Show s eI f dIS 0 YN N slammed the front door behind her and ru rushed hed J upstairs Granny busily bully darning in her lier rocker rocher looked up with Ith a start It t like lIbe Joan to rush in like that even cen c en n a nJ word ort of greeting And at Christmas time too tool I She laid her darning aside and with slow careful steps climbed the stairs At Joan s door she paused and cd ell Who is It lf Just Granny dear May I come comeIn comein comeIn In hy liy of o course Join Joan opened the thedoor floor door What's the matter Granny Tints s just what hat I want to know You and Ted had a fuss Joan looked up in wonder at nt her grandmother s understanding Yes she she admitted and and oh Graun Grann Granny I m mso so miserable ble Wint do you ou suppose he said Nov how No now I don t want to hear henr and sou y J ou t be bringing back bach all that was HIS said bald looking for grievances ances All 11 I want to know Is who ho really and trul truly trull was as In the wrong Really and truly lie he was Granny Then you should apologize I But Dut Tedas Ted was as the one at fault Of Of course dea dear dear Tint t is just the theren ren reason on bow ow ow if It you were in the I wrong you might possibly llO force him to humor J you ou but It if he is in the wrong he will naturally never neer want ant antto to give gh e a in She took oft off her glasses and wiped them diem thoughtfully And then how how lucky It Its s Christmas time hang bang hang up some mistletoe sell maybe ell ell ma be be If It you ou oure re sure it will III work ork Let Let me tell you a story child Sit sa down Granny settled herself and rocked back bach and forth It was when hen I was as youn young young-young young as you are Joan Joan that I fell In love My peo peo- people people pie were not so well ell off of as ns the boys boy's were althou although h they were ere gentlemen on both bide sides bides III parents had hind picked out a wife Ife for him J years cars the before before d of friends of ot the time family family- family and were ere determined that they the thc should marry rry I met mt him at chu-ch chu socials every now and arid then and on picnics and aft after or er a time he lie br began an calling on me Although I didn t know it he carne came to see me he told his lolls folks he way was aJ to see this other girl eirl When lien hen I found tint that out I was wal mad an and too That night when lie he tune cune I woul wouldn n t see soe him and nd sent ent word ord to him that lie he could go to her hr house for all of me To To my he lIe did I Then I realized how ho much I loved lobed him but I Iwas was lS afraid he would never ne come back At last la t I decided to send end end him a note I told him how sorry I was and begged Ills his ene forgiveness It was as quite a bit after Christmas q but we still had mistletoe so I hung pra sprays S of It ItIn itin Itin In every likely corner and doorway all 0 os over er the house and waited Before long he came and I found that the mistletoe had been an In In lie told me then that I wasn't to blame at nt all nil and that h he had only gone to Claras Clara's to tell her hel that there could newer never ne er be an anything between them Granny leaned forward in her chair Do Do you know who the boy bass was she asked Grandfather Yee Yes Indeed We were married J soon after that thit but I always found It paid to give gibe gh e in when I was most sure I was as right The he doorbell polled pealed through thA house and an Joan smoothing her hale hair v l 1 IL 1 EJ It Was When 1 I Was Wat Young Young Young-Young as You Are Joan as she went ran inn down to open tb the thedoor door Granny from the front window V looked do down don n on a n familiar roadster and smiled After a n long time hearing the front door close and the roar of or a n motor she descended the stairs At their foot Joan clasped her ber Oh Ob darling it worked it worked she worked she chanted lies lIe He s B coming over OTer to dinner tomorrow and he-he he he he men men- mentioned tinned something about bringing a aring aring aring ring And eh olt Granny she whis- whis whispered whis whispered burying burling bur In her head bead In her grand grand- grandmothers grandmothers mothers to sha shawl I Ted Ted must have Lase ha e had the Christmas c spirit already for far we got along just fine without the mistletoe I 1530 1130 1 30 western rn per Union Christs Chri t a Mass The word Christmas is a coi con COD traction traction of or Christs Christ's Miss s M lass |