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J Christmas for ;} By Ma : ; AdUltS Cgrah:rzl Bon,ner' |:- & ! mcememecen [T EERE wasn'te sin-: @ | ¢le child in the S family now ang 25 R Christmas, they all <A . i gl e agreed, wasa time N »if‘ii iﬁ, ~for children. A: SR e A any rate they al 7\\\ -" ‘\m/f"k"ﬁ sui.d that. ; = They had scattered as families sometimes do, and those left in the sown were two older families. Yes, it was quite true. There wasn’t a singlé’ child in the family now. They had nieces and nephews;. small children they knew and were fond of to whom they would give presents. They would give nice presents, 100, : ; % They themselves would be sensible. They would not give presents to each other. They were grown-up. Why should they go in for something that was distinctly a possession of childhood? : They would have Christmas.dinner together. That they had finally declded they could not forego. Oh, the other ruling was very sensible, and they all agreed, but—well, it was quite sensible. Children belonged to Christmas, Christmas to children. Let it remain. that way. The family who lived down by the old mill were having the Christmas dinner. The other family were coming to it and were going to bring the mince pies and the plum puddings as their part of the Christmas feast. They wanted to do something about a Christmas dinner—there wasn’t any special reason for it but they wanted to do something. | The table was set the night before. | There wasn't much to. do Christmas

LY SR WD N T, oe T T /N AR : AN ’ g z‘jﬁfﬂ;ﬁ I~ A -2 AR -3 el morning. Later they would go to church and join in singing the Christmas hymns. That would be suitable to the day-—to the holiday, holy day, Joy. ; - But there was a time in between—a time before when the children had had iheir presents—while still they were children, before they had grown up or —gone-away. That-time would be cufiously, outstandingly empty. No one talked about it. No one said a word. - But none of them could quite bear to think of that Christmas present time when the packages were

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| opened, .when there was curious, eager _excitement and pleasure, delight in one’s own gifts and In the gifts of others, - | l No one saild a word. No one knew what each other was thinking. ° But early that morning one of the members of the family down by the [_ mill telephoned the other family and -asked them to come down early. ~ “I Just fixed up one or two little .things,” said the one who had telephoned, a little shyly, and to her own family she sald the same. " *They came. Every one. gathered about the old table that had been brought out every Christmas. It was a “shaky old table, but it somehow seemed to be a part of Christmas. And in no time It was covered with gifts. Every one. had .surreptitiously been fixing up little presents for each other. And the table groaned " under its welght of' packages tled with gay old ribbons and tissue paper as of yore. “But we agreed we wouldn't glve any Christmas presents to each other this year,” they murmured from time to time. ; “We said we wouldn't have a Christmas celebratlon now that we were all grown up.” { “Christmas, we said, was entirely a day for children.” : Yes, so they had sald. But so deeply was the Christinas celebration around the shaky old table, before the big fireplace, rooted in the heart ‘of each that they couldn't, in spite of their resolves, do any ifferently. “I think,” one of 'them said when every present had been opened, sim-

'l‘i‘ﬂ_ R A 7 LN (W T 2 4 V‘!?&r" N L} > 4 8/ - ~ 7 w \’s /'r‘" D > ¥ s ¢ / ) fy e #’9 Pl v T i(| /Y] \ (6 s ; TN g gL, s “"‘\ ,‘ .‘,. ple, thoughtful little gifts and surprises, “that Christmas should be for every one. . No one is too old to enjoy it” And how, proudly they said to their friends as they met after church: - “You must come in and see our presents. We got lovely things. Just what we wanted!” : ; (®, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.) Christmas Wisdom A foolish mdn is one who doesn’t know what his wife wants, so he goes and gets it—probably a clothes wringer. L » A wise man knows his wife needs a pair of arctics, but has wit enough to buy her double-decker jade earrings! ~—~Martha Banning Thomas. ' Mistletoe . Mistletoe, when not suspended, is regarded by the superstitious as a harbinger of bad luck.—London Tit-Bits,

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‘ R OW listen to me, i ¢ Heppie,” sald HapX & & zood Brown, as he SR s s A @8 cot up from his B o : easy chair to wind o 8¢ -the clock and put P ,/f:;‘t\‘# out the cat and & lock the back door. S “Listen to me. It’s two days now till Ch#istmas. Look at that lot of packages over there on the sofy that I've got to play Santy Claus on. Think of the piles and piles of ‘bundles we've sent out already; big bundles and little bundles, to Jim’'s folks and John’s folks, Sairy’s folks and Mandy’s folks, the preacher, the orphans’ home, the old cobbler, the washwoman and the newsboy. It's got so that Christmas is a mnightmare. _ Accordingly the next morning Heppie and Happy Brown started out on their last shop- e ping tour before (RRIAVEE=L)IEEH Christmas. As f“\‘,; ‘f'f 15 they turned the @RS K 3 io 0 8 corner of the B *%\ main street they [~ ey @;f came upon tWo = U ‘5.;::% children, a boy . ?’ = :‘_:g! and a girl, poorly | ' _Z Z ‘E;-.B clad, who stood Mﬁ Y, 2 with their noses = pressed against F ’g‘ the window of a : & ( small shop, where- . | in were displayed . s4O ) a few cheap dolls ‘ Wpes and toys. They g Q.ixm“\,"“ were s 0 engrossed - === in their inspection ‘/%,0 of these articles . 7 that they did not notice the man and woman who stopped behind them and listened to their childish prattle. “There’s a Noah’s ark;,” said the boy. *“The baby could play with that a Jot. There’s animals inside, and if she’d play with one at a time it would seem like new toys all the time.” “Yes, but there ain’t mo dolly In there,” said the girl. “She wants a dolly. How much money you got, Billy 2" : i Carefully drawing his hands from his pants pocket, the boy opened his fingers and slowly counted the few pleces of change in his palm. “Thirtytwo cents, Sissy. I haven’t lost any of it.” : |

_ “Thirty-two cents! My, that’s a lot of money! A lot of money, Billy, and it took a long time to earn it and save it. But—but somehow it isn’t going to buy much, is it, Billy?”’ “No, but thirty-two cents is better than nothing.” - “Well, then, you could get the Noah’s ark; that’s only twenty-five cents. ‘Then you'd still have money left—how much, Billy?” “Fifteen and ten, that's twenty-five,” carefully separating a dime and three nickels from the rest of the little pile. “See, Sissy, that leaves only seven cents to get something for you.” “For me? Ho! Never mind me. I don’t want anything. I can dress the dolly, you know, and play it'’s mine when the baby's asleep. Maybe we can find something for mother. Oh, Billy, if 'we cdMld get one of those green- wreaths with the red berries—‘wouldn’t it be lovely:!” : “Mother needs stockings more than anything - else. Besides, the green wreaths cost mere than seven cents, apiece, I'm afraid. Come on; let's go in and see what they have got.” S walt a min=o u’ said Happy ‘% Brrown, putting ] his hand on the wEn ‘3‘% boy’s shoulder. 3\\“’ e WM “Where do you S sy 3¢ children live?” A 'gﬁt % The boy’s hand & ' 'ﬁt closed tightly on & ; £y the few pieces of ol XERE A money. ) YDEEDA Back on the M at‘r‘ u‘gggggg;\ next street, near = M ="\ theelevator. Why, _ O STTOe mister? Where are 'Qgsi&!ﬁ“ you going?”’ (Pe—i i i Back on the ""J //// next street, near i i,-‘"—"\’ the elevator,” said e Happy, as he took the boy’s hand. “I want to see your mother and the baby.” : “It ain’t much of a place, mister. And mother’s washing, I guess. She most always is.”. “Never mind that. Come on, Heppie,” turning to his wife, who was just behind, with the girl’s hand in hers. Their stay there was not long, but was momentous for Billy’s mother 'andJ her little brood. Happy Brown had made Billy wildly happy by placing a dollar bill in his hand and another in Sissy’s, and telling them to go on with | their Christmas shopping. He had left a yellow-backed bill on the table under a plate. As he and Heppie turned the corner he pulled out a notebook and noted down as he muttered -to himself: “Coal, blankets, potatoes, canned goods, apples—here, Heppie, take this money and get things for those children. You know what, they want. I'm getting a few things the mother needs.” - “Yes, but, Happy, I thought you'd sworn off.” : : “Heppie Brown, this doesn’t count. This 1s an investment.” “An investment?” ; “The safest and most satisfactory investment there is, Happy. ‘He that glveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.”. : ‘ (@, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.) | : SE 5 £ | ‘Subscriber for the Banner. : | ). A. BILLMAN O. A. BILLM Water Systems, Etc. ‘Well Drilling : Phone 333 ~ LIGONIER . Next door to Ford Garage

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