The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-12-24
A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU

A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU
We wish you a full stocking to-
night end a Merry Christmas to-
morrow. Christmas is dear to
grown-ups because of the children
in the world. Watching them
through that period Of expectation
when Santa Claus begins to harness
up his reindeer, along about the
middle of the month, the pleasure
of the midnight call on Christmas
eve is not alone the children S. We
are led more than we realize by the
little child, but at the Christmas
tide we are completely under its
sway. The best in us comes to the
surface, and as we think of the
helplessness of the babe, we also
remember those whom the buffeting
of the world has bruised and beaten
into helplessness, and so they too
become a part of our Christmas
mission of JOY giving This is the
one holiday of the year when all the
world becomes a child again, going
back to the simpler joys, the less
involved motives of that far off
time, for many, with zest. 1t is
a family holy day and belongs to
childhood, making the birth of a
child it's theme, every mother, a
madonna, brooding over and caring
for the mighty atom-the new born
babe of promise-each father a
guardian ready to protect both the
young babe and its mother from the
perils which beset them. And the
holy family that first Christmas
night and the happy family on this
Christmas night are one with the
lovingly anxious mother, the little
babe and the protecting father.
According to the reports at the
State Grange session last week in
Burlington, that organization is in
a fourishing condition. Additions
Of twenty-six new Oranges is bet
ter record than most organizations
can boast in one year. The Grange
5 T Ing its place in our state life
md doing good work in educating
is members on topics Of peculiar
interest to farmers whether strictly
agricultural or not.
The Boston Journal Toy day will
BRING Joy to those to whom happi-
less is a stranger Children who
lave had even a meager amount of
oys cannot imagine what it will
mean for many of these unfortu-
ate tots to possess their first doll,
II stuffed animal The country has /
is drawbacks, but when it comes to
cal pinching, desperate poverty, {
he city can produce it. s
That isn't a bad idea they are I
rying down in Pennsylvania. They :
end an expert out into the orchard |
or his lecture on apple growing, and !
hen instead of lecturing, he sets I
bout pruning and spraying, etc, S
nd explains the process as he goes I
long. We reckon the apple grow /
RS take away with them some new
nd practical ideas on the subject. h
Editor Whitney of Mortified has =
cen sending out an Official Calen- :
ar for some years, and they have Il
ways been priced in the Sanctums a
f the state, but this year the pro- u
uct is the best production of the =
eries, the cuts, done in sepia, are y
lie finest that art can produce. =
hank you for our copy. i
And still we have the granite u
,rike and lockout on our hands O
it'll the day of settlement out of
ght at present. What is gained il
Y this method of settling differ S
ace that could not be gained by I
,asonable arbitration, is hard for b
lese' outside the two parties inter- o
tied to see. n
Those Mendon farmers upon !,
HON an injunction has been served, l
robably realize now that it is pub u
, business when a public water II
lpply is polluted by drainage from i
arm yards and pig pens. Rutland !.
a little nearer a pure water sup +
" by this action. l.
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