress-coat ‘are-relics of ! (-untlxmnI mixed with rank growths of every horseback-riding days, when it was In one court an Italian asked to be excused from jury duty. A well-known spoaker recently. en- Christmas, I'll fix him!” recfpients? The giving of neckties i3 & A o : tton ' up: the skirts of & foffep: plant wil A erilons proceeding always, for a netk. fous remarks st g, CustomAry tobutton up THat Hie Coffea: plant 4 “Why?” -asked the Judge. === 7 — HRBIS essentlally a morter of inhe ‘",‘,:"r,],;' iy ::.:E;onpo; the priyoly | the coat to prevent sitting upon thew 4y tnrive under most adverse condl-- gort. Notwithstanding this neglect “wu’: mm":mn"’ I‘:‘m,t : 2 = | sntherng ' or getting the linings soiled from thej i, y ed in Halti coffee iz by far the mpst valuable v v 4 under- Nut Bread. tions 18 amply - il where, TESFatd, 'no ‘coffy SIn¢é - the French colonists stahd good English.” “Oh, you ‘will de,” replied the judge. “You won’t hear much good English fere, anyhow.”—Milwaukee Sentinel, v 2 man gets neck- | tjes of fashion particularly as com that he could read- | cerned womei's dreds. He was gel- i1y etough admire as part of a curtainy tigg considérable fun out of it until or-n drape, but that he would wear | gje of the ladies interrupted him and only under the compulsion of a gun | auked what the buttons en the back One egg, 1 cupful sugar, 3 cupfuls flour, 3 ‘teaspoonfuls baking- powder,, 1 large cupful nuts, a little salt. Use enough water to mix; let stand’ s ; e e 20 minute! bake AM§y _one hour. horse. The slitup the back of the coat originglly served the same good“pur pode.. “The buttons:on. the sleeves are inherited from the days.when-a ceally dashing blade had frequent pecessity] has been product of Hait’s commerce. The i bulk of the yield goes to France. Add- ed to neglect of- the plants, the The natl\'e_l' Haitlan coffee “raiser” injures his from the rich | plants by tearing off branches with s ATRHMRIL AL A heB . ','5;:::32?;::? 4'3:;_3‘:"1 ": i‘:: r:’); for turning up the sleeves of ll\ls M‘n& T s froni- thedr em- | the -pods, andl thus diminishes produe- . % v e . nperfuous ang Jusy a3 Al L= ¢ cord-frl v.. "Ihes h . 3 Pne b . - SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PIONERR | toglve bia asord-an, plas Then. ke ing even | tivity, i 'suascxms FOR “THE PIONEER | giyBSCRIBE FOR TEE PIONEER