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LOCAL NEWS. i e Mr. C. 11. Mathis visited his old home in Colquitt for several days last week with fiiends and relatives. " Mr. Hollis Fort , of Americus, spent Thursday in Lee county hunt ing. Miss Mary Carter left Sunday fer home in Ellaville, having resigned as a teacher in the Leesburg hgh school. ; Dr. H. T. Simpson, of Smithville was in Leesburg, Tuesday on busi ness. 666 prevents Colds. Mr. 3. Statham a student at Georgia University is at home to spend the holidyas with his par ents, Dr. and Mrs. O. W, Statham. § Shiriteipe | Mrs. O. W. Statham was in Americus yecterday -shopping. ; The many friends of Mr. R. H. Forrester are glad to see *him out again after an operation at the hos pital in Albany. 666 for Headaches, Colds, etc. Mrs. Mary -Bunkley is spending some time in lochélle as the guest of Mrs. Roy Jordan. < Mrs. E. B. ‘Martin and children left last week for Orlando, Fla., where tkey will reside in the future. Mr. Martin will join them next weel.. 666 for Colds and LaGrippe Miss Olivia and Anrie Mary Hr returned home today from Ather: where they are attending the Stat: Normal .to spend Mmas with the pavents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ha: Miss Sara Long is at kome fron Miiledgeville where she is attendins school to spend the Holidays wit home folks. j m,s Mildred Powel. arvived yesier day from Milledgeville, where ste 3 attending school to spend Xmas wit her parents, Mr. end Mrs. S. J Powell. ’ 666 for Malaria! Forrv Mizs Kate Smith is at home fron Milledgeville, where she is attendine school ‘to" spemd the Holidays w. her - parents, Mr. and Mrs. 8. Smith, : COMINE TO UOULERINYY AV Ly DOCTOR REA Medical Doctor Specialist AT THE ALBANY HOTEL THURS. DAY JANUARY 3. Hours 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. ONE DAY ONLY Will demonstrate at the principcfll towns throughout the state how he .ni lis progresrive Medical Doctor Associates treat diseases and de ¢~rmikes without surgical operation. The doctor Las had years of ex perience in the treatment of chronic diseaces; he is a- practical specialist in internal medicine, and his clinics are patrqnized by those who know, and appreciate the advantages of treating with an experienced doctor. The disceses treated are liver, kid ney, stomach, bladder and bowel troubles, nosc, throat and lung troubles, gall stones, appendicitis, blood and skin diseases, leg veins, en larged veins, rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis, epilepsy, undeveloped and ceformed children, bed wetting, and all shronic diseases of men, women and children. : Treir plan of treatment for goiter, sreall tumors and external cancerous diseaces with the hypodermic injec tion method and their knowledge Ofl t-c cuccessful uses of the various, vaccires as used in this present day’l and- age gives them special advant ages in the practice of medicine. ! Will examine free all those in te-ected as to their health and in those cases sclected for treaténent medicine will be sent direct from their Jaboratory at Minneapolis, Minn, Age Marrie’ {aides are reques’ted to come with their husbands, and chil dren with tHéir parents. Sunta Claus Js Caught at Lust By F. H. SWEET (©, 1923, Western Newapaper Union.) ¥ LD SANTA CLAUS is comin’ to our house, His own very 'i} self. Here. Tonight 4> This was what Polly \‘l% screamed to her little cous giij ins, Faith and Jenny, when &5/ %a they came to spend the day ' \ ¥ before Christmas with her, “l know it,” said Faith, “I'm to be In it.” “So am I” eried Polly, “Come to my playroom, and I'll show you my dolls that are to be in the tabelo,” Polly meant tableau, but that was quite near erough for such a little bit of a girl to get to such a strange word. ’ Faith and Jenny had brought their dolis to take part, and the little girls were soon very busy seeing that they were in proper order, “I need & new doll dreadfully,” said Polly, with a very sober face, “I told Cousin Phil so, and he says I better speak to Santa (’'aus about it. But I should be afrald to, wouldn't you?”" “1 don't know,” replied Faith, “He's kind, they say.” “Yes; and when he’s comip' right here p'raps I might, Just seg. Betsy Bobolink’s hair is all comin’ out, and Little Miss Muffet's eyes won't shuf any more.” “'d ask him,” said Falth, encour agingly. > Early in the ecvening a number of other little children came with theh mothers, and no house ever held & merrier Christmas Eve party than that was: As it got a little later some of the papas quietly stole into the front parlor and looked on, which made everybody more anxious than ever that things go on well, It was great fun getting ready for the dolls’ tableau. " “My doll won’t do,” sald little Bes sie Plummer. She was iooking at the fine dresses of the otiaer dolls, and Polly saw that Bessle's doll was very poor-looking and shabbily dressed. - “Oh, yes, dear,” said Polly’s mamma. “She’ll do for a nurse, She’ll make a very nice nurse.” - “Why didn’'t you bring some other doll?” asked Polly. “I haven’t any other,” replied Bessie. Polly looked around at her dolls, say ing to herself: “I do believe I'll give one of my dolls to Bessie. I shan't need all my old cnes If Santa Claus brings me a new one.” The dolls’ tableau was a great suc cess. Not one of the actors in it moved a single limb.” If my space was bigger, I might takc more time to teil about the other tab leaux, and of the dance with songs and 1 laughter around the Christmas tree, at the end of which Santa Claus himself; stood behind it, and in kindly, gruff tones invited each little boy and gl to come and receive a Christmas gift The last tableau was the very thing to wind up a Christinas BEve. It wa a picture of a room at midnight. Even the hands of the clock were fixed tc show half-past twelve. One or twe smali white beds were in the room, on the pillows of which could be secn little curly heads and closed eyes. But one pair of blue eyes were stil watching for Sq%ta Claus. At a half open door stood a cunning white robed little figure peeping out as the dear old fellow knelt before the fire place. Some stockings hung above it. and he was in the very act of filling some he had taken down. And then—what do you think tha! darling, funny Polly did? All the evening her head had beep full of the doll she had been wishing to ask for. But since she had seen poor Bessie Plummer's shabby doll— well ! : As she peeped through the door, still wondering if she dared, she saw that Santa Claus had laid aside his long loak. There was something in the curly head above the fur-trimmed jacket that looked very familiar. For getting all about being in the tableau, and all the people looking at it, out bounded the little bare, dimpled feet, “Oh, Cousin Phil!” she shouted, run ning up to him, “won’t you give the very nicest doll you've got to Bessle Plummer?” ’ “Oh-h-h-h!” exclaimed Faith and Jenny in a shocked whisper. “She's moved. She's spoiled the tabelo.” _ But the papas and mammas sald, as the party broke up with a deal of laughter: “It was the sweetest, prettiest thing we have seen.” = s SN e “ 7 Normal Temperaturs. As defined by experts, normal tem perature for sny place Is the tempera ture obtalned by averaging a perlod of temperatures so long that further additions will not materially affect the result. Actually, however, there are only a few such long records in the ' ¢ountry, and normal is taken to mean ‘the average of & perfod of observation 'of selected length, usually the longest obtainable, THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA. The Editor’s Christmas Party By Charles Frederick Wadsworth _ (®, 1923, Western Newspaper Union.) HE prospect for a merry . Christmas eve was not * bright for the three:- hun ; . dred-odd passengers on. the Continental Limited, To be 1 sure, the “butcher” was all but sold out, and all the ' kiddies on the train had , been provided for, But the {grown-up folks, who at Christmas time ,are not grown up, as they appear at jother times, had not much in prospect that would be like other years, | Here they were, almost two miles up toward the sky, with two locomo tives pushing the long traln from be hind and two pulling in front, with a rotary ahead trying to bore a thor oughfare through the deep driftf on one of the highest passes of the Rocky’ mountains, The train was hours late, and none of the passengers hoped to reach des tination for the celebration with rela tives and friends which had been looked forward to with joyous anticl pations, It seemed that of the assorted com pany aboard there should have been many who might have suggested some thing in the nature of Christmas en ktertalnment to make the evening mem .’orable to the snowbound party, but all seemed to be too homesick with ;dlsappolntment to start the ball roll ing. - ' '_ Strangely enough it was not one of the young folks who finally got things going, but a grizzled iumberman from the Northwest who stayted it, and !Grnndma Howard from New England who pronounced the bendiction. Dinner had ‘been served and the passengers were settling back in their seats with emphasized disappointment ’when the big lumberman’s big voice boomed through each Pullman in sue- Icession: “All you folks who can warble, come back in the parlor car. E\Ve are going to have a community sing.” : ¢ ! The heartiness of the invitation and 'the novelty of the idea changed glum- : v | rrNe—— Y. 23 fi\f l-; Py (‘;}\ ‘l‘% oy i i/ | ; WA W ) R |~ ’f{wl ‘[{ ; N (2SS “Gathered in the Parlor Car” ! ness to expectancy and frowns te grins, as the travelers rushed the aisles to be first to accept. } Crowded to the doors, with every |seal: full, and some propped againsi the arms of the big upholstered chairs, |the parlor car soon was ringing with \“The Gang's All Here” It needed just that kind of starter ta get the ;dlsabpointed ones fully uwake to the opportunity of yet having a rea' Christmas party.- Then followed every gong - that could be recalled frowo Sunday school days to “Dixie” and “Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.” The “sing” was a success, but songs _were giving out and it was compara tively early in the evening. “Some one tell a Christmas story!” It was the voice of a little old woman sitting near the writing desk who brought the halt in festlvities to re newed interest. - : : “All right,” said the big lumberman, who had taecitly accepted the role of master of ceremonies, “who will be first?” There was a good deal of kidding, but no one volunteered. And who would have expected it to be the big banker going to the coast that would furnish a story-telling host unknown to all and thousands of miles away at that? He arose and put his hané¢ Inside his coat pocket and brought forth a newspaper and hand ed it to the chairman, “My friends,” sald he, “I wish to in troduce to you a man who has been telling me Christmas stories for years. His name matters not. He lives in a little town in eastern Pennsylvania, where fie publishes the. little home town paper that has been my pleasure, considerable inspiration, and afforded me a good deal of entertainment since I was a boy. It happened that I had a copy of his paper here In my pockert, and I suggest that some of the splen did Christmas stories and poems it contains be read by members of our company. I am sure all will enjoy them.” A The banker’s little speech was re warded by generous applause. The reading began, first by one then an other, and many a silent tear was loosed in memory of other Christmas parties, and not a little humor was mixed in, too. At midnight the little woman by the writing desk arose and asked the big lumberman to take up a collection of a nickel apiece from those gathered in the parlor car. Glances of wonder i were directed her way, but it was ' thought just a whim of a little old lady ' who was far from home in all but dis tressing circumstances. While the collection was being taken, she turned to the desk and begap to write on a sheet of the elegant stationery of the raliroad. And this was what she wrote: - “Spowhound in the Rocky Mountains, ; \' °' -\‘_3 02 i | ;' % léi(.‘l :'w" '-‘;‘ R/ “‘«'\ e = A Se S N IIE2 Nl 'S o SR O O i Nl\ =0 I‘}ll\ NS - S S/ 0 (% N .3}"/‘/// Wl AN/ - \/' ) e e / “‘; w. Av‘ v\ ‘~/4'A*-§,\ TN B =3 olth 74 BN\ ~,"\R ARt AV TS WA s}" HIAZAN ¥ /}\fi\\\kfi?/ oy e SN NS eb/\ AN TR > ANP o /\ , } Ty . D) ‘.-‘\'d'\l"a:\ AN )At Loy "'.l A "‘_' /'\ 1) m’ s‘i’\“ /&\ i\\\“‘\ 7, ,/)". //\ -y "\lfi i \ - /IIAL“&/E - e \\ e i Helpful Hints . . e — ”flxw %....b' Dec. 24. “Unconsciously you have beo;n the host at a Christmas story-telling party in the snowdrifts of the Rocky moun- ! talns. ‘The passengers ol’ uie UODTL nental Limited render gratitude to you for a pleasant evening afforded by the Christmas stories in your paper, We wish you and yours a merry Christ mas. God bless you.” ; Just.as she finished writing the big lumberman dumped the coins collected on the writing désk in front of her., “Keep the money,” she said, “and at: the first station send this telegram to the newspaper man.who has enter tained us so well this evening.” - The car soon was-in an uproar, and the little old woman was’ embarrassed by the attention shown her. i Then the big lumberman suggested that the message should have a sigha ture. -A. number of-‘proposals were} made, but the chairman turned to thel writer of the message and asked r»é‘ “What is your name? We will sign. it with that.” e | “Just sign it ‘Grandma Howard,’ and he will know it might be any one of a million’ grandmas, and they'rc pretty much alike—especlally &5 | Christmas time away from home.” THE USEFUL GIFT 3 “You ought to be nice to your Aumnt Mary. You knew-she always remem bers you at Christmas time.” | “Aw, what's the use of being nice t¢ her. She only gives us useful pres m” i e 3 THE RIGHT THING AT THE RIGHT TIME By MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE COURTSHIPSB el IT WAS not long ago suggested Im Fogland that the clergy ought t¢ open a school for courtship. ‘Khe suy gestion was made quife seriously, as it was pointed ont that many young people meet clandestinely hecause ‘they find no sympathy at home. The man who made the suggestion seemed. to think that this condition could ba remedied by the methods he suggésted Really it secems as if the troubls usually lay with somebody else besid¢ the young man whe is doing'the eourt ing and the young woman who Is be ing courted. It usually Mes with ap unsympathetic family, Nobody, per haps, can blame the family. It Is ut terly unpleasant for the tired futhai to come home from & hard day et work to find that he must leave the family llving room that ervening free te his daughter and a young man whe wishes to be his future son-in-law. It is far easier for father and mothey, Lig brother and little sisters, tg dis port themsclves comfortably aboul the family living room—and then faf the young girl and her swaln to mest ut the street corner and spend the evening at a moving picture, show. If there is a reception room or.par lor or drawing room, well and good, for that may be put at the digposd of the daughters of tue family, and may be made inviting to their frienda Courting days don’t laxt forever. Ang remember that the sacrifices you may make now will be well repald in the greater happlness and chances for 2 successful marriage that your daugd ter will bave later on. ey (@ by McClure Newspener Byadicate.) ~ Of all the days of the year, Christmas is the most - celebrattd—and justly so. It is the anniversary of the . greatest personage the world has ever known, our blessed Savior. 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ULE-TIDE is at hand and ' we hear.a good deal of the _“yule-log.” In olden times ® they laid stress on ‘‘yule _candle” and on “yule-cake.” In very olden tlmes, five ! hundred years ago, they spoke of “yule-dough” or . “yule-baby,” which was dough cut out in the form of a little boy or little girl and baked and which it was the custom of bakers to present to their customers at Christmes. “yule” is derived either from Scandi navian or Anglo-SBaxon and there are four times as many explanations or guesses at the original meaning of the word as there are letters in it, It has been said that “yule-log” is a corrup tion of “ale-log,” and it i 3 set down In old chronicles that it was a custom In England, more especlally in the coun ty of Norfolk and other parts of the North, to allow tenants and retain erg of the lord of the manor to drink the best or strongest ale as long as the yule-log burned. For this reason! the lord’s servants were interested in .cutting the thickest and longest-burn ing log, that they could find in the lord’s forest. It was cut as long as the fireplace was wide and knotty oak was usually chosen. ' '+ To “the ashes of the yulelog “werd Santa Claus Brought Dolly “Yule-Tide” and * the “Yule-Log” ascribed certain efficacious properties and they were gathered from the fire place with care. For one thing they w?e mixed with cattle feed to pre sefve the animals from disease and also to cure them of any disease. Scattered on the land the ashes of the yule-log protected crops against blight, There are “authorities” who say that thre yule-log was the center of the bon fires which the pagan Scandinavians lighted in honor of their god Thor, at about the time of the winter solstice, and that, Christmas coming at about the time of the winter solstiee, the yule-log burning was continued by the Scandinavians after their conversion to Christianity. Another gtoty is that the Christian missionaries, after con verting the northern pagans, required them to cut down a large tree, hew from its trunk a heavy log and then burn that log as a symbol that they renounced their heathen gods. This for mal renunciation of paganism and in duction into Christianity was ‘often timed to take place during the Chris tian celebration of the birth of Christ, and it Is said that in this way the yule log came to be a part of the celebra tion of Christmas. s “Yule” is spelled in 80 many ways by the early writers that it is-confus ing and one cannot always make out what “yule” is meant. A clear and frequent way of spelling it in the Mid dle ages was “ewle.” Some writers have hit upon a theory that there is a connection between the words “yule” ard “yowl” or “howl,” and that it was the “yowling time” or the time for making-.noise ‘and being festive—the time of greatest revelry of the yean