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Children and Old-Fashioned Toys g L m IP* •§ \ D^AflUi HTL.DREN are conservative M beings, even old fashioned, when It comes to choosing toys. They aren't up to date and aa full of the modern spirit of progress and invention as the toymakers be lieve them to be." Thus spoke one who Is a sort of professional Santa Claus —that Is, he has played the part at so many Sun day school Christmas parties that he sometimes imagines he is growing cot ton whiskers. "They display the same quaint, sim ple, old-fashioned taste as their grand fathers and grandmothers when they were children," he continued. "Most of them, do, anyhow. Every year the toy manufacturers break loose with a new crop of. automatic racing cars, aeroplanes, submarines, Are engines and kicking donkeys. If the children were constructed on the same nervous clock-work plan, they would give old Santa Claus no rest unless he kefct up with all the modern inventions. In stead of toy soldiers they would de mand mortar batteries, and they would not be satisfied with mooley cows, but Weuld demand that they have pedi grees and give only certified milk and cream. "They would not accept a Noah's ark unless it was a combination of the steamship Lusitania and a modern cement bungalow, with sleeping porches, twin-screw propellers, elec tric searchlights, wireless apparatus, second chattel mortgage—in fact, all the comforts of ship and home com plete. They would require Mr. Noah to carry a pilot's license as well as a college degree In natural history. All the animals would have to be trained ttf do tricks, and poor Noah's family would have a fine time herding them while wearing wooden raincoats and stove-pipe hats. "Fortunately children, real children, are nut constructed that way. They want their arks on the old-fashioned plan, whereby you lift off the roof and find Noah minus his head, and most of the animals trying to hobble on three legs. "Automobiles In miniature, with real TO KNOW FUTURE HUSBAND Many Old English Customs and Su perstitions Center Around Christmas. All down the ag»s girls have been eager to find out their future destiny —whether they will be "old maids," or, as they are now called, "bachelor girls," or wives and mothers. Christ mas, as well as all the other festivals, has been allotted its customs and su perstitions through which the secret of the future may be learned. To And the answer to the impor tant question, wife or old maid, a girl had to go alone on Christmas eve and knock on the henhouse door. If a cock answered her knock by crow ing. she would be married, but if nj cock crowed In answer, then she would be an old maid. This under taking would require a good deal of courage in the old days of supersti tion, as on Christmas eve evil spirits were supposed to have increased pow er and ghosts were supposed to prowl \ around. If a girl wished to know the name of her future husband she took four onions and named each one after a boy friend. She then placed one In each corner of a room and the one that sprouted before January 6 bore the name of the man she would marry. In some districts this was carried out rather differently. t Several onions were selected and named and placed close together, and the one that sprouted first gave the name that was '• to be hers. We can imagine how carefully the warmest place would be «hoMQ for some special onion. upholstered scats and rubber tires may fascinate a small boy for a few hours, but you'd better place your faith in a good, old-pattern rocking horse, r with saddle and stirrups, and a mane and tail of real hair. The rock ing horse is not going out of fashion by a long ways, and I predict that in the horseless age. if that tlmo ever comes, our children's children will be Jerking the mane of a wooden 'horsey' and whipping him on his painted flanks, and trying to feed him crack ers. Also, they'll be falling off his back and bumping their little fore heads in the old-fashioned way, and 'horsey' will have to be thrashed and locked up In the clothes closet for his bad behavior. "And as for dolls, you've got to give them real baby dolls' and not grand ladies in the latest tango gowns and hats. For the laßt 50 years or BO doting parents who are well to do have been trying the experiment of present ing their little girls with waxen fash ion models —only to find the precious one crying for the rag baby of the laundress' daughter. Children show the real mother Instinct when they spurn the 'play-child' which is too dressy and up to date. "I have one friend, the father of a large and lively family. I make him happy every Christmas time by pre senting his klda with a bunch of cheap, mechanical toys. After about half an hour of winding them up, tho little ones tire of the clicking wonders and return to their woolly dogs, rubber dolls and other simple favorites. That is when father's fun begins. He in sists on winding up the toys and run ning them all Christmas day, osten sibly for the pleasure of his young sters. He does not cease winding until the toys begin to get out of order, and then he has the additional pleasure of trying to repair them. Sometimes 1 think that a manufac turer could make a fortune selling toys just for grown-ups. Seeing a bunch of adults busy working me chanical toys reminds me of the time when the whole family Insists on tak ing little Johnny to the circus. HE WAB THANKFUL. "John," said the Loving Wife, "I in tended to get you a nice new necktie for Christmas, but I am ashamed to acknowledge that in the rush of the •hopping I completely forgot it." "Thank you, nevertheless," said the Happy Husband. ANNUAL "HOLLER" DAY. When children have their Christmas toys The house wiy ring with laughter gay; And thus. In truth, by girls and boys, la Christmas mads a "boiler" da/. THE ENTERPRISE, WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA A Christmas Carol HENRY WADS WORTH LONCfIOXOW J HEAR along ee* the* * Pa— the mMm( throngs; Hark! TVip/wMMMf, Ob their hamAaye, Uutebnae eengt/ Lei m bg the fire Eoer Mm Sing them till the night expire/ IN Deeember ring 1 Ecarg dag ote chtrmm; Load the rleemen ting tm the Mi Mr mi« jpt IM as be the Are Ever ksm Sing them i ttll the night expire/ SHEPHERDS at 'he grange, Where the Babe was horn. I Sang With many a change Christmas carol* until mom. Let ue by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expiret 'JTHESE good people tang i Songs devout and tweet; While the rafters rang, There they flood with freezing feet. Let a t by the fire Eoer higher Sing them till the night expire/ A TUNS In frigid cell, j 3 *' At this holfj tide, , For want of something efte, jS Christmas tongs at times have tried. Let ut by the fire • ! Ever higher • | Sing them till the night expire/ j j fJT/'/yO by the fireside tlandt, j ! » ' Stamps his feet and tlngt; But he who blowt hit hand* Net to gay a carol bringt. ] ! Let ut by >he fire Ever higher - | • Sing them till the night expire/ ' #Tnr\NRTTVVYVVITTVITWVIIYYTTRVTRRRRN *• v?vv I tWYTtM RANGING MISTLETOE Origin of Custom Associated With Christmas Festivities. Plant It Surrounded With Many Su perstitions In European Countries —Bljjn of 111 Omen In Bome Parts of Ireland. a HE good old custom of hang ing mistletoe from the cell ing at the Christmas festivi ties is said to have lta origin In the Idea that Bince the plant did not have its roots in the ground no part of it should ever bo permitted to touch the earth. Among the Saxons the fact that mis tletoe Was suspended from the roof of a dwelling Intimated to the way farer that the hospitality of the house was at h£ disposal, and beneath its branches friend and stranger, vassal and lord, gathered in comradeship and good cheer. The religious aspect of the mistle toe tradition, which had Its origin in the Druldical rites and the gathering of it by the archdruid with his gold en sickle,'merged later into a purely social symbol, and the idea of simple hospitality developed into one of mer rymaking and a somewhat riotous en tertainment. / The kiBH of the Scandinavian god dess expanded into the custom of a kiss given for every berry that grew on the'bough. Small wonder that, in spite of the mistletoe having origin ally existed in the odor of the sanctu ary, the church came to regard it as an entirely pagan symbol and refused to allow it to participate wjth the lily and the evergreen in the Yuletide decorations. There Is an ancient belief that the m'istletoe was the tree from which the holy cross was hewn and that after this was made the plant withered and ever afterward became a mere para sitic growth, clinging for support to other and sturdier trees. Other stories, however, credit It with divine gifts in the healing of dis eases and the expulsion of evil spirits. Ram,.the high priest of the Celts, re ceived In a dream the intimation that by means of the plant he would be enabled to save his people from the plague which was decimating them. To celebrate their delivery he insti tuted the feast of Noel (new health), a midwinter holiday, which has come to be considered coincident with the new year. In many parts of the United King dom the silver berries and the gray green leaves of the mistletoe are I looked upon as anything but an em blem of good cheer; on the contrary, the plant is regarded with dread as be ing the bringer of 111 luck and the sign of 111 omen. This superstition exists both in Devonshire and in Ireland, and, strange to say, in neither of these places does the plant flourish, owing, report has it, to the fact that both incurred the displeasure of the Druids and were in consequence cursed In such a way that'their soli became in capable of nourishing the sacred growth. In the sixth book of Aeneid a lengthy description of the mistletoe is given by Virgil, who makes the Sybil describe to his hero the exact spot In hades where be will find it growing. There Is little doubt that the strange ethereal appearance of the littlie opaque berry la largely re sponsible for the mystic character It has enjoyed among the people of di vers, nations from the earliest histor ical times. REV. C.H. DURHAM IS AGAIN PRESIDENT NEARLY ONE THOUSAND DELE GATES AT CONVENTION IN RALEIGH. MEET NEXT AT CHARLOTTE Foreign Mission Report la Very Grati fying.—One Bee«ion It Held at Wake Foreet. Raleigh.—There were present for the organization of the North Caro lina Baptist State Convention 436 del egates with every indication that the attendance will reach 1,000.. Rev. C. H. Durham of Winston-Salem was re elected president for a third term. Other officers elected were: Vice presidents, J. 12. Vann, Winston-Sa lem; O. A. Tate, High Point and H. P. King, Mount »Airy; secretaries. Dr. Chase Hrewer, Wake Forest College, and Rev. W. M. Oilmore, Louishurg; corresponding secretary, Rev. Living stone Johnson, Haleigh; auditor, F. H. Brlggs, Raleigh; treasurer, Walters Durham, Raleigh; member of board of trustees to succeed Rev. W. C. Tyre«\ who has left tho state, L. R. Pruett. Charlotte. The Convention selected Charlotte as the next meeting piece and named Doctor O'Kelly, pastor of the Fi st Baptist Church, Haie'.'a. lo del! er tho annual permon. Tic report 12c omendlng Charlotte as next conv«" tlon city was road by O. I*. Hnrrlil of Prankllnton and was adopted unani mously In view of a pressing Invita tion that came from Charlotte, Foreign missions were up for spe cial consideration In the llaptlst Stato convention with an Interesting report presented by Rev. Bruce Benton and stirring talks on mission and several mission fields by Rev. J. F. Lowe of the Foreign Mission Board. Rev. D W Herring and Be v. W. E. Crock er missionaries to China, and- C. J. Thompson, district secretary of the Mission Board. The report presented by Mr. Hen ton showed Southern Baptist mission work In the papnl countries of Argen tlna, Brazil, Italy and Mexico and the pagan countries of Africa, China and Japon; that there are 278 missionaries with 635 native helpers; 380 churches, 339 schools, 9,376 studenta, 12 medi cal missionaries and eight hospitals and IH dispensaries that treated the past year 74,899 patients. North Car olina paid to foreign missions $54,318 and Is asked this coming your to raise SGO,OOO. The foreign missionaries re ported the past year 5(252 Imp!isms, a gain of 1,831 over any previous year, the biggest gains being reported from China, The convention considered Baptist educational matters at the sessions In Wake Forest, especially gratifying re ports on Wuke Forest College, Mere dith College, Chowan College, Oxford Seminary and the various secondary schoolm The report as to Wake For est. College showed annual expenses of $(52,850 of which 40 per cent Is tak en care of by the student fees and the remainder covered by endowment. The eightieth year of the college llnds It with an enrollment of 44 5, a gain of 11 over last year. The report on Meredith College showed 355 Htudents enrolled and the endowment grown to $90,000. Chowan College reported 95 stu dents, and Oxford Seminary 100. The report in secondary schools showed $60,000 raised during the lust five years to pay off Indebtedness and the property valuation of the three col leges and -lfr country schools controll ed In North Carolina by the Baptists of $1,394,210, 194 teachers and 4,000 students. Inspect New Hanover's Health Work. Wilmington.—Dr. C. W.' Stllse o? the i'nlted States Public Health Ser vice, and I)r. L. L. Lumsden, one of the foremost sanitation experts of the public health service, spent some time in Wilmington and. New Hanover county inspecting the fine work that has been accomplished, during the past year especially during the past six or eight months. Doctor Lumsden is a typhoid expert and is connected with the public health service. Encouraging Farmer Boys. West Kalelgh.—ln order to encour age farni boys to equip themselves for farm work some handsome ijrlzes In the form of A. & M. scholarships are being offered by business houses of Raleigh and elsewhere In a num ber of other counties of the state the Idea of scholarships to corn club boys Is becoming popular. In the winner of a scholarship is not old enough to enter college the equiva lent sum of money is deposited to the credit of the boy at interest until he 1a old enough f§ use it. $40,000 Fire at Asheville. Asheviile. —Diunage to the amount of $40,000 was "one by Are a few nights ago to the plant of the Ashe viile Milling Company, on Haywood street, the loss being covered by in surance the amount of $25,000. The Are had its origin In the motor room 4t the Bouthea&t corner of the build ing and spread with such rapidity to hjl sections of the structure that la borers on duty at the mill were unable to use the fire iutinguishers which \ad been placed to every Coor Coinage. In the fifteenth century a skilled coiner, of whom there were but few, might be able to turn out by hand ttfty or sixty coins a day, a result to tally Inadequate to cope with the vast quantity of treasure, chiefly silver, that shortly began to arrive from America. To multiply coiners was to multiply forgers, and thus tho coining machine bcame a necessity of state. A laminating mill and screw coining press was invented In Italy, 1547; Spain, 1648; France, 1653; England, 1661, reign of Elizabeth. After sev eral trials and abandonments the mill and press were established perma nently under Charles 11, whose golden guineas, struck In 1662, were the first regular issues of machine coins made north of the channel. COLDS & LaGRIPPE 5 or 6 doses 666 will break any case of Chills & Fever, Colds A LaGrlppe; It acts on the liver better than Calo mel and does not gripe or sicken. Prlc 25c. —Adv. The loud ar.iack is not always the sweetest kiss. ASTORIA |>-N For Infanta and Children. • CASTOR!! 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