The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-12-12

A newspaper announces with something re-
sembling emphasis that horned-toad does not
lay eggs. We so glad to get that matter
finally settled.
We await with interest the report of the
first robbery in the Bank of England with
each Of its doors weighing twelve tons and re-
curing two with different keys to open.
These doors are reported to be water-tight but
what nitroglycerne will do to them remains to
be seen.
Sometime we'll come to learn that Christmas
means not just Christmas for day but happi-
ness for always for all the little children, the
happy and sad ones, the silent and sober
ones, the bosterous and glad ones, the profession
ally good ones and all the lovely little bad ones
When we outgrow the sort of happiness which
spells joy for these chidke minds and hearts
we shall have outgrown Christmas itself.
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The fence intelligently used is the solu-
ton of winter travel the state highways
Wherever the highway has been protected
travel throughout the storm period and immedi-
atey afterward possible and safe, but where
the snow fences had not bsen erected and the
snow had chance to drift the cost of opening
the road to travel in many places is greater than
the cost of the fence would be, and travel
held up several days.-Park Rapids Enter
prise.
Speaking of the meeting of the Seventh Dis
trict Editors Association the Montevideo News
says zone doesn't realize how very attractive
newspaper people until one sees them all to-
gether." chap who write thing like that
about group which included Gunnar Bjornson,
Tim Morrison and Tim Tandv tn nothing
about bunch of the younger fellows would find
something interesting in making out an income
tax report something cheerful in attending
funeral. He'd have to be just that big an optim-
list.
The latest cute little notion put forth in
Minneapolis is to attach sleigh bells to automo-
bes in effort to capture the charm of the old
time Christmas when music of bells added much
to the ensemble. There is just as much chance
of bell automobile fooling anybody into
thinking it is real sleghbe as there is for
necklace from the ten-cent store to fool anyone
into thinking it is the real thing Modern times
can't go back and grab off few of the pictur-
esque things of the past and adapt them to
the present scheme with anything like success.
All it really succeeds in doing is to shatter the
pleasant memory some of have of REAL
things and make sad farce of them. Someone
has said "You can't think tomorrow's thoughts
in yesterdays setting" 1t is just as futile to
try to ring 1900 sleighbell from 1928 automo-
bile.
John Early, the leper whose love for his
native mountains of North Carolina gave health
authorities much trouble and newspapers much
copy, is going home again.
But this time he goes not fugitive from
IoOo oSv1u hY1f With fho hono ofio If
the authorities. The United States public health
service has announced that Early has recovered"
and will be released some time in November
from the national leper home in Carville, La.
And remembering the time when the burial
service was read in English churches over lepers
after the dread malady was discovered, those at
the leper home still suffering from the disease
will send Early out with ceremonies symbolic of
the joy of men doomed who have in pros
pect reprieve that seems lasting.
The public health service terms Early's
case another triumph in modern medicine" Al
though he bears on his face and body scars of the
disease, he is believed to be well. Periodic tests
will be made, but there seems scant danger of a
relapse. The health service reports that since
1921 only one leper discharged from the Carville
institution cured has suffered a recurrence of
the disease. The last sixteen months twenty
four patients have been discharged from the
leper home as men sound and whole again-Ex.
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G. r. Chesterton in Christmas essay once
called attention to the fact that after all is said
and done Christian faith is the only really joyful
thing in the world.
He points out that in spite of what the ra-
tionalists say about the enmity between Chris
tianity and Joy, the fact remains that there is
no really exuberant joy except as it comes from
Faith. He says
They have not set up single new
trophy ensign for the worlds merri-
ment to rally to. They have not given a
name to new occasion of gaity Mr..
Swinburne does not hang up his stock
ing on the eve Of the birthday of Victor
Hugo Mr.. William Archer does not
sing carols descriptive of the infancy of
1bsen outside peoples doors in the snow.
In the round of our rational and mourn
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