Show Grandmother Compares I Present With Long Ago ENNY and her great great grandmother JENNY BENNY J I were having a little chat while they waited for the announcement from fromI I the maid that Christmas Christman dinner was ready Grandma Smith had hud been born bornand bornand I and reared in the South She was spending the holidays with her bel daugh daugh- daughter daughter ter tel In the North Grandmother Grandmother was wasla la In her early nineties but ut a remarkable woman for her age Tall erect spry EPry she would never grow old mentally for forshe forshe she was too IrO progressive In her think think- thinking ing Jenny as I looked around the house just now I 1 couldn't co help but realize what a difference a generation or two has mode made In our mode of or living I 1 couldn't keep from comparing this day and home with a u Christmas Day and home I 1 knew long lung ago You know J Jenny enny Andrew V and I were married on one Christmas Christiana years ago Andrew built a u little cabin on a plot of ground he owned It was perched up on a 1 1111 I 1 t thought It was the loveliest lJ beautiful cabin ever built In the whole world And it was Jt t was the theJa Ja I in cozy home architecture or If the lie times tines Inside It had lind a u dirt floor and u few pieces pl-ces of ot hickory furniture which Andrew stud hud made malle nude I e wo nIl all the linens and other cloth which we used We were so happy We Ve had hod a abIg abig abig bIg home wedding One of or my wed wed- wedding wedding ding presents was a n tin cup That cup was u a prized possession much talked about und and envied by my neighbors Sometimes I wonder we wo lived so sim sim- simply ply and ply and und happily happily and now how com com- complex complex plex are are- arc The dinner gong boomed forth a wel wel- wel welcome welcome come sound The family gathered and with joyful s hurried In to the festively arranged Christmas din din- dinner dinner dinner ner ta table Eleanor table Eleanor le-Eleanor Eleanor E King tO Q U ins 1325 Vest western We ern Newspaper Union |