The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-26
Atmosphere of Peace Per-
vades Turnout City As
Yuletide is Ushered In.
HOMECOMING OF
ClTY'S ABSENT ONES
Christmas Services At The
Various Churches Will
Help GLADDEN. the Day.

Christmas is here. All hail the
big day Of the year! Away with
"loathed melancholy"-an be joy
ous Tonight Santa will come to ev-
cry little boy and girl in Paris we
hope. Tonight there will be Christ
mas trees at the Presbyterian, Bap-
fist and Methodist churches. The
Christian church will also observe
its usual White Christmas tonight,
which consists in each one contribu-
ting a gift, wrapped in white for
someone who does not expect much
at Christmas. At all of the churches,
the smaller tots, will take part in
Christmas exercises, singing songs of
the star of Bethlehem and telling a
bout good Santa and the wonderful
Christ Child in little rhymes that will
be universally pleasing to the grown
ups who are there to look and lis
ten.
Tonight trucks full of sweet voiced
singers will sing Christmas carols
in front of any home in the town,
that has lighted candle in the win
dow This joyful music will gladden.
the heart of anyone who has to stay
in this Christmas.
Tomorrow morning, most of the
stores will remain closed and there
will be sort o. Sunday feeling in
the air, until you meet someone who
gayly breaks the spell with hearty
shout of merry Christmas" until
yous neighbours little boy explodes a
torpedo beneath your foot, and
greets you with guileless smile, that
anything goes at Christmas.
Christmas day will mostly be spent
en- family. Those who can will have
a Christmas dinner, following per-
haps family tree. Many home cir
Giles are gladdened this year by the
presence of stalwart young sons who
have been away to college, or who
had not returned from France or
from camp on last Christmas.
There have never seemed to be 80
many people home for Christmas,
anyway before. The town is full of
home people, and there are in many
homes visitors for the holidays.
The young people in various sets
have planned parties at their homes
for Christmas night, but there will
be no large social affair on Christ
mas this year. Most everybody, not
too full of Christmas goodies to be
comfortable will go to the picture
show or will pay friendly visit to
some neighhor. There is an unu-
sually good bill at the Dixie for
Christmas afternoon and night.
But there is one thing that the
town has forgotten in it's Christmas
| planning and that is any unified and
F, thorough plan for. the needy Of the
town. The different churches have
! arranged charitable assistance in
their different ways and there will
assuredly be many individual acts
of charity on the part of the citizen.
ry of the town, but such charity is
bound to be not wholly efficient and
it is very much to be feared that
there are many people in the town
who will not only noc have any
Christmas, but who are actually in
need of food and clothes. It il
hoped that next year in our Christ
mas planning, someone will organize
a Wholesale charity movement thai
will benefit all deserving in the town
There is one thing that will be alb
sent this year and that is the Christ
mas egg nog Since the thirst Of
July, the essential of egg nog is too
scarce and too dear. It is said tina
even the "boet leg" at $40 a quar-
is practically unobtainable. w,
haven't heard whether the fruit cake
has survived or no.