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wm- Wbt0Bn&QK¥, ?-V *• *g> 1 CftrfarttsfioHMf '•>:4»":VSuitable For Present*? NNMMMMKMMXMIMMMRtanQIMWNKMIffMaMMMMI Ever Welcome Gifts Christmas Decorations If a Christmas were to come and go without leaving with as pincushions, pin-holders, garters and other pretty furbelows made of ribbon, It would be remembered with something of disappointment. A heart-shaped pincushion, a small bag for holding pins and a pair of ribbon-covered garters represent a few of many ribbon novelties for the holidays. For tih e Hoste%ss ^ By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN, OMETHING new Is always mnit out of Africa.--Old Latin prover Various .writers in the public pi-ess seem to think that this proverb is as true now as it was 2,000 years ago and that the "dew thing" of these latter days Is a "new man* In international statesmanship- Jan, Christian Smuts, minister of defense of the Union of South Af» frtca. Of course, the phrase "new man" has a special meaning as they apply It to "Slim Jannie" Smuts, for he has been a growing world-figure for • several years. By "new man" they mean "new leader." For Oom Paul Krueger's fighting general of twenty years ago Is being discussed pretty •much all'over the world as a possible leader of I that new British empire -which Smuts himself 'thus outlines: "The old prewar British empire Is gone, in the. sense of colonies or subordinate nations clustering around one master nation. The British empire !is developing into a real league of nations, a group of partner peoples." Smuts is looked upon by many, says Sir PhUtp Glbbs, the noted British correspondent, in the Springfield Republican, aft "the new leader Eng» land has been waiting for" and the proper succefh sor to Lloyd George. Says Sir Philip: 4> "Why not make Smuts our next prime minister} A Boer, educated at Cambridge and against us ttt South Africa, is hardly adapted to be prime minister of England, but stranger things have happened tin England." Sir Philip calls Smuts " a man who never looks back for regret or vengeance, but always forward with free and courageous vision," and concludes with this statement: "There art men in England today in high places as well as low who say he is the man we are looking for." The Evening World of New York argues it length that the British empire must be trans* formed into an association of nations and d»> dares Smuts to be the logical head of the new and greater empire. The Christian Science Mot tor of Boston says he has always served hi; Ideals and served them "in a way which has ever Inspired a strange confidence that he was not dosing his eyes to mistakes, where mistakes were made, and that his devotion was Inspired by a much larger concept of things than that Involved In the generally accepted meaning of the word patriotism." * \ In short, practically the entire press of the (United States has been throwing bouquets to this Boer farmer's boy of the veld. The concensus of opinion seems to be that he must be given a place among the world's greatest living statesmen a front rank among the leaders of the Brit empire. Most people know vaguely that 'this same British empire Is so vast that the sun never sets on Its flag. In fact, it Is so vast that to catalogue its possessions is difficult. There is a hint of its .extent In the title of the British sovereign: ••George V of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India." These "Dominions Beyond th.e Seas?" •extend to every continent and consist of self-go** eming dominions, crown colonies and protector-" «tes and other dependencies. As everyone knows, the United Kingdom conalsts of England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the channel islands. In Europe there are Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, etc. India, Burma, Ceylon and a score of other possessions lie In Asia. In Africa Its flag waves over more than 2,000,000 square ' miles, including Egypt and the South African Union. In Australasia are Australia, Tasmania, I'$- pua, New Zealand and Pacific islands. On the Western Hemisphere Its vast holdings, Include Canada, New Foundland and Labrador, British. Guinea and various West Indian islands. Alt<|.r father the British empire contains about 12,000^/ ©00 square miles and 450,000,000 people. ^ 8o the British empire is strongly suggestive at ' m league of nations. Moreover, the World war produced a noteworthy effect There were those ! -who predicted that the British empire would go t to pieces under the strain of that titanic conflict On the contrary, England's needs brought out wonderful proof uf loyalty from her colonics. The ties were made stronger. Yet in the end the net result was that the British empire came out of the World war rather, as Smuts puts It, "a group «f partner peoples" than "subordinate nations clustering around one master nation." Whatever may be the future of Smuts, his paag Is interesting. He was born a little more than fifty years ago In the Transvaal, on a farm In the western province In the Karroo country. His Boer father and grandfather were farmers. He his early education is the Transvaal and then /Vk>£x> *r Went to Cambridge for a university education In law. Back again in South Africa, he practiced law and politics. Then he became Paul Krueger's secretary of state. Probably his state letters to Londou had more than a little to do with bringing on the Boer-British war of 1889-1902. Into that hard-fought little conflict he went as a private. It was about this time that Sir Alfred Mllner and Smuts had their famous encounter, which Is .thus described by Stephen Bonsai In the New York Times: "Mllner Is reported to have pleaded with his young and promising antagonist much in these words: " 'Stop, look where yon are going, Smuts. You are digging your political grave without knowing it, I think. England will never forgive or forget this--and you a Cambridge man--one of our own--* ( " 'Yes! I thought I .was almost an Englishman, W Smuts Is said to have answered. 'Bat the Jameson raid proved to me that I wasn't. I'm going with Oom Paul Ivrueger, not because I'm a Dutchman or a South-African, but because he Is , right and I want to be right Perhaps some day England will see who wei;e her real friends and .who were her real foes, but In the meantime I •hall do my duty as I see it--very clearly.'" How interesting the meeting between these two Jntn as colleagues on the British delegatiosrto the t'aris peace conference! \ , That war lasted four years. The British enlistments totaled 450,000 and those of the Boers 100,- Q00. The British casualties were 24,000 and those of the Boers 4,000, with 40,000 prisoners. The ,maln cause of the war was the discontent of the "outlanders." The terms of peace were that the . lifters gave allegiance to Great Britain at|d were granted full amnesty and the return of their property. Smuts emerged from the -war a general. If he had considerable share Infringing on the war, he probably had more to do with bringing about peace. For he was one of the Boer peace commissioners who met General Kitchener and Lord Mllner. Incidentally, Smuts' safe-conduct pass bore the signature, "D. Haig, Colonel." Yes; this is the same Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. with Whom Gen. Jan Christian Smuts stood shoulder to shoulder against the Germans. Of the part played by Smuts in bringing about peace in 1902 Edwin C. Hfll writes in the New York Herald: i "It was us one of "the Boer peace commissioners *ho met General Kitchener and Sir Alfred MUner tltat Smuts rose to the rank of a statesman. The commissioners had been unable to agree and the Boers returned to their convention of national delegates to obtain new Instructions about surrendering unconditionally. For days the convention was at loggerheads. The delegates refused to legislate the republics out of existence. At length Smuts gained a hearing. He told them the truth •bout the situation. He said that it was impossible to fight longer, that they could expect no help from Europe and Americn, and that farther resistance meant useless bloodshed. ^ «'Brethren,' he declared. In what Is regarded Among South-Africans as one of the most eloquent *nd certainly one of the most momentous speeches ever made in that country, 'we have vowed to stand fast to the bitter end. Let us be men and acknowledge that that end has now come and that it !s more bitter than ever we thought it could be. l/rtvfa mW * .Iter death Itself would be sweet compared with the step which we must now take. But -let us bow before the will of God. "The future Is dark. Indeed, but we will niet give up courage nor hope and trust In God. No <ne shall convince me that this unjtaralleled sacriflJ* which the African nation has laid upon the altiV of freedom will be in vain. It has been a war for Jreedom--and not only for the freedom of the Boers, but for the freedom of all the nations of South Africa. Its results we leave In God's hands. Perhaps it Is His will to lead our nation through defeat, through abasement, yes, and even through the valley of the shadow of death, to the glory of a nobler future, to the light of a brighter day.'" 8muts prevailed: And his "brighter day" came quickly. Death had removed Cecil Rhodes, for Quarter of a century the dominating personality on the imperial side in South African politics, the man "morally culpable" In the famous "Jameson raid," the diamond king who left by will practically his whole fortune of $30,000,000 to the public service. Within a few years after the war, under the leadership of Botha and Smuts, the Boer nntlon arose ont of the wreck of the Boer republics. In 1910 Cape Colony. Natal, Orange Free "State and the Transvaal became the Union of South Africa, with the consent and approval of the British government. It contains 473,000 square miles and 6,000,- 000 people. It is practically a self-governing nation. It has a liberal constitution and a parliament and the Boers are In the majority. Both the English and Dutch languages are official. Smuts was still engaged on the task of holding together these confederated colonies when the World war called him again into the field. This time he went in as the head of an army and topk German East Africa from^the Germans. The necessities of the British empire then called Smuts to England for counsel. The war won, Smuts took a major place at trie peace cooi fere nee through sheer moral force and Intellect. He had much to do with forming the League of Nations. He helped construct the treaty and be signed it. But he filed a memorandum of protest and explanations as to terms forced Into It against his will. That protest, his admirers say, marks hlpi as a prophet as well as statesman. Smuts has been called an- "able compromiser/*,, aa "opportunist ip politics" and "till things to all men." And his nickname In his own country among the old-time trekkers is "Slim Jannie," "Slim" meaning tricky, slick, evasive. The career of Smuts, however, seems to support the view of his admirers that in matters of principle he has always stood steadfast as bedrock. His admirers put It this way: "He has a way of overlooking unessential details which smaller men stumble over." They assert that he is an all-around man of firm will, determined character, great experience and hard common sense. They also speak with admiration for his tact It is this tact that earned for him the "Slim" of the old-time Boers. He has an easy tact which makes f6r amiability and smooths over disagreeable situations. Also, he is just about the best whist player in South Africa and the old Boers thought he was very wicked because he played cards! In the old Boer household, such as Smuts came from, says Mr. Hill, the coffee-pot Is always boiling. With a cup of coffee and a piece of biltong (dried meat) the Boer can fight or trek all day long. Hmuts' only had habit. If It can be called a bad bablt Is addiction to coffee. He neither drinks liquor of any kind nor smokes, and he eats sparingly. He is essentially an out-of-doors man and his body is wiry and rangy. He has the stride of a man familiar with long marches and the natural swing of one who Is at home in the saddle. He speaks with vigor and sometimes with emotion. The Boer is not a demonstrative or emotional person, and Smuts has much of the racial reserve. At times he is an inspired orator, and something of bis place in the world is due to his eloquent tongue. He seems to lack the tricks of the spellbinder's trade. He Is forceful, convincing and persuasive. There is a strong religions trend in the character of General Smuts. He comes of a strain of men who weut into battle with supplications to God upon their lips, a stock that held In ridicule and contempt the godless ways of other people. One of the easiest ways for dressing op the house at holiday time it to make lamp, candle and electric light, shades or lanterns of crepe or tissue paper and tinsel. To make the small lantern pictured two rings of cardboard are covered with plain black or gold paper pasted over them. A length of light green tissue paper® is folded along the center, slashed Into narrow strips and pasted Inside the rings. Under this a length of rose-colored crape paper narrower than the green Is pasted; this onuses the strips of green paper to spread and stand out. Silver tinsel hangs from the wire handle at each attfe Gifts for Gay Hours <iifts that every woman \vlu> entertains will delight in are pictured here and they will be all the more appreciated because they are made by their donor. A set of numbers for card tables Is attractive and easy to make. They are cut from white cardboard and have gummed figures In black placed on one side. On this black and white background graceful ^sprays of gay flowers are painted and the cards are supported by small wire holders. Bits of Splendor a Plain wide satin ribbon and narrow fancy ribbons, with handsome metallic mounts, are used to make these elegant shopping bags. lUbbons in the richest qualities and most brilliant patterns are chosen for them and they are lined with gay and equally good silks. Besides being bits of the splendor dear to women these bags have the additional value that belongs to a gift made by Its donor. Gay Bungalow Caps Are You Nervous? Sleepless? Health is Your Most Valuable Assst --Hera is How to Take Car* of It ? JBloomington, III.--"During the?' . time I was bringing up my family; I depended entirely on Dr. Pleres^' Favorite Prescription to keep sm ht-1 good health, and I had very little need ef any other medicine. It IB* the best medicine a weak womaa can take to build np her nervous system when run-down or soUerlaf with weakness. : "For liver troubla or disordered "I Stomach, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pel* I lets are excellent; they regulate th* . system in a very mild but effective^ ?! manner."--Mrs. Margaret ReeMk- " 1112 W. Mulberry St r V Your neighborhood druggist ca*^5^5 - •apply you with all Dr. Plerc®'» famous Family Remedies--tablet#; •r liquid. t Cured His Love Spasm. I was a "freshie" in high school aa$ almost immediately upon entering, feS violently in love with my algebra teacher. I even stayed hours aftsc school to "make up work" just so I could be near her. One day I cool# withhold my sentiments no longer I binned out sentences and sentence^ of adoration all In one breath. SlMt seemed not at all unnerved and after I had finished she mereiy thanked ms> profusely and said that 1 must crrnt to visit her at home some time. Sbswas positive I would like her hubaaland two little boys quite as much.-*. Chicago Journal. How Could Sh« Help It? "Bow did this vase get Mary?" "It fell off the. pedestal, ma'am." "How did you upset the pedestal] "I never touched it The chair bomped into It, ma'anr." "And did you pusth the chair?" "I did npt, ma'am. It was the tahlf done that All I did was to push th% sofa up against the table. An' goofe ness knows I can't see what's a got# to happen that far off 1" | MOTHER! CLEAN | CHILD'S BOWELS WITH 1 CALIFORNIA FIQ SYR# Christmas never brought lovelier remembrances to fair women than the picturesque hair ornaments for their gayer hours which this season presents. There are many of them made of ribbon, beads, flowers or mock jewels in headbands, and finished with a feather or blossom or other ornament The sparkling piece pictured Is merely a filet of rhlnestonea that encircles the head and supports ia small polnsettia flower at the left i with a few sparkling rhlnestonea scattered on its leaves. ? sKv.-p: <;• Bib and Tray Cloth Balloons, In bright colors, and an ^angular elephant decorate the ample *bib and tray cloth to match, made of, oilcloth, as pictured above. They will afford the youngest member of the family much joy and his mother much peace of mind at the dinner table. Therefore the donor of this gift will be twice blessed and long remembered. The mottled oilcloth is cream colored and the bib is bound at the neck with white tape which Is extended into ties. . . .. Even a sick child loves the "fruity* taste of "California Fig Syrup." If tht little tongue is coated, or if your child Is listless, .cross, feverish, full of cold, or has colic, give a teaspoonful to cleanse the liver and bowels. In a few hours you can see for yourself how thoroughly it works all the constipation poison, sour bile and waste oat aC the bowels, and yon have a well, plaf* ful child again. Millions of mothers keep "California Fig Syrup" Landy. They know a teaspoonfftl today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for gen*> lne "California Fig Syrup" which baft directions for babies and children oC all ages printed on bottle. Mother! Tou must say "California" or you may _ get an imitation hg ^rup.--Adv«£tiaa*> ment Perfect Wwian'i Epitaph. ",rn, A correspondent tells us that an ok} tombstone recently renovated at SV Marys, Actpn. W, heat?. tlon: She was! Ah! what" witt What a wife and mother should 1 That was she.--London Tlt-Blta. A Leader. • • Btackstone--He's a man of afffctow Webster--Yes; his wife is suing ftfT divorce. CURES COLDS r. LA GRIPPED trnZ+Jtours Ot 3 Amy* -HMSOM&QIIININECTAKBARH rtwHly vtrtri «?*r. ta*ri«K Mr. H il s pet trait At AM OrmtgiMf Craft , H. HILL CUMFAMV. MCTSOff LadiesKeepYourSkin Clear, Sweet, Healthy With Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Talcum •5v- OR. STAFFORD OBre Tv sad «^ - Ibkrvoen cChiRtiOs. UCfh.wftfrcta t hirveteot»-,y Msa. Hub OQ chest to iim•. MfHtioQ. Relieves annlc^k 0*4 rnvumatism. « Rucm, Nrw T«*k ASTHMA [~"""T3J53SR« HAIR BALSAM ••MVoDaaaraS-StoFaHiurFalUai ; Color aad H--•>/ toCt»T --d FadwIHafti I Mr. aiwJJl.flOatPiv^nsU. iBhwiCTfa-Wtt Patatonnr.lt HINDERCORNS tai in O**, CU"| taaaw. Ma-. Mova all pais, cwrare* torn fort to Ctafc\ frtra*tot.k aaBklcaaa owxfa^lkamlatrn eaal rW*. orMtsm. FbMr met*u cI wor, Ka.t T O rac^ 'i WASHINGTON ARMS IN RIPON Heraldic Window . Has Coat of Arms of Family From Which First President Sprung. Attention has just been drawn by Canon Solloway of Selby Abbey to a remarkable heraldic window In the north aisle of the nave of Ripon minster. The design in very beautiful col- Is liilwfitf ist intricate for it contains ho less than 18 quarter) ngs representing various alUancee Into which members of the Norton family (well known locally) entered in bygone years. "A fact of interest to Americans," said Canon Solloway, "Is that among these coats of arms Is that, of the Washington **mily; in aplte of the dMwiud| 4 vUton t» p from the United States, I do not think this has ever been noted before. It certainly would hardly be apparent to a casual observer. And yet there II is; the field, you will notice is white, and in the upper part are three red, five-pointed stars, below which are two red bars. "It is strange," continued the canon, "that this One example of the Washington arms should have escaped notice. I am told that some Americans are skeptical as to tlte heraldic genesis might be convinced when standing before Ripon window. This coat of arias !s Identical in every way with thoee it Brighton and S?u!grave, and the people of Ripon should be proud that in their beloved minster Is commemorated the fact of an alliance between the local family of Norton and that of the first ftesldeat ef the United States." Here is something new in breakfast caps. It la made of gay cretonne and Is buttoned up the back so that It may be easily washed and Ironed. It Is bound with a plain color in chambray and has a narrow band of this material about it. The brim portion may be turned up or down and Is shown here turned up at one side and down on the other. _ KREMOLA TAaWe,O LMivOerf RSTooWts. FKACvEu pSl%LC <A CM 0OMP4"tJsIT . Ptftimt Mbboulff.4.*»< «»nDD »* Ac-.* iTCTbue uI Little celluloid kewp.es vyliich may be bought everywhere have been used in many ingenious ways for Christmas gifts. Here is one dressed up like a fairy bride with ruffles of chiffon bound with narrow satin ribbon for a skirt and her head adorned with a braid wreath and veil. She stands in a small bag stuffed with cotton and gathered about her feet and It has s cloth powder pulf sewed to "it that in a glass bowl. ra, leuiM howa; l«a mow/ 11 *.#«%• Experimenters have succeeded in raising in France the tree from which Jac«iMB Is sbrtlaef ia the Orlwpfr . Cookie Hermits Three eggs, a scant cupful of hutter, one and a half cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of chopped raisins, onehalf cupful currants, small piece of citron chopped fine, grated rind of one orange, one-half teaspoonful of cloves, one teaspoonful of allspice and one teaspoonful of cinnamon. Cream butter and sugar; add well-beaten eggs, spices, a capful or more of sugar, then the fruit, and etoe teaspoonful at baking soda dissolved tn a taWespoan- Ail of hot water. Now add more flom until the dough Is stiff enough to rolL Cut with cookie cutter or thin tumbler and bake In moderate oven. BIIHjKST BAW.A1N IN DUURH4I «cr« t&rm. nice h«>rae. biff b*rn. Owner** buaia#»» n**oeseitsis part terms. Act quick. THAI*. WAT. Owner, THOWASTON, ttiinmrs, Ford owners, can •«!) every otbet" Ford ovMr. Make lit 60 *jl sale; $209 : iattniatioittL €19 B- Pearl St., 'ri\ , •• W'T. V it ,;^§i •sr* • m in Time and Temper Saver. When stitching thin silks, net. site* lawns, etc., on a sewing machine, time, temper and nerves may be saved by laying several strips of newspaper under the part to be stitched. After the stitching la daos tt removed. •j-k- :: i-M J:*.- * .*.t, - • • - • » .. r>. . & ' • - • ; - ; ' r The Great Obstacle. "Wife has been pestering at me coofl siderably of late to sell out and mov«» *n town,'" said ^an Johnson of Rumnij^' Ridge, Ark. "The children yelled lik#. catamounts for the change whenever* they happened ts think about it Awf*, I was pretty nigh on the p'lut of do!ng| so last month, but Just then some feu| ler told me It was almost impossible v to raise dogs In town."--Kansas Otjf Star. :\i; mi Morning eepYour Eyes1 rt - Cl*«r H«althif