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g o, Carol Singers U "'4' "_ -' w ' ' i »- 1 i H l .- ‘ ' 66 , 9’ Autumn smiles are out ‘now. Friends and Policyholdera My; g,» "'2'"; 135 BEING ILL o~o~oo~»;n,;, , , w...“ r mas a" e H th ‘ a v When every w" m “e o“ t0 d” . Reward your integrity. iooinloilxgfitgirgﬁzl“ my, ‘ English Class Attempt the Diagnosis. mm, "m, m, w“,

for A MERRY CHRISTMAS i and a 3, HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR

A. R. Maclnnis

Q \ ’ “ And more business than needy you can handle,

@ o g Assure your prosperity.

MacLure & MacKinnon

Golly colored white and red. Blus and purple, green

ﬁrm‘ each lane and avenue Everywhere are seen.

Do you hear the harp and tairle

In their voices light and airy,

Be it saddened mood or meme As they stop beside the way.

(by Rev. Edward vemon, M. A.) ‘Sugar cakes ‘made me 1061 81¢! 9°

What a cntterlct ltgniggtizeusnctlhctige ‘ it tlzillglévs the “m” m” 25;!mnothﬁhrthmerepwzsotnyihinglabout being ill," said somﬂﬂlle alle- unusual about that, for the tongues , ‘fNiw things aren't 111w "W “I”

- , 15, too u ii ' ' i hen you're mum . W 17 _' re . . ' How the manger was His cradle; this mummg ha“, the School was and whoophrcuush and scarlet Does t e win r rown a m a _ M 5g

Not while such a fairyland . Travels in our town.

See the men round this inn table, Bowed in reverent silence. pray.

bizck again sitar being away with ‘fvvt-l‘. so I ought to klloWgr ' measles for four or five weeks, so “well, I've never had anf B; that the_ tongues had far more thuin," said Molly. with I m“ °

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Hear their voices, sweet, seclusive. Radiant colors glow afar,

MERRY CHRISTMAS and a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR

l you? What makes illness?” i "Oh, 1 don't know," said the slrl Celebrating Christmas who had had mumps and measles i“ and all the other things, "but I Christmas was first celebrated in think it's your body being bad and the year 98, but it W85 40 Yell" 13‘ , and they're awfully hard." naughty. Perhaps it’s BOmBtBiBB , ter before it was officially adopted "Well, it’s spelt like quits, any" that gets inside you-like an evil as s. Christmas festival; nor was it how," replied Tomboy. "And I'm "pirlt, you know." until about the filth century that sure 1'11 be better than you at Just then the school-bell gave a the day o; m celebration became reading, ’cos I've done a lot of it in sharp "Ting-a-llng,” and everyone permanently fixed on the 25th of,

and everyone laughed at poor T0m~ boy's mistake. “It's called hun- dred-weights, and if you hadn't had measles you’d have known i

MacDougall & MacAulay

The Christmas Shell

l ' _ t. hCl‘ head. M mummy say’! , . ' A? “f” Happy Sea-son’ we take Pleamlre m Only pureness is intrusive; thzottslilf. toorzioazz: with sums there's no needy for people to take‘ 31-min! m a“ sun‘ The Prince CO unfy

' " wlshmg a” ‘m’ frimds "m! custimler" “ Merrie. "w. vvtﬂd. eluslve- now?” asked Tomboy of a girl ihcse things. She says ‘it you.w"“°"5 EEY_'°'“F““" “m” "he" , Very Merry Christmas, and a Happy and Hear them sing on Christmas Day canes lvlolly who hadn't been m. lkcep well you bevel- take 111,’ and, Autumn 51111185 are d°"@- W Dry Cleaners

;i""‘“ Prosperous New Year. -l’nullne Age 1t "Hove you got as tar as tons and sure enough, she's never ill." , """

I qultg yet?" “But what i5 illness?" asked Wish Their Patrons a d —— "Tons and quits!" scoffed Molly. Tomboy. "How does it Bet W”

(By Folgcr McKlnsey)

A whisper in the house.

A rumor through the rooms, The children quiet as u mouse,

With checks as red as blooms. A tltter on the stair,

A smothered laugh, and then

that. We're doing fractions now.

m u sic every" where

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‘ To you a plenty bring.

Bruce Stewart & Co.

Greetings of the Season

To all our friends and customers that we have served in the past and to those whom we hope to serve in the future we extend our Greetings and our heartlest wishes for a. happy and prosperous New Year.

We most respectfully solicit a continuance of your valued

patronage. It will be our aim in 1932 to serve you better than ever.

The Christmas Tree

, H _ Party The sun streamed through the

Tricks for the Christmas

Beneath some closet lid A kindller grace and glow A softer thought and spcccli, A dearer wish to grow In closer love for each, And this and these-they tell, They are the deathless sign- It is the Christmas spell In your home and in mine.

The Wreath of Holly

The wreath of holly combines both pagan and Christian signifi-

weights.

One smart girl asked how many hands John Brown's body had be-' fore.

English class, and that it's doing composition, becluse no one is

speaking, not even the teacher, and

everyone is sucking pencils, and

"I didn't feel like reading when Plooklng at the roof, and thinking

i th had measles," said a funny little hard, and wondering what to say.| Nothing is known concern n8 e girl whose name was Mattie. “I|It's a way that English classes

didn't seem to want anything at

all, not even the nice things.

said to be hateful to witches was therefore placed on doors and windows to keep them out. In Eng- land the holly firstbrodght into the house was said to be a. sign of who would rule the house for the ensu--

cance. It is closely allied with the "a Ala” your Clwistmas crown of thorns, the red berries, A: probably representing the drops] ﬁg and the New Year or blood Less somberly, holly ivos| {M Y

GREETINGS

PRIMROSE

VELCO “ Is the wish of

The Irving Oil Co” Ltd.

Charlottetown

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be‘ as full of Pep as

run as smooth as

‘ A them the rank of kings, but

. I - _ Itls Christmas Jo we That wonderful and mystic air- 1,9,1 Besides, I can play ‘Johnhad to hurry off without decidlngitecemb _ up to that Mme it had. g r “flier, mus": every y Billﬂ I] when Christmas mm“ again» Brown's Body’ with two hands what illness was. been irregularly observed at various} [nu C€I if l (l8 '0

H‘ ' A Slipping m at dmk MW", she added’ m B “n” that‘ ‘ ' ' times of the year-in December. inl . I s m I u we

.,_'__ Oh! p] " c, . with bundles to be hid, showed that this was better thanl The English class is hard at _i 8mg’ _ s rare a” "m; S‘ (“on An odor of the cookies’ musk knowing ilbout tons and hundred- work. You can tell that it’; the Apr“ and i" Mil‘. but ma“ "e ' o"! mall ""8 884180"

quently in January. |

The Wise Men

identity of the "wise men". All that we lenm from the gospel is that

rare To you a plenty bring.

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“wise men" appeared bringing gifts

of gold, frankincense and myrrh. we do not know who they were or what were their names or how ma- ny there were. The common suppo- sition is there were three of them. That idea arises from the fact that there were three gifts. Some of the early Christian writers thought that there were twelve. later Christian writers still name them, giving their names as Melchior, Caspar and Bal- thasar. Persia. would probably be the place from which they came, because they were interested in the stars and the Persians were great

and to everybody we

To our many Customers we extend thanks for patronage during the past year,

u-isli a Very Meqy

Christmas and Everything Good for I932.

Harry A. MacDo ugall

145 Great George Street “The Store of Better Men's Wear”

star gazers. Another tradition gives the

_The Button in the Bottle

Holly Berry Beliefs

window glas. They stood admiring what was left‘ of Christmas-just

Ben-ow a dime, take a piece’ of square paper, put the coin in the

gospel tells nothing save that “wise men" came.

a handlul of waxcn stubs, some tar nished tinsel and a few colored

centre, fold the sides of the paper over it, pick up the square, blow

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For this trick you will require s. clear glass bottle, a button, a piece of thread and a cork. Tie the but- ton securely to the thread, place

As far back as the fifth centun Christians invested holly branches with a symbolism that helped to ‘keep sacred memories alive. The

Hope your Christmas ‘uvill be jolly,

Days that follow gay

As the festive looking holly We display today.

bulbs; a dusky shrub sheet. Then

a shadow hid the suni They did not see through the win ~'_ plow the giant clm with its carpet . of frosted crystals, its branches of prisms and pendants and coruscat- 3, _- $116M. God touched the switch, the ﬁsun came out and nature's Christ- mas tree stood glittering and now sparkling with gems too precious ever“ to be possessed but free for ihc . poorest beggarl-Mabcl Atkinson in h ‘ the Prism.

upon it, open the paper, and the? dimc will have disappeared. _ Fold; the paper up again. blow upon it, unfold it, and-beholdi-the dime is there. How is it done? First of all you must prepare your pcper- and it is not. so innocent as it looks. Take u. good sized sheet of plain paper and fold it in two. Then with a needle prick four holes through both thicknesses of paper, two in- ches apart to form a square. Then‘ separate the two pieces of paper and fold the edges of one oi them towards the centre, using the holes as guides. This will make a kind of a. little pocket. Paste this pocket cx _____. acily in the centre of the other

(By Robert Herrick) piccc oi jmpcr between ‘the holes. What swcctcr music can we bring This plain side is the one you must Than a carol for to sing i nhvnys keep turned towards the nu-

'it in the ‘bottle so that it hangs

.half wsy down, attach the other

‘end of the thread to the cork, and cork the bottle again, and now how can you sever the thread so that

Ethe button falls to the bottom oi the bottle? The bottle must not be uncorked or broken.

Nothing more is needed to accom- plish this trick successfully than, a lens to focus the rays of the sun. of making a decoctlgn 1mm me which pass through the glam with- bark and drinking it in the midst out heating it and bumthe thread. 'of the Christmas celebrations, so

that-in the words of an old writer --"Ye shall not forget the Cross as

————~ ‘ye rejoice in the mangerF-Mont- Yuletide cc-lebraton in Ellgliilld fpallﬂq-gﬂlL

reached the height oi milililiiicvnr" _ in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth (“n- lturies. Great quantities of food were

mrimson berries symbolized the ,' blood shed on Calvary by the Foun- der of the Christian religion; the pricklcy leaves held remembrances lot the crown oi’ thorns; and the flutter-boss of the holly bark was ‘symbolic of the draught of which ;Christ partook while hanging on the Cross. _ Once, in fact, there was a custom _

Of all glad days thro’- out the year,

There's none like this for real good cheer. Merry Christmas!

Macllonald'& Rowe

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Milton’s Tea Rooms

' Boar's Head and Peacock

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A Christmas Day full light

Ami presents by the score. We’re wishing you It'll/l. all

our might, What could we wish you

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sweeter with singing.

There are memories we love to recall

But of IUISIICK this Chrislnias is bringing

May this greeting be sweetest

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A Christmas Carol

Lemon Tali‘ y

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The birth of this our Heavenly King (l cncc and never have a light Awake the voice! Awake tho string hind it or the secret oi the p Heart ear and eye and everything,‘ will be disclosed. Lay the

bo- ocket

paper

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served at the banquets, whcrc iboarls head occupied the plncc oi honor, while the peacock was ncxt in importance.

ll. Maclean

'I‘wo tablespoons butter, 2 cups ﬂllgnr. 4 tablespoons lemon juice, 4 tablespoons water. Melt buttrr, re- move from heat, add sugar, lemon

Awake! the while the active finger plain side uppermost on the table.

-__ ‘juice and water, stirring until well The Glorious Yuletide lmixrd- Brine to bolllus point and cook until mixture becomes brittle , when a little is tried in cold water, or when the temperature of 270 de-

Huns divisions with the singlar. Place the (lime on the paper, fold -~.~-»n." ~ down the edges over it, again using the needle marks ns guides, and make n little pocket similar to the

The yuletide is what one makes it. Most people choose to make it

Dark and dull night, fly hence away And give the honor to this day.

Its great to greet a

4 That secs December turned to May, one you have on the other side. friend like yo" i I _ l an occasion resplendent with 1m. 3,905 E is malchecL Pour on butter“ .1 _ we may ask the reason say When you blow uhon the paper you Especially on Chhstmua We are 11,16" ""9 f9?‘ I10" he’? Semﬁhﬂeﬁi- a 5055011 “(limited V)‘ vd DIME and when cool enough m vi The why’ wherefore an things he" gum p, m." with an 511,105; impor- Day A! you now uie would the happiness of service. This is the‘ handle pull until white, Seem like the sprint.’ time of year.‘ ccptiblc movement (this can really Ma” Lou enjoy what is -4' ghrmtm“ W13’! d9?!) and 810W 01 8 festival thﬂt iwvu ages-i -—_-_ be accomplished with Dfﬂﬁilcel 8° your due’ n "care It i5 the glmy “r w“? » ‘l

For everything that’; good. -—-

‘A ‘We see Him come and know Him thnt the empty Side L! tmvmﬂ‘ YW’ ' "3 V‘ our, ‘ and of course, when you open it the I .

Who with His sunshine and His! dime is not there. Fold it again. mid

And all your years be bright and gay.

Spain's Christmas Ilish

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' showers blow upon it and turn the Paper ‘ A E ‘ A. & B0. A flwmile Chﬂsinlﬂﬁ (11511 l" S C N 99 ' "mm; any... patient ground to quickly so that the pocket with the . ' ' 8pm“ l“ a 5mm m‘ swce" “mmnds. .4 ﬂowers. dime is upocriuust- I ‘ ‘ " '* '" . . ct am

When now we review The names of our friends , And there we find you M o r e joy Christmas lends.

Iling out ye Bells

And Doves bring peace

Dear Friend, we're hoping

Your joys increase.

w. n. emu s. to.

May the Christmas Star, With its glorious Light Lead you IO-dllyli

That are ever bright.

J. Alfred Doyle

Painter 41nd 1106011110"

Please Stand By for we want to broadcast “Merry Christmas"

Island Radio Co.

K. S. Rogers, Mgr.

Maclnnis’ Bakery