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Money to Loan, F. R. Blewett, K.C. Solicitor for the Bank of Toronto, Office : Gordon Block STRATFORD, _- ONTARIO Harding, Owens & Goodwin Barristers, Solicitors, &c, Gordon Block, - STRATFORD, ONT. Money to Loan, RK, T. HARDING Ww. G, OWENS W. BE. GOODWIN Voterinary. J. W Barr, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, Treais all diseases of domesticated animals All calls promptly attended to. Societies. o~ sencliiesitiae Milverton Lodge No. 478 A.F. & A.M., G.R.C. Christmas Giving and Christmas Living ----) It was Annis Crosby, in her pathe- tic black dréss, advertising the recent loss of her mother, who startled them all by coming to the first meeting of the Christmas sewing-club \ with a large darning-bag. We had hardly expected her to have the courage even to think of Christmas this year. i "Tt isn't only that we don't feel very Christmassy at our house this year," she said, drawing a boy's thick, ugly ribbed stocking over the darning-egg, "but I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, especially about Christmas. For one thing I've come to the realization that we-ve all grown fanatical over giving instead of living--and' maybe over getting, too--but with most of us here, present-making has become a regular vice." "Why, Annis," expostulated Marion, the most ardent and elaborate giver of all "giving things is the very es- sence and spirit of Christmas!" "Giving, yes--but not altogether giving things, Marion," replied Annis, quietly. "I don't know quite how to express what I mean without seeming to lecture--but don't you think there are gifts more important than the ma- terial ones, and, too, better selections to be made when it comes to the ac- tual gifts themselves? None of us ever count the cost of all our Christ- mas preparations. I thoroughly be- lieve, for instance, that we could choose a few more 'boughten' presents and use the time and effort we expend on Christmas sewing to better vantage. If I'm not mistaken, Mar- ion spent her Christmas holidays in bed with the grippe last year,' she added with a faint smile, "just because she was tired out and her resistance was low when the grippe germ roam- ed in her vicinity--that's one kind of unreckoned cost, but not exactly what I mean, either." She stopped, hesitating. "Go on, go on!" urged several of the girls. The group of eight busy teach- ers had formed a little club which met once a week from the first of October for the laudable purpose of working on their Christmas gifts. Of Christmas sewing to the' accompani- | ment of tea and little cakes and much talk; in fact, each of the eight had somehow to manage seven presents for the other members entirely outside of the club meetings, to say nothing of gifts too cumbersome to carry about. But the club furnished the impetus for a vast amount of energetic Christ- mas labor, so that eight pairs of eyes, recting papers and writing reports Mects every Monday evening on or before full moon every month in their hall in J, &. Weir's block, Visiting brethren always welcome B®. A. Barth, W.M. W, J. Zoeger, Secy Silver Star Lodge No. 202 1. 0. O. F. Meeta every Friday night at 7.30 in their hall over Bank of Hamilton, Visiting brethren always welcome W. Henry. W.K,Loth, G. A. 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I used to think it was fine of me to work hard and let Mother use most of my money; but I know now that money isn't everything, and that there were lots of little matters I might have attended to, but mostly there was so much time I might have spent with her that I can never have now. we've had it for six years. If it was | say it was a fine thing--bringing us | all together, having a good, jolly time the smallest part of Christmas. After , we leave here we all spend every spare 'minute sewing on a lot of unnecessary things that don't do the people who get them any good, and all that pre- cious tinfe might be spent being with people we love, doing things for them, | : sa? of the family." making life easier. There is a little itinge of selfish indulgence in the |} way some of us concentrate on. the | "But what," asked Clara in bewild- | erment, "are we going to do about the presents? itoo much giving, and over in our ischool we alk joined the 'Spugs' to | prevent collections for the principal | and officers, but home giving and your | friends are different--you wouldn't * | feel right, not to remember them." "We could begin right here in this meeting by pledging ourselves to omit all gifts to each other, couldn't |we?" suggested practical Elsie. "Or limit it to a card of greeting or a letter or camera picture," put in Millicent. | "T suppose," said Dorothy, slowly, | "my mother would have more actual | satisfaction if I brought her darning- bag to these meetings instead of mak- ing her this centerpiece I've started. | | I believe I'll do it, Annis. I just love, | to embroider and I hate to darn--but | | what shall I do for a Christmas pre-| sent for her, something she'll really like?" Annis considered. '"We've been thinking at home that our so-called Christmas presents to Mother weren't| really personal gifts at all. One year | three of us clubbed together and} bought her a lamp--and Mother rare- ly had a chance to use it at all be- cause we usually monopolized its light. The traveling-bag Don gave her he used himself, and we all walk- ed over the new rug--Mother simply kept it clean. This year we're going | to put our savings into a few sub-! stantial things' the house needs. It's | our home now, and even when she was here, it wasn't just Mother's exclusive- ly. We'll have councils over the pur- chases, and committees, and the kind! of celebration Mother would have liked | over the installation. Any one who | still wants to cultivate the individual feeling can do so in a separate small ad-, | already tired by the close work of cor-} the sum total was, oh, so pitifully lit-! "Take this Christmas sewing-club-- | just the one afternoon a week, I'd; and forgetting other work. But that's | gift to the house--an egg-beater or a new book or a sofa pillow or anything else we can all get some satisfaction out of. 2 : "Then for our friends, letttrs and greeting-cards and 'service-promises' will be all. We don't--" "Please, Annis," interrupted Marion, "what do you mean by 'service-pro- mises?' " "Why," smiled Annis, "if Dorothy should hand her mother a note saying that her Christmas present was a contract to darn stockings or do mend-} ing for two hours once a week, that would be a 'service-promise.' The Dorothy's mother could have the fun of embroidering centerpieces instead of doing the less interesting work. If Marion should decide to give Myra} Conway all the time she is putting into that baby-jacket, taking care of, the 778: rae iy f other children, for instance, while! Myra rests or gets out for a change | without the children, that would be a> service-promise. And without want- | ing to criticize, it's been the experi- ence of most of my friends with babies that the practical 'boughten' | things, like hot-water bottles and | diapers and rubber bath-tubs,.are far more needed than the francy garments, | I've thought of lots of 'service-pro- | mises' for my own family--helping| Roy with his mathematics, taking one | of Edra's settlement classes off her) hand. Thesre are really lots of uses | for time if you count up how much | 'clothes for presents, Annis?" demand- | ed Dorothy. "I don't. there is and what you can do with it. | bow in the center. | "Do you believe in giving people| make a number of these hangers it iG GIFT HINTS Something that every woman will) appreciate is the.wire coat hanger | covered with cotton and ribbon, on! which to hang her waists. ..Wind the hook of the hanger with narrow rib- bon. Fold cotton batting over each loop, sprinkling it with sachet powder. | Make bags of ribbon or silk to slip on | over the cotton and fasten under a If one intends to i 1 | will probably be. cheaper to buy al Every year} yard of taffeta or China silk, and use' Ted gives Jack a necktie and me &|yihbon for the bows only. By watch-| pair of gloves, and Jack gives Ted) silk socks and me silk stockings-- | and secretly nobody likes what the other has chosen. And if I want to jinvest in a new party-dress in October, ;Mother says, 'Wait and see what Santa Clause does for you'--most like- ly forgetting and giving me underwear when the time comes! I can't see much present about something you have to have anyway!" "In families where there are children expect toys,' protested the youngest member. "Yes, they do," Annis agreed, "but usually they geb> too many and very few well-chosen ones. As long as chil- Anna, dren are at the expectant age, give' |them playthings with which they can |make or. do something. Good tools, | building-blocks, the various kinds of 'wood and metal building-toys, scis-| | sors, knives, paints, electric motors, sewing-outfits, crayons, raffia--things like that. After a while they will learn to make things for others, and finally come to the household-gift idea, outgrowing personal anticipa- tions.'" "We've always devoted the day be- fore Christmas to making our own candy," Clara said. '"We've done it for years, and everybody helps. Be- foreheand we make or buy pretty boxes and the children fill them to give to their friends. When the candy's put in eornucopias on the tree, they eat too much, and get at it sur- reptitiously. "Our Christmas plum pudding is made a month beforehand,' remarked Millicent. "It's another family in- stitution. We all seed raisins and cut citron till our arms ache. Then it's boiled and hung in a bag in the attic to season. It comes on the Christmas table blazing all around." "Wouldn't it be a fine thing," Annis said, "if families could get together once a year and talk over their income and expense-budget frankly? Decide how much each ought to spend for clothing, for example, and let each spend it whenever he or she wished --take birthdays for the really indi-| ; vidual gifts,®the little luxuries, and iturn Christmas into a day of broader thought, good will to all? Have the whole family unite in whatever fun or 'celebration there is--such as install- ing a new phonograph or a big chair | or an elecrtic light or a beautiful set of 'best' linen--and then try to have the day one of 'pace on earth' instead of confusion and commotion? The big Christmas dinner's all right--the family feast belongs to the traditions |that ought to be keptyalive--but the work of it shouldn't fall on one mem- | "We can't give up our Christmas | itree," said Clara, "but we could cer-| pleasure of making Christmas things," , tainly adopt some of these other sug- | practical. ' gestions that make Christmas a day! 'for all the family to think about loving I think it's all true about 2"d serving each other better and do- of scrim or canvas on the part, work- /ing things in unison." | nr vr | A Christmas Carel. "What means this glory round our) feet," | | 'The magi mused, "more bright than morn?" And voices chanted, clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince cf Peace is born." | | "What means that star,' the. shep-}| herds said, | "That brightens through the rocky glen?" And angels answering overhead, Sang, "Peace on earth, good will to men!" "Tis eighteen hundred years and more since those sweet oracles were. dumb; We wait for him like those of yore{ Alas! He seems 'so slow bo come. But it was said in words of gold No time or sorrow e'er shall dim, That little children might be bold | In perfect trust to come to Him, All round about our feet shall shine A light like that the wise men saw, If we our loving wills incline To that sweet life which is the law.- i So shall we learn to understand | The simple faith of shepherds then, | And, elasping kindly hand in hand, { Sing, "Peace on earth, good will to men!" And they who do their souls no wrong; But keep at eve the faith of morn, | Shall daily hear the angel-song, "To-day the Prince of Peace born!" --James Russell Lowell. par a pilgrim: | No one | the city is grandly illuminated. i name of 'she' to a city?" | don't i "Because eyery city has its outskirts." "No," replied i Yook. as if ib was ¢goi ig! one time, but she fi | fellow. just | hope." |ing the sales one can often pick up a/ /remnant at a very low price that will | : work in advantageously. | A young lady will enjoy a toilet box |for her dressing table or bureau. In 'its zonstruction material matters less | struction. quired size to pieces, being careful not , to break the edges. covered with a thin muslin--you may |use silk, satin, foulard, silkoline or cretonne for the covering of the box, using a figured goods for the outside if desired and a plain for lining. In covering, be sure to keep the threads of the materials straight with the lines of the pasteboard. Overhand outside and lining together, making the stitches fine and even, then overhand the sides to, each other and to the bottom. Pad the top with cotton and cover with the material; it will be used as a pinctshion. If the box is cov- ered with silk or satin a very pretty effect is gained by stretching a piece of all-over lace edge, just the depth of the box, gather and sew it around the top, and cover the joining with a narrow beading through which No. 1 ribbon has been run Fasten straps of narrow ribbon to the box and the cover to keep the latter from falling back, and add a bow of wide ribbon by which to lift the cover. Harper's Bazar tells how to make |a working apron which would be a great convenience to any one doing faney work: Make a square of Per- sian lawn, trimming it with lace and tucks, and having it twenty-four inches when finished. From the mid- dle of each side make a diagonal square of beading; cat six yards of ribbon into four lengths and run through the beading, making it very loose on three sides and drawing quite tight in the fourth to make a little fulness at the waist line of the apron. Make hard knots at all four corners and then tie double bow knots. By lifting these bows you can draw it up into a bag; for strings to the shirred side to tie around the waist untie the bow knots at each end. The little corner on the shirred side gives a bib effect. When sewing, you have on a pretty white apron with a little bib; when you stop you pile all your things into your lap and pull up the pows, retying-the double knots on the shirred side. A twenty-four-inch. square of black China silk with one! corner slightly rounded for a bid can be made with a narrow ruffle of the same silk on all round. Gather to a |yard and a half of black satin rib- A pair of scissors ahd a pin- | bon. ball, fastened to the side of the apron with long ribbons make it still more An apron can be decorated in crogs- | stitch embroidery by. basting a strip + ing over the canvas and then pulling: out the threads. If 'the work has} been dcne with moderate looseness this | will not be difficult. } People who are tired of Christmas | trees, stockings, etc., may try a new; departure in the Christmas basket, a| pretty basket, tied with ribbons, be-, ing prepared for each person, ao, ae a Honeoring Santa Claus. Santa Claus was born in Patavia, in Asia Minor. - That was not his real name. He was an abbot, and named St. Nicholas. He afterwards became Archbishop of Myra Atthe latter 'place he died and was duly buried, In May, 1087, his. remains were carried by some pious Italians to Bari, on the = Adriatic coast. «They are now at rest 'in a splendid church which bears his The people rotind about make xe to his shrine every year. cing food on that occasion ts, whilst ac- name. is refused it by the prie commodation is given 'to as :many-pil grims as the edifice will hold. On St. } Nicholas' Day, December 6th, a great} celebration takes place in his honor, | for the teacher, longing to remember || Chrisimas Recipes 7 mould, and into it put. slices of plum j | | mixture: 'eold turkey, with |than daintiness and neatness of con- |} VESEY, a Take a box of the re-! ; Seen them, | taste, add one -ounce of liquid butter, | then cover each piece separately. Put tne well-beaten yolks and whites of a layer of cotton wadding on the bot- | course nobody accomplished all her You can't banish gifts--they always tem, which may have the lower side ;as the others. / $0 joyous a season. jare not brought to | Mincemeat Rolly-poly--Make some light suet pastry, roll it out thinly, spread lightly with mincemeat, roll, wet the edges, and form into a roll. Tie in a wet cloth, and boil steadily for two and a half to three hours. Serve with a nice sweet sauce. ~ When Decorating a Table for Christ- mas.--First lay on the spotlessly clean cloth bands of scarlet ribbon or paper from corner to corner crossing in the centre. Let the ends hang down at each corner ina knot. At interva!s down this band-arrange bunches of holly and mistletoe, and between the bands curve a wreath of ivy, fern, or smilax. In the centre-of the table have some kind of high vase, with white or scarlet flowers. Plum Pudding and Custard--is a! good way of using up the remains of | Christmas pudding. Butter a plain pudding, Jeaving spaces for the cus- || 3 in 1 Overcoats-- |' : y Wy . Important news for all | SHADOW TEST Fall Suits and | who are concerned about buying a New Fall Suit or Overccat. We selected the most ser- . viceable fabrics we could find at a small advance in price, therefor, we can give you the best value for-your-money. "He Looks Into the Eye" Y. 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Leg of Pork as Goose.--Boil a smali leg of pork for an hour; remove the skin, and put sage and onion stuffing round the knuckle; roast thus for an hour and a half, basting with clarified dripping, or butter, and during the last half hour dredge it with two ounces of finely powdered crumbs, mixed with a tablespoonful of powdered sage. Serve with good gravy and apple | sauce, which, if convenient, can be made of dried apple chips. Scalloped Turkey--is a good dish for using up the remains of the Christmas dinner. Well butter some scallop shells, sprinkle them with | crumbs, and fill with the following | Chop finely any remains of | slice or two of ham and some of the stuffing; to each pint of chopped meat. add one dessert- spoonful of breadcrumbs. Season to two eggs and-two gills of good rich| gravy. Mix thoroughly, fill the shells, sprinkle with crumbs, and bake in a moderate oven till nicely browned. Serve with good gravy ina. tureen. Turkey Giblets--These are the wings, skinned and trimmed feet, the neck cut in short lengths, the head skinned, split, and cleaned, the gizzard cleaned, split and skinned, cat in four; and the liver from which the gall has been most carefully removed, par- boiled_and sliced. - Heat two ounces of clarified dripping or-cooking but-} ter in a stewpan, dredge the giblets | with flour and shake them over the! fire in it till browned, add a small clove of garlic, a bunch of sweetbreads, | bay leaf and parsley, pepper, salt, | mace, and three cloves, add about a} pint of stock, and let stew very gently | for two hours. - Take out, thicken the sauce, reheat the giblets in it, adding, | if liked, a little wine. Serve very hot with a good berder of boiled Brus- | sels sprouts. 2, < ~ MAKING CHRISTMAS A BURDEN. |A Worried Mother Writes the Follow- | ing Protest. "With the approaching Christmas | season cannot a werd of protest be| uttered against the custom of ex-| changing gifts between pupils and teachers? The writer was present at the closing of a school term last year, ' and saw a teacher open gift after gift piled up on her desk. It was easy to single out those who had not brought presents by their distressed and unhappy faces, their sensitive lit- tle hearts feeling as if they were un-| der a ban for not being able*to do so! A sorry beginning for | Even if the gifts | the school, but} Early in the morning the populace | each little one, and without time or| take his image from the priests and, Money to spare for such a purpose. carry it through the town. + Fannie: "Why do people apply the} George: "Ti ' know, Why is: it?" } "Rather hard to lose your daughter, | ao x to be hard atic Fannie: | Morton. ally landed this | Willie: "Of course she does. as we were giving up allj why she is keeping her engagement | with Jim Burling a secret," i Featherstone: "I wonder if your sis-| said the guest at the wedding.) ter realises, Willie, that during the} the bride's father; "it did | last two months [ have given her ten} lollars' worth of sweets and flowers?" That's | the year 1846. ed was issued in that year by a Lon- don publistter named Joseph Crandall, who was indebted for the idea to Sir Henry Cole. sioned a famous R.A. i which he did, producing a color-} printing became more artistic, embos- ed one. colored by hand. copies were sold. , Christmas, cards of a similar kind) found in all quarters of the glob | were put on the market, until 1862 ex-| developed. i Stacie ! The Forerunner of Millions. The Christmas card originated in The first ever publish- periments were made by Goodall, with cards of the size cf an ordinary carte de visite, inscribed simply with the words "A Merry Chrigtmas and a Happy New Year" in illuminated form, Next year robins, holly branches, and a such things that did not. require many ea to design a colors were printed, and later, when The publisher commis- It was lithographed and | sed figures and landscapes were add- About a thousand | ed, till, by degrees, the modern variety Every succeeding | of the Christmas card which can be _ -- -- ------ 2 Made-to-Measure % Suits and Overcoats : - > se gre "RMS ee wet It has always been our aim and ambition | to give our customers the best possible 8 satisfaction in the tailoring basiness. Our suits and overcoats are made in a high- class, careful manner. 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We ter a "I know of one family where the a 2 ss thres children expcet to take @ pift.to have several to install just now, so you had better get each of their different teachers. They | your order in before it is too late. < i are asked also each year to bring i cs |;something for a donation from the, : class as a whole. The same thing i is repeated in the Sanday school, each " child giving to each teacher, and each iM E ER ETETG i R & CO q one also expected in addition to con- bg ed " f tribute to some special charitable ob- Hardware "Jerchants, - s WEST MONKTON ject. The father and mother of these three children each- have. sunday eee eee PO@eeoaoan: school classes, one of seven scholars,; oo) 4 YE aa the other of five. If they pursue the same method in their own classes and give a remembrance te each pupil, and t also contribute to the special object chosen by each class, the grand total of the-presents given by this one fam- CVV ily would reach the extraordinary i/numbet of twenty-six, aside from the immediate relatives and friends, "Is is any wonder, therefore, that Cx eners Christmas becomes a great. financial . and nerve-exhausting stvain?. This is especially the case when the bur- ; 1) falle MAM SA Ass } hie " -y . . . nae falls upon the: tined: mothers, who These are prices suited for hard times have to select the gifts. An overdo- ing of anything: however good of it and will tend to help people keep down self, ceases to be desirable. In the 5, bee Saye 4 0 , Aeadlass srceNcavion BE Chinas' the cost of living. Takead vantage of gifts have not. many of us lost. the them--while they last, spirit of joyousness and true thankful- * ness ? 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