The Savoy Star. (Savoy, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 1910 Page: 2 of 4
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THE SAVOY STAB
T. E. ARTERBERRY, Prop.
6AV0Y,
TEXAS
ART OF DRES8ING.
The way to be artistically gowned
Is to discover one’s best feature and
then dress up to it. This law has
been laid down to the class In ar-
tistic costuming which was recently
added to the fine arts department of
the New York Teachers’ college, and
the instructor, who formerly designed
for a Fifth avenue dressmaker, ap-
plies it to emphasize the Importance
of developing one’s Individuality, says
tKe Boston Transcript ‘Tf you have
attractive eyes," says the expert
“make the most of them by your style
of dress. If your hair is your sole
claim to beauty, the tone of the dress
Should be such as to make the hair
seem to beautify the entire face. If
the pink of your cheeks is alluring In
Its delicacy ohoose some complemen-
tary shade for your dress." Converse-
ly, unattractive features—a prominent
nose, eyes that squint or a too ample
mouth—should be “dfessed down,’’
and the expert affirms that such fea-
tures may be subdued and better fea-
tures given prominence if one knows
the secret of the new art of beauty.
These secrets are to be imparted, It
is understood, before the winter Is
over. "Any woman,” whether a mem-
ber or not, may poee before the class,
which will frankly discuss her good
points and poor ones and plan an ar-
tistic costume of the proper fabrlo
and the most becoming color, on the
lines best suited to her figure.
The sheer waste In this country Is
appalling Our working men get less
comfort and enjoyment out of a given
expenditure than the workmen of
Prance; the same Is true of our mid-
dle classes as a whole; our local au-
thorities muddle away money; our Im-
perial concerns are extravagantly
managed; our manufacturers throw
money Into the sewers or into the
atmosphere and destroy more money
In the process. It Is not the com-
parative luxury among us so much as
the comparative waste that strikes
people who Intelligently observe ths
ways of other nations. A very good
defense may be set up for those re-
finements of life which collectively
are termed luxury, says the London
Times. But far waste there Is abso-
lutely no defmise possible, and the
real indictment against us as a na-
tion la that we stupidly fall to obtain
the luxury and the pjjjasure which oup
expenditure might procure.
An exchange calls attention to ths
(set that while sermons wers being
preached on tuberculosis In its baili-
wick the churches themselves were
filled with Impure air and other
phases of the white plague. There is
a trouble that the tuberculosis peo-
ple will have to fight—crowded, IB-
aired hulls and churches. The trouble
Is that ths mesns fsr ventilation are
not provided, says the Columbus (CX)
State Journal. Opening a window or
a door in most cases Is objectionable.
That creates a draft and starts a cold,
which briags discomfort if not disas-
ter. It would be Interesting to see
the statistics, to know which was the
mors fatal—drafts or tuberculosis
There are few places for general as-
semblage that are hygienleally ventV
A
Another proof that the Americas
girl is equal on every occasion. The
young ladies who attend Wellesley
college have organised a fire brigade
with fourteen captains, all of whom
live in dormitories and assume charge
whenever fire Is discovered. The
brigade will be drilled for efficient
service,, and there Is no doubt that
when necessity arises these fire-light
art of the gentler sex will be “os
the job."
As a result of the census Chicago
Is malting a vlrtuoufc pose bec&usv
•00,000 of the population are set dows
as “regular" church attendants. Thai
looks pretty good unless attention to
directed to the 1,300,000 of Irregulars
And what some of those irregulars df
when the regulars are at church, if
a caution.
The conquest of the air Is not to b«
left In the sole possession of record
breaking laurels. One of ths great
steamships is to make the round trip
to Europe and back in eleven days
Including time for loading and u»
loading of freight Imagination to
taxed to foretell what wonders th«
next generation will accept as ordi
nary dally facts of life.
A college student In Minnesota, or
dered to propose marring* to a nun*
bar of young women as a conditio*
of his admission Into a college club
proposed to twenty-three girls anl
was rejected by them all. By way ol
toning down a man’s belief In hlf
own attractions this method seems tc
he even more chastening than hazing
The happiest woman we know of 1|
the one who has twenty-one Christmas
gifts bought already.
HE twenty-fifth of Decem-
ber, rather the week about
that time has been cele-
brated for many ages with
rejololng. Long before the
_ Christian era, the pa-
gan astronomers decided that these
were the shortest days before the sun
returned to northern lands to bring
another spring and seed time and har-
vest. The dreary winter was at its
worst, and the coming days would
have longer hours of light and sun-
shine and the reawakening of na-
ture. Therefore sing and be joyful.
The Egyptians held a festival in honor
of the birth of their god Horns. The
Romans called It “the birthday of the
Invincible sun” and dedicated It to
Bacchus, rejoicing with him that the
sun was about to return and revivify
the vineyards. The Persians held a
festival of uncommon splendor as the
birthday of Mithras, the mediator, a
spirit of the sun. Iu the north coun-
try among the worshipers of Odin It
was a nature festival of riotous feast-
ing, because the fast of winter was
approaching its end. It has been a
time of universal celebration accord-
ing to ancient written history since
the beginning, and obscure tribes In
remote nations have legends of their
own about what we call Chrlstmastide,
ths feast of peace sod good will.
As Chrlstlanliy brought Its blessings
to follow the good of past religions, it
seems only right that the birth of Christ
should come at a time of general re-
joicing. It made 1% easier for the pa-
gans to turn to the Saviour of Light,
at a time when the returning sun-
shine In the skies was symbolical of
the feeling of brotherly kindness which
was taught In the love of a little
child.* And so as oarly as the second
century the church celebrated Christ-
mas day when ths heathen wers hon-
oring their gods.
The Christmas celebration, as we
know It, is but a reincarnation of the
Yuletide of the Anglo Saxon tribes.
Binging Is a proper way to manifest
joy^ It del.ghts the singer and gives
pleasure to others. The churchly car-
ols were not enough for the hearty
feeling. The pagan feasting remains.
And so with that divine old carol,
"Adeste Fidelia," are convivial songs.
Corns hither, ye faithful;
Triumphantly sing;
Come, see the manger.
Our Saviour and King!
To Bethlehem hasten,
With joyous accord!
Ob, come ye, come hither.
To worship the Lord!
The contrast lies In "A Carole Bryng-
lng in Ye Bore’s Heed."
Capri apri defero.
Reddens laudes domino.
The Bore’s head in hand bring 1,
With garlands gay and rosemary;
And I pray you all sing merely,
Quls estlls In convivio.
The church of the early days had
some of the wisdom of modern social
service. It entertained Its parishion-
ers in a worldly way as well as In-
stilled religious doctrine. The mys-
tery, miracle plays and mummeries
enacted under the direction of the
Clergy rehearsed the scene In the
stable. These plays gave rise to a
number of legendary carols. The
“Cherry Tree Carol” was popular In
London in the last ceatury. It related
the story of the Virgin begging Josepn
to pluck some cherries for her. and
when b* refusing, the unborn babe
speaks and tells his mother to reach
out her band and the tree will bow
before her, and ths carol goes on to
*«y:
“Then bespake Joseph,
I have done Mary wrong,” etc.
Another carol of this time Is full of
beautiful imagery
“As Joseph was a-walklng,
H* heard an angel sing—
This night shall be born.
Our heavenly king;
He neither shall be born
In house nor In hall,
Nor In the place of ^Paradise,
But In an ox's stall.” etc.
ThiB Is In the same spirit as our fa-
miliar:
“While shepherds watched their flock*
by night
All seated on the ground.
The angel of the Lord came down
And glory shone around.
‘Fear not,'' said he (for mighty dread
Had seized their troubled mind);
"Glad tidings of great Joy I bring
To you and all mlnkind.”
And who would forget the swing of
melody, and the charity taught In
“Good King Weneslaus looked forth
On the least of Stephen,’’
He saw the beggar gathering fuel
In the snow that lay "round about,”
and calls to his servants to bring him
robes and wine and to fetch the poor
man in from the cold.
In the rural districts the nature fes-
tival lived long after the church had
taken the feast There were remains
of tree worship and sacrifice to Po-
mona in Cornwall as late as 150 years
ago. The peasants used to^jo Into
the orchards on Christmas <my with
pailfuls of cider and roasted apples.
The health of the trees was drunk to
song, and libations poured upon th«
roots. In various sections of north
ern Europe It is the custom to deco-
rate trees out of doors. The fir trees
as evergreens, and fruit trees for their
promises, were trimmed with long
streamers of ribbon, or paper.
Tbe Christmas tree finds its ances-
tor in the German ash Ygdrasil. a
great tree whose top reached to Wal-
halla, the home of the gods, and whose
roots were fast In the earth.
The Germans have a wealth of car-
ols, but nearly all are of a religious na-
ture.
“Oh Tannenbaum, Oh Tannenbaum"
or the song of the fir tree at Christ-
mas time has become world wide.
Who could count the households that
gather around the tapers lighted aud
the tree loaded with gifts to sing this
In unison.
In the English household the song
Is:
“Gather around the Christmas tree.
Ever green has Its branches been
It is king of all the woodland scene."
Or It may be:
“Carol, brothers, carol,
Carol Joyfully,
Carol for the coming of Christ’s na-
tivity.”
^ The good old custom of singing
from house to bouse on Christmas eve
has crept across the water from Eng-
land to America. It was a part of the
program of the season to learn these
carols and to gather In - bands, going
from house to house across the snow
and singing before the doors. The
neighbors knew they were coming, pre-
paring cakes and warm drinks, and
sometimes gifts of money. Whoever
has heard “God rest ye, merry gentle-
men, let nothing ye dismay," sung,
heartily In the frosty air has a thrill
and an experience that returns to him
every Christmas after.
And every Christmas mom is awak-
ened with the stirring strains of
"Shout ths glad tidings exuitingly
sing."
But we must not think that England
or Germany sing all the carol musie.
France had a quaint literature of its
own. Here Is one of Nowell, or Noel,
and from north to south there are
delightful variations of It These
words or the English tr an Listed long
ago preserve the spirit:
“ ‘Nowell, nowell, no-vell, nowell,’
This Is the salutacyon of the angel] ga-
bryell,
Tydyngs treu ther be cum neu sent
frome the trynyte,
Be gabryell to nazareth cety of gallle.
A clene maydyu ?nd pure virgyn
thorow her humylvte,
Hath conceybyd the person secund in
delte.”
Pere Noel comes down the chimney
and gives gifts just as Father Christ-
mas does across the channel, and the
little French children sing:
“Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel slngeth clear,
Holpen are all folk on earth
Bom Is God’s son so dear.”
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Ji £bri$tma$ Prayer |
/V|\ 60D, our father, th«
11J shining stars of the cold
December sky remind us
again of the patient mother and
the rock-hewn manger In lowly
Bethlehem where lay cradled thy
Eooe for the world. In the
shadows of the silent stall we
stand beside the Child and praise
Chee for Chy best great gift to
sinful met. Speak to our souls as
we wait. Eet the sweet, loolng,
trusting spirit of the Child steal
Into our lines until It calms all
weak and anxious fears and
soothes all bitterness and pain.
Ti willing surrender and holy
longing let us take the Christ
Child into our hearts, that hence-
forth we may line as Be lloed,
loce as Be looed, and follow In
Bis footsteps, bringing help to the
needy, courage to tbe weak,
comfort to the sorrowing, hope to
the downcast, and strength and
looe to all. Grant that the sptrit
of loolng kindness may so prcoaH
among us and among ail peop!e
that these who know Cbec net, +j
shall be gathered into Chy fcld +i
'+ and kingdom. t|
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by julia BorromxY
OME people have the knack
of arranging things. They
take hold of a house or a
room, be It ever so com-
monplace, and transform It
with the materials we all
have at hand, Into something beau-
tiful. I recall a lady who used to buy
an ugly house, move Into it, and be-
gin making changes outside and in.
In about two years the whole place
was simply transformed and she had
spent the time happily and busily.
But her occupation was gone, so she
would look up another place that
needed regenerating and put that
which she had completed on the mar-
ket She1 cashed in her ideas and
went happily to work again. The lit-
tle city in which she lives la beautiful
and she is one of the chief educators
of public taste. She shows others
how to Improve their surroundings.
I knew another woman gifted In man-
aging Interiors. She had little money
—less time, for she was a wage earn-
er; but she had the faculty of making
things sweet around her. I want to
tell you of the Christmas decorations
which transformed her small home
into a sort of bewitching Christmas
bower, not to be forgotten, and yet
fashioned from just the same things
we all have at hand. This Is her rec-
ipe:
Sometime before Christmas, say six
weeks, buy a roll of dark red crape pa-
per, and one of olive green, crape pa-
per, also a sheet of pale yellow tis-
sue paper. Buy some cheap bonnet
wire from the milliner. Use a real
poinBettia blossom for a pattern or
buy one already made of paper, and
proceed to make up two dozen poinset-
tla blossoms. First cut patterns,
from a piece of wrapping paper, of the
petals of tbe poinsettia. Open ths
Bonbon Basket of Paper, Tinsel 8tar.
Poinsettia Flowers, Paper Bells. .
rolls of crape paper and stretch them.
A roll of ten feet will stretch to fifteen
and be Improved thereby, for some
purposes. To stretch the paper let
some one hold one end for you while
you pull the other gradually, or tack
one end to the floor, stretch the pa-
per and tack the other end, allowing
It to remain for a few hours.
Cut from the red paper, according
to your wrapping paper patterns, the
petals, which will be in three sizes.
Cut a yard of the green paper Into
length-wise strips, half Inch wide, with
which to wind the wire for stems. A
piece of wire 6 or 3 Inches long is cut
off. Four little wads of tbe yellow tis-
sue paper the size of a large pea, are
each covered with a little piece of the
same paper, *n inch square. This is
brought over the wad and twisted Into
a little stem. Then little wads are
fastened to the end of tbe piece of
wire by winding with a coarse thread
or a fine spool wire. The latter is
best Place two or three small petals
of the red paper around the end of the
wire to which you have Just fastened
the little yellow wads and fasten them
with thread or wire. Next place,
larger petals and finally the largest
size, following the natural blossom, or
the paper one bought for a guide, as
nearly as possible. Wind the wire
stem with green tissue paper. Pull
the edges of the petals slightly to give
them a natural look. As the paper
poinsettia blossoms are finished put
them in a hat box. In two or three
evenings as many as will be needed,
are easily made.
After the poinsettia Is finished maks
little basket^ of the red paper. For
foundations use little card-board dish-
es such as confectioners use for Char-
lotte Russe, or those which may be
bought for the purpose. Make han-
dles of wire. Cover the basket Inside
and out with the red paper, pasting it
to place and pulling the edges Into
ruffles. Make as many little baskets
as there are guesta-to-be. Cover the
handles by wrapping the wire with
narrow strips of the red paper. Fin-
ish with little bows made of baby rib-
bon or narrow strips of tbe paper
either in red or green. Put the little
baskets away with the poinsettia
Next a few candle or electric light
shades are to be made. As the crape
paper costs no more when fireproofed,
one should specify the fire-proofed va-
riety when buying It
Cut out card board discs 6^4 Inches
•». d.nmeler with circles cut from the
~eptfci'. 2 Inches In diameter. These
rest on the metal shade supports.
From the paper napkin or dolly, cut
a circle at the center 3V6 Inches In
diameter. With a needle and thread
gather this up to fit the metal support.
Place the doily over the card-board
disc and tie the ends of the thread
firmly about the metal.
As soon as the stores begin showing
them, buy a few strands of red tinsel
balls and two packages (about six
yards) of silver tinsel. Two dozen
of the small paper Christmas bells In
red and, two bolts of red baby ribbon.
These things are to be found at the
ten cent stores, and cost very little.
Get them early and put them away.
Nothing further is needed but the ever-
greens which are bought just before
they are used.
One small well-shaped Christmas
tree will be needed and then a lot of
The Little Yule Log.
A Festoon of Red Tinsel Beads 8trung
on Baby Ribbon.
greenery-boughs that have been cut
away In trimming trees, or trees that
do not sell readily because not well
shaped may be bought for a trifle or
these may be procured In this coun-
try. The sweet smelling kind add a
distinct pleasure to Christmas. Bring
your boughs and trees home two or
three days before Christmas. Cut the
branches from the trunks. With small
branches wound to wire with dark
cord or heavy thread, make wreaths
for pinning to the window curtaina.
Saw from the end oi one of the tree
trunks—(which'will be from 4 to 6
inches In diameter) a piece 18 inches
long for a miniature yule log. Tie red
baby ribbon around each end and sus-
pend from tF i chandelier or In a door-
way. Hang a tiny bowl to represent
an old-time kettle over It, using the
baby ribbon. Tie short branches to
the chandeliers but do not cover them
too thickly with greens. Take the
remaining greens and place them in
the fruit baskets which you previously
covered with green paper. Use holly
with them. Set these wherever they
look prettiest; In the windows, if the
sills are deep enough. Pin a wreath
to the curtains at each window. Now
all your greens are placed and the red
Is to be added. The secret of using
It effectively Is to be sparing with It
Bring out your poinsettia and place
two or three blossoms In a group
somewhere In the green about each
door and window. Fasten one flower
at ths top of each wreath. Festoon
your little red tinsel balls among the
greens at the top of the door by which
your guests enter the living room. Use
the remaining ones In groups of two
on the Christmas tree.
becorate the Christmas tree with
the silver tinsel and in the manner
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IF YOU HAVE
The Paper Candle 8hade.
to which you have been accustomed*
for the eake of old times.
Place tbe remaining candles on the
mantels, piano or on the dressing
cases to be used by the guests.
Your decorating is done, and when
the lights are lit and begin to glow
through the red shades, you will re-
gard the little scene with a heart
throb of satisfaction. When the guests
arrive all will be put In a lively good I
humor by the charm of their surround- I
ings. from the living room and din- i
lug room over to them and proceed !
to enjoy anything and everything
which you have planned or they sug-
gest.
no ippctlte, Indigestion, Flatulence, Sick
Headache, “all run down” ar losing flesh, you
will find
tuft’s Pills
last what you need. They tone op tbe weak
stomach and build up th* flagging energies.
PATENT
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Texas Directory
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Edison Records on Exchange
Two old records and SO cents buys new Stand-
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parts for all makes of talking machines.
1 'KOPOSITIONS: How to obtain • Standard res-
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DALLAS, TEXAS.
Why Do They?
Why women like the baldheaded
man it is somewhat difficult to define^
It may be because he appears to be:
Thoughtful and kind.
Trustworthy and confiding. Whim-
sical. Past the follies and frivolities
of youth.
Usually snccessfnL
A man of property.
Opinions why women like the bald*
headed man obtained by the Dally
Mirror are as follows: ,
He Is not silly like young men.
He accepts refusals of marriage so,
nicely that one Is sorry one did not
accept him.
< The bald patch looks so olean and
nice. One would like to kiss IL
A doctor welcomes baldness when it
comes to him, as It is a sign of se»
datenesa and dignified learning, which
Invariably increases his practise.
Why Kick?
Louis Wlsna, the Newark artist,
wore a gloomy look on his usually
cheerful face.
“It has just struck me,” he said to
Charles Strasae, “that my shoes don't
cost me as much as my youngster’s.”
“Then what are you complaining
about?” asked Strasse.
Asking Too Much.
“The count has promised that he win
never beat or kick me If I will marry
him," said tbe beautiful heiress.
“But has he promised to work for
you?” her father asked.
“Oh, papa, don’t be unreasonable."
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Zest and
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Post
T oasties
A sweet, crisp, whole-
some food made of Indian
Com, ready to serve right
from the box with cream
and sugar.
Flavoury
Delicious
Economical
“The Memory Lingers”
foitnm Cereal Company, LML,
Battle Creek, Mich.
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