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jh i Pua NC AR Home Magazine, |. MRS. NAGG AND MR-— — | JIMMY JOHNNYPANTS, By ROY L. McCARDELL. Bha's Glad that Christmas Comes byt Once a Year Becauge It Means @ Good }f WEL Time for Heery it a all, very well means @ hood time work, you can sit co all.men ars alike: They have the One but Her. "M glad that Christinas comes but once a year, Mr | Nagy, for if it means anything put disappointment, hard work and no thanks to me, I can't see it! Oh, for youxto sit there grinning! = It for you. You do not need to go to mfortably at home and see me wait- ing on you hand and foot, because Lam a @illy, foolish , woman, bit much yy for Chrietmas, and much you cure for anything or any-| body except yourself! And yet why should I blame you, | ‘care for me and much you care oasy time in this world, 1 hardly w eanee paipentiaccent on myself, my firm thought is of others, 1 did get a new dress "gud @ new-theatre cont, but those were things I had to have, and if you look | gurprised because T got a down. pair of-allk stockings, 1 can tell you, Mr, Nags, that I only got them becaute they were a bargain! | ‘They were a half dollar cheaper than I can got them anywhere, Why} #1 do not know, 1 deny myself a| should try to be exonomical and savi thousand things and work ang slave my self into my grave and then you will marry again and the second Mrs. Nags will not stint herself, and you proba- ‘bly will appreciate her all the better for And why don't you smoke some ot it! those cigars I bought you? You sey you will take them down to the office, eh? Yes, and give them to your ' ¢riends, who would see you starving an d your family'in the streets begeing \ tor ‘bread, and they wouldn't give you @ cigar! I paid a dollar twenty-nine for that box of elgars, and only fifty of them 4 ; for fifty- in the box, I cdtld have bought cheap cigars; there were some ine cents, but I said to myself, “No, I will deny myself a lot of things I and get him expensive e(pare,’ Morrid-smelling old pipe and don't even open the box. Yes, J WILL cry; it shows how mu tewre for the diamond crescent you bought me; Yroken heart? I would rather -you.were kind and Anitho world! Christinas-means extra work and-extra worry for the; no one finds fault with you; you are not annoyed by th over their gifteds a disgrace! Nothing ever satisfies Imogene; she ‘and you sit there puffing om your ach you appreciate me! What do | will diamonds mend a patient than to have all the jewels ‘ e children, and the way they fight wants everything the other children have, because she has your disposition all over again! And Percival has broken his drum and has torn the hair off Imogene's Woll, and Brother Wilile sayy burglars must have broken in and stolen the woven dollars that was in the children’s bank, because I saw him with the “bank in his band té-day, and it was just as he found i, with the door swrenched off, and thé, thought that he might be accused of doing it has vpoatly broken his heart and he has left tie house to spend the day with “hie friends at the Jolly Pallbearers! They are going to play a lot of WOhristmas games, and Brother Willie thinks he will win some of them. He is not much more than a child, Claus! j The way you Jet the children stuff going to make them sick; but’ you don’t care, because you will not have the care and worry ‘of them when they 1 really think he believes in Sante themselves with candy and cake is are sick! : Mrs. Stryver has!a new set of ermine furs, and Mre, Dubb told me she hoped to get her watch out of pawn, and that she thinks Mr. Dubb is irinking again, and Mrs. Terwilliger has a letter from Mr, Terwilliger in Denver saying he can’t send her a check for Christmas, and Mra Gradiey as the grip, and everybody is 80 kind to'her, Her sister, who Is in Europe, sends her an fllusirated post oard every mall, and they are coming back when Mrs. Gradley sends the money; and fo you see everybody has @ merry Christmas but me, and that's ® year! Ob, dear! Yuletide Opinions What's the nse of trying By Albert Payson Terhune. Hi great tolk of the nallon have On Givers seasonable themes along ‘pound Christmas Day, But in these feeble stanzas we To apt remarks by men who ne'er be Charlie Murphy, of Good Grdind, baheld the Wigwam's emoke Arising thyough (he morning air, and Tm grateful—let's see—grateful there’ Windlly dawned the Yuletide above old Tappan Bay, And great John D, expressed bis thoughts in language far from gay; “Vm sorry that it's Christmas, for my bank account ‘twill spoil, Wied homes are lit by eandled trees Out for her morning ramble fared Sarah the Divine, And thus the diva aurmure: she “Bonjour, Noel! Votre sante! ‘m giad it's Christmas time aguit,” you might have heard him say, “Beenuse all dangers of Reform are ten full months away,” In Morristown the dawnilight fell softly on MeCurdy, And in his sleep the great man’s lips breathed these éxpresstons wordy: “It's hard to churn out gratijude! And "my sixty years young! Vi | Free odinagé for 20 Golden Voleo! Vive I'aanerique! Hi Li why I am giad {t comes but once \ to be happy? —Unauthorized. fitung words te eay horewith polnt with pride fore have testified: thus he gently spoke: it I can't refuse, ‘# ohly oné C, Hughes!" folks won't burn Btandard 4)" awept along the line: Christmas in beangirt Boston! A eunbeam chanced to pause on ‘Th’ amalgamated features ot doughty Thomas Lawson, . E wish ft wasn't Christmas!” he was “Wall atreet is closed, i can't expone fete ee ee | ! understood to say; | 4 single graft all dayt” | OF Toys OFF’N Mis SLEIGH = NOW | CAN OH-OH-OF- THEVVE BROKEN OUT~ THEY LL RUN OVER ME | CANT STOP ‘EM OH-HELPY HELP! \ DOWN THE HiLL— \ to this ie @ long ways| Foxy Freddie~There, that HL. P. ortermobile 1 | orter git him! ‘| TAIS WILL BE EASIER To ROLL He Ate Too Much Christmas Dinner, and Thies Is What Happened to Him. The Snow Man—lote: A hat, dese ‘oa, @ nice pipe an’ a set of real coal RT ame OME PAG she By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ) ont people are bérn great, others achieve greatness and sult others thrust In the Inet successful persoue to go for and ap who very geherally their upon yo, y are numbered ‘Che world, those who as thelr gall NOvmatier what your THE GREAT GIFT OF GALL, |, Beaury wavs. | B Monday Evening, JUST PULL IT ALONG HOME WiTH ME AND TAKE QUT WHATEVER | WANT = YPr THIS 1$ LUCK SURE THIS BAG \S Too HEAVY ILL STOP MERE AND TAKE Out HOLY XMAS! - IM No RUNNING Away AM I? Must HAVE EATEN Too MucH PLUM Puppin' “Bay, Jimmie, where can © feller ex- ehange @ ‘Pilgrim's Progress,’ & nook- tle an’ new mittens for domethin’ use twir" ETTY’S BALM FOR LOVER i you welte inal ies a form of on~ ‘arm. it me Y*) Fears He Will Be Kicked. and mary of Possibly the young man has family ov NOM | ere ee vee ligations which prevent his paying any y | wirl serious attention. You must not let a him see he is the “anly one. end’nice to him, but cul quathtance of other young men, wll fhe! A Butter and Egg Man. ves Me Breentng cook: t uf fief half-peck. Make the very beet orctard. Bo sweet @ the #c- luxury - loving thing finer now. thin apples ar % cents a twenty-three rouse wives, man 10, 4 | favored eauce. it | Welle Boston lettuce at 10 cents for b solid wae & factor in the | market, Dealers any the supply 18 un- lwntted. Reef ta down a “December 25, By L. Av Searh mas trea, New York and his Wite, or his bost girl, slater of cousin from out of town, ought to be able to find nomothing to thetr taate, "The man- Amorinl Santa Claus is mebbing his hands in prospect of busitiess being lowly and the turkey hanging high, and thanking his stars thht the worst week of tho veur {9 over, Bernhardt waa about the only one who whe not fe aera that Christmas comes but onee year, and then comes hard, | finiahed her engngement before ge! audience that packed the Lyrle and te | fused to teave until nearly half an hour jafter the final curtain fell, remaining to cheer her and call her out again and and probably give us another view of | her golden, three-dollar art. Whether | that will be her farowell—"\Ah, woll,” as she qriousiy remarked the other day, “that remains for the good God. to say!" At the Opera-House Mane. Sembrich | Bave the only real sparkle to a perform: | &nce of “Traviate” by opening a ‘batt of real champagne with @ trepidation | Surprising in a person of Violette'n ex- | Of collogiana furnished almost as much entertainment as Mr. Wawar, formers, and nearly evoxywh | the line there was good cheer, 00d houses. At the Liberty, however, ‘A Fair Bxe' went into the dr atic discard, when the ‘curtain fell , at the Knickerbocker Mian Virginia | ee ot TA Belle Marseiliaise” on 6 vy | OW to exercise discretion, it not | frugajity, In one's expen iitures | despite the holidays’ prodige! ¢ | mands j9 a problem '“Tom" Wise, heavy- weight comedian in “Before and After at the Manhattan Theatre, thinks he has solved, Surrounded by a clamoring thring of small nephews and nieces, | eaph of whom, like the avunewinr reta- | tiv, bore an imposing heap of parce! Mr. Wise was discovered Saturday | morning in the elastic heart of the ehop. | Ding district by Frits Williams, also a L] | member of the “Before and After" | company, ‘The right hand of the hefty | Player was incased In @ fur-tined glove | of unusual proportions; his left wae | bare umd blue with cold. But no evi- | dence of discomfort was vistble In his | his expansive fac “L've got tt at last! he chuckled. jot what?” demanded Mr. Williams, himgelf 0 slkirmiahed in ‘Toyland, “ve found & way to save money in buying Christmas presents.’ | “Explain,” requested the interested Mr. Williams, “Do you ase that glove?” | “Observe that I've only one ont” | Tao." { “And that it is on the right band?’ “Tm, not bind.” “Well, this make-up ts | the problem, You sea, Impomeliie to get my encumbered right into my poket~T can only use the left. “But 1 still fail to grasp the idea,” protested the other comedian, “Pahow!" i's right on the surface. Tean't spend money with both hands as gual, Catch on?” .# . ILL H. MURPHY and isoit W Nichols, who “do” ‘From Zaza to Uncle Tom,” spent two in Europe last summer with HINTS FOR Little Chocolate Cakes. Bs: half a pound of Initter to a o olution of mont cream, mix In four ounces of sugar and two of powdered choc- fate and work together for ten mia- utes, ‘Then mix in alternately four whole raw eges and four ounces of pasity flour, Work together for about @ quar- ter of an hour and then pour the mix- ture into small buttered tina that have been dusted with equal quantities of butter and sugar, Bake in f hot oven for twenty minutes or a little more, sedge 0 ot gradually, 80 a8 not to let thom burn. Toe with smbot chocolate icing and strew chopped loaf sugar, almonds and pistachio nuts over the top. Duchess Potatoes. BEL and out seven to eight pota- toes in halves, Boll in water to over until just dome @pd no again. She will be back tn the spring | Perlence, At Veronique’ a merry band | / not | M‘ H, REEVES-SMITH has been }} monde, Ih | desired shape, Lay May Manton’s Daily Fashions, ITH half a doen new “shows” | thelr seven outsold ighte hanging on the theatrical Christ-| While there shey al Ambassador given by Helen was all in white and colocial nat, She made a pretty and the proud papa Prociation of her ‘she would knock "ea “But the Baglish are iy “Several women eommented iwwty and one In partieuler ty through her lorgnette, only to make some comment to phy Ignored her, time. But finally. when hate they make them wear are woman I observed: ‘f hardly think you~ know what sort of a het ft is that on “AIL T got in the’ way 4 teristically remarking te, Morphy in talking about (he) offvnsive, She would stare loud enough for us Pa Utile girl ts wearing!” @ stare, #0 I cont [ara Yes, Miss Blanche Bates played at the Academy of last eeason in “The Darling of Goda.” d | putting in his spare time get- Ung up & deck of plying cards wae bear the plotures of stage cule. rittes, Willie Edouin 6 the Joker, Lilllan Russell is the queen of dim | Grace Georgo—by gracious courtesy of hor lesding man-inventor—is the queen of hearts, HB. Irving is the king of héearts, and an Américan actor—John Drow—is the Jack of hearts. ‘The ace of hearts is George Alex- ander, | ‘The ace of clubs is Beerbohm ‘Tree. | Wthel Barrymore ie the ten of hearts, and Kkjna May, the Big Casing, the tem of diamonds, | gnats, Russell is the modest tray of | De Wolf Hopper ts the king of ‘Weedon Grossmith is a a Sir Charlee Wyndham ots into | the ace division. Ferdinand Gottschalk, James W Jameson Tee Finney and Arnold | are nine is. " Bilis J make Tet hacia the oukee we diamonds of fiiamn Colter Ie 6. Jock | Gertrude Biliott ranks as « she apt, , | Robert ten. ; tell ts a ten, ee } THEATRE party at, the Criterion A one night last week sent “Wilk Ne" Collier a note readings P “Won't you please aay a Httle some- i | thing next eat?’ Turni care Collier wrote: “Of ‘course wie a : oy. the | THE HOME. more, then drain and put back wiktr-the | cover on for sbout ten minutes until all moisture [s evaporated, Fores } ‘hrough a sieve, Retum to a sauce-° pan, add salt, of butkér and four egg yolks. ie hot while beating vigorously £5 ; emooth. Put into @ dish and lay & but tered paper on top. Fifteen or i well with the palm of t baking dish, dip and brush over the op, in the oven until they are @ light ail brown color, This ame ' makes delicious coquettes, if dredged © in flour, dipped In egg and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat. HERE Is something peculiarly attrac. lve about @ preity if ie =*3¢ Child's Apron—Pattern No, 6,234. terial required for the medium size is 2 yarie 3§ inches banding, Pattern 5,284 ts out {n vines for girs of 4, Gand B youre Of Age,