The Breeze du lieu suivant : Logan, Kansas • 6

A shirt that will not dl, if. i carefully starched and ironed and folded like a pocket handkerchief to conceal its raggodtioss. This was too much, and a thundercloud gathering 'on his brow suddenly gave placa to a laugh that shone and gurgled and shook the furniture, anl he th inlcs lie will ive, burned into the old ri', with a hot ir rathene words "Finder will please soak tills r.oninant hi Koroseno to de stroy the m'crobos i way contain, and ihn barn it, as it i longer njrvicable. JT (I 11 A i 4 Holland, Dec. 9.

The most customs prevail in Holland. Here Stmt a Clause is expected net only to give but to receive. The children the fattest and to tu found tlio world over; and they beam with health ami good Jn the win: ter they wear littk round hoods, land now their briirit eyes and rouud, shiny cheeks tell of the good inio3 they expect. Christmas Eve the little Holland ora bogaiu to got revly for SantaClaus. Begin! They began otrly in morning, but now they complete tholr work.

Ii child tliinks he iocs enough if he hangs up his Jtokins anl writo; a letter tho gool stint ho is ready or 0 bit in Hilaul h) do a graat doal niiv). Eir'y in the morn'ng of the lay balor: Cirictm.w thev bogi'i togath )r the ln n3 V.f vila Caus. The iinest )ats ar3 b-rah into the. kitchen I rl Tli ft Hi 1 j- l'blic be ii dl ll i -a 3 Ihie da a or Chrstmr.s In En -land bli itsrod nngoi-s are as plentiful as burnt hands in America on July Tins is due to 4 'Snap Dragon" a Christmas game iu high favor with our British cousins. A bowl or plate of brandy is lighted, then rasinsara thrown in and plucked out with the bare ficgars.

It is great sport for everybody except the ones whse digits are blisterd. One of the Christmas superstitions among one people in Sweden is that during Christmas week the men of the extreme northern regions tire transformed into wolves, R5 ll-', trw.rM f'' i Ei ixt oi'AL (hirii( n. The peasants in Spain believe that ants hold religio.is services on Christmas Day. Holly, bay, mistletoe, laurel and rosemary tire the only proper leaves to use for Clristuias Day ecoratiens. Christmas has been atone time or i-n other, in every month of the year from November to April.

Th'O dale of the Savior's birth has never been definitely dt ru lined. 1 -a It was nothing but a common white shirt and thoro was nothing peculiar about it except that it was superannuated and superannuation like death comes but once and is usually considered strange and sudden. The rent garment had ceased its visits to the steam laundry and for a short t-jnm lay in a corner, dirty and hcglected. But one day it was placed in the dirty clothes bag, rjj-oget it out of the way, and while 'n that useful receptical, it made T7iv to the washerwoman's up a4root and was boiled and washed ayr Mi', 1 vH ted in a little weak starch i -oned with a rather light presvir came back a sad caricatuieof a laundrod shirt. The former owner of the shirt was present when the 'washing" came home and he grumbled profusely as he saw that his cast off garment had been carefully-prepared for a service it could not perform, he also remarked that probably '-'she" had charged more on account of the offending shirl.

The despised garment was placed in it drawer with the towels and one day when the towels seemed to have boon all used, the shir! wa trough: into play as a dish vipov. Again it found its way into the clothes bag and again journeyed to the washerwoman but this time when the cleansed linens wore brought back the shirt earner not. The girl that tkinlWl t'ti'l- hi an wagon hid explanation to make, however tint ho? mother did not sail the shirt beeanso she did not got a go do on it, bud would bring it later. was more gr ambling from tha loving hu.dxv.id, first at the- woman, for persisting in apr.leno that the shirt was still used to drfx his manly form, second, at his wife for allowing thu shirt still to journey uncbr tli3 disguise of a uieful article. In a couple of days tin shir', neatly wrapped and weakly stavanl, is brought hom.j bj the entire tie portion of the washer, von in's fa ally and as the shirt is vit3 1 to the ir in at the door, the aforosiid jrtioz of stil family, smiled with co is'' ion in 3.3 tL duty v.U done.

Zljsz'a timi a I'sh Vviper nee.Irl, th ni of th house d.vteroaly inn 3.1 the sIolv.vs of tin shir a vl inppyl fnbijk the hotter a id S))X y.ycl wife "arthor movel traces o' it' i le ltlty, so that vheii'ft agar wo it i) the tsY it was simply a rag th it bow 3 nVJaneo to shiro bo 3 )ii have bee: 3 at out oi the by th te3ih o2 a puppy oi the ract- 'A i Tr 51 co'it ivn vrotcj'nl c.i:n, b) st 1 aru anl Jia ig up ialtw jssan -aggolneji. hi a to wa: an 1 It i 1 th i baa ii-rt t' it tn) a ni, i get leai tow .1 ot oxp.33iug oa.n. 4 a i i top i Xji" waj l-'i i Ii i ohl s.li-: Sanla Claus' thep. Tlu rll 1 mi i.wny, Which iiia ii shook, ft) ch (1. I i ll J- IT) Till urnily Kix o'cltfk, An' Ilirti my u.ii 1ip didn't scold, lJiit hnfryed in1 lifjld, nil' tliPii Sho rockod imd hnod ni till I told The jilaco i boon.

An', niv, j-mi ought to ppen her fuco At liiHt, whon I told how I'd Miroly found Iho Afry plfico Whore Santa Clause lives now, told hrr I 1 'f'i 'l fl Ji A ruriniii' nor turn hack Until 1 came to Santas' shop, An peeked in through carck. An' how he pat there making; toys, As busy as could bo The very kind that little boys Got on the Christmas tree. Htflcoked so pale, and tired, too, I thought it was shamp; An' sny, I didn't knw. did you, 'J hat Santa Clhus was lame? An' when I told my rim, yon know, She kissed mo twice, because. She.

said to-morrow that she'd go An' call on Santa Clans. Albeit Biglow Ihiii r. in N. World. night to his shoes and to Santa Clause and goes to bed to sleep until morning.

Holland ohildron sleep in little bocl.jl IhrVwre -U rtU'Jtdl closets tliat opeiout of the room, Th closets in the walls, and they have doors that close tightly. Holland boys and girls cannot hope to peep out upon Santa Ciaus, for they arc securely walled up, and the door is not opened until morning. St. Joo Heraled. C.

L. GOODViN. Copyright, Christmas mince pie 3 were made with the crust formed like a Collin shaped manger in the seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. A drama known as "Old Path or Christmas" has for ag. beer, enacted at Tenby, South Wales, lurlag the Christmas reason.

I'i many parts of the Christ! The celebration of Chrlstma. stituted in A. D. 1CH, by Tope There i jasupvorsntiou in i. 3i.t that a boy born on Chr'stm riy must brought i -t lawyer or he will bacoma a thief.

In many parts of Germxry ela5.Vb3:ievo "1 of Chris 'v th uii.t.f 1,1 1,11 vj" i li oxen fad iha stalls. The Pa -itaus were '3lp )sed tonir ice p'es and plum i ngs on Chris TiicL- defendants do not a v.id silted i itil they are freofrom vrorl I there prevails the lust. Then they are ruhbel by perstltlon that cock crows ever little chubby hauls ol the'lour the night of the Ka until t'ny tiro clean anl clvity. i iew WxS) of iiio3l i i. i ill' a 3 1 1 if i' i.

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