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tHRISTMAS is such it thor-
c otighly cstablislied Institu¬
tion, so Integral n part of
our yearly program Hint I
s’ * really don’t think the pos-
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ti Utility of dispensing ever oc¬
curred to me until A. II. J.’s little
poem, "The False Calendar,” came to
Land, and I
“Full to thinking how ’twoiihl ho
If such a tiling were true,"
and Christinas were wiped off the cal¬
endar. Surely, winter would seem a
long, cold, cruel season without the nn-
idversnry that opens our hearts, onr
homes and our purses, nnd possesses us
with the spirit of loving and giving,
nnd kindly thought of others.
Our Christmas season is a curious
commingling of Christian and pagan
ceremonials. When Christianity was
making slow headway against poly¬
theism, the early fathers of the church
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THE MADONNA WITH THE DIADEM.
Raphael (Italian: Horn 14SR; IMe,l 1530).
as
of the old. Thus, long before
Christian era "(he babe In the man¬
was a symbol of the birth of tho
year, and was part of the Satur¬ It
or festival of Saturn, the mad¬
nnd most rlotiously merry of pa¬
feasts. The decorations of our
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«|l to Him, thtir glorioui King -
0 silver belts, may Incenie bring
welcome Him, with him ihail fficn.
Tell it «S*ln and y«t ag»' n . '
Chrutew; bells.
from the rites of too ancient
who ycnrly cut the mllky-hcr-
pnrnslto.fi’om the trees with silver
nnd much ceremonial. The Dru¬
were not pagans, ns the Romans
they believed in God, In n future
In rewards and punishments for
nnd evil doing, but their faith
crude nnd cruel.
The giving of gifts, the fonstlngs,
the benefactions to the poor which
the grout Christian holi¬
were features of the midwinter
of the pagans, and wore graft¬
upon the new religion to make the
from the one to the othc-
efiny. Later Christinas revels,
wiiHsnll, the “twits,” twees of
still survive In England, can
followed hack to (lie Yule festival
the ancients, Yule being the mime of
winter month in which the days
to lengthen. Yule was derived
Hide, a wheel, the ancient sym¬
of the sun. Great logs were drawn
the cavernous fireplaces of those
with great ceremony and merri¬
nnd were lighted ns s.vinhollcol
(he return of the sun in the winter
nnd in honor of the lengthen¬
days.
The early Christians did not special¬
celebrate the nativity, hut regarded
baptism, as the dato on which
ministry began. The institution
the festival of Christinas is attrib¬
to the Emperor Coininodus, and
not until A. 1). IlStt that Eastern
generally adopted It.
Mass"- from which “Christ¬
Is derived, was In earlier times
at the New Year (January
hv Eastern Christians. Julius I.,
of Home, fixed the date we now
as Christmas.
is not, therefore, the ex¬
anniversary of the nativity, that
being unknown. It is a day set
to celebrate the event, much as
set apart Thanksgiving as a day
gratitude and giving thanks for the
git’is of the earth.
Christian nations observe Christ¬
It is a well-nigh universal hol-
Some of us keep It In spirit;
are few who do not keep It In the
The mysteries begin weeks
to Its coming: we plan the Christ¬
surprises, practice self-denial to
our Christmas fund, or give our
to the making of gifts, that we
titty celebrate its annual return.
is something about tho season
inclines the heart to generosity,
want to make others happy. Wo
prudently—set a limit to our ex-
and declare “thus far aud
a dollar over.” But “tho loving ]
giving" spirit grows apace. We are I
there are so many lovely
in the stores, so many expedi-
s to wile the cash from onr purses,
as long ns we keep our motives
and high, and don’t let them de-j
Christmas," our joy In Christina*
real. But when we make gifts ho-
others have given to us; when
measure values; when we let our¬
feel a little envious because
have received more richly or
abundantly than we, wo very
find out that we have lowered the
inclining of the day and drifted
from Its spirit.
A merry Christmas by no means re- |
expensive gifts. A tree prettl-
dressed with strings of popcorn and ;
and hung child with apples and j
delights eyes as much as j
its adornments were more cosily. I
things please If chosen with I
of the desires of the recipient
a good dinner, and Invito some
would otherwise cat a scanty or i (
lonely one to ditto with you. Don’t
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giving and your Christmas
radiate from your home to bless
poor, the lonely, the unfortunate.
up your mind to do something
making some outsider have a
Christmas, and the net will
a henison upon your own.
Last year n kind-hearted woman in¬
to her Christmas table a man
called fo see her husband on
morning. He was poor,
depths of despair; ho had “eaten
with swine,” and was trying to j
Ills way back to respectability, j
ate as only a half famished man
eat at a home table, and when he;
yet, away, cheered warmed by and foil, nnd, bet- j
tho kindly wel¬
and encouraged by being greeted |
a friend and an equal, tears ran j
his cheeks as he thanked his i
not that woman’s act hronllic
of the true spirit of Christmas;
the entertaining of weli-to-dc >
or the bestowing of rieli gifts
they those need? who already have mor< {
BEATRIX.
The Merry Days.
Hang I-et the the holly berries—
red dailies glow;
as red as cherries
Was born on Christmas Day.
f ’Neath the nvatletoe!
“Christmas voices on the air:
comes but once a year!”
bells a-t inging
Over merry throngs.
the fiddle singing
All the old-time songs!
outside voices on the air:
"Christmas comes but once a year!’ I
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A VICTIM Uh LA GRIPPE.
Mrs. Henrietta A. S. Marsh, 769 W.
St,., Ivos Angeles, Cal., President Wo¬
Benevolent Ans’n, writes:
'* / hufj'eved with In grippe for seven
and noth Ing 1 con id do or take
me until 1 tried Peruna.
“1 felt at once that I had at last se¬
the right medicine and I kep t stead¬
improving. Within three weeks I was
restored, and 1 am glad that I gave
truly great remedy a trial. I will
be without dated it again.” 31, 1904, Mrs.
In a letter August
says: ”1 have never yet heard
efiicacy of Peruna traveled questioned. through Ken¬ \\ e
use it. I
and Tennessee three years ago
I found Peruna doing its good
Much of it is being used here
Henrietta A. S. Marsh.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of The
Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio.
Your Drug-gist for Free Peruna
Almanac for 1905.
FEMININE CHARITY.
Him—Miss Singleton says she re
celebrated the twenty-second
of her birth.
Her—-Yes; Miss Singleton is cer¬
a bargain.
Him—A bargain!
j.j pr —Yes; 22, marked down from
News.
A GREAT LADIES’ MAN.
Dorothy—My baby brother is going
be a great ladies’ man.”
Margie—Why do you think so?
Dorothy—He got hold of my dol.
and chewed her complexion
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A Guaranteed Cure Fur Vile*.
Itching, Blind, Weeding or Protruding Pazo
JTrugfci.sts will refund money if
fails to cure in 6 to 34 days. 60c.
O ily the very rich have fences around
faro-; in Japan.
FACTS
FO» SICK WOMEN
TO CONSIDER.
First.—T he medicine that holds Die
for the luvgest- number of abso¬
cures of female ills is Lydia E.
Vegetable diseases Compound, it
and cures of llio
organism us nothing else can.
Skcond.—T he great volume of un¬
and grateful testimonials on
at the PinUhnm laboratory nt time Lynn,
many of which tire from to
published by permi sion, of give .Lydia ab¬
evidence of the value
Pink hum's Vegetable Compound aud
J’inklnim's advice.
Third.—E very ailing woman in tho
States is asked to accept the
invitation. It is free, will
you health, and may save your
Pinkham’s Standing Invitation.
Women suffering from any form of
weakness tire invited to promptly
with Mrs. Pinkham, at
Mass. All letters are received,
rend and answered by women
From symptoms nnd given, the quiek- your
may ho located
and surest way of recovery advised,
of the vast volume of experience
Pinkham probably has the very
that will help your is case.
anv woman, rich or poor, very
if she does not take assistance. advantage
this generous offer of
dependent upon a properly bal¬
anced fertilizer.
: No 'Hji
crop is '7
so easily
L spoiled as *
tobacco. Tlie Egg
a fertilizer must
be right, and to m
be right it must
Contain nt least
10 % actual
Potash
plenty It: Supply of V'ottwh, ono another patch with with fertilizer little
or
potash, dhonld ana note .hojesulta. little book. Every "Tobunco tobacco
have our
will bo scat froo—write to :
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Atlanta, Ga.—22S South Bread St. |
Gives
Quick ,
Relief.
Removes all swelling in 8to?o
days; effects a permanent cure j
•A In \oto 6o davs. Nbthlngcan Trial treatment
given free. be fairer
w Write Dr. H. H. Green’s Sons.
Specialists, Box B Atlanta.'i*-
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Write for JnlWmnOon FREK.
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JVjatters
To Can Tomato** TV tiole.
To can tomatoes whole, wash and
perfect tomatoes; pack In Mason
and then (III to overflowing with
These will not pickle, but
only be as tart ns yod would
them when you eat them,
the skins are perfect, ■'-•T
Urock Wny to SUitT Tomatoe*.
Take large, round tomatoes aud cut
circular piece from the top. Take
contents with a teaspoon. Chop
very fine and brown in a frying
with chopped onion; when brown
In half the contents of the tomato,
parsley, chopped fine, a table-
of rice, pepper and salt. When
is soft fill the tomatoes and put
the pan with the rest of the tomato-
nnd a little butter. Buko a short
In the oven. ,
Cream Custard Pie.
Three eggs beaten with a half cup
sugar, add one pint of milk and
with a little nutmeg. Bake in
pie plate. Cream yolk of two
two tablespoons corn starch, wet
a little milk. Boil one cup of
and add the sugar, eggs and corn¬
When cool flavor with one-
teaspoon lemon and spread on top
pie. Frosting—Beat whites of two
and two tablespoons sugar until
then spread on cream roughly
brown lightly. I
Pumpkin Timbale.
To make this tasty dish, which is
served with roasted duck or
boiled ham, add to one pint of
pumpkin, which has been
the yolks of four eggs well
a teaspoonful of salt and a
of pepper. Mix well and
in custard or timbale cups. Stand
in a baking pan of boiliug water and
in a quick oven. In twenty min¬
they should he doue, when they
he turned from tho cups and sent
the table.
Mayonnaise Dressing.
Tut three raw yolks of eggs into a
cold howl or soup dish. In warm
stand this in cold water or
ice. Add a saltspoonful of salt,
rapidly, then add drop by drop
desired quantity of oil. The yolks
three eggs will hold a quart of oil;
you may add a less quantity. After
the first half pint add alter¬
with the oil a little vinegar, not
than a tahlespoonful to each
pint of oil. Vinegar or lemon
cuts the oil and keeps the dress¬
like a thick custard. The recipe
be made in half quantity.
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Stuffed M ughrooms.
From one pound of mushrooms select
of the largest, peel and set aside.
the remainder, chop very fine and
a tahlespoonful of bread crumbs,
truffles, also chopped line; salt and
to taste and a little butter. Cut
stem of the larger mushrooms close
the cups and fill the latter with the
Put one tahlespoonful of
in a frying pan, and when hot
lay the mushrooms in tho
and fry for twenty minutes. Then
on rounds of toast. Add the re¬
of the stuffing to the butter
cook for twenty minutes. Add a
of rich cream; stir until the
boils again, then pour off the
mushrooms and serve at once.
Green Tomato Chowder*
One bushel green tomatoes, one and
half dozen onions, two teaspoonfuls
white mustard seed, two ounces
cloves, two ounces ground all¬
and pepper corns to suit taste.
the tomatoes over night in salted
drain them in the morning, theu
tomatoes and onions in a chop¬
bowl and chop them up quite
Tie the ground spices in loose
Put all the spices in sufficient
to cover the tomatoes and ou-
and heat them scalding hot; then
it over the tomatoes and onions.
them in covered jars or tie up the
of the jars. -------
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Pumpkin Custartl,
This is Mrs. Rover’s recipe, nnd
to judge by the name, she is
to win the American people
from their allegiance to pie, it is
reality a pie. A deep baking dish is
with biscuit crust which has been
out thin. The stewed or boiled
(a pint of it) is then pressed
a sieze. While it is yet warm
a teaspoonful-of butter, stir in two
well beaten with a half ci:p of
Add a half teasoonful of ground
and a half pint of milk. Turn
into the baking dish and hake one
in a moderate oven. Those of us
do not believe in F>e find this a
recipe minus the crust part
it, the custard part being baked in
pudding dish.
HtnhWl Housewives^
l or
if l-iused in salt water, look
drop of creosote will stop the
of a cut.
is greatly improved by mix¬
with it a little salad oil.
being cooked for the sec¬
time needs a hot oven.
slam the oven door or jar any
material Willie it IS baking.
ov grease spots may be removed
woolen cloth by turpentine be-
rubbed on it.
raisins before adding them to
mixture in order to prevent their
to the bottom.
an egg is cracked, cover the crack
a paste of flour and water, aud
egg will not boil out.
you do not want the bristles of
new toothbrush to fall out, soak
brush for ten hours before using
all.
your roii of linoleum has become
by being kept rolled up a long
put it near the Are and it will
pliable. — ——
"My noee 1« sore," said the elo
phant. remarked the gi¬
"That’s nothing,”
“I’ve got a pain In my neck."
“That cuts no figure at all,” put in
kangaroo, “I have the rheuma
In my tall."
"Pshaw!" contemptuously exclaimed
octopus, "my vaccination Is tak¬
In eight places.”—Chicago Tri¬
PAINFUL.
maiden who lived up in Gloucester,
so bad to have people accoucester
Than when a young man
Said: "How are you, Nan?”
said she had pains all acrouceater.
—Houston Post.
VERY LIKELY.
Xholly says ’Society is a dooceo
don’t y’ know.’"
“Ah, he must mean his own so
Press.
FITSpormauantlycured. day’s of No Hr. fltsornervous- Kline’s Groat
us*
treatise fr-n
it. H. liLiNE.Ltd., 0 31 Arch St , l’nilii., l’a.
When the Kaiser drove through Ilame-
recently hundreds of children stood
the route, dressed cither as rats or
the picturesque costume of the famous
Piper’s” period.
J do not bolievo Plso’s Cure for Consump¬
has unequal for coughs and colds.—J ohn
Trinity Springs lnd., Feb, 15,1900,
Sleepers of mahogany are used on the
Central Railway.
licit cured in 30 minutes by Woolford’s
Lotion. Never fails. Sold by al
$1. Mail orders promptly filled
Dr. 15. Detchon, Crawfordsvill e, lnd.
Wales wants a capital, but has none.
To Care a Colil In Ono Hay
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
E. druggists W. Grove’s refund signature money is if it fails box. to 25c. cure.
on
leather The electric motor is fast displacing the
belt in factories.
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Mrs. Rosa Adams, niece of the late General
Roger Hanson, C. S. A., wants every woman
to know of the wonders accomplished by
Lydia E, Pinkharrds Vegetable Compound.
“ Dear Mrs. Pixkhaai : —I cannot tell you with pen and ink what g ood
I, yd hi E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound did for me, suffering fi rom
ills peculiar to the sex, extreme lassitude and that all gone feeling. I
bed, rise but from before my I bed had in used the morning bottles feeling of Lydia more tired E. Pinkham’s than when Vege» I went
two
became Compound, I began to feel the buoyancy of my younger day -s return-
regular, could do more work and not feel tired than I had ever
able to do before, so I continued to use it until I was restored to perfect
It is indeed a boon to sick women and I heartily recommend it.
very truly, Mrs. Rosa. Adams, 819 12th St., Louisville, Ky.”
Any women who are troubled with Ir¬
regular or painful menstruation, weak¬
ness, leucoxrhoea, displacement or ulcer¬
ation of the womb, that bearing-dowTi
feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, back¬
;<r‘ ache, general debility, and nervous pros¬
9 tration, should know there is one tried
and true remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound. No other medicine
for women has received such wide-spread
; m J medicine and unqualified has such Indorsement. a record of female No cures. other
“ Dear Mrs. Pineham: — I am very pleased
m I to recommend Lydia E. Plnkham y s Vege¬
gm table Compound for womb and ovarian difficul¬
ties from which 1 have been a sufferer for years. It
was the only medicine which was at all beneficial,
m and within a week after I started to use it, there
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was a great change little in my feelings and looks. I
used it for a over three mouths, and at the
m m end of that time I suffered no pain at the menstrual
period, nor was I troubled with these distressing
cl pains which compelled me to go to bed, and I have
not had a headache since. This is nearly a year
ago. I always keep a bottle on hand, and take a
doses every week, for I find that it tones up the system and keeps me
strong, and I never have that tired out feeling any more.
“I certainly think that every woman ought to try this grand medicine,
it would prove its worth. Yours very truly, Miss Elsie Damfobth, 203
Soto St., Memphis, Tenn.”
FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN.
Don’t he-ltate to write to Mrs. Pinkham. She will understand
case perfectly, and will treat you with kindness. Her advico
free, and the address is Lyun, Mass. No woman ever regretted
written her, and she has helped thousands.
FORFEIT >l 1 ^ J ° jf've cannot forthwith 1 produce the original JledTco, letters and signatures of
lydia ®- Pinkham Lynn, Mass.
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pains after eating, liver trouble, sallow skin ar.d diuiness. When vour bowels don’t move
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ailments and long years of suffering. No matter v.-ha; ails you. start trkina
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Samian*
A bachelor one day set the tnb.e m
lonely nboile with plates for him¬
and an Imaginary wife and flv*
He then tat down to dine,
as he helped himself to food lie
tin} same quantity on each of thp
plates and surveyed the pros¬
at the same time computing tu#
He is still a bachelor.
Catarrh Cannot tin Cnroil
Local application*, as they oauaot
the scat of tho disease. Catarrh Is a
or constitutional disease, and la order
flirt- It you must take Internal remedies.
s Catarrh Chtro is taken Internally, and
directly on the blood and mucoussurfaca
Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine.
was prescribed by ono of tho best physi¬
In this country for years, and is a reg¬
prescription. It is composed with the of bast tua
tonlc 3 known, combine.I
purl tiers, noting directly on tho mu¬
surfaces. Tho perfect combination of
two Ingredients is what catarrh produces Read suoa
dorful results in curing
testimonials, free. Co., Props., Toledo, 0.
F. J. Cuenp.v A
Sold by druggists, prico, 75".
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation
WHEREIN THE DANGER LIES.
The Doctor (flicking the ashes from
cigar).—You’ll be telling me, I
that as a physician I ought
know smoking is unwholesome.
The Professor—Unwholesome? Doo-
It’s deadly. Have you never no
that whenever there is a rail-
accident the fatalities are gen¬
confined to the smoking carl—
Tribune,
TO SUIT HER CASE.
“I think even she herself is begin¬
to realize now how fat she’s geb
“Yes?”
"Yes; ehe asked me today how t&
‘embonpoint.’ PhlladeV
Press.
DOING GOOD DY STEALTH.
Wigg—Deacon Buncomb is fond of
good deeds on the sly.
Wagg—Yes; but he’s terribly sul
If other people don’t find out about
Recqrd.