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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-12-25
Absecon

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Irelan and daugh-
Ter, OF Philadelphia and Atlantic City,
We're guests last Wednesday of his pa
rents Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Irelan.
Nr; and Mrs: Andrew White and son
Christmas week with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zepheniah Hackett are
SS1pecllng their daughter and son-in-law,
MI 5ar ana Mrs. Warren Winder. of Phila-
delphia, down Friday to make them a
Christmas visit.
Mr.. and Mrs; Harry Mattson. Jr., lave
Deeh entertaining this week her father,
vi Charles Strickland, of Stone Harbor.
Ihey are looking for her brother, sister
ana brother-in-law, Albert Strickland and
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Conover, of
Brooklawn, here for over Christmas.
Mrs. Cora Conover and daughter, Miss
Le1ra Conover, of Camden, are planning
TO spend the holidays with the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Boice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Draper, Jr., will
entertain their daughter. Miss Florence
Draper, who has a government position
at Washington, during the holidays.
DR.. E. H. Madden, Miss Hannah and
Herman L. Madden will have as their
guests for Christmas the formers sister,
~ter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Hope Madden
of Tuckahoe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Smith, of oceanville.
nave gone to Miami, Florida, to spend
the winter. They have been stopping off
at numerous southern resorts While en-
route and last week were at st. Peters,
burg.
Mrs. Martha Clark returned home last
Thursday, from an extended sojourn with
her daughters, Mrs. H. F., Rankin and
Mrs. Mark Reeves, at Mortified.
MI. and Mrs. George d. Shovel, of
North Absecon, are expecting their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. Frank Miller, of Philadelphia, home
the last of this week to spend the Christ
mas holidays.
Luigi Cattani, New Jersey avenue bar
Der, suffered a stroke of paralysis at his
home last Tuesday evening. His right
speechless.
F. G. Turner is having a new single
roof put on his New Jersey avenue store
and dwelling. 10000 shingles were re-
quired.
Mrs. Thomas J.. Butler, of Arlington.
\. j., formerly Miss Emma Colwell, of
Keyport, has been visiting Mrs. J. R.
Reeves and family at the NJ. E. Parson-
age the past week.
gone to Asbury Park to spend the Christ
mas holidays with her mother, Mrs. b.
Dickhout.
Rev. R. A. Elwood returned home last
Monday from his lecture tour through the
Middle West. He will lave charge of
the morning, service in the Presbyterian
Church Sunday, Dec. 26.
William Wyand, Sr., returned home
Tuesday evening from an trip
to the Quaker City.
Miss Florence Babcock, who has a gov
eminent position at Washington, is spen-
ding her two weeks holiday vacation
with her mother, Mrs. Frank Babcock,
and sister. Miss ms Babcock, on
Shore Road.
m and Mrs. George B.. Conover will
spend the Christmas holidays with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Frymire,
in Philadelphia.
Closing on Thursday for the holiday
vacation, the Absecon school will remain
closed until Monday, Jan. 3rd.
Miss Olive Hammell, a teacher at West
vile, N. j., has arrived home. to spend
the holidays with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. p. Hammell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mclaughlin went
to Atlantic City to spend Wednesday
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-12-25

Mabel Brooks.
Kunkely, Maudie Beckley, Geo. Beckley,
Maize F'airbrothers, Raymond Bird and
Isabel Boice.
Observation-Disclosures Olsen.
Recitation-"His Natal Night" Louise
Draper.
Recitation-"My Dearest Christmas
Present" Maud Mccarthy.
Observation-Disclosures Modern Wise Men,
Robert Prescott.
Song-Primary Glass.
Recitation-Anna Mccarthy.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Star" Stella
Boice.
Exercise-"Comrades of the STAR" Miss
Madden's Class.
Recitation-Dorothy Irelan.
Recitation-'Ten Little Fairies" Maize
Fairbrothers.
Observation-Disclosures Blossoms" Miss
Prices Glass.
School Song.
Recitation-"Smiles and Songs of Glad
ness" Evelyn Olsen.
Recitation-"What May I Bring" Mabel
Olsen.
observation-disclosures Beckley.
Solo-Florence Hunter.
Observation-Disclosures" Edna Fairbroth-
ers.
Observation-Disclosures Signature" Ed
mund ADHESION.
Recitation-Kathryn Smith.
Recitation-Edith Freas.
Glass Song-Miss Prices Glass.
Recitation-Kathryn Miller.
School Song.
Address.
! DoXology.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-12-25
So, this is just what they did.
Charlie had the first bump.

Cndflle nad the nfSt pump.
When he picked up his package he
found that he had a round hole with
a square peg in it.
There was a bit of paper tied to the
peg, and on it was written:
Get into the right place."
Harry's bump brought down a
square hole with a round peg in it.
Its paper said:
Don't get into the wrong place."
Then Frank gave a bump that was
a regular butt, and he held up a
square hole with a square peg in it.
These words were with them:
"a place for everybody, and every
body in his place"
When Dick bumped, he go a round
hole and a round peg.
"What does this mean?" he shouted.
'The same thing" answered Frank.
Sure" said Chauncey.
Chauncey was the ~littlest. He was
so little that he used to take his doll
to bed with him and talk over with
it, before he went to sleep, the things
they had done that day. And he had
just learned that word "sure." He
was so proud of 1t that he used to
say it to his father instead of "yeth
sir" Chauncey would soon learn that
sure" was not as nice as ''yeth sir"
Then the girls said 1t was their
turn and they began to bump.
Ruth got an alphabet, so as to learn
not to say "hikjlmnop."
Sarah had "a headache in her
knee" so Mary bumped for her.
Down came a pair of rubbers and
Mary put them on INSIDE outwards,"
just to try them.
Then they all bumped the tree for
Chauncey. who wasn't big enough to
bump hard enough to make anything
fall.
Such a lot of things tumbled off.
There was a baseball glove-Ruth
tried it on and her hand looked like
a hassock a breastpin-Sarah pinned
it on her sleeve, where she could see
it" two doll dress patterns; a new
dolls hat-a small hat; a set of dish
es, a dolls high chair; and a tooth
pick.
Chauncey was like the old woman
who lived in the shoe. He didn't know
what to do with all his things; but
he was careful TO use the toothpick
every time he took a drink of milk.
There was still one package left.
1t was in the top of the tree.
One little girl, her name was Lucy,
had not had anything. So the chill
dren let her pull the top of the tree
down to get this package.
And there was the dearest doll that
ever came off of a Christmas tree.
II had blue eyes that would open and
shut and the cunn'ngest froek.
Lucy. now the dolls mother. thought
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-12-25
TAX ASSESSORS WILL SUBMIT
1921 DUPLICATES TO TAXPAYERS

Tax assessors give notice in the advertis-
ing columns of The Pleasantville Press to-
day, as required by Section 5o2 Of Chapter
236 of the Laws of 1918, that they will sit
as follows -
Port Republic. II. Collins and JOS.
H. Loveland. at Council Room. Friday,
Dec, 81, between ] and 4 p. m;
Absecon-Joseph s. Smith, Jr., and
Fred B.. Audrey, at Council Chambers.
Friday, Dec. 81. between 7.50 and $50
p. m.
when the assessment list for the year 1921
NAV be inspected by any taxpayer for the
purpose of enabling such taxpayer to ascer-
tain what assessments have been made ag-
ainst him or his property and to confer in
formally with the assessors as to the cor
~rectness of the assessments, to the end that
any errors may be corrected before the filing
of the assessment list and duplicate with
the County Board of Taxation.
If taxpayers will avail themselves of the
privileges thus provided in the law, a more
satisfactory understanding of their tax as
m may be had. and the trouble of
making appeals in many cases will be avoid
ed,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-12-25

NUr the most Spectacular Pa
geant and Unique Celebra-
NIE ton in the Country, and
enjoy a BIG DAY in Phil
adelphia.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-12-25

of meat that fall
from the cart
while the butcher
is getting the
meatZready.
This dog hasn't
any name He is
so selfish that he
isn't worth NAM
ing.
Once there was
a tree, and it had
a name. 1t was
a mulberry tree.
The man that
owned the tree
had dog, too.
His name a
Peter, and no lit
tie dog was ever
more fond of
meat than Peter
was of mulber-
ries.
He would hunt
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-12-25

1tA ~ 80 ~ hAtN JILL
Father would say to me, mo orderly
boy would leave his hat on the floor
like that. Barker wouldn't do it, if
he were a boy"
Then Barker would bark, once. .
Then my father would ask Barker
if he was a good dog, and Barker
would bark twice.
Some dogs have no names.
The little black and white dog
across the street is just a dog, but
he will come when you whistle.
There is a dog near here who knows
the butcher cart when he sees it COM
ing. He drives all the hens out of
the yard, so he can pick up the scraps
of meat that fall from the cart while
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-12-25

around ii the grass, under the null
berry tree. until be had found every
mulberry that had fallen down. Then
he would run against the tree and
bnmp down a lot more.
Some children heard about Peter
and the mulberry tree and it made
them think of something.
# made Them think of fixing up a
Christmas tree. with many little pack
ages upon it-like mulberries-and
then humping the things off for
Christmas gifts.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-12-25

that this was the very best gift of all.
Then, just as they were going to go
downstairs, there came a rap at the
door.
Come in" they shouted.
What do you suppose? 1t was Santa
Claus. He marched in with stockings
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-12-25

dren, they all went home laughing
and happy enough to wait a whole
year for a new crop of Christmas
cheer-just as the dog Peter, has to
wait until another season for a new
crop of m|ulberries.
20. 1920, Western Newspaper Union.)
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-12-25

for them that
were all bullying
and bursting with
good things.
What fun they
had with him and
with all the
things he had
brought.
They had such
a good time that
some of it spread
away around the
corner to a house
that Santa Claus
had not visited
yet.
So, everybody
had something.
This is what
God meant the
Christmas rec
for.
After their visit
to the Door chill.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-12-25
Peter and the
Mulberry Tree
By Christopher Grant Hazard

dogs have names.
There was Caspar, the
pup. He had a name, but
he was too young to know
it.
There was old dog Bar
ker.
My father used to make
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-31

just suppose that men had been
forced to work in a rigorous climate
for Is hours a day--and half starved
at that--and they had struck for
more food and less hours of labor,
and had been shot down without
compassion. What thrill OF horror
would have gone up from every part
Of the civilized world! How labor
would have met and resoluted and
condemned-and rightly-the hor-
rible massacre. The civilized world
would have been aghast and the
loud lunged labor agitator would
have had food for his many mouth
inEs for years to come.
This thing is horrible. The men
slain by the order of the soviet gov
eminent are martyrs of labor as
much as ever the victims OF Red
Sunday were martyrs of czarism.
VIII labor continue to be silent or
will it denounce this and all other
such crimes committed in the name
Of labor?
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-31
The Tables Turn.

At last the tables have turned and
the average boarder is not at all sur
prised, In fact. he has been looking
for something Of the sort for long
time. Animated by the examples
around him the festive prune has
gone Bolshevik and exploded, injur-
ing two persons,
Mrs. Samuel Giborden, of Newark,
N j., placed pot Of prunes on the
stove, thinking merely OF the gas
Economical joys to come and never
thinking of danger. How was she to
know that the revolt OF the prole-
tartan prune was on? Later gem
tleman passing the house heard an
explosion, saw a binding flash of
light and sent in an alarm. while ten
ants Of the apartment house fled in
terror. Firemen found the Gibordens
in corner badly scalded, the CELL
ing torn away and plaster lying In
every direction.
For years the lowly and luscious
prune has been the butt of ridicule.
Photographers have poked fun at It,
'colyumnists" when brain pans were
dry could always fall back on the
boarding house staff Of life, and every
aspersion cast upon 1t in prose and
verse met with the loud laughter of
the unthinking. A story, THE Sixth
Prune," even graced the far from
classic pages OF the Saturday Even
ing Post. Shakespeare assures us
that the worm will turu, SO is it any
wonder that at last the meek and
esculent prune determined that It was
time 10 assert its rights?
There Is riot and unrest every o.
where, SUPPOSE 1t should spread to
other portions of the boarding house
menu. There is terror in tho thought,
Suppose the chicken pot pie should
rise in Its wrath and with various
porcire grlnts declare that il is a
fowl crime for pork to he Classed as
poultry and demand recount! I'm
agination pales before the possibility
OF the dried apple, the festive bread
pudding and the near and yet So .
far" coffee going on a strike and act
ing UP" as our friend the prune has
done.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-31

No sane person underestimates the
value of appearances. Not being
mind readers or seers. we can not
know what secret talents. what hid
den graces of mind and character
our fellow creatures possess. All
that we can see is the outside, and
so We form our opinion Of others
on the front they put UP.
We take note of their dress, Of the
style In which they live, Of the COM
pany they frequent, and how much
money they spend. and we rate them
accordingly. Without direct evil
dence to the contrary, we assume
that the man who is we'll dressed and
prosperous looking is clever, and
more forceful, and of higher order
OF ability than the man who is shah
by and seedy and down at the heels
So true is the adage that nothing
succeeds like success that there is
wisdom in camouflaging 1t on many
occasions A young doctor for In
stance, who hires a good office In
o desirable location, who wears good
clothes and who appears to be
rushed to death with work undoubt-
edly has better chance of getting
patients than the young physician
whose office is mere hole in the
wall and who sits all day rubbing
his shiny elbows on his table, wait
ing for the patients that do not come
People are like sheep, they go in
else leads. and the more they think
you don't need their money ;ho more
anxious they are to give II to you,
HtIpknr kn -
the full significance OF the value OF
appearances than men have. That
is why they are dress mad. They
know that fine feathers make fine
birds. md that homely woman in
beautiful clothes makes more i'm
preston than a living picture does in
dowdy frock.
Also they know that n mans sue
cess depends largely upon the sort
of appearance his wife presents for
a mans wife is the show window in
which he makes q visible display OF
the degree OF prosperity he has
achieved. Hence. a clever woman
who wishes to help her husband Is
justified in having a house that is
Queen Anne in front and Mary Ann
in the back, and in economizing on
the family's stomach in order to put
the money on the family's back until
they make their title good to resi-
dence on Easy street,
There are. however two sides TO
this matter OF keeping up appear
ances. and while it is without doubt
highly desirable for poor and ambi-
tious people to look prosperous, moth
ing is more disastrous to their pros
poets than to overdo the prosperity
stunt. They must look good, but not
too good. For 1t doesn't do to over
play even a virtue.
Girls often make the mistake OF
doing this. A poor girl who Is a gem
ius with her needle, and a shark for
hunting out remnants at bargain
sales. will dress so that she looks
like n daily hint from Paris In
stead of being clever enough TO tell
how she does II and thereby win the
admiration OF all who know her, she
will yawn languidly when anyone
compliments her hat or gown and
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-31
Changes in the Church.

What would the Puritans have
thought of the modern church? They
would not permit music OF any kind
in their sacred edifices, save the
Psalms. for to them even hymns
were taboo. 1t made no difference
how exalted or beautiful the senti-
ment of the hymn. they were all
anathema. AS for musical instru-
ments, they were not to be thought
of.
Will Carlton in his Farm Bal
lads has woman who protests
violently over the introduction Of an
organ in the church. and threatens
to withdraw II they persist in their
intention to install one. This often
happened in New England, where
the Congregationalists or "Indepen-
dents" chung tenaciously to their
primitive observance. In many cases
the church was split and separate
congregations formed over this mo-
mentous question.
And now comes the Christian
church OF Houston, Tex. with NOV
ing pictures installed as an attrac-
ton to churchgoers. Songs Of the
choir will also be illustrated by mo-
ton pictures, according to the pas
tor Rev. T. F. Weaver THE Call
of Samuel" Biblical play, was the
first Sunday picture shown, and the
church was crowded. It is arranged
to have a picture on sacred subjects
every Sunday.
What would the Wesleys or Alex
ander Campbell have thought of
such an innovation? And yet. when
we realize what foes they were to
to the commonplace,
and how they counted all as worth
while that led to the saving Of souls,
one is constrained to think that they
would have been the first to welcome
such a means of carrying the mes
sage to sin-sick world. 1t will be
interesting to watch the result Of
this experiment,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-31
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
49, ~-0
VALUE OF APPEARANCES
0~>-~~~~o
BY DOROTHY DIX.
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
,x.opyrisht 1920 by The Wheeler Syndicate. Inc)

say. "Oh, yes. This is simple little
thing that | got from Victorine's:"
and everyone who knows Victorine's
prices will begin to look at her slant
wise and wonder where she got the
money
Many a good girls reputation has
been ruined in this way, because she
dressed too well for her station in
life. Many a girl has missed a good
husband because she wore such ex-
penskve looking clothes that no poor
young man, with his own way to
make, dared tackle her dress bill. So
the poor girl. who wants to look like
a million dollars should be there with
her abb of how she does II on fifty
cents. or else her bluff at putting up
the appearance Of Miss Million Bucks
will be her undoing.
II is equally important that a
young man should appear to be the
thing he wishes to be. Among my
acquaintances' is young man who
really has plenty Of ability and in
dustry and ambition. He has no
money, and very poor job that pays
him an insignificant salary, but he
Is handsome and agreeable and well
bred, and a good dancer, and he is in
much demand among hostesses who
need that sort Of a man to fill in
their parties
The result is that this chapis seen
1ut night after night at theaters and
dances and running with a gay. rich
crowd and he's got the reputation of
being a lounge lizard, and business
men think he is no good.
And you can't blame them. There
are no records Of eminent financiers,
or merchant princes. who were con-
gpicuous for their social success in
their youth, The men who are at
the head of things, and hold the
money bags now, were not hopping
around ballroom floors and pursuing
the elusive golf ball even at some
body else's expense, thirty years ago.
They were putting up a life-like APP
pearance Of industry, and frugality
that attracted the favorable atten-
tions OF employers who had good jobs
10 hand out, and of people who want
ed to deal with merchants who were
looking after their business.
Nothing queers a mans chances of
success quicker than to live beyond
his means, The house a little better
than he ought 10 live in; the auto
mobile he is paying for on the in
stallment plan; the country club
with the sporty set whose pace he
hadn't the money to keep; these
have been the stop to many prom
iEinE career.
For once let people commence ask
ing the fatal question: How can he
afford It? and it is all over with a
man. He is under suspicion of
either being crooked or a fool and
when men begin to discount another
mans honesty or intelligence, he is
Done for so far rs getting along is
concerned.
Or the other hand when a young
, couple registers industry and thrift
and independence; when they dress
within their means, when both of
them work and save and show that
they have an eye to the futur.
everybody gives them a handup.
| After all, it is quite impossible to
overestimate the value OF appear
anceS. Right or wrong.