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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Price $1.50 A Year. 1? Advance
Published Every Thursday Morning
Offloiul Organ of Llounton County
JOHN L. HODGBS, Editor.
Thursday, Decemhkr 25.
HOW CHRISTMAS IS
CEIEBRATFD
And now that December and
Christ mas are near.
My heart overflows with food
wishes and cheer.
II bids me hasten e'er laud and
o'er sea,
To the children who welcome mer
ry Ohistmas and me!"
These are the words of Santa
Claus, that jolly old fellow, in
whom the American children be
lieve. Christmas in America
means giving and dear old Santa
Olaus embodies Ihc spirit of lov
ing giving.
Wearo cvoi mindful of thcfaetthat
otii the first Christinas Day, "God
??? loved the world thatHe gaveHis
only begotten sou" ?Jesu* Christ
aud wo commemorate the birth of
our Saviour by loving gifts. Giv
ing is the keynote to the one and
only right spirit in which Christ
mas may be kept. Santa Olaus as
the embodiment of this spirit vis
its American children on Christ
mas Eve and fills their stockings
with goodies and hangs presents
for them on a beautiful holly tree.
Only in Holland and America,
however, dees the dear old fellow
go by that name. The Russian
children call him 8t. Nicholas,
and the Dutch children spell it
"Santa Klaus."
In tho countries where the chil
dren are Catholics, Christmas is
givou over to the worship of the
Chriet Child, 11 Bambino,"which
takes places oil the 6th of January,
Epiphany (a Greek word, meaning
the appearing of Christ to the
Qentiles.)
The day of gift-giving in Spain
is the same as in Italy, the day of
the Epiphany, when Balthazar.ono
of (he wise men, comes on Epip
hany eve and leaves gifts in tho
ahoes of the little Spanish chil
dren.
It is the little child Jesas for
*hom tho children of France
watch on Christmas eve to come
And leave sweets in their shoes.
Their Christmas season ends with
a feast on Twelfth Day. Jan. 6,
sometimes ?alled"Old Christmas,',
because before the calendar was
arranged as it is now, Christmas
day fell en Jan., Gth, and Twelfth
Day came en tho 181 h.
In no country in tho world is
Christmas more welcome than in
Germany, where Santa Claus is
known as Kriss Kringle. There
are parts ofjGercnany where the
people are Catholics and celebrate
the season with the religious cero
monies in honor of tho Christ
Child.
The tree, which is so important
si part ef Christmas in many lands
was first used in Germany.
What matters it if in Holland
and Belgium Sar.ta Klaus ride? a
white horse instead of driving his
reindeer? Ho is the same old
friend, and ao where is he more
welcomed.
In Holland a beautiful welcome
is given to Christmas in tho early
morning when the young men
gather at two o'clock and sing
earols.
The little children of Scandina*
via were probably the first to hang
up the mistletoe and barn the
Yule log. Tho people of Norway
and Sweden celebrato with a great
feast on Ohristmas Ive.
The name of Santa Claus is
rarely heard in England, butFath
er Christmas it tho welcome giver
of gifts. To the English children
Christmas would not bo Christmas
without roast beef and plnm pni
ding.
However, much the children of
many lands differ in their ways
of celebrating Christmas, all agree
in tho use of candles, which stand
in every land for the light that has
eeme into the world with the birth
of ffcriet.
POLLYANNA
COLVUM
Ilit may b ?
hard fo'a rich
man to cnt*r do
Kingdom of
Hcavus, .said Rac
tus to I ho proa?her j
but bit's just as
hard fo' a po' man !
to stay on da earlh.'
The Tombstone
Man (after several fa
tile sugg?.stion8)--Ilow
would simply "Gone
Home" do!
M r s- Neweeds: I
guess that would be
'all right. It was always
the last place be ever thought of
Koiaj-:.
FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES OF 1932.
1. Ia tlio candidate's husband
a fit host for the White Houset
2. Is he a proper arbiter of the
nation's fashions.
3. Can he entertain the hns
bauds of Btateswomen in the ap
proved manner?
4. I? he fond of children, birdB
and flowers!
A satisfactory answer to these
vital questions, coupled with the
winsomeness of Mr. Blank himself,
will mean an overwhelming victoiy
for his wife.
Although many men hare start
ad in with nothing but a shoe
string we think suspenders are
safer.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
"Jimmy", said the fond mother
to her smart 11-year-eld. "What
became of that little pie I made
for yon as a treat yesterday! Did
yon eat it!"
"No, mamma", answered Jimmy
' with a grin", "I gave il to my
teacher at school instead.''
"That was very aice and gene
rons of you, Jimmy" cempliment
ed his mother, "And did yonr
teacher eat it!"
?'Yes, I thik so," "answered
Jimmy, "She wasn't at school to
day."
The happiest homes are those
where the piano keys are sticky.
EXCUSE ENOUGH
? A teacher recently received the
following from the mother ef an
absent pupil:
I "Dere mum; please eggscuse
Willy. Ho didn't have but one
pair of trousers an' I kep him
home to wash them, an' Mrs. O.
Toole's goat eome and et them off
the line an' that aw t to be egg
scuse enuff goodness nose. ?Yours
with respeck, Mrs. B."
Kot brains, but the use of them
that counts. A pig has brains but
they are really valuable in sand
wiches,
SURE, WE'LL TAKE 'EM
One contrib wants to know if
he should enclose stamps for re
turn of his manuscript if we can't
use it. Sure bend in the stamps. As
a matter of fact, the ?(amps are
the most important thing.
Sampson was the first advertiser.
He went strong and took out two
columns.
The only ties that seem to bind
these days are the golf links, sighs
Rill.
You never hear the bee complain.
Nor hear it weep and wail;
But if it wish it cau unfold,
A very painful tail.
Reformer: Young man, didn't
your conscience tell you that you
were doing wrong!
Prisoner: Yes, bet you can't be
lieve everything you hear.
Squeaky Fords will be excused
now. The republicans swiped all
the oil.
Some girls make ont nicely and
?there Bake up terribly,
Why do yen wear a straw hat
when yoa go eanoeing?
Se the searchers will knew
where to dive for my body.
Bill says an operation is never a
complete success until the patient
It k rag ahoat it.
The Most Appropriate
CHRISTMAS
GIFT
for wife or daughter
A Permanent
WAVE
$25.00
It's Lasting.
Phono to day for appointment
Long Distance Phone Macon 5017
J. P. ALLEN & CO.,
Beauty Parlor Third Floor
MACON, GA.
W. B. SIMS
Two stores filled with Holi
day Goods. Call on us we
will fill your order in the
best of styles. Plenty of
nice presents for all the
family.
Ceme to see Us
W. B. SIMS,
GROCERIES, FURNITURE, UNDERTAKING.
Night Phone No. 22. Day Phone No. 8,
Psihy Ga
L. M. PAUL L. M. PAUL
GRATITUDE
TO OUR FRIENDS and CUSTOMERS
We thank you for the liberal patronage given us this year and as an
expression oi our appreciation of our good will thus expressed
we extend to you.
Our Best Wishes
FOR A
MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND
Happy and Prosperous New Year
SINCERELY YOURS
L. M. PAUL
PERRY, GA.
L. M. PAUL L. M. PAUL
CHRISTMAS GIVING
AND ITS MEANING
IVE me six," tlie woman said
as she crowded her way rudo
ly up to the handkerchief
counter. "One hps to buy something,
I suppose, and * guess handkerchiefs
take the least thought and conslderu
t Ion."
"Any particular pattern?" the clerk
inquired.
"No, Just go they cost no more than
liftj* cents each. What an awful bore
Christmas Is, und what a burden It
throws on us. I wonder sometimes
what lt'3 all for."
"It's a very sweet, happy time to
me," the girl answered.
There Is too much that I? conven
tional and artificial, perhaps. In our
Christmas giving. We burden our
selves with obligations which we
should never assume. We give too
often because we feel thnt we should
do so, because we wonder what people
will say If we do not. because we ho(>e
to receive something In return. We
keep up the practice because we have
n<>t the courage or the diplomacy to
hrv?nk It, and we put little thought or
personality Into It.
'TIease do not send me anything at
Christmas time," a friend wrote me,
"fur by so doing you would embarrass
me and put me under obligations
which I can 111 sfford to meet." It
was a seotlble letter which few would
have had the courage to write.
i It Is not what we give that really
counts, hut the spirit In which the
giving is done. The friendly, personal
letter, the trifle which we have our
selves mude, even the card which we
pick up at the book store, often brings
more joy than the costliest present
chosen without love or thought.
Christmas is a time of kindly thoughts,
of forgiveness, of charity, and of good
will to all men. There Is no other
day on the calendar on which It would
be so dreary to be away from home
as Christmas day. The spirit of
Christmas Is the spirit of self-sacrifice
and of love.
The Wise Men bringing gifts to the
Christ child came a long way over a
rough and weary road full of dangers
and full of discomforts; but the gifts
they brought were gifts of sacrlflc?
and unselfishness and of Iota, and the
Impulse to bring them came from the
heart. They sre the wise men today
who can give thankfully, gratefully,
lovingly, with Joy In their hearts and
without thought of what they ar? t?
receive.?Thomas A. Clark, Deaa 9t
Men, University of Illinois.
(O. l?l*. N*wwpmpmr
l/??f Cot J to Occsrd?
Willie vald Is mow the standard of
TSlue throughout t ha world. In tb*
day* of old Greece gold and silver
were commonly need Id the decoration
of buildings.
"Shall I get under the mlstlatoeT"
"Yes. Too stand under and I'll una
derstand." |
Want of 5?1f R?lianca
DUcoBtoat 1? th? wut of Mif-r*
llanca?It Is Infirmity *f will.?Chris
tian Branf#llst.
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