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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
Your Christmas Attire

Holiday festivities naturally demand gowning appropriate for the occasion. Red and green are the appropriate eolors. and while they are brilliant in hue. do not seem offensive when becominglv handled
 White dresses enlivened with sashes of red or green silk are lovely for young girls. the long ends tasseled with silk or heads. The same colors are worn in the coiffure. Velvet ribbon makes the most effective bands. Children wear ribbon bows.
 Bands of colored velvet with a cluster of imitation holly or mistetoe arranged low at the side, are very effective, vet easily arranged.
 To those whom gilt is very becoming, a narrow edging of holly, red or green, gives the coffure ajestine air.
 Gowns with red and green tunics will doubtless be worn by those who possess them. Green over white is suggestive of mistletoe.
 charming gown Of white silk was yelled in green chiffon cloth with studdine of pearls and pearl banding. This frock was especially designed for young girl who will make her debut just before the holidays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
Brander Matthews
 Christmas Gifts
on

"In OUT generous and iinpulsive Ameri- can fashion we have carried at least one phase of the Christmas celebration to a dangerous extreme.' said Prof. Brander Matthews. we give too many Christmas presents and spend entirely too much time and money upon them. The spirit of the season is too often lost sight of in the eff fort to distribute an absurd variety of gifts to people who do not care for them. Many people will make upward of 100 presents this season. It is work of weeks to select them and strain upon the longest purse and patience. I believe that a reaction is coming. and a wiser generation will express their sentiments in a simpler and more logical manner. For myself I delight in visiting the shops at this season. but merely to see the be- wildering variety of gifts they offer which I-don't want.
 Although the nature of our celebration may vary Christmas itself will always be for Americans the great holiday of the year. The celebration of New Years is carried to such an extreme that in the re- action which inevitably follows the day is almost lost sight of, It will not be the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10

these holidays belong to the children all alone and, so, instead of having a family Christmas tree, with father and mother and brothers and cousins and aunts. these Japanese children do their celebrating allt by themselves. The little women have what is called the Dolls Festival" which occurs on the third day of the third month. All the dolls each little woman owns are taken from their boxes,i where they have been carefully kept, and are set on stand, together with all their dresses and toy furniture. The little Jap anese maiden then makes them offerings of rice cakes and sweets, which they prob- ably enjoy as much as American dollese enjoy their tea parties. w
 But the Japanese dollies don't have any other good times all the rest of the year no rides to the parks in doll carriages. mo- body to make dresses for them on rainy afternoons, and no little mother to put them to bed at night. When the Dolls Festival is over, back they have to go into their boxes, to be kept until the next year. Two of these holiday dolls are given to every baby girl when she is born, and she keeps them to hand down to her own little daughters. So there is often a. large collection of dolls in every family, and it is because they are so precious that it won't do to play with them every day. n,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
The Age-Herald's Christ
 mas Cuisine
ROAST GOOSE.

ROAST GOOSE.
 In the northern part of England this Is considered the correct Christmas dish, turkey being very seldom provided for the Christmas dinner.
 Required:
 One goose.
 Four large onions.
 Eight sage leaves.
 Six ounces of bread crumbs.
 Two ounces of suet or butter
 Two eggs.
 Salt and pepper.
 Peel and quarter the onions, put them in pan of boiling water; put them back in the pan with fresh water and cook them until tender. then chop them finely. Dry the sage leaves slowly in the oven, then rub them through sieve, or powder them in your hands. Mix together the onions, crumbs. sage, chopped suet Cor melted butter), and seasoning; beat up the eggs and add them.
 Snge and draw the bird carefully, put the stuffing into it's body through the tail- end, closing the opening securely.
 Put the bird in a baking pan with a few small pieces of dripping, cook it either before bright fire or in a hot oven. bast- ing 1t well. A medium sized bird will take from one hour and q quarter to one hour and half or more, if you like it very well done. Serve 1t on hot dish, with apply sause and good gravy .in separate tureens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
THE BOUD 0|R OF
 4 FAT WOMAN.

What do we see? Terrifically long and austere looking corsets; tiny Gas possible) shoes, uppers bulging over the yamps. various restrainers. re- tainers. detainers (names unknown) :: perspiration disinfectsnts; blackhead eradicators; pimple specifics; blood medicine. Strewed around few candy boxes maybe an exerciser on the wall. These "propertes" signify that at va rious times this pleasant room is the scene of fashionable tortures. of heart burnings, of fallings from grace. Here the poor lady gasps into her retainers her harness. Here she hides her fat caused pimples. precipitation, black heads: here when her spirit is weak, she forsakes the exerciser for the dead ly candy box. What a life--what a four flush.
 Avoidable? A Marmola Prescription Tablet, taken after each meal and at bedtime. will reduce that fat Ca pound a day) down to the firm flesh beneath bauish the fat-caused blemishes; give a license to eat all the candy, etc, craved. and sleep as long as one desires. Investigate; tender seventy five cents to your druggist for large case, or write the Marmola Co. 203 Farmer Bldg. Detroit, Mich. Do not be timid -Marmola Tablets are safe.-being made strictly in accordance with the famous, fashionable formula: 1s oz Marmola. M oz FL IIx. Cascara Aro- matic, 3ih oz. Peppermint Water; con sequently, go ahead--without fear. A month will emancipate you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
The Christmas Spirit
GOTTEN YER

GOTTEN VERY NECESSARILY She took with smiling gratitude A flimsy necktie, many hued, Three china cups. bread knife and jewel case, domestic brand. She recognized without sheer 4 picture that she sent last year To a dear friend, whose memory Was not as good as it should be: Three copies of the self same book She gave to each a raptuous look; An honest looking fountain pen Came next to her brave hand, and the1 A chafing dish, a sweeping cap, Three blotters and d city map; Six bags motely, curious lot Designed for no man knoweth what; And, as she sweetly gathered up A match safe and another cup. She cried with spirit all undaunted: Why, they're exactly what I wantedr
 -AnOnymoue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
Household Hints

When you are cleaning your sewing ma chine and cannot reach parts of it with a cloth, try using a bicycle pump. The suction of the pump will drive away the dust and threads. Use the pump first then wipe the more accessible parts with soft cloth and end with thorough olling.
 In putting down linoleum or oil cloth have stripe of moulding nailed on the edges next to the baseboard. This pre- vents dusts from getting under and pre- serves the edges
 To remove peach stains from linen put cream of tartar on the water soaked stains and place the article in the sun. Afterward wash in the regular way and no stain will remain.
 In making baked or boiled custard scala the amount of milk to be used and set aside until cool. then make your cus- tard and bake 1t as usual, 1t will be per- fectly smoQth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
Dolly Descants Upon the Gentle Art of C1rs1dS GOng
  Two
 To Cass Do

slept on a pallet of straw every night for P years, worked her eyes out for you for dollar day, while l lay rusting in the garrett"
 And so through long list of old fnery, dresses, hats, wraps and shoes, which cried in unison:
 Why didn't you send us to the Sa1va- tlon Army and make some poor, forgotten little creature comfortable during the cold wnter?"
 If [ had only knownl If I had only knowni" sobbed the candidate for Heav- ems blessings. "Tf had only known that 1t wasn't the BIG wrongs we DO that block our way to the reward, but the LIT TILE things we leave UNDONE, IfI had only llnown-THENi"
 As the blessed Christmas season ap- breaches the "Joy of Giving is in the blood, and yet so many of us realize that we haven't the material things to give, that we would like, but there is a craving in the heart of many and many a person for something other than material gifts that we may supply from the depths of our own affection.
 There is a latter day creed that is as old as the Sermon on the Mount, that says:
 We get-not by holding to what we have-but by GIVING"
 The more we give during the beautiful Christmastide, the more we will be given,
 It is a law as old as the universe-but the truth of which is only coming to be generally appreciated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
Christmas Presents Given
 by Royalty .a

Although many people nowadays af- feet to despise the good old custom of giving presents at Christmas time the members of the royal family of England show no sympathy with the new fad. Indeed. present giving seems likely to be a leading feature of the royal Christmas, for both the King and Queen are great upholders of the custom, and their Mai esties are kept busy for several weeks be- fore the festive season making a careful selection of the Christmas presents from the many novelties sent for their inepec- ton by the tradespeope of London and Windsor. These are brought to Bucking- ham palace and arranged for Inspection on tables in the reception rooms, which resembles nothing so much as smart ba- zars by the time all the goods are laid out, all marked in plain figures that leave no doubt as to their exact price. 4
 The King and Queen, the Prince and Princes of Wales and most of the meni- bers of the royal family make the major- ity of their purchases in this manner, although some of the younger royalties are to be met in the West End shops buying their Christmas gifts like the rest of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
The Christmas Magazines

Christmas coming! One may know it By the magazines on sale. All their special papers show it; There is cheer in every tale. Each contains a merry message From some well exploited pen, Echoing the ancient presage, Peace on earth, good will to men. Here's a pretty tale of phthisis, Here is one on cholera: Here we have the last advices On typhoid bacteria Do you think of getting married? Read the paper on Divorce; You'll be exquisitely harried By the roliclling discourse. More about tuberculosis, More apout pellagras bane; Yuletide thoughts about crrhosis And the cure of the insane. For the wayworn and the weary There's paper on Gangrene. 0, how sunny. O. how cherry Is the Christmas magazine.
 Chicago Tribune
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10

Few consider the fact that the ones who want to give oftentimes find even greater difficulties in offering what they would gladly give than the ones they want to help feel in accepting their bounty.
 Somehow as the Christmas season ap- breaches the story of Nancy and the Un- known Girl rather appeals to me, for so many of us have just such wasted op- portunities that come into our lives.
 The deed we left undone weighs as heav- fly on ones conscience as the positive wrong we did.
 I love the story about the woman who told of her dream of going to Heaven
 Serene and rejoicing she made her way to the Great White Throne, when To! in her way stood perfect loads of household trash" that she thought she had left down on earth in the old attic of her house.
 First came the ghost of "roller chair which said to her:
 "Why didn't you give me to that poor little cripple girl ten years ago, and make her happy,~instead of keeping me in that dusty old place that I detested, all the lime longing to take some poor invalid out nto the sunshine?"
 Trying to push her way nearer to the Throne, she was confronted by another ,biect which was a homely old spring mattress, whose ghost smiled back at her aging:
 Why didn't you send me to that poor ittle bent and worn out seamstresss, who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
Game for Christmas Parties

This is variation of "Blowlng Ont inc Candle The players are taken one at time and blindfolded. A big, juicy apple is the prize of victory. Another player sits at one side of the room holding out the plate. Before being bindfolded the seeker of the apple stands at the opposite side of the room. which is cleared for the purpose, and takes his or her bearings Then, with outstretched hands the blind folded one goes across the room to try to take the apple from the plate. The others hiss when the player is going out of the way but are quiet when the direction is right. This game trains the locality sense If gives great fun, when the apple seeker goes greatly out of the way. to watch the curious antics made in trying to walk aright.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10

love and understand them as has Irving?
 The other day l chanced upon letter written by Cato-the great and good Cato-to his farmer, directing him to sell off all the broken tools and slaves from his estate. The two were classed together, as a matter of course It is a long way we have come, from this attitude to the Salvation Army Santa Clauses, with their bells at every corner collecting money for free American dia- ners. It is well to dwell upon the change al this season. We Americans may over do the gift making and give our presents too freely, but it is, after all an amiable weakness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
At the Bargain Counter

Ten Christmas shoppers standing in line; One got elbowed out, then there were nine. Nine Christmas shoppers, shopping very
 late; One fell asleep and then there were eight. Eight Christmas shoppers, shopping til
 eleven;
 seven. Seven Christmas shoppers, cross as tTc
 sticks; One hounced home to bed, then there wee
 six. Six Christmas shoppers, only just alive;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10

same with Christmas. Our love for it is too deeply implanted It is the season for the expression of our best selves, the love for our felowmen our happiness and contentment with our lot.
 -"How many of us realize that 1t was Washington Irving who gave us our Christmas as we celebrate it today? Dick ems did much. of course but Irving came first. Christmas is, of course, Dutch holiday. with it's trees and lights and boys, and who has taught us so we'll how to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10

 One remembered baby, Then there were five, Five Christmas shoppers. paving bar gains OCT; Then the saiesgirl snubbed one, then there were four. Four Christmas shoppers, nervous as could be: One smelled smoke, and then there were three. Three Christmas shoppers making great to do one had mysteries, then there were two. Two Christmas shoppers, with shopping not half done; One thought she saw a mouse, then there was one. one Christmas shopper, who'd spent all her mon. Her husband came for her-then there was none.
 Carolyn Wells in Judge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
Where There Is No Christ
 mas

The little men and women of Japan don't know anything about Christmas and Santa Claus, but they have ever so many other holidays which are just as delight full for them. The only trouble is that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10

In street coats the regulation sleeve stin preTails, but many novel effects are pro- duced by the trimming of the cuffs, which are made to correspond with the collar.
 
 Persian silk yelled with marauisette is used for collars, revers, and cuffs on number of cloth and satin models.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
Eve Up to Date

The new models show high waisted eff fleets on skirts and slightly short waisted effects on coats and cloaks.
 A few cape collars are being shown on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
Christmas in the Shopa

are not very new, but they are so dainty that one cannot help pausing to look at them as they lie open for inspection in their pretty boxes.
 And have you seen those dear little bed room clocks that come in celuloid cases There are a great variety of shapes, round. square. oval; some with ball feet and some with a little support in the back like all easel. They may be had in white, pink and blue celuloid and therc is an exceptionally quaint and dainty one in the white celluloid with little blue or pink eneirelins the cheery dial.
 Celluoid Vanity boxes are 25 and 50 cents. The contents are the usual ones a tiny powder puff and a mirror set in the lid. The round ones are not much larger than watches.
 It is rather hard for those who are in mourning to find ready made clothes that are really smart. At one shop, however they are making a speciality of mourning waists and it will profit any woman who is in need of such blouses to pay this shop d visit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10
A Sunday Thought

All sunshine makes desert-Arab Prov e,1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-10

auto coats, but these will not be in the height of their fashion until later in the season.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-10-06
CAMELS ARE VICIOUS.
They Raye Numerous Dislikes, the
Chief of Which Is Man.

popularity of the camel is his dis
likes. Likes he has none. save for the
mimosa thorn and. perhaps, for dying
He hates red. and when. years ago,
some genius of the British army
equipped the squadrons of the camel
corps with bright crimson saddles the
animals so resented the outrage that
numbers of them gave up the ghost
in pure disgust.
The camel always, of course, hates
man and sometimes displays his vim
dictivenesS in no uncertain manner A
diguifed and elderly British officer has
been seen to foot it all round the camp
in blue silk pajamas. with one slipper
and II shaving brush. closely pursued
by his own animal. with bis long neck
stretched 10 the utmost and his savage
mouth much too near that sleeping
suit 10 ne pleasant At length a
fatigue party WAS summoned. who.
with telegraph poles. Young trees. rail
way ties and such On jolerios. prevailed
upon The beast to desist
As a mount the camel is said 20
possess distinct advantages. His gait is
comfortable when one has learned 10
ride him. ana for really long journeys.
which must perforce he made III Il SLOW
pace. he is much less firing than
horse. BESIDES. he carries with him AL
manner Of things the rider is likely 70
need en- route-canvas buckets Of water.
in which bottles stand In cool: a writ
ing desk mot necessarily of the Office
tyTai. Jut still an efficient substitute: a
luncheon basket. rifles, telescopes.
mountain gun. if required. and other
ueedful articles.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-10-06

Ralph Payne GaIlwey on the links at
lie Touquet. Shooting with a Turkish
bow. he covered a distance Of 367
yards with his best arrow, thus break
ing all records achieved in recent
times. This performance, however.
seems to have been exceeded with the
old national weapon of yew. Meade.
a famous archer under Charles l..
states that the ordinary range OF the
bow was from 800 to 400 yards. The
longest shot automatically recorded in
England is that of secretary OF the
Turkish embassy, who in 1894 shot an
arrow 4G3 yards with the wind and
415 against it in the presence of
several members Of the Royal Toxo-
philite society. who measured the dis
lance and preserved the arrow.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-10-06

system. systematic your thoughts,
your energies. your abilities. Learn
early in life to do this, and it will
prove the master habit that wins sue
cess.
Systemless men are always surprised
that the heads of great enterprises
can find so much time for social life.
for hobbies. for travel They cannot
understand it at all. They do not
realize that man of great organizing
ability, with splendid system, can
do more effective business in a single
hour at his Office than a systemless
man can accomplish in twelve. 1t is
not the number of hours. but the eff
fectiveness of the system. that tells.
One of the advantages of college
course is that it trains the mind to
work by system. Whether be likes to
or not, the student is forced 10 con
Centrate his mind when the time
comes, no matter what his mood or
how he feels Four years Of training
in this should put the mind into work
ing order. Ii should tune the intellect
so that all the strings will be in
harmony. A good college education
should train the mind TO think con-
cisely. deeply. effectively at will
OrisOn SWEET Marden in Success Maya
zine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-10-06
Long Arrow Fliehts.

There was a marvellous archery feat
performed some years ago by Sir
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-10-06

who pass" the percentage of these
being fractionally small at times. To
guard against fraud there are pre-
suggested in the west
Every candidate has his own little
cell in which he works during the days
Of the examination. Not a few die
under the ordeal "Any essay is good
which gives a man his NJ. A." says
the proverb, and eff one comes out
first on the dragon list there is a chance
within ten years of being in the Phoe-
nix pool" which being interpreted
means that he who heads the NJ. A.
list is likely by and by to become a
Hanlin. So, indeed, II happens to our
young hopeful now arrived at years of
much discretion. He even becomes the
Shuang Yuan Of his year. the laureate
or senior classic, as he might be named
in the west
Whereupon on his return to his ma
highest honors from the highest peo-
pie. the viceroy leading. and then a
curious thing happens. Many of the
people Of the province having the same
surname apply for the honor of being
permitted to worship at the ancestral
hall of the successful genius and ac-
company their appeals with valuable
claim to relationship with the ami
able desire of having a friend at court.
New York Sun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-10-06

All the news all the time-Th5
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-10-06
TheY BLINDED.

true happening which has been
made the subject of a cartoon occurred
at a fashionable golf club near Lon
don a young man interested in golf
solely for the sake OF the social at
mosphere one day decided to play a
round. So he sauntered leisurely
dGwn to the caddy house. where he
met a certain peppery lord Not know
ing the gentleman and barely looking
at him. the somewhat foppish youth
asked, Are you the caddy master
here?' without an instant's hesita-
ton Lord - replied, mo. I am not.
but ] happen to know that he IS not IN
need of any caddies this afternoon. 8"
II was some time before either recov.
ered--Boston Transcript.