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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1922-03-24

Carried His Prisoner DOWN into tne
Goblin.
nerves had become rather Injured to
impending death. and presently his
fear gave way to an overmasterlng
rage. He hurled his hat on the sands
snd jumped on It until It was a mere
shapeless rag.
.Let's call a meetin' Of the Robin
SON Crusoe syndicate" said Mr.. Glib
ney.
"second the notion" rumbIed Nc
Guffey.
sCnrried," said the commodore.
sThe first business before the meetin'
Il the organization Of ayexpedition to
chase these two cannibals to tho
other end Of the island. ! amt got
the bcart to kill 'em. 80 let's chase EN-
away before they set freshs with ma
a0ood idea" responded Ac9ufteys
whersupon he picked mp rock and
threw It at the King. Mr.. 0lbney to-
lowed with Two roekA Captain
scraess scrsamsd 6s1ance q ~ -
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Uncommon
 Sense syw ;Sa7 BLAKE
KEEP YOUR PROMISE

TN BUSINESS the man whose rating A among his associates is the highest is the man who keeps his promises.
 Promises to pay, of course, must be kept. If they are not there is no more credit for the gentleman who makes them.
 But business is not all promises to pay. There are promises to enter into contracts; promises to have shipments ready at certain time; promises to make business engagements.
 And the man who Is more prodigal of promises than he is of remember ing to keep them soon Is regarded with distrust and suspicion.
 A man who has been immensely sue cessful in the manufacturing business is regarded by his associates as "hard boiled" In the matter Of promises.
 It Is almost impossible to get one out of him. But once his promise is given, performance Is assured. even though the performance may mean a heavy financial loss to him.
 He has discovered that 1t is just as profitable to him to keep his prom ises at par as 1t is to keep the stock of his concern at par.
 You may not be in business, or con- nected with business, save in the ca pacity of minor employee.
 But you will find that the value of your promises is just as important to you as the value Of your employers promises are to him.
 You will learn if you are observant that you are judged not by making
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Something to Think About
Bu F. A. UALKER

The secret of this experience is that the wrinkled old woman has an agree able personality, treasure which money cannot buy, gleaming in the darkest days like a priceless gem in the sunshine. and sending its cheer ing rays down to the somber recesses of the heart
 Wealth, talent, power and pomp stop, stoop and doff their hats to the man or woman of an amiable individ- uality, not knowing perhaps why they do so, but keenly sensible all the while of receiving something in return for which their souls are starving.
 And so 1t Is with .he world at large, calling today for young men and wom- en to fill the high places, which are always open for those fortunate per sons whom the gods have blessed with pleasing personality, which for a better term my be called the essen- tial quality of leadership in all the walks of human enterprise.
 co. 1922. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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HAD PICKED IT UP QUICKLY
Film Magnate Astonished by Austra- Iians' Knowledge of the Eng
 fish Language.

The predominance of the foreign element in New York is the subject of many jokes. At a motion picture luncheon to the press the other day, as Tommy Gray, one of the city's wits, arose to speak, he looked about.
 "As this luncheon Is to the press" he began, land not to the motion pic ture trade, will make my remarks In English"
 Somewhat along this same line Is joke that Is being told on one of the most prominent of the film magnates, who is shrewd but illiterate. Two Australians, stranded in New York. in search of jobs, managed to get an au- dience with him.
 ESQ.," he said, you're from Aus tralia? When did you come 0ver?
 "Only month ago." they answered
 "My," he exclaimed. 'but you learned our language quick"
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promises but by keeping them. And if after many trials your promises are found to be good you will be trusted. When a man Is trusted he has made an excellent start.
 It is always well to consider the matter of a promise before you make 1t. This applies as much to a prom ise to take lunch at certain time of a certain day as to fulfill an impor- tant business engagement.
 If you make no promises that you are not reasonably sure to keep, you will come to regard your word as worth something. If your friends know that they will not need to call you up and remind you of promise, your value will increase in their eyes.
 The promise-breaker is word- breaker, and word-breakers have no standing. Think we'll of your word and you will keep your promises. And as soon as this is established the world will think yell of you.
 Copyright by John Blake)
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YOUR PERSONALITY

TN A general sense, that subtle pow A CT or magnetism which you pos sess, and which exerts so potential an influence upon others for good or bad. is your personality.
 And this personality, from what ever vantage you may look at 1t, is the determining factor of your sue cess or failure.
 You may be well educated. your out ward appearance may be satisfac- tory, but if you lack pleasing per sonality you will find to your dismay that you are handicapped in every sphere of endeavor into which you may venture, regardless of your good looks and qualifications
 The bent old apple woman on the corner, with her stooping shoulders wrapped in a faded shawl, notwith- standing her lowly position in life. is making success.
 She is sending her children to school and every week she is putting a few dollars in the savings bank. Everybody within convenient reach of her green and rosy stand calls once or twice day to buy dimpled pippin.
 He does this because in addition to the luscious fruit he invariably finds piled up in shining rows, he is con- scious of a sort of spiritual sunshine which cheers him up and sends him on his way in a lighter mood. better equipped to solve his own perplexities.
 Being in a hurry, he does not stop to seek the cause of this pleasurable sensation, the effect of which tingles his nerves and makes of him tempo rarily better being.
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REASONABLE GOOD THINGS

A MOST wholesome and economical A dish Is prepared from the follow ing: Wash one-half pound of dried peas and boil in three pints of water Add ham shank weighing about two pounds, or less; boil three minutes, then simmer one and one-half hours. Remove the shank before the meat falls from the bones and reserve for Westphalia roll. Put through a fine sieve and serve the puree with bread cut into cubes and fried In the fat cut from the ham shank.
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cey adopted the doll as eagerly as though Le had been girl. He took it to bed with him at night and talked
 over the events of the day with 1t be- fore he went to sleep. He always used a toothpick after his drink of milk, but never without offering it first to his doll Billy. AS time passed on and Chauncey grew bigger he did not seem
 to outgrow the doll. When he ap- peared at Sunday school with his be- loved companion there were smiles. but he didn't see anything to laugh at. It wasn't until the boys began to call
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WINTER MORNING By WILL M. MAUPIN

VX7HEN the frost Is on the fodder, And jingle in the air; When the pumpkins have been gath
 cred
 And the corn is shucked with care; When the grease is on the Criddle And the batter's in the crock, Life's worth living winter mornings When you rise at 6 o'clock. When the cakes are on the griddle. And the sirup's in the jug; When the coffee has been settled, And the fire is warm and snug; When you smell the breakfast ready, And you hear the "get up" knock. There's lot of joy in living. Though you rise at 6 o'clock. When the buckwheats reach the table, Mountain high and piping hot; When with sirup and with butter They glide to the proper spot; When you've eaten all you're able, Full of "bucks" your wife has sent, You can hike off to the office
 Full of grub and sweet content. Talk to me of pate de foi gras!
 Talk of sauces, buildings, pies! Talk of table d'hote and cuisine Not from me they'll get prize. Give to me the smoking buckwheats, Stacked up high and piping hot; Maple sirup. golden butter
 An, that hits the proper spot!
 Copyright by Will M Maupin.)
 Poor Humanity.
 Some people hope for the best only under protest and are disappointed when 1t happens.
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 good cheer and gift-giving. From another viewpoint there is an encour- aging growth of the spirit of the ut terance of Elizabeth Phillips.
 Eighteen years ago Elizabeth Phil- lips had an inspiration to make the anniversary of Our Lords birth not 90 much an anniversary of happiness for the few as an anniversary of hap piness for the many. She had vision of those who have giving to those who have not. And from her humble beginning with a few hundred poor one Christmas givings the country over that are making the holiday year by year one of happiness to increas- ing numbers of the poor. the friend less and the hopeless.
 Elizabeth Phillips-she has been dead these thirteen years-had her inspiration in 1904 in Philadelphia. She was a teacher in the public schools. She lay i'll in a boarding house. She saw the cold rain of au- tumn beating against her window. She thought of the Christmas that was coming.
 Christmas will not mean very much to me-" she thought. But 1t will mean far less-maybe nothing at alto many. If I could only make 1t a better Christmas for some of those. I can; know I can. I will try"
 As soon as she got well she began to work out her plan. Through the cooperation of President Roosevelt she was enabled to secure hundreds of letters to Santa Claus-every Christmas season these letters come in flood to every big-city post office. Then she made 1t her business to visit her friends. to call upon a host of new ones. to solicit help from everybody, everywhere, collecting two cents in one place. five cents in an- other place, a dollar somewhere else, and by the time Christmas eve arrived she had filled several hundred stock ings.
 The fame of Elizabeth Phillips spread widely. And she had visions of a nationwide movement along the line of her successful experiment.
 "A Christmas stocking for every child!' she said. "The Christmas day Is coming when Santa Claus shall visit every child In the land and none shall be forgotten.
 "It is my purpose to make Santa Claus a reality, whose home will be in every home and who will be the friend of children everywhere. The most important thing Is a permanent headquarters-the House of Santa Claus. And over the door there will be a statue of the old fellow with a pack of toys on his back. When the children pass by they can say. There's where Santa Claus lives-he sees that every boy and girl gets a stocking filled with Christmas things at Christ mas time'
 There Santa's work will be carried on-pot only during the week before Christmas but all through the year. And besides, 1t will be home for as
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many children-orphans-as 1 can

uduy CuilureH- rpHduS us N"A stuff into 1t.
 q hope to build up an organization in the National Santa Claus associa- tion which will be joy not only to the children but benefit also to poor people everywhere"
 For four years Elizabeth Phillips continued her work. The Santa Claus association grew with each succeed ing year. It came to have many as- sistants with a fleet of automobiles and an army of givers in the cause of Christmas giving. The movement spread to other cities and thousands came to know her name and love it.
 But the results of her work, though great in the estimation of others, seemed small to her. And as the re- suits became greater and the work increased the goal seemed farther away than ever to her. Her work was halted by illness, and she was forced to watch the Christmas of 1909 draw nearer and nearer without being able to keep on. Despair took hold of her and she ended her life.
 But the spirit of Christmas that animated her did not die with her. She had done her work too well. From her inspiration, directly or in directly, have sprung the Christmas givings of the Christmas clubs, Big Brother and Good Fellow movements and Needy Cases campaigns and the Christmas activities of municipalities, community centers, newspapers and business concerns
 For example: A New York news paper took up, three years after Eliz- abeth Phillips death, the task of SUD- plying the Christmas needs of "the hundred neediest." The task, too great for one individual. one organi- zation. was distributed among a great body of those best able to shoulder it, just as Elizabeth Phillips aimed to do, and as the givers increased in number so did the receivers multiply.
 Organized as clearing house for the benefit of all the many charitable organizations, concentrated as a focal point for the contributions of all the many previously unorganized and aimless givers, the "neediest" cam paign began its career in 1912 with the Christmas distribution of S3,6OO. Each year 1t spread to greater breadth.
 For such was the success of this movement that newspapers in other cities took up the idea. And such was their success that still other organi. zations copied the plan, others and still others, first in one section, then in another, all over the United States. Philadelphia has similar movements, so has Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, San Francisco.
 The idea, just like the aim of Eliza beth Phillips, has been the means of pointing out that such relief is some thing more than the giving of tinsel top. is something that has a deeper significance than spasmodic giving, useful as that sometimes may be. It has been the instrument of bringing whole-hearted generous help to fami- lies in need and of bringing at the same time the satisfaction to a large number of Christmas donors of a simple and direct method of translat- ing Christmas generosity into terms of health, happiness, good cheer, the essence of the Christmas spirit.
 The modern Christmas spirit has gone farther than mere giving at Christmas time It has undertaken to see that families who have met
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with misfortunes or have lost their breadwinner through sickness or death shall have that simple and fun damental opportunity without which democracy means little-the opportu- nifty to live family life. It is labor ing In season and out of season, just like Miss Phillips, to demonstrate to the public that this involves adequate relief; that a scanty and penurious relief of family which merely makes 1t possible for 1t to eke out a drab existence is not intelligent relief !; that this relief must not only be ade- quate in amount but regular in its provisions.
 Of New York's lone hundred need fest cases" in 1921, eighteen concerned young mothers and children under the care of the State Charities Aid asso- citation. These eighteen were given instant relief. In addition the sum total of children saved from serious and distressing situations reached the number of 75. These additional chill dren were helped from funds not des- ignated for particular cases. In some cases a considerable portion has been conserved for future use. Here, for instance, is a sample report of the association, which shows what Christ mas giving can accomplish when done in the right way:
 Raymond. of Case No. S9. the half starved, half-naked baby rescued from a desolate room, had a desper- ately hard fight for his life. The doc tors at the hospital tried every sort of food, but Raymond's was SC serious case of malnutrition that nothing seemed to reach the tiny spark of vi- tality. Finally. as a last resort, blood transfusion was tried, and this had the desired effect. Raymond reacted almost immediately; and was soon able to leave the hospital for free convalescent home for babies in the country. From there he recently went to a foster home of his own, an unbelievably sturdy and vigorous child. Amount received, $500; amount spent, S72.73; balance on hand, S227.27."
 So. at Christmas time A. D. 1922, multitude of organizations all over the country will gather from those who have and distribute among those who have not. There will be Christ mas good cheer In homes where other wise 1t would be lacking. Encourage ment will be given many who had well nigh lost hope. Lives valuable will be joy where there was sorrow.
 The activities of these organiza- i tions of course vary widely. Some give gifts, some give food, some give clothing, some give money. some give service But their principle and pur- pose and inspiration are the same i; all are born of one idea and all aim at the same goal. This goal is to make Christmas day everywhere the day of joy it should be in a Christian nation celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Our Lord.
 It is no exaggeration to say that much of this Christmas giving is the result of Elizabeth Phillips inspira- tion eighteen years ago as she lay i'll | in her boarding-house room. To this Philadelphia school teacher is due in no small part various movements all over the United States that embrace the collection and distribution of Christmas cheer and Christmas char ity.
 The spirit of Elizabeth Phillips goes marching on.
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The Stakes,

A well-known New Jersey doctor was playing golf with an equally we'll known New Jersey minister.
 "What shall we play forT asked the former.
 "Why, it is rather out of my line to play for anything" the minister re- piled.
 "Well. we ought to play for some thing" insisted the doctor, "so I'll put up pill if you put up a prayer."- Boston Evening Transcript.
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WestphaIia Roll,

Remove the rind from the ham shank and try 1t out. Chop the meat, season with any desired seasoning. Add one and one-third cupfuls of boil ing water to one pound of cornmeal, one-half teaspoonful of salt; mix and spread on a cloth IS inches square,
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Creole Sauce.

Mince fine three onions. one green pepper, one red pepper, one-half cup ful of stewed tomatoes, two tablespoon fuls of tomato catsup and one table spoonful of Worcestershire sauce. Cook gently for ten minutes, rub through sieve, season and serve.
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him mamma" and to prescribe rem. edies for his baby's collie that his af lection waned. Billy has long won- dered in the old garret when Chauncey will return. He feels sure that even yet Chauncey's thoughts go back with pleasure to early associations.
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Potatoes au Gratjn-

Chop potatoes cooked in their jack cts and peeled. Put layer into a buttered baking dish, cover with a layer of well-seasoned white sauce add a tablespoonful of grated cheese and repeat with another layer of each. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake until the crumbs are well Drowned. Serve hot.
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MiStletOe

D oSES are for ladies N With shoulders soft and bare.
 Violets are for little girls To shake in yellow hair. Dahlias are for gardens. And jonquils are for play, Grandmother chooses mignonette To decorate her gray.
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Modern Requirements.

Dealer - This sectional Christmas tree is made especially for flats.
 Mrs. Newlywed-Tll need q base Ind only about three units, as live In kitchenette apartment.
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leaving a margin at ends and sides of two inches. Place the ground ham in the center and fold over the cloth so that the meat Is completely covered! Fold and place, the folded end down, in colander. Steam for two hours and serve hot. Corn husks may be substi- tuted for the cloth when they are avail able. Season highly with cayenne and the dish will be ham tamale.
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Missing No Tricks.

MadgNI thought you and George were going skating.
 Marjorie-So we were. but when he saw I had my hat trimmed with mistletoe he asked me to go for sleighride.
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Chauncey's Doll
By Christopher G. Hazard
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Co, 1922. Western Newspaper Union)
 THERE seemed to be a mistake A about the Christmas gift that Chauncey got. but probably Santa Claus knows better than we do where things really belong. Anyway, Chaun-
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To Preserve linoIeum.

Linoleum should De swept gently, then gone over with damp cloth (wet in milk if possible). A good floor wax should be well rubbed in every three or four months.
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Not That Kind of a Suit

Hardy Upton Crying on new suit) -Ah, Isaacs, this suit looks very credit able-very creditable indeed.
 Isaacs, the tailor (excitedly)-Dot suit neffer leafs der shop except for ready money!
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Tomato Soup.

Cook one tablespoonful of rice in three cupfuls of boiling water, until tender; to this add two cupfuls of strained tomatoes, one teaspoonful of onion juice. salt, pepper to taste, and cook fifteen minutes longer. Serve with croutons of bread.
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HE spirit of Christ mas. 1922i What
 is 1t in America. the greatest and
 wealthiest nation of earth? From one viewpoint 1t Is much the same that 1t has always been "a eligious family festival of
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Holly Is for Christmas, It is a merry sight, Debonair and jolly. too. Dancing. gay and bright. Usefulness is splendid,
 And so 1t seems to me Mistletoe's the best of all To deck a Christmas tree. Mistletoe's not lovely.
 But. now, remember this There aren't so very many Excuses for a kiss,
 Milwaukee Sentinel.
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'unotber., Cook Book


Life is significant and happy much in proportion as 1t Is interesting and 1t Is interesting exactly in proportion to per- sonal capacity for laying hold upon it. to the finer consciousness of its import and appeal.-Margaret Baldwin.
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Nuu Nl~fn ne1Q lM 1922 Western NeWspaner uninnl
Correct Measure of Man.
.922. Western Newspaper Union.)

The degree of vision that dwells in a man Is the correct measure of the man.-Carlyle.
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Has Anyone Laughee

las Anyone Laugnec Because RaYsaa You cry at a sad play? Hasn't the strain of trying to keep back your tears spoiled many a good play for you, because some one with you giggled or re- marked about your "softness, "chicken-hearte d n S." etc? Never you mind, the fellow that can weep is a bigger soul than the one who cannot. So be glad If you are in the class where sadness touches you. It means that life has really meant some thing to you, that beautiful things and beautiful ideas have done something for you. What sort of person would not cry when on the stage child Is seen dragged from its parents? If you don't cry then you are a little soul, If you do you are a real human being. If you weep alone your lonelineSs is the right kind.
 Your Getaway here Is:
 That you've done exactly what the writer of the play wanted you to do. co by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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A Christmas stocking for every child! The Christmas day Is coming when Santa Claus shall visit every child in the land and none shall be forgotten.-Elizabeth Phillips
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Poor Humanity.

Poor Humanity. Some people hope for the best only under protest and are disappointed when 1t happens.
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