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TAGS TWELTl&t DO TOUR CHRISTMAS 6HOP PIXG IS GASTONIA4 THE GASTOICIA GAZETTE. TUESDAY, DECEMBER P, 191 J, Kirschbaum Kirscfibaum PRACTICAL GIFTS SHOULD HEAD YOUR CHRISTMAS LISTS Clothes AU MOO. HAND TAiioaco Clothes " ALL WOOC HAND LO MEN ARE PRACTICAL AND THEY LIKE TO RECEIVE PRACTICAL GIFTS. A GIFT OF SOME THING TO WEAR WILL BE SURE TO PLEASE "HIM" BECAUSE IT IS OF PRACTICAL USE AND OF LASTING BENEFIT. OUR VERY COMPLETE STOCK OF WINTER WEARABLES FOR MEN A$D BOYS OFFERS A SPLENDID CHANCE FOR YOU TO CHOOSE JUST THE GIFT HE WOULD LIKE BEST TO GET AND YOU WOULD LIKE BEST TO GIVE HIM, AND THE WIDE RANGE OF QUALITIES AND PRI CES ENABLES YOU TO SUIT YOUR OWN POCKETBOOK AS WELL. THE TIME IS GETTING SHORT NOW AND LATE SELECTIONS ARE ALWAYS HURRIED AND THE STOCKS ARE NEVER AS GOOD. NOW IS THE BEST TIME TO MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS. SO COME NOW AND SEE THE MANY THINGS SUITABLE FOR GIFTS HERE EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT READY TO BUY JUST YET. WE SHALL TAKE GENUINE PLEASURE IN SHOWING YOU OUR FINE STOCK OF GIFT GOODS. GIVE "HIM" SOMETHING HE CAN WEAR Copyright, 191 1( A. 8 Klnrbbanm Ca. You Must Come and See Our Many Novelties For Christmas Gifts We are showing many little novel ties that make tine Christmas girts which cannot be mentioned in detail her you must come and see them. Gold Cuff Links 50 Cents Gold Stick Pins. 50c to 91 Handsome Tie Clasps, 25 and 50c And a lot of other novelties and specialties purchased especially for the Holiday trade. "CHAIN KNITV nil; mm mm 'ZImS "00 Every Wanted Style Of Glove Is Here There are many styles and shades for you to choose from silk lined, uniined or wool lined, in kid, cape, mocha or suede. A fine line of wool and fur Gloves, too. Wool Gloves 25 and 50 Cents. Kid Gloves. $1.00 to $1.50 Fur Gloves, $1.00 Gauntlets, $1.50 to $2.50 Why Not A Suit? A Suit of Clothes for Christmas Is sure to please. No one could fail to realize beyond a doubt, that this store leads in the presentation or , smart styles for men, after having 6een our showing of smart Suits. $7.50 to $22.50 A Fine Overcoat Makes an excellent gift. Our stock is still ample and you will be able to find here just the Overcoat you want for him at a price you want to nay. We will gladly make exchanges ot ter Christmas f for any reason the garment you uy does not please you. $10 to $25 Always a Welcome Gift Good Handkerchiefs always make a welcome gift. As a modest re membrance, there is no happier sug gestion to be offered. You can get them singly or in half dozens or doz ens to the box. 5 to 50 Cents. Hundreds and Hundreds of Beautiful Neckties CopyitibC, I9U, A. B Klichbuai O A Bag Or Suit Case Is something everyone, man or wo man, is glad to get. The new ones we are showing embody many spec- lal features of interest and the qual ities are unusually good at the prices we have placed on them, as you will, see when you compare them with what you will find elsewhere. Hags $3 to $10. Suit Cases $3 to $12.50 Tine Hosiery for Gifts The newest ideas in attractive Ho siery are now represented here Jn the attractive showing that we have assembled esHH'ially for the Holiday trade. We box them up attractive ly, too. Per Pair 25 and 50 Cents. WE DON'T RELIEVE YOl EVER SAW SO MANY HANDSOME NECKTIES AS YOU WILL SEE HERE NOW. IT WOULD BE WELL WORTH YOUR WHILE TO SEE THIS DISPLAY EVEN IF YOU DID NOT BUY ANY, BUT NECKTIES ARE A HAPPY SOLUTION TO MANY. CHRISTMAS PROBLEMS. NO MATTER HOW MANY A MAN ALREADY HAS, HE IS ALWAYS GLAD TO GET MORE. WE ARE SHOW ING SOME BEAUTIFUL SILKS IN EVERY CONCEIVABLE SHADE AND COLOR. 10c 25c 500 We furnish Gift Boxes with all the smaller articles such as Neckwear, Gloves, Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Jewelry, Etc., and make no charge at all for them. Stowe Clothing and Shoe Company 2Z ' THE CHRIST CHILD'S 31AXGER. Pretty but Obsolescent Feature of the Latin Christmas. 1 All through the Italian and Hun garian quarters in New York city may be found traces of the manger at Christmas time. The Italians call It the "presepio." which means man ger; the Hungarians the "Bethle hem." The manger is an exceedingly old i and interesting devotion In the St. Francis of Assisl, who was torn in 1182. introduced it into Italy, and It Is still the sign of Christmas In south Italy, -as much as holly In the windows is the sign of it In New York. It is not many years since a carpenter could not be had ror weeks before Christmas in Naples or Borne. They were all busy putting up mangers in the houses of the quality, while the poorer folk were busy fabricating their own. This quaint old devotion Is raamg out of the cities of the mainland, but in conservative Sicily It remains In full force. Every family there still erects Its presepio some time from the 1st to the 15th of December. It Is not a manger alone, tut a whole mountain side, made oi the rough, flexible bark of the corK tree. Peaks and crags and precipices a bound, with winding trails, houses and castles of colored cardboards, loests of evergreen twigs and some times tiny pipes to furnish DrooKs end lakes. In the center is the grotto, with the holy family within, surrounded hy the cattle. A sky of blue paper Is stretched above with the star or Bethlehem upon it. Oover the hills i come shepherds bearing gifts to tne infant, and though they are in Sicilian costume and carry good Sicilian cheese and wine upon their donkeys, they are all the more in teresting for that. .Sometimes the presepio fills only a corner, sometimes the whole side -of a room according to the means of the family. It is kept year arter I year until worn out. 'but it needs to be freshened up each year, always a' welcome task to the mother and a . . . M 1 aaugaiers mi we uouse. Some Riddles For the Fireside Christmas Night. Which are the most contented Virds? Answer Crows, because they never complain without cause. . - What is the difference between a spendthrift and a pillow? Answer One is hard bp and. the other soft town. r- What animal, took the most lug gage into the ark and what the least? Answer The elephant, wno nad his trunk, while the fox and tne rooster had only a brush and comb between them. When is a candle in a passion? Answer When it is put out or flares up. When has a man four nandsT Answer When he doubles his fists. Why Is wig like a lie? Answer Because it's a falsa hood. Why mustn't you call an owl a quail? Answer Because you would be making game of him. Why did the elderberry wniner Answer Because he didn't get lemon aid. Is Your Birthday on Christmas? There are many predictions con cerning the luck of those born on Christmas day. It depends some what on the day of the week. An old belief was that those born on this day, when it fell on Sunday, would live to be great lords; on Monday, would be strong and Keen; on Tuesday, strong and covetous; on Wednesday, wise, gay, dougnty and crafty; on Thursday, wise of speech and reasonable; on Friday, long lived; on Saturday, wealthy and prosperous. CHRISTMAS IX GERMAXT. While there are few civilized countries in which the plan of giv ing presents at Christmas time is not almost universal nowadays, this was not always the case. Indeed, the world has acqured many of the customs now In vogue at this period of the year from the Germans, who pay more attention to Christmas than the people of any other nation. It is to them perhaps that we owe the inauguration of the giftgiving as well as the beautiful institution of the Christmas tree. The presents equally with the tree have been popular among the Germans from medieval times. With the Introduc tion of German customs (chier a mong which was the spark itng Christmas tree) into Great Brltian at the time of Queen Victoria's marriage with the German Prince Albert in the middle of the nine teenth century the practice of gen eral Christmas giving doubtless be gan among English speaking peopie. "Is he? Well, I should say so! Isn't he, Mary?" "Humph! Very nice, as SantaB go, but not very modest." "Is he handsome, daddy?" "Oh, as handsome as a picture sparkling eyes, fine forehead, beau tiful complexion very handsome, isn't he, Mary?" "Henry, it's perfectly dreadful the way you deceive that child. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You're setting him a terrible ex ample." "But, daddy, where does he live away off somewhere?" "Oh, yes: very, very far." "Away off where the stork lives?" "The stork! Who's been telling you about the stork?" "Mammy." Chicago Tribune. Mistletoe. It is high time that sometnins was done about our mistletoe liter ature that crops up so regularly dur ing the holiday season. It systematizes about as follows: The joke about the girl who wears a Bprig of mistletoe on her head. The joke about the mistletoe that didn't come in time, and the girl asks (always coyly) whether they cannot get along without It. The church trimming mistletoe joke. The sprig of mistletoe that the long lost lover on his dramatic re turn on Christmas eve always draws out of his pocket at the end of tne story. The fact Is that the mistletoe has now degenerated into a chestnut. It no longer serves any useful literary purpose. It should be worn only by mothers-in-law. Harper's Weekly. Let Us Do Your Cake Paking For Chirstmas We are prepared. We have been espec ially particular in selecting our fruits this season for fruit cakes. Out-of-town or ders given prompt attention. Do not forget. "FOR TODD'S SAKE EAT BREAD" Todd's Steam Bakery PHONE 63 Sandy and the Stork. "But, daddy, is there really, truly Santy?" "Well, I Just guess yes a regu lar corker he is too." "Is he nice." , The Rest Known Christmas Poem. '"Twas the Night Before Chris tmas" those delightful verses that will ( harm both the old and. young as long as there are stockings to be hung was written ninety-one years ago. just before the holiday season, by Clement Clark Moore, then pro fessor of oriental languages in the Xew York semina'ry. It has become an American classic, and no Chris tmas day is complete without a read ing of this charming little lyric that has lived and gladened the Chrlst mastide for nearly 100 years. "KXKCHT RrPERT" WAS GERMAN SAXTA CLAUS. The Santa Claus idea has grown out of a variety of legends and cus toms. The festival of St. Nicholas, who was the especial friend of the children, was celebrated in Qermany about the 6th of December. It was easy enough to make this coincide with the later and more general festival. The tangible Santa Claus was called "Knecht Rupert," and usually he was some member of the family dressed up to represefi a beneficent gilt giver. It was the custom to have a yew bough placed in the parlor of the German nome, and on this all the packages contain ing gifts were placed. On Christmas morning the whole family assembled to claim the gifts, each having to guess the donor. "Knecht Rupert" distributed th gifts to the younger children, but he lectured them also on obedience and good behavior", and if any one had been bad, Instead or a gift he or she was given a switch that they might be punished. So the little Germans try hard to oe very good before Christmas. , Bad Day For Birds. The day after Christmas, St. Ste phen's day (boxing day in England), is celebrated in a queer way by some of the Manx boys, and Ditcn field says they feel privileged to stone wrens at this time because or a story to the effect that in days gone by a most dangerous siren was finally compelled to assume the rorm of a wren once a year (on the 26th) and ultimately to be 'killed by mor tal hands. Another tradition fur nishes an excuse on the ground that it was a wren that wakened the guard of St. Stephen just as the lat ter was about to escape from prison. Enemies of the Christmas Tree. Not every balsam nor every spruee is a Christmas tree. The expert cutter learns to ten at a glance if the branches grow li perfect rings, which give shape and symmetry to the tree. He must be sure, too, that the squirrels have not eaten the buds from the tips of the topmost branch es, and that the cattle and fleer, have not sharpened their horns in passing. Broad Realm ol Toys. There is nothing material on earth, animate or Inanimate, relating in any way to oar civilization, from a simple pin to a complex steam en gine, form a single seed to a forest of giant trees or from the lowest ob servable forms of the animal crea tion to mah himself, that is not rep resented in our toys. A Fin de Steele Catastrophe. Twas the night preceding Christmas, And Santa far away. Ua lacked enough of gasoline To run his doerlejui nldir
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