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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. Smothered TKoufkU Sometimes lito? t b ?of to to ar# smstb? ?n4 to 4mOi baeeatb ? tot ef poeda^i J