Show a at e t t M 1 S sal sal- i 1 t f 1 x 1 s 1 1 t t S met a t 4 Y t 1 s 5 r c cr 2 r d r t r 1 d 1 t f L T 4 k 1 I t tv 1 v t t J f fr fy 1 V r y Al Bk reens e 9 1 I MARGARET MARGARETI BRUCE BRUCE e HERE Is one Jaunt I hops hope hopf never to deprive m my youngsters of ot said s 8 I b I business man the other u day and that 15 Is the tho annual annual an annual nual trip to the tho wood wooda after atter Christmas greens for the hous bous house Every Ivery year Bine since we w were married my wife and I have bundled ourselves up In warm to togs tos s and gone out a day or two before Christmas and gathered armfuls of or spruce and hemlock branches S of ot ground pine and occasionally some borne mistletoe though this Is rare In our part of or the tho coup coun country country try After the children came this UIs ot ex curE lon Into the tho woods bec me as a much a part of Christmas as the tree tre-e the tho stockings and the dinner When A hen we were living out In the suburbs near the open woods we used to go out and chop down our own ChrIst ChrIstmas Christmas Christmas mas tree and bring It home on a 11 low V sledge Then the time cam came when we had to move Into town because e of ot my myr r lia hating a n good deal of ot night work ork and It took tooL too long to get way out into l tho the country late at night e 6 couldn t bring home our own Christmas Christ inns tree treo any more of ot course but we e could and did take tale a n whole hole day togo to togo togo go out and get our Christmas greensand greens greensand and w we e do It c e every cry ery year If It the weather ls is h open and there Jan Isn t too much snow we ve tal o 0 the car and out to tho wood wood- If It If there Is a n great deal of or snow and It Is Impossible to take the tho car carout carout carout out we go on the train to a n con country station get ore oft and tramp through the th woods and col collect collect leet lect our Christmas decorations It If we 0 halo hao o too large i t load to take Into the tho coach I fin fini I 1 that the tho baggage car willi will I tring ring It In to town for a half dollar or so co Tho The spirit of ot comes back bac with us from the Ule woods and the twining of ot our own greens In Into Into to wreaths and festoons means a hun bun hundred bundred dred times more moro than It Jt wo bought them out of ot a wooden packing box ul at atthe the florist florists a 8 C copyright bl |