The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 11, 1924, Image 14
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SANTA CLAUS LOST
IN PARROTS ALLEY
jmamHILE Despard pegged away
IrilB In the shoemaker's shop a
wise old bird kept him com
pany. The canqry that thrilled in hla
cage was the only other companion of
hla labors and the object of the Jeal
ous content of the ancient parrot,
which viewed It from his perch as a,
momentary and frivolous Interruptlba
to the course of serious affairs.
The parrot had regarded even
Despard himself as a late bubble on
the stream of events, and, while It
passed from / the hands of a wander
ing sailor into the shoemaker’s care
in a nominal sense. It had really as
sumed charge of both shop and mas
ter. This conscious responsibility ex
tended to the personal greeting with
which It saluted upon entrance every
customer with, “Hello, papa’s boy!
Want to talk to papa a little?” and
It reached out so far that the crooked
and straggling lane had come to be
called “Parrot’s Allay.’’
Tills alley was of such a nature
that It had never been visited by those
rays of pleasant light that shine from
Christmas trees or those cheering gifts
that do so much to make little folks
and big folks happy. It was a dull
and dirty place, where-patched clothes
v|f|R. AND MRS, BROWN agreed
frjl not to have any Christmas cel-
ebratlon. They would Jupt be
sensible, and have a restful ^pllday
without any of the worry of trying
to outdo each other and their friends
In the exchange of gifts.
Their friends had consented not to
give them any presents, and as they
had no children. It would be easy to
carry out their Intention of having
Just an ordinary holiday.
Christmas morning arrived and Mr.
Brown looked at Mrs. Brown through
blinking eyes. *
“Merry Christmas,” he said; “Merry
Christmas,” echoed his wife.
They were both startled. That was
not the way to begin an ordinary holi
day. They had begun it Just as they
had begun every other Christmas. **
“But then,” Mrs. Brown explained,
“It wouldn’t be right not to say It,
would it, dear?”
Mr. Brown quite agreed with her,
and they went down to breakfast.
At Mr. Brown’s place were some
packages. ,
“What are^jthese?” he asked, with
pretended harshness.
“Oh, dearie,” said hla wife, "you
e|Lifteg^ amt^d.^s _j£on t be, angry, will jpu?^ I Just
MAKING CHRISTMAS Honor Roll Given For
REAL CELEBRATION
not much to wear, not much to eat,
not much peace.
So that Santa Claus, taking the
wrong turn, found himself in a strange
locality, and, after peering about In
the unlighted gloom, hud to confess
that he was lost.
For a moment his merry face was
clouded, but, catching sight of a gleam
In Despard’s shop, he pushed open his
door and entered. Laying down ode
of his large bundles, that was marked
**For the Forgotten Ones,” he was
about to go upstairs, hoping to find
out where he was. when a voice In
the darkness said, “Hello; papa’s boy!
Want to talk to p pa a little? Well,
can’t see to talk to papa In the dark P*
Frightened for the first time in ills
life, Santa Claus made for the door
and rushed out. But he left the
Month of November
First Grade: Lucille Wilson, Christ-
in eSowers, Katherine Graham, Sara
Frances Baldwin, Harold arter, Eloise
Crow, Ruth Mae Barnes, Tweetie Dal-
jton, Olive DeYoung, Mae McClendon,
Mildren McClendon.
Second Grade: Vera May Davis,
Louisa«4torris, Irene Dillard, Nancy
Young, Jack Witherspoon, William
Workman, Frances Barnett; Joe Don-
nan, James Grant, Nellie Cogdill,
Rhudell Wilbanks.
Third Grade: Frances Spfett, Dill
Ellis, Margaret Moorhead, Florence
Adair, R. IV. Johnson, James Sloan,
Martha Whitten, Inex Byrum, T. L.
Cooper, Beulah Mae King, Eugene
Abrams* Pauline Brown.
Fourth Grade: Billy Owens, Willis
May Wilson, Mary Howze Dillard,
Caroline Martin, Katherine Sparks,
Isabella Landrum, Ruby Price, Zona
Norris, Inez Darnell, John Gary Whit
mire, George Watkins.
Fifth Grade: Marguerite Dillard,
Nannie Sue Adair, Virginia Spratt, J
Emmie Adair, Elizabeth Milling, Jean
ette Pitts, Mary Workman, Thelma
Koon, William Moorhead, Lewis King,
Dickey Blumberg, Paul Todd, Garrard
Johnson.
Sixth Grade: Medora Browning,
vrmWn*? -Aftirie Gla6fuw,~BBS.“iiii
wouldn’t be Christmas without some
surprises. And as we weren’t giving
any presents, I thought It was a good
opportunity to get you some things
you have needed a long time.
Mr. Brown tore open the packages,
which to his great delight contained
a velvet lounging robe, some Itussinr
leather slippers and a box of hife
favorite cigars.
“You dear!” he cried, and kissed
bis wife ardently. »
Then he drew from his pocket a
small box which he handed her. Her
eyes sparkled.
“For me?” she exclaimed.
“For you,” he said, and added, as
she lifted from the box a beautiful
necklace of pearls, “I thought since
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we weren’t giving any presents this
baadl«"beWnd , '"himT—-Christopher " w “ a * ood opportunity t» buy
„ . you these pearls you have wanted so
tiazara. , . M
long.”
“You dear,” said his wife, and
kissed him Joyously.
Just then the doorbell rang. A mes
senger with flowers and candy was at
the door. “I thought It wouldn’t he
Christmas without these,” said Mr.
Brown. '
“And yon were right,” agreed his
wife. “You can’t have Christmas
without candy and flowers, and pres
ents and surprises, which show how
people really love you.”—H. Lucius
Cook.
KEEPING CHRISTMAS
—LET ALL BE HAPPY
<TBrT IS a good thing to observe
'll Christmas day. The mere
marking of times and sea
sons. when men agree to stop
work and make merr/ together,
is a wise and wholesome custom.
It helps one to feel the suprem
acy of the common life over the
individual life. It reminds a
man to set his own little watch,
now and then, bv the great clock
of humanity which runs on sun
time.
But there Is a better thing
than the observance of Christ
mas day, and that is keeping
Christmas. — Frank Herbert
Sweet.
(©. 1924. Western Newepep-r Union.)
Cornelia Hentz, Georgie B. Blakely,
Sara Copeland, Elsie Little, Clyde
Ray, Hugh Denson.
Seventh Grade: Ruth Carter, Jauni-
ta Pitts, Virginia Rheney, Ruth Todd,
Almena Milling, Vera Martin, Doro
thy Wils<©
Eighth Grade: Lillian Browning,
George Smith, Crytle Woodruff, Rach
el O’Danief, Mary Johnson.
Ninth Grade: Isaac Copeland, Alma
Ruth Cooper, Jeanette Crawford, Jan
et. Leake, Odetta Mauney, Julia Rid
dle, Betty Woodworth, Mary Benja
min.
Tenth Grade: Frances Sheely, Kath
arine Glasgow, Isabel Witherspoon,
Joe Blutnberg, Zeline Davis, Grace
League, Alva Wilson, Margaret Cope
land, Sara Knox, Cleon Pitts, Rosalie
Jones, Elizabeth Copeland.
Eleventh Grade: Alden Bailey, Lucy
Bailey, Louise Byars, Nell Clapp, El
len Copeland, Margaret Finley, Elise
Henry, Mary Helen Hentz, Ella Belle
Wilson, William Adair, A. W. Blum
berg, Marian Copeland.'
Blond Bess Opines
“Talk may be cheap, as is some
times said—but not when you’re sass-
Ing a traffic cop.”
<©. 1924. Westers Newspaper Union.)
Then She Underttood
PLAYING SAFE IN
CHRISTMAS GIVING
RANKER CHISHOLM refused ac
commodation to persons who
seemed the most successful mer
chants in town, and to some of the
wealthiest citizens. An account over
checked by even a dollar received
quick notice. It was as if Banker
ChUholm had a Anger on the pulse of
the town, and whenever a pulse fal
tered he wlthdtaw. He was not run
ning a hospital.
So he became known as “Stoqy
Face,” “Frost,’? “Bloodless,” and the
like. Even the many solicitors of
charity went to him without expo*
tation.
Each Christmas mysterious turkeys
were left at doors v hose owners were
not expecting to have any. Loads of
wood and tons of coal appeared In
the same way. Banker Chisholm
Christmas Fruit Cakes
Fit For a Queen
What a relief to know that you can come here and .
Fruit take, sa™ you the time
and trouble of doing it yourseli. Gef it from us arid
take the work off of tired Mother—and if she lives
away from here, send or carry her one of these beauti
ful Cakes to grace the table for the Christmas dinner.
We have just made a . limited number of handsome
Fruit Cakes, consisting of the following rich and beau
tiful material:
10 lbs. Sugar, 10 lbs. Butter, 10 lbs. Flour,
10 lbs. Pineapple, 10 lbs. Walnuts, 10 lbs.
Almonds, 10 lbs. Cherries, 40 lbs. Raisins,
G^bs. Citron, 10 lbs. Figs.
CALL AND SEE THEM.
* IN ONE, TWO, FOUR, AND EIGHT POUNDS.
60c PER POUND.
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She—Why are you under the im
pression that you may kiss me?
He—Because you’re under the mis
tletoe.
It h Easy to Spread
Happiness to Others
««T WAS snowing—not the nice, dry
kind, but the kind that leaves hat
feathers bedraggled and tempeM
grouchy.
The streets were crowded with holl
day shoppers and people looked cross.
A woman hurried toward me, hold
ing to a boy of four by one hand and
carrying a heavy basket with the
other.
He tried to keep up, but he missed
a step now and then; at last he
stumbled and fell, and the mother
dragged him up and said things to
him, while he tried not to cry.
At the edge of che walk another
woman got out of a brougham and
started to cross over to tfoe shop door.
She took In the scene, and- under
stood—It was strange how few people
do understand. She stepped over to
the child, unpinned a spray of holly
from her fur coat and pinned It on
Us ragged little jacket.
“Only two days till Christmas,’' she
said. “Isn’t tt great!"
The mother gave her thaf knowing
look mothers have, and the boy
smiled Hack at her.
The crowd jogged on, but people
were half smiling in spite of the wet
-mow and the slushy walks.
The mother had lost some of the
fired look, and the boy was taking
■Upping steps as he looked down hap
pily at the spray of holly on his coat
—Anna Demine Gray. *
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could liave told something about them.
Only one person In town really un
derstood. and that was Andy Searles,
an old seatmate at school. Andy was
a failure, and Indifferent about it. but
he was a close-mouthed participant in
his friend’s secrets.
One day the banker called him Into
his back room.
"Here Is a thousand dollars, Andy,”
he began, nodding at a roll on the
table. “I want you to slip If Into your
pocket and dlstrlbut It where you feel
It will make the most*Christmas.”
“In your name this time. Bill. I
don’t like what they call you.”
Banker Chisholm reached for the
money. ^
“Then I won’t give anything,” he
said. “You remember how my prede
cessor, Mr. Wade, almost ruined him
self and the bank by his reckless gen
erosity and accommodation to unsafe
lorrowers. If I became known as an
easy giver, I would be attacked by a
horde of friends, and—I’m afraid I’m
too soft-hearted to play safe. The
only way Is to keep up my reputation
of ‘Stony Face.’ It Is my salvation.
I’m sorry you—” <
“Oh. all right.” interrupted Andy
gruffly. “Give me the money. III dis
tribute It where I see need, and want
of a* Merry Christmas.”—Frank Her
bert Sweet.
(©. 1924, Weatern Newspaper Union.)
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A New Kind of, Pincushion
A pincushion is always a useful and
appropriate gift, and here is one that
is most satisfactory. Fill a small
wooden, pasteboard or metal box not
over an inch deep, as full of steel wool
as possible. Cover the top neatly with
a bit of ribbon oi* any pretty goods at
hand. Pins andf needles stuck onto
the cushion are kept bright and free
from nmt by the slee! wool, and the
hottem of tho box keeps them from
workuig downward. ,
PRICES
REDUCED
Effective December 2, the Ford Motor Company announces
new low prices on all Ford cars. . A reduction of Twenty
Five Dollars on the Fordor Sedan and lower prices on aU
other types make Ford cars even greater values than ever
before.
NEW PRICES
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■ RUNABOUT - $260.00
TOURING CAR - - 290.00
COUPE 520.00
TUDOR SEDAN 580.00
FORDOR SEDAN 1 * 660.00
CHASSIS -L 225.00
TRUCK CHASSIS - 365.00
ALL PRICES F. O. B. DETROIT '
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These are the lowest prices ever offered in the history of the Ford
Motor Company. They create a new standard of value for motor
car transportation.
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