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Show December 25th Will Be Christmas Regardless Of Weather One of Mother Nature's choicest jokes is the way she surprises all of regardless of what Mother Nature may choose to do abouit it, the children child-ren the world over are rapidly approaching ap-proaching that state when any package pack-age holds a strong appeal. And regardless, re-gardless, too,, of wealther, wealth, age, or where he be, man's heart will be, filled with the spirit of Christmas, and the spirit of giving, this year as always. o- us with so many unexpected kinds of weather. After our experience of the 1928-29 winter the almost springlike spring-like weather of the past few weeks seems almost like some fairy story. To see men going to their work in shirt sleeves in mid-December is just a, bit out of the ordinary. Many of I the business houses have their doors open during the middle of the day. Even the early morning sunrise reminds re-minds the fisherman of the June mornings. About a month ago the boys were sharpening up their skates in anticipation antici-pation of the winitry sports. Cut with the mercury in the thermometer hitting hit-ting up in the fifties nearly every day, marbles and ballgames have to substitute for the games of Old Kingj Winter. At this season of the year, with the famed 'Christmas Spirit' arousing under the handicap of (the wrong kind of weather, the question arises in the minds of many of tin-youngsters, tin-youngsters, as to whether it can really real-ly be Christmas withoult snow. Many countries do not have, nor expect, snow at Christmas, yet rthe spirit of giving swells to just as great proportions propor-tions as It does in the snow covered communities. The Christmas feeling has been slow to awaken among many of us. The local stores have their Christmas decorations up, and their stock of goods out for the selection of the buyers, but tie decided lack of the consciousness of the near approach of the great holiday time, is very evident. evi-dent. It soon will be time to get the tree for the great day and somehow, it seems a travesty to have the Christmas Christ-mas tree without having to shake snow from it The average man cannot understand under-stand the sheepman's bemoaning the lack of moisture, but he can understand under-stand the tragedy, of a showless Christmas. Bnt the fact remains, that the weather we have had so far this so-called 'winter' has been, to say (tie least, mild, certainly nothing to travel to California about. And |