The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1907, Page 8

the neighborhood. ~ x ° Christmas feast received little presents of various kinds to console them and were allowed to join in the Christmas tree celebration. presents through children as they reached years of maturity continuing their expectation of receiving gifts from their parents and of giving tokens in return. : _ The Evening Wo E> Garid. ress Publithins Company, Nos. 83 to ©) Fo SOMEPM FULITEER, vn, 1 Tort oA beret Entered at the Por-Ofice ription Rare ming World sor the LAW, MeecTroes., #01 Weet 11th Street. t New York a3 Canada. sresces ee sS6.13 One vear®. -6 | One triomth. erey 330 ne month......- . NO. 16,827. ; sabe PEN NOLUMBE AG cccrscsssccscascee tac. lh S ’ MERRY. CHRISTMAS. E HRISTMAS ts mort and more losing its old right to-be called “a merry time’? and becoming instead a day | of worrisome interchange of gifts, Originally Christmas was a feast day, a time of cating and drinking, of bonfires and festivities. Not until the fourth century was it observed as a celebration of the Nativity of Christ, although its present name, Christmas, or Christ's Mass, comes from the religious character which was then assumed. | Prior to this time the religious celebration of the Nativity was held in the early churches in the spring. The date, Dec. 25, of the present} day Christmas came from combining the Nativity festival with the Ger- man Yuletide celebration after the winter solstice, All religious authori- ties concur that Christ was not born in December, as that is the rainy season in Judea and the flocks and shepherds were not at that time turned out at night. | From the German Yuletide came a Yule.log and the Christmas’ tree, the great feasts and the enormous dinner. } The custom of Christmas presents is of much younger,birth than the} Teligious celebration of Christmas day. ee | The first Christmas presents were fogd and drink. Beginning as a| free feast, the gift of food developed into provision for those who were | sick, infirm or for other reasons absent from the Christmas board. Meats, flour, cake and the like were sent to the poor and afflicted throughout'| | as The children’s part in Christmas also developed from the Germans. xis Kringle is German. * j¢ children who were not old enough to participate in the great. From this developed the custom of grown up people interchanging But that is far distant from the present day abuse of Christmas by which everybody seems to expect gifts from everybody else. P| mak: jcare Instead of continuing Christmas as a feast there is entirely too much [ne of a growing tendency to make it a day for collecting toll. is Far better would it be to return to the earlier custom and make]! Any Christmas a purely merry time, a day of feasting and rejoicing, of song, | n! “You do, eald Mr. Jarr, “You are always upholding Willie; ho 1s whe one i | tats spoiled.” fy do nothing of the kind,"’ "Oh, come now,’ rid Daily Magazine, Under, the By A ELEC Ketten. Mistletoe. AGO aera You Can’t Keep the Men at Home g They'll Always Find an - By Roy L. McCardell, “N= wae Please stop beating that drum a min- ute, or I'l) have Santa Claus come to-night and ake it away from you," said Mr, Jerr. “For goodness sake!" said Mra. Jarr, “leave the child alone! It's Christmas morning and what els# ise Grum for but to be beaten?” “Oh, well, ell right,” seld Mr. Jarr resignedly, “only you stopped little Emme trom blowing on that horn," “A horn abways gives me a headache,” sald Mrs. Jarr; speaides, it isn't nice for Bittle girls to be no noisy, Emme haa her dolls, why Gon't qhe take them and play with them quletly 7” : “Well, she's not much more than a baby," said Mr. ‘and’*— “and you spoll her," said Mra Jarr. © any distinction between your ohildr “You shouldn't aid Mrs. Jarr. “Poer boy, his own father doen't him. a said Mr, Jerr, ‘don't let us have any argument on Christ- matter of fact I muppose all fathers favor the daughtor | and all mothers favor the son.’’ { {do not; 1 tr oth allke!"* said Mra. Jarr. "And you should not ent euch | sin your head. ad you certainly shouldn't discuss them before the children, way, they are both nice children, if I do say it myself, They get along ro | together’— Mamma! Mamma!" shouted the little boy, "Emma scratched my face! She morning. As a a tiny bit'm< Even on Christmas Day; Excuse tor Getting to the Corner til ahe is amply a little fighting Imp!” ‘Didn't Wille slap ber?’ demanded Mr. Jarr. on his little sister? For shame!” “She scratched ine face!" bawled the boy. ‘tHe pulled my doliie's hair! walled the lttle girl “Ie it wasn't Christmas day I'd whip you both!’ thon, ‘I wish Santa Claws hadn't brought elthor of you a thing! I'm goleg to make him take away ¢veryihing, even the tree! Both of you, put down all your toym and ;qo out in the ¢ining room till you know how to behave!" It took some time to effect this mccasure of diactpline, doth children eryirg afresh and promising to be xood. “By George!" said Mr. Jarr: ‘talx about merry Christmas! They haven't deen doing a thing but fight and bicker over thetr things since’ daybresk!" “It's your fault,” wald Mrs. Jarr. ‘You've spoiled little Emma, tll she simply makes life a burden for her brother. Poor boy, he geta puniahed when It's all “How dare he lay his banta Mra, Jarr in exaspera- sald Mr. Jarr, looking out of the window. ‘There goes Rangle! I want to sen him about something!" And Mr. Jarr began to peel off hia new Christmas smoking Jacket and his new Christmas slippers. “I suppose you are going to run out to a saloon with that man Mangler?” said Mrs, Jarr, “A nice Christmas you giv¢ me! First you start the children to fighting, get little Willie punished for nothing, and-then you run out and leave me alone!" : 3 “T'll be back !n a minute! Very Smportant that I see Rangle!” said Mr. Jarr. And he dashed tnto his coat and hat and pursued the passing neighbor into’ the cafe on the corner, Just then Mrx, Rangle called up, on the telephone. ‘Is Mr. Rangle over he asked. e children got to fussing over thelr gifts and he ran out.’ So,{he dsn't here," said Mrs. Jarr, ‘who's Just gone into the corner place with Mr, Jarr."* yhat did Mr. Jarr get for Christmas?” inquired Mrs. Rangle. "Mexico declared that we were wrongfully seizing Mexican There was alreudy ill-feeling between the two countries owing to Mexico's’ - te _oMice, all of them smokers of no modest laughter and good cheer, relegating the mercenary element, if that must be continued, to some other day which represents less sacred and ven- erable traditions. _ Letters from the People. The Flery Sword, | ut they cannot give explanation. T would ne for that part of it certainly confuses BRITISHER. The Ship Query, American friends, me a satiat r was) Fourth street, a any | 4 stranger, To the te ot ening Woeld The Mery sword hich New York before the Spa to me an inexplicable marve reader offer a plausible exp this? hovered over oh 33 Another Straphanger's Plaint, | ths fy aie wh See eiwenen ‘To the Ya) World |as “she.” Sallors say a ‘rlilp ja called In answer to M ETlevances | 'she't pao b costa 50 about smokers in offices ullow me to| much, I say it's beacause “It takes an fay that thero are five directors In our | ¢xceptt ded man to man- t D. CAVANAGH, jage one, degree, If the smoked cigars fiends in que a of ¢ a tolerable quality there would be no obection, ut they smoke chaap cigarettes, I choke hearly every time I attempt to spoak. T think that If cheap perfume ts a remedy ‘for the evil, T will use tt, but a nico girl does not want to do fu thing. Now, boys and emp. You must smoke, smoke a and give us breathing room an School Jnnitora’ Pay, the Editor of The Evening World © janitors in the evening rity of them are ; depending on them, whom they would lik provide with a lttle of that is powed to prevail at the hol! leave off perfumery, soason, Gut which {n thelr case often Maxes of “Greenwich Village,” |bas to be disponied with, If the ‘To the [editor of Toe to World: teantiers In the evente ols can be Having jat this country ‘paid every month, the a Eneland, would you mind nfy tors? A JANITOR ving vent to a complaint? Aside from ‘Tel eh Girls, Your truly wonderful ctty and your s Pear eae splendid “arrangement of numbered , 7° Bt Editor of The red Adin ‘atreets, 1 find a most remarkatte stare) 1 Td Wita tn the complaint of ‘Of affairs in what I believe is calied | He “Hello Girl." I can't agree with her, Greenwich Villnge."" Watking through | SMe telephone girs are Ane and do West Tenth street the other day 1 thelr work well. Others are neglectful, et plainly marked ‘We lazy. tmpertine: and {00 talkative, I've b Street.” tried to reason how | found doth kinds. But I don't. think Could ithe poralbta to walk down Tenth | Much of people who complain of thelr stredt hd. teach Fowth street, and | hard luck tn Iife. Maye Rot yet solved this puzzle. Ij they ought ¢o get some other job or else ‘Mumerous inquiries ef same | be still. % eau obliged to wait so long for | If they don't ike it] scratched my face! Ooo! boo-hoo!" And Willie aa he banied smacked the [ttle | girl a resounding slap on the cheek. Whereupon the little girl yelled at the top |he of her voice. danced with rage and threw an tron horse and wagon toy at ber | mai | brother, ai “Never mind, dear,” came back Mrs. Rangle's answer, “Phero now!" said Mrs, Jarr, ‘‘You see how it ls! You have spoiled Emma They don't appreciate thelr homes or Christma or anythin: {o got a smoking Jacket and slippers from tne," sald Mrs, Jarr, “but what 4 your husband wilf get at that place on the corner ts what makes me "the men are all alike! The Happy H IN THE NEXT FLAT. |e | LETS TRY ALL THE RECORDS. oliday Home. & w By F.G. Long Jonny ! JoHN! I JusT wish Youd SEE THIS HIDEOUS CHEAP ‘PCE OF JEWELRY | No. 28.;-THE MEXICAN WAR.—Part 14—The Invasion. 'PTUHIS 1s the story of one of the strangest wars in history. A war. wibet endured two years without one side scoring a single victory or the other suffering a singie defeat. A war brtweeti smail forces well orfiled and large armios {ll-disclplined. A’ war hampeted and entangled by, A mesh .of politics, erdss-purpases, blunders and conspimcy. A war thea ‘won for the. United Stntes 522,565 square miles of territory (foun times the area of Greaf Britain); brought California Into the Union, ‘and changed the” nation’s political destiny. ~ di When Sam Houston’freed Texas and made it a republic several great nmions recognized the former province's independence not. When Houston, in 1845, induced the United States to annex Texas, territory. delay in paying indemnity for'loes of American lives and property during some of the local Mextoan uprisings. A boundary dispute, too, arosa. The Unitod States, in annexing Texas, claimed, all land along Its borders west- .ward to thé Rio Grande. Mexico, on the other hand, declared that Texes’s western limits had extended no further than the Nueces River, about one hundred miles east of the Rio Granda. To back up this claim, Santa Ama, Dictator of Mexioo, sent army into the disputed territory, and plams were also afoot {61 the invasion of all Texas. Ganta Ana was further urged to this by hearing a false rumor that we were abotit to go to war with England over the Oregon toundary dispute. Gen. Zachary Taylor, with 4,000 United States troops, was sent Into the “disputed strip” to protect American rights there. As soon as Taylor had } » crossed the Nueces River Mexico announced 2 Invading the that his advance wns an act of invasion and “Debatable Ground.”” sent an army to drive him back Taylor was Soehty ! a hero of(Whom nowadays we hear too little. o> He was at this time sixty-two and had spent his lfe, from youth, in the army, He already had a splendid record as am Indian fighter. It was sald of him that he was not an “upright” but « “downright” mau. He also had the rare military faculty of never knowing when he was beaten. With his petty force of 4,000, Taylor marched forward througn the debatable territory, realizing how inadequate that force must prove against the armies Mexico could. eend to crush it; but, none the les, pushing on ix though be had 100,000-men at his back. “Reaching the Rio Grande, he bullt a fort there on the bank opposite the Mexican town of Matamoras, Then, leaving part of his force to guard the uew fort, he marched on witR® “the rest to get provisions. As soon as Taylor's back was turned 6,000 Mexicans crossed the river and attacked the fort. News of the bomband ment reaching Taylor on his march, he turned back, short of supplies as he was, and, on May 8, 3846, mel the stronger enemy in battle. For two days the fight raged at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. But before the second evening he had won a notable victory. The Mexicans fied in dis- ordér across the Rio Grande Into thelr own country, leaving about 1,000 dead, as against 49 slain Americans. Taylor followed close on their heela, and on May 18 captured Matamorae. . Not content with driving Santa Ana‘s army out of the debatable ground | and protecting espace Taylor pushed onward {oto the heart of the hostile Mexican cov Reinforcements had joined him, and he now j had 6,625 men under his command. With these he attacked, on Sept 19, the | fortified town of Monterey, waich wan defended by 10,000 native troopd. On the third day Monterey surrendered, Taylor's generosity to the com auered orousing the utmost amazement in the hearts of the Mexicans, whe were used to following surrender with slanghter. | Tayior’s name and the fame of his soldiers struck terror to the enemy, |The #onericans might perhaps have continued indefinitely their victorioms progress into the very centre of Mexico. But at this point an unexpected low wrecked Taylor's high hopes. Polk was President of the United States at the time. It hav been | hinted by opponents of his that he purposely brought on the war for his own political preferment. It {3 certain he found scant support for {t in most sections of the Union.. Whether or not Taylor’s advance. téyond the debat- able Id was by Polk’s secret orders is not known» He or Congress had hitherto kept Gen, Winfield Scott (Commandor-in-Chief of the Army) te Washington under pretense of needing his advice. But now that Taylor jhad blazed the way for him, the old Commander-in-Chief was at last per ttted to go to the front. Palk was a Democrat, Scott a Whig. It was charged that Polk kept the latter so long at home in order that he might }not win popularity whitch .would make him a formidable candidate for the | Presidency, Scott was a man who enjoyed a great reputation based ca comparatively slight krounds. He had fought well-In the Canadian inves elon fizzle of the War of 1812, and had since then accomplished’ almost at se ane the nation’s armies, and ag soca as he could leave Washington he hu { Peril of Gen. Taylor. } Mexico and proceeded to upset Tera ——— oT smngements In the effort to Improve his own, Just as Taylor was preparing a brilllant campaign for the winter Scot took tho field with another army, with which he proposed to assall Vera Cruz, To swell the ranks of this second army he sent for Taylor’s best officers and a large percentage of his soldicrs, leaving the conqueror ot | Montercy stripped of the bravest voterans and with a pititully small body, lof men at his command. : i 1 Santa Ana learned Now the gallant General was weakened, Thi wee the wily Mexican’s chance to avenge himself for the: defeats Taytér had ‘nflicted. With about 20,000 men Santa Ana bore do¥n upon Taylor’s little army of probably less than 5,000, bent on crushing {t and forever ridding Mexico of her most dangerous foe. The invaders’ fate seemed certain. Nothing, apparently, could preVent the overwhelming Mexican force from Junnihflating them. z 8) nnn Scott Takes the viet poe “6 99 A Hi C 3 Mr. Dooley,”’ Again, on Congress, By Finlay Peter Dunne. 5 | SIDE by th’ pA-apers that th’ governmint has put up a sumchuse Wi fr th’ comfort fy th’ nation's laweivers, ag Hogan calls tum. Lasse) 7: mansion where they will have all th’ comforts ty home an’ inanay sthat are not home-like, but betther,'"’ sayn 3fr, Dooley (Finlay Peter Dunne) in the January American Magasine, “Ivry Congressmen will have @ room to hnself, doc irated in mahogany, Inlaid with pearls, where he can put his feot on on ebony desk an’ throw his peanut sholix an' apple cores into myriad lapus lasuly cuepydors. Adjinin' each room there will be a bath, whieh \ Congressman can take or leave, ar th’ mood seizes him. Weside each tub there. wil be specific Inethructions, prepared b< thrained government experts, fF th’ use ty th’ bath in case ly neceralty. ‘Insert plug firmly In bottom ty tu@t turn faucet at right. Congressmen are. respectfully requested to remove shoes befor enthering.’ An’ so on, Downstairs there will be a Turkish bath, “where Congreasmen can be invigorated afther settin’ up all night discussia th’ river }an’ harbor bill with th’ head walter. On th’ desk tv each member, th’ pa-aper says there will be a tillyantyacope, a oonthrivance be whioh, ‘when th’ mlmb la previnted bo Arork or fatigue frm attindin’ th’ jsession, he can hear what's goin’ on In th’ house on‘ thin hang up th’ recetver an’ remark! ‘Cy Lumnley fe still gnssin' about th’ tariff. How many cards?” oO Sentinels of the North. By Cy Warman. HE Northwest pollceman's first duty ts to die, If that should be necem sary. He in not allowed to shoot a deaperado, go up, zit on his carcase, roll a cigarette, and then read the warrant. He must not shoot, a@ all events he must not shoot first, which {» often fatal; for if there fs» a time when delay 1s dangerons {t) is when you are covering an owt vrites Cy Warman in-the Sunday Magazine, . 7 Jumbera of the force haye been known to ride or walk into the yery mouth }of x cocked .45 Colt and never flinch. In about ninety-elght cases out of every {hundred the man behind the gun weakened. In the other two casos he extended his lease of lite, but made his’ going doubly sure.- When a mounted policeman fulls, the open space he leaves is immediately closed, for back of him stande the Dominion Government, and back of that the British Empire, So the éée- perado who thinks he can Kill_qnd get away has a hard time, If the police Lehase him out of the Dominion back to the Islands, he Js likely to fetch up at Scotland Yard. If his nattye village Iles south of the forty-ninth, the Pinkerton take up his trail, and when all these forces are.after a man his days are giding wywittly by. ere: —— Four Curious Facts. at get rid of daughters East Indidns marry them to flowers. When the few 1 ‘ors are dead the girly are widows, and widows can be sold—cheap, A British scientist hax spoken against children praying about aytag while they are asleep, It is a great mistale, he sald, to let children hte ee sudden death, \ Bad sight ts stv: been proved to be the cause of lack of nelf-control, alcoholism and drug | ‘Dho Corean tailor does not stitch garmenws. He pastes the edges tom | proses (hem down. Coreans carry glue eround to atick thelr clothes | when they, aF6 tora, E Deen ey te the reason for men going wrong, ‘Defective vision hee taking) But Mexico 414 _ v, nothing. By seniofity he now found htmeelt: