Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 10, 1913, Page 7

1 i * to generation, and the spice and the ere Sh cyemer terete Ives’ Brick Ice Cream also handled in bulk Hot and Cold Drinks Bananas j Pears Oranges FRUITS: Grape Fruit Apples Lemons Johnson’s Box Candy Lowney’s Box Candy Roach-Tisdale Box Candy American Box Candy Christmas Cigars & Tobaccos Leave orders for Cut Flowers and Plants for Xmas. Phone 223 RRDURDRCRRUUEUREREREREREUREEEEEEEE0000 00000001 100000008 00000000000000000 0000 5 50000000008 | ADAP PED ET ANE PIPED ARR DERE R ERED AAD AD IT EE 7 Dit d AAEARE EEA D AMADA ERE DEL Ea WRVORREEEEDEDHEER 1100000 0000000 C. C. Miller Festal Day In Dixie A Carnival of Cheer | OMEHOW there is a charm about 1 Christmas down in Dixie pe- culiarly fascinating. It savors more of the old English holiday when the wassail bow! was filled to the brim, when the Yule log glowed and the boar’s head was borne into the banquet. It was in the good old days before the war that the folks of the south observed this joyous season with prodigality more lavish and hospitality more extensive than were dreamed of even in the annals of Bracebridge Hall. Then came the true carnival of mer- riment. The old manor was ablaze with life and beauty. From the sur- rounding country all the belles and the beaus had gathered. Morning brought a meet at daybreak for the fox hunt, and nighttime called for “Old Uncle Ephraim,” the plantation fiddler, whose reels were famous throughout the whole country. Feast followed feast, and the spirit of celebration extended from the master down to the field hands, each of whom received a jug filled with good whisky when he called for his Christmas rations. But these are the days that have gone, and with their going departed many characteristics which made the Christmas time down south so distinc- tive. While the fate of war and chang- ed conditions Lave curtailed the prodi- gality of former days, most of the an- cient customs remain, and in many in- stances Christmas in the villages and the country is but a mild repetition of antebellum observances. A few of the large country homes still have some of the old servants who were with the family in slavery days. If these old family darkies have been away during the yedr they always re- appear with the approach of the Christ- mas holidays and assume duties about the household. The old “mammy,” al- though her services have been engaged elsewhere during the rest of the year, reports to make the fruit cake for Christmas dinner. She alone knows the culinary tradi- tions of the family kitchen. The in- gredients of this wonderful cake have been handed down from generation brandy and the citron and all such things are compounded according to the proportions laid down years and years agone. These fruit cakes bear the family name, and some time, through the cour- tesy of the season and the exchange ef compliments of the day, a slice of Grantland cake is on the same plate with a slice of Dubignon cake. Not infrequently these eakes are cooked a year in advance, by which time they are fully seasoned and settled, although the cracks in the ieing and its yellow tint mar the beauty somewhat, Its cooking can be intrusted to no bands | ii except those of the antebellum family eook or her descendants. Not alone this old cook, but all branches of the service in vogue dur- jing the days of slavery are usually represented about Christmas time. The son of your father’s and your grand- father’s coachman comes, and on rare days the old man himself hobbles to the house and spins out marvelous tales of the past. These old darkies are all presented with gifts, and for each of their chil- dren a present of some sort has been prepared. This feature generally comes in the southern home before the rest of the family has been attended to. In the meantime the children have been keeping eager watch at the door of the room where Santa Claus has made his visit. No one is allowed to enter this sacred precinct until the paterfamilias gives the signal, but be- fore this signal is given every member of the household must be dressed and ready for breakfast and the morning prayers must have been said. When everything is ready the chil- dren are allowed to rush in and exam- ine the contents of their stockings. Some of the largest children still have implicit faith in the wonderful person- ality of old Santa Claus. Forged notes from the old fellow, admonishing them to make their behavior according to the precept-of their mother, are eagerly read and compared. The interchange of presents among the older members of the family usually takes place at the breakfast table, but in most instances they are allowed to mingle with the bounties of old Santa Claus and are plucked from the same holly tree from which his presents hang. The hunt for the holly and the mis- tletoe, while not as exciting as the chase for the bour’s head, is just as much a feature as that old English custom and equally enjoyable. Sev- eral days before Christmas eve a big wagon, filled with straw and brimming full of pretty girls and boys, too, is driven into the woods, where the search for the holly is carried on. It requires a most agile youngster to seale to the height where the mistle- toe grows, and he is always sure of a generous reward of kisses from the girls below. Christmas day is always quiet. Sometimes the boys and girls have been taught carols, which they sing at home or in the village chapel hard by. Night brings mirth and youthful jollity again when the darkies come once more and sing old songs or par- ticipate in outdoor games. About it all there has been a quaint, old time flavor. Everybody is happy, and yet there is a tinge of sadness about it all, for the southern Christmas now is but a faint echo of days gone by. The Joye of Christmas. Be merry all, be merry all; With holly dress the festive hall; the song, the feast, the ball, welcome merry Christmas. —W. R Sneneess A Yuletide Tragedy HEN Josiah Gibbs found that his wife “had it in for him,” as he called it, and had bought him a box of cigars for his Christmas present he grew wise and, with apparent sorrow, said to her: “Now, isn’t it too bad, my love? 1 discovered that cigar smoking was be- coming so injurious to me that I have quit it and have to content myself with a few whiffs now and then on | my pipe with mild tobacco. Now, isn’t it too bad!” “I'm so sorry, dear!” said Josiah Gibbs’ wife. “But your friends will enjoy them, and I am sure that will please you.” Gibbs smiled grimly and, as his wife departed, winked knowingly at him- self in the looking glass. And when he saw his friend Joe Spicer he told him how he had escaped his wife’s Christ- mas cigars—Joe Spicer, the best judge of a good cigar that ever bit off the end of a two-for-a-half, And Joe smiled grimly too. But every time Joe Spicer called at Gibbs’, which was often—he was an old friend of Gibbs—he smoked one or more of Josiah’s wife’s Christmas ci- gars. “Gallant and diplomatic of you, old man!” Gibbs would say to Spicer on opportunity and smile his knowing smile. And Joe would smile his. And by and by the cigars were all smoked by Spicer, and Gibbs’ wife was led to say to Gibbs: “It’s just a perfect shame, Josiah, that you couldn’t take any pleasure in those cigars and that your friend Spi- cer should have had them all.” At which Josiah sthiled his knowing smile and said: “Oh, well, my love, never mind. Joe seemed to enjoy them.” “Yes, indeed!” said Josiah’s wife. “Why shouldn’t he?” Which made Josiah smile more and more and almost. chuckle. But he said nothing. “Yes, indeed,” repeated Mrs. Gibbs. “why shouldn’t he? You know, Jo siah, you told me that a woman should never choose cigars for a Christmas present to her husband, as a woman knows nothing about their quality, so I asked Joe Spicer, having heard you say often what an excellent judge of a cigar he was, to select a box for me— the best he could get—and he did. and”— Josiah Gibbs had instant business down at the office, where he tore his hair and flung his pipe and tobacco out of the window. And he passed Joe = Cae. hath a darkness Brighter than the blazing moon; Christmas hath a chilliness 3 Warmer than the heart of June; Christmas hath a beauty Lovelier than the world can show. —Christina Rossetti. H®4? on more wood! The wind is chill; But, let it whistle as it will, ‘We'll keep our Christmas merry still. —Walter Scott. Re out, ye crystal spheres! . Once bless our human éars, If ye have power to touch our senses so, And let your silver chime move in melo- dious time, And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow, t And with your ninefold harmony make up full consort | To the angelic symphony. | —John Mliton. [7 is the Christmas time, And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth In glorious grief and solemn mirth The shining angels climb. > —D. M. Mulock Craik. QESPHERDS at the grange Where the Babe was born Sang with many a change Christmas carols until morn. —Henry W. Longfellow. Ts star which they saw in the east Went before them till it came and Stood over where the young Child was. —Matthew. “ ERRY Christmas!” hear them say As the east is growing lighter. | May the joy of Christmas day Make your whole year gladder, brighter. —Margaret Deland. GAIN at Christmas did we weave ‘The holly round the Christmas hearth. —Alfred Tennyson. ING the song of great joy that the an- gels began; Sing of glory to God and of good will to man. —John G. Whittier. At the equator in Africa there are only two seasons—the wet and the dry. The former lasts eight months. Dur- ing the rains the natives live in houses made principally of bamboo and roofed with leaves. but as soon as the rains | stop they set out for the forests and jungles. THE LEGEND OF THE MIS- TLETOE. Why is mistletoe always sus- pended in our homes? The rea- son is traced back to an old myth of the Norsemen. The mother of Baldur, the god of all good things, exacted a promise from the vegetable, animal and mineral kingdoms to preserve his life from harm. From some cause, however, she did not make an appeal to the mistletoe. The god of mischief and poten- tate of the earth, Loki, became jealous of Baldur’s great popu- larity and, fashioning an arrow from a strong branch of mistle- toe, gave it to old blind Hodur, showed him how to aim it, and in this way Baldur met death, However, he was restored to life, but the mistletoe, placed under the care of Friga, was never again to Le an instrument of evil till it touched the earth, the empire of Loi. This is why the parasite is, in our homes and churches, always suspended from ceiling and chandelier or in windows. When persons of opposite sexes pass under it they give each other tho kiss of peace and love in the full assurance that the epiphyte is no longer an instrument of mischief. 09090696 2OOOOHHHOHOHOOOOOOHOGHOOHHOHHOHOHHOHOGHOOO ® Writes Some Good Things. Chlorinda—How can you dream of marrying a man who writes such aw- fully stupid love letters? Marigold— But just think, dear—he can write the most beautiful checks, and that’s the main thing. you know, after one’s mar- tied.—Judge. Misunderstanding. Distressed Damsel—Oh, sir, catch that man! He wanted to kiss me! Pensive’ Pedestrinn--That’s all right. There’! be another one along in a minute —Purple Cow. Once Is Enough. Proh — Ther say lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Kohn —Well. what's the use? — Louisville Times. Great men exist that there may be greater men. O many table favors of huts and houses are to be nowadays that it is cult to carry out the idea of a table to represent Christmas in an old fashioned village. This sufficient space is available to group the set pieces effectively. Where the dinner table is for a dozen or more covers, however, this can be arranged to make @ a very novel scheme. The first investment is that of a sufficient number of little snowbound cottages. Some of these can be altered easily enough so as to look a little dif -? ferent, one from the other. Ia front of one a white pencil stuck in whitened cork—diamond pow- dered—can, witha little ingenui- ty, be made to represent a sign- board to face the coaching inm An advertisement in a paper frame will make a capital sign sprinkled with “rime” to give the same effect of winter as the rest. A sheet of looking glass for village pond and two or three tiny toy ducks should occupy the center of the table. Among ©f the many set piece cracker dec- orations it is easy, too, to pick up lanterns to hold Christmas candles, dovecots, farm wagons and carts laden with crackers, which will add to the realism z of the pantomime scene. ~ A Greeting. God send a blessed Christmas To every patient life, A little resting from the toil, A surcease of the strife. May Faith breathe words of gentle cheer, Hope point to roses blowing near And tender love and frtends sincere Make this a blessed Christmas! A Christmas Tragedy. Just a sprig of mistletoe Hanging in the hall; Just a maiden standing tlere, Pouting lips, coquettish ‘air. Wifey, coming down the stair, Catches hubby—! 7? 7!! ‘That's all. —New York Times. | j and clover. | 40 Acres 40 Acres 184Acres et" 40 Acres 40 Acres 80 Acres 80 Acres 80 Acres 240 Acres 280 Acres 200 Acres 174 Acres 36 Acres 43 Acres On Bi 87 Acres —_—— on go Dairyman and Stock Breeder. will convince you of the fact. school, good farm adjoining. time at 6 per cent. Oi maim road, black loam soil. clay sub-scil; scme good timber; 4 miles from railroad. Sale price $1,600. $400 cash. balance on time to suit at 6 per cent. On mairt road, black loam soil, twenty acres fine meadow, balance of land easily cleared; on good wagon road, 3 miles from station. Sale price, $1,700. $400 cagh, balamce five years at 6 per cent. 8 miles from station, on good main wagon road; black loam soil; 40 acres on each side of road; will be sold im forties if desired. Sale price, $20 per acre. $400 cash, balance five years at 6 per cent, No timber on lanid, easily put under cultivation. road. Will make fine farm; $3,600. $1,000 cash, balance five years at 6 per cent. On main road, all qpen land and easily put under cultivatidn. 6 miles from town; clay loam soil. Sale Price, $5,600. $1,000 cash, halance 5 years at 6 per cent. All easily put under cultivation, very few stumps; six miles from good town and fine market; on good road. Sale price, $4,000. $1,000 cash, balance 5 years at 6 per cent. or will be sold im forty or eighty acre tracts. ? One of the fime farms adjoining Frazer farm. This farm is modern in every way, has modern dairy barn with silo; horse barn, graimery, ‘hog house, machinery sheds, chicken barn; good system of waterworks; lighted and modern improvements in hou: acre, $5000 cash, balance om time to suit purchaser at interest at 5 per cent. Thirty-six acres; one mile from Blackberry on good road. Has fine lake frontage, some timber; soil black loam. Sale price $900, $300 cash, balanee in five years at 6 per cent. On Blackberry AVE x # Good Real Bargains IN ITASCA COUNTY, MINNESOTA LANDS FOR ALL —tThe Investor, the Land Renter, the Workingman who uses land as his Savings Bank, and the Man of Moderate Means, who wants a home on Long Time Payments. We are offering a choice selection of lands in the Mississippi River Valley istr ict of Itasca County. Waterin abundance. The soil is a clay loam, with a clay subsoil, with great capacity for retaining moisture, and especially adapted to the production of great crops of blue joint, red top, timothy This land for diversified farming, dairying and stock raising is prob- ably unequaled anywhere in the United States. Let us show you the land, and we There isn’t any reason why you can't own a farm, as we are oftering almost YOUR OWN TERMS AND LONG TIME PAYMENTS, 6 acres under cultivation, ready forcrop, 25 acres easily cleared, bal- ance timber, on good main road. 4imiles from Grand Rapids, 3 miles from tthe new village of Fayton. Siale price $1,000, $200 cash, balance. ‘im five yearly payments at 6 per .cent. Small house amd barn, about 3 acres cleared and into clover hay. 10 acres easily cleared, balance in timber, 4-miles from Grand Rapids on, good county road. Sale price $1000, ,8300 cash, balance in yearly pay- ments ‘to suit purchaser. 40 acres under plow; 30 acres meadow; 25 acres of fine Hardwood timber, balance brush land and pasture, easily cleared; all fenced; no waste land; ten-room frame house; good horse and cattle barns. over ome-half mile frontage on Deer Lake; six miles from town. Price, $6,000. $2,500.cash, balance on terms to suit. 6 miles southeast of Grand Rapids. cash, balance five years at 6 per cent. 6 miles south of Grand Rapids, one-half mile from main road, close to Price $800. $200 cash, balance five years lake, ° cash balance im five years at 6 per cent. We have a fine list of lake front tracts running im size from 15 acres and more, our price is very cheap on these tracts and if you are thinki ngs lake front tract for a summer ‘home or hunting lodge now is the time to buy. We sell these tractgon easy terms with a small payment at time of purchase. & REISHUS-REMER LAND CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA Grand Rapids, is ten acres good meadow, balance of land timbered with hardwood; black loam. Sale price $1000; $300 cash balance on terms to suit purchaser at 6 per cent. kberry lake, one and one-half mile from Blackberry station; road; black loam soil; some timber. Lands for the : Has Soil clay loam. Price $800. $200 On good main no swamp or waste land. Sale price, the fine house, electric se. Sale price $125.00 per Sale price $1900, $600 ng of purchasi LPPIPLEPIDPD PPA ADD DED RD be pre P ppp,