38. THE DAILY B RITISH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1922, WHIG. (JHRISTMAS INA HE Bronsons were fortunate In having two houses--ope In the city and the Other ninety miles away on the shore of Black PonA 1 the mountains. They would go to the mountains as early in the spring AS possible and stay as late in the fall 4s the fireplaces in the Black Pond house would keep them warm. They loved the country home though ft wag lonely there for it was a full ten miles from the nearest village Pleasantville, and there were only two or three other cottawes at Black Pond. This winter had unusually mild. A week before Christmas the Lronsons, in their tc Home, were discussing plans for Christmas "Oh, Mother!" cried Mollie, suddenly, her eyes shining "1 tell you what let's do! Let's go up to Riack Pond for Christ ! We can cut a tree in the woods. And hang our stockings before the big fireplace and--and have a glorious time!" Mrs. Bronson heen wn and the children started mother asked. "Not a bi laughed Bob. have ple to keep me busy. I'm used to being alone in the woods. you know And anway I'm takin up my radlo set and I'll listen In eve nings on some con me amused." Bob reached- Pleasantville that aft. and made his purchases at the .village stores Scott." said "does Harold st! nines?" "Every Scott, He and his friend over to,.Gilboa talk ernoon he ne" ee eS Sd een ARD | I 4 BY CHARLES A. KING. mee] RTT E NORMAL SCHOOL, PLYMOUTH, N.H, -- % "Aren't you | [alfrald you'll be a little lonely?" his "11 i Bes!des | | "By the way, Ar. | to the Eroceryman, | Il use his radio eve. | The HANDY BOY AL | Lan £ «f certs. That'll keep | | answered Mr | "He's getting to be an expert. | to each other just as if they were | using a telephone "Good." sald Rob. ""T'Il see tr ean | listen In on thelr conversation taking my radio receiving set u { the ond." , It was a lonely ride throurh th I'm PD to ON 4 APs "Merry Christmas," He Shonted louked at Mr. Bronson with question- | Ing eyes. "Well," he sald slowly, "we | could do It if this weather holds. And | it would be fur, wouldn't it?" That settled it. "I know what I'll do," cried Bob, who was eighteen. "I'll drivaup two or three days before Christmas and get everything we need in the villare and have the house | warm for you when you come." His suggestion whe adonted. and | early an tha marnine af tha 29.4 Ran | woods to the mountatn house, but Bob | didn't mind that. His mind was busy with his plans for Christmas. He ran his car into the little garage, carried all his baggage into the house, and hustled about cutting wood and get- | It was dark then | ting fires started. and he got himself something to eat. As he stepped outdoor before closing | up for the night he noticed that the stars had disappeared. "T hake (+ Anaen't etnrm ® ha eptd | { JET TINGS FOR CHEASTMAS TREES hic SUALLY a Christmas tree is set |tree (s shown In w h the bottom of 1p with material most easily the tree is cut off and fastened to the vallable and perhaps the easlest middie of the end of a large packing i Way to set up a small tree such box which has been demolished for | #3 would be suitable fpr an ordinary the purpose of obtaining one of its room, is by placifghthe tree In alends. The tree Is then braced by small tub or large pail and packing small pieces nailed into the end of | coal or stones firn around It the box at the bottom and Into the | the tree 1s we tree at the top. !'n such a way as to Another way of insure that the tree will stand per- unti?! © ga Christmas | 1 I to himself t "Tha! | any of the broadcasting stations. would spoil a 16 a He picked up one of them and for Then a while listened to a rather broken | y dark and concert. Wnen it had stopped he sat | he was startled his watch | idly playing with his instruments. | that {t was eight o'clo He jumped Suddenly he was startled to hear his | fron: bed and ran to the window. Out- | name called, "Robert Bronson." he] side it was owing heavily and the he heard. and over and over again: | | wind was rising "Robe Bronson, Robert Bronson." | Bob, was bitterly "Yes!" he cried excitedly, forget- | "That means family won't come ! ting that he could not send a message. , out," he sald to nimsell. "There's six | "I hear you. Go ahead!" or eight inches of snow now and they | His name was repéated severat | can't drive up. What's more, 1 can't | times more and then came the mes- | get back It's a regular bilzzard." | sage. "Robert Bronson, this is Harold | It was, Indeed. Thicker and thick- | Scott. The Cramer family on Wood- {er came the snow and the wind! tick road northeast of! Black Pond is | howled about the - house. After alin distress. Mrs. Cramer is there | while Bob's dlsappoin nt wore off | alone with the children and there ls | and he began to feel the thrill of the | no food in the hd¥se. Mr. Cramer adventure. : was thrown from his team and in. | All day long the blizzard raged Bé6b | jured while In Pleasantville yesterday. struggled back and forth to the wood. | He cannot get home. Can you help | pile and brought in a huge supply of | them?" | wood He cooked up a of food, The volce stopped. Then It began | too. Then he put his radio apparatus | over again, "Robert Bronsoa; Robert | in order and connected |{t with the | Bronson." and the same message was | aerial already In place. which he used | repeated. : i fn the summer When evening came | "I must ret to them," Bob muttered he ent dawn tn won If he caild henr | "T mist Rut I Aan' dn it tonteht 17] He slept sou he awoke it w $4] to, see by disappointed the lot SOURCES OF PATRIOTISM. ; Woodstock Sentinel-Review, | A correspondent of the Kingston | Whig takes Professor McLennan to | task for saying, although he had liv-| ed in Ingersoll, that the people of] western Ontario had little romance in | their lives, and, because of the lack | of scenery to inspire such emotions nn had never felt the true love of the soil which must exist tb make patr! otism possible Surmising that tn proressor's name is Scotch, the cor- respondent assumes he had heard the sGiig of the lark, the linnet and the thrush with the heather and 'he bluebells for a background. These are lacking in western Ontario. And Mt rao oi A something else is lacking In Scot- and all that stuff on two per c¢ [land if the larks and linnets and | It might be an interesting study | thrushes, the heather and the blue- [for a prof sor with time on his [bells fail to stir the Imagination, |hunds and the inclination to trace | "there's a saloon with some Johnny [the relationship between scenery, | Dewar's just over the field then, and stimulating drink, love of couniry | howinell can Prof. Mac. or any other (and patriotism. Scotland, indeed, is | Ontario bird get Inspiration, imagi- [famous for all of them' The corre- {nation, love country, patriotism 'spondent admits that among the Pe Sr of ent?" things in the scenery of Scotland that "Breathes there TINA ¥ Santa's Chain of Stores HOME OW what's the use of talking . . 'bout -~ Who owns the biggest shop, | Where you can get your clothes, but ! re. Can't even buy a top? Or 'bout the grandest groc'ry store, Where everything is cheap, | But all you see is rows of cans And flour-sacks in a heap? When Santa owns all kinds of shops, With big and little doors {And gorgeous windows! Yes. he runs A chain of Christmas stores! On every corner near, and in The middle of the block, { You'll find he's got a window with | A glorious Christmas stock. | It gives a fellow chance to choose What all he'd like to get In plate and stocking Christmas morn; And I choose mine, you bet! Oh, I could stand all day (I'd look And look and never stop), > Belore the glowing window of 'A Santa Christmas shop! It's clear in the morning I'll get th somehow." something. and pushed aside a trap door that led | when Bob had revived and they were to a small attic Taking a lantern he | all warm and fed. he gave the chil. went up and found an old pair of snow | dren his little gifts and they all made | shoes, long disused." He took them | merry together. down with him and spent a long time Bob, seeing the joy he haa brought, tightening then up and repairing | was very happy. "After all" he them. Then he got some light boards | thought to himself, "this is a pretty | and made a sledge. | good Christmas. I'm glad 1 was It stormed all night but in the [snowed in all alone now." * { morning--Christmas morning--it had Two days later, when thelr food was stopped. The snow was:two or three nearly . gone again, Mrs. Cramer's feet deep and badly drifted, brother with some other men broke Robert ate a good breakfast. Then | through from the village bringing he loaded his sledge with all the 800d | fresh supplies and the news that Mr. things he had bought for their Christ- Cramer's Injury was not serious. Bob mas--the turkey, the bread and but. 'went back with the men. while her ter, the vegetables, the nuts and | brother stayed with Mrs. Cramer, ralsins. He added the Christmas gifts| When he reached home and told of he had brought for hls parents and | Klis adventure his father sald: "We sisters. Then, well- wrapped up, he | were 80rry you were not with us--and | [to stop, he became so tired. HE Browns were going to have a {Eve and as a c ad and rested while he drank | onsequence he carried Work of this sort almost always | Dis he 2 yap of the household, for with a hammer | hea ahead again. {In a quandry. Here It was late Christe and ready for trimming In anticlpa- | snow was up to its windows. Robert | In the way of decorations to hang | all the strength he had. imes she could make something | & similar diMeulty at some time. | add a festive touch of color to the Flufts of cotton make a good imita. carry out the effect. Toys from Buddy | cookies made the tree look good | | orful effect. These are. made by slip- the ends to form another ring. A sallied out. | we were worrled some. too. Rut you | cylindrically will with the addition of breath away and blinded him with ! the great lesson of Christmas Bob. | ly add to the effect, and a few artificial i EE -- ---- ahead. It was a five mile trip along | : la little used wood road. Once he bad | For the Christmas Tree He bur- C . { ed Into the snow on the lee side Christmas tree. Mr. Brown had perfdicularly and will not tip over TOW met a deal ) from uny usage it is likely to receive. | of a huge tree, threw a blanket over | Soler, Inte on Christus .» | some hot coffee from a vatuum bottle | home young tree, the first the fam- falls to the lot of the "Handy Boy and ate some sandwiches. Then he |." Nad\eper had. Mrs. Brown was and saw and a few nalls a tree of It was mid afternoon' before he | Mas Fva--aimon Christmas morning medium size may be quickly set up| reached the Cramers' little house, The | nd she had nothing in the house tion of the advent of Santa Claus. | struggled to the door and knocked. Jeon thls Unexpected tres. But Mrs, ~| "Merry Christmas!" he shouted with a8 & resourceful woman, and Te | Bob was soon inside the cabin and | ut nothing. Here ts what she did Suddenly hé thought of [1514 his story In a few words Mrs. |" thi8 case. It may help you out of ' | Cranberries make lovely chains and when draped from bough to bough tree. Pop corn strings are used the same way and vary the color scheme tion of a snow fall and a Nttle salt around the base of the tree helps to | Brown's Noah's Ark headed the Ist of decorations, Pretzels and sugar | enough to eat. Chains of rings made | of different colored papers give a col ping a strip of paper through a ring | already completed ana pasting over | weaving mate, folded across the m!4- dle and then opened out and pasted His load was heavy, the snow was have learned how good It is to carry | a handle make a pretty lantern, Pea- soft, and the bitter wind took his help and eheer to others, and that {s: nut strings, or Peanuts hung separate. driven snow. But he set his teeth. | And=I'm proud of your courage. flowers and paper balls complete the bent his head Into the enle and fareed | boy." { hame-made Christmas tres a man 'with soul so But bring a Scotsman frae his nil, {Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, | Who never to himself hath said: |Say, such is royal George's win 'I'm glad I'm.here; Ontario's dead." | And there's the foe; And if we bp Burns as an auth- | He has nae thought but how to kill ority, and he khew something about | Twa at a blow. of patriotism; romante and imagina- | such subjects, the fine fighting qual-| It's a subject that might be worth tion would come natural and you (ities of the Highlandman owed not | following up, for academic reasons, f wonid find yourself reciting: la little 'o liquid inspiration: lot course, ---- Yee, [influenced him were the old-fashion- dead 'ed inns, with the thatched roofs and the sign outside the door, After call- | ne at several of them, the correspon- | dent admits there would be no lack ------------ We are pleased to be able to announ Eastern Dairy School at Kingston, Spring. 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