Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 61, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 December 1918 — Page 6

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LACE COMES BACK I

I have been looking on this evening at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty French toy, a Christmas tree. The ree was planted on the middle of a groat round tabic and towpred high above their heads. Tt- wfis hHIUnnflv lierhrnrl hv

a multitude of little tapers & -. i i .1 t ana every wnere spanuuu aim jra giutereu witn ongnc oojecix. Tliere were rosy-cheeked dolls hiding behind the green leaves, and there were real watches (with movable hands, at least, and an endless capacity for being wound up) dangling from innumerable twigs. There were French polished tables, chairs, bedsteads, wardrobes, eight-day clocks and various other articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made In tin at Wolverhampton) perched among the boughs, as if in preparation for some fairy housekeeping. There were jolly, broadfaced little men, much more agreeable In appearance than many real men, and no wonder, for their heads took off and showed them to be full of sugar plums. There were fiddles and drums. There were tambourines, books, workboxes, paint boxes, peep show boxes, sweetmeat boxes and all kinds of boxes. There were trinkets for the older girls, far brighter than any grownup gold and jewpis. There were baskets and pincushions in all devices. There were guns, swords and banners, real fruit, made artificially dazzling with gold leaf; imitation apples, pears and walnuts, crammed with surprises. In short, as a pretty child before me delightedly whispered to another pretty child, her bosom friend, "There was everything, and more." CHRISTMAS OF LONG AGO Poignant Pangs Come Instead of Peace, as Season Causes Thoughts of the Past. Christmas, singularly. enough for a festival that is supposed to celebrate joy, is characterized by sadness. The time of year, which is supposed to be fraught with good cheer, is laden with pain. Instead of peace, there arc experienced poignant pangs. Nor is it cynicism which says so; the average man in the street will tell you the .same. Neither is crabbed age sponsor for the crotchets of the time; unless, indeed, crabbed ago begins in this hurried era when a man passes his majority. Nor Is the tragic contrast between the cloud, which now for the fifth Christmas darkens Europe and the world, and the bright star of Bethlehem the reason for the somber tone that sounds beneath the gay notes of the season, as the deep diapason of the organ rolls beneath the rippling melody. No; it is none of these things which imparts to Christmas the soraberness which is apparent to everybody who has passed Into years of maturity. It's memory that does it. Memory plays tricks with us on these days. Perhaps more than on any other holiday our minds revert to Chrlstmases that used to be. We like to think about it; we like to read the Christmas Carol, because It puts in everlasting .Words the emotion of gladness which Used to .dominate that day. No matter how humble the home, memory paints it In wonderful colors on this one day, from the time we jumped Irom the warm bed long before dawn and scampered across the cold floor to get; the stocking which somehow had been stuffed during the night, to the end of the plethoric homo festival, when, candy-smeared and tilled to the point of repletion we were rescued from the wreck of toys and packed wearily off to sleep, more or less troubled with painful suggestions of turkey and mince pie. There Is only one thing that can make Christmas real to a grown-up, and that Is to do something for somebody who cannot pay It back. That otherism is, we begin to suspect, the thing which dominated the Chrlstmases that used to be and made them so real that they remain warm in memory. Unless you would have memory become a dry specter, you yourself must make real for little children of the now the pictures which memory conjures up for you of the Christmases that used to be. Saturday Globe. A Repeated Message. Everv vonr Christmas reneats its w - message: "Four God no more. He brings liberty to the enslaved, light to the despairing, purer joy to the glad. He is the Comforter of the Borrowing, tho Physlchm of tho sick, the Healer of the sinful, the Friend and Companion of man. Wilbur D.

month far famed! For festive days and nights renowned, Joy fraught, with hallowed benedictions c rowned; Life's annual clearing house for retrospective thought, Where pensive memory recalls the smiles, the tears, The hopes and joys of youth, the loves of vanished years, And sighs to seo the havoc, vsad. that Time has wrought. O hoary month! In regions of the nortli and cast The song of bird and rippling of tho brook have ceased. And Nature's thousand charms of summer days have lied, There Boreas reigns, fierce god of wind and storms; And winter all of verdure into brown and white transforms And loaves no trace of life and beauty sped. O happy month! When keen anticipation, sweet, Flies swift on wings of ardent love to greet With gifts the friend, tho lover or the kindred near. An Winter closer draws his icy fettered chains The heart expands and love unselfish reigns And snoods its largess to the ones most dear. Illustrious months of most Illustrious birth! Good tidings, peace and joy to all tho earth A heavenly choir announced when Christ was born, No other birth such mighty portent bore. This, l5rlnca of Peace whom heaven and earth adore. How thrills the heart at thought of Christmas morn! C. Oliver in 3-os Angeles Times. HIS CHRISTMAS RESOLUTION 0 oseovALK1 1 rt jurv, up jLoo The Day of Charity. "Christmas is Indeed the season of regenerated feeling tle season for kindling not merely the tires of hos pitality in the hall, but Jhe general j flame of charity In the heart. Wash ington Irving. S Then welcome, merryi Christmastide, : Another hour before we go $ 2 The rosy girl close at our $ side g We'll kiss beneath the X a mistletoe. X X Deep, mellow bells salute g xnc air w With benisons sent far J and wide. g Good will and joy go every- g where 5 Upon the golden Christ- V astide. g Joel Benton, ö

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OH looket here! My, wasn't Santa good! He gave me all the presents that he could. That's 'cause I always kept so neat and clean On Sundays dresst just like a fairy Queen. I minded darling Muzzer ev'ry day; Was careful of my dresses when at play, And held my Gran ma's yarn when she did kvs1. For that's the way I did my little bit. And when my Dad came home from work each night I tried to please him with my tiny might; Always brought his pipe and paper, too, So he could smoke and read it thru and thru. Dear Santa Claus, in Toyland, heard bout me, 'Cause my Muzzer said he said, said he, "I'll just give that sweet and 'bedient chile The very things she's wanted all the while." So see this pretty, sparkling Christmas Tree And the toys and things he gave to me; When 'ou re good like me and try to please Santa Claus will give you toys like these.

HOLIDAY SEASON IN ITALY Dr. Grenfell of Labrador Fame Explains Christmas Observances in the Sunny Land. Travelers visiting Home while it: was still the center of a land of peace, found Christmas there a day of joyousness; and the merry bells of many churches, ushering in the day, spoke the familiar langua; :e of home. Tust before the war, Dr. (irenfell, of Labrador fame, indulged in the unusual luxury of a brief holiday in Klimpe, after years of tireless service among tho fishermen. His journey brought him and Mrs. Grenfell to Jvoino Just as the many religious and civil observances of the Christmas season were about to take place. A great contrast these scenes were to the Christmases of icebound Labrador. The decorations, the greetings, and the crowds Hocking in and out of churches, emphasized the spirit of the season. "All the places of worship into which we peeped," he says, "were ablaze with lights, while processions of priests in glittering robes, with sonorous choruses and ascending incense, appealed to the various senses." At one church they viewed the five boards believed to have farmed a Prt of the cradle of our Lord. The American Episcopal Church of St. Paul, where they worshiped on Christmas morning, was crowded with the Protestant population of the Holy City. A feature of the service was the dedicating of a beautiful new mosaic, coveting one entire wall of the church and representing the nativity of Christ Of the Coliseum, says Dr. Grenfell, "we .-ould think of no place better to suggest to our minds the communion of the saints; and as we walked round the tiers of seats we could see again the 'men of like passions with ourselves,' giving their lives for the same Master we claim to serve." When darkness had feilen the travellers were attracted by numbers of bright lights over by the Porta San Giovanni. These proved to announce "all the fun of a fair" there In Italy Just as one finds them in this country at a "county fair."

BEAR, NOT BARE

The Boys Are All Away How shall wo wreathe tho holly? How hang: tho mistletoe? How shall we keep tho Christmas feast With tho joy we used to know. When on tho happy Christmas Day The boys aro all away? The holly pricked their Angers And brought woo drops of red, When caught beneath tho mistletoe Tho laughing lassies lied. No romping games this year we'll playTho boys are all away. But we will never shame the lads "With hearts so bold and true, We'll never mix our Christmas gTcena With sombre boughs of yew; With courage high we'll learn to say: "The boys aro all away." Wö'11 keep the heart and make tho home As bright as bright can bo And sin& the carols old and sweet Of Christ's nativity. Like Mary smile, the while wo pray For all the boys away. Ethelbert D. Warüeld. A Common Human Failing. It is undoubtedly more blessed to give than to receive; but it Is a hurmm falling to compare the valut ol

Christmas gifts.

Decoration for Frocks Promises Wide Popularity.

There Is No Attempt to Relieve the Neckline of Evening Gowns When They Are Deeply Decollete, By tills time It is quite apparent to even the casual observer, states a fashion writer, that old lace has come into its own again and that there Is a revulsion of feeling against the severe neck line except by women who know they look extremely well in such severity. It Is not especially trying when the decolletage is square, but when round, or V-shaped It takes a woman with remarkably regular features to An Oriental Frock for Dinner and Theater, of Bright Blue Satin and Black Thread Lace. The Bodice Is of the Latter. The Girdle Is Caught by a Placque of Colored Beads. carry it off. This refers to day frocks. There is no attempt to relieve the neckline of evening gowns when they are deeply decollete, as the bodice is rarely of heavy or opaque material. The introduction of an afternoon frock, which now means a frock worn for lunch as well as tea, but not for the ordinary purposes of shopping or patriotic work, with a deep U-shaped decolletage half filled in with a flat rullle of lace, has met with sufficient popularity to insure a reasonable measure of success, and one hears on every side the expression of pleased acceptance with a fashion that gives one a chance to have the face soft ened. Against this judgment there are a host of objectors who insist that the severe neckline is smart and that the other is out of the picture, but as soon as enough well-dressed women adopt the advancing method then she who is out of the picture will be in it. It is merely a question of the eye. We are the victims of visual familiarity with objects. Otherwise there would not be that complete change in the fashions which occurs season In and out. MITTENS ARE IN GAY COLORS Wnoln Hand Covennas Are Seen in Large Variety; Often Match Scarf or Cap. One reason put forward for the vogue for mittens is that one cannot carry a mull ana carry a nag, ana everv nntriotlc woman simply must carry a bag these days. Another rea son, and one that holds true of the woman of moderate income, is that fur is high and a new muff is out of the question. Then a lot of women are doincr outdoor work who never did It before. They aro exposed to the cold nipping air of morning and evening on their way to and from vol unteer or paid work. They drive automobiles and "conduct" street cars and act as messenger boys and collect bills, and for this work they need to have a protection for their hands that is more substantial than the kid glove or fabric glove of other days. Hence tho mitten l The prediction was made some months ago that the smartly dressed woman would be wearing shaggy angora gloves and mittens and some peo ple shrugged their shoulders and felt sure that there was nothing that would tempt the well-dressed woman away from the conventional kid. Surely the fact that they had almost doubled in price would not have this effect on the woman who took dressing serious ly. But tl)e vogue has come, and where well-dressed women are seen In outdoor attire there one also sees woolen gloves aud woolen mittens. They are made in the gayest colors. often to match a woolen scarf or cap, and as the season advances they will be even more in evidence than they are now. Linings Are Colored. A notion reminiscent of the blouses of several seasons ago, when many colors were transfused by means of many linings placed one above the oth er, is shown in some clever blue blouses of georgette through which red, canary or petunia shows part o the way to tho yoke and again for

cuffs and collar.

BLACK VEILS ARE PREFERRED

Color Takes Lead for Universal Btcomingness Blue Alto a Strong Favorite With Women. The possibilities of the veil are practically unlimited. Chosen with care with regards to color, size and design, a veil has power to make even the plainest women startlingly attractive. On the other hand, a. veil can make a really pretty woman hopeless. Perhaps the most important consideration Is coloiv Black must take the lead for universal becomlngness. After that ccmes blue; but it must be quite a dark blue, and preferably of a coarse, undotted mesh. The blue veil Is becoming to blonde and brunette alike, and is wonderfully effective In suggesting fineness and clearness of skin. Most trying of all though, is tho white veil. Only she who knows her type to perfection and has proved the becomingness of the white veil should attempt it But brown veils for charming red heads by all means! As to size or shape, the unlmpeachably groomed person may go In for the long flowing veil, hanging loose from the face. But the average woman, if she would look her triggest best, must have her veil snug. Unbeautlfylng splashy scrolls of the all-over kind are usually not the choice of the carefully dressed woman, no matter how modish the pattern. The same thing is true of dots. Dots well spaced on a veil carefully arrangedhave a positive fascination. But you know the funny side of a dot misplaced, don't you? CHIC NEW SWEATER BLOUSE Garment Devised With Purpose of Conserving Wool, but Without Giving Up Good Points. An extremely serviceable and jaunty garment is the new combination sweats er blouse, devised by some one who wanted to conserve wool without giving up the good points of the sweater. A blouse of some gay striped silk is first made according to a pattern that opens down the front with fronts that fold back and join In a wide sailor col lar. But the sailor collar Is not made of the silk. Instead, it is made of wool of some color that goes well with the strikes In the silk, as are wide cuffs for the sleeves aud a foot wide hip sec tion that forms a tight-fitting peplum for the blouse. To put it on it is simply pulled over the head. It.ls charm ing to wear with the walking suic skirt, and the wool Is placed jusfc where the additional warmth under tho suit coat might be most welcome of frosty mornings. DUVETYN COAT FOR SERVICE This effective and serviceable duvtyn coat will appeal strongly to many. Who can resist the immense beaver collar and the "triple" pockets? OF INTEREST TO WOMEN More than C,000 women served as drivers and aids in the American Red Cross motor corps service. The khaki uniform was discarded and a new ont of Red Cross Oxford gray substituted. The first girl "bell hops" in Mon tana have been engaged at a hotel in Missoula, where the ' innovation has made a profound sensation among the ranchers and cowboys. Of the 30,000 women enrolled in the department of nursing of the Red Cross 700 have been assigned to tlte federal public health bureau, or to Red Cross service In this country. Swiss girl singers, sometimes assisted .by boys, gave street concerts in th principal towns and cities to r&lj money for a fund for the comfort of the soldiers guarding the borders of Switzerland.

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