Show THE IN THE STREETS what days are these tor for mammas j and babies and boys and girls they are all getting ready for christmas what surprises are they planning what sweet secrets are th they ey keeping NIt liln their lips but giving away with their cies ilow how stealthily tira are they malting making their selections how unconscious their fabes after the plan 1 lias I been worked to fruition and the treasures treas have been secured what a study of 01 human nature does the street present these days mamma ix 13 fixing tor for little jim and jo and thoughtful marjorie Marj orle and little baby blanche and jim and joe and marjorie Marj orle have concentrated cent rated their wealth into a vast monopoly and mean to bull the market for mamma anti and the old man too has caught tile the infection and Is doing more sneaking things than he has been guilty of since last christmas lie ile means to slip silly up on the baby and if possible on the boys and tho the mamma so the they are working out the problem trying with petty purses to buy the world just tor for the sake of 0 giving the world away and they are all the better tor for it and though they do not realize the jact act they are all drawing nearer to the realm of 0 perfect harmony and peace which the messiah came to establish ta blish tor for atter after all the domestic circle Is the only solid anchor tor for poor mortality the greek child had no christmas neither had the roman neither had the egyptian nor chaldean nor assyrian and hence those nations perished from the parth earth but when the real home was established when mens most sacred altars were horn home altars and wife and mother and child became the deities then it was natural to turn to the real cause which was wae that the wife and mother had at last grown into perfect esteem then the real christmas dawned then the returning of tho the day began to bo be looked upon as a sanctified period in which ch only love should reign then man advanced to a higher plane then christmas day became sacred to home re u tons and the world grew lighter under the thought sok soi too a new estimate came of motherhood and childhood then the full sweetness of tho the joy that comes of giving was realized then christmas gifts began to be given then men and women continued to advance and the natural wild beast in the hearts of men began to be tamed so jt it Is a joy to watch the faces in the streets and to study all the stories of happiness which they convey and all the deep plans which conceived in secret are intended to culminate in smile an Eit eastern stern paper tells this of horatio seymour A few month before bedora he h died horatio seymour paid ald to one on of li its dight lawrence of nw now york tork I 1 tv feel last I 1 ilin am near nar the th and nd or of my aarper and I 1 want to you 1 I hite had a treat creat deal to t do with polities politics anti with politicians in my ilni art aal a as bg 1 I look buck over tho past paal I 1 can dually seo the bost boot Irland ships of my life havo have boon been fortner fortik d in politics it la Is in politics that I 1 have root met the mari liec I 1 men ibo he most moat generosity these theeo friendships havo have beon been enduring too many or of them bave continued throughout life I 1 politics 1 brin out a it tile the best beat thero there I 1 la I 1 in mon men 1 II 11 L the banow man to bo bicad the I 1 ho sei self lali 1811 ona to lo be 10 generous this Is inn bec because 4 use jio alo CAMILI to 1 u AV do not believe that horatio siv mour ever anew N nhat hat warm friendship was wa lie ho was ft sterling honest man a man inan of great ability tut but he was waa as cold as aa though his heart hail had been kept lit in a refrigerator ill all his life at least this was wad the reputation he bore among lila its nearest acquaintances |