Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1937 — Page 12

Santa Divides Pack Between Old, New Toys New York, Dec. 23— An early peak into Santa's pack reveals that old favorites still hold their own In this streamlined age. Marbles, blocks, circus toys and steam engines haven't been crowd- , ed out by trailers, airplanes, modernistic houses and miniature furniture. The old and the new may not share equal favor, but a survey .by the Toy Association here shows that children aren't so ultra modern in regard to their favorite playthings. But the A B C blocks are tip- ( proof now. Grooved surfaces guarantee stable towers. There also are new style grooved blocks which the very young can make into miniature 1 furniture, houses, autos and bridges. There's a new gun that shoots pictures on the wall and a dial telephone, television model —it’s a trick ! done with a mirror. A reed organ lias been repro- | duced in Playroom style with authentic muscle one in three and j tour octaves. The pianos, in Tom Thumb sizes are tuned. Sleds boast airplane struts and tear-drop decks. One model hag curved runners at the back. Youngsters this year will be able . to make glass bead mosaics and their own charm jewelry for the first time after Santa’s visit. An electric airplane stunts, spins and dives by remote control. A turn of the joy stick reproduces a realistic power dive or a loop-the-loop. Scientific toys include a miniature polariscope that permits light and refraction tests: A micro-pro-jector set with dissecting needles and slides; mineralogy, chemistry and electro-rhysics sets, and a , science-eeoop that magnifies mole- , cular explosions in full color, using the principle of the projecting mi- i t»croscope. Electric trains this year are ■ speedier. Train makers have introduced some new tricks In automatic signals and illuminated crossing , gates. t i; o I' Old Grad Visits Student, 59 Lubbock, Tex. — (UP) — Globe- i trotting Dr, Ogden King, freshman t at Texas Technological College its < opening year and a member of its < first graduating class, returned this term to visit his 59-year-old father, now a business administrator student at the college. 1 o , ( Blue Ink Bounces Back < Bristow. Okla. —(UP)—Because blue will not photograph rlainly, :

i- : Os ci*< ''* ‘**’ JP**** . <* w y> y ' * "The NIGHT Is COLD, The Welcome’s WARM!” Christmas comes once more, a messenger of joy and benign feeling for one’s fellow men in the bleak winter. It is a time of open hearts, warm and cheering as the open door of a lighted house, when the snow is crisp and the crystal moon hangs in a frosty sky. Schafer’s door, like every true friend’s is always open. For many years Decatur has found it the store with a warm heart, treating its customers not merely as bargainers, hut as friends! Today, to its growing numbers of friends, this company wishes one and all a “Merry Xmas”! SCHAFER’S A DECATUR INSTITUTION SINCE 1874 GREETINGS ’jPBB

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This patient is receiving pneumothorax treatment for tuberculosis, a painless method used widely in this country since 1912. Pneumo means air and thorax refers to the chest, and the procedure is to inject a gas into the space between the chest wall and outer surface of the lung. By this process the infected lung is put«to rest, thereby restricting respiration to the healthy lung. When tuberculosis is discovered in its early stages pneumothorax treat-

400 Bristow motorists who signed applications for state drivers lie- 1 enses with the blue ink furnished; by the license office here must re- 1 sign the applications —this time ut>ing black ink. o —— Wolves “Thick As Rabbits" Renfrew. Ont. —(UP) — Wolves are reported to be "as thisk as rabbits" west of here. An Ottawa hunter reported that the howling of wolves kept his deer-hunting party awake nights. One of th» party earned a sls bounty when he bagged a three-legged timber wolf. o Fire Apparatus To China Buffalo. N. Y. —(UP) —When fire breaks out in Canton, China, that city will be fortified to sigh: it witn apparatus made in Buffalo. The Buffalo Fire Appliance Company revealed that it has received an or-

went can save thousands of lives. Many men and women today are back at work, healthy and useful, because they can go to their doctors periodically and receive “refills’* ol air. Pneumothorax is one of the modern weapon# advocated by the National Tuberculosis Association and its 2.000 affiliated state and local associations. Their educational campaign is financed by Christmas Seals sold between Thanksgiving and Christmas. >

der for three pumpers for delivery j Ito the Chinese city. Q Tank Target Practice London —(VP) — More than 200 j young officers witnessed an antitank demonstration on Salisbury Plain which gave them some idea of ' what war can be like. When the “tank-lert” signal was given, a f air- . gun anti-tank batterv hurled a bar- 1 rage of iS-pounder shells at half a j dozzen cloth-covered skeleton tanks Shells registered direct hits. o Schooner Circles Globe Sydney (U.K) — Harold Nossiter and his two sons have returned , after circling the globe in their auxiliary staysail schooner yacht ■ Sirius in one year and two months, in .">O.OOO miles of sailing they used I their auxiliary engine for only 700 miles and chiefly for entering and leaving ports.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1937.

; (Jviwtmaz TOBY BARNES, just home from the office, stood regarding his wife with amusement. "You have the manner. Kay, of being about to leap up and wave a flag. What's happened?" "I've just discovered something important about myself." Kay’s short, light curls were becomingly haphazard. Her eyes were of an intense blue. She was slender and young and vivid. "I’m supremely selfish." She rose to her feet and gesticulated with both hands, "I want to be utterly, gloriously engrossed in ME!" They both laughed. Then Kay ran forward and dragged her husband A down into a wide, comfortable chair, squeezing in beside him. “You're a perfectly grand guy,” she smiled, “but this Christmas, my man, I'm going to be superbly selfish, as an experiment. Will you try it too, Toby?" “All right,” he agreed, “I’ll take you on." The next morning Kay tilted a pert gray hat on her curls, and walked imperiously to the shopping district. “I'm fed up with being poor, and scrimping and saving so I can be generous in mean, little ways. Today I . . . spend on myself!" She felt guilty and ridiculous, and she turned her eyes away from a haberdasher’s window where gentlemen’s furnishings were invitingly displayed. Toby needed masses and masses of things. No, just this once she would spend with a bang all she had on something frivolous for herself. Toby had promised to do the same. At noon she happened to notice a tall person standing by the next store window. He was absorbed in thought Kay hardly breathed while the man suddenly plunged into the store door. She crept close to a sheltering pillar while she watched what happened inside. She saw the man point to a woman’s rich, quilted housecoat. She saw him pay for it, and leave, but without a package under his arm. Just the sort of housecoat for which she had yearned hopelessly. She gasped in dismay. For one hot second she was possessed with anger. Toby wasn’t playing fair. He had no right to make her feel ashamed and abject on Christmas morning!

When Toby's flapping overcoat was out of sight Kay slipped into the same shop, going straight to the counter her husband had left. “May I inquire,” she asked crisply, “if that quilted housecoat just purchased, is to be delivered to Mrs. Toby Barnes?” She gave the house address. The clerk was startled into admitting the fact. Kay threw up her chin. “I asked my husband, Mr. Barnes, to step in here today to buy that for me. I've changed my mind. May I exchange it for something else I prefer?” The clerk weakly nodded. Christmas eve found Kay a bit cryptic. Toby carelessly inquired if a package had been delivered that afternoon. Kay said yes; it was waiting in the closet. And it was, though not quite what Toby supposed. Kay was excited as a child on Christmas morning. There were waffles for breakfast and especially good coffee. Afterwards Mrs. Toby Barnes shoved her tall husband into his big chair. “Sit there," she commanded him, and left the room. “When is this fine exhibition of selfishness going to begin?” he shouted after her. “I want to see it in action!" Kay returned with a large package elaborately wrapped. Toby looked pleased. “There you are," ' he said. “I'm sorry, Kay, to fall down on our agreement, but I knew you wanted the darned thing.” “There you are!” cried Kay hurl-' ing the box at him. “I simply will not let you squander your money on expensive things for me, Toby.” Toby opened the box, drawing forth a manly, well-tailored dressing gown for a tall gentleman. “You know,” muttered his wife in a small voice, “you haven't a thing to sit around in at home.” “So this,” he raved, “is the great exhibition of selfishness! And where is your housecoat. I'd like to know?” i Kay, in a thin, quivering voice, begged him to be kind while she ex plained. z • Western Newspaper Union.

MERRY CHRISTMAS coooc**** May this Christmas be full of joy and contentment for you. We are d e e p 1 y grateful for the attention you have given us this past year, and hope our pleasant relations will not be interrupted in 1938. THE DECATUR BAKERY A HAPPY christim* YULETIDE As the Christmas season draws to its climax, we wish to thank you for making this a very merry Christmas, and of wishing you complete happiness for the season and throughout the New Year. HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. SEASONS greetings sS X X We sincerely hope that the coaling year will mean continued prosperity and happiness.. . . for you and your friends. We are content if we have, in some measure, made your daily life more pleasant. CITY NEWS STAND — 1 ■■■"■' I ■■ ■ — ■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■ . mavthisbe YOUR HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS Through the hard times and the good time we have enoyed our associations with the customers that patronize us. It is with genuine appreciation that is from the bottom of our hearts that we wish you at this time the heartiest Christmas Greetings.... 8. J. SMITH DRUG CO.

rak ■! k GREETINGS W ■■ TO YOU AND YOURS'I Merry Christmas! Your kid I cooperation has made I our unusual success and ,*.* I preeiate .t This is the I when we like to renew J, I friendship for a coming year i may it bring to you ermthi I you desire, good health and hart I pmess. p I HOLTHOUSE SCHUTE4(j| CHRISM We are hoping that everyone of you enjoy the happiness of Christmas and the holiday season. We wish to take this opportunity to express our thanks for patronage and hope that we may serve you throughout the future years. R. N. RUN YON & SON J * -Z, eJi toGHEETIfIGS MERRY CHRiSf " 1 We take this opportunity to wish one the best for a happy, nu ' rr - Christmas. May the joy of successful achievement be yours tor this Merry Christmas and throughout the many months 01 the New Year. C. A. DOUGLAS M. chwstmm GREPT!NGS TO EVERYONE We are deeply furattention you have giv ing the past year, and yoU in we may i-ontinue 10 s r ; 1938. May a kindly BURK ELEVATOR