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Vi)hdl Voell Dress Women Will weac :kco:::o:::o: - x-:-i ; Stem'?' 44$SSPI i ' Jllllllf Ml tororioNAL MWrSQIOOL LE5S0H (By E. O. SELLERS. Acting Director of the Sunday School Course of the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) (Copyright. 1917. Western Newspaper Union. ) LESSON FOR DECEMBER 9 Blouse of White and Colored Crepe. The same blouses thnt nre made for wear In the summer weather of the Fouth will cheerfully face the snows of the bleak northern winter. For blouses refuse to acknowledge winter end take none of the responsibility of keop'.ng us warm. Their mission in life is to look pretty and to be be coming, and to add to our joys. They leave it to steam, heat and heavy coats to protect womankind from the cold, and are therefore mnch at home any where. Georgette crepe continues at the high tide of favor for dressy blouses and has even appropriated to itself some of the style features that distinguish tailored blouses of crepe de chine the Bhirt-bosom front for instance. A very striking tailored blouse called the Red Cross has made its appearance. It is very mannish, with high collar and plaited shirt front. It is in fact very much like a shirt, and is not gathered In at the waistline, but depends upon the skirt belt to keep it in place. At the front of the high turn-over collar a small cross of red satin takes the place of a tie. This waist is success fully developed in white wash satin. The fair sojourner in the Sovth, pic tured above, has on a pretty crepe blouse developed in white and a color. An underblouse of white crepe is veiled with a dark overblouse, appearing darker where it Is full. There is a square insert of white at the front, veiling large dots in the darker color In the blouse that are embroidered on the underblouse. The white collar Is bordered with the dark crepe, and the deep cuffs are made of it. So far nearly all the new blouses are open at the throat. The Chinese collar, rather higher than when it made its initial appearance, offers variety in neck finishing. The tailored shirt waist is always good style with a high neck. Just at this season designers of blouses are getting rer.dy to make new models. These appearing at winter re sorts have a "try-out" and they may usher in a new order of things in blouses. Those that are successful pave the way for spring fashions. sri c-JA , 1 K i This Year's Ribbon Novelties. The great day of ribbons dawns an nually about a month before Christ mas and the sun of prosperity con tinues to shine on the ribbon depart ment for a month or more. Up to Christmas eve everybody at the rib bon counter is frantically rushed. Even after the holidays the impetus given business makes itself apparent for some time. Every year many beautiful novelties for personal and household decoration are shown along with the ribbons for making them and they are immensely helpful in smooth ing the path of the Christmas shop per. This year there is a furore for bags, with shopping bags and knitting bags made of ribbons, In the front ruuk of things fashionable. No self respecting woman of today ignores entirely the call to knitting needles. Even though she never gets beyond knitting squares for quilts, she lends her moral support to the cause that makes her competent sisters so use ful. Everywhere the lady goes her knitting bug is sure to go too. Many of the new, fashionable shop ping bags are' made of metal and satin brocades and they are mounted on French gilt or silver mountings that fasten securely like those used for leather bags. Knitting bags are sup ported by large rings of celluloid or glass, simulating jade, amber, jet, tor toise-shell and other things. Pretty things for the children are shown in the picture above. The group includes blanket bows for the baby's carriage robe, hair bows for Uttle girls, small garters for support lug the sleeves of Infant's dresses apd a lingerie bow of narrow ribbon for young girls. The blanket bow at the left U made of wide pink satin ribbon and has eight loops, each about six inches deep after It Is knotted at the top. The allowance for the knpt Is three inches so each loop will require nine inches of ribbon. Tlire are two knotted ends about twelve and sixteen inches long after they are knotted and about four Inches of rib bon are needed for the knot at the heart of the bow. About three and a quarter yards will be an ample allow ance. A larger bow of wider ribbon Is shown at the right with loops eight Inches deep. At the heart of this bow a rosette Is made of short loops each three inches deep. There Is one long end. Three and three-quarters yards cf pale pink brocaded ribbon will make this handsome bow. The little garters shown at the top of the picture are made by shirring narrow satin ribbon over fiat elastic bands and finished with rosettes of baby ribbon. At the right of the pic ture a hair band for a little girl shown at the right of the group is made in the same way. Next it Is a pretty lingerie bow of narrow pink satin ribbon with knotted loops and ends and finally a bow for the hair of the young miss who Is under the "flapper" age, that is not more than twelve. It is a butterfly bow of bro caded ribbon mounted in a covered band of elastic. $4 Watermelons may be kept some time with a fair degree of success by seal ing the end of the stem, where It Is cut from the vine, with wax EZRA AND NEHEMIAH TEACH THE LAW. LESSON TEXT Nehemlah 8:1, 4, 6, 6. 8-12. Read entire chapter. GOLDEN TEXT Thy word Is a lamp unto my feet, and a liglu unto my path. Ps. 119:106. The first day of the seventh month (8:2) was about October 444 li. C. Seven days feast (vv. 15-18) was the feast of the Tabernacles beginning the loth of the seventh month (Octo ber) and continuing for seven or eight days (Lev. 23). Nehemlah was the governor; Ezra the scribe, chief priest; and Artaxerxes, king of Per sia, ruler over Palestine. It would be interesting to look up the sudden in terjection of Ezra's name Into this discourse; also the special reasons for teaching the Bible. There is in this chapter a record of a full week and of the dally events of that week. I. The Preparation. Go back to verse 70 of the preceding chapter, and you will find that the temple had just been receiving some large gifts. The task of finishing the wall was also completed, all of which gives point to verse one, where it says that the peo ple gathered themselves together as one man. This was an ancient open air meeting, one we do well to study. The people requested Ezra to "bring the book." It needed no catch-penny operations to draw the crowd togeth er. The writer of Nehemlah calls the book "the law which the Lord hath commanded unto Moses." (See v. 1 cf. v. 14.) This, of course, would In clude Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuter onomy, an indication as to the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, which Is in line with the statement that Jesus Christ made that It was God who had written it as he had commanded Moses. It was not a mob ; there was organization and equipment. (See v. 3 and 4.) The Bible was also read so that the people could understand it (v. 2) ; certainly something that is in demand in our present day. Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he stood on an elevation above them (v. 5) and read "dis tinctly." II. The Reading of the Word. They read the book, not from some com mentary or quarterly, though these have value in their place. The read ing began with reverence. Reverence for but not a worship of the book. The Bible is not a fetish or a charm against sickness or accident. The verse "caused the people to under stand the law," (v. 7) probably means that is was translated into the ver nacular, the language of the common people. While God's word Is a plain book and easy to read, nevertheless men of spiritual understanding are needed to "rightly divide" it unto the people (v. 7). However, the great in terpreter of the Bible given by the Fa ther is the Holy Spirit himself (John 10:12-15; I John 2:20-27). ffhls method of beginning the study of the word and its continuance as presented In these verses is a good suggestion for modern Sunday school workers. III. The. Hearing of the Word. (vv. 9-17). As Ezra and Nehemlah and their associates and Levites taught the people, there was a five-fold result. First: There was conviction and mourning. The word of God always convicts of sin, but the people were told not to mourn over the past, nor were they to weep, for all the people wept fv. 9). When men hear the words of the law there will be con viction of sin. (See Eph. G:7; Ileb. 4 :12.) Weeping may not, however, be conviction (2 Cor. 7:10). Weeping weakens, but that was not designed, rather the exhilaration of joy. More over, they were to seek the refresh ment cf food and drink. Indeed, the joy of the Lord was to be their strength (v. 10). "And there was very great gladness" (v. 17). In verse 11 we are told that the Levites exhorted the people to hold their peace, that the day was holy and that they should be grieved. To this the people re sponded (v. 12), and made great mirth, because they had understood the dec laration of the word cf the Lord. No tice that joy and gladness came after obedience, also that Nehemlah, the governor, had a part In the teaching. It is a great thing for any people when their civil rulers nre genuine, intelli gent, and spiritual leaders. The peo ple were instructed to show their grati tude as well as their piety by remem bering "those for whom nothing had been prepared" (v. 10). The fourth result was peace (v. 11; the peace of right relation with God (Kom. 5: 1; Phil. 4:7). Fifth Result: Service. Mourning can very easily be con tinued too long, and, therefore, it was necessary to employ the emotion of mirth and the exercise of work that the people might enter Into this peace. The fifth result, therefore, was serv ice (v. 12). Notice that their thanks giving portions and thlr service were based upon an Intelligent knowledge f God's word. If there is anything that present-day social service needs, It is the illumination which comes from a knowledge of God's word. Last of all, worship (vv. 13-18). Worship Is a compound of "worth" and 'ship." I Christmas Gifts From The Woods X a ( ji (f) ? $ ( C if) HE paper birch is an especial treasure, but we never cut the bark from a living tree, even when deep In the woods, un less we know that the wood Is doomed to be cut at once. Too many ignorant or thoughtless people do not hes itate to strip ihe beautiful papery bark from the living tree, not realizing probably that the bark is needed to protect the running of the sap and that the outer bark, so smooth and silvery, will never renew Itself. So, even if death does not immediately follow, the beauty of the tree is gone, said Orra Parker Phelps in the Housekeeper. Once I found a dead tree from which I was able to slip several feet of bark in rings. This only needed to be sep arated into convenient sizes, fitted with tight bottoms, sewed in place by raflla or sweet grass, and lifting lids attached, to make boxes ready to fill with Christmas sweets. In making laurel wreathing or garlanding we have found that by taking small twigs and winding one on to an other, using light picture wire as binding, the wreathing makes very rapidly and easily. When the white p.ine cones fall we gather bushels of them. And such treasures as the cones are! In the open fira they make a glorious blaze fit background for wonderful fire castles and as for kindlings they are ab solutely unsurpassed. Remembering that the two little cousins living on the Pacific coast once sent a bar rel of the Western cones to a much loved poet, greatly to his delight, we tried sending a sack of cones, gayly decked with laurel, to a city friend who loves an open fire. In the very bottom was a small "chunk" with a paper bear ing these words: "N. B. This Is a Yule Log." An other time an armful of the cone bearing branches of the red pine were sent to a friend. But our especial Christmas gifts, the ones we send to the nearest and dearest, are our little Christmas trees. We take a- day and go up to the mountain swamp where grew the cranberries, and there we choose wee, little shapely trees, getting them, so far as we can, from the deep shade of other trees, for these are doomed to an early death anyway. We fit each little spruce securely to a board, covering it with moss and trailing vines. Then we deck the tree. Of course the gifts must be tiny and varied to suit those to whom they go. This Lad Had a Real Christmas Tree ''TMIE question of how to meet the needs of the education we wanted our boy to have was with us from his birth, and It was my love of all kinds of trees which solved our problem," said the mother of a growing boy. "He came near the Christmas sea son, and I wanted to do something to mark the wonderful event My mind turned to trees. What could be more appropriate than to plant a tree and let this child of nature grew up with oilne? "Then came the thought, 'Why not choose a fruit tree, something that will yield a tangible profit to be laid aside asthe beginning of a fund for the boy's education?' And so the plan took shape, and as we live in a warm climate, a fruit tree was planted each year on Christmas day for the little one "Soon the lad was taking an active part in the ceremony, and by the time ihe first fruit appeared he was old enough to take a real delight in the proceeds of its sale, which went Into hia bank A few years more found aim in entire charge of a small or chard His ever growing bank ac count has always been his own, sub ject to the inspection and advice of his father, who keeps before him the pur pose for which it was started" If you live where the climate pre vents tres planting on Christmas day could you not give your son the price of a fruit tree and let it be planted when the proper season arrives? Philadelphia Ledger Christmas Mystery Plays. On their return from the Holy Land the pilgrims and crusaders brought new subjects for theatrical representa tion, founded on the objects of their devotion and incidents In their wars, and the early mysteries and other plays of Christinas, among them that f St. George and the dragon, which 'las survived to modern times, prob ably owe their origin to this period. Good King Wenceslas A Christmas Carol of Long Ago fOOB King Wenceslas 7 looked out On the feast of Stephen, And the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even. Brightly shone the moon that night. Though the frost was cruel; When a poor man came in sight Oath'ring winter fuel. First Singer: "Hither, page, come stand ly me, If thou know'st it, telling, Yonder peasant, who is he? Where and what his dwell ing t" Second Singer: "Sire, he lives a good league hence, Down beneath the moun tain, Close against the forest fence By St. Agnes' fountain." First Singer: "Bring me flesh and bring me wine, Bring me pine logs hither; Thou and I, we'll see him dine When we bear them thith' err Second Singer: "Sire, the night is darker now, And the storm grows wilder, Fails my heart, I know not how I can go on longer." First Singer: "Mark my steps, be brave, my page; Tread thou in them boldly; Then thou'lt find the winter's rage Freeze thy blood less cold ly." Page and monarch on they went, On they went together. Through the rude wind's wild lament. Through the bitter weather. In his master's steps he trod. Where the snow lay dinted; That was in the very sod Which his foot had printed. Therefore, Christian men, be sure. Wealth or rank possessing. Ye who now do bless the poor Shall yourselves find blessing. Had To Giye Up Was Almost Frantic With the Pain find Suffering of Kidney Com plaint. Doan's Made Her Well. cME" V,dia, Suiter, 1838 Margaret fet., rankford, Pa., Bays: "A cold start ed my kidney trouble. My back began to ache and got sore and lame. My joints and ankles became swollen and puimui ana it leit as a needles were sticking in to them. I finally had to give up and went from bad to worse. "My kidneys didn't act right and the secre tions were scanty and distressing. I had aw ful dizzy spells when ev erything before me turn ed black: ona tine T couldn t see for twenty minutes. Aw ful pains in my head set me almost frantic and I was so nervous, I couldn't stand the least noise. How I suffered! Often I didn't care whether I lived or died. "I couldn't sleep on account of the terrible pains in my back and head. Nothing seemed to do me a bit of good until I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills. I could soon see they were help ing me; the backache stopped, my kid neys were regulated and I no longer had any dizzy spells or rheumatic pains. I still take Doan's occasionally and they keep my kidneys in good health." "Stcorn to before me. F. W. CASSIDY, JR., Notary Public. Get Doan's at Any Store, 60c a Bos DOAN'S "p1," FOSTER-MILBURN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y. fin. Shorter Sore at Grandma. Betty always hated the early to bed rule. This evening her grandmother was hurriedly putting her to bed.. When she finished tucking her in, in stead of the "great big kiss" she asked for, Betty indignantly looked up and, giving her a cold kiss, said : "I love mos' everybody, but it's a wonder I love you." GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER Has been used for all ailments that are caused by a disordered stomach and Inactive liver, such as sick head ache, constipation, sour stomach, nervous Indigestion, fermentation of food, palpitation of the heart caused by gases In the stomach. August Flower Is a gentle laxative, regulates digestion both in stomach and intestines, cleans and sweetens the stomach and alimen tary canal, stimulates the liver to se crete the bile and Impurities from the blood. Sold In ail civilized countries. 30 and 90 cent bottles. Adv. Lansdowne, Pa., new St. Vincent's home for orphans cost $3,000,000 or more. One Historic Christmastide. The crusades had a wonderful Influ ence upon the literary taste as well as the national manners and festivities of Christmastide. It was at the Christmas festival of 1214 that the barons demanded from King John the document which as the foundation of English liberties is known by the name of Magna Charta. John's tyranny had become intolerable, and the hopes of the people hung on the fortunes of the French campaign, in which he was then engaged. After his defeat and return to England the barons met secretly and swore to de mand the restoration of their liberties by charter under the king's seal. Hav ing agreed to assemble for this) pur pose at Christmas, they separated. On the feast of the Epiphany the barons asked of the king his confirmation of the laws of Edward the Confessor and Henry I. John met the barons with an absolute refusal, but, finding them firm, pleaded for time to consider. This was granted, and in 1215, knowing It to be Inevitable, he called the barons to Runymede and there signed the great charter. V Christmas Song f TV TOW is the time when 2 V holly sprays Light all the barren, (5y brooding ways, And every bell, it sounds noel, A paean in the Master's I praise. Aomj is the time when ivies gleam ja LiiKe oeryi tn tne morning beam, And every bell, it sounds noel, And makes the Master's praise its theme. Now is the time when mistle- Wi top. Is glossy in the noonday glow, And every bell, it sounds fi(s To praise upon his name be stow. Now is the time of ingle mirth, The blessed day of Christ his birth. And every bell it sounds To ring his praise throughout w the earth. VUnton Scollard in Atns- lee's. 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