The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1918, Page 11

SSE “What Does Christnas Mean? By the Rev. Thomas B. Gregory } Ooprrtaht, 1918, by The Prese Pubitebing Co. (Tbe New York Erening World.) Fear Not. OURAGE and good cheer! That is the feeling that should be bolding high carnival in our thoughts at this time.- A’ Christmas it {8 evory one’s privilege to be brave and cont ent and to have done with everything that smacks of fear and despair. At Christmas it is our prerogative to stand at the top notch of our Anest posribilities of thought and fectin {ih all pessimism and cynicism, All gloom and ugiy suspicion, as conpictely forgotten as though they had never existe’. Let me say that Christmas ts the symbol of that which ts fundamental, Panic, and that goes down to the very bottom facts of life, Without the Christmas THOUGHT life in this world would be, from every viewpvuint, 2 disma) failure FEAR NOT! Think avout ‘t for just a moment Wore you ever thoroughly afraid deep down in your heart? Did you ever crouch and tremble in ihe depths of your soul, as you faced or felt that yuu were facing some great calamily? If 6d, you ated not be told how utterly prostrating it Is, how it un- merves and pira!yzes one, and how, for the time being, all power of action is gone. - 4 “Of all the enemies of mankind fear is the most fatal. the heart of valcr. It makes cowards aud slaves of us, from the possibility of all heroic performance. For tomorrow—whether it be today’s to-morrow or the to-morrowNo? , Our existence on ,carth—be fearless. : Whittior put it in @ nutshell: It plucks out It cuts us off I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar, No harm can come from Him to me On ocean or on shore, Look up through night, the world is wide; and in this Infinite universe there is roon. for your fairest dream to come true. ‘Throw fear cut of the window, and let joy be unconfined. Hse done with the dumps and the doldrums, and get’ squarely out | into the light. - In the temple of your thought are there any bats, and owls, and ravens, with their dismal flutterings and croakings and never mores? Drive them out by flooding your soul with the sunshine of cheerfulness and trust. \ Only a few months ago darkness was around about us. Out of the encirciing gloom the great forked tongues of diabolism were where atcut us. But we kept our courage, and to-day how changed the Situation fr’ All the clouds that lowered over our house are in the deep bosom of ihe occen buried, and all the world is singing the grandest vic- tory that was ever celebrated! i Tb: day is never so dark but that the laws of yet has the cun heen knocked down and rolled {. YAR NOT! and again, FEAR NOT! Christmas Greens By Andre Dupont HIS Victory Christmas we should not fail to make ethe tes the mantel and home gay with a touch of | Strange to say, t Sreenery, even if we never took the|*ed to appreciate th trouble to do so before. A fifteon- cent epray of holly over the manto! | or an inexpensive wreath in the win- dow breathes the Christmas spirit Much more truly than Ao tables full of expensive presents or tons of Christmas cards. In decorating the home the simplest schemes are al- ways the most effective and any ‘woman with the average amount taste can do the work well. Holly with its shining leaves ang bright red berries makes the most show for the money, both for wreaths and used in masses above pictures, banked on mantels and used to fill big vases and deep bowls, Very Pretty wreaths can be purchased made of laurel adorned with the red berries of the spicebush and to the uninitiated thease often masquerade darting every- light still prevail. ato a mud-puddle. y of holly brought in al- attention, B. Enderby, a detective, ie sl Mount: her Jewelle ea a Alf Enderhy sunty has never yet | (Copyright by George Ht. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. ‘hat SSS SSS, | HOME PAGE | Tuesd December 24 1918 | Such Life! Your Utree BoY Doesn't Seem TO CARE ABouT ‘You MUCH TOYS DON'T HAVE TO SPEND MUCH MONEY ON TaYS CAN ST SCENT A PRESENT ANYMORE THEY ARE NOUNCG] FoR THEIR AGE No, HE DOESN'T Beueve IN SANTA HE IS VERY OLD Fur HIS AGE » Bur | HAVE Two OUOERISIDS WH ARE CRAZY ABOUT ToYs- THEY STILL RELIEVE IN SANTA ~ LET'S Take A Peep \N THE NURSERY Doran Company.) to it MI the thieves, Dunsany leaves for London, snap from where, he sends his reports to t Keaton Milbourne, snether actor, is really Bvan eciy hast onened & sresad atte nian fe get as the real holly wreaths, If you uo fn Giamtond as"beit: meta bows 'Gf the stacy it 8 nhot- want rather more elaborate decora- sided tions use the ropes of grecn that come. for festooning walls. _ These green ropes are twisted from an over- (Continued) green vine that grows among the AVING divested himself literally pine trees of our Northern States and of every cent, Roland set keeps green even under the snow. about finding a job. He Mistletoe has lost none of its for- finally landed one as as- mer attractions, especially this | sistant bookkeeper and involce elerk Christmas, now that some of our|With a coffee importer on Water boys are back home again from the (Street. How he hypnotized them into war, but @ little of it goes a long |Peleving he could keep books 1 can't way. A bunch under the chandelier |**Y- His salary was ten dollars @ oF @ eprig over a doorway is all that | Weck, and he lived within it, which 48 needed in the ordinary household | change. {4 the Wate aeMing ee the to enable the young people to have|inatinees, He had a hall bedroom on all the fun possible by kis€ing any | Hast 17th Street, and ate outside, In pretty girl who is caught under it, | ‘He €venings he boned shorthand. His de ‘@ become an expe If you live in the suburbg, on in jidea was tq become first an expert CHAPTER XIV. law stenographer, and finally to study the country where there are pine | law. trees, I wonder it you have ever| 1. found him ag usual in the ad” what “fe wretched little room, bending over Fealized what beautiful Christmas|the shorthand manual. with @ green decorations you can make from pine }shade over his eyes. I was his only branches, pine cones and spruce boughs, or in fact any kind of ever- visitor in those da He was thin- ner than of yore, not so hargssed per- haps, but grimmer. There were deep Breen, The tassels of the pine | hawklike lines from his proud nose to branches are the most beautiful of | the corners of his bitter lips. It made all Christmas greens when seen | savage to see him wasting his against light tinted walls, ‘These |Picndid youth in this fashion, “I’ve just seen Irma,” I said, same branches make @ignified and very easily arranged decorations for shurehes, ag they can be most effec- tively massed to fill up large spaces. Of course all sorts of flowering Plants, especially poinsettias, with their starlike scarlet flowers, or pep- per bushes covered with shining red berries or even the little begonias “Yes?” he said calm: You never could gé¥.any change out of Roland, Whatever he felt he er dropped that hawk mask. Mount was with her.” low, Mount.” 1 asked amazed. “He's rich,” be returned with a sneor. : All the time I was trying to goad him I was getting more worked up with théir masses of pink flowers are | Myself “That's not itt 1 answered lovely at this season, than you., She's sound to the core, But, whatever you do, if there are ‘children in the house, don't forget It's only your black temper that see: evil in her!" “Then how do you explain Mount?" to put _a few Christmas greens on ‘the maatel over the gas log, or grate, or fireplace, if you are fortunate enough to havo such a luxury. A five-year-old friend pf mine ex- resged the idea perfectly last year. id she: “I don’t think it’s exactly he asked. “That's her tnstinct,” I said, “It would be any good woman's instinct, She's trying to persuade herself that she loves him to fill the horrible emptiness of her heart eince you failed her.” polite not to put some Christmas greens over Santy Claus’s doorway, just te show him how much we want go ‘it that nouss, you may be sure, “I fail her?” he said with his eye- brows making two peal, . “Precisely, You have no right to allow her to go on thinking that you are guilty,” et ae “I don’t care to go into that again,” he said with his immovable stubborn- ness, “If there is a catastrophe it will be your fault,” I cried. . “Really, as I've told you often, you've missed your vocation, Ber he said with his bitter smile. “You're 80 romantic, Let's change the sub- Ject."* “It would "Very well, then,” I said. be more merciful never to tell her that you are innocent.” That tou®hed him, “Oh!"—— he said sharply taken aback. “A man doesn't like to dwell under that ‘sort of accusation!” He quickly recovered himself. “Just as you think best,” he said hardily. But let him make believe all he liked, the one little glimpse had con- vineed me that he was human after all. CHAPTER XV, REPORT OF J. M. NO. 9. u O-DAY as I came out work-people’s entrance to Dunsany’s at noon Jumbo passed by on the sidewalk. ed me a scarcely perceptible ot the We met as usual to-night at the Turtle Bay Cafe, Later in the evening when Jumbo's good humor was somewhat restored, he referred to our noon meeting in & facetious way. “Thought you said you were vut of a job,"*ho said: I made believe to be somewhat con- fused., "Ah, J wasn't going to everything 1 knew to @ strange. said, Jumbo asked me what my jab was at Dungany's. I explained how I handled all the stuff that was sent in to be reset, my particular job be- ing to remove the jewels from their old settings before ‘handing them on to the expert craftsmen. After wd had another drink or two I made believe to drop my guard completely. I left out the ifs and coulds and edmitted that my game at Dunsany's wes as I had degcribed it. ‘To prove it I brought out a couple of beautiful unset diamonds, which com- pleted the conquest of Jumbo, division of the profits, I passionately refused to consider fifty-fifty, since the work and the risk were all mine, Half a dozen timeg the budding part- nership seemed about to end. We finally agreed on sixty and forty. By holding out as I gid, [ believe | have lulled Jumbo's syspicions forever. The compact Was cemented with @ drink. i ‘At about 10 o'clock a man came into the place alone and went to the bar without apparently looking at us. “Why, there's Foxy,” cried Jumbo in great surprise, He hailed -his friond and had him join us at our table, ‘They overd'd the casual meeting a little, I began to suspect that Jumbo had telephoned this man to come and join us, and t waited with no little curiosity to see what would come of it. Jumbo informed with a scarcely concealed leer that Foxy was a “good fellow;" in other words, a crook like ourselves, Verily, words come to strange passes! ‘This man exhibited a considerable theoretical knowledge of diamonds as of one who might have read up on, the subject. ‘i I apparently passed bis examina- tion patistactorily. He glanced’ at Jumbo in a meaning way, and the latter said: ; "Look ahere, English, you ought to be able to make a good thing on the side by appraising diamonds. ty heart jumped at the possibilities this opened up. Was I about to land the job of diamond expert to the ang? ad REPORT OF A. N. June 25th. K. Milbourne came out of his board- ing-house at 9:20 to-night. Walked east to Seventh Avenue, north on Seventh to 58th Street, and east to a resort near Third Avenue called “Under the Greenwood Tree.” This Is a saloon and restaurant with a large open air garden in the rear where @ band plays. 7 I waited outside upwards of an hour. Then I went in to see if I had my man safe. I found there was a back entrance from the rarden out to 59th Street, and ho was gone. I réturned to the boarding-house, Mil- bousne came home at 11:35, and jude~ ing from the light in his room, went directly to bed, ALN REPORT OF J. M, NO, 10. June 27th To-day I had to go to my work as usual, so I didn't see any of the gang until night, In our present state of excitement and uncertainty we haye abandoned the Turtle Bay as a meet- ing place, I found my partners in anythipg but a good humor. Foxy gave it as his opinion that you had teen scared off, “We know there is no one.backing him,” said he. “He has no financial resources. He can't keep it up.” Lorina would have none of it, Her eyes become incandescent with ha- tread when your name is mnyones 5 and lie low for the time being. Lorina scorned him, She pro- ceeded to point out to us all just where you stood, know as well as you do, ts uncanny, said, with one. ‘8 a bulldog. unl he has pulled us down, unless we stop him with a bullet,” Jumbo became panicky, gestion was for the gang to scatter except possibly against Foxy. You are too conceited to be satisfied s You will not strike until ave 4 He will never rest boarding hou His sug- She appeared to Her insight You have no case, she pital, boy. chance of Janding the y here by the name men. of in almost as unfavorabl position for undertaking "missionary work” as Mr. Dunsany. ing the matter over I decided to again ask the help of the famous surgeon who had befriended me in the ostensible purpose of consultin; as to my health. self as very willing to help save the ‘Three days later | heard from him as follows: “The young fellow is He expresses He this time been able to conceive of the Ralph & doubt, but I am net one of them. 08- —“T think Tam useful to them because { called at his office for the yy.5¢'tne him him- really as The Evening World's Coprrisht. 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Dear Cousin-Kins: VER since I was aw ee aeatine bee toe a car first of June is the longest day in the year. But [ do not think that ig 80. I think that Christmas Bve {s the very longest day of all the three hundred and sixty-five that go to make up the year. It does seem as if the hours between the waking and the night time will never pass, Asd whens 60-to-bed time comes at last we do go to bed and try to close our eyes tightly so that Santa Claus may work his wonders and plan his surprises for us uninterrupted. But this is hard. Even though we know for « certainty that Santa will not come while he knows we are awake (and he does know— he knows most everything) still it is the hardest thing in the world to go to sleep. We keep thinking of the things we wish he would bring and dering whether ghey are the same those he tas planned to bring though our heads go round and round with thinking and we are all out from wishing, our eyes keep wide awake and the night hours seem to creep along even more slowly than the day hours did. 1 say CHRISTMAS EVE Is the longest day in the year. Teacher always said after the longest day of the year had gone by ail the following days were each just a little bit shorter than the one before for all of six long months and then came the shortest day in all the year. The longest and the shortest dey a) far apart as any two days of one year can be-—they are six months apart. Teacher sald so, and I suppose she knew. But in my world the longest and shortest day came one right after the other, for Christmas was only half as long as I wished it to be. We used to creep down etairs, sister gnd I, Before any else was stirring, and take a peep at the books, dolls, dishes, tops, trinkets and toys that jolly Santa had dropped down our chimney. Despite tHe early twilight ir the morning, their colors shone out—red, yellow, blue and orange— right and new. There in one single minute we saw before us all the hings !t had taken us so many long months to think of asking for. It seemed that hardly had we had breakfast and started to enjoy our new possessions before dinner time came around. Before us, steaming and brown and oozy, was Sir Turkey Gobbler, King of the Christmas table, surrounded by all the goodies that go to make up such a feast. Dut here again realization wus shortcr and less sweet than anticipa- tion. For in one’s mifid one con purtaxe of a dinner which lasts several hours and one can cat a whole turkey, a full quart of cranberry sauce, several mince ples and a few plum puddings, but in reality little boys and girls are not equal to such feats and so dinner was never as long on Christ- mas Day as it promised to be on Christmas Eve. I daresay it will be so with you, my Kiddie Cousins, too, I hope you have all anticipated well and long upon to-mrorow’s joys, for most of the fun of life is in that, and I hope that you will be delicate at table and at play, for the real pleasure of life has its root in delicacy, and I hope that your holiday will be one to, remember for a long while, for a good deal of the sweetness in life is in memory. ‘Every Kiddie Klub momber fs invited to attend the Klub’s Christmas play, “THE WISHING RING," at the MANHATTAN O”? ERA HOUSE, New York, on Tuesday, DECEMBER the THIRTY-FIRST, at HALF PAST TEN ‘nm the morning and to bring their best grown-up friend with them>. The KIDDIE KLUB PIN Is the only TICKET OF ADMISSION which you need to admit you and the chosen adult companion. I hope that each day of the week between now and our show will seem as lopg as Christmas Eve to you, ‘cause that will mean that you're ancl« pating it and that’s what I want you to do. Anticipate it first, then come and enjoy it and remember it fondly throughout the coming year, Come to our Klub play and spend the end of your midwinter vacation as happily ab you have begun It today. i My best Phristmas love and wishes are for you. Cousin Eleanor. MABEL AND HER STOCKING. Mabel was taught to darn stockings very carefully. It happened one that her playmate, wanted her to come out to play and Mabel war 1 can darn it some other time.” And darned all of them but the last on and it was wern very thin on the knee, Mabel’s mot® always said, jdea of escaping her, ‘There are those|"“You must darn not only the holes who would blame the boy, I have sg but the thin places tag.” “I don’t think I will darn this one: T can darn it some other time, And quickly rolling it up with tts mate. she put it in her bureau drawer and ran out to play, Now. it happened that Mabel did not use that stocking for a long time, In fact, It was Christmas Eve when she took it out of the bureau drawer and hung tt up by the fire place for Santa Claus tv have seen too often that a mind which may afterward become strong and self-reliant Is at Ralph's age fatally subservient to older minds look honest,” the boy said wretched- hy, “1 run errands for them, but 1 never know what it'sail about, “Have you ever heard talk up there greater than Mrs. Mansfield?" Fhe othe '§ were considerably im- sound as Gallas, He apr are to be wet ates, Be only vague ate with gifts and she went to bed pressed. They asked for instruc- auite as attractive a yout your 5 Hon J . friend said, 1am very much intet- In the mean time, Lorina Mansficld, |N0t knowing that it was that par- "We've got to go on just as we ested, but am not yet prepared to weary of the inaction I had forced on | tlcylar stocking, are.” waid Lorina,” “Foxy must keop Make’ up my mind about him: He 1s her, or persuaded perhaps that { hed) Santa Claus was very good to the’ room on 49th Street, Jumbo the ©9Ming to-morrow at 2.20, dro the pursuit, boldly resumed | Mabet that Ci , flat on 100th Street, and Fratay here, convenient for you to be Nere, L will Her Qenigns, on Mrs: --——'s diansnd that Christmas, He save. Bae t here English. English mustn't come he: again, Enderby tan't on to him yet, found Enderby, {¢ 1 have the right dops, (2g among ot will lie low for a few days, and the! thinking that we are will That's why we must keep our present hang-outs, come to cne of them to pick us up, POR curity, again, and then we'll hi CHAPTER XVI. N Wednesday morning I motor- ¢d to town and took up my res- ‘dence in the Hotel Rotterdam, For several days the situation verybody go about freely, and as usual, that is, all except office, led to se quietly start to work He's got to re him. “So was 1," my letter It was from Mr, Dunsan was better than merely good looking; He was dressed a little too showily, as is natural to a boy of that age when he is allowed to consult his own taste exclusively. ad ‘The doctor had me into the consult- ing room first, "Well, what do you think of him?" he asked. “Tl am charmed,” are no two words about | he said, * he had nice eyes, arrange a meeting as if by accident.” Needless to say, 1 was at the doc- tor's office at the time specified, the blond boy already er patients in the to recognize him ¥'a description, 1 said, wait- outer He that he had been detailed to go to New “There ut I didn’t want to raise your hopes too high in ‘ oe véal 4 nice fountain pen, a nice pair of : Bechlacn tei late Mca. Levering., (fer| White satin party allppers and a box Teal name is one to conjure with in| Of chocolates. After a while the thin America. ° place gave way and everything fell Mr, Dunsany or “English” reported | with a bump on the hearthstone. The fountain pen broke and all the ink sot on the nice party slippers. And port on Resale, pry ood bs) ney, ang what should he do abou ne arbi gentleman who never hesitated | {he box of chocolates got on the floor to put himself in danger became un-|and a nice silver watch got @ dent in easy when it was @ question of actus | it. ally committing a crime, We arranged a chat over the t phone, and I gave him the.best reasons for going ahead with the Bcheme. We had so much to talk over that I told him I would go up to New England by a different route, and if he was not led upon he could come, to me at Wher Mabe! got up tn the morning and saw that she cried and cried. Her mother said, “How could that ever, happen?” Then Mabel said, “Oh, I remember now, I didn’t darn that @ on the knee.” After discussing a little what we | } that Mabel never went out to Frmatined in statu quo, 1 learned would do with him we had the boy in. /rovidence early on Bunday snd we) olay until she was eure abe warned English’s daily reports that Lo- “Ralph, my friend Mr, Boardman {000 eS na been working iogecher wal "ery Stocking perfectly. rina and her gang were still waiting wished to be regularly introduced,” wi bd ig tog “| By KATHERINE SZMANSKI, for my first move. I, for my part, Said the doctor bag iy oxehanae ie) word face to) Brooklyn, N, Y. 4 of " ar, * ‘ace im our natural characters, — was determined to make them move dman was the name I had “We succeeded in pulling off the meet-| first. n in mx present disguise, ing. Mr, Dunsany assured me he rad|SANTA 18 NEAR! GANTA 18 ‘Onl: i The boy shook hands nicely, he was !5# 4 hg sa ancy One of his reports gave me neither too bashful, nor too brash, and Ot been followed. We taid out our HERE! ythi ote from It: , A of c t WAmong ai the men who come ang "one facetious remarks were made all fay (i, Cannelem, 1, Gunesneey Jum |Aante Je near! Sante ts Near! ‘0 in this den of 5 SFOURE re be | outed : fe ry en Ot crooks there Ie one a coon saw that T would have no !and the whole gang would be to allow| my dear: that has in terest an: as Blondy, “It would like very much to get the boy out of this before the grand ca- He tells me that he lives at the Adelphi Association House, No, West 125th Street it 18 a semi-philanthrdopic tastrophe. compassion, tremely good-looking boy of eighteen or thereabouts whom I know simply it ie an ee: fidence. told honest Apparently were erooks. club or By Isabel Ostrander Who Are the People on the Island? Tale of Mystery and Love BEGINS NEXT MONDAY ON THIS PAGE @ spell of terror, THE ISLAND OF INTRIGUE difficulty in winning Ralph's full con- His gratitude for friendliness % robbery from start to finish. was very affecting, and before long he me all about Lorina and Foxy and Jumbo as he knew them. didn't trust him far. ing of their actual operations, but his young He had not up to \ them, even to t them, to carry ont ‘Let Just close Your eyes and go to aleep, And when the raya of to-morrow's sun peep You will have your dolly, my dear. them steal Mrs, Levering’s jewel I sald, “let them get clean away with They them. We'll return them later, Mantes tai harat’ aad (+ ” ita is here! He knew noth. | ‘#uppose pome one gets burt” he Hig ‘slolghbells are ringing out food told him they “Not lkely,” 1 sald. “They play tno| ,,°heer Lorina held im under #afe 4 game, We will be on our guard." ‘aden. with, (09 200 Se (To Be Continued Thursday.) For Christmas and Santa are here. By DOROTHY ROGERS. aged twelve years, Bronx. HOW TO JOIN TH OBTAIN YOUR Beginning her, cut out, tis a Kiddie Klub Korner © Conducted by Eleanor Schorer j Ee