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e "It won't be a very merry Christ- in" 1° "111- 11111 year." said Miss Ellen Fitzl-Illxll to herself, a little 1111111)’. but bravely too, as one 1111111111’ accepting the inevitable. "It's not to he expected," she went 1111- movies gently about hel- little parlor and setting it to rights. ‘It was quite neat alreadydmt she 11111 0W0)’ a stray magazine, and

- dusted the table witnher hand-

kerchief, and then went to the

l. mantel and rearranged the group

{of photographs in nest little tell-

| cent-store frames. gazing lovingly

é at the young faces as she did so.

u. They were the pictures of a hand- ,

isome, sturdy lad, and two pretty,.

y fluffy-haired girls. The bright faces smiled at her, and she returner] the smiles tenderly,

1 "Who would ever have thought they would turn out so well-my dear children!" she milseil. "When my poor Mary died a. widow, and left mn .her throe llttlc ones to bring up, it seemed at first, as if I could not. do it—not at my age. But I couldn't bear to separate the little things and put-them ill orp- hungea-though some of them arc nice places I don't deny. But they'd have grown up strangers to each other, and it seemed lonely for them, and l thought I'd try to keep’ theru together, if the Lord would help me. And He did. I never could have done it without His aid.

i It wits wonderful how I managed-to get work, one wily and ullotlicr,

‘and to keep those children warm

nnd well and fat. And it wasn't

‘|tlil they were all through school‘

jilllil old enough to work that my

strength gave out, and I had to scii my own little home and take this room in the Old Ladies’ Home, and

I'm sure it's been a comfortable‘

place to mo, with the children all.

doing so weihand paying nly boarili nnd coming in every week to see mo. I can't believe it's nly Violet and Mabel that have those fine positions down town, and Bob

studying law, nnd so clever. I

know tho Lord helped me. I never

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(137 J’. L. Glover)

I811 1° 111118111: again.

f‘! ihvusht DBrhBDs Mabel would “and 1110 8 Duir of worsted slippers —Bhe always does! But of course S116 knows the last pair can't be

worn out yet. I'm very ousy on 51111510111. and she needed the 111°15'- T110y have so many

iriﬁliis. and they have to give. some presents. No, I'm not com-l plain g a. bit; l'm only so glad

111W we visiting, and hive so

111011? things to do and you'll nnd u 1110i’ haven't forgotten you. They'll ,. , Just spread out the Christmas hap- “W111”! 1111111 P180 0110-

pinesa that's all!" '_"“"-""""-"-—-—- 511° Wfﬂulled her new shawl! 23011311212331? rmhjeadytorecelve about her, put on the pink slippers. a. piece oi’ gcliees‘: be are y and with the be; of candy in her uuu u penny The“; WST; 0am ‘es ‘an’ “t M“ by 111° ""1111," 1° estition if a loaf wereolefttatbsb watch the pleasant stir o - ' mas in the streets. A bigtagilrrrliiltl-‘glzuitgbiz To 113811.636! they? bile slid up to the gate of the Old uuusu during the cumin ca: t e Ladies’ Home, and stopped. The “Yule mushy. iryunaws}.

Some Xmas ‘lhllililills

“It's old Mrs. Lynwood's grand-I

°1111111‘011' 111B? always come to sce‘ uuuel

n ' ' -y of white flour h t her. thought Miss Ellen, watching uuguuy u“, uuauw a5“; . with the addition of sugar and cur-

with interest from her window. Two girlish figures, wrapped in

1:11:21 1:318:12: lzgiﬁsgc1i11ll1gzz-b 111111 i furs—a broad-shouldered young time a‘ that house an‘ iﬁﬂi ‘fellow in a big overcoat, helping‘ ilescrveliv and the ll): y‘ ' 8111mm“ out. It looked ‘Ike-but no" ~. r Y 110W 111 1111- it couldn't be~—- """"1"111" ' But it was. Up the stairs light! V1211‘? 5m §bbn1n°Y111K 110W 1011013!‘ iect were springing; young voices, e a a cl would look in the whispered and laughed outside hcr

beautiful dresses their own herd} door, A mu__ tuuu’ bum“, sue! Turned m ey 111111 1101181111 1111111 110W ‘- could say “Come in!" they wero ull 1 11111115111111? v 91‘ 110i! Rob would be ill around her, the girls’ arms about

“venmg 111*?” 11911111113 01/01‘ 1101110 her neck, tho boy hugging her from

1119111’ 8111- 101 1110 D1111)’ 111111 flight. I behind-nil crying at once.

"T1101 111611011118 11111211111111 any.‘ “Merry Christmas! Auntie! oh, “m! 11191’ w t1" 110 1111111111." 11110 Merry Christmas, and lots of excused 1-110 101111011)’. l0 11015011’. them! In our own home, Auntie! “I'd he a selflﬂl old woman to mind Hun-y uuu get your "Hugs om l} their not combos, or writing, They , mum wum» . liiiill’! mean ﬂlllylillllg lllikillil." "My dem- chndren!" M155 Euun,

so’ W111‘ 1111119111511» 11113111113 bewildered with joy, tried to catch 111131151115 M11115‘ "111111110111" B110 , her breath, which bad been squecz we!" 1° bed 911 115? 911115111105 eveiierl out of her by their vehement 110l1i111Y 11011 118 1118 1110 1l1d1l§1111111‘hugs. “I don't understand. How comments oi some of the old lad-Locum yQu gut 1181-8? 1 thought- 1°§= ‘ lyoll were at the party!"

“It's a shame. 1 any! She is so! “Toll her, Violet, while I get llei‘ patient, nnd those sciilsh children‘ cloak and tugngu?" oruureu Mabel; 11°15 “"1113 '1 1111115 31101111 11°13 111101‘ . and Violet and Rob together tried she slaved herself to death form gull the story coherently“ tlicm, n.ll their lives! And now tileyi "yuu Bee, Auntie, dumug, we are independent of her, not cveniwel-e tulkiug i; over one day uuu 591111 11- 91111111111" “"11- 10 511°w,we found we were tired of board- they remembered she was in thclug uuu being Bcuuureuy uuu u“. ‘v°1'1111" ing you vegetating here by yo\lr-

Bllt Miss Ellen, sweetly asleep,,ue|g_ Auu Bu we just thought was dreaming that she was teiiillgywufd try m get u home tugelueu tile Christmas story to two rosyuucu mum_u uomu with you in little girls and a curly-haired boygltuu mmule u, make 1t a mu] Quu whose bright eyes gazed entranced y Auu Rub muuugeu to ﬂuu mu ueur. iilto llcrs; and she smiled in hcrfust “me house’ just big euuugh u, dream. hold the four of us, nnd a stove;

Christmas morning come, brightluud thugs our Cuuistmuu gm 1,, and sparkling and crisp. Througlrourselvu uuu u, you’ Auntie, uud $110915 "111111111 ‘V1111 51111111" P901119 v we are going to eat our Christmas hurried with bright Christmas fuc-_ dumm- this very uuy {u our owu cs and hands ﬁlled with llolly-deck- “mu 110mm Them! what do you

think of our Christmas surprso?”

‘a different tune from any l had ov-

of ivy-zone days were often made

rants, These ancient “Yule Douglls,’ ’ol'ten known as “Baby Cakes," were formed In the shape of little images oi‘ the Madonna and lloly Child, or were 0t a round form, with a. rough representation of the Nativity stamped upon them hence the Puritan dis-like of the Christmas cakes.

Sing ilo, a Xmas Carol By Marjorie Howe Dixon

Grandmother was humming c. faintly familiar old tune l.» t! night, as she sat in her favorite rocking chair, linitting a fascinat- or with long wooden needles. My, n-llat Grandmother does not know about knitting! ilere it is just be- fore Christmas, and look nt the mit~ tens and scarfs. as well as a life- slze sweater, she has already to send!

Grandmother was never so liap- py as when knitting and humming to herself, but last night she sans:

er heard before.

"Where did you learn that song, Grandmother?" I asked.

"Oh, sonny, I've sort of always known that. It's an old, 0H “Dgiiﬂll carol which my grandfather taught mo. hiy how the years have flown. I can remember clearly ills tolling of tho country Christmas celebra- tion in England. In those days pleasures were simple. The Squire of the Manor throw open his doors for his tenants and poor relations and the whole community gs: e it- self up to the grilndest and hap- lpiest holidays of the _vear. Young

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iind old joined in the games, danc-

tlrcn alone." -

Slio had made tile round of tho room. It was perfectly tidy,ln case one of tllo old ladies should "take a notion to drop iii." She sat down before her tiny stove, and poured out her cup of tori, dreaming still ' in tho warm twilight.

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their wily to come to soc mo this Cllristmns-—but tllerii! I know they would have iovod to come, but Violet. sold in her noto that ,tiiey were going to such it nice ‘I liouso party for Christmas and how would I bo so selfish us to expect itllom to giro up sllch ii pleasure. just for nlc! i haven't roonl for Ilium all iliffl‘. anyway. =11 01100- 'l‘l\cy‘ll colnc one iit Ii. time to sec mo, uftcr Ciirisinlus. Bless them!

l "l wish they colild have sceil

1 ‘they \von‘t forgot their ultl Aulltic!

But it's funny Rob hasn't sent inc ills usual cllcqllc. I-lo llcvcr for- gets it. Tilcre I am uK111111 01' course lio needs all his money inst now, and he'll send it inter. It will do just us woil, and ho 1111911 1 would understand. 'l‘llcre'u 1110

to tho Old Ladies’ Home, bringing, gifts for every one oi’ the old ladﬁ ies, and went merrily about the house, ileliverlilg tliom i ~ "Thank you, deilrlc," said bliss Ellen, smiling gratefully, ovcr her lupful ‘of gifts-m soft grey sllrilvl. a pair of pink worsted slippers. a box of minisuircttiiy tied up. “How kind it was of you to remember me,” she said, putting down in the bottom of her heart, ollt of sight, tho little sore fueling that iler own gills were not llluong: this pilriy 0i‘ joybringcrs-tlint they llmi 110i

“Tlllnk!" Miss Ellen gasped."Oh, my darlings, to thillk I could over have doubted you for one single instant, or film-y that it was poss- yiblo you could forget mo on Christ- ~miisl

“Forget! oh, Aunts!" Mabel was

;on her knees beside her, the tears ‘rolling down her face. "Violet! Rob! told you we ought 110i- 10 ,decoive her, even for a minute! Thur. we let her think we forgot her!‘ 7

“Dearest? pleaded Violet, “it 'wns only for o. Christmas surprise.

remembered iii-l" llcnd oi Fliltwi? Yo“ didnit runny think so?“

il.|i(1. slippers £llll' m uts.

Tho postlllnll would bring eunu- il-hcn of romcmhrnuc. from tiloln: slii. felt sllrc "no would; and Sill? watched eagerly from the window as he ciimo down tho strcct pre- sently, laden as c. Christmas P001 man should he.

But none of his runny packages

"No—~no! I trusted you all through," sobbcd Miss Ellen. “But about the house party? How could you get aways so soon?" .

"it was our own house party." laughed Mabel. We spent Yester- day ﬁxing up the house, and t - (lay the party comes off-our very first in our own house, Auntie.

pustmun-ﬂnuybo it's come!" , But the postman only u greeting curd from one o tho old ladies in tho Iloino. Silo swallowed nor dlsnppoliltmoiliuiud

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Hostess

in Pink

‘we

, be supplied by the bottle (shipper-by a. e’ r. moan,

brought llcri hseelring old woman!

was for llcl". ‘he had expected sorllctlllng thou, urld 110i‘ eyes dimmed in split» of llcr courage. The next instant she was upiiraiil lug herself:

“Ellen FltzHugli, you are u 5011'- Expecting the children to have time to send things by mail. when you know

Everything is ready. Here's V0111‘ cloak and bonnet. Como on, wo can't wait another minute!"

And presently the big automo- bile was ggliding smoothly over the snow with its load of Christ mus happiness, and bliss Ellen was saving loyously to herself.

I13 home with the children rigalil! it seems almost too good to be true, except that it's Christ- mas, and nothing is too E0011 10 110 true, then. And they 11111 11°1- 101" get me, and that is the best of ull,

for

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"With all the joys of Christmas blcst _ To be remembered is the best."

-Amcrlcan liiessonger."

gillall Edgar had nccoulpanied his mother to church anll 0n 1110 "Momma, why

cs, fciisis, governed by tllo jolly “Lord of iliisruic." Music. zmd Elli" ols were on cvcry tongue, from tho liltle children who wakonerl the wilole household with lllcir shrill voice, to the family singing around the ﬁreplace, with tile mother sometimes leading with her irulv- ting needle, or in the reul old dnys they gathered bcforo the burning Yule. log.

Grandmother paused to complete an intricate stitch in her knitting.

"My grandfather," silo went on, “always spoko of the nocturnal’ serenndes, "the Calling of the Waits,‘ which kept up even in his’ time in rural England. For scrll successive nights singers and play- ers paraded before every largo ilorne and chanted Cilristmas songsi and carols; '

“How awfully interesting, Grand-i mama." I slid. “Won't you sing mo a carol?" 1

"I'm afraid I've forgotten most all I've learned, but I'll try. This ono I believe is called ‘biasterh in the Hall.‘ "

To Bethlehem did they go, shepherds three- 1 To Bcthlehcn did they go to see whc'e it were so or no ‘ Wiletiicr Christ were born or no! To set tlloin frcc. Blasters in the Hall, Hear yebnewe today, Brought over sea, Nowell! Nowell! Nowell! Nowell! Sing wc clear! Holpcn are all folk on earth, Bom is God's son so dear.

"Vvhy, wliat. a queer song that is, ilrandnlunlma," I exclaimed. “i like tho tune but wihat does ‘Now- cll' mean and ‘liolpen?’"

l could see Grandmother was

the i

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somewhat shocked at my calling, ‘Was born on Christmas Dily.

ggytllxrgkﬁetgzidliunysw, Never, rerllucst for deﬁnitions diisni-med W. .

"lie is called ‘reverend,’ my " ‘Nowcl’ is a word we do not use dear; not ‘never-end?’ 0111111111011 nowadays. but it was a joyous. 111° 111111-1191" shout at tllc Birth of Lhc Savior 1

"Weill," replied Edgar, "1 d .1 n, . h , d» ’

_,l h h “m, new‘. end w_ an l pcn rlloans ope . ‘mug 1' a W0 ' (lriindnlothel- again picked up her

uuuumotiumn “lloferleis” lﬁverages‘ = "

fascinaior. "My favorite carol is

"God Rest Youdllcrry Gentlemen,’ ” uvy," said Grandmother.

she went on, "and if you will he quiet and not make any more ‘cueer’ remarks, I'll sing it to you."

"I'll promise if I don't forget." She sang: God rest you merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Savior. Was born upon this rluy. To Save us all i'roln Satan's powci- When we were gone astray. Oh, hldinrgs of comfort and joy For Jesus Christ, our Savior,

“Tilllfs a lovely cur-oi." l or» claimed, "and I just want to tell you I have thought of n brand ni-w idea for u. Cllristlnas present for you. Lot's‘ go ovcr to the pilono- ffrllpil. shop and pick out all tlic carols they llilvc."

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"Tlliit would nlzlkc nlc very iiup- "llovw l shrill ion: lo lmr tiloln sung again. We'll have a real old-fashioned Christmas this year. When the fam- ily uii gci llorc, we'll get a log to burn in tilo iireplacc, and afici- some games, we'll play the rr-c- nrds. You youngsters nccd to learn '3 lilo good old Clirisluiits ciirols. "As Josi-pii was u. wnlkln‘

lic liciird un angel sing,

This night slliiil bi‘- illc biriiiniglii Oi‘ Christ our heavenly King."

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