Show 5 It was waa Just a a. miniature old fashioned fash tash- cradle that was waa on exhibition In the window of ot one of or the big department stores In Salt lt Lake but It attracted as much attention as asit asit asit it would had It been made of ot gold and while wh the younger people who passed the window stopped and commented on the little cradle the thelder older lder people stood and looked longingly longIngly longingly long long- at the creation What memorIes memories memories memo memo- ries a little cradle recalled In Inmany Inmany many a home not only In Utah but butIn butIn butin In all states slates the first born of or many of the grownups had been boen rocked to sleep In the old fashioned cradle cradie of ot which this miniature was a a. rep rep- I lie lica Indeed It was grownups of ot today who stood looking at the dl- dl I piece of ot furniture w wio ho o oI I had been rocked to sleep as they I listened to Mothers Mother's song or lullaby I in the long ago It seemed to the writer as if It It was only yesterday I when a eyed blue-eyed baby girl was rock rocked d In the little lithe cradle which Is Isnow isnow now old fashioned and how as she I grew she laugh ann shout as as Mother rother and Dad both sought to play her Strange how memory recall recalls s. s S And by the side aide of ot this little rocking cradle cradie whose headpiece a as also the and rockers were cut out of ot one solid piece ce of ot wood st stood od a high chair It too was In n miniature but like the cradle crodle was wasa a 8 replies replica of ot th the the- theone one that for lor so many years stood at ot table tableS Vacant cant the one who occupied It for tor almost two years years' having Joined the angel angel- hood bood of ot heaven he And as an onlooker er wiped away a a- tear that was roling rollinS' rollinS rolling roll roll- inS ing ng down his cheek a friend tapped him on the shoulder saying Come old man I I. I too have ha experienced I Just what you ou have haye Its It's the way of or the world Jt It comes to all of or us I So come It come It Is the Chrls Christmas time I But before the couple moved from the store the little cradle and and I Ithe the little high chair were or ordered en-d en j i sent to the tile home of ot a grandson I where a great-grandchild great on Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas morning will go Into over ovel the two pieces of furniture which will stand by the bedside from which will be suspended two i little stockings stocking filled with all the goodies that a a. child likes and I which adds oh oh so much to their i happiness i So a as I r remember mem the Santa Claus of or the years agone when Santa San San- ta to did really exist as he ie e does doea today he will on the coming week start starton on his annual round and the sleigh sleigh- bells bens will Jingle as they did in the thel thelong l long ng ago the fires tires will be banked so that hat he can come down clown the S theS chimney jut Just as 33 ashe he us u's used d to and S early arly in the the morning morning morning- there win will be bethe bethe be bethe the patter of ot little feet teet there will b shouts of or delight as es the contents of ot the stockings are poured out and the the grownups will snare snare with the little nWe tots the Joy that cornea comes on a Christmas morning Just like Uke the Christmas mornings I remember remember ber as boy and man |