The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 21, 1905, Image 6
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" . ^tor of
h- Xext?Luke ii., 10: "Behold I bring you go
more the hallowed. |
, eiy IHL gracious Christmas time is :
|| upon the earth. At last j
V/ the long year of toll over
Hi] clli t0?ls and arts and industries
is all but ended. The
Christmas festival, dedicated to happiness
and good-will, has fully come.
This morning the whole city has wakened
to quadrupled joy. The very atmosphere
of our earth is rosy, stained
with the rich colors of the heart. All
windows are bright with holly and
evergreen. Parents have discovered |
% that it is more blessed to give than to
receive. Youth overflows with animal
spirits.. Suddenly the aged have shed
: their years and become young again.
Eefore the light had fully dawned the
carols had begun to be heard In the
churches. And every passing hour
will behold larger multitudes throng- i
ing to these temples of the soul. All
feel that no flowers are sweet enough,
no songs bright enough, no gifts rich
enough for the Christmas "Day. For
once all strife and enmity have disappeared
from the market place. To-day
all swords are sheathed. This morning
misers have become generous, pessimists
have become optimists, while
generous natures glow and effulge like
the sun. Verily^ Christmas lies like a
bar of sunshine across the face of our
\ dark earth. '
. ~~ To-day. if some
I 'Christmas Chi!- visitn'iit from a
dren's Day. celestial realm
were to draw near to our earth for the
first time, to go away again when darkness
falls, the angel would carry with
- him the conviction that there is one
sunny planet among the host of worlds
where all childhood is rich and happy,
knowing no care or sorrow. And it is
literally true that this era of happiness
for children is distinctly traceable to
the Christmas event and the Christmas
spirit. All children do well to celebrate
the Manger Child, because it was Jesus
who discovered childhood. When rulers
and titled men questioned Him,
Jesus placed a child in the midst of
THE BOAR'S HEAD.
The Ancient Predecessor of the Turiey.
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Battle of brooks thro* the bojhy brush, ?
Flutter of v?Kn^ fim>'.fhe morning damf>j,
.Cry of loon in the evening hush.
Sob of Wind and the $on? of tnrujh.'
Bright 5tar and firefly lamfo. S
5j>ire and sJ>ihe of the lilacs' fclumej.
Droning, bec$ in the f>urf>le dujl\i
flicker of bar in the jilv'cr moons. ..
That bnm the earth in the arms of June *
Mth lily and rose ond mush- g
Glint and oleam of the goTderwrod,"
Leaf and Tendril of clematis. S
rlou/ers oslecj) in^ttie saeahed sod r ~ ? . ?
Where f>urj>lc asters abovfe them hod ' ' 9
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SnoWflokes ov>er the li[y's bed, | '
frozen deW on the v^olety bloom. . ? |
Sfnhes ef f nftt v^ierd The rose fnmg, red, 3
And me golden heart of the Snoming.tjhtd ?;
Itj light through the5uri>rner moon. 3
IW huno misfj Where the sun flamed vJhite. 4
SnoWdrips own* the dales and dunes, ^
GlinK of ice vJhere he Praxes hung,ri|>e. |
;5hiffina gray for the golden light |
Of AuTumn afternoons- 3
Heart of ho{>e vAen the sun shone bright, 3
Dream of faith in d snovf-bound glen, 3
Whisfer of lovfe thro' a World of White,
jLtoh the Kiss ?i God on a Christmas night, U
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od tidings of great joy." Gloria in Excelsis.
them and said: /"Of such is the kingdom
of heaven." Socrates sneered at
the grief of a mother creeping for her
babe. If Plato suggested that every
village should select a distant hilltop
and build a pen for the exposure of
unwelcome children; if Aristotle urged
laws making the drowning of sick and
weakly children compulsory on their
parents; if Seneca said, "We slay the
worn-out ox and horse, and it is not
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weak children from strong;" if Cicero
rebuked bis friend for grief because be
missed tbe dead babe, then every lover
of childhood must rise up to speak for
that Christ who took a child in His
arms, whose love brooded over the
child as the stars looked down upon
the little town of Bethlehem, and who
sent through the ages this word, "Suffer
little children to come unto Me."
Jesus said, "Take heed that ye offend
not one of My little children" and
"Their angels do always behold the
face of My Father." and hope dawned
for childhood. From that hour Jesus'
disciples began to make life happy for
children.
They founded homes for the exposed
children who had been left to starve.
They founded schools for orphaned
children who had been cast off by poor
parents. *
They founded asylums f&r' girl babes
left in the market place by parents to
whom they were unw elcome.
They purchased suffering children
from their slave masters.'
For children schools began to be
founded, books written and colleges
established.
For children the wheels of industry
turned around.
For children the walls became beautiful
with pictures, and shelves were
filled with books.
For childhood homes became happy,
music became high and sweet.
Gallery and library took on new
grace and richness.
All institutions are tested by their
power to serve childhood and strengthen
youth.
To-day all institutions are beginning
to imitate the wise men from the East,
who brought to the Divine Child their
gold and aromatic spices, their frankincense
and treasure.
Christ's estimate of the value of
childhood has conquered the world.
His thought of childhood is the very
heart and genius of Christian civilization.
; Because ChristChristmas
and mas stands for
theColden Age- ^ child, as the
father of the man, and for the cradle,
as the one point where futurity is
vulnerable, it will yet usher in the
Golden Age. To produce au ideal
world we need only one thing?a
Christmas that lasts all the year.
When the sun rises it throws its beams
of sunshine forward a half hour in advance
of the orb of fire. When the sun
sets the light lingers long in the clouds.
And the Golden Age means that the
approaching Christmas will cast its
generous beams forward toward July,
and that when the Christmas Day has
passed its peace and good-will will
linger to lend light to those months that
end with June. Tc-day parents give
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gift? to their. children, the prosperous
help the poor, the happy stretch out
friendly lianas toward the widow and
the fatherless?the Christmas spirit has
transformed selfishness Into service.
This morning, yrithout changing a single
-law, economic or political, lo! the
Golden Age is come. It seems that to
produce au ideal world, without sorrow
or strife or sin, it is only necessary
that the beams that stream from this
bright day should * encircle our cold
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hut with the sweet blossom of the
heart. *. -
Little wonder -that- in the far-off forest
and valley and plain, in the frozen
North and. in the sunny South, in the
innumerable homes of this great Republic,
all people, young and old alike,
throygh gifts and .song aiKb good-will,
celebrate this greatest 'day and the
greatest event that has ever befallen
our earth. The civilization that advances
and rolls forward like a golden
tood represents a spirit that set forth
from Bethlehem. Universal happiness
in'd wisdom and peace will come to
our earth when the Christmas comes to
stay all the year.?New York World.
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ITotnely Philosophy,
b'now isglooiHy,T must confess:
Sort o' chilly an' wet, unless
The .weather's so cold that it freezes ?ight
An' plays the deuce in a single night.
An' yet somehow it'/< the snow outside
That lightens the glow in the fireplace
wide.
It's right disagreeable, I know,
But it wouldn't seem Christmas without
some snow. .
An' cadnAss that onmes in a creneral'wav.
It hits us hard an' it bring dismay.
Yet life seems brighter when sorrow's past,
Because of the shadow that it'Cast.
Jes' like the housC seems lots more warm
After you've braved the sleet an' storm.
Here's hop in' your share may be small an*
brief?
But -it wouldn't be livin' without some
, grief.
The Japanese Santa Clans.
This has been called the era of children,
so much are the little ones
thought of nowadays and so completely
have the old. harsh, unkind ways
died out. Yet the Japanese long ago
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showed us the way. In a country
where all the grown-up people laugh
and the babies <ire treated with wonderful
tenderness, they worship a god,
"the God that plays with little children
in the sky." The image' of the
god stands by the river at Nlkko, and
into his lap the passers-by pour little
white pebbles, in case the god should
forget to gather them and the children
have nothing to play with
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Santa Claus?"Ha! Ha! Here's the
usual list of urgent necessities, I suppose.
Let's see (reading), 'Dear Santy
-De inclosed stockin' is mine. Me
little brudder Jimmy ain't got any ter
hang up er odderwise, but would like
a stockin'-full, too, so please use mine
ter measure it wit' an' den dump hisn
on de floor an' oblige yours trooly,
Swipsey Dugan.' "?Puck.
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A plea.for simple toys for children
is made by a writer in The Craftsman,
irom wuicn we seieci me lonowmg
paragraphs and the accompanying illustration.
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It is a sad confession, but an inevitable
one, that few of us succeed in
cherishing in our hearts that boyish
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and exuberance that enabled
Stevenson to put himself in the place
of the child and to speak truly from
the depths of the child mind.
And so, oblivious to the real nature
of the. realm in which the little one is
king, we all seem bent, this Christmas
season, upon diverting him from "the
spell of that land by thrusting him into
] tne world or tne actum, rue mauer-oifact.
To this end we surround hip
with objects that are as exact a reproduction
of real things as it is possible
to make; and we bid him "play" with
these literal facsimilies of things which
he sees around him. 4
We haunt the toy shop? in search of
animals with real fur, little French
lassies that can walk and talk and go
to sleep, and wonderful mechanical
toys that seem almost possessed of in
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j constructed automata Interest and dii
vert us. we think that they are adapted
as playthings for the children. "We
take them home and enjoy them while
the little ones marvel at them for an
' hour. To-morrow they are either taken
to pieces to gratify a scientific impulse
or laid upon a shelf. And the children,
until the next periodical rain of costly
gifts descends, happily pursue their
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jects which they have fashioned for
themselves out of a board, a stick, a
piece of string, or whatever else may
have been available in completing
some comprehensive plan.
Toys need not be meaningless in order
to be simple. They may be so constructed
on simple, vital lines as to suggest
life, activity, strength. Why not
direct a little attention toward securing
the embodiment of simple art principles
in the toys with which the children
are to live?
It is significant that most children
find a keener delight in playing with
paper dolls than with any other kind.
This is but an added confirmation of
the fact that the imagination of the
child loves best a few direct lines that
it may clothe with contours of limitless
beauty and charm.
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Xew York City.?There is ho.coat
better liked or more fashionable than
the blouse Eton and none that suits
1 a greater number of occasions. It' is
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smart, jaunty and very generally be- ;
coming, it involves fewer difficulties
for tbe amateur than do the tightly 2
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l ucked Blouse V
fitted coats, and It can be worn at all 3
Lours of the day. Here Is one that is <
eminently simple at the same time 3
that it is eminently chic and smart and
which appropriately can be' made or
the light weight velvets, velveteens
and broadcloths, and, indeed, all suitings
that allow of being tucked with
success. As illustrate, cloth in one
of the new shades of sage is trimmed
with velvet and handsome buttons, but
here again there is opportunity for
individuality, for. the collar and cuffs
can be made of broadcloth on rough
material, of the material braided or
trimmed with banding or of moire or,
indeed, of any contrasting material
that may be preferred.
The coat is made with fronts, back
and centre front, all of which are
tucked. The neck is finished with
the collar and the closing is made at
the centre front, the tucked centre portion
being hooked over invisibly into
place. The sleeves are quite new ones
that are full above the elbows, laid
in tucks below, a trimming band being
applied over the upper edges of the
tucks, while they are finished with
becoming flare cuffs.
The quantity of material required
m? cj<ra is four and a i
IOt" ItlC mcuiuiu hi?c
quarter yards twenty-one, three and a j <
half yards' twenty-seven or two yarcs j i
Klbbons and Trimmings.
I Ribbons of taffeta and satin weaves,
of very limp textures and in plain <
colors, are those which have part i
principally in the making and in the j
tramming of the models in headwear <
placed on recent exposition. But <
Frnch faille and moire ribbons were 1
noticeable on some or the latest of the i
i/hported hats; and, as in the piece 1
| siJks, shot colorings in the ribbons, be- ]
I fide plain colorings, were to be taken I!
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forty-four, inches wider-wHb one yard %.
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Blouse Waist With Vest.
Vest effects-are greatly in yogne this
s?hs*fi and a*e'tcyb& notedTtlpon many
of the newest and most attractive
blouses, Illustrated. ia. one. uthich
is much to be desired, both for the?en- ^
tire gown and for that separate blflpse ;
without which no wardrobe is Am- plete
and which allows of varia&na.-yjra|
galore. As illustrated it is mad* of '
plaid silk with the tucked front. Jest
and cnffs of plain but harmonfflny . ?<
color ^finished with a plain but simple v'
banding. Any contrasting mateaals
conld, however, be used with sutaess
and again the waist of plain colorpran
be combined with plaid or with stripes
or with the same material trimmejf or
again the little vest n^ght be of ySvet
with the tucked front of plain sllka:
The waist is made over a fittewlning,
which closed at the centre fwnt, '%
and itself consists of the fronts, caftre ' <:
front vest portions and back, ahe
back is plain, drawn down in gaffers : ?
at the waist line, out ine xtuik w
tacked to give a.box pleated effect at ?
the edges and to provide ^lnesa
the shoulders. The closing Is made v ' :
Invisibly beneath the edge, of the left
side. The sleeves are the favorite ones
of the season that are fnll above the l
moderately deep cnffa ' ^
-The quantity of material required ;
for the medium size is three and a half ^
rards twenty-one, three and threeeighth
yards twenty-seven or two
rards yards forty-four inches wide,
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vlth three-quarter yard any width for 4
:entre front, vest and cuffs and three M
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Freakish nets In Huts.
Freakishness, without doubt, will
continue to obtain, as a feature in
Jertain of the brims of the new season's
hats. Yet there are some evi- .
iences of an inclination to modify the
;ffect of the ca].-ricions by varying
them with brims of simple design, ;
some of which are very little unspring- v
[ng in adjustment or irregular in out. v- *
lines; and the flat brim of the sailot . '
being reckoned among the approved.-'
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