Ligonier Banner., Volume 59, Number 42A, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 December 1925 — Page 17

e ——— A ———— e c———————————————— i ottt HAPPY GRANDMA—AND CHRISTMAS DAY \HE family had just completed an I excellent Christmas dinner. From first course to last, including stuffing and “fixin's’* It was by far (so they all declared) the best dinner ever eaten by anybody. They acted as if they knew about every dinner in Christendom. But this is a comimon failing of those who are happy and satisfied. : ; Cousins, nephews, nieces and children sat themselves down on cushions In front of the blazing fireplace. Mothers and fathers, uncles and aunts found comfortable chairs. Grandfather stood fiding his pipe from a bowl of tobacco on a stand. Grandma, pink and lovely as a flawer, folded her hands in her black satin lap and smiled at every one. . “Grandma,” declared a young. voice that fluted like a blackbird's, "ils the most wonderful person in the world. She's younger than the youngest of us here, and prettier than anyone in seven counties. I wish she would glve us her secret of youth.” Grandfather was pleased. Why

shouldn’t he be? He glanced proudly at his dainty wife. “I'll tell you why she’s £o young and beautiful,” he said; “it's because, my -children, she's a windmill.” - “A windmill!” shouted every one. “Just that,” said grandfather. *“And she’s forever turning with the Wind--02-Good-Will. She goes round so fast that she hasn’t time to think of anything but pumping up kind thoughts from the Well of Generosity. But the best of it Is, that grandma,” here grandfather shook a solemn {fore'flnger at everybody, the cat included, “the best of it ig, that she is so built that she can't turn in a bad wind!” ‘“What do you mean by that?’ again shouted the children. . “I mean,” smiled grandfather, in a kind of triumphant manner, “that an 11 wind can no more influence your grandmother than it can blow sunshine away from the sun! She won't turn an inch in it. - But send along a fine, strong wind of joy—and away your grandmother goes a thousand revolutions a minute.”. “Pghaw!” laughed grandmother, “how you talk!” But after thinking about 1t for some time, the cousing, nephews, nieces, chlldren and aunts and uncles agreed exactly with grandfather. “That’s why Christmas Day here s the happiest day of the year!” they declared. “Let’s ask grandma to teach us all how to turn into the right kind of windmillg!” — Martha - Banning Thomas. . (©), 1825, Western Newsapapser Unlon.)

Q) ¢A 3 E = 1222770 ) A WELCOMED CHECK CAME AT CHRISTMAS ARTHA WHITESIDE was a M lonely old woman. She lived In a little gray cottage on Bank street. She had no relatives and very few friends. But this fact did not seem to bother her very much—at leagt the town thought it did not. And gradually even the few friends she had moved away or forgot her, or died, so that often she spent days without seeing a soul. The town felt that she did not want any of it, so the town let her alone; left her to herself and the money she was hoarding so closely. She was voted a miser and a crabbed old woman. But as it often happens in this world the town misunderstood. Martha was neither a miser nor a crabbed old woman. Instead she craved love and affection and would have given worlds to be able to help in every good and worth while cause that came up. But she couldn't—for contrary to the bellef of the town Martha was poor—so poor that she often had to go without the barest necessities so that the tiny income that was hers might stretch over a year. But she was too proud to let this fact ever be known—too loyal to the memory of her easy-going hugband to let the town know he Had left her so badly off. A few days before Ohristmas Martha answered the postman's ring with astonishment. She seldom got a letter now and a registered letter was something she had not seen for years. With trembling fingers she drew forth a check, made out to the order of Martha Whiteside, and the amount was $6500. She stared at it for a moment, then she remembered the contest she had entered. There was so much spare time on her hands she had worked over It many hours. It seemed unbellevable that she had won the first prize, but it must be true. That Christmas the town became acquainted with the real Martha Whiteside; a woman whose greatest joy in life seemed to be found in giving and serving and from then on the town took her to its heart. Perhaps because understanding dawned upon it.—Katherine Edelman. . (®, 1925, Westsrn Newspaper Union.)

B GwE When Christmas Comes When Chriatmas comes We smartly rush And buy both this and that. ~ln crowds we orush And don't know where we're at— When Christmas comes. : When Christmas comes, We sit us down And take account of stock; Perhaps we frown At making such a mock—‘When Christmas comes. ~—The Jingler, in Town Toples.

Dr. Maurice Blue VETERINARIAN Office: Justamere Farm. {Phone: Ligonier 757

“NO MAN IS USELESS” —MESSAGE OF CHEER CHRI%ST.\IAS snow was falling, but ' the downy flakes, so feathery and beautiful in themselves, were covering the earth with a thick, cold blanket which to My. Simmons’ mind was like a shroud to all the ambitions of his life. When others were jostling eaclhi other good-naturedly in - every stoure, buying presents to surprise their loved ones, and wrapping them tenderly in tissue paper tied with scarlét ribbon behind closed doors, this lonely soul walked the streets uneasily and aimlessly, disturbed and tormented by the unwonted crowds of shoppers, and, if the truth were known, hopelessly depressed both by the weather, and the animated throngs so busy with setivities which he could neither share nor bear. Alone, yet terribly afraid to be alone, and feeling more so in these crowds in which he had no part, he turned his footsteps ’from the town and sought companionship from Nature, He strolled across the snowy fields, besjde a freezing brocok, and into a pine grove all weighted down with snow. There in the solitude he felt gradually at ‘ease, for a throng of happy memories came trooping to him through the trees —memorles of yesteryear, when with his sisters In these very woods he had helped chop down the family Christmas tree when he was very small. What jolly days those were—what fun they’d had—he lived again those happy times before the reaper came. And then, mechanlcally, as he leaned against a tree, he drew from his pocket an envelope he had received that morning, but had not had interest enough to open for it was evidently a baneful Christmas card. But he tore it open now, and read: ' The best day in the year Brings the best wish in the world : - To my best friend, : Merry Christmas, Tears of gratitude.filled his eyes, for certainly he had not lived in: vain when one could send him such a message. Joyfully he quoted Stevenson's words, “No man is useless while he has a friend,” and then he turned his steps toward town.—H. Luclus Cook. (©, 1925, Western Newspaper Union.)

'E THE UNUSUAL USUAL ‘ “\N'7E'RE tired of Christ- ) mag, they said. “It's » the same old thing every year. ‘, Same old wreaths. Same old ) nulsance getting presents. Same ; old expense. Same old fatigue. * Same old holiday greetings. t'Nothing‘new abeut it, It's a | bore.” : } Their names are Mr. and Mrs. 7 Joylessness. They do not see, » poor, pathetic creatures that f they are, that the usual things j are in reality the unusual. ; Love is usual, so are children, * so 1s a birthday, an annlversary, friendship. . ) But only the usual can rise to the great heights. And Chrigtmas is the most unusugtl of all.—Mary Graham BonRer. . . ¢ (@. 1825, Wentern Newapaper Union.)

|| BRI ST | FREQUENTLY HAPPENS sS J O s Y o, k| ! L/ ROk Rt f e ek Zre S N Q) L (s I ; % %’;/ x- a..‘nn g First Bug——-What do you expect for Oliristmas. Second Bug—Judging by past experience, something that I will have Bo use in the world for! RS | Christmas Season Time to Make New Friends THE car stopped: It had been passing through a poeor locality that Christmas morning. “Where are all these old women hurrying?’ the lady asked of one of the old women hobbling along. ‘“Bet Bogg's man is hurted, an’ we're goin’ to help what we can, mam.” “So many?”’ :

“Oh, T'll clean the windy, likely, an’| Jen, yonder, who's a good cook, wilk get dinner. Some’ll do one thing, an’ some another. We'll all help, so Bet can be with her man. We like to be | neighborly.” The lady drove on, but stopped at a Christmas store. She had lived next door to her neighbor for three years, and had never nodded or called. Such things§ were cemmon in their sets. ‘ But now the car stopped, and the} lady went to the house and introduced } herself, and begged to come in later and see the children playing about the Christmas tree, They parted with warmly clasped hands. They were to be good friends. It had just come about. The footman had taken an armful of bundles round to the side door.~Frank Herbert Sweet.: (®, 1926, Western Newspaper Uniom.)

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