Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1914 — Page 3

EVERY GERMAN HAS ATREE

7 *» ■■! K HE Angl i-Saxon notion of th© German /K 7 Christina J is drawn from childhood hours < spent ov r Hans Andersen and Grimm, and the sigh of a Christmas tree brings to mind tle woodcutter tramping home through he snow-laden forest, trailing ber hind bin the fir tree for his family ChristyQx ! mas eeh bration, while, in the towns, the Pv// black qu idrangle of the venerable marketfl place is ricked out in lights blazing on the

trees in the windows bf the gabled houses. Some 50 years ago, before the German giant had awakened from the sleep of centuries, this idea of the peaceful German Christmas was correct. But of one of the burghers of old Berlin, returning from making his Christmas purchases on Christmas eve, vyere to be transplanted into the roaring hdb o empire which his Haupstadt has become, the good man vould probably expire on the spot. Fifty years ago, zhen Berlin was a. dirty, unpretentious, provincial own, with ill-lighted, ill-paved streets, with a renowned even in those days for its surly manners and uncouthness, and with the iron hand of militarism unchecked over it all, the Christmas festival was the tranquil celebration of .which one has read. In the Lustgarten, before the castle, a Christmas fair was annually established which the king and royal family used to visit to buy jumping jacks and gingerbread for the palace Christmas trees, like any other German family. The Lustgarten fair has passed away, the king of Prussia has become German emperor, Berlin has developed into a fair apd beautiful city, and all that remainsi of thei Christmas of once upon a time is the spirit —indeed, a precious inheritance. That stfll holds supreme sway, and rests concealed in the branches of the myriads of Christmas trees which rich and poor alike set up in their homes on t|ie eve of the feast. Otherwise the old German simplicity has vanished. In the house of the rlct merchant electric lights take the

place of the'‘Christ cat dies,” and the motor cAr o t the steam yacht wMgp he | gives his son as a ChrUtniasl present can .find no place |nder the Christmas tree, as d d the woolen comforter, the tandful of gingerbread, 01 the new skates in the day < f his father. Caruso or Destii n on the gramophone take] the place of the Christmas hymns which used to be sung as an act of pious reverence to the “Tannenbaum,” or perhaps even, horriSile dictu, the) tree will be fastened to a clockwork contrivance whicq, on being wound up, revolves to a tune jangled out by a musical box. The bulging one-storied shops with gingerbread and gilt angels stuck in their diamond-paned i window fronts have vanliihed, and their places are taken by stores bjiilt on the same style of palatalal magnificence as ac r ofs the Atlantic. Froni the

_.hnlng of December till the feast they devote a considerable portion of their space to Christmas bazars, where one imagines one’s self transported to Toyland. There are tremendous set pieces with electric trams L airships and railways trains (careering about amid wonderful papier mfiche mountain scenery ravishing visions; of fair doll-women and aj-my on army corps,of the most gallant tin scS/'em that fever manned a fort. ’ The air is rent with an ear-splitting cacophony of noise emitted by mechanical toys, and the Atmosphere reeks with the smell of shavings and glue, that peculiar pungent odor of the toy shop which brings back to the old fogies the mysterious delights of the birthday table. On Christmas eve every German must have his Christmas tree. Whenone passes through the streets on a wet Christmas eve--the sparkling frost and snowy mantle of the feullletonii it rarely put in ah appearance before January—one has the curious feeling of being in the midst of 60,000,000 of people all engaged in doing the same thing. Onecan ima jlne the traveler, looking on the thousands of Mohammed ins laboriously threading their way across the desert of Mecca; to win regarding the scene with similar emotions. For when 1 say every German, it is literally true. The streets of Berlin are deserted, save for the cars and omnibuses and cabs, and an occasional i ollceman, and from behind the blinds of the windows the candles on the Christmas trees, throwing out their little 1 mams into the darkness of the night, as did the star to he shepherds nearly two thou-

COULDN'T STAND THE OUTLAY

Wombat’s Personal Appe srance Did Not Count Under the I Existing Circumstances. “Excuse me, Won?bat,’' said the well-dressed one, "but personal friendship prompts me to speak.' “What is it, old‘chap?” “I fear that, unless yc d Improve your personal appearance, you may loss your job.” I ■*! hope not” I

Constant Christmas

By Phillips Brooks

OH, never failing splendor, Oh, never silent song! Still keep the green “earth tender, . Still keep the gray earth strong. Still keep the brave earth dreaming Of deeds that shall be done, While children’s lives come streaming Like sunbeams from the sun! Oh, angels, sweet and splendid, Throng in our hearts apd sing The wonders which attended The qomlng of the King.

‘’You need a new hat.’’ ■ “Um.” “You need a new suit-" "Um.” "You need shoes. Man alive, your feet are on the ground!” “Quite trlic,” admitted Wombat, with a sigh. “Then take this week’s salary and spruce up.” "Can’t squander any money on myself, Old man. My wife is worse off than I am.” A " •'Dear mol How is thatr

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baum at this holy season of the year. In the German colonies, under a tropical sun, where the cactus must perforce replace the native Hr, Christmas celebrations are held and the same songs sung as at home im lieben Vaterland. • ;■ . Naturally, when all Germany’s children are celebrating, her model family leads the way. At the imperial court Christmas ’is celebrated in exactly the same way as in every- other household throughout the empire. Two especially fine specimens of fir are selected by the royal foresters for the emperor and empress, and other treesin diminishing size for the numerous other members of the emperor’s immediate family, that is, his six sons and one daughter, the wives of his three married sons, and his two the latter being favored with proportionally tiny trees. Tfie whole number are set up in the shell hall of the new palace at Potsdam, where the kaiser always spends Christmas, and the various - gifts, about Which the same secrecy is observed as in the families of the bourgeois, are disposed at the foot of each separate tree. But before the imperial family celebrates the feast, the emperor and empress attend the “feescherung,” or presentation of gifts to the members of the imperial household, valets-de-chambre, personal attendants, lackeys, and footmen. On the afternoon of Christmas eve the emperor, ac. companied by an adjutant whose pockets are stuffed with newly-minted five, three, and two mark pieces, takes the traditional walk through the park of the new palace and distributes money to the beggars who rally in great force. He has a kind word or a cordial greeting for them all, nor does he forget the guard at the gates of the palace.

HELPING SANTA CLAUS.

- ■ - - ■ \ Within a few years there have been organized several associations whose purpose it is to assist parents/ especially mothers, in the proper development of their children.

girls they would receive these gifts, rather tried to impress upon them the idea that if they did not ask for more than they should receive, that is, were not selfish, they might get-them. With this admonition I coupled the idea that Santa Claus needed help, especially in reaching the poor, the sick and the unfortunate. I told my children to heSp Santa Claus all they could, and every year they have'managed to discover some poor child or some sick or unfortunate boy or girl for whom they have provided gifts. In thus helping Santa Claus* they have found so much pleasure that they have quite forgotten their own desires beyond the mere expression of them. They have at Itfast curbed their selfishness, and I think that I have led them to be generous to some extent.” In this woman’s experience lies more of practical value than can be found in all the books that can be published by all the associations in christendom. She got at the root of the whole matter, and she applied the proper remedy—a remedy that did not directly curb, that did not punish, but effected by indirection the very result that she wished to bring about. How many parents are today treating the selfishness of their children in the same way? How many need to treat their children in the same way? And how many can easily begin even now by encouraging their children to help Santa Claus? My ideal Christmas: Home, the country, snow, holly, a Christmas tree, carols and kind faces and fond hearts about you.—Mrs. Brown-Potter.

sand years ago in fhlr Bethlehem. For Weeks before the festival'th dbsands and thousands of trees are brought by rail -and water from the forester of Thuringia and Mecklenburg to the capital where they, are sold by dealers on the public squares and places. In the last fortnight before Christmas the trim grass plots vanish beneath a forest of Christmas trees ranged up in endless lines, each resting on a roughly tacked-to-gether, deal wood stand. And here from eight in the morning till eight at night, according to paragraph so and so of the police regulations, the millionaire captain of industry, the uniformed official, the bespectacled professor, and the miserably paid, hungry looking school teacher rub shoulders, haggling and bargaining over their Christmas tree. Thfe latter can be had at all prices, from 60 marks for a forest king to 60 .pfennigs for a stunted dwarf. The one may be destined to be hung with coruscating electric lights and decked with diamonds for the banker’s wife, the other feebly illuminated with farthing dips and miserably tricked out with a handful of nuts for the workingman’s family. The men on duty at the electric plant stations on Christmas eve have their tree, as do the engine drivers as they sit in their quarters at the railway yards waiting for the night shifts. The soldiers in the barracks, the sailors at sea, the patients in the hospitals, the convicts in the prisons, even the poor, miserable wretches,' the submerged tenth, cowering about the fires in the refuges for the home-less—-they all have their Tannen-

Some of these associations look to physical development, others to mental and moral, and still others to both. In a little book prepared by an association of the last named class, the writer recently found, this statement: “Parents are as much responsible for the selfishness of their children as they are for their existence.” This rather emphatic statement led to quite a discussion of the matter with the mother of several children, who told the writer thkt she had been engaged ever since her first born in combatting selfishness and developing generous impulses in her children. In relating her experiences she told this little story: “At this season of the yeai my children got into the habit of expressing their desires for particular Christmas gifts. I did not tell them that if they would be good boys and

"She needs a new feather in her hat.”—Judge.

Milk for Gloves.

A simple and effective way to clean kid gloves is to draw them on the hands and go over them with a clean cloth dipped in skim milk. Wear them until quite dry. Or moisten a small sponge or piece of cloth in skim milk, rub it on a cake of castlle soap and with this sponge the gloves until they are quite dean. Wear until they are dry.

THOUSANDS OF AVAILABLE HOMESTEADS

Western Canada’s Homestead Area Being Increased. The great ■" rush for homesteads whenever a reservation is opened by the U. S. government reveals the fact, that therd is a great desire on the part of the American people to get land. The fact that tens of thousands are on hand at every opening, and only a few hundred homesteads are available shows that the available agricultural lands which are 'in the gift of the government are rapidly diminishing. In addition to this agricultural lands that are of proved value have advanced in price to such an extent that it becomes a serious question to the man with moderate means who intends to go into farming, where he shall go. Fortunately there is yet to be had in Western Canada, either in Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta, thousands of free homesteads of 160 acres each, which may be had, by the simple process of filing, paying a ten dollar entrance fee, and living on it for six months each year for three years. There is no necessity to mjike a long, tedious and expensive journey, Only to find you have one chance in fifty of getting what you want Although this homesteading has been going on in Canada for a number of years, and hundreds of thousands of them, have been taken by hundreds of thousands of Americans, there remains sufficient to last for some time, and of as good land as any that has yet been taken up. In fact, in the opinion of very many, those that are. left are of the best. They comprise lands that give the opportunity’to indulge in the growing of grain, whether it be wheat, oats, barley Or flax, but in addition these lands are admirably adapted for mixed farming, a class of fanning that is certain to give better returns than that of all graingrowing. Cattle thrive and fatten on the nutritious grasses; dairying can be carried on successfully; timber for building is within reach, and water is easy to get These lands are located in the park districts of any of the three provinces; groves of trees intersperse the landscape and give it a beauty that can only be attained in the more open prairie sections by the planting of trees. Tree*Culture by the way is being carried on to a great extent. Besides these free grant lands there are lands which may be had by purchasing from railways and private companies ahd individuals. These lands have not increased in price as their productive qualities and their location might have warranted, and may still be had at reasonably low prices and on easy terms. The crop in West? ern Canada in 1913 was one of the best-.of the number ot good crops that that country has raised. Wheat has been reported with yields of from 30 to 45 bushels per acre, and other grain with like heavy yields—Advertiser meat

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HOPE TO RAISE LARGE SUM

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Household and Mental Order.

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One of the Guggenheims.

“There’s, nothing like putting the best foot foremost —putting the best face on the matter,” said Oswald Garrison Villard in a recent Baltimore address. “Why shouldn't we emulate Mrs. Sudden Rycbes whose father Was a policeman? “Lord Lackland said to Mrs. Sudden Rycbes at a luncheon at Sherry’s: " ‘What business Is your father In, madam?’ v “She flushed slightly, sipped her amber-colored Chateau Yquem, looked Lord Lackland straight in the eye, and answered: “ ‘Copper.’ “And Lord Lackland, remembering the pale palaces of the copper millionaires overlooking the park, said: ‘Ah!’ sagely, and was very much impressed 'indeed." »'

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