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'Merry Christmas, Mary Christmas,' Says Santa Claus What's in a name? Plenty, if 1? happens to be Mary Christmas, or 'Santa Claus, and that's actually hap pened. Both Evansville, Ind., and Racine, Wis., have their Mary Christmas, and at Marshall, Claus, and whose In each genera tlon. Racine's Mary Christmas Mary Christmas got that way by mArrying a fellow named Samuel Christmas, and she's now a tele phone operator. Which explains that strangely personal and timely mes sage long distance operators hear out of Racine around Christmas time: "This is long distance, opera tor—Mary Christmas!" Racine's Mary Christmas, who is short, chubby and looks just like the artist's conception of Mrs. Santa Claus, gets hundreds of fan mail let ters every year. Three years ago she appeared on a Yulctide radio I program and has | been so deluged if with fan mail ev y -«#* jjP/'er since that she's I mem bers in " Cana- L-da, Hawaii, In ■MfildflMMH dia, China and Mary Christmas Marshairg San ta Claus is similarly Christmas minded. Each Yuletide he tries to answer the fan letters which come from all corners of the globe, many in such strange foreign languages that he can't reply. He's much in demand for church parties and oth er Christmas affairs. Santa is a plumber on weekdays, a vegetable gardener on the side and a preacher in the Church of God at Blue Lick, Mo., every Sunday. Two years ago, when plumbing business was bad, he was grateful for a $250 check sent him by Mae West, the actress. In Roslindale, near Boston, lives an Ambrose Claus who with his wife last year celebrated his golden wed ding anniversary. Like all other folks named Claus, they seem to have a lion's share of Christmas spirit. Good Waiter "Are you the girl who took my order?" asked the impatient gen tleman in the cafe. "Yes, sir," replied the waitress, politely. "Well, I declare!" he remarked, * "you don't look a day older." The largest living species of pigeon is the Crowned Pigeon of New Guinea. Women's "Build-Up' Women's headaches, nervousnes. cramp-like pains may be symptom of functional dysmenorrhea due tc malnutrition! Often, relief foi these symptoms follows the use oi CARDUI because it usually buildf needed physical resistance by im proving appetite and digestion Many women also report thai CARDUI, taken just before and during "the time," helps to ease pain and discomfort. Popular for more than 50 years. The Devil chuckles when, "he sees a home, left unprotected by fire insurance- See us and forget him/ PAUL GWYN INSURANCE Phone 258 West Main St. Elkin, N. C. THE CROWDED INN m 3ij HELEN CLARK WENTWORTH ALL day long they had been go ing by the inn, camels and don keys stirring up dust, weary men and women resting by the stream outside the inn yard. The little coun try maid had never seen so much travel. Just outside the city of Jerusalem, near by the village of Bethlehem, there were plenty of people who stopped for refreshment. And Jere miah kept a good inn. He was a good man, too. But II he was hard, spar- I ing neither man nor I beast. And his niece Rebecca was hard put to do the tasks that were set before ' "Why are there so many travelers to day?" she asked the Sly Uttle slave girl who W helped her prepare the evening meal. "The tribesmen," replied Fatima, "are going to Jerusalem to be num bered, so that they may pay their taxes. And this will continue for days. These are not times of re joicing and feasting for us!" Rebecca looked up as a bearded man, leading an ass on which, a young woman rode, entered the courtyard. "Is the inn keeper here?" he asked gently. "My wife and I seek shelter." "There are no rooms left," Fa tima told him, going on with her ' work. But Rebecca looked up at the woman, whose face and touched with pain. "I will see what provision can be made," the little maid exclaimed. Her eyes never left the young wom an's swpet face. The woman smiled at Rebecca, and her husband smiled too. Rebecca's face lightened ea gerly and even Fatima found her self softening. Rebecca had some difficulty find ing her uncle, busy as he was with many things. Then it was'hard to make him listen. "There must be some place, un cle. That new stable, with the clean straw, would be warm and comfort able. She cannot go farther, I know." "So be it," he answered. Then, as they neared the group, he too was impressed by the young wom an's beauty and the lovely warmth of her smile. "There is naught but the stable," he told them, "but Re- Sun's 'Virginia' Still Has Faith In Santa Claus "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santo Claus. He exists us certainly as love and gen erosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to life its highest beauty and joy." Forty-two years ago an editorial writer for the New York Sun penned these now-famous lines in answer to a scrawled letter from a little girl named Virginia, whose faith in San ta had been shaken. Today Virginia is grown up, mar ried, and serves as assistant prin cipal in an east side New York school. Her name is Dr. Laura Vir ginia Douglas and this Christmas she's playing Santa Claus not only to her pupils but her own daughter. Meanwhile, in 42 years she's evolved some ideas of her own on what to tell children about Santa Claus. Pink-cheeked, vivacious, yet shy and hesitant in speaking of personal matters, Dr. Douglas is not in favor of breaking the news boldly to a child that there is no Santa Claus. He will learn naturally, she says, as he turns from the free, imaginative stage of early childhood to an in terest in the world around him. When she first became old enough to realize the full meaning of the Sun's editorial, she felt badly be cause poor children were not able to have Christmas gifts as tangible evidence of Santa's existence. Lat er, she says, she grew to realize that material gifts were not so impor tant as the faith which even the very poor child could have in something spiritual. Yule Flower Named After U. S. Diplomat Thank an early American diplo mat (or the poinsettia plant you receive (or don't receive) Christ mas morning. The flaming Sower whose vermillion-red leaves are mistaken at a distance for the petals of its flower, was brought to the United States about 1820 by Joel Roberts Poinsett, minis ter to Mexico, who discovered it growing there. Poinsett, who had studied both law and medicine abroad and served many years in the diplomatic service, ended bis career in the American bouse of representatives from 1821 to 1828. But were it not for the plant he brought back from Mexico, his name would now be unknown. THFI TRIBUNE. ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA becca will seek to make you com fortable there." Even after she had done every thing she could, and had crept into her own dark corner for the night, Rebecca found she could not forget the couple in the stable. Mary, the man had called his wife. There was such a radiance about her. "I won der what makes her so different," Rebecca thought. And she opened her eyes. In amazement she saw light in . the courtyard, so much that it' seemed the dawn must have come. But the light came from a star that shone just about the stable. Out into the yard the girl crept, and sudden ly she heard a child's cry, a cooing, happy sound. Rebecca looked about. No one was stirring. Far off, on the hill- I side she saw what looked like a I group of men, shadowy, indistinct, seemingly moving toward Bethle hem. It must be her imagination. Possibly it was Ephraim's vineyard she saw. Soon she stood in the stable doorway. There, lighted by a lantern, was j Joseph, bending over the young j woman and holding in his arms a ( tiny baby—her firstborn. At Rebec ca's exclamation he turned, and in to her outstretched arms he handed : the little figure and showed her the 1 snowy lengths of swaddling cloth. Tenderly the maid clothed the in fant and laid it beside the mother. "Thank you," Mary whispered. "For the child's sake and in His name, I thank you for what you have done. We thank his eyes and smiled. never forget, a new born babe smiled in child into the shelter of her arms. Her eyes closed, Joseph walked to the doorway and watched Rebecca as she returned to her room. He, too, saw the clump of trees or vines, or was it a group of men on the hillside? Then he re turned to the manger and settled dovn beside Mary and the sleeping Jesus. Don't Marry the Girl Day After Christmas If you believe (he early monks, don't select the day after Christ mas to get married, start a new job or put on that new suit. It's Childermass day, commemorat ing the slaughter of the Holy In nocents by Herod, and in the ear ly days was considered an occa sion of the greatest ill-omen. Children, according to legend, were soundly whipped Childer mass day to impress On their minds the story of the baby mar tyrs. So intense vws the fear of this unfortunate festival that the coro nation of England's King Edward IV was postponed in order to avoid the fatal date. S White House Maintains Traditions 139 Years Old WASHINGTON. Santa Claus makes his 139 th visit to the White House this Christmas, carrying on a tradition started December 25, 1800, when Kris Kringle called on little Suzannah, granddaughter of Presi dent John Adams from Massachu setts. The White House in those days was in an unfinished state and the great barnlike rooms were only scantily furnished, providing a great contrast to the beautifully appointed mansion of today. Yet the same joyous spirit prevailed on that Christmas morning, more than a 1 century and a quarter ago, as that found in the White House this Yule tide. From early years of our. country. Presidents have set aside the heavy burden of state and made merry Christmas day with their families. Christmas Tree Useful During Rest of Winter AMHERST, MASS.—In northern states where Christmas heralds the coming of cold winter weather, the tree that warms the living room De cember 25 is being put to work the balance of the winter outdoors. Ac cording to Arnold M. Davis, exten sion horticulturist at Massachusetts state college, fir trees can make ex cellent "feeding stations" for birds and offer them cozy shelter on frosty winter nights. Suet is often tied to the branches. The tree is also used to protect climbing plants, or the branches can be ripped off and laid as a mulch over low-growing plants or bulbs. Northern beekeepers find the trees handy as windbreaks. Did You Know ... That, where at the turn of the century it cost a driver about 30 cents a mile to operate his auto mobile, today, as a result of in dustrial research, the average cost is less than three cents a mile? That a job in industry today is backed by an investment —$6,500 —on the average 242 per cent, greater than 40 years ago? That, despite gloomy predic tions that the glass bottling ma chine would destroy jobs, it cre ated thousands of new ones? To day more men deliver bottled 'milk than the total number of glass blowers before this machine was used. That, as a matter of fact, it's little business that's BIG in this country? Eighty per cent, of the economic activity of the U. S. A. jis carried on by individuals and J personal partnerships. That more than 16,000 theatres in the United States now show sound films? The country with the next largest number of sound I film theatres has only 5,271, and j many of these are wholly or in TODAY AND FRIDAY— MONDAY-TUESDAY—NEXT WEEK— SPECIAL FOR THANKSGIVING fIS THE AUTHOR OF THIS PICTURE Aif J | TRAITOR TO HER SEX? NOWi— SECRETS of society's I A« • stag* play it made Ji lovelies! In gay Cosmo- ■ -TTauT^^ I^lm THESE I RICHARD CARLSON m I —'SHEARER -CRAWFORI * f ••• > | . ROSALIND RUSSELL News - Short Subject - Admission 10c-25c BOLAND • PauletteGODDARD .Mb rowSwj) Joan FONTAINE • Virginia WEIDLER • Lucile WATSON x ~ * mi rr» ta a xr From th» PUy by CLARE BOOTHE v. SATURDAY I Dlr«et«d by GEORGE Produod by HUNT STROM BERG ■■-" - , ' TIM McCOY I News - Cartoon Admission 10c-30c| —IN ~ . WEDNESDAY— "THE FIGHTING RENEGADE" FAMILY SHOW BEGINNING NEW SERIAL ' _ __ - FIGHTING FURY U"DOSIt 29 OF THE PLAINS! %iGOM Serial - Cartoon Admission 10c to All 15 thrill-packed chapters of hair- VfAkli COMING DEC. 11-12 \ raising exploitsi / ImP* "WIZARD of or r "' ec ' ln ' co ' or WHILE IN EEKIN DOING YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING VISIT THE LYRIC AND SEE A , GOOD SHOW ! Also Cartoon - Comedy Admission 10c-30cJ large part dependent upon Amer ican films. Patronize Tribune advertisers. They offer real values. NOTICE Valuable Land for Sale By virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Surry County, as Commissioner, I will sell at public auction, on the premises at the late residence of L. B. Jones deed, on Thursday the 21st day of December 1939, at two o'clock P. M. the following real estate lying in Surry County, N. C., Marsh Township, adjoining N. E. Wilmoth, Mallory Anthony, the Spencer Greenwood lands, Lehman Cockerham and others and on the Yadkin river, and known as the home place of L. B. Jones deed, containing 154.76 acres more or less, for boundaries see plat on record in the office of Register of deeds of Surry Coun ty, being the old plat book at page 4, composed of different tracts inside of the plat bound ary, said deeds being on record in the office of Register of deeds of Surry County. On this tract of land is more than 50 acres of good Yadkin river bottomland, also has a lot of fine merchant able timber, also well watered LYRIC THEATRE with branches and springs and being about one mile below Burch Station. Terms of sale, one third cash on confirmation of sale and one third in one year and the re mainder in two years from date of confirmation of sale. Sale of Eyes Examined Office: Glasses Fitted The Bank of Eikin Building DR. P. W. GREEN OPTOMETRIST Offices open daily for optical repairs and adjustments of all kinds. Examinations on Tuesdays and Fridays from 1 to 5 p.m. By Appointment Phone 140 Sample One-Way 3 \ Bluefield, W. Va. $2.60 Vly ■ \ Danville, Va. $1.85 KrnjKafl ull m W 1 Bei Air, Md. $5.90 —I I Baltimore, Md. ..$5.10 Bite/' Jn ConilOll 1 Asheville $2.50 BiP[ (ifK -T=r High Point sl.lO I Independence, Va. 75c ■mBBrWE RE \ Boone $1.20 0\ |U J I Richmond, Va. ....$3.50 AMI I Big Extra Savings on . C|«v6 J B ® und " Trlp Tlcketß J Greyhound Terminal 1 Market and Bridge __ _ I PHONE 170 ft said lands will be made for assets to pay debts and the cost of ad ministration against said estate. This the 15th day of November, 1939. N. B. JONES, 12-14 Commissioner.
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