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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13
Genuine Article.

Yes, real old oak!" Mrs. Persprad
purred. "Of course, 1t cost a great
deal; but still a good hallstand-"
But just as Mrs. P was coming
to the thrilling part of the description
she was interrupted. In the drawing
room, where she and her lady friends
were sitting, burst Freddy, the five
year-old son of the house.
His face was flushed with excite
ment and his cap was still on his
head.
Mother"
Freddy" his mother said In gentI~
reproof, what did buy the new hall.
stand for?'
For All instant Freddy was aston
ished, amazed.
Well" he jerked out at last, 'you
bought it for two dollars off the old
secondhand man. But" and Freddy
looked annoyed-"you told me not to
tell anybody about it!"-Exchange.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

but hole in 1t In the morning
And when 1t is dark these four quaint figures
fit through the country. CITY, town and village
like conspirators, Harlequin tapping doors and
windows with his magic wand. open. openH
he cries to the Spirit of Christmas. Let the
rich uncle reward his needy nephew, and the
unforgiving father his repentant Mothers,
forget to be jealous of your elder daughters
growing beauty. Children, forget your spite and
naughtness. Let's be od-fashioned. Let's be-
lieve in ghosts I'll tell you ghost-stories, stories
of yourselves when you were children and played
Pirates on the stairs.
And Clown says as he taps on the doors with
his fed-hot poker:
Open open you old grousers. And let the
Spirit of Fun come into this house. Romp bit.
and lose your twopenny dignity, for pompous
stiffness makes the gods laugh"
Pantaloon taking his turn. taps with his walk
ing-stick, and says:
Open Open and let In the flood OF memories
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13
In Praise Of the Klmono.

Among the details of the wardrobe
which have apparently. though trans
ported from afar, come to stay with
US for good, there may be noted the
hmono, thin and light and graceful
In silk it rolls conveniently into little
or no space, and SO it is most con-
venient when travelling, for 1t can find
a little corner in the dressing case.
On arrival at hotel or a friends
house, it can be shaken out, and one
slips into it from the street gown to
make comfortable toilet without the
trouble of getting the big trunk open,
as one would have to do with heavy
dressing gown of the ordinary variety
packed away. Even If one cannot af-
ford silk kimono, there are tidy sub
stitutes in lowered muslin with dress
ing jackets to match
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

and no friends and hope, and l Will Dc eh0
warm, nesting thing you covet for your frozen
hearts, and you shall feel my soft cheek against
yours till the tears come and your heart taxes
life again You shall give joy to other peopieS
children. And if you have no friends VINO haVo
children are there not thousand, thousand chr
dren who have no friends? Go to them and give
them all you can and you will be rewarded al
most more than you can bear, for there is INK
between those who suffer. Are there not some
you have forgotten or neglected? This lonely
man, that lonely woman whom you have left uh-
cared for, perhaps for years Put on your nat
and your coat and put your heart on your Sleeve
that all may know your Grand
To see her pleading before black, sombre houses
where thin light shines under blind; to see
her face pressed against the window of some Dig
mansion where man woman sits alone WIN
hearts like stone; to see her tears as she essays
to melt an aching heart is to see something so
touching and beautiful that almost wonders
the doors and windows not instantly opened
to admit the spirit of love she begs for so pitt
fully
Look at yourselves Messieurs ct Mesdames
Importance, and remember the funny little things
you used to be when you bit at coral and bells.
and wore bibs, and thought everybody in the
world had enough to eat; when you hated to go
to bed early, and crept downstairs in your night
gowns to listen. the bannisters to the voices
In the dining room; when jam for tea was a
tragedy. And when your mothers knee was the
throne or Justice and mercy for you buried your
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

stirring up old memories in dull people, so that
uncles must remember all their nephews in re-
Numbering when they nephews themselves,
and had peculiar hunger at Christmas.
Coumbine is awfully practical Her sentiment
extends from the JOY of watching the making of
baby-clothes to the pleasure of remembering to
put nice soap in the spare rooms. 1t is she who
that children get the right presents, and
when they don't it is not her fault, but the fault
of some stupid person in shop.
1t is she who suggests the secret delight of
keeping presents hidden at the bottom of the
wardrobe; and it is she who suggests the secret
delight of peering az children when they are
asleep
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

head there with her hand in your
hair. and forgot to be afraid of the
dark"
Columbine has her own very par
tucular work, and she calls it in
her mind Secret Delights. She calls
it that because she delights in max
ing up odd names for emotions, as.
for instance, when she pointed out
two lovers to me one day in the
spring, who were seated under a
hedge, yellow-fushed with prinl-
roses; they were holding hands and
looking at the hills beyond just as
II some wonderful thing was about
to come over the hills to tell them
what their feelings meant. And the
peace was so great and the moment
so held that the World seemed to
have stopped breathing, and some
thing superhuman to have poured
out a cup of stiffness. And she
called it Liquid Velvet. A Liquid
Velvet moment. And / understood.
1t is Columbine who watches that
beautiful comedy Of the newly mar
r1eQ, VINO steal ABOUT Inelr HOuSo
hand-in-hand, fearful Of waking the
very new servants, fearful Of creak-
ing the boards as they gaze enrap-
tured on the very new furniture,
looking with Joy on the very new
pots and pans in the kitchen, turn
ing the electric lights up and down
all over the place to see the effect
in their new bedroom. And he has
a dreadful brooch for her hidden
where he keeps his razors; and she
has knitted him a tie he will have
to wear. But it is all perfectly
beautiful.
Someone wrote the other day that
people who read are more interest
ed, nowadays, in business than In
love. and I'm so sorry for that man.
He is more blind than | thought
ANYBODY could be. Business may be
the means to an end, but Love is
the beginning and the end. And 1t
is Just at this season that Love
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

~ N the left, just past
IL u the w e a h e r hens
- nest, and not more
than two steps from the
box where they keep the
cuckoo, there is the long
bed where roses bloom all
the year round. And they
grow like this so that
Columbine m ay always
have one to stick in her
hair, and that odd, mock
ing, soft-hearted cynic Pier
rot may Gull one now and
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

r,oLas husiness: hence the shops full of gifts
Imagine poet writing:
Gent per cent. the moon is rising,
Watch the stocks upon the bank;
Rubber shares too surprising.
Speculators are surmisng
Who the deuce they have to thank"
No one can get heartbeat out OF that, and
whatever your business man says, he knows he
gets all the good in his life out Of heartbeats
So this Christmas Spirit creeps about the world
Knocked at scorned but alive yet. And you who
feel these things may night see this quaint
quartet at work, perhaps for a second at the cor
ner of your street, perhaps just vanishing down
the drive or moving swiftly down country
lane And you may say wonderingly: cit is
cobweb moth and the branch of a tree. and
the starlight makes them look nke-iKe some
thing remember"
But tell you who they are-Harlequin, ColuIn-
bine Clown and Pantaloon. And II you hear a
child's laugh ring out suddenly, and 1t brings
new quick emotion OF them has conquered
you!
The spin. Christmas doesn't cling to presents
in proportion to their cost-unless you are very
rich and IL you are very rich the voice OF the
jeweler and of the furrier and Of the motor car
maker will seem to you wise as the word or
happy poor man. though he were philosopher.
Simple and genuine and glad-strike these notes
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

son. and there is flower called Columbine and
K is so called because it is like four doves with
outspread wings, and the French dove is colombo.
and the dove is the symbol of the soul So the
world is never allowed to forget beautiful things
If the burden of history is borne on the
back Of a flower. And the god-like glow and gilt
ter of Mercurys limbs still shows in the glisten-
ing sequins on Harlequin's clothes, parti-colored
as they have always been, to show how he COW
cred his nakedness with rags.
All this, beautifed by the essence of Time, like
things put away in a cedar chest, comes back
when Harlequin blows his pipe that air the
shepherds learnt in Greece from Pan.
The next night Clown will take out anothc-
kind of pipe, long churchwarden of white clay
and fill 1t with tobacco and then as the fragrant
clouds roll up into the rafters, memories come
Of all the great people of the Harlequinades they
play down in the world all inspired by them, and
they the figure of Tarlaton, who was the first
clown, and invented the very clothes they now
wear, hand In hand with Grimaldi, that great
clown. And they seem to see all the great Italian
Harlequins. and the dainty French Columbines.
and the old dandies of fifteenth-century Venice
whose clothes Pantaloon wears
Do you know that elderly gentlemen In the
World smell that magic tobacco or something
like 1t, and they forget their paunches or their
bald heads. and they sit and dream of the time
they went to their first pantomime? Was it
Cinderella" or Beauty and the Beast? Or was
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

and the chimes will be
very melodiously for you
and for those whom you try
to make happy. And re-
member, you can't feign
Christmas without being
caught as an impostor,
both by your own con-
science and by the feel
ings of those about you.
The very value of Christ
mas is that 1t puts the gen.
uineness Of everybody to an
unerring test.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

1t that pl e n did I hing
Mother Goose" or that en-
trancing production THE
Yellow Dwarf"
Such things are conjured
up by just that one pipe c.
tobacco smoked in the cot
tage on Olympus, and on
that night a gentle breeze
blows up through the well.
laden with the poignant.
eternal memories of child
hood, and the candles on
the Christmas tree are
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

of the rest
They C o m e
S e e d s that
ers in the
hearts. They
ence t h a t
give a man
instead of a
the b e i n g
that the bus
weighs more
timent h a d
up his stock
mas Eve, and
feels like to
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

bringing the
ire e w | t h
N o w their
each to his
Columbine to
to preparing
that m Il s t
this season,
easily as a
in a breeze.
his m a 6 / C,
things must
tiful n o w,
must buy the
Indies. And
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

of the year.
to SOW those
grow to flow
still innocent
are the infu-
makes 20 u
fifty C e n t 8
quarter. And
w b o s a Y s
mess of life
than the SEN
better hang
ing on Christ
see what Ii
find nothing
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

There are Pagan Saints who and Arcadia every
where Pan pipes much in the crowded city
as on Mount Ida when the is high. And
Columbine finds roses where the world sees
thorns and Harlequin finds magic in motor
buses; and Pantaloon digs away for pleasant
memories in the most unlikely places, and finds
them bright and clean, and good
These haif-gods of mine (and yours
down at Christmas to correct the bilious attitude
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

A New York corporation has
I,ouidated because women are giving
up petticoats. And some husbands
are liquidating because theS won't
give up petticoat rule.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

G. b r i S t mas
them.
work begins,
own job and
hers. Clown
the laughter
spring up in
and ripple as
barley field
Harlequin to
I or common
appear beau
and a penny
wealth of the
PantalOOn to
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

of the good old times!
Holly and mistletoe and
robins, and church bells
sounding over the snow.
And hampers all packed to
be- sent away, and plenty
to eat at home.
And then Col u m b n 9
steals up to the windows,
and taps them with the
rose from her hair, and
she whispers:
open, open to me all
you who have no children
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

1t is maintained by Boston minis
ter that it is possible to marry and
live comfortably on SIS week. 1t is
possible at least to marry on that in
come.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

The horse no longer smells the bat
lie afar off. The enemy afar of now
gets whit from the approaching
war auto when the wind Is blowing
toward them.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

vne laps are reported to be taking
70 American beef in the hope of grow
ing taller. After they get the butch
er's bill they will find 1t really leaves
them very much shorter.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

A Bantu tribesman has been discov-
cred with forty-five wives. If the
tribe allowed suffrage, no doubt he'd
be perpetual king
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

Less than 100000 New York chill
dren took advantage of the public
baths last year. Childhood Is ever
the same
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

All the song birds migrate to the
south except the particular kind that
waits on the big cities for the open
ing of the opera season.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

A railroad company is asked to pay
100000 for the death Of chimpan-
zee. Evidently it's owner is not eager
to work for his living now.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

Christmas trees from New England
are to be quarantined. The next
thing we know they will be fumigat-
ing Santa Claus whiskers.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

When an artistic arrives at New
York from Europe. carrying 500 pairs
OF shoes you may rest assured that
she is either centipede or a dancer
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

They say that the new diamond
weighing 1,649 carats is little of
color, but, If so, we have seen neckties
that would match 1t.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

up of stockings, and about Santa
Claus and the likely width OF chin
neys, and the running power Oh
reindeer. And there is a tremendous
rustic of colored paper, and a great
run on almonds and rais1ns, ana
quite respectable citizens stand IN
front of shop windows gazing at
dolls and dolls gaze back at them,
SO that the citizens go back forty
years at rush, and the rush Is so
great sometimes that they get tears
in their eyes; for memory is quick
er than motor cars, and the road 1t
travels is often dark and broken.
So Columbine leaves the top OF
the we'll open all day and all night,
sleep with their windows open, so
that the sweetly laden air comes up
and gives them wonderful dreams.
1t does more than that. 1t waves
the branches OF the Christmas tree
that grows at the bottom of the
garden, near the sausage frames,
and very soon candles begin to bud
on its branches.
Now when the candles begin to
get ripe, which happens at the same
time that geese and turkeys hang
in rows in shops and grow rosettes
all over them, Harlequin takes an
old, oaken pipe from cupboard I'M
der the stairs, and they all sit round
while he puts it to his lips and
blows.
AS he plays, dreams come to them
Of their ancient days, for Harlequin
is first cousin to Mercury, and wears
black mask to hide the light of
his face when he visits Columbine,
who is Psyche, the Soul; the Clown
Is Momus, the Spirit of Laughter;
and Pantaloon is Charon, who has
that grim work of ferrying the souls
over the Styx.
There's an odd link of memories
and of things held all through the
centuries, but the most charming is
this: Columbine is f1ower-like per-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

A fire in a snuff factory put the
Chicago fire department out of COM
mission. A fire of that sort is moth
ing to be sneeZed at
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

Real babies are to be used in a
school Of mothercraft at Acton. Eng.
where girls will be taught the art of
infant management Poor little kids!
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

A bird said to be French owl was
captured by a policeman. France is
the last country in the world to think
of for producing anything owlish.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

A Philadelphia man has died, leav-
ing 100000, without any indication
of where he wants 1t to go. However,
the lawyers will get 1t, Just the same.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

A New York bigamist has been SEN
fenced to prison for five years, one
year for each wife. Why not make
him live one year with all five wives?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

And perhaps the worst thing the
recent campaign inflicted upon long
suffering country was the mongrel
verb "straw-voted."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

The new Zeppelin airships are
equipped with kitchens and the dis
posal of garbage from them is. of
course, a matter of the attraction of
gravitation.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

A western telegraph manager adver-
tises for girls with wheels" He
ought to find them by going to any
moving picture show.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

If they could only kill few more
bandits as they did that one at Delta,
Cal, it might discourage the business
of train robbing.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

as heat a substance?" asks the Lit
erary Digest; and any householder can
tell the magazine that heat is an ex-
pense.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

A New York woman of eighty is
starting to learn a trade. A person
is never too old to learn. even in New
York.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

The price OF steel hoops has been
advanced 81 |. ton, but not because
hoopskirts are coming in.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

A New York suffragette says: I'm
thirty-eight, and don't care whoop
for the men!" Probably it's mutual
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

Chicago has school for brides. but
no guarantee of position goes with
a scholarship.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

The next thing to become popular
is the auto milk cart. Then well
probably find gasoline in the bottles
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

Philadelphia is offering a bounty on
rats to get the fleas off them. A tick
ish proposition.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

China has no forests. There are no
woods for her unpopular politicians to
take to.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

A Minnesota health official says the
only place to kiss a woman is on her
photograph. Not on your tintype!
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

A man recently found $4,000 in an
old mattress he was going to burn up.
Probably some one left 1t to the hair
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-13

Naturally the baseball fans find in
the restored Venus of Milo a southpaw
with good curves.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-08-09
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS NAMED

The Chanute Window Glass com.
pany stockholders elected officers and
directors for the ensuing year and
make the announcement that the
plant will commence operating as
soon as the wage schedule is deter
mined and the Mechanics Glass
company, a leasing concern, close up
their affairs. The directors are as
follows:
A. ]. Coenen, Ft. Smith Ark J. j..
Coenen, Fredonia; T. S. Cunningham,
Pittsburg, Pa, D. NJ. Kennedy, Cha
mute and Frank Bostock, Chanute.
The officers selected from among the
board of directors are as follows:
T. S. Cunningham, Pres, D. NJ.
Kennedy, 1st Vice Pres; j. ]. Coenen,
I'd Vice Pres, A. J. Coenen, Treas,
Frank Bostock, secretary and general
The national wage CON-
mittee is in session at the present
time.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-08-09
, CITY BUDGET DAY

From Wednesdays Timesett.
The budgets for the coming year u
the heads Of the various department.
were due today and most of them had
been handed in. No action was taken
in connection with them except to
read them until all are in the hauds
Of the clerk. at'
The Mayors budget provides S4GcG
for the police department. Of which
Sl2ee is to be used for building jal
for female prisoners, 50 24O.3S for th,
cemetery and SO, 2Ol SO for the parI
fund, $500 of which is used for pf0
Yiding public band concerts and
81, $50 for interest on the bonds ano
making an allowance for a sinking
fnhd
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-08-09
DOGS GONE TO "AAPPY HUNTING GROUND

1t seems rather inhuman for people
to own dogs when they care so little
for them that they will not pay their
taxe+ aud in that way leave them to
the tender mercies of the dog catcher.
Mr. Reilly, sanitary officer, who
has charge of the untaxed and un-
muzzled dogs, says that some of the
dogs aye good ones and that it is a
shame that they have to be killed
He has killed or had killed, one
hundred and sixty dogs since t. e
first of April. OF these % were killed
last week.
1t seems rather peculiar that per-
son will have dog around that they
do not care enough about to pay the
taxes on. But it seems that this is
the case with about one hundred and
sixty people. Of course few may
have been killed for other reasons
than neglect of their owners.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-08-09
BIRTH AND DEATH STATISTICS FOR MAY

The Bulletin of tn. Kansas State
Board OF Health Of which s.
Crumbine NJ. d. is secretary ano
editor publishes the following sta
tistics for the month of April from
the data which they received from
registers throughout the state.
For Neosho county the numbe
of deaths was nineteen and tht
number of births sixty. For the
whole of Kansas one thousand three
hundred and twenty eight deaths
and two thousand seven hundred
and eighty two births. More
people died between the ages Of
seventy one and eighty than any
other age, there being 236 and
children less than one year old
ranked next with 2oS. Fewer died
between the ages of six and ten
than any other years, there being
only IL. Of last months deceased
SAL were married and only IS
divorced.