Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 23, 1899, Page 7

Short Read to Popularity. Hingso—That doctor is very popuiar ‘with society peoyile. Jingso—Yes, he .gives Latin and names eats Gada cliey and the ‘Yracuse Herald. The Typesrriter ‘Invention. A statistician has proven that the in- vention of the typewriter has given ployment: to 500,000 people, but he fails to state how mmny cases of weak stomachs it has induced. All people of sedentary oceupation need Hostet- ter’s St ch Bitters. It helps nature to bear the strain whieh ensues from confinement. Brokeleigh—He called me a scamp, but I have the best of hima. Stokeleigh—How so? Brokeleigh-1 owe York World. $10.—New hina PAT “ist of Patents Issucd Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Minn., hammer; Stiles Lindersmith, St. Paul, Minn., portable s m boiler; Edwin , St. Paul, Minn., rota- iton Robinson, Min- ion of grain iton A. Robinson, Minneapo- , and M. Toltz, St. Paul, n bin; Wilbr: » Min- nerat- Minn. Ww Minun., copying pr Thill, Wheat- on, Minn., r. Merwin, L Patent Attor- neye, 911 ldg., St. Paul Not Good Kickers, T sey heard but one Porto Rican man 2 kick about anythin I was sitting on the hotel veranda a Ponce one y when a merchant ¢; down the street to see me. There was a vicions bull tearing about the street xd the animal got after the merchant and run Lim a block and gave him a toss which landed him on the veranda, almost at my feet. Of course I went to his a nee, thinking him seri- ously hurt, But it turned out that he had ne most without a bri Ib 1 to congratulate him over but he interrupted me with: “Sener, I like ft not. The bull should have rolled me into the ditch instead of tossing me up here. was I tossed upon th r cant make it out.”—Washington Post. The Cause of Chapped Hands. Much of the discomfort experienced from chapped hands in cold weather is due to washing with inferior soap, the | ingredients being poisonous to the skin. It is therefore important to have sap. If warm rain water and soap are used in washing the they will be smooth and white | easons. ELIZA R. PARKER. age Hero. moment something gifted tra he ady ed to the foot- | voice, “that two ¢ And he took an egg and t hall his m . of the pillars of the attered itself impartially. o>dhums. but he did < out 4 » to thro one the busi for clearin Artificial A new art in German, lar. sulphu tar New aving stone is made composed of cc ate of lime. h the sulphur and the lime mi-liquid mass. A luct is broken fine » bloc ‘e then sv 3 to a pressure of ¢ pounds to the square inch. | | y | | | RIP CURE THAT DOES CURE. Bromo Qui e that produc: TH ble ard Northside to Mr. “So it doc someone ed Mr. My doctor said I would die, but Piso’s | Cure for Consumption cured me.—Amos Kelner, Cherry Valley, Il!.. N F crank you he att ed but little at- tention in this world. Some people are like circus bi very little money causes them stuck up. There is poet in flowers, but the verse makers fight shy of the chrysan- themum. The ontput of the mills last year was in € mand. t India cotton cess of the de- » lends money to a gets double secur- When aw relative he ity. > om alwi THE Pleasantest, most poweriul, effective and never failing REMEDY for Rheumatism nice, LA GRIPPE and CATARRA! If all knew what thousands know of the efficacy of “5 qmapemarx DROPS” as 2 Curative as well as a Preventive «¢ any Ache or Pain known to the hunan body, there would not be a family in all America without a bottle of 5 DROPS!” Send for trial bottle, 25¢, or large bottle, con- taining 300 doses, $1.00, 6 bottles for $5. SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE COy 160-164 E. Lake St., Chicago, Il, Brn HN a (For the Children.) The Barnes children couldn’t have any Christmas this year. They live in the country, and there were trees enough, to be sure. But there was nothing to put on one to make it look “sparkly,” as a tree ought to look, and there was not a penny to spend for tree trimmings. The Barnes children, however, had a jollier time than they had ever had with a tree. Joe said so, and George said so, too; and Grace and Winnie agreed with them. This is how it was done. A delightful young auntie lives with them. They call her the Lady with a Bright Idea. She always has a new bright idea just in the nick of time, but this year it did seem as if the idea was brighter than ever, It fairly shone. “We'll give the presents in a funny way,” she said to the children. “Yes, we'll give them in two or three funny ways, You'll see!” ,There was a very mysterious feeling in the air Christmas morning. Every- body loked at everybody else, and then they all smiled. Something good was going to happen. When the breakfast a ail THEN OFF THE CHILDREN RAN. plates were lifted, there were little envelopes tied with gay ribbons. Such a time as the children had untying them! In each was a card, and on ,ogeh_card was a verse, signed, ‘The Christmas Postman.” Joe shouted as he read his aloud: “When you get this, dear Joe, You must straight away go And look under your bed, But pray don’t bump your head.” Joe jumped up, but auntie called, “Here, you must wait until the rest have read their notes, and al! start at once.” The verses were all short. read his next: “Look behind your closet door, : George | For a great big package on the floor.” read: “In the northeast sight, Under the coverlet, snowy white, You'll find a gift if you search just ight.” Last came Winnie’s: chamber, out of 1a present lies on the garret stair; I think that Santa Claus dropped it there.” Then off the children ran to search for their presents. S a stamping and scuffing and shouting as the eo A Brand New Christmas ea is & grown people heard! Pretty soon they came rushing in, one after the other. Then such an untying of strings and tearing off of wrapping papers as there was! “Auntie! Auntie!” they “These are your presents! the Christmas postman!” Auntie’s gifts were not to be mis- taken. She made them nearly always. Joe’s was an envelope album for scraps. Joe liked to cut all sorts of things out of newspapers and maga- zines. The scrap-aloum was made-of twenty-six big brown envelopes, tied together by cords, in a pasteboard cover. They could be taken out when filled and new ones put in. George’s “great big package” was a wooden box made into a nice little store. It had shelves and counters, and a set of scales besides, Grace’s gift was a fancy work bag, with pockets holding embroidery ‘silks. It had some crochet needles and a pair of embroidery hoops, and some pretty doilies ready to begin work on, Winnie’s gift was an afghan, pillow shouted. You are and strap for her doll carriage. The afghan was made out of pink and white worsted knitted in stripes. The pillow was of pink silk, over which was a cover of Swiss with a lace ruf- fle. The strap was a piece of white ribbon with little pink flowers painted on it, As the children were exclaiming over these gifts, they were startled by a loud noise at the door that led into the dining room from the hall. Bang! Bang! The boys ran to open the door. There stood their father. Hé had slipped away while they were upstairs, and they had not missed him. He had a trunk, covered with cotton and trimmed with evergreen, on his shoul- der, “Express cried. “Ho, ho! Express from Santa Claus!” the children shouted, dancing around the room. It was a regular Christmas trunk, when opened. “Merry Christmas.” was printed in green letters on a white ground inside the lid, and everything in the trunk was done up in white paper, tied with green cord. In each was stuck a sprig of evergreen. In the trunk were all the presents from papa and mamma to the children, and from the three grown folks to each other. Most of the gifts were home- made, and not costly, but all were re- ceived with delight. There never was such a jolly Christmas trunk! “Why, we haven’t given our presents to each other!” cried Winnie at last. Each of the four children always had some trifling gift for the other three. “Tl tell you a nice way to give them!” exclaimed auntie. “All mark your presents with the first names of those they are for, and bring them to me. Then we'll go to the sitting- room and play ‘hunt the thimble” with each bundle. The one whose name is on it must go out while we hide it.” And off they trooped to collect their bundles and to spend a merry morning hunting for them.—Annie Willis Mc- Cullough in Youth's Companion. from Santa Claus,” he Conformity to the teachings of Christ will restore the prestige of the church. Freedom to worship God is inalienable—Rev. W. H. Tubb. POs 0 000 OO OOOOEr™"”"' KEEP OLD SANTA CLAUS. ee eae a ae = SANTA CLAUS AS WE KNOW HIM. If all the little fictious, fairy tales and fancies dear to children were to be given up, what would become of the imaginations of the coming genera- tion? We have been called a practi- cal people. So we are, If anything, too practical. As we grow older the realities of life crowd thick and fast upon us. Why then seek to destroy one of the most beautiful ideals of child life? Let the little ones hang up their stockings on Christmas eve. Let them believe in the dear old white-bearded man who is one of their happiest il- lusions, and, above all, let them be real children while they may, not min- iature men and women, tired of the ideal side of life before they‘ leave the nursery for the schoolroom. Yes, we believe that the best and truest mother can with perfect jus- tice to both her children and herself conscientiously decide to keep Santa Claus in the especial niche in which he has sat enthroned for ages past. Give us Santa Claus! Throw the good old saint out into the snow? Put away those delicious Christmas eye dreams, when every stir in the house- hold after dusk meant the stamp of a reindeer? Bring up a child without the belief in the chimney and its ca- Pacity to stretch on Ci... 4 No; a thousand times no! There’s too little poetry in life now. Let the children have all of it they can get. Says a recent writer: “1 wish there was a grown-up Santa Claus. I'd love to believe in him, and I would not thank anyone who told me he wasn’t true, I'd listen to his sleigh bells with something very much like rapture, I’m afraid. It wouldn’t be for the presents, either. That isn’t why the children love Santa Claus, They love him because he means that some- where there’s a great-hearted creature, who is thinking of them and planning all the year through to delight them.” WHY SANTA CLAUS IS CUPID> Santa Claus, the dear old stupld)\ , Paid a call last night to Cupid. = \\ Brought him posies, gay. old giverl: Silver arrows and a quiver. 24 Then the wakeful boy, upstarting,\.. Saw the saint in haste departing—’ Seized an arrow, thankless Cupid, Winged it straight at “dear Stupid.” This the way, and that the reason,- Merry maids, this Christmas season, Find his bounty overflowing— rae | Revel in its rich bestowing. This is why, the country over, Morning smiled on lass and lover. This is why the dear old stupid~ _ Ciaims tonight that he is Cupid. 4. Goldilocks of Moss.valley and happened to step,, together, upon the Enchanted Flying Phantom Field. Jn a moment we were flying through the air, and in less time than you can count six plainly we were once more in Fairyland, under Tam- alpais mountain. And then’ what do you think we saw? Santa Claus picking plum puddings from trees! Real plum puddings from real trees! This was in the plum pudding or- chard which the fairies planted, long ago, for Santa Claus. He was whist- ling and chuckling and laughing, “Ho! ho! ho!” and sometimes slyly winking one eye as he viewed the many grow- ing heaps of puddings as he laid them under the trees, and thought what jol- lity there would be Christmas day when they were eaten—and what tum- myaches afterwards! Goldilocks thought the plum pud- ding orchard wonderful. It was wa- tered by sparkling rills and was sur- rounded by hedges upon which candies and nuts and oranges were growing. These hedges were made all of Christ- mas trees, the burning little candles on which furnish Santa Claus light at night to work by. He will have only the candles to work by because they seem to bring him nearer to his mil- PUDDINGS.. lions of dear children, and—a secret— Santa Claus is in as much of a hurry for Christmas eve as you are. The plum pudding orchard had hun- dreds and thousands of trees in it. The way the trees came to bear plum pud- PICKING PLUM dings was this: They were grafted. The bread-fruit trees furnished grafts for plum pudding dough, and grafts from resin grape vines, citron trees and current bushes supplied other “fixings.” The birds brought oak and holly leaves and Christmas berries for decorations. The sun browned the puddings just right and the leaves on the plum pudding trees turned, snowy white just in time to furnish plum pud- ding bags—one for every pudding and not one to spare. The stems grew into pudding bag strings. The trees bent low with their weight of puddings. The air smelled as sweet as a thousand Christmas dinners all in one! When Santa Claus had pulled all the puddings from the trees new ones sprouted-for birthdays and _ next Thanksgiving. Jingle, jingle, tinkle, tinkle! Santa Claus’ reindeer stamped their little feet until all the bells on their harnesses jingled and tinkled again, while wait- ing for Santa Claus and the thousand fairies who helped him to load the puddings into his sleigh to carry them to the Boy Proof Pantry of Ten Thou- sand Shelves. Some fairies, when the first sleigh load was on its way to the pantry, gathered the small piles of puddings into one great heap. Then along came the bad boy fairy, tied two dozen puddings together by the pud- ding bag strings and fastened them to his kite, which drew the long string of puddings away up into the sky. One fairy, leaning backward to watch the kite, lost his balance and fell against the small mountain’ of pud- dings. They began to roll and roll and chased each other and chased us, but they were not hurt one bit. Santa Claus laughed louder than ever when he came back and saw the fun and he winked one eye at the bad boy fairy and shook one finger at him, as he saw the boy stick in his thumb and pull out a plum. When Goldilocks and I stopped run- ning we were outside of Fairyland, but We could still hear the puddings roll- ing softly about and Sarta Claus laughing— while still upward flew the kite, skyward, with its plum pudding tail. No word is ill spoken if it be not ih taken.—Proverb, e Old } T THROUGH PULLMAN TOURIST Sleeping Car Service to Texas, Old Mexico and California. Via the Chicago Great Western Ry.. to Kansas City and the Missouri, Kan- sas & Texas, the San Antonio & .Ar- kansas Pass and Southern Pacific Rail- ways, through Dallas, San Aitonio, El Paso and Los Angeles to San Francis- co. The only through car line from the Northwest to Texas points and con- necting at Spofford Junction for all points in Old Mexico. A new weekly service established on November 3d, and continuing weekly _ thereafter. They will be in charge of an experi- enced official, and will leave Minneap- olis at 10:45 p. m. and St. Paul at 11:20 p. m., every Friday, and reach Dallas the following Sunday, San Antonio on Monday, El Paso on Tuesday, Los An- geles at noon Wednesday, and San Francisco early Thursday morning. These cars are the Standard Pullman Sleeping Cars, similar to those run on all transcontinental lines, and the charges for berths are about half those charged in regular Standard Pullman Sleepers. To persons who have made the trip to California via other routes, this Southern route will prove a most delightful change, and to persons con- templating a trip to Te or Mexican poirts it'furnishes facilities heretofore unoffered. ‘This car may be taken at any point along the line of the Chicago Great Western Railway between Min- | neapolis and Kansas City. For full in-} formation and stance call on or address J. P. Elmer, Fifth and Robert Streets, St. Paul. Self-Possession. Jivks—Was Coulter cool and collected at the time of the fire? Jenks—I should think so. He took time to take off his nightshirt and put ona sut of pajamas.—New York Press. - How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward forany case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, ‘have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga- tions made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, ©.; Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Drugzists. Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act- ing directly upon the blood and mucoussurfaces of the system. ‘Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Far Gone. He—Darling. = She—In a minute, He—Darling. She—Here I am, dearest. 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