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Show REMEMBER THE CHILDREN. Once a year comes the Festival, be- longing most particularly to the children. chil-dren. The Christmas-time is theirs. The joy and radiant happiness that glow upon the childinsh countenances around us are but the reflection of the light which shone upon our own faces years ago. The cares and worries of a soberer age diminish that wonderful happiness vshich so completely possesses the heart of a child. We have peaceful 6weet Christmases, but where is the one who would not go back to babyhood or boyhood, boy-hood, if he could for tjie joyous Yule-aide. Yule-aide. Let the little ones blow their tin horns1 and be happy. Noise is an essential es-sential accessory to the happiness of children. Remember them well and generously. Let no little heart ache in this merry Christmas time. Small gifts bring joy to the little ones, and acts of kindness to childhood impress themselves deeply on the youthful, impressionable im-pressionable mind, to bear fruit in later years and teach the lesson on generosity generos-ity and kindly feeling. Christmas Day we set aside as the time of worship of the Infant Jesus the Childhood of Christ. Let His little ones, those who were ever dear and beloved be-loved of Him, receive our chief solicitude solici-tude and affectionate remembrance on this approaching anniversary of His birth. |