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PICARD ht, 1%0¢, by American ciation. } N OT until Press Asso- first last well the the was half of century spent did the spe | literature | which has come to | cies of be known asChrist- mas fiction effect a permanent lodg- ment in the hearts | of English ¢ ing mankind. ancient plays awd rhymed holiday legends of the mid die ages are still in continent. but the more lish had only the and the quaint antiquity. afling notion, the with a distinetive was an American it would occur to few to no Englishman te asserted in their Dickens origi Christmas story insepirably 'ted with so of the holiday literature en 1 the popular heart that it is wider the mention of Christ The credit of the however, must be given 1 man who was at the end wn Dickens was born at Malta when Nelson's to Trafalgar, who had nlter at Abbotsford and tivated him and who was aft 1rd secretary to the United States in England That, means Washington Irving. Irving's first, book, "The Sketch-Book £G y Crayon, Gent.,"\phad pleased body, so much indeed, that it was republished by John Murray in i.ondon and translated into several cor- Both the publish rs and the public were urging him to io something equally meritorious. No- realized more keenly than did the exquisite work the diffi- producing mate, and he 1 man to be driven into medi I'hree years later he published cebridge Hall," and the chapter of masterp erary workman 'Christmas at Bracebridge Hali" was the holiday tale of English literature and has furnished a el for subsequent fictionists which n equaled and never e and felicity of 3 ation to every t in those days, and the wonder and the charm are potent still William Makepeacé Thackeray, mas- of a realism that is the wonder and the despair of those who have followed i speak th IKVIXG tor of the tule i tl likely that 1 d istmas vor t were gence that ted the Charles CONN ws wi gation every S0, tinental languages bol y iithor of the thy of its ship entitled pioneer moe 1 been Its asy were a re ter im, needed and chose His "Mrs. Ball" nothing in of any wan! The leased never was himself. HAWTHORNE. amazing of all, the author of the professed to believe that it was MTS kins' Ba that. had made his reputation--that, too, in the face of fact that "Ve Fair" had just published This perversion of in regard the literary wares aud his lack of faith had so little ) in the success of | "Vanily that after it appeared he applied governme position--are ti an who cre- bave a dim » values reat fiction are of their gs, but few have ipparent than Charles who knew the circum- nly that be had put sal childhood into pathetic - short stories. true of "I'he Ghost which is an ac- which |bhappened to bled boyhood As a y believer in ghosts, e that he never entire- ed his faith in spectral ap- Many of his tales are peo- sembodied spirits, and they ghosts of no other writer that appeal to one ne believe in their genuine- frequently more real acters who consort « h they are dead, nduct themselves like living en- uno raode! none Perkins re- Sembies ever on thé mind ther pub with it, was { 3 but h hackeray Most so mu to nasterpiece--he onfid Fuir' ¥, I A sma suflicient that masterpiece may pti of artis spell ally 3's Room," things was a firn prabab are the spooks ike I'he iving chat \ithoug are Cliristimas ghosts are unique itm of literature. Of all the silept shapes that nave, been sum- moned from the upper and nether worlds to lend en- chantment to the Christmas tale his alone have become acclimat- ed. There is nev- er anything re pulsive about them. They are the most compan- invented. They choral, but are fre- Chey are not the y and never to be of the fairy tales, personalities, freed from ali THACKERAY. ounahle ire juently Spooks ever seidom sepu ful. leep k sxorcised phanton wt actual cheer asunting, s Only One "BROMO QUININE," that i is Coxative Bromo Quinine ures a Cold in One Day, Grip in 2 Days * 'on every PV LgPbOx. 255 The | parable! His name | of course, | mortal restrictions in rein 6 Jocasie® | tion that cowe to us when we bid them | und vauish politely when we are weary of their presence. Prer Harte pever made a secret ot | his admiration for the creator of Little | Nell and Tom Pinch. Like Paul at! (hie feet of Gamaliel, he was content to | | receive his lesson from the man be | acknowledged to be his master. Not | | until after Dickens had finished his | | work did the young literary light who | | stood revealed in the far western irma- | | ment learn that his model had seen that exquisite elegy "Dickens In Camp" and had been heard to express nis admiration of it in the most gen- | erons terms. The dying novelist de- clared that the work of the new Awer- | | tap writer wontained such subtle | | strokes of workmanship as no other | writer in the language had yet ex- hibited. And then be asked, with a nuamorous gleam in 'Dun't vou think that his manner is very like wy own?' | Like Dickens, Harte had a genuine | fondness for the doings of Yuletide. One who knew him best says that up to the last day of his life "he thought much of the the last kepr up the fond and foolish custom of sending generous presents to his friends." Better appreciated in England than ir his pative country. [Tarte spent the later years of his life | abroad. but his stories were to the last listinctively American. In that ad- mirable performance entitled | Santa Clans Came to Simpson's Bar" there no flavor of the old world Christmas, and Jolmny, cloth2d in the stars and stripes, is a young American of the most unmistakable sort. Two of the most strikingly dissimi- is fir Christmas. stories ever written are | two white ones. We will put those } Hawthorne's "Christmas Ban- quet" mas Party." There is little of | Christmas in| Hawthorne's | grewsome tale. The joyous festi- val is only a lit- | erary makeshift | : around which is DICKENS. woven a weird | psychological study that drives all re membrance of the blessed season from the mind. Its ghosts are not the so- ciable and easily banished spooks of Dickens. They are formless and creepy and all pervading. They are the fearsome specters that rise in the frig- id vapors of German mysticism, and | they are made icier still with a strong admixture of New England transcen- | dentalism. It is a masterpiece in con- ception and in treatment--no question at all about that--but it does not make | the Yule log glow more brightly or | lend 4 better flavor to the steaming bowl. Mary 'Russell Mitford does not deal | in ghosts. All of her Christmasichar- acters are flesh and blood people, and they are not of the sort that "will not stay dead when they die." Her "Christ- mas Party" is as dainty in its work- manship as anything which ever came | from her careful pen, and that is say- ing much. It is as restful and non- suggestive as a pastoral, and its influ- ence as soothing as the delicate savor which escapes when the cover | of a potpourri jar is lifted or the 'drawer of an old time cabinet is open: ed--the faint, pervasive odor of crush- ed rose leaves and dried lavender. THE RATIONAL CHRISTMAS. ) By ELLIS FRAME | (Copshent, / is 1909, by American Press Asss- ciation. | "Let/ us give in reason this year," suggested; "Not merely for the sake of giving i things It's the spirit, Let us, therefore, squanderings. Let the gifts we give be things that may bo needed Instead of trash soon to be cast aside." "My darling, your suggestion shall be heeded. For there is wisdom in it," he replied. she not the money invested turn from foolish She did her shopping early, being guided | By lessons learmed from much apert | ence, She would show her lord and master, she decided, | How excellent a thing was { sense / | their baby boy she purchased a Freuch corset | And an oriental rug that caught her eye "Though the darling longed to have a | rocking horse, it Wasn't sensible," she.-murmured, with a | sigh ! They had promised not to buy things tor | each other. They would merely get a few things for the child. She would sacrifice her sister and her: mother, | And it gladdened her to see the way he | { 1 For smiled As he said his people, too, should be omit ted. i So the wise and winsome woman, day | by day. From shop to shop, with sweet emotion, flitted, Having dry goods bound up and sent away. He bought a pipe and splendid smoking | jacket To give their darling gles on Christmas | morn. With these the child could make no such | a racket As might have been produced with drum and horn. He also got the works, unexpurgated, Of old Boccaccio and Rabelais, i So that their little one might be elated And long have glad remembrance of the | day | On Christmas when their presents were displayed They sat upon the sofa side by side, And while their child looked up at them, dismaved, He had a culprits manner, w Cried. and she Dead men tell no tales, but some of unprinted of them ie lot manu serpt Any when a ave a woman an' fool a man, but man f woman at a nine days wonder his weary eyes, | Christmas season and to | "How | and Missy | Mitford's "Christ- | | one American." i |ilton's THE CHEERFIL _WKX CANDLE. | By ALICE LE BARON. (Copyright, 19, by Ausstlean. Press Aspe NCE upon a time two little can- dles lay side by side in a big box. Both were pure white Said ome: "I wonder what will become of us. Do you think we | could be meant for a Christmas tree?" | For you must know that to be put on a Christmas tree is the best possible thing that can happen to a candle. "Of course not," said the other, who was cross. "If we are meant for a Christmas tree it will be for some shabby little children--see if it isn't" "If we are," said the first, "Tl shine | my very brightest, for the eyes of even poor children with only few pleastres in prospect are enough to rival little candles on Christmas eve." "If we are," grumbled the second, "I am not sure that I will allow myself to be lighted at all." Christmas eve drew nearer gnd near. er, dles, with many others of blue and pink and yellow and red, were bought | for a Christmas tree. On the day before Christmas, while | it still was daylight, some young girls came to arrange the presents and make the tree ready for the evening. "Oh, what a lot of pretty little can- dles!™ said one of them. "They are such lovely colors--all except those | out of sight, because the red and pink ones are prettier." whisper. time." "I won't," snapped the &ross one, When evening came, ranged all | round the tree were happy boys and | "PUT IT ON THE VERY TIPTOP." girls. were bright. When the little white candles were lighted the cross one just sputtered a minute and that a gentieman standing pear said: "Oh, what a brilliant candle! We ought to put it where it ean be seen better." "Put it on the very tiptop,* ge lady. od that is where they did put it-- on pid very tiptop of the tree, where it nodded and gleamed in answer to ; the smiling faces around it. The Barber's Joke. Christmas gorning and the barber very busy. "I'd rather shave ten Germans than The rubicund brewer in the chair smiled broadly through the lather. "Goot," he chuckled. "Dot right But vy? The barber took a firmer hold upon his victim's nose as he replied: "Ten Germans pay me a dollar and a half--one American only 15 cents." And you could have heard the ther mometer drop. 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In two 8 be was around, and [| know that ever Cared 5 Years vos "1 am now ° quite the his bow- since this man has enjoyed most ~ex- vellent health and| simply because he used Dr. Hamil ton's Pills' three times a week No Dr. Hamilton's Pills are an old and proven cure for all disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels--good for children--good for old folks--just what jeveryone in poor health' re quires, 25¢. per box, or five boxes for $1. at all dealers, or the Catarrhozone Company, Kingstou, Out Sure enough, the two little can- ! "Didn't I tell you what would' hap- | | pen?" said the cross little candle in a | "Yes, but wait" replied the other. | "Just shine your brightest all the Soon every bough on the great ! tree blossomed with little lights. Some | | of the flames were faint, but many | then | | went eut. The other shone so brightly | i Bat it | is almost out of sight among the green ' | branches. said a 56 Years Growth in Merchandising + 17 to 31 KING ST. 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