Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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Brass Cuspidors and
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Wood and Iron Beds
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Dreamland M ttress
G
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CHRISTMAS THINGS FOR BOYS
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serve yeu.
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a time when the prevailing styles of-
fered such a dainty array of collars,
and a box of assorted colors and kind:
would be welcomed by any girl friend
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Come in and let us show you our stock of
useful articles for the home; make your se-
lection and have it delivered at your com-
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Community Silverware
Electric Carpet Sweeper
Vacuum carpet Sweeper
Serving trays and Carts
Smoking Stands
Pedestals and Tabourets
Bed-Room Pictures
Dining-Room Pictures
Oval and Cabinet Pie-
ture Frames
Rocking Chairs
Dining Chairs
Work Baskets
Go-Carts and Cribs
Blanche Groves, of Bridgeport (6), who goes to Soo
work at Yangchow; Miss May Morton, of D His (S
Lancaster, of Brownwood, who will teach in the C "
A number of other young Texans are unti r
Clifton. New Boston, will do evangelistic work 1
of Fort Werth. will do educational work in Pern
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the Girls' School at Sao Paulo, Braz’l; Rev. and
Rev. and Mrs E. G Wilcox, of Tort Worth, to North B: a ll.
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This Christmas will be different—you are
considering only two things in your Christ-
mas shopping—ECONOMY AND SERVICE.
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Let your gift be FURNITURE or a GRAF-
ONOLA, and it will be both economical and
serviceable, because it can be a family gift
and something that every member of the
family will appreciate and enjoy.
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educational' work at Chengchow: Mrs. Joseph T Fiei er. Abllene (5), who likewise goes to Chengchow; Miss
- - - - ' “ ow; M‘ss Eva Sullivan, of Garner (7), who will do medical
wh wi l do educatio al work at Wuchow, and Miss Cecile
School at Rosario, Brazil; M*ss Agnes Graham
Mrs. B. W. Orrick, of Madisonville will do eva in
at her plan gave great pleasure to
e person, the aunt. It's a good idea
I be sure your gifts will be appr*ci-
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[very same idea might also be carried
into effect by the girl who loves to
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52deh ruly considered when buy-
FaT* ing gifts that are meant to
Kills Two Birds With One Stone-
Engagement Ring for Christmas
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USE OF CHRISTMAS STOCKING WHY SHE BELIEVED IN HIM
"Big Boy" Guinn wniams will be
Aturedin "Cupid, the Cowpuncher”
mdmmihcatre tonight. Be
will naturally ask at once why
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The telephone girl sits still in Aer
chair
And listens to voices from every-
where;
She knows all the gossip, she knows
all the news;
She knows who is happy and who
has the blues;
She knows all our sorrows. sho
knows all our joys;
She knows all the girls who are chas-
ing the boys;
She knows all our trouble, she knows
of our strife;
She knows every man who talks
mean to his wife;
She knows every time we are out
with the boys; :
She knows the excuses that bach
man employs. 1
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should struggle against a passion
which is admitted by all to be the
source of the greatest happiness
known to humanity. But I could not
regard the matter in a selfish light. It
was done. Miss Clara, because I have
doubted all along whether a man In
my circumstances had it in his power
to make a girl like yourself, who has
been reared In such luxury. entirely
happy In the new and changed con-
ditions that matrimony leads to. Was
it right in me. I said to myself to
Jeopardize your happiness by asking
you to share the lot of one, who, while
his present salary is a fairly com-
:hool at Kumamoto, Tapan.
• 't ’bo board to go to other fields. Mr. and Mrs. R A.
tha Lee " , of Hillsboro and Miss Essle Fuller
ss Mild d ' hi is, of Austin, goes to the Gir‘6
; A. moes to the fir s School at Temuco, Chile; Rev. and
k in Argentina; ” ss Alice Bagby, Fort Worth, goes to
1 Cowsert, of Milford, to Fort Algere Field. Brazii, an
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this brief explanation I beg of you
therefore to look at my gift, and, if
your heart tells you to do so, accept
it from the man who loves you above
all others."
Hastily breaking the seal the young
girl he addressed gazed for a brief
interval at the beautifl object that
lay in her hand. Then advancing
swiftly to where he stood she threw
her arms around the neck of the man
who had so worthily won her. ex-
claiming with a glad cry:
Youngsters Like Presents That Af-
ford Amusement as Well as Being
of Educational Nature.
Christmas Anmals
They're red.
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Me hey’re for hahy
m- inke goont hewing
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group as follows: Miss Zemma hare, of Ora ge
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The Empress of Japan, the Canadian Pacific -ine ou wnch practical./ 1uu Souther.i Baptist missionaries
sailed from Vancouver. B C.. August 17, for Ci a a d Jann. Light rew m ss onaries from Texas were in the
■ _ w io will do educationa work at Kaifeng, China; Miss Laura
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sSrinufacture of one style of article for
Good St Nichola6, Saint of Fourth
Century ot Christian Era,
Foundr of Custom.
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fortable one, is not at the same time Cedar Chests
prepared to say positively that he will -euar - 15
succeed? I have now put the case Thr-ry Tahlos
before you. I know you to be a sensi- —1a - -a-
hle girl, and one whose intuitions I . , 1
am sure will lead you aright After Dnng TaDles
Axminster and Velvet
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Feather Pillows
Ar ay Blankets
Id Beds
Iab e Beds
Gas and O i Stoves
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[^■17 -aid Mr. MacNerve, as lie
6 ook from his inside pocket
a small package and handed it to the
young lady in question, "I think it
best to acquaint you. In my imperfect
way, with the state of my ........gs.
To come to the point in as brief and
practical a manner as possible, sparing
you all the unnecessary details. I may
as well tell you at once that I love
you. From the moment that I first
met you I was fully aware that this was
inevitable. The more I set my mind I
against it, the more I struggled to con-
trol myself—to be strong—the more
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pie engine that can be made to run
gives hours of pleasure; then there is
the popular pushmoblle, the wonder-
ful Joy everlasting, while snow and
ice lasts, sled and ice skates. If the
young man is a collector of stamps,
large packages of foreign postage may
be had. and the nearest approach to at-
tending a moving picture show is to
give the boy a postcard projector with
which he can have a picture show of
his own and Invite the other boys if ho
wants to.
To these few suggestions may be
added games, boy scout stories, numer-
ous articles of wearing apparel and
possibly a waw h. an Indian or some
other masquernde outfit, a wigwam
and so on through nn indeterminate
list, but give him something lie wants.
appeal to his inventive mind, or wheth-
er we simply purchase for him some
toy or object of entertainment which
we in our nevr-failing Judgment think
fit that he should have. It happens
oftentimes that the boy who would
give half his little kingdom for the
Humpty-Dumpty circus that some
other small youth received as his share
from the Christmas pack receives a
nektie, a pair of gloves and books,
and vice versa. With the host of
wonderful inventions for the enter-
tainment and education of childhood,
why not study the boy's bent and give
him something with which to develop
ills hent?
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There might be found in the Piene j a hos of tools, and these very desirable
bag all sorts of hits of silk and rib- i otir- may be had in any size desired;
I bon which could be fashioned Into the | aml-r lad of the spirited age of ten
daintiest of dressy stocks, as well as •I rwelve. would like a football and a
) bits of lawn and percale which would I
do nicely for stocks for every 'lay
wear with cotton shirt waists. The
gift of a box of stocks might be made
valuable if the box Itself was a thing
of beauty, and this could be brought
to pass by the girl who is expert with
her needie. Giving the same sort of
gift to a large number of people is
perfectly proper if the gift is one which
is calculated to please everybody.
We've heard the story of a nice old
rdy who always made pin-cushions
Ir ir all her nieces and mittens for all
fofr nephews every year. It was s»M
our own re-
post matter
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rate;
thoughts
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CHEAP ENOUGH
She: Now George, I want you to
give me something cheap for Christ-
mas.
He: I was going to offer myself.
r—MIIA WOMAN tells in recently .
-Ma published magazines how
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c. mas" for the benefit of her
'"Ln many friends. She con-
suited the piece bag, and from it drew
forth the materials for making any
quantity of dainty sofa pillows, all des-
tined for different friends. The cost
of the materials was chiefly that spent
a silk cords, for embroidery silk and
D filling for the completed pillows.
Mearly all the pillows were made by
Muching figures cut from contrasting
Haterials on a chosen background.
■ nd the result was completed. The
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“Dearest, how can I doubt you!
Any man who is cute enough to kill
two birds with one stone by giving a
girl an engagement ring for her Christ-
mas present cannot help but succeed !”
CFORE opening the slight
k Christmas token I have
2 rought you. Miss Clara,"
pH heile delight o'er that which serves
i aiaetete* hi mnuniu rte vers air
sum- t nae caught the uspiration
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If the telephone girl told but half
that she knows
it would turn all our friends into bit-
terest foes;
She would sow a small wind that
would soon be a gale.
Engulf us in trouble and land us in
I jail.
She would start forth a story that,
| gaining in force,
1 Would cause half our wives to sue
for divorce.
She would get all our churehes mix-
ed up in a fight;
She would turn all our joys into sor-
rowing night.
In fact, she would keep the whole
world in a stew
if she told but one-tenth of the
things that she knew.
Say. kid, but don't your head
whirl
When you think of what you owe the
telephone girl? I
Scan any paper that carries tha
geibhral news of the country and y9f
ea ‘riend,three th n"
1 to honor hupresen- 'e(
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U iSTNIAS stockings have
#-1-u ne down to us from the
13 good St. Nieholas. who was
18.9 a su nt of the four: 11 cen-
tury of the Christ an era
and was boru December 6. 342. in
Lyda. Asia Minor. He was regarded
as especially the patron saint of chil-
dren. young girls and sailors. The
Christmas stocking custom arose as
follows:
It seems that St. Nicholas, who was
the archbishop of Myra, lived in the
same town with an impoverished no-
bleman who because he had no por-
tions to give his daughters, and indeed
no means with which to support them,
was about to sell them into a life of
sin. St. Nicholas, who was accus-
tomed to dispense his large fortune in
gifts of charity, resolved to rescue the
young women. As he ar" roached
their house wondering how he should
proceed, the moon shone out and dis-
played an open window. Instantly St
Nicholas threw a purse of gold in at
the window which, falling at the feet
of the father of the girls, enabled him
to portion his oldest daughter. The
second time St. Nicholas visited the
house he also was able to throw a
purse of gold through an open window,
thus providing for the portion of the
second daughter. On the third visit
* the father, watching for his benefac-
I / tor, cast himself at the feet of the
' saint and cried :
h “Oh. St. Nicholas, servant of God.
R why seek to hide thyself?”
B The saint made the father promise
• not to reveal his benefactions. From
■ this habit of bestowing gifts tn secret
■ and under the cloak of night arose the
I practice of putting out shoes or stock-
I ings for the younger members of the
A. family, so that the good saint would
M. be able to fill them without being spied
on. At one time it was the custom
W for young women pupils in convents
F) on the even of Saint Nicholas to hang
/ their new silk stockings on the door
4 of the apartment of the abbess. They
■ would also write notes calling the
| attention of the good St. Nicholas
— to their stockings. In the morning
' tvhen the convent pupils who had not
his 13 ie home for the holidays arose they
L +L ecqariably found their stockings filled
1 tne’h sweetmeats.
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Youmkast be sure to
OH BOY
“I shall hope to catch you under
i the mistletoe Christmas eve.”
2 “If you do, I warn you now. 111 be
too biksy to aee you."
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