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PREETI SRIETFFTE AER wagagy srmaemaceos Oma MOQ emma ~~ CL ---- EE RE . and 3 a Fine Old Christm why orie Howe o Dixon) alden a ry of aiding at the window for fully .. minutes watching the drops slide' down the window pane. Horrid old rain! Why did §t have to rain? The snow was so lovely the day before and now it was rapidly turnig to slush, und- er the steady downpouf, Christmgs was over. anita desire, a new sled and hoc skates, had been fulfilled. But, shucks, what good were they in the vain! It just spoiled: everything, Mother saw, as 'she always 'aid, just what a state he was 2. Drops Were going to slide down his instead of the glass in another mo- ment, #f something Weret't done immediately. ' "Walden, dear--please tome. over by the fire! It's been such a 'happy week, hasn't it? We aren't going to spoil it with gloom now, are, we? You and Lum-dum-draw up-your little chairs and I'll read a little further. I think if will suggest a game to you. You listen hard and see if it doesn't?" Objected to Baby Name . Lum Dum having arrived at the age of six(sometimes objected to her baby name, and insisted on her . own "Ruth Afin" with dignity. This time she didn't care. She had dress. ed her favorite doll at least four- teen times that morning.and un- dressed her and put her to bed as many times." She. felt quite willing that Vivian Rose Violet Lily should sleep awhile in peace, now that oth- er amusement was offered. Mother had read them a bit about Maggie and Top in "The Mill on Floss," before. The morn- ing 'of the snow sha had read:to them the beginning of the chapter |g "Phe Christmas- Holldays" because it was just that kind of a-day she sald. "Fine old, Christmas with snowy hair and ruddy face." She began again and went on: "Snow lay on th ecroff and river bank in undulautioins softer than the limbs of ifancy--OIld Christ- mas smiled--for he meant to Jight up home with new brightness, eo deepen. al ithe riches of indoor col- or and give a keener edge of de- ha. to the warm fragrance of- 108d.' . Passes Box ef Candy den began to brighten up when Mother read this last part, and glanced around. at the: three | and the pleasdnt room as if seenig them for the: first-time; $e "went over very quietly, so as not to disturb the reading to get his box' of candy and pass it aronnd. The two children nibbled in silence as Mother read on. It was Ruth Ann who interrup- ted suddenly, "Mother! We can seven children, And they to church and everything. Walden had been stud next paragraph at. his shoulder. "Tom and Mage! have ben in bed when they Singing under the windows at mid-) night,' so we'll be the singer and pick out some more doll§to be m nl Maggle. ' o 3 Lum Dum bustled i EJ doll's bed In per most * nner. "Well, T' declare! ¥ Hose Violet Lily has just wal and she want to be Magsi¢ says," "She's' muéh too big," said Wald- en, absently, trying to decide' which doll would be Tom and retoncile in his somewhat practical mind the fact that the toy village wag much smaller than the dolls' house; and How were the miscellaneous assort- ment of dolls ever to get in the curch which was abou, two inches high? Mother had gone over to ner desk to write thank you letters to her friends and New Year cards to the people she had forgotten to gend Christmas cards to. She listen- ed to see how this difficulty. would be straightened out. - "There's just two boy dolls: 10 chose from, for Tom, and they both are crazy," sald Walden, "Tom was a big boy." Walden was holding out a fat smiling infant in rompers and a doll made of gum drops ant tooth picks. Poor Gum Drop! zLum Dum looked overd. "You've eaten one arm and one foot off the gum drop boy, so he won't do," she said "My darling Patrick Henry-- glve-me:liberty-or-death will have to be Tom. Come here, Patrick, If you are going to church you must put your hood on. And shame on you for a 'big boy wearing a hooa!" She giggled. Walden laughed, too, and Moth- er returned to her letters peacefully knowing that things were starting well. : She looked up again. "Mother, how did. Tom get home from. school?" Walden was asking, 'I'd like to have him come on my rail- road train." Did they have trains those days?" Mother opered to the previes: chapter. "On here it is, "The happf- ness of seeing the: bright light In the parlor at home, 8 fb] bib pass: | ted noiselessly over Wnow cov- ered bridge'. " : " "What is a gig?®™® ~~ "Its a. carriage, dear." Must Go A Switch, "Well, we'll plag=it' is short for. engine. I have'nt any bridge, so it will have to go Sioute by tne play Re _-- 8 pen ~~He'lll hos Tom |switch." . . ao +m with "Sith: Bolly 1 like oh Hoey ps doy did. What does it say,~Win- dows and mantelpieces and pleture frames? Tom, you dray out--the Doll house. And I'll cut some little holly from some of the Christmas wrapping. And. we'll -have-the dolls be Aunt and Uncle Moss and the Shem oh pa Mother. erest as than the EE we antied about the fracks = a reecived with many kisses and much enthusiam by Ruth Ann, who was Mrs. Tulli- ver for the time ng. "Oh mush!" said Walden. "Tom was twelve or Sulithen years od, " a [Ruth Ann who wanted see that THE ; GA BAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12; "1928 A i 0 tnadt my darling boy, come iomeé to 'his dear mother," cooed justice. was done to 'a scene, ia which she ¢ould roperly shine, "o1-was glad I had remembered hat chepter on Christmas in 'The ill on the Floss,' because it gave em something new to think | bout; I'll have to+write and tell fandmother all' about, I must go Md do it right away, too, before forget that remarkable sermon. War, if you only could have seen' h, look 80 solemn and (mis- ning to the doorway wrinkled hi nose at him. Then she went on upstairs to write Grandmother, A MILLION BRITISH DEAD The Imperial War Graves Com- missioy, which has been busy for ten on has nearly completed Abi known graves, Of the "missing" "un- g, and: 'whose fall is in' one single in- t Gate, which refers e 'to whom the for- geriptio non to them as t} une e of war five. hundred, coast of Gallipoli through - the separates Europ on thé lonely way which om Asia, they | A brave men Who "tell the -awfulstruggle, The slope which ove s Jerusalem, from the Mount o with' tte 'sepulchres. breathed their' last Land. 'And here and. off Muscat, in the Fiji, Bechuanaland, ahd glan Congo, we find thy scattered graves of those who laid wn théir lives. for the Empire. Andithe fath- omless ocean holds many more who went downto the silept depth. in the great struggle wi.h a zlant foe, |: = RUSIDENTIAL ~HOPIBLS * London, 'Eng., Dec. 1253A move is being made by the .Overscas setlement Department to organize residenaial hostels in various parts of the kingdom, where women will receive tuition in domestic , man- agement as a preliminary to. their departure to domestic employment overseas. The training hostel op- ed last December by the Dugh- 88 of York at Market Harborough has proved a great success W | other hostels are now under cots [ sideration for Scotland, Lana | shire, Newecastle-om=Tyne ard | Wales. 3 those who the Holy, re, in fgr- y Islands, the Be. EC DOE CES EE ECE COTE Christmas. Our China Shop. contains such a gr presents... Our stock of 'fancy chi city to come in and look it over. *will not bother you to buy. Our CHINA Fox CHRISTMAS | variety of ively "China and glassware that it is not hard to satisfy nearly eresyone who is looking for nice vr 'is exceptionally choite in decoration and loveliness, and the prices are righfand resonable. 'We want everyone in the ust say you ate looking around and we re will be -open : every evening till China Tea Seis. 21 pieces English Bone China: §7.00481000 | Engli Bone --T Cups d- Saucers 59c 19c $1.00 Japanese Tea Sets 23 pieces "Lustre China $3.79 Set Cake Plates .........o00ns0 ..25¢ to $80 sesnes seme ss : ENGLI 2: .25¢ to _GLAS ~ 60c Doz. to $4.50 Doz. - BRASS GOODS 39¢ 49¢, 69c, $1.49 SH TEA POTS S TUMBLERS 1 f ; » = f= e 97 PIECE DINNER} TS $14.50 to $65.00 SET ALA LL, Th Plates so anaises sn Yin. 48:in. Oet, Salad Bowls Salad 7 Piece' Water Set . eras $1.79 7 a be «persons, . ter plates, tea plates. pEMETERR ran A complete digner set for six including six each-, cups, saucers, bread and but- 6 .-dinner plates; soup "plates and fruit saucers, one each salad bowl, iO sugar bowl, cream pitcher, 12- inch platter, covered vegetable "BEATONS CH od oad 4 i dogs rung) been in effect in the Border Cities ves is white |; 3 n ON ~. - : gm y o & X 5 | 8 CHRISTMAS SONG By Anne M, Robinson The hearts of the ages are crooning A Christmas song, - olden 'and sweet; A lullaby choired by. the angels To lay with a star at the feet Of Him who is called Everlasting, Ouur Dayspring, our Lord from J on high, 0 hark to its melody swinging Hosannas from earth to the sky! The hearts of the ages are beating New rapture and joy on the night, With 'peace and good will gladly . greeting ; i day of incredible. light; As closer and closer we gather The hope of that first Christmas morn, h When the heavens broke forth into singing And Jesus, . our Saviour, X born, was GOOD NEWS FOR DOGS 'Windsor, De¢, 11.--The 'ban ing at large, which on has for more than a year, may he lifted within the next few days, according to Dr, A. E, Bowman, of the Border Board of Health, SLAYER CAPTURED - -; Vancouver, B.C,, Dee. 11.--Dominic Nissi; alleged slayer of Tony Augus- tiao, was taken into. custody early Monday morning agcording to the police, He confessed to the gBoot- Hing. 3 . When ages scolds youth it should remember that virtue often consists in being fed up. New Grain Terminals on Historic Ground Brockville, Dec 12, ---- Historic ground will be- -. covered by the Great Lakes Terminal that is to be established by the Dominion Government below Prescolt for use after the completion of the Wel- land Ship Canal, The territory that is to be expropriated by the Government for the terminal has a frontage of = approximately two mies on the St. Lawrence and ex- tends from Windmill Poin} to the creek passing through the hamlet of Johnstown, It was at the former spot on the river-front that a party of rebels who had crossed the river during the Rebellion of 1837 resisted siege on the part of regulars and militia units, who lost 16 officers and men before the garrison of the old mill (originally erected by a' West Indian merchant named Hughes) capitulated. The windmill, standing and now used as a light- house, has been suitably marked by the Historic Sites and Monu- ments Board. Further east, the same body has the site of British batteries which 'were set up in 1761 by the expedition under the commana of Jeffrey, Lord Anthers!, to effect the reduction of the French stronghold, Fort, Levis, | which had been established" upon" an island opposite, The sdrfender| of Fort Levis to the Britisls.expedi- tion marked the passing of French 'the still; dominion over the Upper StLav- fence; Stoppng Polat In pioneer days, Johntowr was To wn 'to the voyagews a#'La Galette" and formed i-stoding point after the long ang ardous ascent of the St. Lawrenwg raids. it was there that Simcoe recaied a vociferous greeting Irom he half-pay Loyaljst officers. tponiis arrival in. Upper Canada tongs ge its. government, and it wai th too, that the first. "capital" of te eastern part of the provime; ws get up. Up to 1808 Johnstovn ws the administrative centre ofall t 'territory lying beiwein th Ottawa - and the St. Lawrmnc, 'Frame buildings --- all trae ¢ which has since disappeared--ten erected to serve as court-housein, ijail. wrong-doers, sometimes fo; the most, trivial offences," weree- 'casfonally exhibied in the stks or the: pillory for the' edificion and education of 'their fellow#i- zens, The 'place. was laid outid occupied as a town-site, but &r Brockville (then 'Elizabethto)) had been chosen as the "capil" of 'the : 'Johnsiown 'district; '|e baildings gadually disappeared practically: - every trace of Jok- town's original © grandeour {i | vanished. Where the court-hde and ja} stood is now devoted to | accommodation of' summer tages, and the coat:of-arms oh =| COme a once adorngd the former buiding is now erected over the judge's bench in the Court House in Brockvile, KING ZOGU OF ALBANIA Albania 1s one of the world's smaller kingdoms." Only a little while ago it was a genuine repub- lic, and its President was Ahmet Zogu, the hereditary chief of the district of Matya, a Mobammeaan territory, which in the long-forgoi- ten past was Christian, Ahmet had 'but scanty schooling, but he does not lack ability, and he possesses an extraordinarily gentle and win- ning appearance, which contrasts ver .ysharply with his ruihlessness of action, When yet a boy of twelve he noted . that his uncle, Essad Pasha, was the only relative whom he would have to fear, and it ig a strapge coincidence that Ahmet hag scarcely come to rule over Abania when Essad fell by the hand of an assassin, Ahmet has | 2n a fightor and a stern ruler, and he has never been without enemies. As head :t the army he saw to it that when the time came to chooze a preside of the Albanian Republic he was hte man; and when the Repuubiie was ready to be abolished and the inkgdom came in, he was Ihe self- chosen king, Every uprising aginst his authority has been met with ruthless _everity, and he is an ab- solute monarch, Engaged to marry a Mohammedan girl, he has now soifted his allegiance, and it is rumored that he is contemplating mi rriage with the daugh er of the King of Italy; and it is also whie- pered that he is prepared to be- Christian in order tc achieve this desirable result, But he has his own troubles and his palace is even now heavily guarded, and he has to reckon with as fierce a hatred as is to be found in Europe, His hand is heavy and he is not afrai dtp strike, yet he is, but mortal, and there are many. agencies through which death may come to a royal tyrant, CHINESE MOTHERS: As Toronto, Ont., Dec, 12,--Twenty out of the 65 Chinese wives and: mothers 4n Toronto form one of the most interesting of the loeal Red Cross Home Nursing Classes: They are highly intelligent and: seem delighted to bring thefp_ba- bies to be uused in the various demonstrations, A Chinese woman; a student in one® of the medicak colleges, gave some of the insiruc- tion, The members had to be ae- companied to and from thelr homes, as neither the women nor the children from the families from which the class was drawn, are ev- er allowed alone on the street, An- other interesting class was organi~ zed by Miss Goodman the supers visor, among the blind girls In Clarkewood, and after certain ad- justments had heen made, the nurse helpful things, Many members of was able to teach them geveral the class were the mothers of children, quite normal children, b¥ the way. 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