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SCHOOL H igh NOTES The manual training shop was open for high school pupils on Monday and Tuesday of this week for those pupils who wanted to finish pieces of work before Christmas. The editors of the school notes, In behalf of the school, wish the pupils, teachers, friends of the school and citizens of Glendive a Merry Christ mas and a Happy New Year. A meeting of the Annual board was held last week and the size, shape and color of the book was decided upon. To whom it should be dedicated was the next question, and the board fin ally decided upon Mr. Nicodeme, our popular teacher and athletic coach. The fan ventilating system was test ed out last Saturday and Sunday by the designer, B. Rivenes of Miles City. Some rooms were receiving too much air, and some not enough. This has been adjusted, and the system is now working finely. On Friday afternoon Mr. Hunt gave an interesting talk on consump tion, its cause, its symptoms, and its prevention. He was assisted by Dr. Schillington from the Northern Pa cific hospital who showed several dif ferent kinds of bacteria under the mi croscope. We much appreciate Dr. Schillington's kindness. The large electric range presented to the school by the Glendive Heat, Light & Power Co., through the kind ness of their manager, Mr. Frank Hughes, will be connected up during vacation and be in readiness for use at the first of the next term. The work will be done by the Gilmore Electrical Shop. A candy sale was held in the lower hall of the high school building at 3:45 last Friday, and the candy made by the two domestic science classes was disposed of. It must have been good for it went like wild fire. The cream candy sold at 50 cents per pound, and the taffy at 25. Eleven dollars and fifty-eight cents was realized, which will be used toward the purchase of silverware for the school dining room. Hurrah! Two weeks vacation! This ns the universal cry of the D. C. H. S. students. Vacation started on Fri day, the seventh, and will last until Monday, January 3. Everyone seems to be enjoying it in the best possible way. Mr. Hoole is in Chicago attend ing a meeting of commercial teach ers; Miss Smith is at home in Esther ville, Iowa; Miss Harmon at home in Bozeman, and Miss Helmsdorfer is visiting in Colorado. Nearly all the students went to their homes outside of town on Saturday, some have re mained in town to visit relatives and friends and those left are getting the best that Glendive affords in the vaca tion line. NAOMI ALLEN 16 ROSA WYMAN 17 BACHELORS CLUB DANCE HELD LAST WEDNESDAY The first annual "hop" of the newly organized Bachelors' club was held in the council chamber of the city hall last Wednesday evening, the full membership being present. After nearly the full program of dances had been enjoyed, the entire party re paired to the Bungalow Cafe on west Bell street where they were served with a splendid supper, specially pre pared by the proprietor, Mr. Bryant. The dance programs were both novel and effective, being made on draughts man's blue print paper after a special ly drawn design. Those present, both the members and their young lady guests, pronounced the affair one of the most enjoyable they had ever at tended. - The personnel of this new but al ready popular organization is compos ed of the better element of the young er men of the city's social and busi ness life. They are the type and char acter of men from whom much in the way of civic betterment in the future can be expected. This is the type of young and virile manhood to whom we must look for those civic and soc ial improvements which the city has stood and is still standing in such dire need of. It is authoratively understood that one of their first official moves in that direction, will be the organization of a Community house, along the lines so ably laid out by our progressive sister city, Wibaux. Hop to it, boys, this paper and every other open-and-above-board influence, institution and individual in the com munity is with you heart and soul. In WHAT TO GIVE THE BOY FOR HIS CHRISTMAS PrcsMts For Lai Win Is lim ing to Bo Fastidious. I F the boy is given a nice box Oiled with all the paraphernalia for keeping bis shoes clean and pol ished, surely such a gift would be a constant reminder and an incen tive as well for him so to do. Habits, either good or Lad, are won derfully easy to form, and nothing makes a boy's toilet more complete and satisfactory, both to himself and others, than the habit of keeping his shoes well cleaned and polished. In the case illustrated here will be found A SHOE CLEANING CASE. brushes for cleaning the dirt from the shoes, varnish for patent leather and cleaner for brown leather shoes, as well as the ordinary blacking. A splendid Christmas gift for a boy is a toilet case fitted with military brushes, comb and flesh brush, a hint to the growing boy to keep his skin and hair in healthy condition. Have you ever noticed animals wal lowing in sand and then rising and giving themselves a tremendous shake? Soap, water, brushes and combs do for us exactly what the sand and shaking AU H LEATHER TOILET CASE. do for animals, it might be explained to the boy, meaning, of course, the animate left to nature, for, of course, milady's lap dog has its bath and Is brushed and combed quite as luxuri ously and in many cases more regu larly than many boys. However, the boy will appreciate these assistants to bis forming habits when he finds them among his Christmas gifts. FOR THE TOILET TABLE 8ouvenirs That Dainty Woman Will Lika For Christmas. A gift for the dainty woman is a handsome receptacle into which the powder box may be "slipped or which may be used for Jewels. The founda tion is a box a trifle larger than the ordinary powder box. This is lined with quilted satin and covered with plain satin outside. The lid is lined with the plain satin and is entirely covered outside with chiffon ribbon ruffled and tacked to the box lid so that it stands out and hides the cover entirely from view. Flow ers made of velvet are tacked to the top of the box. Another tasteful trifle for the toilet table may be a hairbrush covered with silk or cretonne. Silver backed brush es always have bristles too soft to be of practical use. The plain ones with stiff bristles are within the reach of even the modest purse. A good way to treat them is to cover the backs of such. Sandpaper the wood. Have silk or ribbon cut the exact size and shape of the brush's back and paste it on very smoothly. Finish the edge after it is dry with a narrow border of gimp or galloon. A bottle of perfume Is among the eleventh hour possibilities. With few exceptions every woman likes a selec tion of delicate odors on her dressing table. Remember that quality counts more than quantity in the selection of pert »dm. T* like ul Gift. In Is a MAKE PINCUSHIONS. They Are Excellent Christmas Gifts For Esther Men or Women. "Pin, pin—who's got the pin?" How often the cry goes up in the household! There should be many cushions for the elusive but necessary little household and toilet article, and here is an illus tration of something which would make a very acceptable Christmas gift. This square pincushion was made of gayly colored silks and velvets and could be made of the odds and ends mmm ■ ■■■■ mm » ' : A PINCUSHION GIFT found in the scrap bag, for, of course, every one has a scrap bag. From this scrap bag many useful and beautiful gifts may be fashioned. The box cush ion finished with a smashing bow of ribbon and thickly studded with pins would be a gift which would be accept able to any household. For the foundation of the pincushion a cardboard box, in any of the various sizes in which such boxes come now adays, may be used. Of course it need not necessarily be a cube in shape, but that shape is handled moat easily. THE FINISHING TOUCH. Much Depends on Way In Which the Christmas Gift Is Dons Up. A Christmas gift is not really finish ed until it is wrapped, for really the festive wrapping means much to the success of the gift. The first impres sion comes from the wrapping, and the first impression goes a long way. The shops .are full of attractive boxes, decorated with Santa Clauses, holly, mistletoe, Christmas bells and other emblems of the happy season These can be used to hold Christmas gifts of almost any kind, from hand kerchiefs to umbrellas. * Then there are the dainty little cards. Inscribed with fitting sentiments and embellish ed with fitting emblems, that go In the box to bear the name of the sender and of the receiver. Next come lay ers of tissue paper, tied daintily with ribbon—holly covered, red and green striped, or tinsel ribbon. Instead of the tissue paper heavier paper dec orated with holly can be used. It is a pretty custom to tuck a sprig of holly or mistletoe somewhere under the rib bon that wraps the package or to tie it to the ends of the ribbon. The little Christmas seals can be used to help hold the paper in place or to keep the ribbon from slipping. After all the wrapping described there remains nothing but a safe out side box or paper, if the package is to go through the mail or express service This outside wrapping must be clearly marked with your own name and the name of the person to whom the gift Is sent. And it must be tightly tied with string, not ribbon. But It, too. can carry a bit of Christmas spirit with it, for it can be thickly pasted with Christmas seals of various sorts, and it can bear on its face one of the little pasters that warn the recipient not to open until Christmas. A Gift For a "Mere Man." Traveling men find that their caffs and collars have an elusive way of los ing themselves. This case, with the slipper case attached, would be a very acceptable gift to the average traveler. $8 s ; Mi CUPP. COLLAR AND SLIPPER CASE. As pictured here, it was made of French cretonne in shades of buff and brown. Wbile ornamental, these cases and similar gifts may be put to very practical me and are constint remind ers of tbe donors. Che Infant Christ In Hrt S© ma with Of Bûouû Ænthotm Ynfart Gw JEM«* rillo mt the H T no season of the year does hu man thought so circle around the Christ Child as at Christ mastide, when the angelic chorus slugs again the heavenly mes sage, "Glory to God in the highest; on earth peace, good will to men." Of coarse all lovers of art bow before the pictures which represent the life of Christ from the time of his birth to his crucifixion and resurrection and as cension. One writer says: "There was an ele ment in Christian art that classic art never admitted—that is, suffering. The one central figure that in the splendor of hte divine beauty has consecrated art forever, was it not that of the Master?" It is to the pictures of the Christ Child rather than as man that he at tention is especially directed at this season. The holy night, the Nativity, when as a babe he was cradled in a manger; tbe adoration of the shep herds, the visit of the wise men, the In of a to herds, the visit of the wise men, H Cbant of Christmas Oh, holy night, the stars are brightly shining; It is the night of our doar Saviour's birth 1 Long lay the world in tin and error pining Till ho appoarod and the soul felt its worth. A thrill of hop# the weary world re joices, For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn! Fail on your kqees! Oh, hear the an gel voices! Oh, night divine; oh, night when Christ was born! Truly ho taught us to love one another. His law is love, and his gospel is peace. Chains shall he break, for the slave is our brother, And in his name all oppression shall cease. 8weet hymn of joy In grateful chorus raise we; Lot all within us praise his holy name. Christ is the Lordl Than aver, ever praise we; His power and glory evermore oro oiaiml The Mission of the Christ Child. Wondrous indeed was the mission of tbe Christ Child. He gave himself to the world on the first Christmas day, and with him came every other good gift This is what is typified by every Christmas tree and every gift it bears, by every bulging little stocking that hang s in the chimney corner, by every wreath of „holly, by every greeting and merry wish. And this spirit, oh, how much it is needed on the 24th of De cember and on the 26th, as well as the 25th, and on every day of the round year as welL "Not to be ministered unto, but to minister"—this motto lived out on every day of the year would dispel the sorrows of the world, smooth out Its wrinkles, abolish its poverty, soothe its pain, comfort its heartaches, heal its diseases, make it a heaven.— Rev. Dr. Francis EL Clark. I ] r The Birthday of Gympathy. Christmas day Is the birthday of sympathy, human and divine. There was sympathy in the world before Christ was bom, but the words, work and personality of Jeans give to it new meaning and make it universal. True sympathy rests upon universal brotherhood and that npon the uni versal fatherhood of God.—Rev. Charles EL Eaton. a flight into Egypt, the presentation in the temple, besides the holy family and the Madonna, have been subjects of the masterpieces of the world's greatest artists. These subjects of course have won and held the imagination of a long line of artists whose names would consti tute a veritable roll of honor. At ran dom one recalls the names of Giotto, Hans Memling, Mantegna, Ghirlandaio, Durer, Tintoretto, Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Murillo, Correggio, Fra Angelico and El Greco. In modem art the gospel story no longer holds its old place, perhaps, save among the very devout. But on a sec ondary artistic level the sculpture and paintings sold for use in churches show that the events attending the Infancy of Christ have, next to those of the crucifixion, the widest currency in rep resentation. Many of the plaster fig ures, too, bought for home decoration represent scenes about the manger in Bethlehem, and so it is also with col ored prints, paintings and lithographs. G "The Man of Sorrows." The sad have their summons as well as the glad, and the desolate, like the blessed, must answer to the great call of the Christ spirit which rings through the world. He whose sacred birth we celebrate was above all else a man of sorrows. To many a human heart this te the dearest of his titles. Whoever bore trouble as he did? Whoever so grandly lifted the burden? Who so quietly and patiently and pleasantly, if one may say so, accepted the cfruelest ,.of lots? Who so flung his own misery I out of sight and sound? Who so ut ] terly quenched himself and hte per r sonal pang in the happiness and the comfort of others? There he stands, sorrowful and smiling, a spotless mir ror. The Sacred Day. Thanks be to God for this sacred day, which beholds the family circle again united and makes home the happiest of all places this side of heaven. Thanks be to God ior this sacred fes tival which makes hte house fragrant with the trees of the forest and redolent with the Incense of grateful hearts. Glory to God for hte death and pas sion and the day of his victorious tri umph over the powers of sin death and bell.—Churchman. Che ftret Cbrfstmae There were no mother dreams for her Whose little son was born a King, Though wise men came with gifts and myrrh. And star led shepherds, worshiping, For she foresaw the blinding tears, The heartache and the bitter loss That lay beyond the waiting years Within the shadow of a cross. And when she held his little form Against her heart that Christmastide She knew the hollow of her arm Would one day shield the Crucified. And thus denied the hopes of old To which maternity has clung The story of her life is told, And at its end a cross is hung. O mothers, you whose lips have known The sweetness of a child's caress, Yet stand today bereft, alone, With hearts that ache with emptiness, Turn to that woman, weary eyed And pierced by life's supremest loss, Whose mother love was crucified, Whose hopes were shadowed by ■ ClfWS. • * • And when the Christmas bells proclaim The advert of the Saviour's birth And far and '»■'ide his holy name Goes ringing through the listening earth Then let new hopes aj^cend like myrrh From you whom grief has glorified And sorrow made akin to her, The mother of the Crucified! —Ella Bentley. These Are Gifts That Would B. r tiful and Useful Also **"* Next to the gift of a precious stûnù ranks the gift of a bit of real | ace w you have a friend of whoui yon« particularly fond and you desire7 give her a great deal of pleasure t0 Christmas morning employ vour time In the days before Christmas ? making her a lace handkerchief ° Almost every girl in this day and 8£ r fes clever enough with her needle t make beautiful handkerchiefs with tbe mm irm .'V, c~ . ' A : ■ Ü HANDKERCHIEFS ARE ALWAYS LIKED. expenditure of very little money. The ones illustrated here look quite elabo rate; the one of rose point really is but any book on needlework will teli yon exactly how to make it with braid and Inserts of lace and a few simple lace stitches. Tbe other handkerchief is simply a triple hemstitched square of sheer linen, to which is sewed a straight frill of val lace. Either one of these handkerchiefs would make an acceptable gift. THE LAST MINUTE GIFT. Knitting Case, Easily Made, )• an Ac ceptable Present. Here are directions for making a knitting case, an easily and quickly made last minute gift that any clever woman can compass without much trouble: It consists of a square of some sort of muslin to spread over the lap to protect the gown from fuzz uud lint and to protect the knitting from soil. In tbe middle of the square Is a little bag to hold the ball of worsted. When the knitting is not In use the four cor ners of the square are folded over and either pinned or tied with four ends of ribbon. To make tbe case, buy a yard of fig ured lawn or muslin of some sort twenty-seven inches wide. Square It and from the nine inches left cut a strip about eighteen inches long and nine wide. Turn an inch wide hem and featherstitch It. The material should be reversible, and the hem should be turned over on the side of the material which is up when the square 1s spread over the lap. From the remaining material, which should measure nine inches square, cut two circles each four and oue-half inches In diameter and turn under the edges an eighth of an inch. Seam the two ends of the long strip together. Make a hem with a casing for a drawstring in one side and gath er the other side. Baste one circle la the center of the big square on the wrong side, marking its edge with thread on tbe right side—that is to say. the side that is upward when the square Is spread on the lap. Now ar range the gathered edge of the little bag, with tbe raw edge in, on the place over the circle and use the sec ond circle to put inside of the bag and cover up the raw edges. Now featherstitch the circle on tbe wrong side, taking the stitches care fully through the big square and the gathered edge of the bag and the lin ing circle. Run ribbons in the casing and take four ends of ribbon to the four corners of the square. Luncheon Cloth of Elaborate Deng" Not quite, but almost, as acceptable as a gift for her personal adornment to tbe woman in tbe house Is some thing pretty for her home. Everv house needs replenishing i s times, more when the land. Illustrated Joyed by A lace center , and at no time ar ° f JJ f0 t m acceptable to the hoasewl^ the holiday spirit * he onctf* The beautiful i here could M«"» the entire household