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4s We Sell Everything in Men‘s and Boys‘ Wear. Next to the "Lyric‘ W.Bierschbach e 25¢e Ssmoe Waterloo Beef Moccasins Men‘s Oxfords and Shoes. Hockey Shoes .. $2.75 to $9.50 Skates, blade or tube, Buck Skin Moccasins, Ladies‘ Slipéon .......... T5¢ up Chiulfen'. House Slippers HOUSE SLIPPERSâ€"Not only for their warmth, but for the ease they give to shoe weary feet, make highly welâ€" come Christmas gifts. You will find the most attractive assortment here. The Ideal Gift We Make Shopping â€" Easy See Our Suit and Overcoat Specials. Come in for a Demonstration For Any Member of the Family A 48 Come and See Us. $1.25 to $1.50 $1.00 to $5.00 $1.25 CAPLING $1.25 up up A pair ... Arch Supports Club Bags Suits Cases Rubber Boots Sheep Moccasins. Rubbers Foot Comfort Appliances Mackinaw Sox Heavy Rubbers Lrdies‘ Silk Hosiery, Hat Cases KITCHENER $250 75c to $1.25 But Brent was coming home for Christmas and that was happiness for the parents. Only they did wish Brent was the boy he had promised to be: There was something so hard about him. He had told them the time before of a friend of bis who was getting a divorce from his wife. "But my friend is so honorable," Brent had said. ‘"He wants the divorce as he‘s bored with his wife, though she still foves him, but he is having her secure the divorce and is paying all the expenses, for it is only fair to a divorcee to have the divorce secured by her. He became tired of her soon after they were engaged. But it was his high sense of honor which kept him from telling herâ€"to have a man break the engagement would have been disâ€" honorable." And he arranged the meeting so that he would be able to meet Brent on his way home for Christâ€" How foolish his mother had been not to realize all that. She knew so little of city life, of business, of anything outside her own small groove. And Brent scorned their opinions. He regarded them as oldâ€"fashioned. There was a man in a town some little distance away who wanted to see Brent‘s father on business and it was arranged that a meeting should take place at the man‘s house. Brent‘s falier was going to sell much of his land, which had become a burden since Brent had gone away. _ _ â€" Brent greeted his father with reserved affection. "So you‘ve brought the fiddle," Brent‘s father exâ€" claimed. Brent never brought his violin with him .nl more because he would be asked to play by old friends who didn‘t realize that music was his "Yes," Brent said,‘"I have to play right after Christmas and the town I‘m to r{:y in is nearer here, so I‘m going there directly. There was no(nfiing more said. But at the next station a group of youths got on and at once beâ€" gan to play the mandolins and guiters which they fad with thom, business. He came home once a year. Something handed down to Brent from his parents made him do this, although when he was home he often was cross. On the last homeâ€"coming he remembered his mother had talked to him about the cosiness of a hom‘ and had spoken of the attractive house she had seen a picture of in the paper, She wished Brent would marry and have a nice home like that inâ€" stead of an apartment which was so far from being a home. He Ead explained to his mother that such home" was beyong the incomes of ordinary city people, and that if she wanted him to be as cosy as that she‘d have to get him the cosiness of milâ€" lions. f For it took a millionaire to own a "real" home in a city. â€" â€" â€" â€" Brent had grown away from his family. Brent was a successful man. He played a violin in a big city orchestra. He belonged to the â€"union and the union backed him up and he never played a minute more than he had to play. 1t had become such a business with him that he never played now when he came home. . Brent‘s father nudged him -n...'.' i::..hle.r:.w -_l_u:m- P ont s lather nudged him. R "Don‘t insult me," Brent whi?ned angrily. "No, son, 1 only wonderedâ€"I didn‘t mean youâ€" ANY, many years ago there lived in Europe a very wealthy man $31Y @8 named St. Nicholas. He liked nothing better than to help poor BEC people, but disliked very much hbeing thanked for his gifts. One Christmas Eve he wished to give a purse of gold to an old man and his little daughter, and in order to escape being seen, he climbed to their roof and dropped his precious gift down the chimney. Instead of landing on the hearth, however, the purse fell right into a stocking which was hung up to dry, and the next morning it was discovered there! When other people heard of the strange happening they too hung up their stockings, and soon all over the land it became the custom on Christmas Eve to hang up one‘s stocking for St. Nicholas to fill. & Christmas Music By Mary Granam Bonner The Zegenod of the Christmas | Stocking And Brent‘s father played and became a boy again.â€" All the Christmas tunes they playedâ€"and the people in the train sang and there was merryâ€" making that recalled to the aged man the happy days of long ago, despite the fact that his fingers were stiff. Brent watched at first, rather disgusted at such a display of friendliness, for many of the People Wnn absamswal uce t 2 22c io kX S 2 been, severe with his parents, keeping his music solely for pay, denying it to those whose love and warm -ympal{:y had given him the talent. "We had music, Cfll‘illml! music, on the train," Brent‘s father toid his mother as they got home. "And we‘re going to have it here, too," Brent added. "I‘ve made music my business but Dad has put music into his life. And somehow," he added, and his voice had a new affection in it, "that Christmas music on that dingy local train, and the #inging of thaea shnare nannla inst aat and the singing of those cheery people just got at my henl’,:g':‘mv." he repeated. On New Year‘s day Japanese merchants send their patrons cards with greetings of the season. An elaborate «vmbolism is used in conveying the Japâ€" anese mes: .ges, and when it is known the stork is supposed o live a thousand years and the turtle ten thousand, their significance on the cards is readily understood; they say to the recipient: "We wish you a‘long life." The pine tree, everlasting green, is a symbol of good fortune; the fan means increasing good fortune. The seven goods of good fortune occupy promâ€" inent places on the New Year‘s cards. q‘{ney are Ebisu, happiness; Daikoku, prosperity; Benten, music; Fotei, charity; Giro, long ri:'e; Fukuroku, good luck, and Bishamon, profection against evil. 1 wonder if 1 could play on your fiddie with the boys. You know it‘s a good many years since you brought yours with you, and 1 haven‘t touched one â€"I‘ll be careful with it. I used to play as a boy, you know. They said you got your music from were strangers, and then he saw his father‘s eyes and the expression thereâ€"the expression which the music gave him and which hbe had denied him. lWhlt a cold, conceited, heartless person he had But there is nothing particularly new in the origin of pictures sent to remind friends of some .rar(irular event. The custom was very old in "hina, from which country so many customs came to be known as very old after they were estabâ€" lished in Europe. In the Chinese laundries pictures in red and pblack used to be familiar to tfle man going for his weekly wash. There were Chinese New Year Cards which remained on the walls until the New Year came around. But the sale of Christmas cards as a business came in about 1845 or 1846. The Americanâ€"made cards some years later have the credit for introducing quality and artistic deâ€" sign into Christmas card painting. | English Notes and Queries has the names of three men who at one time or another have been vredited with designing the first Christmas Card. First Decorated Yuletide Greeting Was Made for Sir Henry Cole in 1843. W. C. T. Dobson has some claim to making his first Christmas card in 1844, John C. Horsley made a Christmas card for Sir Henry Cole in 18143 and later began the publication of such cards. The First Christmas Card Frosted Layer Cakes "When Do We Eat!" And Dainties For Your Christmas Table A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Tune in on C. K. C. R. Waterloo Broadcasting Radio Station on Christmas Day from 12 a. m. to 1 o‘clock and hear the program sponsored by Mince, Pumpkin, Cherry, Raisin, Apple and Boston Cream Pies. Let us suggest that you place your order so that we will be able to give it our very best attention. Remember, we deliver to any nart of the Twin Cily.' HOME BAKERY 18 King St. N. WATERLOO Phone 613 CHRISTMAS STOLLEN, an oldâ€"time German cake at 25¢ ib. Fruit Cakes specially decorated to suit your taste ideas will be promptly made on vrour svecial order. FANCY CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKES, light or dark. MACAROONS, French, Italian and plain cocoanut Tasty Cookies in animal and bird designs. These are sure to please the children. Choice SUGAR CURED HAM, our own curing. SAUSAGE of all kinds. Kettle rendered LARD, our own rendering, and chopped SUET. so that they will be in best of condition. Every animal has been stall fed and killed by us. Posiâ€" tively no cold storage stock handled in our market. We will have PRIME BEEF, CHOICE PORK, LAMB and VEAL, TURKEYS, GEESE, DUCKS, Milk Fed CHICKENS. Every bird dressed ready for the oven. than we will have for our Christmas trade this year. Every line has been specially chosen and special fed for our own trade. Every bird that will be exhibited for sale here has been grainâ€"fed Quality in all our goods is our first consideration. W. A. Cook & Son Better Meats Were Never Produced 3