The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1903, Page 4

4 THE SEATTLE STAR HY STAR PUBLIBHING CO OFFICE OT and 1208 Rev avenue VRRY AFTERNOON 1 rr e TL AP MONKS ont ent namt, Maly Editorial Deparunent met, WN The Star's Kastern offices: 106 Hartt Pri ' x. New Y w ' r « BA t AR AGRNOY—aal I Y “n « ent F y) ax te per w per « whe ¥ atten LONESOME WHEN THE WORLD iS HAPPY o MA W y ' y hidden N 1 y wn w ‘ ioxlen i f . any 1 i \ , ry ; v ah, t 7 muse, | t ' ; ‘ s bad ; / . t He ha . abe I¥ ‘ why A n nas mit as ren Decembe M found + to do itt jo k he w y and that warm ra art. She worked ih slave. She wa ar of } tuned to d Gath tha poor, Hi n “a in the oda put wou ebiidrep in @t a pap i Ivalue yopr 1 t and she's 4 bargain at that. Aud here I was w x “I gaw mother's eyes fl ! when she passed to ao to the Ultchen she pressed her cheek to his great rough beard Rverybody got something for everybody else at Christmas time grent dawn to play Santa Claus with ¢ Gog bless her and him! J have n't thought of that sce and, apmehow, | wish | were @ Boy again song cnoug think & would take some of the aehe out of my heart “Christmas morning we were up at ° wok. Ioan hear the laughwr Row. Phere was special merit in being first ‘Merry Christmas’ to father and m@ther. And then he would pretend to be angry. and say You get beck to bed, str! What do you mean turping night into day? Dost you kaow your her wants €o aleep? “Apd I can hear her, “Why. Wiitiam: the idea! I couldn't gieep aa other wink!” Ad she was out of bed and made father build a big foe And the stockings ware explore?, @nd mother had w look at everythigg te « & worlg of joy. *' “Amd then mother sgid: “William. grhy den't you look In your stock. ing? Father pretemied that he didn't expect anything. 4 1 held our breathe while he drew out tae packages. Mother had foung time te knit hig some mittens, with Jong warm wriats. Sister had mage hand kerchiefs, and with straggly atitches put @ big “Wi in the corner of each And there was a home-worked bookmark, and @ husking peg and « #pectade case to replace the one I broke, and @ Dig red apple that the Mittlest Poy bad saved, because it was without @ blemish “Father coughed, jooked around, and his yoine was shaky when he geld: “Mary, 1 was wrong in those figures. fm worth twenty millions, fnstead of ten, and I ain't guing to worry about the taxte any more,’ “I qpuld tell you about going to church in a big sleigh, and the dine per, where mother was so anxious that everybody should haye just what they wanted that she ate little herself; of the hickorynets thet were crecked in the afternoon, and of the funny stories that father tol gbout when he was a little boy: of the something that made the chil Gren, one by one, sidie up to mother and give her a great bear hug, that fold moge than you could say in columns “It all.conaes back, 1 tell you. At ds with me in my jonesomencas “The children. are scattered. Two mounds covered by the drifting gnow mark the resting places of a grand man and a noble woman. I've grown and prospere?. I hawe friends, money, position “and Tim lonesome. I heave mimsed the priceless jewels thet ar Bivyem only to those who acoupt the responsibilities that come with @ wife and children, “To the world I would say, “Merry Christmas.’ Be gvod to the ohil- dren. Be kind to them, Be just to them. Seize every opportunity 40 And to you, youne fellows, who are growing up, so ot and loneromences (bar sansa At Aye et <ABBR ALE Horace Ventimore, an unsuccesstul cept it daughter of Prof. Futvoye, an emi- oriental palave, and tells Horace that Bent oriental scholar. At an auction in order to keep his story from the tle. When the bottle is opened. turn the latter into a one-eyed mule gratitude, disappears. Horace be-! lievem he dreamed of seeing him. The next day w elient myateriously ar- rives a Jon ‘- ice. The client Bamuel "Wac employs Horace to build him a mag nificent house. The professor con- when they've got the gout,” she re marked presently. rath, |Pathetically. “At least, I can guess. Expectally when it’s in beth legs," mtinued Sylvia. Sylvia, and becomes Interested tn | fur the braws bettie. Ah, you do know!” oried Sylvia Samuel Wackerbath, for Horace. ‘omises many rewards for bis ri The professor approves Hor- see's engagement to Sylvia. nd| to come, “D is just the time when my wid be near you--and hi of millions. safe.” ment for Sylvia and her father amd | fear for mynelf?” bie, amd Horaee ie obliged to tell the| what he is like now! & terrible temper about hie house. some sort of quadruped.” * =: ad You woulin’t think a boy could buy presents for seven with the halt @ottar he had saved, a pe y at a time. it 7 be & fone it And I've toed a wt hristmas for that family a alot maching, do get a few cigar# that I didn't need. sught nothing of it since, Tou don't xalue » sai0ue when they come too easy ‘On ithe night before © the ry @aves with my We w up inte ® Kreat, cold room, and t ed pay our prayers with us, kiss us Then she and be kissed and petted for the very things: we wanted, and there wee! SYNOPSIS, (fail. He compels Waeckerbath to ac { young London architect, loves Syivia,| The dinner agrees to destroy the| Purchases an ancient brags! professor he has been compelled tol apd Asmash ® Jinnee, who — been imprisoned in the bottle) CHAPTER KE—Continued ng before by King Solomem,| Syivia sat down and gazed silently ie Jinnee. after swearing eternal |). t vg His So er Bs. ‘ktot “Oh, yes, 1 do,” seid Horace, sym- sents to Horace’s engagement to|, “OF,” said Horace, gently, “in all The Jinnee obtaing a rich client,| “Then it's ali the more horrid of you rest.” said Horace, “is not) The Jinnee sends Horace a present ‘Not near papa, Horace!” she put | of gold and jewels worth thousands |in anxiously, “it wouldn't be at al) ‘The Jinnee provides wn entertain-| “Do you really think I have any mother that causes all sorts of trou-| “Ase you sure you quite know Whole story to the professor, who| “I understand,” anid Horace, try- the seal from the bottle that | ing to put it as considerately as pos- may try to decipher its inscrip-| sible, “that @ casual observer, who ton. didn’t know your father, might mis- ‘Wackerbath comes to Horace in/take him, st first sight for—for The Jinnes in a single night] “He's & mule,” sobbed Sylvia, TOO MUCH ; B-but he tan't Whatewnr he may be Horace, as be Koel by her ebaar en dapworing fo Cami@rt her, “nothing ow eller my profound mempect for hint And you must tet ane ser hina, Sylvia, because | fully believe 1) worst Shall be able to oheer him up. If you imagine you can permade | head?’ “Et dent knew j a) thinge last 4 Want't proposing t© try and |Who was really nice. and Whe every sew (he bumarous side af | budy obec hi toto haugh M eff” Maid By | temefusily | ake be Vhs situation.” Hoface mildly ox than thet, but he say be glad to j know thal. at the worst, it i only 2 Lompecary ingon ype u nd towked at tim, 4 with growing |her eyes widen Meve it—it would be too horrible “1 whe did what, Syivial Weren't you there when—when it bap No,” the replied “1 only heard of it afterward. Mother heard papa tatking morning, as if he were angry with somebody, and at last she grew uneasy she couldn't bear it any lon er, and went in to see what was the matter with him. Ded wae quite @ione and looking a4 usual, only 4 | little exieted; and then, without the | slightest warning, just an she en- tered the room, he changed stowly \inte a mule before her eyes! Any- body but marema weuld have lost her head and roused the whole house.” trected an oriental palace for Wack-'breaking down entirely. “I could trbath, fearing that Horace would bear it better if he had been a nice “Thank heaven #he didn’t!” said Horace, fervently. “That was what 1K SEATTLE STAR ANTA CLAU apyrepriate, | Mra | trusen on hin pri nid trie de- | nd turned the key on the tp after shuliting Horace, “try | oresents are arranged about the room ‘Think of the serranty 2 dseute 3) Gp aan | amd at the foot of the tree is = min © copy righted drawing by Bimediey be n° ewtul “Horses, bow could 1 deri more! you be no curcions as to lot « great | witkedd Ctring like the protemted, atl is tottie was most afraid of.” thought it would this,” whe anid t wee you une denying i cocape out of a Fextra mpectal mince ples. German Bakery, First and what can bave put said Horner Hut he ten't | queer mote so cuntbone jpialoed. “I trust | hawe mare tact | with dreadful black slaves, and—and | daveing girls and things, You pre- | tended you wore quite poor” A CHRISTMAS KID By Edmund Vance Cooke. "Member once, long me ago, “mast » month, t Gram says, “Would you want more ple? en course 1 tol ber, “Yeu,” Bu pe says, “Grammaw, don't you know the obi!’ bas had two sliere, "Bides the fruit en puddin’ en & help or two of ices? | So I didn’t cit no more, em | wisht, 1 did, J could be o man en eat, ‘stead of just a kid, Member once--suppose it must of been the Fourth Pa was shootin’ roekere off, clean up to the sky, N't says, “lomme shoot ‘em, pa,” en ma, she gasps in gaye, “You mustn't let the child! he'll burn bisself to death!” |e pe days, “Too bad, son, but way we're tia” Kn then | wisht 1 was a man, ‘stead of just a kid “we must walk the ‘Member once @ great, big feller took Hit me right here, on the nose, en it bled ‘b bled. He was ‘mont the biggest boy. | bet, you ever see; Regiar giunt, he was, twict agin as big as me, er’ time he passed our house, I run away ‘n Ka wisht | was a giupt, too, ‘stead of just a kid. | "Member Jots o times 1 wisht ‘at I could be growed En drink real tea ter supper out o’ pa’s big mus fn have « nickel fer my own self ever’ single day, With no one sayin’, “Course it's yours, but lemme Bn no one askin’ where | am en what it was | did But Chris'mas time i'm glad | a ‘to man, but “POR HEAVEN'S SAKM, ¥ ROFESSOR, DON'T "Member last year's Chris'mas, how old Santy come gone. Sylvia, if you wen woulBn't find « maid byivte, jay such a jerue! and—and ungentiemaniy trick Buch « stack | couldn't tell half the things I got. A ratiroad, en a jumpin’ frog, & wagon en a goat, | En ma, she only got a di’mon’ brooch ‘n’ sealskin trace of them only shows | dread and mistrust If ql speak Mike that,” she said, “It must |have been you who. Ne lean't be O, yes, 1 got some club skates, too, en went right Sylvia, you cant realty ey te eS a Bn was so glad I wasn’t growed, but only Just a ikfa 4d Sylvia, frank- paeey te Oh ay ‘Member once, one Chris'mas, pa; he fetched some things fer ma, En ma had went down town en bought some other things ter pa. &n thoy give ‘em to each other, en I was s0 sorry, |] believe you know brass bottle 1 showed that they was bad en dassent have no on the whole, perhaps, be- She bore it nakes me ery sometimes a-wonderin' what they did, Bo ain't I glad I ain't growed up, but only just a mind him that she hing of this kind had foretold sor from the very first READER EEEEED EERE EDP PEDROS COERCED 44 CHRISTMAS DAY CURIOUS CUSTOMS FOLLOWE IN MANY LANDS D BY THE PEOPLE IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES—GOODWILL AND REJOICINGS UNIVERSAL jntnas os a fe the large - wh much the as thome in F wre held IRELAND. Ireland celebrates Christmas tn an Jaberate manner. There in feastin 1 gayety and masqveraders men and women, fii (be streets of t eter and ning ter given over to fun. ERMAN Y nd, Germany cdebrates @laberately than any “Weihmachten”’ it ormany, and it ts the ane ‘T've| creat day of the your. Al sunset on the day before Chrint mas the church Dette cing ané every one gore to church. Meanwhile the Christmas tree, which, by the way, originated in Germany, has been trian. jined and Nehted. and on the return | from church the ebitdren are admitted | to the room where it stands, brave in |e decorations and fit» lights The iptore representation of the manger at Bettichem with the Chest child the hotly mother, the shepherds and the wise men. In the oclebration which fotlows the lighting of the tree the ecrvants and ali members of the house bold are tnctuded IN FRANCE Wrench children do not jock for- werd to Christmas with the pleas- ure of their English and German couninn. Save for the religious ser views, there te Httle celebration ¢x- cept in some of the border provinces and in Paria, the gayest city in the world. ristmas eve in Puris in a sight lomg to be remembered. From the Church of the Madeline to Port St Martin, the boulevards are brittinmt- ty Wgbted and lined with Mttie booths where everything imaginable soi At mi@nigtht, mass te beld im all the great churches, attended by thousands of worshipers. On | Christmas day the theaters are opea afternoon ahd evening and great lmerry crowds attend them The Latin quarter has its own celebra- t on Christmas night Enor- mous dinpers are served in the stu- dent quarters, and these are usually followed by baile in ALBA‘ AND LORKAINE The simple-minded peasants of Aleace and Lorraine provinces have a Christmas custom which i fol- lowed nowhere else. The day ts a retigte festival, and moss is at- tended by éverybody. Later in the day the children are given presents. which usually consist of nothing IN SEORVIA Ir one of the pe torn thristinas pig. I nist 1 ope: large ple is placed on @ spit over an open fire jand slowly reasted, When it ix done Jit ix eaten with great rejoteing. IN ITALY In Italy, particulariy im the nouth erm cities, Christmas is very @iffer- ent from the day in northern climes At Nice, the fashionable winter re- sort of all Burope,'the streets are fied with flowers and biooming plants. ‘The Italian peasants do lnot celebrate Christmas largely as a boliday, although it is one of the important festivals of the year IN SOUTH AFRICA In Cape Town, South Africa, the streets present an interesting and picturesque appearance on Christ- mas day. it is the Gay of the great manquera4e festival for which the town bs famous IN MEXICO The Christmas celebrations in Mexico are unique and last for nine ve Beginning Dec, 1¢ and enda- ing on Christmas eve, the sume cere monies are gone through with every night. The members of the family and the cuette assemble in a larce room, in which is « rm renentation of the oetivity A rvumical service is then held, which s# followed by yall th guesta, headed by a chtid lbearing on # tray a wax image of Joseph, Mary and the Holy Child, parading through all the rooms in {the house, singing. Finalty the child enters @ room alone and the door is clased. Those outside plead for Amiesion. and the child finally opens lene door, when all enter, the plead- jéng song changing to one of joy and |praime. This ends the religious cere- mony | The servants are then called in, and scramble for nuts and sweet- oats takes place among them. This is followed by the seramble of the members of the family and the guests. IN OTHER LANDS AN over the world. wherever Christianity has gone, Christmas is Jeelebrated. In Japan, in China, im Afriea, in the far south and the far north, this day is the Gay of days jin many ways and with mang strange custiwns the birth of Chrt remembered with festival and celebration, and throughout the wortd is heaml the great, gied ory— |“ON EARTH. PRACK, GOODWILL TO M | HOW THE ROOSEVELT’S CELEBRATE THIS DAY OF GOOD WILL TON.—A glimpse of the White WASHI ation of the observance of the great | < day there a year ago. They have |naid at the home of the president thar there is to be no nge in the »ro- «ram, It can, therefore, be set down that there is a joyous family party in prospect, with presenta in abund ance for every member of the bis household. No outsiders, not even intimate friends, will be invited to share In | the.celebration over the bounty bf Santa Claus. It will be as much a family afair as though the Roowe- | velts lived on @ farm, snowbound and miles from any neighbor, instead of a mansion at which an army of |. There will be no Christmas~tree. The president's objection to that form of cele tion has er been made | known. folks have expressed the belief that {t is because he does not approve of the destruction of trees, but it is only a guess, He has not discussed the subject. ‘There ts also an absence of decorations in the White House. There are some flow- era and Chirstmas-greens, noth- ing like an elaborate devoration of the house i= attempted. That is be |cause of a desire to avoid display and to have the observance of the day as simple and homelike as possible. Of the presents last year there was no end. The president has thousar of friends, Bo have the other mem- bers of the family, The -prevaging spirit of goodwill at this season seoms to be emphasiaed aud Ins creased when one’s friends include the children of the president. The wharacter of the gifts received last year has been con led as a family |recret, ‘The number of them waa rendered plain enough by the prow cession of Messengers that came to the White House during the two ‘weeks before Christmas. There could bene doubt as tothe contents of the mysterious looking packages ad~ dressed to the president, Mrs. Roose yelt and the chitdren, Ii can be said, however, that the most acceptable ) gift to the boys last year was @ fully equipped electyge railway that was set up tn the nursery, There were wens of the usual Christmas toys for the little ones and elaborate ents for the older membera the family, Miss Altee is said to have recetved many valuable articles of Jewelry. Archie contributed probably the most interesting feature of the ay's cel jon, He had secretly installed a little Christmas tree in a clothes closet and the White House | Aectrician had placed in the branch- jes o number of tiny Incandescent | Lampe After the distribution of | presents, Archie led the family to the | hidden tree with Its brilliant lights jand gaudy decorations, The mem. jbers of the family were, of course, delighted and greatly surprised. Christmas peckages that have ar- rived during the past two weeks |have been stowed away in the f brary. On Christmas morning the |family assemble in the room and |there will be a ind distribution. The morning will be spent in helping | the little ones with their toys. There | will be big Christmas dinner. In |the afternoon there may be a visit |to the home of Mra. Cowles, the sts ter of Mra, Roosevelt. There will |certainly be a drive through the |parks. "The children will retire ear ily, while the presidént and Mra nnevelt | friends at dinne: Puones 4 MH) toze, ntertain a party of 7