The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-06
SPEAKING OF CHRISTMAS GIFT:

SPEAKING OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
or course you want to give your
wife or your husband as the case
may be, a suitable Christmas gift.
Not necessarily one that is costly in
price, but one that will grip itself
To- his or her heart; something that
will make the receiver glad because
1t measures in a way the love of the
giver. Well, The WagewOrker wants
to tell you of something that will
please any man or woman who has
heart to feel; something that will
just grab you by the heartstrings and
drag you back into the bright days
of the past when with childish feet
tripped you along the sunny paths;
something that will snatch you back
from the precipice of doubts and
grouchiness and mental dyspepsia and
make you glad that you are alive and
lave friends and loved ones about
you. 1t is a little book-little in size
but big in contents and results-called
"Of Such is the Kingdom" and it was
written by Richard L Metcalfe of
Lincoln. Met" couldn't buy this edi-
torial advertising. but is is freely
given to him because he deserves it
For something like seventeen years,
almost, the editor of this humble little
labor paper has worked side by side
with Metcalfe, he being the chief and
the writer the humble assistant
This seventeen years of close associa-
ton enables us, we think. to speak
officially of the man who wrote the
stories in "Of Such is the Kingdom"
And when you have read Nets" book
you will know him as the writer knows
him, and knowing him as the writer
knows him you will understand why
he wrote as he did-wrote of children,
OF home, of human sympathy, of di-
vine love, of the simple little every
day things we are prone to overlook
in the rush for material things but
which overlooked and then suddenly
stumbled over bring the light back
to tired eyes, lifts the load from bur-
dened hearts and smooths down the
rough places in path too often rough
and stony. You read these little
sketches and you just feel like giving
UP the dollar chase and grabbing tbs.
children by the hand rush off to
the nursery to again frolic and be
sanely happy again. You read them
and you feel your business shrivelled
heart beginning to swell up and ex-
pand until it actually feels like a
neart again, and you realize how much
Of joy you've lost by reason OF having
forgotten you ever had such an organ.
You laugh with the children who
laugh through its pages: you mingle
your tears with the tears of those
who have not yet learned to look I'M
moved upon suffering humanity. You
hear again the grand old songs as
you watch the gallant old soldier of
the book marching bravely and proud
ly into the Valley of the Shadow from
''">~ AiO'S SNCt CoIhcS DUCK. on
pay dollar for the book, and then
you get dollars worth of enjoyment
an evening out of it for evenings on
end, then you hand, it over to some
body else who goes tnrcLg- the same
experience.
self, then on Christmas give it to
your husband, Or your wife, or your
Get the book now and read it your
son. or your daughter, or your sweet
heart Get it and give it to some
body and thus help to spread sunshine
and laughter and good will along the
way. "Of Such is the Kingdom" is
an ideal gift book. Take our word for
that. We've read it time and again
in the manuscript, in the proof, in the
book-and we expect to read it again
and again. Any hook store in Lin
coin. And the book was printed
right here in Lincoln-the type set by
union printers, the press work done
by union pressmen, and the binding
done by union binders. Met" would
like to sell thousands of copies, of