Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 23, 1922, Page 10

CHILD FROM ARGENTINA| “Where are the Fireworks and Warm Days?” Asks Girl in U. S. for Christmas Cleveland, Ohio., Dec. 23—What makes Chrjstmas come in the winter here? It ‘always came in summer hefore —the hottest part. ) 1 can remember quite a while, for ‘I'm 6 years old. | Last year, in La Argentina, where | I was born, I saw Santa Claus. He wag walking in the Plaza Mayor, in Buenos Aires with a sign. He IuokAf lice Stewart | ed so hot in a red coat and a fur. I| had on my.summer dress. The as-| . phalt was soft. | I asked him, “Es usted San Nich- olas?” “Si, muchachita,” he said, ‘“que quiere usted?”’ ; So I told him all' the things I wanted and -he promised—*Muy bien, hasta ld natividad.” | And the night before Christmas | he brought the things. I found them in my stockingg the next morn- ing when I waked up, only. some were so big they wouldn’t go inside, sa he piled them in a corner on the patio, and we shot [firecrackers in‘ the afternoon. My but it was a hot! day—the hottest day that summer, people said. 1 don‘t see why its so cold here the time Christmas comes. | Genevieve—she. lives across th street {rorn me—and Kenny, thé'y' think there, are two Santa Clauses, and one goes to La Argentina and | cne comes_here,’but I think there’s | only one. “Only~I don't see how hel gets so far so fast. It took us days and- days. 813l TODAY'S EVENTS | Beginning” of * National -Radio week.. % The . famous poem. ‘“Twas the/ Night Before Christmas,” was writ- | ten.’by C'ement Clarke Maore one hundred years ago tHis: cvening. An unusually short Christmag re-| cess in store for Congress, which has sgre¢d to adjovirn #today and re-, assemble next Weddnesday- The University of Pittsburgh foot- ball team leaves.today for Palo Al- te,. California.where a game is to be on' December 30. Connie Mack, manager of the Phli-| adelphia American League team and ‘one of the best known figures in professional baseball is 60 years old today. Through the efforts of the Mass- achusetts Society. ‘for the Prevention of Crulety to Animals the work horses of Boston today will be giv- en their annual Christmas tree and! a dinner of grain, apples and cxzu'-l rots. | Three eminent prelates of the| Roman Catholic church today cele- brate the fortieth anniversary of their ordination to the priesthood. They are Archbishop Keane of Du- buque and Bishop O'Dea of Scattle and Walsh of Portland, Me. To grztify a mother’s wish, Arch- bishop Curley of Baltimore today will perform an unprecedented act when he ordaing a student of St. Mary’s Seminary one year in ad- vance of the completion of his stud- ies. The student will proceed im-| mediately to his home in Maine, give his mother the first blessing, and say his first masg in his parish church | on .Christmas day. 1) 1l i b M/// w,”/’/flr(/fi[f Loy i by the cartoonist, Satterfield. NEA The dr Editor’s Noté—This picture was crawn especially for the newspapers who subscribe to the NEA service, service appears dai'y in’ this paper. ving wag made after Feuerstein’s famous painting and is considered a very clever piece of pen|’ ' work, which lis considerably, more complicated than the usual cartoons on the day’s news. Mr. Satterfield be-] sides being a popuiar cartoonist is also an artist, as is evidenced by the above copy of an oil piinting. MY T s =Sz To.SpendH By NEA i3ervice ; : East Woburn, Mass, ‘Dec,.fi‘ fi This will' be the happiest Chris ever spent by Mrs. Albert Knowlton. The “odd, circular little housé’ 'sh lives in, in this little village, will the-scene of her.first real:-happy Yuletide ;in ' three decades. She. has her baby once more. ., Sickness overtook Mrs. Knowlton, 30.years ago. ~She left her'two "bab- ies at-home\iin Portland, Me., in care of her husbangd,, while she went to ‘her:mother, for.treatment. - were gone, turned over ‘to an .or. phanage. Both: had . been adopte: from it. g 3 Franti¢ search refored one child. No ‘trace though was found of the youngest. Through the years, other children swere born-to her, -but the mother’s. heart yearned for the lost one. . But with the yearning was an enduring fatih that some day, some now; God would restore the missing child in hig own time. Never- falterin, never *'| opportunity to ‘Seek - -tidings, - Mrs. Knowlton consulted a medium - this fall. The medium advised her to-put an advertisement in a certain news- paper. That was in October. A few days latér a reply came from Mrs. Herman J. Muise,- Michmond, Me- Checking up of Mrs. Muise’s adop- tion -papers proved her the long- sought baby of ‘Mrs. Knowiton. And now that a faith that endured 30 years of discouragement and:grief has finally been rewarded, - Mrs. that hope and faith should sprihg Mother Who Kept Up Hope ne appy’ Christmas /% When she returned, both babies | losing an Knowlton wants the world to Kriow | 63 . Mrz. Albert L. Knowlton (above) and Mrs. Herman J. Muise, the, daughter restored to her after 30 | years. . e new' in each burdened heart. at:: * Cliristmas time. Yes, Heie’s By TOM. SIMS was stirring. bootlegger stirring. Yep, Folks, ‘Tuas The Night Before... - | was sophisticatcd,"lfi, and had ‘nevs {er missed being kissed. Her stocking "Twas the night before Christmas:held an.eyebrow -pencil for Mary to'i floor for once. and all through the house not a thing! make her mark in the world. And Not even a gpoon. Not|{to guide her feet through the im- even a robder. There wasn’t even a. portant steps in life there was a new {dance record on_the mantel. ffo}n ihe tablé é;'go v;ash ;hemselves ;and Mary went crazy and swept the| . ! In the next room Mary was dream- ing Santa Claus was. a shiek and his reindeer were. camels (animal not ;fuel) and he swung her around his Santa, Too! Henry’s stocking-was there. Henry | hand three times so she landed be- The cake in the kitchen was.all| voluntarily ‘stifred. The' fire on the hearth hatl|was 11 and had never been stirred- And the family upstairs | washed his ears. His stocking held asleep now had been stirred. a pocketknife so he could cut his Outside the wind whistled. It hfld]initin]s on the piano. And an airgun a right.to whistle. It was going south | for him to shoot at cats, birds, dogs, to a.warm country. Inside; beautifully set in the very center of theé. parlor's exquisite fire- place sparkle§ a costly lump of coal. The whistling Wwind looked down the chimney and the costly lump of coal burst into a tiny .$2 flame. “Whistle, whistle,” whistled the wind as it jumped back. This was the Christmas of ’'22 and coal burning was a very strange sight. But the damage was done and by the tiny $2 flicker one could sec four. stockings hanging - from tae ‘mantel. There was Mary’s stocking. Mary TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS Oscar S. Straus, eminent New York merchant, diplomatist, cabinet officer, and philanthrophist, born in Georgia, 72 years ago today. Dr. Henry P. Walcott, the only living acting president -of Harvard Univergity, born at Salem, Mass., 84 years ago today- Giacoma Puccini, composer of a number of popular operas, born in Lucet, Italy, 64 years ago today. Edwin T. Meredith, who was Sec- retary of Agriculture in the Wilson cabinet, born at Avoca, Iowa, 46 years ago today. IN THE DAY’S NEWS Dr. Henry P. Walcott, who today enters upon his eighty-fifth year is an eminent physician and educator who has the distinction of being the only living acting president of Har- vard University. - A native of Salem Mass., he graduated from Harvard complete his professional {fession in Cambridge, Mass., where College znd from the Harvard Medi- | cal School and then went abroad to|porated as a village. studics. | For many years he practise his pro-, British agent at C:bul, was assassi- .nated by Afghan rebels. ! windows, horses and people. | There was mama’s stocking. In it were clothespins, hairpins, hatpins, | safetypins, pins, a butterknife, a | flatiron and nearby stood a washing, i'machine. i Nexi came the*old man’y sock. It Iheld tobacco, smoking and eating, while nearby stood a new casy chair. This easy chair came hard because it had been charged to him. As the old man was sleeping he was dreaming Santa Claus drove a coal wagon. . s By his side mama w: aming the Christmas dinney dishes jumped he established a high reputation for himself as a medical scientist. In 1887 he became, one of the overseers of Harvard University«:and from 1900 to 1905 he served as ‘president of the University. He has.filled the presidency 6f “the Ameéricdn" Public! Hezlth Association = and-has been honored with membership in numer- ous scientific - and = other ¢ities’ at home gng abroad.. Dr. Walcott is considered a high duthority on sani- tation and other matters affecting the public health. ) TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES 1620—The Pilgrims - -began the crection of their first house at Ply- mouth. & 1732—Sir Richard Arlwright, in- ventor of the spinning frame, born at Preston, England, died August 3, 1792. 1783—General Washington deliv- ered upon hig commission to Con- gress at Annapolis. 1814—Cleveland, Ohio, was incor- 1841—Sir William" Macnaughton, fore a movie camera on a pile of {million dollar contracts. And Henry was dreaming Santa Claus brought him a cannon and he was shooting polecats at the north | pole,. skye terriers out of the sky, ant-eaters at his aunt’s “house and 1he had one shell left so couldn’t de- cide whether to shoot a policeman or a teacher. i through the curtained window and Gray fingers at dawn reachea ‘up jumped the sun out of the east. Up jumped Mary. Up jumped Henry. Up: jumped mama. Up jumped papa. It was Christmas morn- ing which comes only once a year and everything was stirred that pos- sibly could stir. But what we started .out to say “Merry Christmas?™ —_— 1853—William H. Moody, cabinet|. officer and justice of the supreme court of the/U. S., born at Newbury, ‘Mass. Died at'Haverhill, Mass., July 2, 1917. - 1889—Henry W. Grady, celebrat- ed Journalist and orator, died in At- !lanta.”*Born at. Anthens,” Ga., April |24, 1850 - | - ‘ 1897—Failure of the ‘Chestnut St. National Bank of Philadélphia. ONE YEAR AGO TODAY President Harding..commuted the sentences ‘of Eugene V. Debbs and 22 other war-time offenders. CUBAN SUGAR MEANS CASH FOR UNCLE SAM’'S POCKETS (By United .Press) Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 23.—Every time the clock " ticks off a second in. Philadelphia, the import duty on Cuban sugar in the port puts $1.50 into Uncle. Sam’s pocket, accordilg to the jmércantilea’ ppraiser’s office. More than 114,000,000 pounds of sugar passeql into the Philadelphia port -during Novemberana 1,876,- 156,917 pounds arrived here during the first eleven months of 1922. It doesn’t especially matter. It’s always a day when our spirits. are light, And hearts beat p livelier patter; A fog, or a blizzard, or sunshine vutside— We will not complain of the _wea'ther; For Christmas is Christmas, whatever betide, A day when we're all pals together! Here’s one day at least when :we’re glowing with love For comrade, for kin and-for stranger, One day when we breathe ‘the sweet charity of The Babe who was born’in "a ‘manger; When ‘no one has room for the rancor of hate - Or any old grudge to remember, Oh, it is a tender. and- glorious~date This twenty-fifth day o% Diecember. If only each day in the year might effect Such joy in cach child, man oqlfflwoméh. How life would imprpve! But we cannot expect Too much of ourselygsy we are human! Y But let us be grateful one day'in the year Spreads love from the Poles to -the Isthmus, When all the world tingleg ‘with mirth and good cheer And all the world shouts, v"‘M\erry Christmas!”