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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13
PREPARATION FOR RAINY DAY
Supply of Clean, Dry Sand VIII Pro-
vide Amusing Occupation for the
Little Ones.

The outdoor sand pile is time
honored institution, but out of doors
offers many other attractions, so we
improved on the idea.
A box was made, about nine inches
high, and in other dimensions just a
little smaller than the nursery bed. 1t
was fitted with casters, lined with a
pale green oilcloth, and box plait-
ing of green denim was put around the
outside with brass-headed tacks. Next
a barrelful of fine white sand was put
in-and the stormy day problem was
solved.
The little maid, less than a year
old, when the box was first introduced,
was perfectly safe, and she never
seemed to tire of its endless attrac-
tons. Nearly all her toys were kept
there; old playing cards would stand
up In the sand to form houses and
fences; trains of cars had much bust
ness to transact, and many hours
were spent just ladling the sand into a
big, thick bottle with an old tin spoon
and pouring it out again.
The little occupant was taught from
the first that no sand was to go on the
floor, and we never had the least trou-
bic even after the little sister came
to share the box a few years later. In
deed, it proved the cheapest, safest
and best device that ever was invent
ed for keeping the little ones happily
entertained.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13
Give the Children a Chance.

Give these bright-eyed little folks a
chance. The saving of the boys and
girls is more important than the cleo
ton of president.
It is more important to save them
than it is to acquire territory. 1t is
better to keep the smile on their lips
and the twinkle in their eyes than it
is to storm and worry over the tariff.
The salvation of the soul of boy
or girl is more important than the
success of any political party. 1t is
better to keep the sunshine in their
hearts, and it is better to keep the
sunshine in the hearts of the mothers,
than to win political victory.-Ex
Gov. j. Frank Hanly.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13
DECREASE IN BEER DRINKING
Fiscal Year Shows Million Barrels
Less Of Malt Liquid Consumed in
This Country.

The statement has been made by
the Liquor Dealers association that
there has been an increase in the con-
sumption Of whisky in the United
States. The internal revenue report
does sustain this claim. There has
been an increase in the manufacture
of distilled spirits, but much larger
proportion than ever before of dis
titled spirits is going into different
lines of manufacture, and into trade
other than for use as beverage.
Concerning malt liquors, the pre-
liminary report OF the United States
internal revenue commission shows a
decrease of over 100000 barrels of
beer consumed in this country durins
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1912.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

all ready to be lighted. They so ready that
when Pantaloon looks out of his window before
making up his face for the day he sees that
the candles have burst into dame-1owers in the
night.
Then Columbine takes out pipe, and she puts
some magic soap into nectar and stirs 1t round
with the bowl of the pipe until frothy suds ap-
pear. And then she blows bubbles that float up
and out OF the window until they reach the
Christmas tree, when they turn into great, gilt
tering glass balls, all sorts of colors, and show
pictures of the world all colored and shining.
The children in the World look up and think
they see Harlequin and Columbine floating down
as gently feathers, but they don't say so be-
cause their elders would only tell them 1t was
the clouds. But 1t is Harlequin and Coumbine,
and Pantaoon end Clown follow after,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13
Chained His Order.

A father took his little boy to the
city one day. When noon came he
and the boy went to restaurant
where the father often had lunch, The
waiter on receiving the order and
knowing it was the fathers custom to
have a bottle Of liquor with the lunch.
asked the boy what he would take to
drink. The boy replied: I'll take
what father takes" Quite naturally
the father realized the seriousness OF
the situation and had a glass Of water
at his plate instead of the customary
hottie.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13
MUCH DANGER TO FISHERMEN
Many Lives Lost at Sea Because Cap
tain OF the Vessel Has Taken Too
Much Alcohol.

Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, who has
done such efficient work among the
fishermen of the coast of Labrador
says:
why don't / want to see liquor
used at sea? Because when go down
for watch below l want to feel that
the man at the wheel sees only one
light when there is only one light to
see; that when the safety of the ship
and all 1t carries depends on the cool
head, the instant resolve and the
steady hand of the helmsman, there
Is not standing there in place of the
man, the poor debased creature that
all the world has seen alcohol create
even out of such gifted men as
Burns and Coleridge, and hosts Of
others.
Il have seen ships lost through col
lision because the captain had been
taking little alcohol / have had to
tell woman that she was a widow.
and that her children were fatherless,
because her husband, gentle and low
ing, clean living, had been tempted to
take drop of alcohol at sea. and had
fallen over the side drunk, and had
gone into drunkard's eternity.
have had to clothe children and feed
them when reduced to starvation, be-
cause alcohol had robbed them of a
natural protector and of all the nee
essities of life."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13
Eaded Erncks-

Some one may have a pink cotton
or linen dress in goosS condition. but
badly faded. If so. PUT piece of Tur-
key red cheesecloth in water and boil
until the color is the desired one Tho
dress will dry bit lighter than when
wet and will leave an even color all
over, says the Modern Priscilla. One
eighth of yard of cheesecloth Isl
more than enough for dress. Navy
blue cheesecIoth may be used in the
same manner to freshen the color of
a light blue dress. 1t is best to try q
sample OF material In the dye to get
the right shade before putting in the
whole dress.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

but a hole in It in the morning.
And when it 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, open!
he cries to the Spirit of Christmas Let the
rich uncle reward his needy nephew, and the
unforgiving father his repentant son. Mothers,
forget to be jealous of your elder daughters
growing beauty. Children, forget your spite and
naughtiness Let's be old-fashioned. Let's be-
lieve in ghosts. I'll tell you ghoststories stories
Of yourselves when you were children and played
Pirates on the stairs.
And Clown says as he taps on the doors with
his red-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 food OF memories
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

stirring up old memories in dull people, so that
uncles must remember all their nephews in re-
membering when they were nephews themselves,
and had a peculiar hunger at Christmas.
Columbine 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 a 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 at children when they are
asleep
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13
IRI|R(|ES5RNAS

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 Column | n @
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
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

and no friends and no hope. and l will be the
warm, nesting thing you covet for your frozen
hearts, and you shall feel my soft cheek against
yours till the tears and your heart takes
life again. You shall give joy to other peoples
children. And il you have no friends who have
children are there not thousand, thousand chill
dren who have no friends? Go to them and give
them all you can, and you will be rewarded al
most more than you bear, for there is link
between those who suffer. Are there not some
you have forgotten or neglected? This lonely
man, that lonely woman whom you have left un-
cared for, perhaps for years. Put on your hat
and your coat, and put your heart your sleeve
SO that all may know your errand."
To see her pleading before black sombre houses
where a thin light shines under a blind to see
her face pressed against the window of some big
mansion where man or woman sits alone with
hearts like stone; to see her tears she essays
to melt aching heart is to see something SO
touching and beautiful that one almost wonders
the doors and windows are 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 no jam for tea was a
tragedy. And when your mothers knee was the
throne or Justice and mercy, for you buried your
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13
Worst EviI.

1t is said that on one occasion an
evil genius. meeting high-minded
prince. gave him the choice of three
things. one of which he must do
curse his maker. murder his father. or
get drunk His mind revolted in hor-
ror from the first two; SO he chose
the third as the least of the three
sins. But while. drunk he committed
both the others.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13


again to twiddle between his teeth.
If you know the way, and the Cheshire cat Will
let you, you walk down the garden path, past the
butterfly lime and arrive at the neatest little
cottage in Olympus.
Now this is the dwelling place OF the Harle
Quin set-Harlequin, Columbine, Clown and Pam
taloon 1t is one cottage in q little colony on
the lower slopes of Mount Olympus (where the
high gods dwell: Jupiter and the like), and Is
most important because it contains the Oldest
Inhabitants.
The Clerk of the Weather lives a little higher
up. The Four Queens and Kings live in square
of pagoda-like houses, and waited upon by the
Knaves Pierrot and Pierrette live in romantic
seclusion by pool in tumbe-down place COW
cred with blue roses. And away behind the
fields of stars where the focks of clouds grace
there is another village where the Seven Prin-
cesses live and the Third Son and an Ogre, and
q Talking Rabbit and all those peculiar and
beautiful people who are entangled in our minds
with the memories of night nurseries, and the
scent of our mothers who bent over us In won
derful tcilettes and told to go to sleep, or
they'd be late for dinner
When it gets to be about Christmas there is
sort of aroma of excitement on the lower slopes
OF Olympus and especially in the house Wnere
Harlequin lives-a delicious sense OF something
exciting happening.
Columbine opens the lid Of the well that looks
down onto the world, and there comes up muir
edur of childrens voices and you can near the
c11aintest things being said about the hanging
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 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 it puts the gen.
uineness Of everybody to an
unerring test.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

it that pl n did thing
Mother Goose" or that en-
trancing production "The
Yellow Dwarf?
Such things are conjured
up by just that one pipe of
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, an6 the candles on
the Christmas tree are
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

son, and there Is a flower called Columbine and
1t 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
even il the burden of history Is borne on the
back of flower. And the godlke glow and gilt
ter of Mercury's limbs still shows in the gsten-
Ing sequns on Harlequin's clothes, parti-colored
as they have always been, to show how he COW
cred his nakedness with rags
All this, beautified 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 another
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 all the great Italian
Harlequins, and the dainty French Coumbines,
and the old dandes of ifteenth-century Venice
whose clothes Pantaloon wears.
Do you know that elderly gentlemen in the
World smell that magic tobacco, or something
like it, and they forget their paunches, or their
bald heads, and they sit and dream of the time
they went to their first pantomime? Was 1t
Cinderella" Beauty and the Beast? Or was
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

There are Pagan Saints who find Arcadia every
where. Pan pipes as much in the crowded city
as Mount Ida when the Is high. And
CoumBene 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 half-gods of mine (and yours) come
down at Christmas to correct the bilious attitude
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

G. h r | 8 t mas
them.
work begins,
own job and
hers. Clown
the laughter
spring up In
and ripple as
barley field
Harlequin to
for common
appear beau
and a penny
wealth OF the
Pantaloon to
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

of the rest
They C o m e
8 e G 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
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

bringing the
ire w t b
N ow their
each to his
Columbine to
to preparing
that m Il . t
this season,
easily as a
in a breeze.
his N a g c,
things must
tiful no w,
must buy the
Indies. And
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

head there with herr 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-fiushed with prim-
roses; they were holding hands and
looking at the hills beyond just as
IL 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 stoppeG breathing, and some
out a cup of stiffness. And she
called 1t Liquid Velvet. A Liquid
Velvet moment. And / understood.
It is Columbine who watches that
beautiful comedy of the newly mar
ried who steal about their house
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 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 l 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
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

Of the year.
to SOW those
grow to flow
still innocent
are the infu-
makes y 0 u
fifty c e n t s
quarter. And
w b o s a y s
mess of life
than the SEN
better hang
ing on Christ
see what it
find nothing
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

A three-piece screen covered with
cretonne containing pockets for every.
thing needed in the sewing room is a
convenience. These pockets are all
one one side. SO that when the screen
is reversed 1t Is an ornament to tho
room. and no one suspects the minias
ture sewing room that it contains.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

~ N the left, just past
III ii the we a b er 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 NAV Gull one now and
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

makes business: hence the SnopS luli Vi BILLS
Imagine poet writing:
Gent per cent the moon is rising.
Watch the stocks upon the bank;
Rubber shares are too surprising,
SPECTATORS are surmising
Who the deuce they have to thank!'
No one can get a 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: ut is a
cobweb moth, and the branch OF tree, and
the starlight makes them look like-like some
thing / remember"
But tell you who they are-Harlequin Colum
bine Clown and Pantaloon. And IL you hear a
child's laugh ring out suddenly, and 1t brings Q
new, quick emotion one of them has conquered
you'll
The spirit of Christmas doesn't cling to presents
in proportion to their cost-unless you are very
rich and If you are very rich the voice OF the
ieweler and of the furrier and OF the motor car
maker will seem to you wise as the word OF a
happy poor man, though he were philosopher
Simple and genuine and glad-strike these notes
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

e. of stockings, and about Santa
s<Saus and the likely width of chin
1eys, and the running power or
reindeer. And there is tremendous
rustic of colored paper, and great
run on almonds and raisins, and
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 a 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,
and all the people in her cottage
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
a black mask to hide the light of
his face when he visits Columbine,
who, is Psyche, the Soul; the Clown
is Menus, 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 fiower-like per-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-13

This pretty waist can be made Of
satin or wool. 1t fastens diagonally in
front, where it is ornamented with
buttons and finished with little frill
of lace. It has a rolling collar faced
with dark or black velvet.
The sleeves are entirely new; the
cuffs are cut in one piece with the in
sides of the sleeves and ornamented
with buttons, the outsides are slightly
fs.il and Dlaited intq the cuffs.
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