The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1932, Page 17

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY, DEC. E—— R S —— e o 'i'he e o ¢.orious Christmas Firelight | i | | | | | | | Fxw of us really spend our Christ- | dding through fresh-fallen % to a little houss in the coun- whose inartistic commonplaces /e been covered with a white nket. But we like to choose rds that show such scenes. For| he cold outside suggests the glow| ¢ a warm retreat within. It comes down to us from ancestors| iar away that “here by the fire| we defy frost and storm.” You will see people looking longest of all ictures of a hearth where a , above which stockings before which little children st try 1 | c t hang. sit, nodding off to sleep. | Children around the hearth are at the heart of Christmas, and always have been. For children so readily catch this spirit of good| will and kindness, and bubble over so joyously. The little mysteries the sudden closing of closet dours, the sudden droping of voices to a| whisper, have excited them. They know that these are happy secrets. Has not every dire threat that Santa Claus might forget them been spoken in a tone of jollivy| that told their shrewd young minds| that no one was really angry?| Trust them to know the spirit be-| hind their elders’ words and tones. How great a thing this Christ- mas is that it can bring its bless- ing even to little children. How far back the impulse had to start to be so strong that it would over- flow until it reached the lives of the children, who do not really understand, but who feel so truly| that at this season everyone has! grown kinder. | “Tidings of comfort and joy,"| they sing in the words of the oldl pay honor to a child that lay in a|Christmas Picture Book, says a carol. And they called the mes-| manger. But really we are Kkini| writer in the London St It r"-‘- sage of Bethlehem the “good news.” | to them because nothing else <o s the fact that the t Christ- Not an old, familiar kind of good|auickly and so truly shows us how news—not that those who had lit-|our own kindness cheers our own tle should have a little more, or|hearts and makes us glad. And at that those who had much should| Christmas we aré reaching out for card ever printed was issued as recently as 184" | The card, whicn was printed for be blessed again with the joy of| those things which revive our own Henry _(;Oll‘- irst director of | something left to wish for. But to|faith in things that are true the South Kensington Museum, ls all a word that there were better| and good. Al .\m\lccvtl, Ly ‘)x?g v.-’uh many oth:r things possible in life than Lheé e ;1&;’1;1:.\"’}’1‘:;\1/&;;;0 Cferl:::aalcwta: ‘\:ta‘l]:t r‘-egfifii f;'f]‘ln gvg‘:rmoer nl:?e?aa:;l Printed Christmas Card 1us ivory relief from Cologne to a ,mi;]kmg kindly of people umu\ Was Issued Back in '43 modern woodcut by Eric Grill. It the very kindness in one’s own strange to sez how (l‘w artistic heart casts out the resentmentsand| There is more humanily about wk has -turned full circle back to the medieval austerity. the wants and the contradictions| the Victoria and Albert Museum But I can’'t help liking the first of life. | than its stiff brick exterior sug- i 3 it We try to be good to childrenlggests. Christmas card, which “features,”| that thus we The director has sent me a as the films say, a hearty meal. thinking it may be We find great Christmas joy in greeting the many people of Juneau who have granted us their friendship and a part of their patronage. We face the future with a determination so to conduct our busi- ness as to merit and retain that good will. Juneau Water Co. \ Hieeping ) !lv is a good thing to observe| i Christmas day. The mere marking i of times and seasons, when men agree (o stop work and make mer- | ry together, is a wise and whole- | some custom. It helps one to feel | | the supremacy of the common life | over individual life. It re-| minds a man to set his own little watch, now and then, by the great .clock humanity which runs on| sun time. ! But there is a better thing than| the observance of Christmas day,| and that is, Keeping Christmas. Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other peo. {ple have done for you; to ignore | what the world owes you, and to| § think what you owe the world; to put your rights in the background, | and your duties in the middle dis-| | tance, and your chances to do a j(little more than your duty in the| | foreground; to see that your fel- j§ low men are just as real as you i As the fat boy would say, “I likes? cating best.” ! B Pretty Custom Kept Up The custom of placing lighted candles in the windows on Christ=} mas eve has been kept up in the: old Kirk house in Germantown,| Philadelphia, uninterruptedly for, over 50 years. H > ! Like Cash Christmas Presents Happy is the woman who re- ceived a cash Christmas present, because she will have a lot of fun at the January sale counters. and exte Union Oil Company 1 10 5 — i to bear in mind ((hostly Christmas Bells ; people To Greet Merry Yuletide A\ A L A5 A 0 S 8 SO to look behind their love them enou r h t hungry Y t the bells which will greet the coming Yulee mar ghostly i on no other night in thé for tradition says that ;$ buried churches Christmas eve.} here are the bells of Raleigh, to own 2 good reason for is not wha existenc: lamp so that and less smoke, h 50 behind y; or your 1 thoughts and a garden for your|0° @ Prospe ee in NG kindly feelings, with the gate va.mm\hl ouly % .Cfiuntty are you w to do these t i even for a Then you D many years Se0 0 keep Christmas. ; pemsaliird i | Are you n AL et o'r v,,\:(- ik \ 'm by ‘ heard to rigg I8 t trox of this kind #s world—stronger a couniry church nefr than evil, stror Presto! e v name of whigh Jn(Bm](- blessed life which began 0 i ethlel nineteen hu 1 lland tr ¢ Santa Offers Encouragement to y 'S ago i I "‘“-Y 5 J~ '1“ “’mly' % ”"‘e y L Been old every Christmas. All to Keep Christmas. ness }m . - STate s TR can kee] for 5 e going to get out of life, but what| = f i cence and beauty, 1 are going to give to life; to| TC el et g W:Pdness and close your book of complaints ‘»-l V) t a A ~“ S, _x‘w day the em~ against the management of the| 2 NEVEr ¢ city was swallowed up by the ; ; g Farmer sea universe, and look around you for > - e st rged wa a place where you can sow a few The submerged walls of Dunwich, eeds of happiness—are you wili- Everybody's Christmas |10V covered by the sea, are safd to do these things, even for K z - » Join the ghostly chorus. a day? Then you can keep Christ- festivals the | SR mas. ;. 1t cen- | Recipe for Merry Christmas Are you willing to stoop down t around the and consider the needs and desires wround the | Are you seeking a tormula whigh of little children, to remember the f Christ- | will insure yoy a Merry Christma&? weakness and loneliness of people mas story Its whole a al is | It's really too easy: Just have ‘& who are growing old; to stop ask- ts that human hich is | child or two around the place and ing how much your friends love common to all people.—(The Coun- | human nature will do the rest.e— you, and ask yourself whether you try Home.) Collier's Weekly. : HE gay and happy season of feasting and merry-making---the time when peace and good will inhabit every heart---time when gifts gladden both donor and receptor---is here, welcome. Our thoughts are pleasantly dif- fused with memories of past holidays---and in realization of this present joyous Yuletide---we nd to you the Greetings of the Season. R. A. REISCHL, Resident Agent