| Show YOUR BABY r rB AND MINE I I B By MY MYRTLE MEYER EYE ELDRED D CHRISTMAS AGAIN Merry Christmas Whether the day is Js just beginning or just ending for those who read I this our heartiest wish Is that it may be or has been a no merry one Some way our heart always aches for tor those to whom sorrow has Just come Inside myself I always say O Oh how dreadful They wont won't be beable beable beable able to enjoy Christmas Christ Christ Christmas mas mas' mas just jut o ought to hi be the jolliest happiest day cares forgotten forgot forgot- ten weariness in some way put off oct to be suffered Buttered if it necessary t tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- morrow mor- mor row remembran J of ot blissful ex extravagances extravagances ex- ex to be faced on the January January January Jan Jan- uary bills blUs sternly forced Into the background Just the day It Itself itself It- It self to bo be enjoyed and savored sa We wonder how many parents have dutifully disillusioned their small sons and daughters and made It woefully apparent that There is no Santa Claus We hope not many We have no fear that the telling elling of this ancient fable table willIn will willin willin in any way Impair the childs child's fu future future future fu- fu ture faith in his parents parent's veracity Suppose you say to the child Yes Santa is the spirit of ot Christmas the spirit of ot good will and loving JovIng thoughtfulness and cheerful giving Isn't he And this particular particular particular par par- I spirit is exemplified by a a. jolly lolly old man who Is in the very essence of ot every relative who ever labored for hours on a gift for some beloved child As a child grows grow and learns learn through experience he will realize that there is no real little man and that spirit does doe not mean real real- Ity ty lIe He will know then that anyone anyone anyone any any- one who possesses this spirit of ot good g will and loving thoughtfulness toward oward others and gives gl cheerfully Is s In iii truth a Santa to them But how dreadful to deprive the small child of ot that deliciously terrified terrified ter ter- ter- ter feeling which he experiences as he steals down to the lighted tree on Christmas morn morning in and feels that someone has been there in the night unseen and someone someone someone some some- one mysterious thoughtful and ad loving oving I my son this morning mornin what he ho thought would make a good subject for a a. Christmas article He lie Hes lieIs Is 19 s 13 by th the 1 wa way lIe He said Wh Why dont don't you ou write about disillusioning children about Santa Claus So SoI I countered What do you OU think about it After a moments moment's thought he said I dont don't see that It hurts little ittle kids They forget about what you ou have told them and they soon learn earn that it isn't really true Now there you are It is a brave bra kind beautiful story so 80 why deprive the little ones of ot it As they grow older they realize that it is Just a lovely ovely story and It leaves no mark just a gracious g memory of or Christ Christ- mas inas And so again Merry ChrIstmas Christmas Christmas Christ ChrIst- mas |
