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I DECEMBER 12, 19?5 AS ItOSS HUTTQN finished telllnc his little daughter the story ot Christinas, of the shepherds and the Christ child, and had as tactfully as possible explained about Sontn Che >. roily heaved a sigh. "Well, I thiol; there's u Runty Onus and 1 hope he brings ino a sheep like the ones In the story." The day before Christmas, [toss saw a white woolly lutnh In the window of a u>y shop. He was glad he hail walked tc his office. Otherwise he tulghl not hare "pen the lamb. He would stop on his way home nnd get 1L But one of the men In the office offered to drive him home, so the lamb was forgotten until he heard I'olly as she was being pat to bed tell her mother she hoped "Santy" wouldn't forget about the -sneep." itoss looked at his watch and decided the shop would probably still he open. Anne called to him to ask where he was going, and he answered, "Hack in n few minutes." When he parked his car before the shop, the thought that the lamb might not be there, struck hint for the first time. lie felt much relieved, therefore, when he saw the lamb In the window. As he tucked the package under his arm and turned to leave the shop, a Santa Claus Had Brought Her a Sheep and a Baby Doll. little boy came In. Ituss heard him ask the proprietor If be stlil had the iamb that was in the window that morning, lie was told the gentleman Just leaving had bought It. "Oh." the disappointment he felt showed In his voice. Wasn't there something else he would like? llut there didn't seem to be anything else. As he got Into his car Ross caught sight of a small boy standing before the window, his gusc fastened on the place wnere the lamb hau been. He seemed si> disappointed, It was too bad there wasn't another lnmh for him, Ross thought as he drove away. But probably something else would eatch his fancy and he would forget no about the lantb. Children were like that, lloss wondered though If Polly would have forgotten so easily. He scarcely thought so. The |x>or little thing would have been mightily disappointed. He was glad he had remembered before It was too late. But try as he would he couldn't get the picture of the little fellow out of Ids mind. Halfway home he turned his ear around and went back to the shop. The boy had left, so Ross asked the proprietor If he could tell him where the boy lived. He lived just around lite corner. He often came into the shop. Tonight he had come to buy the little lnnib for his small sister, and was so disappointed when he found It gone. The proprietor had tried to Interest him In something else, but he hadn't been successful in doing 1L Ross interrupted to know In just which house the hoy lived. Then In order to have some satisfactory excuse to offer at home, he bought n baby doU for Polly. When somewhat later be came into tbe living room wbere Anne was busy trimming the Christmas tree, she wanted to know where on earth he bad been. He shook bis bead and put bis finger to his Hps as n v.-nmlng not to waken Polly. He placed the puckago under the tree and with a happy smile he began helping with the work of trimming. The next morning he was awakened by Pollv'8 happy cry that she knew there vas a "Santy Claus" because he had /brought her a "sheep" and a baby doll Just as she asked him to. Ross sprang out of bed and Into the living room. Where could the "sheep" have come from? For there was Polly with a lamb under one arm and the doll under the other. "Where?" Ross asked, pointing to the lamb. Anne whispered that she had bonght It "There Is a Sooty Claus, Isn't these, Da&dy T" Polly's velce Implied the was giving information rather than asking It Ross heartily agreed with her: "There certainly is a Santa Claus beyond a doubt" C> Wacea Wwaaeir Union. Christmas Boxes Citing Christmas boxes is said to spring from an old custom of priests putting on board of all out-golDg ships boxes for alms. These were opened at Christmastime and masses said for the givers of the glms. The box war called Christ mass box and from thii - comes the custom of Christmas boxes and pM J i Christmas In Shanghai Just One of Their Days | I1EN Christmas comes to Sbang1 " * hal, a cross-section ot the world ! makes holiday. The average Chinaman | fails to get the meaning of It, but such ; a fun-loving people can do well with ; one more celebration. So the Ch'.na! man himself adds to the din with firecrackers and glft-gtvlng, parties and the making of calls. Therp J? ? * ?uuu ?vsiern tOUCD 10 the observance of the season by this most cosmopolitan city. Shanghai's "social registerltes" start plans fordin. ners and dances as early as the mid? die of November; immediately reservaI lions are cheeked off on the calendars of ballrooms and restaurants. The exact form of observance varies with the nationality ill visions of the city. > t In the Russian sectiou, the day 13 obj served as It is on the steppes or in i Moscow. The French greet Santa 1 i Mans In their own way. even though the wax dolls have to be brought far from the Chauips Ely sees. The .lapnnese prefer t?? make? merry by drinking snkl. The English must have their niiiin pudding and holly. At the mission schools, where boys and girls are taught In separate classes. Christmas carols around the tree give modest school girls a chance not only of singing hymns but of "seeing hlms." In Interior China, however, most of the people prefer to celebrate their "r.o ui ito'Mi-uoai, i^im-Auiumn, ana New Tear holidays rather than this "imported" one. They do not even try to understand those queer foreigners. To them December 25 is just another day!?Frances Grlnstcad. ? Western NexviipcLpcr Union. Made Best of Worst of Christmas-Time Mishap 'THIE snow begun uearly a week he* fore Christmas nnd wlieh the great <lny arrived, folks were trying to remember the time when It didn't snow In Morton City. Itnrnes, the only merchant, bad put olT getting his shopping supply so there were no gift's In town to be bought for love or money. But when news got about thnt the train down on the railroad siding was snowbound In Morton City, old and young sort of forgot about the lack of gifts. Too, the president of the road with his party bad a special car on the rear of the snowbound passenger, and wasn't that a great honor Indeed? Folks got over the novelty of their visitors In time for the organization of a huge choir of carol singers that went down ro the train nnd paraded through tha length of the coaches, even to singing for the chef and the porters and, of course, all the train men. They had remembered to take along a tree decorated with the makeshift ornaments they had on hand from previous years. But somehow, they made a great hit with all the strangers who junn u uciii ;II IHC luu. The passengers dove Into their baggage anil brought up honks, boxc3 of cnmly, candy bars, ties, fancy soaps and hiith sails, highly perfumed, beautiful towels and even lovely baby lothlng, wearing apparel and Jewelry. In fact", not a soul In the llule settlement was without one of the Impromptu gifts. The passengers received oldfashioned roasted fowls and all trimmings of a generous feast. What one hath not, the other had, seemed the tnost terse explanation of the happy condition!?I.uella It. Lyons. ? Western Newspjvpar Union. ON HIS WAY fecSU Green?doing awny this Christmas'; Wise?N'o, hut I guess I'll go away right after Christmas. _ Green?Where to? Wise?To Jnil as a bad debtor. Popcorn Presents Apples, jelly or canned fruit, and even big cherry homemade wreaths done up "Christmasy" make practical presents; but the gayest and most welcome of the off-the-farm-and-on-to-theclty presents seem to be pop corn and hickory nuts. With a basket of pop corn and a bag of hickory nuts all kinds of Christmas boxes are suitable fr,* oporu Aim frnm m-endfafher and grandmother who lived on a farm and picked np chestnuts when the/ were young, ?U the way down to the littlest boy cousin, who's Inordinately fond o! candy. H*Uday Carauk far Salad* Cranberry Jelly sliced and cut Intt fancy shapes with o cookie cutter 01 a knife makes an attractive and nn usual garnish for salads and desserti during the holiday season. 1 Uncle Eb*a'c Advice "Santa Clous will soon be here, 1 said Uncle Eben, "and 'ain't no tiro 1 to tell yoh financial worries. If yoi writes hlro a letter, don't writs U 1; I A 1-1. M | rvu uu. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVER | Catawba County May Get 2,000 Acre Silver Fox And Mink Farm Hickory.?Adolph Ericson, a fur dealer of Nova Scotia, is expected to return to Hickory at an early da te to continue his search for a suitable location in this section for a 2,000-acre fox and mink farm, it was learned here recently. Mr. Ericson inspected lar.d southi weat r?r ? " , v.* arouna tsaKer s j | mountain and the South range four' j years ago upor: the recommendation j i of the United States conservation de "?irtment in Washington arcl was fa- j ; vorably impressed with the territory. The depression hit the fur business before he could open the farm, ; u .wover. Vhe pelts are bringing a good price .jaln now, .<o Mr. Ericson returned Hickory last week with the view j opening the farm he had previous- j ly planned. lit fur dialer was still as favor- j flb:\ impressed with this section as' he was 0:1 iVs fir3t v here, it is s He hop^s to purchase the. 2,000 j acres of land for his farm when he j returns again. . J Silver foxes and mink will be rais- j ed on the farm should it be started, i It is estimated that Air. Ericson will | start with around 1,000 foxes and j mink, but will increase the number j of animals to 5.000 or 10.000 if the j experiment is successful. It is understood that the Nova j Scotian will finance the enterprise j himself, which, it is said, will have j a capital of approximately $100,000. j Air. Ericson already has a large j ! fox and mink farm in Nova Scotia, j j Four years ago, the United States j I conservation department advised Mr. j i Bricson that this section was one of the best suited for the raising: of j silver foxs and mink in the couni try. The terrain, southwest of Hickory where he hopes to start the farm, is almost barren, and it is hoped, therefore, that plans for the new business will materialize. "Aunt Molly" Again Sings Hillbilly Songs New York.?"Aunt Molly" .Tackson is back here from her Kentucky mountains this month to sing her new batch of hillbilly songs for the folk music classes aL New York University. She Aided Strikers "Aunt Molly" has been "ft-singin" and composin' " since she was "a little feilcr of 10," but it was the hard times of 1931 that started her songs circulating through Marian, Bell, Clay and Laurel counties, Kentucky, and ever since then she has giving all her time to raising funds for the strikers. "A nnt Molly's" people have lived in tire Kentucky mountains since Daniel Boone's time, and the only "foreigner" in the line is a Cherokee Indian. Per two generations, however, tho mountain people have been leaving their worked-out farms for jobs in the coal mines. She's No Communist "Don't you call me a Communist," she said. "My mountain people don't know what that is and I don't thoroughly understand it myself. All I know is that I'm for the working people I sing about, and a brighter and better world for them." "Aunt Molly" was brought up in a world of round danced and quiltmaking, but as the ways of living became drab and poverty-stricken, she began writing her songs about I'ne leaky shades, the ragged clothes and the poor, cheap food which the miners knew and of the way her people live. She is tall and spare and 46, and her pjrint. dress is cotton and her black shoes are worn. In her town of Horse Creek she ran a soup kitchen for the children of 18,000 miners in the 1931 strike. Her song3 have been recorded by Alan Lomax, author of several books of American folk songs. J. T. Daniel of Granville county reports 36 two-horse wagon loads of leapeaeza nay cut from a five-acre field. The field is now in wheat with excellent g-owth being made. "Cheerful Charity" "Life Insurance nables men to practice charity which does not sting?charity begotten in sacrifce for those we love." Talk it over with? FRANK M. PAYNE, General Agent S E C U R I T Y Life and Trust Company ' flM PACKAGE, bow J&J* |LM PACKAGE, bow- m* I BOONE DRUG CO. ? Tie BltlUJi Stora Y THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. W Santa Glaus W Broadcasting About the |fe |j New I 1936 ' 1 Plymouth1 A wise Santa should kno\ please the family is throug m the new PLYMOUTHS, gift problem at one time. Our new models are posit selves when it comes to be kJ*X * ' ? .cost transportation with ti Allow us to explain the rr | M. & M. M tfe BOON C % ? % W The Old-Time - I Merry CI jSjjv" can best be assured through the ing Club which opens this moi mas money little by little over 1 sure Christmas shopping details STjf You may pay from 25 cents to Christmas any amount desired, Allow us to explain to you this of providing Christmas cheer. W Watauga C< DEPOSITS INSUI PAGE ELEVEN iv that the best way to h the purchase of one of and thus solve the whole ively in a class by themauty, durability', and low ??& ne car performance. lany new improvements. OTOR CO. 11 E, N. C. j? - Jj jjl hristmas | : agency of our Christmas Sav- Jg' ith. Accumulate your Christ- Mr? the year, and note what a plea- $$?& ; become. ?*? $5 per week and receive next fpK} from $12.50 to $250.00. jj&x simple and satisfactory method junty Bank || &ED UP TO $5,600.00 Jg>
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