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9 '33 " At this time who’ we are urged no eommaugded to be economical in on!' m of “It". it is well to pupa" Christmas sweets which can he made withou'ny. or a very small uncut ot that tare. anlclo. The “my blontlml materials that on "own . tor making sweets are Imp. uple “gar, honey, popcorn. and All kinds ot nuts. Sugary dried tum will “so help. Chocolate and cocoa on always safe to use. The tol- Iowinq In some tested recipes which all for only a minimum of sugar: Stulod Dates: smiled dates are a no“ wholesome sweet. and quickly nude. too. The due: must he Brat picked nun. washed in warm Inlet and dried In tut old napkin. Remove the seed from each with a sharp knife, slip I mat In " place. press together, and Ill! over with granulated sugar. Lou. standing . while an oiled paper to become Brut. Chocolate Dutear~Preparo dates as: described tor Itulod dates. Slit eachx (at. lengthwise. jut tar enough to al-! low the lumen being extracted with-l out bruising the fruit. Grate FCI (until: pound of good chocolate. add an equal quantity of mmteetionern' sugar,‘ and two tablespoonqu of boiling water. Boil until a suit bail forms in cold water. Before removing trom the tire, add a few drops of vanilla ea. tract Place the pan inside a larger one. halt iilled with boiling water. to keep tho chocolate ttuid while the dates am being filled. Take up a little oft the mixture on a teaspoon, open the dole and pour it neatly in. When Iliad. press the sides gently together. Place in a cool place to harden smiled 'i-tmop line any kind of nuts. Mix with half the quantity of well washed and dried r.urrants. Open tip at one side, and pack with mix- ture. roundinl the " to look like a You Can't Afford "Aw FURSI win M! Inn-n mt!“ price. for RAW 'URS and G'NSENG ROOT The Highest Price “in I to as. no I. SILVER 33?. RAW FURS pay the highest price. also “press charms. Try once and you we unism'ml of matistartiott. . ABBEY FOR when!" kahuna Bury. 310 a. iaivi. Montreal, no. Ilafurrm'e: Bank of Hos-hunts. In loin. mud-emu. In! not buying to ve- nll “always”. the that -dus. and tho - who wins Quick alum! " you- of run-bl. train; m,Nr---Uniort BY of funds: Writ. for hire Lm 3nd To" 'rifalijit'1rtt (?ihrii Ji' 1gtii1cr,g1fiijj(ii1) All I , ?i; / ' ' (i) /T,% E Ill T C)i) mawmw 'rs, ___,-,...-'."-..,.,,.,-,,,,,,,-,,-,-,-, M ' 'Ci) h , . . '"JjGijijfi? © Sweets for Christmas We (31 kimono of munkm. innit. man. mink 1iii,Fig'Pix,,geag.e'at'i"d skm- and m- pny got mph. mines: wires! Emma's belia gracing“: yen - can olnho in your (are. encver who tm-ity prices and then cut on the grade. What your tun are up. is m "ie-hir-Ped '0",ka "aii,i,".ai',fttl's1'tydior"gta,aT rm or ing an :29- - Guns. 'llf2'd%"gUd as. n irtmsrtatttre.iFCo Lii't5ii'iifi1'i'ro, T . In business tor I' you”, Litter what quantity. We Mann price. also "pron no m. run M. w. IOI‘IQQA. BA. are urged and Parisian Sweets.~Pick over and re- move stems from one pound of has and ~stones from one pound of dates. Mix l, with one pound of English walnut ! meats. 3nd torce through a meat chop. ’ per. Work, using the hands, on a board dredged with contectioners' sugar, un- til well blended. Roll to one-fourth ot an inch thichnetstPPttsing conteetlonerts' I sugar for dredging board and pin. Cut “with a sharp knife in three-fourths inch squares. Roll each piece in con- iectioners' sugar. and abate to remoO superfluous sugar. Place in layers in A tin box, putting paper between each flayer. These confections mar be used ‘at dinner in place of bonbons. pear. Close the opening, then at one and of the " suck a clove to look like blossom end, and at the other a stick of cinnamon bark tor the stem. Dan lightly with powdered sugar. Sugar-ed Popcorn.-- Put two table- spoons of butter in n sauce pan, and when melted add two cups of brown sugar. Ind one-half cup ot tutor. Bring to the boiling point, and let boil tor sixteen minutes. Pour over two quarts ot popped com, and stir until owery kernel is well coated with sugar. 'ratry.-Dissolve half a cup of sugarl in tour tablespoons of cider vinegar. mix with two cups of molasses, and cook very slowly in a kettle large enough to prevent the mass from bolt. ing over until a little dropped in cold water hardens, then stir in a heaping teaspoon ot butter, and a halt teaspoon _ of baking soda dissolved in a table-1 apoon of hot water. Stir up, remove trom fire, and tiavor with a teaspoon ot vanilla. or lemon extract; turn into a greased pan, and when cool enough to handle pull until bright with floured or igreased hands. When light enough, pull into narrow stripe and cut oft in (pieces the right size for a. mouthful with a pair of greased scissors. Wrap each of these in a little twist of pare. " Ttttpee. . , . t ' "Oh! Well. neither did I, I meant ‘tn. but I keep remembering somebody "hat I want to remember, and now but :two weeks remain." . t There are still post-card jingles and itrreetintr cards to be had, that will ;show a friend that he is not forgotten. ‘but there are also scores of little in. gexpensiye gifts that may be purchased 'or made at the last minute, and that lwill tit Into someones (‘hrlstmaa stock~ ling. But be sure that they do fit, for lnobody must know that they are lust } minute gifts. l For the girl who works in a dusty mm“ or who travels much. run up a i'triack sateen bag on the sewing ma- (ehine which is large enough to hold 1her hat without crushing. She will Gid of you and thank you every I working day. "Do Your Christmas Shopping Ear- ly'. l" Have you heard that baton? Evan last Bummer. But did you? Every single necessary postcard and gummed Christmas label? Then read something else For the girl who should be learning to do housework. a couple of dish- mops which cost five cents at the ten. cent store. Dress these up in (Issue ”per and label them the "Helpful Twins." Make holders of bright scraps of material for use around the hot “our To the flower lover or gardener send some of your own choice seeds in dainty envelopes. or an order on the seedsman. or a bouquet. of cuttings trom your window plants, or a promise as follows on a Christmas postcard: "On April first, or thereabout, It you will bring your basket out. I'tl dig for you a root or so Art things that in my garden grow 1And you may plant them in Tour yard {To remind you of my regard." For the grandmother who new: but.’t whose eyes are not so good so they, once were, buy R package ot self-3 threading needles. or two spools of No. i, 30 cotton. black and white. and thread i a paper ot common needdles onto the ', end of the thread on each spool.) Grandmother will know how to tslider', the needles along and break on a. a LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS GIFTS ratiii5i'iky ot m Undo. Bone: quality profound. Write to: prices. trrANFORDS, Limited 1a HIM.” at. . . "antral Fruit Che'ese.-- Stone 9. pound ot dates. add to them a pound of figs, halt _"...." nuu - WWAN.r+ - M"-"'"'-" - - V a pound of blanched almonds, halt a pound ot pecans and half a pound or Brazllllan nuts. Any nuts at hand mar be substituted tor the ones named. Pat the mixture through a meat-chopper, and pack lnto tumblers. Keep in cold place. This may be rolled into tiny balls and dipped in chocolate. cut lnto blocks and used as a aweetmeat. or cut into thin sllces and put between bread and butter, or crackers, to serve in the place of cake. Conservation Dainties. l Maple Popcorn Balls-us cups popped 1 corn, 1 cup maple syrup, 3 teaspoons vinegar, pinch salt. 1 teaspoon butter or substitute, pinch of baking soda. Put syrup, vinegar and butter substi- tute into shallow pan: bring to boil slowly; add salt and soda. Boil slow- ly until the soft ball stage (that is, when a drop will form it dropped on cold plate); brush plate with a little butter substitute, cover with popcorn that has been carefully picked over to he sure all has popped, then pour the hot syrup over, stirring quickly so each kernel is covered with syrup. Rub hands with a little butter substitute; 1take a spoonful and roll into balls at once. " small balls are desired (the size ot English walnut), the corn must be chopped tine. it popcorn is not ob. tainable, use puffed rice. Popcorn, Molasses and Nut Squares. --3 cups chopped popcorn. 1 cup finely chopped nut meats ot choice, 1% cups syrup or molasses, pinch salt and pinch ot vbtUtitttr soda. 1 tablespoon butter substitute. Boil and teat syrup as foregoing recipe. Pour over pop- corn. Brush agate or china plate with butter substitute; cover bottom with nuts, then spread the popcorn over nuts; rub spatula or Knife with butter inretorepmeot1."yir; then cover top with lnllts; _ out into squares before it length ot thread with a needle upon it as she needs. For the woman who crochets or tats find one of the books of samples of trocheting or taming. They cost from 10 to 25 cents and give directions tor doing the work which any needlework. er can follow. What child would not like a box of cookies cut into animals and wonderful men, such as old-fashioned grandmoth- ers know how to make without cutter or pattern. The man who lives in a boarding-house will be wonderfully pleased with eatables, too-cookies, lit. tle mince piers, or big ones. or a fruit cake. Atty woman who depends upon a city bakery tor her bread and des- serts will hall with delight a loaf of Inew bread wrapped in a holly paper innpkin. Any child old enough to sew for her' doll family will be delighted with a roll of scraps ot cloth suitable for doll clothes. A paper of needles and a spool of thread will add to the com- pleteness of the gift. A quilt maker will also like any bits of silk or cotton suitable for her needlework hobby. The folks you know who like to read will enjoy the same story which has given you pleasure in your favorite magazine it yon will clip it from the paper and tie or paste it together into a booklet. It is done! Clang of bell and roar of gun, Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel! How the great bells, peal on peal. 111763 the jdy" from towdto towri! For the Lord On the whirlwind is abroad; In the earthquake He has spoken; He has smitten with His thunder The iron walls asunder, And the gates of brass are broken'. Did we dare, V In the agony of prayer, Ask for more than He his done? When was ever His right hand . Over any time or land Stretched as now beneath the sun? Ring and swing, Bells of joy! On morning's wing Send the song of praise abrpad! With a sound of broken chains Tell the nations that He reigns, Who alone is Lord and God! LAUS Mil! Old-fashioned Yellow Jack-1 quart New Orleans molasses. 1 teaspoon vinegar, 1 teaspoon baking soda. 1 tea- spoon butter substitute. Put the mo- lasses into large saucepan so it will not boil over. Bring to boil slowly; stir continually until it spins a thread; add vinegar end soda; boil a few moments. then try a little in cold water. It it hardens. remove from fire at once: pour into buttered plate, and as soon as it is cool enough to handle, rub hands with a little butter substi- tute and begin to pull it. The longer you pull it, the better it will be. Draw ‘into long strips and cut into pieces ‘with buttered knife or scissors. _ Pi-Chopped nut meats can be added before it‘iardens. hardens. Again. puffed rice Cdt' used if no popcorn is to be had. _ . - - ._ 1 " FEU.Giiikot nut meats, of comnakes can be used 01 and on top. Conservation Sandwich-l cup fresh I grated cocoanut. 2 cups seeded raisins, I % teaspoon salt. thin slices ot brown. bread. To the raisins that have been} washed. dried, and put through tood) chopper, add cocoanut and hix weil.I if it seems to dry, add a little ot the. cocoannt milk so the mixture can bel, spread between thin slices of day-oldl wheat or brown bread. No butter is used with cocoanut. I Rye Flour tringerbread.-1 cup mo-; Ilasses. % cup shortening, % cup sour} milk. 2 cups rye flour, 1 egg. 1 teaspoon I ginger, % teaspoon salt. 1 iiiL"GGl, soda, bk teaspoon clove, w teaspoonI cinnamon. Mix the molasses and shortening in a saucepan over the .s'i')f,) until melted. Beat the egg and add to _ the sour milk. Mix the seasonings and I soda, add to hot molasses. and when foaming pour into the egg and milk.‘ Mix well, add gradually the Mur andI beat until smooth. Pour into a greased, I shallow wand halt“ a underarm oven for 30 minutes. After all, it is not so much the gift as the thought that goes Into it which brings joy to donor and recipient. And the giver who. has Christmas in his heart will find suitable gifts tor all whom he wishes to remember, no mat- ter whether he looks in the big city shops, the ten-cent store, or in his own back yard or cellar storeroom. Wisht my Snowman, "Merry Crismus!" “Same to you," says he. ”Say," says t, "what did you like best “Why! You s'prise me," say Snowman. “Don’t you truly know?" "Nor." says I. "Ho'. no!" says man. "Heaps an' heaps of snow!" Christmas Maple Creams. Take two cuptuls of shaved maple sugar and one cupful ot cream. Boil to the soft ball stage. or 240 degrees Fahrenheit. Remove from the tire, add one cuptul ot chopped butternut meats and beat until it turns creamy. Pour into pans and cut into squares. Place a halt ot a nut meat on top of each square. Walnuts may be used in- Mead ot the butternuts. dn your Chrismus tree? -r'iitAttitrniitR5rTNES TORONTO Gift! far All! an s, 1% cups on bottom says Snow, says my be up Most ot us Beech Crow's Nesighttor- hood women would have been onended by Alice Cochran's lecture on Christ- mu charity had it not been for the little school-teacher's interpretation ot in _ ‘ A ,1..- On IL. "Ot all neighborhoods that give to charity. Beech Grove leads," said Por- tia Young on yr way home. "I etuslt understand why Grandma Wheeler wanted us to hear that bogus." Haul-cu an - .__ __'-- 'W'.'- Then our little school-teacher. whom people outside JMeeh Grove Neithbm" hood call Anne Elizabeth Button, pro- tested. _ ' “She didn't mean to onenu nu u»- sure, Mrs. Young. You know charity is Just a limited name tor love and every neighborhood needs all ttfe love that it can get." Portia looked straight ahead of her, down the road toward the no?” " which the little teacher ionic! turn away from us. StiMy she outlined the plans tor the tableaux and entertain. ment our club was to have on Christ- mas Eve at the club house. . After the corner had been $bm111 and she and I were alone. Portia told me that Anne and Clarke Anderson, who was Portia‘s best-beloved brother. were not to marry in the spring. "They've quarreled again." she ended. - M,“ " I ‘MV: 'v W'"""'"'-'"- 7.. _ "Meaning Clarke has annexed?! thought to myself. I knew Clarke Anderson. Aloud I said, "Why, it will spoil our Christmas!" However little Amie, in the way that school-teachers have of forget- ting themselves, vallantly tried to for- get and so on with our Christmas en- tertainment. N few days later she called a special meeting of the neigh- bcrhood women. Jamie brought me new; of it when he came home from school. "I think she's going to give the mothers our Christmas letters," he said wisely. “She had us write them to-day." I shook my head. I could not tell him that l was thinking of little Anne's romance and that probably she was the only person in Beech Grove Neigh- borhood this year who would be lonely at Christmas time. I thought ot it all the way to the club house. John laughed. 'Taretstreitttt boy!" he remarked after Jamie had left the room. “Guess you'd better write one and give it to the teacher. Or do you know what you "Before I give you mothers your own children's letters, I want to read one from Bennie Newton," Anne told us after Grandma Wheeler had called the meeting to order. . The scrawly little letter was handed JPY, one to the other. few. lon‘md so many brothe an T era ‘that llls mother seldom could come to lour meetings. This time she was ab. sent "Dear Santy Klouse," he had writ. ten. “This year I want you to be square with us Newton children. There's more of us than in any other family in this uayborhood and we al. ways get the littlest Christmas tree of all, Now ll their alnt enough big trees to go aroimd won't you be square and bring everybody a little one? "Yours Respectahly, "Benjamin Newton. "P.S.il donut mind the little tree myself. It's for the other kids, I doant want you to make a difference." Grandma was wiping the tears from her eyes before the letter had gone around the room. Portia Young forgot the animosity she had seemed to feel toward the little teacher and sprang to her feet. "Let's see that that young- ster has the biggest tree in the neigh- borhood!" she said. "lie deserves it." When Mrs. Harris tried to speak, she could not tor a sob choked her. Little Anne, dry-eyed and woefully sad. talked gently to us. "We couldn‘t do that without hurting his mother," she said. Portia very kindly asked Anne if she knew any way to get a big tree tor the Newton children without ofteading. Anne nodded her dusky head and stood up to talk, her dark eyes Mill and but strangely alive as it with a great pur- pose. "Bennie Newton isn't the only child in this neighborhood who wonders over the ditterertce in the size ot Christmas trees," she told us: “Lots of little hearts ache and are silent over small~ er trees than their neighbors have. The only way tor us to bring happiness to everyone is to have one big tree for us all at our club house-a community Christmas tree as some of you have already mentioned. "But having it will not be enough. " mist be the only Christmas tree in the neighborhood. We'll all have to give up our individual (.hristmaa trees in'tavor of this one. Don't you see how it would look for all to have one great tree together and then after tro- ing home for some of us to have other Christmas trees? That" -there was a little catch in her throat --"that wouldn't be square either." Grandma Wheeler's white head nod, (led approval. So did several others. A few hesitating ones showed signs ot agreement. "That would be real charity," said Grandma. "Love," corrected Anne gently. "Love is the word that describes what we Beech Grove people feel. We won't be giving or receiving but sharing. On the ttrst Christmas everyone thered the same Gift. Wouldn't you lite our children in Beech Grove Neighborhood to feel that way about Christmas? V The morning after we had decitted'Io have the community tree we a‘oke with a love that before had just lain dormant, now alive in our hearts. It WWW," . irTiG, mm Acummqgggmsmi M w a want ?" Br MIMI MeKer, of her, was a me that verse! brqtttterno"". .. ." ttoning it we were all drawn together-4 tn the mysterious way that love bu. of uniting people. l How our tree grew'. The Christma- s tablea'ux- dwartewh it. It the hall l in our club house but! not extends“ past the second story up to the very rafters of the building, I am Mraid the tree would have outgrown R. _ '; - _. noun afraid of ttut . "T"' UNI-n- --- - "At tirst I was a little afraid 01 u.- idea," Mrs. Newton told us as she helped Portia Young tie the balls to the tree's lower branches. "I was afraid that Bennie might not be satis- fied with a tree that belonged to every one. Bennie is hard to understand." "Caste is forever abolished by a com- munity Christmas tree," prophesied Portia Young's husband. "It makes you people who have children all the _---... -~-m| share them lmptrtlully year ran with us." ti That same mg!" by our grate, he t ping to think your thing after all. , cnuuren. "All but Anne Sutton," I answered. "Clarke Anderson hasn’t come near thz1 tree. If some one could only get hi there so that he could see how sad her eyes are then everything would be all right. No one con even Interest him in it. Portia says It's lmposslble. ive a notion to try myself.” ' John laid his hand over mine. "No," he said Brntly. “Clarke's hot-headed ‘and stubborn. Besides I don't like to meddle in such "airs." - . A In-.. LA. Tau Elmo luau- -.- - by our grate, he told me, "I'm begin- ping to think your tree ts a. wonderful thing after all. It's going to make the older people as happy " it All the children." _ .. -" . “Mum.“ -rar that I tried not Anne Sutton's eyes but w talked I thought I Yard, a in her it. The next afternoon he brought Clarke home with him to Supper. While I was making my yeast biscuit they sat in the living room talking. "The trouble with you and Anne that you quarrel so much t because you are too self-centered, larke." I heard John Bar. "Mother and I used to have a great many sharp words, when we though} just of ourselves and l lived for ourselves. Now that we are I interested in many other people, we; don't quarrel. When you get to think-'I ing of your neighbors and grow twi, terested in their lives. there's a Fe) Vern! feeling comes into your heart that takes all ot the tselt1sh pettinessi away. You won't quarrel Shen:" l Clarke iauialiirntuuf. "I prefer a home feeling," he said. "it would be more attractive to me." "You'11 come to the tree?" John sug- gested. "No." Clarke 'W' gruff. Yet he did come although it toot all John’s persunslve powers to bring him. I did not see him until the school children began singing their carols on the tlrtrt night, Christmas Eve. Then l forgot him, for the lights were tlashed on the great tree and. together, every one in Beech Grove saw their universal gift. Something gripped my heart that made me feel as it I were in another world, a world in which you and I did not exist but just WE did. Mrs. Harris, who was standing next to me, reached out and took my hand. It was as if we were renewing our friendship. Slowly I looked around at my neighbors' faces. They tou were swayed jay that understanding. While the last carol was being sung I saw John again but Clarke Anderson was not with him. I turned my head and there close to my shoulder Were the little school teacher and Clarke. The and look had left her eyes and in his there was more than joy; there was understanding. He too now knew the universal feellng that was invad. lng Beech Grove Neighborhood. I did not need to worry any longer about our. romuce. While I was looking for our Jamie so that we could go home, little Ben. nie Newton slipped his hand into mine. "I know a secret." he whtispiiNe, radiantly'. "That tree ain't all a whole tree at all. it's trot lots of little (men all spliced to that biggest one. I guess Slutty Claus made it out ot all the trees he aimed to give us kids in this neighborhood." When Christ was born ot Mary tree, In Bethlehem that fair cute. Angels sang there Irith, mirth and glee, Everyone in Beech Grove Neighbor- hood was happy'. In Exvlsis Gloria! - This King is come to save mankind As in Scripture truths we and; Therefore this song we hare in mint In Excelsis Gloria'. We pay Expres- ud tout: wann- " 2°85?" --. Send for Illustrated Bookie: and Price Us: Raw -ffq- rs OLIVER SPANNER SHIP NOW FOR HIGH PRICES round, share "c==r==="a""-""T" we that was the basis tor unl- brotherhood. Without men- it we were all drawn together nun love I,” run-rum. . 7 26 ELM STREET. TORONTO r that I tried not to look lnto' Eutton's eyes but whenever she I thought I heard a wistful note voice. One day John too heard i FOX, COON, SKUNK WANTED Glory' In the Highest! night as John and l at a.-.,,, --t.., alplng Lucien Wheeler caudescents to the top le tree. They talked tgil were working although been friends since they r a boundary fence tivtt afraid of the 1 " " tstu' the balls to as. "l was not be satis- 11". mind, Wynn-co can: In up can” mum wee snow-bound " few an - amen». Within ll any or two the We" bad eaten all the food In the alum our. Nina all“ We: on there we: I town, but no one would volunteer to make tl: trip. "We “meet sure death to start in this blluu‘d." everyone sold. “Ruhr! will come when the now stops; with tn forty-eight More myway. Human beings can do without tood two days _. Some ot the passengers had qathcr ed in one at the sleepers. Darkness was tnlllng; It was bitterly cold. up.) the snowy gale whetled outside. 'rl; tunately. there we: coal enough l, '-~-- "n elenmvln the engine and l I Some of the passengers nun shun; ed in one of the sleepers. Darkness was falling; It was bitterly cold. and the snowy gale whstied outside. rm tnnately. there was cool enough tr; keep up steemrin the mine and in warm the cars a little. A - porter came through thr. car. "There is a little child in the day coach." he aid. “its mother is dead, and its grandmother is taking it to lu-r home in Winnipeg. The milk tht, brought with them is all gone. They'r.- atraid the baby may die of hunger." The elect ot those words on th" nonsense" was electrical. Sever. l men jumpedrto their feet. "Who'll so with me to get that bul;y some milk?” one " fellow asked. Every man in the car except on elderly invalid volunteered. The in- iatid drew acme bills from his pot-lot Land ottered one to the man who had , called for volunteers. I “Toke this" he me. “I'm not ablo l' want. but I want to be in on this. ‘3“ the,hahy's milk with my money i you need help coming back, hire the ‘men and I will pay them." I The party eventually was redumi lto six. including the locomotive angina tNt-men who were experienced in 1','.tyit','t snow." Thou who stayed lbehind watched the six plough their :way through the drifts in the dark ‘ness. There were (our high bridges ir, emit before they could reach the 'town. A gust ot wind might send them to death at the bottom ot it gone. But they started. 1 --q" "‘17.. 'DIII» HIV] ..-" --_, l Morning dawned clear and cold. Ty e 1mm bod that“. but the tlylug pm.» 'tlclo- of noxen snow cut like kttises Iwhen they hit the uncovered haud~ pad (was of then who ventured um “not as the sun begun to brighten tlirs ‘topl ot the highest mountains m. milk party returned. Each man um- rled e can, so that It one tell. and hm his burden there would be enough Mt for the beby'l needs. The milk was warmed and the hairy bad Me breath“. while the [museum-r ‘crowded round and enjoyed the Imb- ‘Ione'o satisfaction as much as It my imeIIuelvee had been an“. l,At Bethlehem. " Bethlehem. i, Dark form so to and ho. §Can they be shepherds with th-ur Two Erin? hen who made we 2: 'l' "mohair feet; but when the rem: train cane the an} day and took timn to u tGiirGere (fey bould have thui" feet treated, one ot them remarked Itt the other: 'ifiiiGim ever see anything that and: you feet better can when Illa? mu. fellow began to draw on the nu:- pk?" For the Christ-child was a li'.;'; babe! IbOOp. . Shepherds tint nightly vigns keep. An Ihepherdl long ago? What gleam- there in the hands " them At Bethlehem, at Bethlehem? No shepherde these-eh. not For Bethlehem. that Bethlehem Which new the mels draw The veil trom heeven'e gate aside. Keeps now the “reagent Christmw tide That Bethlehem e'er um. All night the trampling feet so by. All night the. creaking can: so by, Grlmvtwod the - gunners ride. Where shepherds knelt the Babe he side And Christ lay in the straw. In there no light in Heuon'l hlgh ture At Bethlehem, at Bethlehem? Those men that gun! the holy place. u there no word ot tor for them? The aentrles walk their watchful round Where Illephel'dl lly upon the ground. At Bethlehem, " Bethlehem, Where holy Ken's Child they found. And mall sung. by God's good gravel Ah, yes! the wide “(spread above Still holds the silent waiting host. The sentry stands upon his post. And laboring columns forward mow But all the mighty nuke. on high Wait, while men strive and bleed and die, For Christ's commnd of pear" t, them, At Bethlehem, at Bethlehem. For In: emgttttand--<shr. watt not long Lord ot the lowly and the strong! Speak thou the word. and Bethlvhmn tgult hear mm the angelic song Thy tteating power. 0 Lord. releasc Good will and peace. good will 11L peace-- And Mt the amused sky above With the triumphant song of hm” The union ttmis to write thank y note! tor Christmas presents is m: - an" Christmas. Tlm bnc one neglects this little (Dummy In“! It I: to Ind time tor it. '1» N't law at etiquette which says ._ v . .t11%.rlPt baton arktMvvledIrin.c '. SIR." The most perfect good form tfals an (I to answer as soon at: t"' Xmas Thank-You Note. Bethlehem In 1917. wu wnrmod and the hairy Kmart, while the passengvr and we! enjoyed the littir mtton " much as It my»; Within a had gate“ at. Nine .tbwn. but