Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BY MARJORIE HOV/E DIXON Note: This little Christmas Pageant Is intended to be sufficiently flexible so that the teacher may use the number of children she has available. The choruses can be enlarged or diminished according to her needs. Scene 1 (If it is possible to have painted scenery use a woods background covered with snow for this scene. If not use sheets, and hang fir branches down over them, sheets on the floor.) The curtain rises showing a child dressed as a fir tree standing alone rigni center or me stage, ruiiici uejected. Fir Tree: Oh, I'm so lonesome,? here it is almost night and Christmas Eve at that, and no one has come for me so that I could be their Christmas tree. (Snow fairies enter softly.) One says: Little tree, we will sing to you, then you won't be lonesome. Besides the Queen Fairy told us some people are on their way to get you and you are to be a surprise ftjr some little folks. See we will decorate'you with snow flakes. (They dance around tree and toss cotton flakes on it. Then sing softly, "Holy Night, Silent Night." As they run away quietly a little girl with a bright scarf around her neck dressed for cold weather comes running in.) Girl: Here it is. Dad, here it i?. the very one I picked out. Do you think it will like to be the tree for little Joe and Lucy? They'll just love it, I know. Would you like to be the first Christ mas tree for some little folks, Mr. Fir Tree? (Tree nods stiffly.) Oh look! Dad, I do believe it's nodding at me! (Dad fs bundled up for cold -weather, takes ax from shoulder and .pretends to cut down tree, laying it on sled the daughter brings in.) Dad: There we are, dear. It's a very pretty tree and now we must hurry if we are to get all ready for Mrs. Stone's little folks tonight. Girl: Let me help, too. (She picks up rope of ?led and they exeunt as curtain falls.) INTERLUDE Chorus of boys marches' in front of black curtain, each with a red sash over his white blouse from shoulder to hip. Each keeps time with sleigh bells and sings, "Merry, Merry, Merry *?Ss. jj! The ffl I IS .MOST A P PI?EC'] S I OF WESTE I- | Mmm ? | AND AT THIS < fir, 3 We would c: fir 8 SOX, and in fir I than last CI 'S | OR EE OF 1 ? I M v vi^a 'u^fCS\ '- * ^ '* . * ? *". W' *r. ?7W +*, M ^ or COURSE OUB m | That we sh<M i the future t 11 Th. I 1 % | J- H. SAYE, | % JOHN i 1 jj| ft John E. Plexici 3 J C X I * Chriatmns Hells." Anv other Christ mas carol can be substituted here. Scene 2 Curtain goes up, showing chair, and table with ragged white cover on it -n front of black curtain. Two small packages on table. Back of curtain and not visible to the audience is the Fir Tree decoraied with tinsel and candles and presents. Door at one side. (Mrs. Stone, a widow in black dress with a small shawl about her shoulders. She drags in, drops into chair, leaning elbows on the table.) Mrs. Stone: Oh dear, oh dear, another Christmas and just about like last year. Only two little presents for the poor darlings. A ball for Joe and mop stick doll for Lucy. I wish I could,?oh what is the use of wishing? When you've done all you can, and there is so little, oh dear, (drops head wearily in arms.) (Her two children come running in in night clothes.) Children: Merry Christmas, mama, Merry Christmas. Kiss us both, such a nice niotherkins! (Children hug her and fuss over her.) Mrs. Stone: Bless your hearts, mother's precious lambs. Here is a ball for Joe and a Dolly for Lucy. (Children take gifts, but Luc" stops * - * ~ Dunn 4/% una siarra ui wiu niiuun. ?uuo >u mother.) Lucy: Why Mummie, where did that come from, why . (Mother rises and stares, children clrtch her skirts as the curtain parts and shows Christmas tree.) (Joe looks up and says softly.) Joe: I think the fairies must have brought it. Lucy, look! there they are now! Snow fairies steal in quietly and group around tree humming "Joy to the World" softly. When all are In place they break forth joyously, "Joy to the World, the Lord is Come." Then slip away again as children sigh with pleasure.) Mrs. Stone: Well it is a real tree, that's sure, and I am just wondering if some real people didn't help just a little. (Knock is heard, Mother opens door. The Girl of the first scene rushes in shouting "Merry Christmas!" Her parents follow. Mother shakes hands with them and wipes away tears with shawl. The girl hugs both children and they all turn to look at the tree.) Lucy: It looks as if it liked to be First N; OF SHARON, SO [ATIVE OF THE LIBERAI :RX YORK DURING THE m ; 1TTRTKTMAS TIME xtcnd to all of Our Friends ai ay we express the wish that iristmas and the Xew Year ji TAPPIXESS AXI) PROSPI u MANY FRIENDS AND ill continue to be in position hat we have in the past. ~ m e i it m SHARON, SOI President ' S. HARTNESS, Cashier I) IR E ( d, Rev. J. B. Swann >. Rainey C. M. I'XSXXZZZZliX. & iXXT&'X'lXtt-itreXtXn mm?, our Christmas Tree. Joe: Do you, Mr. Fir Tree? (Tree nods stiffly.) Children (delightedly): Oh Mother * look! It nodded to us! Curtain I ? Mistress-at-arms is Ihe official title bestowed upon the official chaperones wh) have been added to the working personnel of all vessels operated by the United States lines. , ?In Turkey a girl at the age of fifteen is considered to be a grown woman and has to wear the yashmak or national covering for the face. ? Fraulien Hansen of Magdenburg, ?* *-? * ?"? ? * ? lo 4 r\ f V* /-?r* o av 1 n 4 Vi o t country to successfully pilot a glider air machine. p DICKSON 1 HEAVY AND FANC PLANTATIO] It R. F. D. No. 1 WISH TO EXTEND flic son and to express their tronage WHILE OLD i Will not leave any great; plies at our stoi;e, still 01 will find here as usual? Fruits, Nuts and Ai <jg. E. M. DICKSON | Dickson H R. P. D. No. 1 ational E UTH CAROLINA , PATRONAGE GIVEN IT YEA R JUST COMING TO sracid Customers the COMPLIMI this Christmas finds them M( ist ahead will bring to them t ;rity they iia ye eyer CUSTOMERS KNOW to extend to them the Same ational B TTIT HA PHT.TN A ' JL. Xi. VX.iAV V AJakAl A Jk JOHN L. RAL PAUL FERGUSON, Ass 2 TORS : Kelly Inman Inman W. M. Fai gree:ns are good Doctor Saya Greens and Pot Liquor Supply Human Need. That the negro slaves of the southern planters, in the' days before the Civil war. were better fed and better nourished than the average white person of today, and that the negro was better off physically in bondage than he is at present, was the startling statement made by Dr. Scale E. Harris, of Birmingham, Ala., president of the Southern Medical association, in his address opening the sixteenth annual convention of the association in Chattanooga, Tcnn., Tuesday night. Dr. Harris, whose subject was "Facts About Food and Nutrition, the Public Should Know," introduced his remarks regarding the diet of the southern slave by stating that, in his opinion, there is existent a well developed process of physical degeneration among the American people. . He stated that the American people are the most prosperous people on the globe and had, for that reason, "learned to favor their perverted appetites." "Turnip greens and pot liquor," daily dishes of the slave, Dr. Harris stated, contain the food element a majority of American people need to build up their i systems. MILITARY JUSTICE French Soldier Executed for Refusal to Wear Bloody Pant*. France's highest court of appeal has cleared of stain the memory of Lucie'n Bersot. It has given 5,000 francs to widow and 15,000 francs to his minor female child. & & BLACKf Y GROCERIES AND 4 N SUPPLIES i , YORK, S. C. S Compliments of the Sea- K appreciation for past paSANTA CLAUS imount of Christmas sup- 3g ir friends and customers -tides of That Kind. A. L. BLACK 6c Mack | , YORK, S. C. ? lank ! 1 BY THE PEOPLE | j? A. CLOSE I ? f 1 ]NTS OF THE SEA- H |g )RE PROSPEROUS * j| lie GREATEST DE- | & KNOWN. | ? Excellent Service in I ^ a m lank 11 a S 11 NEY, Vice President | t. Cashier. ? S i I1 * ffi * B S. V. Aycock | 5 ilkner | ffi aassxasza?5s???:saa >' Who was Lucien Bersot? Just a poilu. Not a hero. A victim, according to l'Humanite, which recounts his story of the pitiless machinery of war. Early in 1915 Bersot, according to l'Humanite, asked the supply sergeant of his regiment to get him some new red pants. He asked several times for the pants, perhaps impatiently. At the end of a long period the sergeant sent Bersot the pants. They had been taken from a dead soldier. They were filthy and stiff with dried blood. Bersot went to the sergeant and pro*?SS % J* 1 J. C. H I ROCK : j EXTEND TO THE PE( OF THE SEASON TION FOR THE I ED FROM EVER DURING THE Y 13* i? THE BEGINNING OF . We would remind [ than ever to attem Top Repairing, Be J. C. 1 T> f\ C* TT it v v u . The < k Ik. ROCK WISHES TO TIIA AND OTHEIl SEC FOR TIIE LIBER ED IT BY THEM THE I WOULD AGAIN ] YORK AND Y< STRIVES T( WANT! THE I WISHES ALL FRIENDS A AND A IJ I The I , S. MYI ROCK tested. During an argument which followed a lieutenant entered and reprimanded Bersot for arguing with a non-commissioncd officer. When Bersot opened his mouth to protest th" lieutenant ordered him to be quiet and to put on th<? pants. When Bersot shuddcringly refused the lieutenant had him sent to the guardhouse for eight days. Friends of Bersot protested, and the | affair got to the ears of the colonel of the regiment. The colonel was indignant?at the protesters. He determined to make an example of Bersot , ardin Co HILL, SOUTH CAE )PLE OF york county f and wish to EXPRES jIBERAL patronage tj Y SECTION OF THE G RE. ExVR COMIN G TO a CLOS: ANOTHER YEAR our friends that you will f I to your needs in the way < iJw "Dnilrlin <t o n/1 TY*c?irminnr 'Uy uuuuiug auu wuiguiugi Hardin ( HILL, SOUTH CAE ? -* * jjmgt?? # **jr HUM t Lauie? >hop HILL, S. C. NIC THE LADIES OF TOR JTIONS OF YORK COUNT AL PATRONAGE ACCORI DURING THE PAST YEA] ADIES SHOP REMIND THE LADIES 0 ORIC COUNTY THAT IT ) CATER TO TlUVHi 3 AT ALL TIMES ADIES SHOP OP ITS PATRONS AND MERRY CHRISTMAS [APPY NEW YEAR .adies Shop ]RSOX, Proprietor HILL, S. C. ']nvry&CY, and summoned a court-martial. Berfot was charged with "refusal to obey in the presence of the enemy." He was condemned to death February 12, 1915, and shot tho following day. ? Before they are appointed, to the police force in London women must first pass a rigid examination as to their physical condition. ? Mrs. Lenah S. Higbee directs the work of 50' nurses at United States naval hospitals and dispensaries afloat and ashore. . i Jm mnnnxr liipanj js OLINA K I THE COMPLEMENTS ? 5S THEIR APPRECIA- ft HEY HAVE RECEIV- 3 AT COUNTY OF YORK ft ind us in better position jSf of Automobile Painting, jw nmnanv I /V1I11/UUJ % OLINA $5' I