Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1910 — Page 2

■ 1... I. Ill— — I Look 1 lere j Do you know that the best place in the city G to buy your Xmas canfl dies is at the G. R. &I. restaurant* I handle S; the Famous, HE-MI- • LA candies, best on the B 9 market. S S ANDREW HARTING || | A Special Reduction | J jOn Ladies’ ‘Felt]Slippers | | I I 1 AH Ladies’ $1.25 Far Felt Slippers with belting sole and leatherjheel 98c || Y> will give a special reduction on Men’s leath- g er slippers in Black and Tan colors. g I Remember we have a lot of Jockey Boots in K Patent and Gun Metal. A I I I 1 | Peoples & -Gerke’s | •♦*♦♦♦*<♦«♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦«-X _• i : J. o. hale :: i | SEEDS, COAL AND FEED ii j ♦ ——————• ———— ■ . . * Portland Cement, Gypsum Rock Wall :: | Plaster, lime ana Salt | We make a specialty of furnishing Seed Goods good ■ i in quality and low in price. ;; ; Call, Write or Phone 1 io. 8. 201 S. 2nd. St. ;; *>♦♦♦**♦*♦*•♦ ♦ ♦ ***♦***->++♦ e_±** -""WMWIWI ■ J." Ll"Jg ■■■»■' " JI. JU - '.-j. ■'!.■■ " 1L ■— —L JJ.. POST CARD COUPON Clip This coupon and bring it to the office of The DAILY DEMOCRAT with 10 cents and receive one set of 25 Colored View Post Cards Tour of INDIANA. By mail 3 cents extra for postage. || The Season Is g| || NovV f+ere J S FOR HOLLY, CANDIES, NUTS ClGARS AND FANCY BOXES OF BON Wl EONS, AND ALL KINDS OF FRUITS. OB K|| THESE BE FOUND AT THE HS |£ Decatur Candy Kitchen |g HOME-MADE CANDIES A SPECIAL- ffijs TY.—SPECIAL PRICES TO CHURCH- A ES AND SCHOOL TEACHERS. COME AND SEE. i W. P. Colchtn | Ot INTERURBAN STATION

ROBERT'DONNELL * (Copyright, I*lo, by American Press Association.) THIS Is for men only. If women read It they may laugh at the men. thereby causing family disturbances. It is about Christmas shopping, In which women arc Interested, but It la about men's ■hopping, not women's. So much hn> been written concerning the matter of women buying Christmas presents for men that It seems high time to show the other side of tho shield. Among all the domestic tragedies incident to this life none is so poignantly pitiful as the annual tragedy that takes place when Mr. Mau goes forth surreptitiously to purchase Yuletide gifts for his ladylove, be she wife, widow or maiden. “What would she like. I wonder?" sighs Mr. Man. The sigh Is long drawn out, like the linked sweetness of the first kiss. By the time he enters the big, liewilderlng department store which he has passed by a thousand times without entering and which is to him an unknown wonder I land he quits sighing and begins seeing. The first things he sees are the scores of pretty salesgirls, including some not so pretty. But of course not one of them is half so pretty as the girl, wife or widow for whom he is going to buy that—well, now. what? He begins to sigh some more. Ah. a box of gloves—the very tbiugl And yet what size does she wear? Suppose he got her three sizes too large for her dainty hands! Awful! Then he goes to the other extreme—- ' or extremity—and resolves to get her j a pair of those beautiful satin slippers ' ' which he discovers on a counter. But. I again, what size? If he should make . the snd error of getting a single size too large she w-ould stare sarcastically at him and inquire: I “Do you think I'm from Chicago?" | Gloves and slippers are marked “taboo" in his calculations. Well and good. Her hands and feet are disposed of. Now, how about her head? Why, a set of those back and side combs—the very thing! All women like pretty combs, of course. But maybe his particular woman is sensitive 1 and she might imagine that he imagines that she doesn't keep her hair j tidy. I “Oh, 1 s'pose she knows when she ' needs hair combs!" sighs Mr t Man, , turning to the

next Counter. Hes bead Is out of the question. So far as Christmas presents go, she 1 s decapitated. Well, that still leaves a considerable portion of the lady adaptable to adorn meats. “Where are the Cremonas?" asks the man. “We don’t sell violins In this st o r e." replies Miss Saleslady. “Go to a music house.” "Violins! I'm

is •Sk : Ski : i JW • "WHERE ARE THE CREMOXAS?"

looking for a lady’s house dress, a sort of wrapper"— “Oh. you mean a kimono!" giggles the girl, passing on tho giggle to the next girl, who is likewise generous. "Didn't I say kimono, miss?” the man gays a little testily. “Third floor; take elevator.” says the giggly girl. Mr. Man finally finds the kimono department. The stock is bewildering. He never imagined there were so many kinds of kimonos in the world. He had associated the kimono with the Japanese and supposed they were all Japs. He couldn’t fail to get one to fit. They were all so loose and flowing that most anything in the shape of a Japanese kimono would fit any woman as well as it was intended to fit. So at last the search is ended. Eureka! Found! “The latest and daintiest thing is the French flannel kimono," says the chief saleswoman, whereupon she shows Mr. Man a late and dainty creation in

If II i' ' ‘ f I —— l CHATTIXG AMIABLY ! EN KOUTE.

pink flannel which looks no more like a Japanese kimono than a caterpillar looks butterfly. "But — h o w — can I know thia will fit?” asks Mr. Man. “About how large is your—the lady?” asks the saleswoman. "Oh, 'bout your size—hundred 'n' twenty pounds.” Miss Saleslady swells. She Is quite plump to begin with.

“I guess you’re mistaken about her I being my size.” she snys somewhat scornfully, secure in her possession of the fact that she weighed 145 on the penny slot machine only this morning. Mr. Man Is embarrassed and helpless. “I'll—l’ll be back In a few minutes,” he says, having definitely determined to get a French flannel kimono. Mr. Man goes down to the first floor.

CHR,S I’ LJL • 27T P ' eN Christmas cemts. the fairies know. Cbtn aU tb< wlnd u sUveT wttb tb<ir if 'K, i 1 -o ■ .J ba,r ’ Blown through the drifting silver of the enow. /a'KX' \ f<> r wb «" tbe ? **•“• wbn ' tb< “ rtT *” w u fllltd wlth darb and eta Mot daw " aM fei ' V white, ' | 1 chcT hnow that B ° mcthh ’ 3 wbte p* r9 tvtrr AjKJpf Tlllnlll <1 where—Something that fe not Uhe the voice of night j ’ ’ L / J I- Something that to not llhe the voice of day I j 'A Zw Something that te llhe silence and llhe light f/' .-.-ML 'c ycy I Up with soft cries, llhe little winds at play y\ I Or supple flames that with slim bechonlng fcl fan by, the fairies mount and wind away. / A Some gracious Influence moves the day ’-The HwS spring. . /V"' A. X Ulfstful to have some part In the sweet stir, \ f/Mw 2)1 Che fairies fashion gifts from everything. therefore, when first you wahe from ways that - ik v nil singing dreams, on every Christmas morn Che day Is blessed by some still wanderer. / yX&J P fc” 1 80 me hlnd 6p,rttba9 outvron ’ \ T ou, ‘ 6,ee P b v hissing light your closed eyes, L / , l( J - Hnd of that hiss your first day dreams are i y IL ail bern. F'> >" ' -Zona Gale In New Torh MallWsLa

where the giggly girls abound. For ten minutes he wanders around through the aisles, casting longing glances at the salesgirls. Now and then he pauses and eyes one girl in particular. Finally tile floorwalker, who has been eying Mr. Man. steps up and asks: “Anything in particular, sir?” “Yes; I'm looking for .a girl about the size of my—l mean the lady I’m trying to buy a Christinas present for. That young lady with the billowy blond hair is just about the size.” “Well, what of it?” asks the floorwalker. “I want to borrow that girl five minutes." “The deuce you do!" “Yes. to go upstairs to the French kimono section and try on n kimono for me—l mean for my—the other lady. See?” The floorwalker sees; niso he smiles, j But Christmas is coming, so let him feel cheerful. •‘Here, Miss Lou." says the floor- - walker to the billowy blond. Miss Lou ; accepts the assignment gracefully, ac- ! companies the gentleman up to ths third floor, chatting amiably en route, and tries on French kimono after French kimono. At last one fits snugly Mr. Man pays the price. Tho dainty garment is bun-

'F Ka&H J W- -t I ' ——J ■ MIL MAX rorxn . THIS NOTE.

died up and sent I to his address, and ids troubles nre over. But are they ? There’s a sequel. It happens that Mr. Man Is buying this kimono for the dearest girl in the world, who Is to become "his own and only wife on New I Year’s day. She has confided to him that she believes tn useful Christmas gifts, something nice to wear, for instance. and be has paid $48.8.">

I for n nice French flannel kimono, j | Very well. It Is three days till Christmas ere. That very night when he reaches home Mr. Man finds this note, left by messenger: Mr. Man—All Is over between us. 1 will send your ring and the dog collar and the bracelet tomorrow. I waa in Go’densteln & Abraham’s this afternoon and saw you making eyes at half the girls in the store; then 1 saw you openly i flirting with a blondlned creature. 1 dropped my veil down so you couldn’t recognize me. I heard yon say "third floor” when yon went te the slevnter with her. Lps* na In. t,lr —M snx- a-ui. wktt!

yh|T Uuy a Tieautftia Treueh KTmvHb lar that horrid wretch! Is It necessary for me to say more? ALLYCE. So you see there are tragedies Id men's Christmas shopping. But did this really happen? Ask the man. AN INNOCENT VICTIM. The Original of Squeers Died cf a Broken Heart. Th? grossest Injury which Dickens ever inflicted on a fellow being was his too accurate portrait of an innocent man in his Sqneen. That York shire schoolmasters were, as a rule, cruel and wicked enough it is true. but the particular schoolmaster w!k> was recognized and who recognized him self as the original Squeers seems to have been an exception to the rule. i It will be remembered that Dickens and his illustrator traveled together to the north of England for the purpose of collecting material for "Nlck- ; leby" and especially for the Dotheboys espisode. At Great Bridge they visited a boarding school known as Bowes academy. The master. William Shaw, received the strangers with some hauteur and did not as much as withdraw bls eyes from the operation of penmaking during the interview. Phiz sketched him in the act; Dickens described rhe act. The personal pecularities of William Shaw were recognized in Squeers. Shaw became a butt of popular ridicule, lost his pupils and finally died of a broken heart. • Yet there is abundant evidence to prove that be was a really excellent and kind hearted man, who was made to suffer for the misdeeds of bis neighbors.—Exchange. The Tears In Books. It is not hard to understand why. when a book makes you laugh, you want to read it, and to read it over and l over again. But it is rather pnztcling to find that one also enjoys reading and rereading books that make one want to cry. What can there be in us that likes to be mixte to fee! unhappy? ! In real life wo don't try to do things that will make us suffer—not at all! ; But there are books that you cannot j think of once you have read them ; without tears coming to your eyes, and yet you will find that you love those books perhaps more than any others. To feel deeply is one of the best things in life, and there maybe lies the explanation of why we do love Bad stories. They make us unhappy in away. but they do not leave behind Buy bitterness or sense of personal less. And they usually have a special beauty cf thffr •wn.—St. NWhohus.

| A VISIT TO HUNSKKER BROTHERS WILL CONVINCE YOU THAT WE HAVE THE LARGEST AND < MOST COMPLETE LINE OF FRUITS, NUTS AND CANDIES OF I ALL KINDS EVER SHOWN IN THE CITY AT PRICES LOWER THAN EVER HEARD OF BEFORE. WE HAVE A LARGE LINE OF HOME-MADE CANDY. THE ONLY BAKERY ON THE WEST SIDE OF SECOND ST. LOOK FOR THE LARGE SIGN for Fruits and Candies Al- ~~~ir- • .ZjF —_LjuZ.L j n r Steamer Rugs and 1 Automobile Robes ' n r We have a beautiful stock to select from, just H received from the mills. These rugs will make a m beautiful present for any woman. rWhether you want to buy or not, see these beau- i ia tiful robes, □ ■ I SCHAFER HARDWARE CO. ' •• WE SAVE YOU MONEY I/ 1 - ||.- / I ■kCJJIi-ll .'J 'J JM1..1 n | We’ve Got ] I The Goods | This is the last week for purchasing your Christmas Candies, Nuts, and Fruits. Good selections in Xmas Trees and Tree Trimmings. We have the best grade of Oranges to be found -I I in the city. Our prices are right. ■ s SPECIAL PRICES TO CHURCH AND SCHOOL COMMITTEES. The Parrish | (Restaurant- I FRANK PARRISH, Prop. " 1 - fi gM 11 i WIM I HAVE IN STOCK FOR SANTA CLAUS Evergreen Trees and Imported Glass Decorations that will make the . children happy and look Chrlst-mas like in your homes. * Candles fine and of the best that will satisfy their sweet, craving I little palates. Our nuts are all new and of the 1910 crop...A most eautiful line of boxes to select l;om which will please everyone and they will not cost you double price either. That is about all that I have to say, come and see for yourself, ont forget we carry a good fine line of Home-Made Candies. | Monroe Street Candy Kitchen, PRaPRIETOR