Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 29, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 December 1920 — Page 4

JASPER WEEKLY COURIER By BEN ED DOAVCi.

ASl'KU. Illlll.il- rill'vTV. INDIAN "Enteret! a- "mihI-c!: .- - - it'.cr et the puloflireiit J"ppi I i:l . 'lti.ler the act of March 3, 1897 -nr.-. icn 'J 0 I'er Yesi. tbs FaPel f " "l"1 re?alar,y ,tls jOzsriDen until a l'ör !te order to liscontinaeie receivoä ' -':i:t paid n'iill: nnless in ti. citere'don ' tlie publisher a different course shoal J be deanie- advisable. FRIDAY DECEMBER 10. 1920. FARMING, A PROFESSION. One of the greatest ami ur.M urgent economic problems pressing upon the people Of the North American coutiijet is how to make farm life attractive, and how to retain young people on the farm. With the ever-increasing drift to the cities, the world is threatened w ith starvation. We are told that the young people are being attract1! to the "professions," which In some-cases are being lamentably overcrowded. What is a profession? How distinguish it from a trade or an occupation? A recent writer specifies four marks which characterize It. A profession implies a special bodytrf technical and scientific knowledge, an extended period of study and practice, nisvrviee rendered which is essential to public welfare, the recognition of definite moral obligations by Its members to each other and to the community. Why should not farming be exalted as a profession? The day Is long past when it can be classed with unskilled labor. Vastly more Is required tlian being able to hoe potatoes. Our agricultural colleges are establishing n high standard. In the scientific, business, and political worlds farmers are taking high place by virtue of their education and practical training. Thai ?.o largest welfare of the community v very dependent upon them needs no argument the last five years has furnished practical demonstration wheat had more to do with the winning of the war than any other single factor. Ys to professional ethics few have acted upon so high and unimpeachable moral standards as the tillers of the soil. Rag Dolls Every Christmas the rag doll makes Its appearance. There are rag dolls of high and low degree. Two highclass little persons are shown in the picture. These are made of heavy domestic cut by a paper pattern which can be bought. Their faces are5 painted with water colors, their hair made of yarn, and they are completely dressed with clothes that afford the joy of taking them off nnd putting them on. Even their slippers may be made of Mack oil cloth. One of these baby dolls Is supposed to be a boy and he has a pair of rompers Instead of a dress wulcr his coat Tho nrst tum; uey used to ask a man from the farm when he came to tho city was "How are all the family?" The first thing they ask him now is Tlow is the apple crop?" Consumers are astounded to learn that the cattle and sheep raisers are In urgent need of financial assistance, and wonder what became of all the I money paid in recent years for meat, wool and leatlter. An nplnrist says the only tUne bees Ftlng Is when they are pressed or when ! they do not feel well. You may be able to recall a barefoot boy who once tipon a time had the misfortune to disturb the patleuu in u bee hospitul.

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Santa Claus Favors Christmas wouldn't seem natural if a new pincushion failed to make, its appearance. Three new ribbon-covered cushions shown above Include a lohg roll covered with moire and edged with a frill of plain ribbon, a small mund affair edged with lace, and a barrelshaped, hanging cushion, decorated with lace, baby ribbon and satin-covered fruit v THE TERM OF LIFE. 1 A rule which holds fairly true among ...t , .

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nit; iiioer niaininais is mai an animal , , 11......, -I it , candles. Sometimes one of them, nearhe, lue times as long as it requires wl ovj?r or bcj for its muscular system to reach its merelv a ark of fl.llWf but ncar t0 full strength. The dog is full devel- something inllammable and be a menoped at between- two and three years ace. '

of age, and lives 13 years; the horse reaches his prime not later than five. anu li ne escapes overwork and 111 usage, lives- to be 23 and even 30. In fact. U.o rule seems to be an understatement of animal expectation of ' life, rather than an overstatement. The one conspicuous exception is man, who seldom reaches his full muscular strength before he is- 23 and counts j himself living on borrowed time if he ! passes the age of 70. If man were as j atter as ! well circumstanced in this matu tho horsn ,in. ,nf Me o,,. 1 - - - , vavj v VIII) I1IO 11 I 1.1 llC LV.111J of life would vary fronr 110 to 123

the case thu badly makes it sound , ..,! mn-e Christmas day a merry defantastic, yet if there is any reason : light for the grown-ups in spite of why human beings should not be as i ihese unfortunate conditions.

tenacious of life as other higher mainmnlSTTS'cience has failed to discover that reason. Call things by their right names. We are always Willing to give a proper name to the thing we dislike. But we do not carry it far enough. ' AVe give big No. 12 names to some of our little No. 2 troubles. We give a big highsounding name like "sacrifice" to some act which really consists in a plain sort of duty. We are hypnotized by j words. And it is a harmful condition to encourage. It affects the mind badly. Little difficulties are made to swell up until they fill our whole horizon; while the real big-blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing. Let us go back to the honest use of names, says iuuiuuni -iiiueiJenueiir. yv e ougni 10 i bp nc nrpnrntn I h . . . 1. , .1 1 a. X T T 1 . . difficulties as about the size of our shoes. The ex-emperor of Austria Is report ed to be seeking the throne of Hun-H gnry. One would "suppose the deposed kings had enough of the business, especially when experience proves they cannot run it, but that does not hinder the desperation with which they cling to a job too big for them to manage. In view of the1 increasing tide of democracy, thrones, especially made-over ones, are a shaky investment. Continued reports come of the falling of the soviet government in Rus sia, but it is to be feared the wish is t father to the report. The soviet idea is still functioning, to the destruction of Russia and the enlightenment of the rest of the world, but th Russians have not yet so far progressed as to throw it off for a civilized rule. In 1700 only 20,000,000 pounds of tobacco were sold in the United States. Last year the sales reached 914,000,000 pounds. This Is an Increase that has been exceeded only by the nuinher of tobacco "users who never have any. Veterans of the overall movement of a year ago point with pride to the fact that they gave the first kick that started the downward movement of clothes prices. In time we may have an organization of Ancient and Honorable Sons of Overall Wearers. V ...... . . ,1 1 1 I While there has neon a decline in the wholesale prices of foodstuffs , the retailers seem not to have heard 1

the news. Uncle Sam should under- j that d.jy, and In many parts of Engtake the job of shouting it In their j hind aud Scotland even the lower anlcirl mals are given an extra fceVTing that , they, too, may have cause for rejoicing when all mankind are glad. Many 1 It is entirely probable that a few readcrs win remember Hums' address ;

hundred thousand French soldiers : would like nothing better than an or- j der to proceed through Germany to ! Poland, and to meet with armed re- : sistance on the part of the Germans. "One needs money to go to the tnoop," says Professor Goddard of Clark university. Thus have we an eminent authority's opinion that the Important part of going1 up is coming down.

AVOID CHRISTMAS TREE FIRE

Utmost Care Should Be Used in Trimmlng, Thus Preventing Fatalities In the Homes.' sKOPLK cannot be loo carein guarding against fire hen trimming a Christmas; says a correspondent Good II o ü s e k e e p - have been scores of Christ - mas tree fatalities in homes and in Sunday schools which a little care might have prevented. The writer "once set a tree in a blase, consuming nearly half of it, tinsel ornaments going with the green branches. A tiny candle had been wired too high, and It took only a few minute; of its brisk heat to char a branch' above it and start a flame. A thick portiere was torn from its pole and thrown over the blaze. If it had not been at hand the light window curtains would have caught lire in another minute. Since that Christmas our tree has always been placed in the center of the room, and we have eschewed cotton wool, tissue-paper angels, and celluloid ornaments. First of all, we wire each candle securely In place at the furthest end of a branch which has nothinK above it, either f.r tree or trimn in Ihcn as the tree Is (lenmied we, watch earefullv tho fast-disannearingf Wr&3s; ! orirkr4 -p. lr,.lo n.. nllnmT,,,.A GOOD TURNS ON CHRISTMAS Chance for All to Aid the Friendless in Having Happy Yuletide Season. KAL purveyors of Christmas cheer may often find a market for their ,rt'eious wres outside the pale of -'Ii,ir.v 01 a homeless people are not necessarily poor,-and neither are i ..Ii 1 1 .n . l. ....... . . . . : l . i .... . "t necessarily poor -anil neither are Iy. Housekeepers who are short on There is always something peculiarly pitiable in the Idea of any one "Hocking alone" which should appeal touthe hoTse-maker without a family, so that this should be the occasion for her to gather in all the bachelor maids and homeless men of her acquaintance and give them a joyful opportunity to "fiock together."- Even the Scrooges, if she knows any, should be rescued from their lorrely bowls of gruel and persuaded to open their shut-up hearts and wear them outside for general inspection, as Dickens says, "For Christmas daws to peck at." Therefore, col lect six or eight of these birds of a feather who are destitute of near-by kith and kin and make your Christmas feast a center of good cheer for all the charming solitaires you are able to draw within its radius. ! Woman's Home Companion. --Hgv Good Year, for Violets. Sweet peas have been forced for the Christmas market only for many years past. They must be started blooming before the cold weather begins. Then t they will bloom all winter. Daffodils do not get in until February, hut' almost all the rest of the spring flowers, hyacinths; narcissuses, bavardia, and so on, are on the Christmas counters. Easter lilies, too. though rather cold ' .......... ... , . , auu wane mi vm isi mas, are soiu. lolets, "are fine this winter, deeply, darkly, beautiftniy blue. Some mignonette now. comes in enormous sprays. There are caVnations but the bright red Christmas carnation is the favorite. Holly comes from the hills of Maryland and the south. The wild nony supplies me maruet ami there ' , , if has never seemed to be any perceptihie diminution of the supply. Great quantities of it are purchased by all sorts of lealers, who decorate their j stores with it and send out a sprig attached to every Christinas parcel. : ! SAD FATE Wooden Soldier: After faithful service In the nursery for a year, I will be cast aside for a new toy this Christmas. Dumb Animals Remembered. The noblest observances of Christ - - - - - - j n,.ls nre j(S charities. In all ages and among all peoples the poo- have ul- 1 ways been bountifully remembered on ' of the alll(j farnKT to his mare when ' presemlng her with an extra feed of corn on New Year's day. 'A guld New Year 1 wish hee, Maggie. Hae, there's j J riPI to thy auld baggie. To Avoid the Rush. Soldier, just back from his harvest furlough, to the sergeant "My father j wants to know Tf I'll get another fur- ! tough at Christmas. Here Is the pic-i , ture of the pig that is going to be , killed."-liegende Platter.

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BOXES, OLD CHRISTMAS FAD Ancient Custom at One Time Developed Into Demand as Right and. Became Nuisance.

HE bestowal of Christmas boxes is of great antiquity. j Vfi S3 and Avas formerly the bounty j of well disposed persons ! who were willing to contrib- ! ut-4 something toward the industrious. Later the gift came to be demanded as a right and became somewhat of a nuisance. Long ago the Itoman Catholic priests had masses for every thing, and if vi shiA went to the West j Indies they had a box In her under the protection of some patron saint. Into which the sailors put money or other valuables in order to secure the prayers of the church. At Christmas these boxes were opened anil were thence called Christinas boxes. -Iii Kngland the day after Christinas is known as "P.oxing day," from the ; Christinns boxes which used to be in circulation, and in the British museum can be seen boxes covered with green glaze with a .slit in the side for money and presents. Qupjgjg ßßQ pgpj QUESTS UMU 1 Ul1 uuuol Container for Presents Attached to Backs of Chairs Withr Bow of Red Satin Ribbon. T HE Christmas bag is an innova tion planned by one housekeeper. The breakfast table is to be decorated with a mirror in the center, outlined as a star by holly sprigs, and with a slender cut glass vase in tho center I holding red chrysanthemums. Longstemmed flowers also radiate from the central star with the blossoms toward the plates of those for whom the flowers are intended. Every napkin lies beneath a Christmas card with a sprig of holly tied upon it with red ribbon, and to the back of every chair is tied a bag with a big red satin bow. The bags are of all sizes, and each is full of individual gifts. One is an opera bag, another a shopping bag in black and gold, still another is brown leather and gold nailheads', another a bag for collars and cuffs, another a gay laundry bag, one is suggestive of the scraps grandmother will putsinto it, and the other of books that a small girl will carry to school. All are as dainty and fine as careful workmanship and good materials can make them, and there will be fun emptying the materials out of the various bags. Differ en Chr;crs Birthday '"JMIE early 'Christmas weredi--A. v:!e;l av to t'.'e !a!e on i5 which the nativity ;f Christ should be t lelu :!'e.l. SsiiiK! (! these celebrated it on the first H or sixth of January, other groups 'j, observed September 21) and still i " another March 21 . As earlv as the fourth century, however, the j j period of the new year had been generally accepted as the time ,2 S for celebrating Christ's birth. $ X The WesterTi branch of the V.I church olisorved December 23 p W and the Eastern church Januarv s (5. Finally it was decided that all should celebrate December 23. ?k : Pope Julius I., who presided in yj ii the first half of the fourth cenv J ,-. !!,..! ...i.l. 1 t . fS. - oawnet me uaie. fli Roses at Christmas, The fact that we can get flowers-OUt of doors at Christmas time is In Itself a sufficient justification for growing the Christmas rose, but besides that it is worth -rowinir for Itself, rat " Country Life in America. Its largo white flowers, fully two Inches acrosk resembling those of a giant elngla glant elngla rose, although as a matter Of fact C belongs to the same family as the but j tercups. never fail to excite en thus! ashi in the season of snow and left The plant Itself grows only 6lX t0 j eight inches high, and tho large, greenish-white flowers arc borno in clusters and nestle closely among tho dark green leaves. Novel Christmas Salad Bowl. Py the time that the salad course arrives t the Christmas dinner all ; that surround the festive board are i apt to be warm. It will be refreshing I xo see tue salad come to the table III , a block of ice. Smooth the lee square wirb a hot flat Iron and make a cavity j In the center with the same utensil. I Por3er with crisp lettuce and sprigs J of holly and fill with salad. Place the block on several thicknesses of. cloth .... i ... . .... v . . v ..... ... i .. j or a deep platter and put around It a ! wreath of holly, DO IT EARLY Bug Doing your Christmas shopping now? Why it's a long 7 time off. Mrs. Snail I know, but the store is half a block away. An Easy Gift. Small boy, running up and displayIng slate : -"Just look, uncle, what I've done with my example! Got a whole million! I'll give it to you as a ChristI mas present." Fliegende Platter.

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Gift Mujjfs and Furs

r Those wonderful plushes that are now known as "wool furs" make neckpieces and muffs that are just as warm, just as imnusome ana more uurame mau uiose niaue ui mvius, auu mey are not at all hard to make. A set made of sea plush Is shown here. GOING TO CHURCH. Or better, make it a question: Are you going to church todav? It is a question whose answer in yoifr action concerns you more than it does the church. The churches might find other uses; the ministers might lind employment for their talents which would pay them higher salaries, goodness knows, ttut would our community and communities, our state and nation, be able to endure the loss? It is a question which permits of no debate. In large measure it is answered by the fact that the churches have ever since the foundation of the first one grown in number, in variety, in number of members and atlvndants. It is true that the number in proportion to the population has not, in general, grown. Nevertheless, the influence of the churches is such that the number of thosx) who feel their influence is greater in proportion to the population than it was three-quarters of a century ago, 0 says New Haven Register. Yes, the church, in this country, at least, stands as its own justification, and its accomplishment is1 proof of the necessity of its continued existence. The preachments of the psychiatrists that an active mind and body are conducive to sustained mental health have never before been so decisively demonstrated as in' the suicide slump of the war era. In England and Wales the rate declined by 25 per cent and in America from 191G to 1919 the suicide rate was lessened by 37 per cent . The actuating source of this sudden sunlight In darkened lives was, beyond all doubt, the enforced opportunity for service in the common cause, says Portland Oregonlan. The war engulfed a host of petty, personal miseries, drew men and women from the folly of self-pity and the dangers of morbid introspection and gave to each the powerful tonic of a task. So suicide fell. An extensive survey made by tlife United States Department of Agriculture shows that 90 per cent of the farm women do the family washing and more than' half of them are still using a wash board. Sixty-one per cent of the farm women carry water an average of 40 feet. Ninety-two per cent llie family sewing and mending, and a large majority do the family baking. The farm woman's work day av--in i ..... -i,-- -t. . jiuuia, inu Mino :suus. Tie department is eo-onemin" with ; tkI ?rtmultp Is co-optrat n Ith Statc C,kWS of -rIcuUur in an frt t0 !,rin?: a,,ollt better conditions for dornen on the farm, especially more home conveniences. As a result of this work I.imm) farm kitchens were remodeled last year. A Brooklyn motorist who killed two women and then drove away was sentenced to serve from five to ten years in the state prison. The sentence is called a very severe one, and while lt i"'ht to other opinion seem a light punishment for the reckless taking of two lives, It is the only way to deter other from tlm rrimlnoi n, lessriess which is making the death rate from accident mount up in all communities. The old bogle held up to women of J the rough treatment which would be j accorded them if they mixed with men j at the polls has nowhere up to date j materialized. On the contrary, the women have been treated everywhere i with the respect which is Innate in the average American man. ANNUALLY Toys for little Willie, Something for th cook; Make, with forty other things Jhe empty pocketbook.

WALKING AND TALKING' DOLLS

Lifelike Forms Gracefully Step Across the Floor Saying "Mamma" or Papa.M . OLLS that walk nnd talk and wink and roll their eves 1 nr Parisian Christmas novt,llles ,n toylnnd. These dolls seem almost human, as they walk in sprightly style across the floor saying ''mamma or "papa" Just as real children would. Walking dolls being a nw Invention, seem wonderful and brinjr screams of delight from little girls and boys, too, who watch with intense interest every step of the lifelike dolls, as they are exhibited in the shops. The machinery that moves the doll'a legs Is set in motion by a key that I inserted in the works at the waist line. The voice Is made active by works that are wound with a key. The eyes move as the body sways from side to side, just as the real children's eyes roll and blink, etc. CHRISTMAS WEEK IN ENGLAND Time When Scattered Families Are United and Tender Memories Are Revived. MANY and great are the changes which have occurred in England since Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol." but they have not affected tho national love fur the festival and the determination to preserve unimpaired the traditional warmth and heartiness 1 of Its celebration. Christmas week is still the great week of the year for the English people. It Is the one week when scattered families are reunited, when tender memories and old associations are revived, when friend greets friend with a cheery expanslveness in striking contrast with the characteristic reserve of the English nature, so, undemonstrative to those who do not know it well, apparently so distant and unsyrTipathetlc. From Wednesday all business will be suspended, not to be resumed till Monday morning. The whole nation will give itself up to good cheer and good fellowship, and for a brief season, all strife and controversy are hushed. and peace, charity nnd concord reign supreim Substitute for a Tree. We are not going to have a Christmas tree, writes a correspondent. To make them brilliant many pretty little ornaments are needed and they cost a good deal. My plan is for a barrel in place of a tree. I have the barrel now in a closet. It Is covered with old dark green cambric and the day beforo the great holiday I am going to pin sprigs of evergreen nnd 'holly over it. It will look pretty gay, I think, when it is filled with the gifts that are going, into it now, all prettily tissued and tied, and my son as Jolly Old Santa Clans stands over it to delve Into its mysteries and to proclaim tho names of those who are to solve them. I am sure we will enjoy our barrel as much as we would a tree. Ti v'. V. iU". v; 7. A v". I". vT, VU. U'l 1 Best of All Holidays g i ' rpAKING it all In all. It may 'A X be safely asserted that l' ?i Christmas Js the merriest and the ij best of all holidays, and one which is likelv to be observed for r & ages yet to come. Nations may rise and fall, new beliefs and re- i ligions may sweep away the old, Pi but that would seem, indeed, a (; dreary and empty year which J brought no merry Christmas in its annual round. May old FaiS ther Time long spare his bollJ? lay to mankind to gladden the hearts of all with its coming, $ and may each Christmas be Ö still merrier than the last. H An Ancient Christmas Dish! An Indispensable Christmas dish of ancient times was "frumenty" of "frumante." Here Is the recipe for making the dish according to a faithful old chronicler: "Take clean wheat and bray It In a mortar until the hulls be all gone off, and seethe- it until lt burst, and take it up and let It cool; nnd take clean, fresh broth and sweet milk of almonds or sweet milk of kino and temper It all; and take the yolks of eggs. Roil it, a little and set it down and mess it forth with fnt venison or fresh mutton." Frumenty was often served alone without venison or mutton. When served by Itself It was well sweetened. A DIG JOKE Duck: Now I hope I won't get a treatise on "How to Swim" for a Christmat gift A Form of Generosity. That fellow IS kind of hard to depend on." "He seems to be very generous. "Yes, He's a regular Santa Claus. "I don't understand." Tie Is willing to take the credit for giving you anything you want provid ed someone else stand the expense.'