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Tied with a ribbon of blue.
0h, there‘s many a trinket which I
have condemned
But I ve only high praises for you.
'l‘hrco linen Mndkerchletsi
if you can
For a. handicr token to a man.
Three in a box! Never mention the
price.
Christmas is coming once more,
And three linen handkerchief! al-
ways are nice
To give to the man you adores.
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the. plan.
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by a man.
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red SUX.
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Sentinel’s
Book Corner
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Conrad‘s New Novel.
it is impossible to skim rapidly
through Joseph Conrad's books and
“The Ilovcr" is no exception. \Vhile
the story in its skeleton is quite
slinplc it is written so that each sen-
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stops to think a hit and let the all:
nation take effect.
The scene is 111111 in France of the
iirsl Napoleon. Conrad has recreated
the times not by many characters and
'lul‘gl' :11-1-111-5. but by a. few characters
\1‘hn, though in a quiet place. have
-l-1'11n vitally effected by tile Revolu-
tion. .imn l’cyrol. the rover.
just returned with a. prize and has
1:11-11 discharged at the Port of Tou-
11111. .\ 11ml of gold cdin on the prize
11-11;1l1l1‘-.~1 him to settle as 11. retired
1‘1111-l1o11t11r in this section from which
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l'orqunrollcs. he becomes another
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1111111. 1 itoycn Bron. a sans- culotle,
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<tr unit'niul in the gulliotining of Ar-
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snw as an unwilling witness of the
I1111‘1‘0rs of the execution. Arielle l5
11:111'hcvl 111 or by her Aunt Catherine.
who fears that Bron will try to make
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:11riv-.1l (‘Onics i2ugcno Real. sent by
11111 Admiralty to put through a rath-
1-r absurd attempt to trick an Eng-
lish blockadur riding of: the coast at
this point. When l12ugene's love has
brought .irictte back to sanity. Pey-
rol r-«ulizos that he is Jealous of the
1‘1 '1 (11 it N‘zlhtili "0"“.5' but his long roving “fc h“
taught him control. Bron of count
11113 always had covctous eyes on Ar—
11- 110. In the end it is through Pey-
l 1111 3 long habit of quick decision that
bogcne, a baker and four motherlan-
children. who take her into the
family. a. happy home for her be-
cause she can give of herself to these
children who appreciate her.
Ilerlha‘s child. by the son of her
first employer. gives to the world
through music the depths of Her-
tha‘s soul. The boy never knows
his parents as be Is adopted when":
few weeks old by wealthy and. for.
tunately. appreciative, people.
Children's Books.
Nothing is more appropriate for
permanent gifts for children than
good books. and books for children
these days are such attractive and
worth-while affairs. This fall s. most
interesting A. B. C. Book by 0,3.
Falls has been brought out by
Doubleday. Page and co. The late
tors and an animal for such lens
are beautifully designedjvwood cuts.
so that the book Interests. the was:
young 5111111... to:- the letters and
animals and the older
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'I'T’SM'IGHTY NICE
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A NIGHT BEFORE
CHRISTMAS EVE
The authorship of "A Night. Be-
fore Christmas" is surrounded by
mystery. The name of Clement C.
Moore is associated with it. but the
poem is claimed by the descendants
of Major Henry Livingston of the
Third Continental Line, for him. Af-
trr serving his country. he. settled
down at his nm'estrul home. ”Lo-
cust Grove." I‘oughkecpsic. N. ‘11.
and lived the lift! of a country gon-
tlcman. Major Livingston was a
poet. musician and an artist. and
[fund of writing verses to entertain
his children.
It has been a wall authenticated
tradition in tho Gilbert! Livingston
branch of the family that my great-
great-grandfather. Major Henry Liv-
ingston. was the author of A Night
Before Christmas. says Cornelia
Goodrich in The Antiquarian of New
York.
At locust Grove. the Major wrote
his many poems. odes and rcbuses.
which he would read to his children.
coming out of his "den." as he called
it. to amuse them. The scene of the
poem tallied exactly with the nat-
ural scenery as viewed
windows of the Manor. "when out
on the lawn there arose such a
chatter." The beautiful lawn spread
out before the house with the lo-
custs and clms planted by his grand-
father. His eldest son was ten
years ‘old when his father read this
newly composed poem on Christmas
Eve and he was given the original
manuscript. highly treasured in the
secret drawer of an old desk and
taken to the \Vcst when. after mar-
riage.. he removed there from
Poughkcepslc, but it was burnt up
in a subsequent fire)
A young friend who was visiting
Major Livingston's family at. the
time. a governess it is supposed of
the Clement Moore family. was so
delighted with the poem that she
was given a copy: and it is supposed
that in the course-of time. with no
author's name attached to It and
unclai ed. that it was unwittingly
approx-land by Clement Moore af-
ter the death of Major Livingston.
An acrostic written on a helm of
Poughksepsle. Miss Nancy Crooke..
shows the 'same quaint humor and
catching metre as “The Night Be-
fore Christmas."
These two poems are so astonish-
ingly alike that internal evidence
certainly supports the claim of lla-
jor Livingston‘s descendants. where-
as none of the verses of Clement
Moore show the slightest relation-
ship with the quaint fantasy and
rollicking music of the beloved poem.
If M or Livingston was the author,
then s first house that Saint Nich-
Stevcnson's “Child's Garden of
Verses" ls published by Scribner in
editions varying from the very In-
illustrated by Maxileld Parrish or by
Jessie Wilcox mith. ‘Sci'ibner ullo
publishes a hildren's Bible" by
Sherman and Kent well illustrated
and put together, which like all good
books on the Bible for children
should be used along with the Bible
itself.
"Kidnapped" and ‘Mre Isl-
and” always come to mind when
thinking of good books. for children
and s. new and‘vory Interesting ad-
dition to the classics hu'eorne loan"
abridged “Pilgrim's'Progs-ed'pub- pub-‘
‘lishod by the Atlantic 110113.ny Pub.
lishlng 60.1110 Wit ”note.
has been taken out and. the fascia-.11
uni-m9, is left illustrated by sit-
as
amused-n; -.
from tho“
expensive to larger ones delightfully ~
”the stump
1-1th which will be a 19:39 my
oias visited was an old Dutch Manor
of stone with dormer windows and
Dutch door divided to the centre
and painted green. standing on the
King's Highway. l’oughkcepsic. near
the Hudson River and surrounded
by a sweeping lawn with stately lo-
cust trees. whence the name of
"Locust Grove."
THE POEM
'Twss the night before Christmas,
wilt-.1 all through the house
Not. a creature was stirring, not
even a IHOUSC:
The stockings were hung by the
chimney with rare.
In half-s that St. Nicholas soon
would be then-z ’
The children were nestled all snug
in their beds
\Vhiie visions of sugar-plums danced
in their heads;
And mamma in her kcrchicf and I
in my cup.
Had just settled our
long winter‘s nap;—
th11 out on the in.“
' there arose
such 11. clatter. \J
I sprang from my bed ‘to 51. ~ vhut
was the matter.
Away to the window I lied like
flash.
Tore open the shutters
up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new
‘fallen snow.
Gave 11 lustre of midday to objects
below:
When what to
should appear.
But a miniature
tiny reindecrs
With a little old driver so lively and
quick
I knew in a moment it must be $1.
Nick.
More rapid than eagles his couriérs
they came
And he whistled and shouted and
’ called them by name:
"New 'Dusher: noiv Dancer!
Prancer and Vixen!
On Comet! on Cupid! on Dondcr and
Biltzer! ‘ 9
To the top of the porch. to the. top
of the wall!
Now dash away.
away all!"
As dry leaves that: before the wild
hurricane 1 fly.
When they meet with an obstacle to
the sky
80 up to the house top the couriers
they new
With the sleigh full of toys, and St.
tNicholas too. '
And then in a twinkling. I heard on
the roof ’
The prancing and pawing
little hoof.
As I drew in my head and was turn-
ing around '
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came
with a bound. *
He was dressed all in fur from his
head to his foot.
And- his clothes were
with ashes and soot.
A bundle of toys he had liun'g on
' his back 1
And' he looked like a peddler just
opening [his pack.
fills eyes how they twinkled;
dIInples how merry!
His. chicks were like roses. his nose"
like a cherry
His 111-511 little mouth was drawn up
Ilkea bow .
Andrthe board on his chin “as as
white 11. the snow.
of a pipe he held tight
' in his teeth.
And the uhoke it encircled his head
like a wreath.
Re I!“ a broad face and a little
7 round bell“;
Tho! .shook. when he laughed. like
1'1 bowl full of jelly. .
brains for a
n
and threw
my wand: ring eyes
sleigh
. DOW
dash away. dash
of each
all tarnished
his
”He was chubby and plump.—-a right '
amuse" ofawltefls enchant
tn mesa.
and eight
rose.
He. sprang into his
team gave a whistle
And away they all nlew like the
down of a thistle.
13111 I heard him excl'itim. crs
drove out of sight.
"nappy Christmas to all. and to all
a goodnight!"
-—.—-—._____.__._
S\\‘EDBN’S CURRENCY
sleigh. to his
he
While the rest of Europe is still
laboring painfully to get back to
something like normal conditions.
one country seems to have complet—
od its readjustment and reached a.
new economic equilibrium on the
basis of the requirements created by
the “peace crisis." That country ls
Sweden. the one country in the
world that could if it cared. boast:
.1 currency with a. pro-war par value
(1111; al in stability to that of the dol-
lar. says Edwin IlJorkman in De-
cember Current History Magazine.
Other countries of the same order—
compamtiveiy small and not directly
involved in the great wan—have
done well. but none so Well as Swed-
en. Holland. which stands next
best. is admittedly in difficulties. her
national budget having shown a dc-
iicit of about “0,000,000 in three
years. and her florln being kept near
par only by costly artificial manipu-
lations. Switzerland has troubles of
her own. and these are reflected in
the gradual decline of her franc.
The currrlm'es of Denmark and
Norway are far below parity. and a
number of the mincipal banks in
both countries line had to receive
State support or -bo placed under
public administration. ’
No one believes for s. moment that
the. financial and economic solidity
or these countries has become seri-
ously impaired. but temporarily at
least they are regarded with a cer-
tain degree of apprehension, by those
who control the world’s finances.
Sweden. on the other hand. though
Small and less advanced industrially
than Holland. for lutsancc. is met
, in the same quarters with a degree
of faith so implicit that it It” led
to what Swedish financial
rather deplorlngly call "an overvalu-
« atlon of the krona."
. . , .r\ '
PROHIBITION. anti tomes
' '3' a
No- one. v'xTof even the most ardent
that to put enforcement odious un-
der civil' service rules will make
them .all incorruptlble saints. net’-
does any one believe that the non-
politlcal. enforcement of the Vol-
stead a'ct will at once turn every cit-
than of the country. into a law-abid-
ing 'prohibitioniat.
If by divorcing it from politics
the Volstead set can be made genu-
inely effective.- .in a few generations
bootlegging and drinking will be as
much under the nodal baa as theft’
and“ murder, writes Imogen 3.10s):-
ley in December Current: History
Magazine. _ _ ’ '
Whiskey will undoubtedlx' con-
tinue to be sold' in the haunts of
criminals. and bootlcggers will ply a
precarious trade in evil places: but
no man in decent society will v'aunt
his defiance of the law. not will this
gilded Youth beast of the content!
of "their hip link.
ceased to be respectable.
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- .It will have"
' the joyous Christmas season should
1xmlllglrethc kldapressnt'wnen
the Christmas time has conic: he
shall have a wooden pheasant and
.jewsharp and a drum: he shall have,
because be: little. roller skates and
knives to svhlttle. and some. candy
nice and brittle. and a. stick ofchew-
ing gum. And my smiling v'llttle
shoes. they shall have their mounts.
too. sawdust dolls that 1 one to pieces
oranges and fig: to chew. candies
mode of rich molasses. igllipops and
looking glasses, plate glass“ iewels
framed in brasses. and a- tube or
liquid glue. But my grown-up aunts
and cousins needn't: look for gifts
from me: they'll be standing. by the
doiens. round the gaudy Christmas
tree: and they'll hope for something,
nifty. something worth five bucks or
fifty. but l'vesuddenly grown thrifty.
and no presents will they see on
bring pleasure to the young. but
there is no fitting reason why our
roubles should be flung buying pres-
ents for the fellow whom the years
have rendered mellow. even though
he says we’re yellow when no costly
gift is sprung. Hand your :13- to
little nippers to whom Christmas is a
treat: I up tired of drawing slippers
that bring anguish to my feet: and
‘ly heat.
l
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leaders ,
supporter of the merit system. claims .
business and financial conditions and
[I say to all the senders of embroid-
cred silk suspenders that a. Christmas
gift engenders in my breast unseem-
mtbt Out of the Darkness.
The new plan for’ a conference on
the economic condition of Germany
appears even better as the details
come to the surface. says the New
York Herald. It: lss announced in
Washington, unofficially but none
the less positively, that the two com-
mittees will "function along the lines
mapped out previously by the Unit-
ed States and that the experts ap—
pointed wil have sumcient latitude
to correlate all questions with the
exigencies of German revenues and
expenses."
If that prove to be true there must
necessarily be a complete poening of
the books. And it stands to reason
that it must be true. else the Investi-
anon would be a. useless formality.
e purpose of the First Committee.
which is to balance the German
budget and stabilize the German
currency. cannot be accomplished
without a full revelation of German
the pressure upon them from within
and without the Reich.
What promises well for the suc-
cess of the inquiry is the apparent
unanimity regarding its chief pur~
poses. France. which placed such re-
strictions upon the previous proposal
that America was obliged to consid-
er the matter at an end. has not at-
tempted to impase limitations upon
the new effort to solve the great
European puzzle. Great Britain.
with Its deep interest in the recovery
of Central Europe. is pleased that
America. will be represented.
That the United States Govern-
ment will not name the American
experts who will go to the confer~
ence is unimportant They will have‘
the sanction of the Government and
they will be as much respected as
if they had been officially chosen by
Washington. It is not the manner
of choosing the experts that counts.
so long as they are thoroughly
competent for the huge task which
will face the international commit-
tees.
The world wants to know the truth
about Germany. Now. at last. the
first light seems to be? coming
through the darkness.
_______________ .
Mr. Bmacgcc-s Position 0
“I am against the world court——
until-." a. Washington correspond.
out who asked Senator llnmdegee
what he thought of President Cool-
idge‘s message. quotes the sun or
as saying. Glory be. for over) till
vague hint that somehow some-
where. under some conditions there
some time may be an mnamtion
that Senator Brandegee will be-‘for
—when it has been made over to
suit: his ideas.
firmly tact! Stove 40 Years.
In a, farmhouse In Aodt-rson
County. K1!!!” is a eookstoxe that
has been used svery day’tor. more
than forty years by the same form.
ly. During that time it has had
new grates and new back-plates for
the firsborand It still bakes as
well. with less fuel than many
stoves of more recent data.
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