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Arizona republican., 1921-08-30

coat dress. real feature of the com ing season, with its high collar of fur, lowered waist line, defined by a gleaming steel belt and sometimes embroidered in cut steel beads, its long sleeves, its fuller and longer skirt, it's deep. rich color further en- richened ,y peasant embroidery.
 Next cones the afternoon dress, offered in several interesting sil- houettes but best liked, perhaps, in two. One is in the real peasant spir- it., with it's characteristically long, loose, bloused lines, straight and wide sleeves, lowered waist line, sash loosely knotted about it, full but straight hanging skirt, uneven of hem, and with touches of embroider- ies reminiscent of southern Europe adding to its colorful effect. The other is the straight silhouette which retains many of the features of last seasons chemise dress, falling straight from the shoulder and sim- ply belted with one of the new met al girdles. This is the most con- servative silhouette, but the least new in effect. Because of its generally wearable qualities it is likely to be the most worn. Then for evening comes the Greek silhouette, love- ly thing of grace and charm and ideal for the dinner table or the the ater. In white or delicate colors and soft patternless fabrics it is apt to be sleeveless and may be either ir straight or pleated or faultiessly draped
 Hats for the evening, absolutely distinctive from the others, were seer at every restaurant in the Bois 1T Paris late in the summer. Maria Guy was the originator of many of tht | becoming, large brimmed black hat. whose most lovely lines came from | the drapery of the lace, heavy ana
 Spanish in pattern, which fell iron ! tNe brim to the waist line. For tn, daytime, small velvet toques, witt
 high trimming in the direct center l and very swathed turbans, in fuchsi; tones of violet and red, are worl
 most effectively with the ever pres
 ent ear rings.
 Thus we have a season which of | fers a variety of silhouettes to sui | every type and every occasion, am
 which introduces a longer skirt, bu l heightened so subtly, so gracefully i and withal, in so wide a variety O 1 fashions. that one can but accept tn
 verdict with thanks.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-30
CONCERT BY BAND
 4 THURSDAY NIGHT

After an enforced vacation of one week, the Capital City band will re- sume it's weekly concerts at Library park Thurday evening, Director F. A yenne announced last night. The concert program is now being ar ranged and will be ready for publica- ton Wednesday, he said.
 In addition to the regular band pro gram. Eddie Talbert, lyric tenor o1 Chicago, has again consented to ap- pear as concert soloist for the eve ming. He will sign some of the lat est song hits. There is also pos sibility that another soloist will be included on the program, MT. Venne declared.
 Tonight is practice night for tht band at Library park, beginning at o'clock sharp. A full attendance Ii desired.
 The U. s. forest products labora tory has built machine that test
Arizona republican., 1921-08-30
HER INTERVENTION

Mir. kid-How does that shoe feel?
 Mrs. Kid-I really cannot say, but if it feels half as uncomfortable as my foot feels, I can sympathize with it.-From the Edinburgh Scots man
Arizona republican., 1921-08-30
WOULD SWAP WITH UNCLE SAM

i. John Hays Hammond IS one Of the richest men in the world, and a tax collector tells a good story about him.
 The collector called on MT. Ham, mond one day on the subject of in come tax and Mir. Hammond. after his income tax had been compiled. said:
 Look here, I guess I'll keep the tax and let you government people keep the income. ."-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-30
EXPERT ADVICE

Hewitt-That was T pretty strong prayer our pastor made.
 Jewett-Yes. it isn't often that the Lord gets such good advice.-New York Sun.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-30

the golf iinks."-From the Edinburgh Scotsman.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-30
SUNDAYS IOIIRNEX

Father" said little Rolio, what is meant by a Sabbath days journey?' 9"
 T am afraid, my son, that in too many cases it means twice around
Arizona republican., 1921-08-30

One-third of the injuries to human bodies are in the hands and fingers.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-30

Last years very simple black frock, so popular as to become almost a uniform, was noticeable for its round, collarless neck, it's very brief sleeves, it's short, round-iength skirt, and it's general air of unpretcntious- ness.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-30

The U. s. forest products labora- tory has built machine that tests the strength Of wood.
Arizona republican., 1921-08-30

If you prefer GREEN TEA. ask for TREE TEA JAPAN. This also carries the came M. J. B. guarantee of value and quality.
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BY RENE BACHE.

Why do we call him Santa Claus
That is the name borne by the
5Olly Christmas god In Holland. But
nowhere else, except in the United
states.
Undoubtedly we got the namo
n im tho early Dutch who settled
the town of New Amsterdam, on
Manhattan Island. But they were
not acquaintcd-nor are the Dutch
in Holland today--with any such
pot-belied. rolstering Christmas di-
vinity as the one wesknow.
whence. then, did he come to us?
The answer is. from England. He
Is. TO the last descriptive detail, the
Father Christmas beloved by many
a generation OF English children,
and since ever so long ago a con-
splcious figure in the folklore and
literature of the British Isles.
Is IL therefore to be undcrs' God
that our Santa Claus Is of British
origin? Yes. and no.
The English acquired him: adopt
ed him, as one might say. They got
him from the Northmen--the fierce
FOLK Of Scandinavia with whom in
earlier days they came into frequent
contact. chiefly through raids upon
the British coasts, undertaken for
plunder.
Chief among the Northmen's gods
was Thor. lie was the sun god,
and roputed merry deity. fond Of
much eating. plenty OF drink and
fighting. In short, he was n magni-
fled Viking Human beings have al
ways made their gods in their own
image.
The vikings Christmas.
The great Morse festival Of the
year was in honor of Thor, celebrat-
ing the return Of tho sun from It's
southwark journey. II was held at
the time of the winter solstice, when
the sun starts on its way toward the
north. In other words. IT correspond
ed in date to our Christmas.
In honor OF the sun. the giver
Of light and warmth. there was
feasting on Gargantuan scale. with
unlimited ''wassail''--strong ale
usually-which tho banqueters
drank from the skulls of enemies
slain in war. "Skoal to The North
men. SIX oal!' Ono can in imaglna-
ton almost hear the shout go up
The English took over" Thor and
made him their Christmas god. lie
has lost his ferocious attribute,
hnt his physique betrays tho fact
drnSlng. The "wassail bowl" came
with him, and Is stiH In customary
use In England as a feature Of Yule-
tide feastinE.
Whv "Yuletide." MS a SYNONYM
for Christmas? Because Yule ~ the
ancient word for wheel-referrir c
in this instance To tho path of the
sun IN the heavens.
Think a moment Is not th'
scandinavian origin of our Santa
Clau9 obviously suggested by the
reindeer he drives? And why does
he have the curious habit of enterini
houses by way of the chimney Pre-
fumahly hecausg In far northorr
ATTITUDES the dwellings, in winter are
halt-buried in snow
Always tho sun God.
Interesting. is II not? But there
a whole lot more that ran bt
said about the Christmas divinity
wherever and in whatever guise w
find him.
Not merely in this country and ir
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misc. for even after bis death his
bones performed many astonishing
miracles, These wonder-Works at
tractcd numerous pilgrims, drew
trade. and thereby produced so sub
stantinl money profit that other
cities eagerly desired To obtain pos
session of the lucrative remains.
In the year 1884 the Turks sacked
and burned Myra Nearly ait the in
habitants Of the place fled, ana only
three monks were left TO guar, lie
holy bones. Just then some rer-
chants Of bari, trading along the
coast Of Syria, chanCcd to land
there. and. the opportunity being
too good to be missed. they over
powered the monks. broke open the
coffin, and carried Off the bones to
Bari
The church above mentioned was
built to house them. the tomb. be
meath tho altar, being cut out of
solid rock. Water, from hidden
spring, trickles through it, and IL
collected by the priests In sponEea,
out OF which 1t Va squeezed into little
bottles and sold 10 truc believers
for the cure OF many diseases Thus
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bore his name. OF these the larG- o.
est, dating back to the 25th century,
still stands at Yarmouth.
But there was nothing suggestive
of our Santa Claus about the good
Saint Nicholas, who in England was
generated for reasons which had
naught to do with Christmas. He
seems to have been particularly ro-
gardcd as n protector OF fishermen.
His authentic bones are supposed 10
bo cntombed In q church at Bari on
the coast of southern Italy.
In Holland, on the other hand, he
is the veritahlc Santa Claus Cdiminu-
tive from 81. Nicholas) and appears
AS a grave ana reverend bishop. At
Christ mastido, clad in scarlet
robe. wearing n iewclcd miter. and
carrying crozier in his hand, he
goes from house TO house, followed
by his servant, Jan, with "A basket
full of gifts for good children.
Pagan Competition.
This was the Santa Claus whom
the early Dutch settlers brought
with them from Holland to New
Amsterdam. and from whom we get
the name, and mono Of the attributes
of our Christmas divinity. lie could
not stand competition with the pot.
bellied god from England. and SO
II may be said that today i'm this
country we know him not at all.
Saint Nicholas was bishop OF Myra
/ In Asia Minor. In the fourth century
| A. D.S and is understood to hav,
| been buried there. but his goot
works did not terminate with his de
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tho bones, in a way. are sun per.

the bones, In n way are still per
forming miracles.
our Santa Not SnintIN.
No greater contrast can be imag
inod than that hetwccu the ascctic
ana pious bishop OF Myra and the
Jolly divinity upon whom, without
rhyme or proper reason. we have
chosen to brstow his sanity name.
Doubtless the grave Churchman
would have boon not less Hstonishcd
than Mortified n ho had Khown that
for ages after his demise his identity
would he miNed up with that of "a
heather god no matter how harm
loss and aimiablc the character OF
the latter might be.
saint Nicholas as has been madc
clear, Is OF Latin origin, he is OF the
Mediterranean our Santa Claus
the sun god, a rcincarnntiou of Thor
comes from FAR northern Europe.
Associated with his festival Is even
the myhic tree of the old SChndi-
navian forest. which we load with
Eifts and adorn with candles.
out santa Clauo is In very truth a
hoathen divinity but Tor us his
image is cnshrincd In kindly and low
Ing thoughts. Pagan or not. he en-
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Golf Improves
Male TemperS

LOS ANGELES Golf playing
husbands In Los Angeles have bcout
awarded the championship as Ind
ldcal marital Romcus by women otl
the California Southland.
For according 10 the Anr'lonot
wives. lmbbics who are the maddest
ON the links are the mockast in thgl
homo. And therefore the home iiteI
Of the golfers wife rs ideal
Mrs Patrick j. Hlggius, Mrs. paut
pItncr and Mrs Frank Tatum. ALI of
whom are wives OF noted Noaiorn
golfers. when interview uu ihc F1u-.
feet ot their husbands dispositions
around the family hearth declared
InughingIv that the demon OF ihG
gr,cu Us tho model 90 the home
There can be no doubt that golf
has most chastcniug effect upon
ID husbands disposition confessed
Mrs. Tataum. prominent in suuthern
California society
"Golf may be stiWulant 90 proc
family but on the other hand ir
calms down a mans vocabulary tor
domestic use" she continued. 'l
suppose the really good players are
I ali too exhausted To swear after they
get homo.
"Wivos should certainly cncour-
age their husbands 10 play golf
golf player makes the ideal husband
| beyond a question
Mrs. Paul Pitner also widely
! known social leader. is another en-
/ thuHast for the goli-playlns hus-
/ band
81 expect that the real secret ot
why golf improves "A husbands dis
position ls that IL keeps him out or
/ doors In tho fresh air. said Mrs.
pltucr 1T H. quite true that the
man who plays golf has better
/ disposition than the one who does
not Nothing like n great deal Of
| healthful exercise In the open for
/ encouraging a good and even tenn
per"
Mrs. Patrick ]. Higgins believes
/ that golf is the best husband I'M
proven possible and that the better
golf player man is the moro en-
glgiug mate he makes.
/ "NcH, I am strongly In favor OF
| the golf playing husband" acknow,-
/ edged Mrs. Higgins. The fresh air
does thom good"
So ucxt time you see O rich old
/ bachelor cursing his way ferociously
around the course and belligerently
/ beating the air with his clubs. don't
/ be discouraged. girls. Remember
/ that the more terrible a man Ia on
/ the links the more tractable he Rill
! be around tho hearthstone. IL he
runs true TO form.
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England, but everywhere he is by
origin the sun god.
We picture him with "a pack on
his back. 1t is filled with blessings
of humanity. At Christmas time,
when the sun begins TO come back
to us from the south we look for
ward with eagerness to the arrival
of that giver Of all good gifts. the
solar luminary, whose rays produce
our food and keep us warm.
Let us go back a few centuries,
TO the times of ancient Romans. We
find them celebrating Christmas, at
our date annually, calling it the fes-
tival Of the Saturnalia. II was held
In honor Of Saturn. the sun god, and
was attended by orgies such as do
not command our approval.
When the new religion, Christian
ity. had got a fair start and its
priesthood was able to roarrange
things suitably, expediency suggested
the advisability OF preserving the
/ heather festivals so dear TO the COM
| mon people, remaining them. and 50
modifying them as to eliminate their
| Objectionable features.
We say that Christ was born on
| Christmas day, but nobody really
/ knows the month or day OF the
| Savior's birth. They are not estab-
| lished by any scriptural authority;
| the gospels make no statement on
| the point. II IL understood that the
| early fathers of the church arbi-
| trarily chose December % as the
/ day, for the reason that II core
/ sponded to the date of the Saturnal-
! ian festival.
SO here we have the god again
not as divinity we recognize, but
! or the above understanding be cor
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recD as determining the date OF our
own Christmas. Doesn't that seem
odd?
. a curious point worth noung in
cidentally is that our own Santa
Claus OF today corresponds rather
closely. I'm a descriptive way. TO the
principal figure IN the Roman Sa-
turn9lia-that Is to say the roister-
ing Silenus. the dlsreputable tutor
of Bacchus. Our conception OF his
physical attributes has been fixed
for all time by an immortal poem
THE Night Before Christmas."
His eyes, how they twinkled His
dimplcs. how merry
His oheeHs were like roses. his nose
like a cherry.
lie had broad face and n little
round belly
That shook when he laughed like a
bowful OF Jelly"
II seems TO have been deemed
necessary to replace Silenus with
some other parsonage to be the
principal figure In the made-over r
and decorous Christian festival OBJ
viously the appropriate substitute
for a hcathen god was a saint.
Nobody knows why the choice
should have fallen upon saint Mich
olas OF Bari, a godly man who seem
er to have been Vene rated in the
near east for centuries before west
ern Europe knew him at all. In
Coustantinople n church was dedJ
Gated TO him about $50. A. y. Late,
on his fame extended widely, and So
great did his popularity become
that in England, before the reforma.
ton. no fewer than 376 churchet
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-18

FAlRMONT W. Nu..It costs q
good BIT tu go to law sometimes.
For an entire week the Marion
county circuit court here gave o..
attention to damage suit ~ Mrs
Maggie Blackwell against the Mo.
nouEahcla Power ana Railway COM
panN for damagea done To- an auto
mobile whom 10 was smashed lie.
tween a traction ear ana u loComo.
tive \ jury awarded the plaintiff
t37S.15, Lawyers fees amounted "a
$500 and the cost OF the weeks trial
to the taxpayers Of the county
amounted % 5000 morn.
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IAllls Tlmhcr Mnlf-

OREGON, H. Samuel McGcc, OF
Pine Rock township, boasts Of hav-
ing Killed "a Canadian timber wolf
that has dcfcd hunters and farmers
IN this section OF the state for many
years McGcc proudly displays the
hide Of III. wolf, which bears > score
Of marks from traps and bullets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
MARTIN SUCCEEDS HOWELLS

Joseph Edgar Chamberlin. in the Bos-
 ton Transcript.
 Y7 DWARD SANDFORD MARTIN,
 l long writer of some of the pest ~ editorials produced in American journalism-the crisp, incisive, lancet-like public comment in the columns of Life now proceeds to the nominally but not really easy chair of Hari hsy Monthly.
 That famous departments of reflective and genial criticism of American life, which George William Curtis graced from the year 1853 to nearly the time of his death in 1892, and which William Dean Howells afterward occupied with so high degree of popular satisfaction. has never been department of slashing opposition to things, but rather one of genial even if sometimes incisive opinion.
 MT Martin is a graduate of Harvard university. Neither Curtis nor Howelis vas a college graduate. Yet we find in them both that grace of wide knowledge, both social and bookish. which we asso- ciate with scholarship. They were stu dents of human affairs as wise as they were ripe Also they were men of in- finite humor.
 MT. Martin is cheyalier of the Legion of Honor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 N 7ORTH DAKOTA is experiencing NWl the morning after the night be- S N fore. The Non-Partisan league, with it's programme of sweetness ana light expressed in terms of socialism, is being smashed into snithereens. The state officials and the officers of the Bank of North Dakota, forced to go to outside bankers for money to admins ter their affairs, were handed a list of conditions which undoes Townley's four years of messiahing.
 The arbitrary powers of the omnip- otent industrial commission must be curbed: the Bank of North Dakota must be liquidated the money derived from the new bond issues must be safeguard ed from the tentacles of the Non-Partit sar league; the Home Builders associa- tion is consigned to limbo; reorganization of the State bank must be effected on a rural credits system.
 The disintegration of North Dakota financial system was due to the anna |teurish-if Utopian-method of disbursins moneys. The Bank of North Dakota is insolvent. It was the keystone of the whole arch, the legal depository of state money, yet it finds itself now incapable of meeting state accounts. It's funds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
LUKE M,LUkE SAYS

It may seem paradoxical. But 1t Is hard for woman to live happily with her husband unless she Quarrels with him every day or two
 Many man discovers the right woman only to discover that he is the wrong man.
 The man who is always making . fool of himself gets awfully mad fl anyone else tries to make g fool of him
 Wouldn't it be nice if you could kick your running expenses in the shins and make the blame things slow down? We know | four flusker who refers to e half-gallon jug of raisin jack and 20 pints of home brew as his wine eel lar. 3s< N It takes 20 years for one woman to make . man, of her Bon and 20 seconds for soms other woman D make mon- key of him.
 A man is . Grent believer in exsrciss unless the exeroise coneiets In helping his wife around the house. Some husbands are such mules tha' many Q wife gets what she wants bs ipsisting that che dossr't want 1t.
 As soon as the honeymoon is oveI some coupies stnrt cut to prove tha1 marriage h q. failure. The only things a. aiFi wears much ol nowadays ase hair and tsweiry.
 (Copysikat. 3e11.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
THE DARK BROWN TASTE

have been diffused throughout the state in haphazard fashion and cannot be collected. Thirty-nine other banks have had to shut their doors, and the count is extending almost every day.
 Meanwhile, the citizens of North Da- kota, conscious that the Non-Partisan league was falling about their heads, have refused to pay taxes No taxes. no schools, no courts, etc., ad ibitum, ad infinitum. Business conditions, of course. reflect the general gloom. So to the Minneapolis bankers hied the leaguers with the afore said melancholy results. !
 The farmers of North Dakota who en- tered the Non-Partisan league are sim- |ply the victims of their own folly. 1t. was they who sanctioned the weird meth ods of the socialistic administration. It was they who expected to profit by loose banking. Their excursion into nou- veau-economics being disaster, it is they who must pay the bills and shed the tears.
 Other states which have contemplated North Dakota's new regime with a coy- etous eye are having the lesson brought home to them. If they do not cast down
 Townley as fakir and his system as apocryphal, they are welcome to em- brace both him and it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21
Famous Editorial Writer
 Joins Staff of Harper's

| E DWARD S. MARTIN, whose edi- lG torials have been a feature of Life" for many years, will be an able successor to William Dean Howells in conducting "The Editors Easy Chair" in Harper's magazine. This highly esteemed publication, one of Americas literary landmarks is to be congratulated upon obtaining the services of MT. Martin.
 Probably no other writer in Amer ica has shown clearer insight into what is going on around him and has expressed his opinions of contempo- rary events with so much good sense and in such a lucid style. MT. Mar tins prose is plain---one gets the im- pression that he tries to make it Gas plain as an old shoe"-but that qual- ity is by no means incompatible with literary excellence.
 MT. Martins editorials have long been regarded as masterpieces of con- densation. He can dispose of sub
 act adequately in few words which many another editorial writer wres- ties over to the extent of column or more.
 The thousands of readers in Amer ica who have been informed and de- lighted by MT. Martins editorials for the past 35 years will wish him suc- cess in his new position, which is an hopor worthily bestowed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-21

, But such modest mani You would never find out anything about him from himself. He was born in New York in 1856 and consequently is quite a youns man.
 He's an affable personality and not hard to talk to. The difficultys of in terviewing him lies in the fact that E. S. Martin is really one of those fabied creatures-a modest author! He was asked the inevitable question whether in succeeding Mir. Curtin and Mir. How els he intended to make any change in the policy of the Easy Chair" de- pertinent.
 He smiled apologetically. I'm not literary man. Haven't written books or even read as many of them as I should. I can't set up as a critic, a stylist, or as an authority on the fine arts of au- thorship. I'll have to write about what ccmes to hand. more or less jour nalist.
 q have been an editorial writer"-he counted up (and as I found out later didn't credit himself with all that was coming to hiIn)--"sipce about 1884. Say about 8 years.isI had to earn my living as a journalist. So I must write my own journalese and about the things l best understand"