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'ChrlsiwaSSelection Presents that can be used in everyday life will he the ones that will be appreci ated the most this Yuletide season. The high cost of living is going to enter tremendously into present-giving this year---and well it may. We are offering some real Christmas Bargains in our Coat, Suit and Dress Department We want to clean up this de'partment by the first of the year and to do this we are offering the entire line at Exactly Cost These garments are strictly up-to-he minute in style, quality and material. We have them in many different patterns and colors. The goodness of these will have to be seen before they canj be appreciated. Christmas Novelties We have an excellent line of Novelties suitable for the nicest kind of Christmas Gifts: We suggest some of these: . Kid Gloves, Dainty Handkerchiefs, Collars and labots, Fancy Hose, Shirtwaists, Kimonas, iDainty Lingerie. High Boots. 8 Hundreds of other Suitable Gifts. You'll be surprised at the pretty ne.w things we have for your inspection and you had better come in now. During the month of December no goods will be charged or sent otat on approval. "accoun to-dsuay."o li. ec Ifn fof Socotheryrofsohethanetherunfhrewarnademands lnridentetotouman It'sooainuByltimoruseefore theen'tsuhespcririces p4elucurtee, pleasubes you_ vavempntwenktrsstAssociatonkonANo-ocomfatsfandtconvforrwtheafumaye. Bestires of some oo thep(worthytyoungs ofenUho succeed. 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Bgintody w th e cact o th e rent s th e e jugT ohe Secretary of pa t hedah:tCm hee ae hs I E -BAN K OF MAN NI NO Tr~~asr tother xteno thesonncihatee re- uighattwnyfu frg apthensiorr entisscrea . i s houry behlIu ote onr'oko tht hserqurmet hv be CLARISSA MACKIF/ N ED WAYN', kicked his toes 'agnllist the door. "Say, mother, can't I go skat ing?" he asked. "Not today, son," said Mrs. Wayne. "It is Christ nas eve, and I want you to go Into the woods and get some it;urel and evergreens to trim the house. The servants are all busy with the housewvork." "Aw, bother!" whined Ned. "Dear me, Neddy, that is not a nice spirit to show at Christinns time," sighed his mother, for she wits much worried about her little boy's selfish spirit. Ned had a beautiful home and fond parent, but he seemed to love his (Wn wily above everything else. So when final ly Ned, sulkily enough. took at hatclhet and went towa rd t he woods his mot h er did not see that he hal his skates hidden un -i ter his. thick overcoat. When he reaach ed the pond he found all the skaters had gone home, for who wants to skate on Christmas eve when there are soa nuatny othier Took a Few Turns delightful thine;g. Around the Pond. to do? So Ned took a few turns around the pond, knowing Jill the tine that he was disobeying his mother and feeling very unhappy all the while. By and'by he took off his skates anti went to the woods to cut some laurel branches. It was snowIng very hard now, ltd he hall to work fast, beenuse' by this time it was growing dark in the woods. At last his arms were full, and he staggered alotig through the snow trying to tind the path, but the snow had cover ed it up com plately. Ned was lost In \ 1.4 the wiiotls onl L k C'hr~simus eve I1 'f 11e began to c'y, \ and the tears 4Jf froze on his cheeks. IRight be side him was a 7' ith' wihollo trunk'.4 T'r stip ra reWt authasnow on itn a t'' itignt in the halink, stiuizd iswn thrughl lit'e pe anldt:iatt f hsu and warinetuli.Iloutt sifhik bedttti kndy it'It 444 i l '4441s.'tlea 'stop l*'d"up the open- todiolt' ing withat'braynflit A' rttit ofe fit' a H llnTrunk liindtlsIutt'k ant tree. Somewher stn twl was bwasng nialagai he eardsom far-er'ts animl (erhps fo)ip pat-(hrsain over the snfw, i wa ntil thne frigtend, bt i suenlywa ver Ift - Solntiins h tsht antdrenus his nice 'ari htad hbrought t of his od, kin lirent rendtere wounid Ahly toh a nd tthenr ('1h10em.~ltIh ~~'aill e ~trll awfal'nth bessthg tha ~'e soweesond of the Anti N~parent halray said, ring ~ii ho neer ) ng he saehie hod apet te nghtin Then eo hrerd How Animals Figure Is Christmas Customs T HE Christmas customs in Norway and Swden are the most inter esting of any country. It Is time of great rejoicing. To show that there are friendly feelings petween every one in the household the shoes are plated in a row in the hall when retir Ing on Christmas 'eve, and, like the German cudtom, candles are left burn ing in the village windows all night to light the way for "Kristine," who brings the gifts. The Christmas tree is largely decorated with candles and pretty cakes arranged In bright colored baskets, all usually home made. The richer households send good things to the poor, and everywhere among both rich and poor fire the ani mals and birds remembered, says Our Dumb Animals. The boys and girls save up their pennies during the year for this purpose. Sheaves of grain are fastened to the window ledges in town, and in the country the sheaves are fastened to long poles and renewed every day for a week, and many are the birds that spy this feast. On the barn floors of the peasants bowls of hot porridge are set for poor "Robin Goodfellow" to comfort him because he has no "soul." The-. cows and the horses share in the general happiness by having a double share of food given them. It is a big skip from the northland to the southland or troplical countries where Christmas is celebrated without the evergreen tree to decorate and hang gifts on. In Brazil the holiday may be spent outdoors in the sunny flower scented air. They have quaint superstitions in these summer lands relative to Yule tide. On the coffee plantations the old folk say that on Christmas night the animals have the gift of speech and that if only a child has suflicient cour age to go out alone after dark it will hear on the stroke of 12 the cock crow in a loud, clear voice from his highest perch: "Christo nasceu"-Christ is born. The bull in a deep, sonorous bass inquires from a distant field, "Onde" -where? The sheep then answer in chorus, "Em Belem de Juda"-in Bethlehem of .1 ldea. In ti-n all the domestic animals give to the world the glad tidings of the Nativity. Many. a child wishes it had the courage necessary to enable him to spend midnight outdoors and hear this wonderful conversation of the brute creation. Christmas Pie Has Long Family History H APPY the Christmas reveler who has a digestion to tackle the Christmas pie. The modern fad dist in diet is trying to rule out the plum pudding and the mince from the Christmas feast. Shame on him I Better a night of groaning to the few than a ban on a time honored custom for the many. Lay in a stock of soda mint, pepSin and salt water. Be sporty and take chances On the plummy goody. F'irst It was old Santa undler a ban a dreaory wtorldh it would b)e without Santa Claus-now it is the toothsome Chriistums pie bulging with raisins, flaky of crust and redolent of burning brandy. Truly the maodern progressive who li ves by ru.e is ain to t.he old Puritan to whom the Christmas pie wvas an abomat in sav~oring of heresy. In deed thle ltoundhead had more excuse for his abhstInaence; it was a test of or thmodo xy. I le felt his morals would b~e inijuredi bly eating a 1)10 whose savory contents were typical of offerings of the Magi and whose form was often that of a manger. The (Chirist mas pie is of ancient and honorable lineage, anad its name of '"miniee pie'" came centuieids later, tbe lng giveni in (derision by the P'urltans. Are we suc'h weaklings that wthal our ancetstors have thriv'ed on for centu ries will slay us In one eating? Surely the st omach specialist, that product ot modeitiIy, amust have slipped tip. Our grandplarents did( not eat one measly lit tie slice of the Christmas plo lin feamr ami trembling. Boldily they swallowved huge hunks, not on Christ mans day only, but during the entire season11 of Christmans, tint o Twelfth Night. Was it not writ, "As niany diif ferent houses as thou shalt eat mince pie (luring Christmnast ide so many hap jpy months shalt thou have dturing the year ?" And they biegan the mixIng of that Christmas pie early and with great ceremony. It was ni gaia occasion whenm the plum pudding wats to bo stirredl and each member of the house hold (Iown to the infant in arms must have a turn at the spoon.-Philadel phlia P'ress. in the Days of '61-'65. "Christmas mornings in the Civil war danys," says the veteran, "wvere gener ally spent in reading letters. After dinner the mna indulged in sports, par ticularfy prize fights, andl then in the evening they gathered together and sang thme wartime songs and told stories of the Christmases before the fighting began. It wasn't all chorus singing, either, for we had some goodl soloists in the line, and our company etors showed their abilities by re elting or rehearsing the plays they had seen while on furloughs,"