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The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-10

when she put the teapot down i saw
her slip from out her gown and drop
into the teapot quick some sort OF
dope with movement slick.
'Twould take much more than this,
think, to drive old Santa Claus\ to
drink; that is to say, to rum, per-
haps, though sometimes he may like
his schnapps. Full many cup Of tea
he auaffed. The more he drank the
more he laughed. Uncanny was his
jollity, and I at first thought I should
flee.
He seized his pack, and full Of JOY
piled me upon it like a toy, and rush
ing forth into the night began his
world embracing fight. He used
sleigh, as we all know, but needed
neither ice or snow We sailed away
Ger mount and plain, through many
weathers, snow and rain-through
wind and sleet and zero although
all the time it seemed quite fair.
A dozen reindeer ran ahead. Their
bells were soundless as they fed, and
all the gtastly Journey seemed quite
fitting In the dream dreamed A
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-10

continent would loom and melt into
and yet between a million Christmas
homes were seen and gifts uncounted
were bestowed from Santa's rich and
boundless load.
Though l upon the top reposed I
was in no way discomposed, for magic
wonders multiplied that night upon our
snowy ride The greater wonders.
though, to me might have been traced
to Santa's tea, sophisticated by his
cook, and of which he so much par
took; for at the homes of wealth,
where boys and girls had much
he left few toys, while poorer
childref's wishes found complete full
fil1ment on his round; and to strange
humors he gave vent as here and
there we quickly went.
Some men by others well esteemed
got prison wear the while they
dreamed; and others, poor and fur
nished ill, of good things must have
found their fill; and many men of
lean estate awoke to find their riches
great, each one admonished that his
door should always open to the poor.
Fantastic tricks; too, Santa played
on men and women, boy and maid. In
one old spinster's stocking thin saw
him slip manikin; in one old bach's
dingy place woman's form of won
drous grace. Twas wax, of course;
but twas hint that ought to stir q
heart of flint. A man with millions
strangely made Old Santa left hoe
and spade; to one knew ill-hap had
struck he left parcel labeled
Luck" to pals of mine that For
tune bars he gave next seasons mo-
tor cars. This got my goat, and to
see just what he purposed giving me
quite foolishly the silence broke, and
empty-handed I awoke!-Judge.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-10

SS queer hesitate to tell them
hene
Old Santa had just filed his pack
and made it ready for his back. It
holds million things or more from
Santa's rare and endless store, and
like some basket magical, though tax
en- from it's always full.
Though I saw Santa plainly, he
seemed not at all to notice me. He
sat in silence with a map spread out
upon his ample lap to mark his course
Ger land and sea while waiting for
his evening tea.
His cookie has no wife, you know
came in and said she meant to. go.
She said her job did not quite suit and
he must find substitute. Cooks
everywhere just grump and CAD. and
with most folks they get in bad.
Well, Santa's smile quick left his
face and he ripped up dress of lace
perhaps intended for this cook, who
gave him then wrathful look; and
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-10

If you will go to the crossroads be-
tween eleven and twelve on Christmas
night you will hear what most con-
Germs you in the coming year.
IF on Christmas eve you make lit.
tie heap of salt on the table, and it
melts over night, you will die the
next year; if, in the morning, it re
mains undiminished, you Will live.
If a shirt be spun, woven and
sewed by a pure, chaste maiden on
Christmas day it will be proof against
lead or steel. -.
If you are born at sermon time on
Christmas morning you can see spir-
its.
If you burn elder on Christmas eve
you will have revealed to you all the
witches and the sorcerers Of the
neighborhood
If you eat raw egg on Christmas
morning, fasting, you can carry heavy
weights.
II is unfortunate to carry anything
forth from the house on Christmas
morning until something has been
brought into it.
If the fire burns brightly on Christ
mas morning it betokens prosperity;
if it smolders, adversely,
A Husky Fowl.
Willie came in from the shed where
Uncle Rufus was picking Christmas
chicken for his small city nephew's
dinner.
Aunt Sue!" he cried as he entered,
what do you think? Uncle Rufus is
out in the shed husking hen"
Bessie's Plea.
"Say, mamma, please don't make
any fire in my bedroom grate,"' begged
little Bessie.
Why, you'll freeze"
II don't mind being cold, Just so
long as Santa will be able to get
down the chimney all right"
-
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-10
CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS

If you will go to the crossroads be-
tween eleven and twelve on Christmas
night you will hear what most con-
Germs you in the coming year.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-10

The skipper of this freighted craft
Was quite careless sort.
The cargo he did not espy,
Till he hove into port.
And then upon the portside bow,
In raPtures he did, kneel.
For Santa Claus is no mere dream,
And Christmas toys are REALl
GENE MORGAN.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-10

IF on Christmas eve you make lit
tie heap of salt on the table, and it
melts over night, you will die the
next year; if, in the morning, it re-
mains undiminished, you will live.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-10
CHRISTMAS DREAM
By J. A. WALDRON.

DREAMED a dream on
Christmas eve that no one,
surely, will believe. All will
discredit it because in it I
was with Santa Claus and
witnessed many things SO
queer I hesitate to tell them
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-10

If the fire burns brightly on Christ
mas morning it betokens prosperity;
if it ,smolders, adversely;
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-10

If a shirt be spun, woven and
sewed by a pure, chaste maiden on
Christmas day it will be proof against
lead or steel. -.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-15
One Lonu Record Of Wars,

The first accounts we have Of man
kind are but so many accounts of their
butcheries. All empires have been &C.
mented in blood; and. in those early
periods, when the race of mankind be-
gan first to form themselves into
parties and combinations. the first Of.
feet of the combination, and indeed
the end for which 1t seems purposely
formed, and best calculated, was their
mutual destruction. One thing, how.
ever. is clear-there were conquerors
and conquests in those days; and,
consequently, all that devastation by
which they are formed, and all that
oppression by which they are main.
tained-Burke
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-15

rushed through the hall and were
caught in their fathers arms.
Daddy! Daddy" they cried in de-
light
"You's doin' to stay, daddy" cried
one curly-head, "'cause mamma said
you was when you came back"
Does mamma want me to stay, do
you think. Mildred?"
''Oh, yes, daddy. heard mamma
ask bed to send you home to her"
An instant later daddy was holding
half-faint but happy woman in his
arms.
Duffy was crushed; the business
manager was wild; the entire town
of Madison was in Mysteries. Wilson.
the business manager, had caught the
edition, but only after some five thou
sand papers had reached the streets.
Nobody but a - - - fool
would have made such a BULL" he
stormed. 'Lindeman, a well-known
broker; wife lives in a palace; foot.
man, coachman,7 automobiles, and all
that sort of thing.
"Why, it'll cost US $4,000 even to
compromise 1t. Didn't anybody in this
id office recognize the name? By
Cad, I'll cripple the staff. I'll dis
charge every man"
The telephone bell stopped him.
Wilson was standing near by, and ne
jerlsed the receiver of the hook.
"Eh? Mr.. Lindeman? What's that
Oh, yes. I'll send him over right away
Mr.. Lindeman, this is Wilson, bust
ness manager. I'm going to see YOU
How? Never mind? assure you
Mr. All right, SIR"
Duffy, get hold of that young Nor
flee at once. Tell him to explain tn,
whole business. We've got to throw
ourselves on his mercy.
"Give the story a two-column dis
play-same place as the other-firs
edition. Gad what lot of fat-heads,
and Wilson withered the staff with hi
glance as he strobe toward the ele
vator.
An hour later, Morrison entered tn
Office, smiling.
TITS all right. Mr.. Duffy. Mr.. Liz
deman says for you people to res
easy. He won't sue. He's satisfied t
let the matter drop.
"Oh, by the way. Mr.. Duffy. Nv
, got to quit you. Sorry, too, but Nj
Lindeman has offered me a job"
Just then the elevator stopped 9
the Office floor Morrison took 1t.
5 On that cub!" murmured Duffy
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-15
O III STAFF
4. ELLis HENEsEReER.

SON was about Is likely a cub
drifted Into the office of the
World With lofty ideas of
urnallstic protession" and a
solvs souAo ~ to set the ma
anne. Il + uae that he was a
ken aback when. after a month
,ation, ~ No placed on the
HIST q tn dollars a week,
had red oonnewhere that Dana
% Z eity editor at little more.
took ooos96o.
", tho Nanaeing editor, told
waa = ~ Congratulated on
any eallay q all in so short
y. a ~ Nev York -" he
,rrison so61JGge students serve
ntha witAo1t Day. and are glad
opDoelunlay. Anyway. you
|. can0Af - world style. Watch
! artic1oo "a you'll get a line
at NJ voll
a W. ~ ~ Of the staff, and
On alWayp reearded him envi-
- Ne caxAe - from an assign
ind tor "A rsams of stuff that
(1ctioo1lx rallroaded to the com.
-room VIII scarce a touch Of the
3 pe0ela. enead put no dis
on - ON work.
% Wna but one man in the
editorial rooms who did not
Du6y.6 opinion of his pupil
cad himself had been a cub un-
ufIy. That was Billings, who
I'd the telegraph.
!, IN IN ! good humor he had been
% ehnckle over some Of it.
her times 10 might have been
\ to NUTS. "Glush."
|us : bloak day in January. A
1now haA fhllen, blockading the
|neo nnd putting business to the
|tIl ovoe town. Snead tramped
|he ~ WIN the police reports.
| ~ thfSM n . heap on Duffy's
for inGpection, and settled him.
% MD ~ article on East Side
Nv y the reports through.
Int ~ various assignments
o ~ xkis completed, the re-
Il $3.50 Inward to receive in
|licr ~ day.
10, + 1cn. !" ~ said, "look up
DIST 6aDo. Take It down:
|E6ltN & flndeman, 1928 Calvert
(; tNN VM1ldfen; without food
|dayG 1fSsS an order on the
|er. MI food and wood II
|eed1 ~ ~ write a half column,
|rrlu = tollled forth that morning.
d VI 10 ONCE currency, and
he III ~ through the snowdrifts
IA ~ MT side. It was a pc
|r4ty q AZ town that one might
wealth M sQualor side by side
h whek No known as the lex
Ne eoctIoa,s But 1t must be con
"a that Ncef1Don was somewha,
|lusod Mhdn ~ read the number
On tie door 81 a veritable man
Fere's The 6etil to pay" thought
reporter - ~ consulted his notes
b. But thGfS were the figure.
|ng him n ~ face.
maid. neatIy attired in cap ant
b., answered his ring. Yes, Mrs
|eman lived here, and what wal
business, ploase. He felt like {
|as he blurted It out.
mistahs, 4 course" he finished
. laugh.
lutte = naeulAl one. though" salt
hiet voice behind the maid. 4
|an. evI1eptiy the mistress, CAM
ard NJ was a strikingly hand
3 young woman, but her eyes wer'
nd
larie,~ A. continued. this gen
I'm - 6egbt is looking for tina
IN 1am11y = the rear. I had n
they Wueo a such straits. It 4
rear & HI you want. The mai
dow yu1
49, ~ Hozie. Morrison entere
|nsyWnV Wh1eh emerged on anott
unnlne - behind the Lindemal
- AecGo1lng a flight Of ricket
3 ~ 1gooGnG up at the door Of
nd tsnenhenk
b hQzk NJ . groceryman and
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-15
Quail 10 Farmers Friend.

The quail, between his CHEEKY calls
Of Bob White" Is busy consuming
1876 varieties of insects. He will eat
on an average $4,000 insects and
5000, 100000 weed seeds a year. He
is the natural enemy of the boll-weevil
and the potato-bug and the best friend
OF man, who is trying to destroy him
in nearly every state. II we do not
protect the quail, 1t will not be long
until his cheerful whistle will be
heard no more. and in its place we
will have the unwelcome buzz of de-
structive insects as they settle on the
farmers crop to devour It
strengthening Shoes.
Soak the soles of shoes over night
in linseed oil before wearing and they
will last az long as the uppers. Par
ticularly is this recommended for chill
dren's school shoes.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-15
Strengthen ming Shoes.

Vests With Smart Coats.
Vests are worn with the smartest
styles of coats and they generally
fasten close to the neck.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
The First Fruits of Henry
FOrd'S Plan

appears that of the tangible results of the Henry
Ford profit sharing plan has been decided boom the
rage market Detroit Seventy five of his employees have been
married since the of the plan The marriage
license clerk who appears be bit of philosopher
havet a rood m q o
their They all tked their fortune Most
them believe have been engaged for while
them a finding hard
task But with living them long they
behave themselves and Industrious they feel that they
wife
This precisely the result that Mr. Ford hoped would fol
low the of his plan He believed the
of pay and permanence employment would
age take up the responsibilities of family life well
encourage those who already had these responsibilities In
versaon he emphasized the fact that the family rather
than the individual he planned aid Because working
rule had families support he omitted from his
plan but response direct question said that he found
in his employ supporting dependent relatives she
would be granted the advantages Furthermore
drawing his share of the profits should be found neg
lectng his family obligations his bonus if his employment
would cease
But is curious fact that majority of the public
his plan have been unfavorabe hyperoritca
pressing doubt of its Even the letters printed the
newspapers have been written by people
to conure up why benefacon would
futile harmful than hail evidence
horre purpose to do a glorously good deed
Has the hard struggle modern deadened
appreciation of benevoence minds? the new
mental attitude Of the people that great and good shall
be greeted with and the prophecy that only evil will
from it?
That 70 have been the spirit great section
Of the press received the Ford think how
ever that Detroit marriage license clerk has given better
l opinion
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
Keep YOUR Boy Off the Streets
at Night! Don't Let Him
Run With Tom, Dick
and Harry.
and Harry.

The recent shooting of two boy burglars Atlanta and the
solemn statement of two prominent attorneys that there
city compact organized boy criminals
should parents stop and think
shooting the boy burglars a melancholy fact
the of the bands of boy criminals another fact
least in large
Of course it never is to be YOUR BOY gentle reader who
by and BY will aprehended by burglar
a criminal.
1t OWN loved that go wrong!
And yet-EVERY BOY CRIMINAL, BE HE BURGLAR OR
SOMETHING ELSE NECESSARILY rs SOMEBODY s BOY!
Undoubtedly there many boys who the streets of
Atlanta night ought be at somewhere where
the surroundings wholesome and worthy,
An idle brain is the devil workshop and loafng and
vicious disposition easily formed in boy properly
looked after
The first step in crime generally is taken unawares Boys
often wrong not much through deliberate intent because
sinister though often subtle and persuasive influences
Not nfrequenty indeed boys led to think they doing
the MANLY thing really when they of fact
taking their first downward step
How many boys knew the taste of liquor for instance
until in crowd sometime somewhere perhaps along
night they invited to take drink and upon demung
sneered and jered at by their advanced
panions 'sissies" and tmollycoddles?
1t is not natural for boy to DESIRE to be either sissy
molycodde the first drink goes down that the
gbed youngsters chest may and the EARRING laughter of
his companions may be given pause!
Boy burglars and boy criminals always SOMEBODY'S
BOYS remember that
Somebody the mother of every murderer hanged
time beganand every mother involved believed it impossible
that HER BOY could end unworthy, dgraceul
and so infinitely pathetic!
of Aanta-keep your boys nights
Do not let them with Tom Dick and Harry, here and
ihers all sorts of hours and in all seasons
Don make dollhouse plants of them-don keep them tied
to their mothers apron strings Certainly mott But keep
wachfu eye upon them nevertheless particularly
dark
For when boys go wrong the first time nearly all
they go through IGNORANCE AND INEXPERIENCE.
II will not do to let your watch your boy grow
lax!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02

the choice of life partner, and
will ii not destroy sentimentality
and old time love. 1t is to be
hoped that instruction in eugenics
will destroy that sentimentalism
which leads a woman deliberately
to marry a man who is absolute
ly unworthy of her. and that
maudlin so-called love which is
blind to imperfections that are so
glaring they might be seen
through opaque lenses.
What education in eugenics
will accomplish is to ESTAB-
LISH PSYCHIC INHIBITION at
the threshold of love, so that. on
meeting young person of the OPP
posite sex, however attractive
and agreeable, the one in ques-
ton will not at once go out in
blind love at-tirst- sight that was
so common in the days of our
fathers, but will experience a
psychic inhibition"
In other words, there will be
an instructive holding back on
the threshold of love to ask if
all within and beyond is favor
able. Is the admired one in good
health and does he Cor she) pos
sess the qualities of ideal man
hood Tor womanhood) and has
he cor she) a parentage free from
hereditary taints? These cues
tons answered affirmatively. the
questioner steps boldly across the
threshold and enters into an I'M
reserved love.
Important as is legal control Of
marriage licensure. that control
can hardly accomplish more than
TO FORBID MARRIAGE TO
THE GROSSLY UNFIT. But.
stopping the breeding of the unfit
can never lift the race: at best
1T CAN ONLY ARREST RACE
DECADENCE.
Race betterment can only be
accomplished through EDUCA-
TON While this eliminates in
course Of instruction in eu-
ccnics. the foundation of this
education must be laid IN CHILD
HOOD AND EARLY YOUTH.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
How Eugenics VIII Cure Blindness"

@ TATE laws guarding the Ii
censure to marriage may
help some iIr.eugenics, but,
at most little can be accom-
piished through State interven-
ton. The most that may be
hoped for in race hetterment
through eugenics must be accom-
plished through education. This
cSucation should begin in the
later teens, in the ease of both
the young women ana the young
men, and like the other lessons
in life should emphasize, first of
all and most strongly the posi-
tive side though not emitting
the negative side
That young woman who has
come to the estate of ripe young
womanhood at u 70 %, having
learned all the vital lessons from
the lips of a loving. sympathetic.
clear visioned mother, having in
many a heart TO heart talk with
mother received full and adequate
answers TO the hundred and one
questions that crowd into the
girls mind, is in a mental atti-
tude toward mother easily 10 be
led and guided as to her choice
" a future life partner.
We may also assume that such
a young woman sees in her father
and her brothers men who help
her 10 acquire a high ideal of
manhood Mother and daughter
VIII discuss the elements of ideal.
perfect manhood-perfect physi-
cally and morally
\ girl who has acquired such
high ideal can be trusted not to
IAN in love with and marry a man
who falls far short of this ideal.
or course we must recognize
that Love is blind" which is
simply another way OF saying
chat Nouug woman may he led
Co ignore many a shurtcommg In
Nae maL.who showers attentions
upon her aud protests undNiue
love and NoluhN promises to rc-
form
Tine DAYS however ot tbr 100
advised mathis ii perfect NO
man with a grossly imperfect
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02
Bv EBERT HUBBARD

lowed up in this. And If the indI-
vidual is of too stern a fiber to
be completely crushed into the
dust, time will come bearing
healing and the memory of that
once ideal condition will chant in
the heart of a perpetual eucha-
rist.
And | am glad the world has
passed forever from the night
mare of pity for the dead; they
have ceased from their labors and
are at rest. But for the living.
when death has entered and re
moved the best friend, Fate has
done rer worst; the plummet has
sounded. the depths OF grief, and
thereafter nothing can inspire
terror.
At one stroke all petty annoy
ances and corroGing cares sink TO
nothingness. The memory OF a
great love lives enshrined in un-
dying amber IT affords a ballast
'gainst all storms that blow, and
though it lends an unutterabla
sadness it imparts unspeakabls
peace.
Where there is this haunting
memory of great love lost,
there is always forgiveness, char
ity and a sympathy that makes
the man brother to all who suf-
fer and endure.
The individual himself is Moth
Ing; ne has nothing TO hope for
nothing to lose, nothing to win
And this constant memory of the q.
high and exalted friendship that
was once his Is nourishina
source of strength; it constantly
purifies the mind and inspires tho
heart 10 nobler living and diviner
thinking.
The man is in communication
with elemental conditions.
To have known an ideal friend
ship, and had it fade from your
grasp and flee as a shadow be-
fore it is touched with the sordid
breath of selfishness, or sullied
by misunderstanding, is the high
est good.
And the constant dwelling In
sweet, sad recollection on the ex-
allied virtues OF the one that has
gone tends TO crystalline these
very virtues in the heart of him
who meditates them.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02

but they can be reduced to four
typical colors, red, yellow, green
and blue, since the others merge
INTO them by, to the unaided eye,
insensible graduation.
These can be combined by pairs
to appear as white, since all four
make white. Green and red can
be compounded in proportions TO
show as white; so can yellow
and blue; red and greenish- blue;
orange and cyan blue; greenish-
yellow and violet And also
green and purple, but purple is
compound of itself.
Other writer's have arranged
the solar spectrum into 3 pr-
mary. Z primary, and as high as
Fl fundamental colors. But tho
fact is that beyond doubt the
number of colors-that is, diff
ferent rates and lengths of waves
of energy-run into thousands
and may be millions.
The Standard dictionary gives
a list of 400 shades and tints
the few that have been named.
Thus there are hundreds OF vari-
ations in lengths of waveA of red,
of green, of yellow and go on,
that can be separated and meas
ured by the spectroscope. that
powerful and refined instrument
of cosmic research, and then be
so nearly alike in tint that the
eye can not detect the differ
ence.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-02

transmitted from parent to child,
and that there are other such
impairments that positively will
be thus transmitted.
Among such impairments must
be noted INSANITY, FEEBLE
MINDEDNESS, DEGENERACY,
CRlMINALITY, especially when
such serious impairments are
noted to occur in successive gem
erations-several individuals in
each generation. Even though
the individual in question may
seem to be quite normal, if he
has two or three impaired broth
ers and if one of his parents. and
perhaps one or two of their broth
ers or sisters, and grandparents,
with great uncles and aunts, have
the same impairment then the
individual would make a danger
Gus life partner
Some ask how this information
VIII influence a young person in