Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-20

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Dreamers and philosophers will say
that there are many beautiful lessons to
be learned from the holiday season. 1t
is doubtful IL any sane man or woman,
! or, insane ones either for that matter.
| ever has or ever will take issue with
/ the statement. But there are other les
| sons which may not be so beautiful but
which might nevertheless be learned
with profit. The lessons are always be-
| fore the one who cares at all to learn a
| city street car was crowded the other
| day with shoppers DESTROYS of being
| early with their Christmas shopping.
| Two women were comparing notes as to
4 the best places to purchase certain arti-
| cles and the gifts which they were in
| tending to make. What shall give
! Jennie?" one asked the other. A pretty
| useful article was mentioned only to be
met with the scornful remarA, Oh that
wouldn't cost half enough. Last year
| she gave me my library table and
must spend as much for her as she did
for that don't like her very well any
more, for she is so Dragging and boast
full since she thinks she married money,
but I'm bound To show her that she
can't impress me with her giving NO.
| she can't and I'll buy her something
handsome if I have to cut down the
presents for John and the children.
That sounded bad enough, but the
eavesdropper fairly gasped when she
heard the other woman saying. Wen,
I'VE got onto clever scheme. / always
20 into the china and glass stores and
buy for almost nothing plates and vases
that are nicked or cracked. OF eOlrse
always get the piece that IS broken out
and put 1t in the box, and IT looks as II
there had been an accident on Its deliy-
cry. If you don't like her, why don't
you do that? It will look as II you hao
spent a pile for 1t and yet It will never
he, of any good to her" They left the
car lust then and at q corner near Ia
nous china and crystal house, 50 the
yenturesome might feel justified in wag-
ering that Jennie" will receive nicked
vase or a cracked plate among ner
Christmas gifts.
IF Won have never gone TO the theater
and been far more entertained by the
people in the seats than by those upon
the stage. you must have always gone
10 see stars of the first magnitude or
been In an overly-cultivated audience,
where all emotions and ideas were sup
pressed The heighth of pleasure in the
ater-going is undoubtedly reached when
there are children in the party,-not tiny
children who cry and squirm and want
to eat all the time or go home, but chill
dren OF more than years, who can see
and hear and understand and then who
interpret things according to their own
limited experience and observation
such child was recently taken to hear
king Dodo She is just years old
and an unusually bright child, especial
Nv in a musical way. Her family even to
the third and fourth cousins think her
prodigy and even envious mothers OF lit
tie girls not quite so brilliant are forced
to admit that she is more musical than
most children" 1t was her first comic
opera, or any other kind for that matter,
and she had been properly excited over
IT and her expectations were CORE
spending high. The orchestra met with
her approval and she seemed pleased
with the chorus. But she could scarcely
wait until the king should appear. She
had never seen a king, of course but she
had heard many fairy stories about
them and she had seen pictures of them,
and she fully expected gorgeous crea-
ture and magnificent voice. 1t was
Iunny but it was also pathetic, the look
landishly-dresse Dodo first appeared
that came over her face when the out
and Sang att his first song. A look OF
disgust spread over the little face and
when the last line There is no king but
Dodo." with its awful fatness. had been
sung she could scarcely keep from cry
ing Poor man, he thinks he can sing,
but he can't" she said. Perhaps 1t was
the big folks fault that her first opera
was rather Disappointing. Because she
is a child is no reason that she should
not enjoy the finest OF music. A child
in years, her knowledge and real appre-
citation of music exceed those of many
joyment are not always to be judged by
the years one has lived or has not lived.
IL there Is anything worse than home
sickness it has not yet been discovered
by those In misery Yet it has its allie
viations 1t is far better to be home
sick than to have no home or having one
10 have no affection for 1t. Its possess
sion after all indicates one as member
of the elect-those who are not wholly
selfish and who have not outlived their
emotions and generous feelings. The ac-
cidental meeting of some one from the
home town, the stray paragraph in the
newspaper WHICH concerns the place
loved best OF all despite the many miles
that lie between are things which every
heartsick one away from home has
known. Women and children are by
common consent granted the privilege of
being homesick and of expressing it, but
Il. is not generally supposed to be one OF
the masculine faults--or should we say
virtues? Last GUNNER a young fellow
was seen who had developed a bad case
He was far from home in little mining
town of Colorado. The scenery Of Silver
Plume is unexcelled, the air is fresh and