Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1931, Page 48

\ THE SUNDAY ' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER 20, 1931—PART THREE. That’s What’s So Nice About Jelleff’s . « . no matter whether it’s a dollar or fifty or a hundred that you have to spend . . . you'll find just the right thing for her! And don’t be disturbed if you have shopping still to do. Stocks are wonderfully complete for these last four days. Elizabeth Brewster is here to help! But come as early as you can! Time Draws Near the Birth of Christ BY KATHLEEN NORRIS THE NEW oJelleffs 1216-1220 F Street N.W. By every degree that we lose the influence and presence of Jesus Christ in our lives, we make them poorer, barer, more blind, more sad. The happiest lives in the world are those lived in & simple effort to love and follow Him; ever though those lives seem externally poor and obscure, unsuccessful and even contemptible. He was considered all these things in His lifetime, incidentally. His name blazes across the whole tumbled. troubled, puzzled history of mankind like great light. It is cur one living miracle To share this miracle, to fill any heart with song and hope and joy on Christmas day, it is only necessary to clean out of our hearts every- thing thot isn't love. Love fulfills His law. Hate, suspicion, resentment may seom completely justified; the cruelty and misunderstanding that all of us meet as we go along may seem to make hard and revengeful feeling only reasonzble and right. But they are never reasonable or right, and they clog and blind the soul, and often the body. too. The B birtk- day takes no count of them. If we can't forgive and forget, we can at least ask for strength and simplicity to do so There are households in Wkich a whole day of sweetness, of soft voices and generous greetings, of happiness and laughter and harmony and love, would be a miracle. If the wife and mother and manager of any such household chances to be reading these words, she herself can work a Christmas miracle next Friday. May that day to all of you be a happy day Y every degree that we lose the influence and presence of Jesus Christ in our lives, wo make them poorer, barer., more blind, more sad The happicst lives in the world are those lived in a simple effort to love and follow Him: even though those lives scem externally poor and obscure, un- successful and even contemptible. He was considered all these things in His lifetime, incidentally. The most brilliant, worldly lives, on the other hand, have a queer way of turning to aust and ashes, even though they have free access to all the expen- sive places where one never finds Jesus Christ; memberships in smart clubs, front seats at Follies and revues, private | night _clubs, Hollywood parties, ! yachts roulette wheels, divorce courts. Furs, fame, diamonds, the society column, the apartment on Park avenue, the mansion at Pebble Beach—these are only words. The men and women who move through t glittering panor- amas arc )u ame as the men and women who live in_the crowded streets of the Bronx, in New York, or the loneliest farm in Kansas or North Dakota—wretched if they are trying to find anything else real in the world except Jesus Christ, happy if they have made the long hard journey that is yet so short, and have reached the Kingdom within His name blazes across the whole tumbled. troubled, puzzled history of mankind like a great light. It is our one living miracle. Why should we who know Him worry because con- scientious scientists think that a comma in the of the loaves and the fishes has som t changed its nature, and loaf” 1n this case means the signifying “thought,” and be the old Latin symbol 50 that the 5,000 were fed on smil 8 FERTIEn E rathe sl actual food. an so on, and so on, and s0 on? SCIENTISTS will harass and burden and agonize themselves disproving the miracles in the New Testament until the end of time. And as they bend spectacled and absorbed over their documents and research, they will never | know that all they need do is raise their statistic-crammed heads to see the miracle that is Jesus Christ still lifted high above any other miracle of our human history, to feel the radiant miracle of Christmas coming nearer and nearer through the hum and bustle of life “The_time Christ The moon is hid: the night is still: And Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer cach other in the mist draws near the birth of and Alice Meynell dips into the mystic beauty of it when she say: “Sudden as sweet, come the expected feet! All poy is new, and new all art, And He, too, whom we have by heart!” We have had 2.000 years in which to assimilate the extraordinary claims of the obscure Baby who was horp jn- a | stable, who had but illiterate and pen- niless fishermen for friends, who never had a political party nor a doliar nor a newspaper to back Him in His lifetime, who was discredit~d and scorned, be- trayed by His own group, and finally destroved as a menace to His state He left no documents behind Him, and His doctrine was considered posterous, in a reasonable small vil- Jage group, that according to all human standards his unsuccessful life should have been washed away in the great river of unsuccessful peasants’ lives that has carried on the world. * k% % INCE His death a thousand great Kings have died, after striving frantically to make themselves a place | in history, after winning battles, hang- ing themselves with jewels, building palaces, writing the laudatory inscrip- tions for their own great tombs. We don't know their names apart Their palaces are museums filled with paintings of Madonnas, of Nativities. of dim old saints and choirs of angels Wherever the obscure Christmas Baby is painted. His little head is ringed wWith heavenly light If some old crown room or powder closet is used for books. the Baby has possession there, too. Dante. Shakes speake, Goethe. all honor Him. name ‘on exquisite old parchments and illumined folios is crowned with lilies. grapes. pearls. roses, with innocent faces of lambs and the meek Jittle heads of doves: with everything emblematic of royalty, purity, sacrifice and power. His doctrine runs lik> a riter under our whole civilization. We find Him everywhere. Those of our modern writers who are most glib and sure in complete edenial of Him. who can statistically convince us that in the first place He was wrong, in the second place He was completely misquoted, and in the third place He never lived at all, are themselves living lives that He has shaped and influenced more than any other person who ever lived One such_ writer. ence he has over America’s yvounger generation, too, 1 happen to know. I wonder where he thinks he gets his Jove for the oppressed and suffcring, his conviction that in great interna- WNLO)! FOOT TOO S0 pre- | His | the | and a great influ- | tional crises we ought to show nations only overwhelming forgive , love and trust. as the one stible weapon of them all. his pa: siorate beliet that every human beirg in the world should be fed, first of ali before he is educated. or policed, bafor~ he is sent to eye and throat clinicr, before his mail is delivered or his army organized. Does this self-styled Atkeist | for one instant forget that these theories did not exist in the world until | that one authentic voice said: “Love your enemies, do good to them that | ate you and despitefully use you,” and blessed are the merciful—one cup of | water given to the least of these— | feed the hungry—clothe tne naked.{ For by this shall all men know that | ye are my disciples, that ye love one ' another?” { K ok % % | JVEN after 2.000 vears we don't get < very far with this policy. are poor human stuff. But it a lutely revolutionary when this obscu Carpenter seriously taught ii. as a lution to man’s problem. It is as if He were teaching a few fishermen th black was white. To share what vou had instead of hoarding to_meet | hate with love instead of more hate— | ah, what a Christmas this Christmas | would be if we had done that. for 2,000 | vears! We've had wars. in His name; | weve hoarded money, in His name: | we've looked placidly through crystal | windows to see our fellowmen starving, in_His name | But He has nothing to do with all that. His message of forgiveness, love and sharing unchanged. He returns with the punctual, unhurrying, unhes- itating days. and we kno: secure and tiny and so His mother's arms, in that shabby firs. resting place of His that the cattle and shepherds shared About Him washes the great tide of our hop win- | dows. evergreen | wreaths cards and | telegrams. happy children, happy old | folk, surprises, family gatherings, | church bells and organ music solemnly | straining over the bowed heads of His friends | Much of this, of course, is only the | guinea’s stamp; the baby is the gold, | for all that. | To share this miracle. to fill any heart with song and hope and joy on | Christmas day. it is only necessary to clean out of our hearts that eversthing | that isn't love. Love fulfills His law Hate suspicion, resentment may seem completely justified: the cruelty anw misunderstanding that all of us meet | as we go along may seem hard and rc vengeful feeling only reasonable and right. But they are never reasonabic or right, and they clog and blind the | soul, and often the body. too. The Baby's birthday takes no count of them. | If we can't forgive and forget. we can | at least ask for strength and simplicity | to do so. If there is some one who is | being stubbornly unfriendly, we can | make an overture at least in that| direction, i flying letters and * ok ok ‘VHAT if the overture doesn't reach the angry heart? It will ft| yours. And overtures made in His ! name have a strange power to weaken the fibers of resolute hate. Tears rush to eyes that have long been dry. under the ‘devastating power of a tender, an apologetic word, and the ice in trou- bled hearts breaks up forever There are households in which a whole day of swectness. of soft voices and generous greetings. of happiness and laughter and harmony and love. would be a miracle. If the wife and mother and manager of any such household chances to be reading these | words, she herself can work a Christ- | | mas miracle next Friday. | | "May that day to all of you be a| | happy day, and bring us all a little | nearer, even for a few hours, to the Kingdom itself. (Copyright, 1931.) |Christmas Stories Read At "Y" Booklovers' Hour ' The Christmas program of the Book- | lovers of Washington will be held to- morrow evening at the usual hour at the Young Women's Christian Associa- tion, Scventeenth and K streets, when Miss Alice Hutchins Drake will read “A Christmas Prayer.” by Agnes Newman: “Annunziata,” by Caroline Gilteran, both well known writers of the Capital | City, and Miss Drake's own “Meditation | on St. Anna.’ | Included in the program will be als) “The Story of Christmas,” arranged | from the Hebrew and Persian legends, | and the nativity story, as told by St,| Luke. On this occasion among the guests of the Booklovers will be Mrs. William ' Hamilton Bayly, honorary president ¢ the Young Women's Christian Associa- tion. in memory of whose son, Lieut Louis Hamilton Bayly, the Booklover have maintained the Louis Hamrlton Bayly fund since March, 1919. This fund supports a destitute boy at the Central Union Mission here, and its di- rectors, Mr. and Mis. John Bennett | will likewise be among the guests at Monday night's program. Mrs. Henry E. | Cooke Is to be the other guest of the entire organization on Monday night also. As is the custom, the invitation tc attend this meeting i3 extended to all booklovers. HARD ST Pesmcaiber e TIAE I With a Pair of Nationally Advertised Trade Mark Rez. U. S. Pat. Off. High or Low Shoes for House and Street Wear Embadying . built-lp_comfort features plus sty $3 1o $6.50 Sives 213 to 10 Widths AA to EEE CUSTOM FITTING SHOE 439 75t NW. Just Below E St T K ST KIS T 3B 4 T T T Afternoon gloves are the fin. est French kid . . . eight-but- ton length with 3 buttons at the wrist. Black, brown, egg- shell, white R A novel glove for evening from Paris has a bracelet top! Black with white stitches on the bracelet and vice versa. A young thing w be happy with a pair. (OLD STRIPE Ad —give single pairs, certain to be appreciated —give three pairs, she’ll be delighted give six pairs, for a grand gift indeed —give a dozen pairs, for real luxuriousness The Newly Reduced Prices for Christmas Are . . . $1.00 3 pairs $2.85 3 pairs $3.90 A\l).' l‘b I‘\ BI‘I‘:AS . . are new this years thex're a real joy to wear adjustment space divided into five hems permit just the right length Make out your list . ., ping will he done COLORS . . . that are right for daytime and evening WEIGHTS . . . service. service sheer. chiffon, de luxe chiffon, silk-net ORDER BY TELEPHONE . . . if you wish! Metropolitan 0300 AN EXTRA GOLD STRIPE SHOP—1013 CONNECTICUT AVENUE $1.35 and shop early in the morning tomorrow . . . The newest thing in hags . . . simulated pearls and - chalk in cluny lace design! The frame is_handmade! So heau- tiful and only £13.50 Needlepoint never has heen <o lovely at these low prices, This one of wondrous design has a frame set with simulated pearls and marcasite. .. $18.50 Singlette by Van Raalte “because she likes nice things” , . . an exquisite thing of glove silk ... and she needs no other under- garment. Complete with garters if vou prefer A pinseal hag that Tooks un- usual . . . the covered frame has protected corners . . . the tab adorned with an asym- metrical ornament . $13.50 Glorious new just arrived $10 1o §2 anything like the way they are selling. STREET FLOOR. evening A French crepe slip as smooth as her <kin . with a shear lace top hacked with net! How could she help loving it ...... The step-in chemise is tantalizingly alluring the way the lace fits into the smooth satir .« . low back.. A man or a woman would love the convenience as well as the beauty of an electric clack . . . of mahogany with inlay . . . never needs wind- ing . o Tiellecihiron only $8.75 Electric Clocks from $3.95 upward. STREET FLOOR. econd Floor Heavenlv blue silk crepe pyjamas with double puffed sleeve. transparent velvet jacket! What a jov. £20.50 Satin night gowns strewn with lace flowerlets and leaves set in! How anyone Softened pastel tones in a would love it.....$15 chiffon handkerchief with flowers of lace set in...$1.00 French chiffon and finest lace are fashioved by hand into a handkerchief that is ador- able . 200 New arrivals in handkerc] are wonderful at 25 . a gift set of his Honeysuckle . . . lipstick, cake powder, and square perfume . STREET FLOOR. Come to the Fashion Show for College Girls! Bright new fashions for campus . . . teas . . . proms 11:30 A.M. Monday, December 21st, Little Theater, Seventh Floor \ . and they ht every length leg. $1.65 3 pairs $4.80 Seven inches of neither too long nor too short. and in a twinkling your Christmas shop- and you could have selected nothing more appropriate for any one...no matter who' ASK ELIZABETH BREW STER to help you to shop. No Charge! A very doggy gift . . . and one she'll never get tired of . .. a pure silk umbrella, blues and beiges shading into each other . . . and a carved dog’s head handle Very shiny and conve its new gun metal case Cutex manicure et . . . com plete with polish and re. mover . . . makes a grand gift nt in the L'Amour d'elizabeth by night . Telan d'elizabeth by day .". Elizabeth Arden's fragrances, side by side in a square box . As a gorgeous note of con- trast with a green frock . . . give her this real carnelian ring, set with sparkling marcasite 3 £ A truly exquisite conch-shell coral . . from flushed white to deepest shrimp . . . a pendant of caryed carnelian . . . a replica of a 17th century necklace from France £25 As gift shading . this marcasite carved cate as lace bracelet of real small beautifully stones that catch every ing ray of light A real ervstal choker as clear mnd cool a . think how lovely it would be with black velvet 30 Does she love dogs? Give her + Scotty pin . . . of rhine- “tone: . wearing a_jacket of black. green, or brown enamel 4 N Ve