Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-04-03
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t4:T:@.':|:I:<:.s::f Speaking OF
9 By Eliza 3 Christmas C and
I. the children,
2 ArChard 9 lodv tells me tba,
g NOnner g long ago, when
.s.,.1..asS.11X she was perhaps
five years old, she
heard some little ones of her acguaint-
auce talking of how they hung up
their stockings by the fireplace and
Santa Claus came down the chimney in
the night and put gifts for each into
the small hose. They had to be careful,
they said, to be good for several weeks
previous to Christmas, SO Santa Claus
would reward them; they had also to
see to it that their stockings were clean
and had no holes, or Santa Claus would
be displeased and pass them by. The
children who told the little girl this be
lieved it, and she believed il too. 1t
was the first time she had heard Of
Santa Claus, for she had been born into
sternly puritanical family, who
thought, like the Quakers, that over
much outward observance of Christ
mas was idOlatrous. But the little girl
resolved TO try hanging up her stock
ing, too, on Christmas eve to see what
Santa Claus would bring her. She was
good girl she thought; at least she
tried to be. Well, she pinned the stock
ing up against the wooden mantelpiece
and went to bed. Next morning she
found in it long apple tree switch OF
the kind that country children have
too good reason to be familiar with. A
waggish cousin put the switch there
for practical joke, and that was all
the gift the little girl got, for, as l tell
you, her people were hard and stern
Puritans. 1t was brutal joke, and the
child never forgot the heartbreaking
disappointment of that morning. Life
has had bitter cups Of disappointment
not q few for her since, and she has
drunk them to the dregs, but not one
has grieved her more than to find only
stick in her stocking that Christmas
morning The moral of the story?
Make the children every year as happy
as you can at Christmas. See that they
get gifts, that they enjoy the day, even
II nobody else can. The poor little
things will find trouble enough later.
Sure way to remove wrinkles: Don't
get them in the first place.
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Miss Alice Rigg, a mere girl, is one
of the best tombstone cutters and cary
ers in the province Of Ontario. Her
father is a tombstone carver, and his
daughter has in a measure inherited
her trade. Her artistic taste is ad-
mirable, which is not so remarkable as
that she excels men in the practical
work Of stOnecutting itself.
Lately | was in party where nine
women were incidentally brought to-
gether Among the nine there We're
lecturer and teacher, a physician, a
playwright, an actress and two news
paper women. The other three ] was
not we'll enough acquainted with to
find out what their work was. But is
the professional woman here?
Think very carefully what you can
do to earn money just where you are,
If you need TO earn money. Then make
your choice and stick to it and perform
the work to the best of your ability.
Don't drift along waiting for some
thing to pick you up and set you down
where you belong. Something will
never do it. You must do it yourself.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox has lately
uttered golden saying. 1t is this: "A
woman with q past, as well as man
with a past, has right to u future"
Here is a gem from Karl HeinZen, a
German reformer: The man is cOnSd-
cred as 4 human being, the woman as
an appendage to the human being; but
the woman is more human being
than the present man, and human
rights know no sex"
In the United States there are now
churches.
Girls and women, don't you go
through life like wooden images, as
though your arms were pinioned at the
elbows and your lower limbs We're tied
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you. develop all the musclar power and
| activity in your body. You don't know
what wonders you are capable OF phys
ically.
In the large cities q number of wom-
Ell add considerably to their income
by doing shopping and making pur-
chaSeS for country and suburban resi-
dents 1t is easier as well as cheaper
TO pay a competent town agent a mod
crate commission for buying an article
than to take the time and have the eX-
penSe Of going to the city oneself. In
the daily papers Of large cities are TO
/ We seen advertisements Of women pur-
| chasing agents.
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Arthur Brisbane in an editorial coins
IN expression most excellent when he
speaks of that powerful hee-haW argu-
mrnt with which many men are wont
to rpfutp the propositions of any won-
an" Don't forget it-mun's "hee-haw
argument"
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Mrs josephine r. Ormsby, who is
the mother Of quadruplets, triplets and
twins and whose husband finally ran
away and left her besides, considers
marriage a failure. No wonder.