Show GI GIVING WHAT PLEASES 1 J I YOU IS HALF THE FT FUS FU'S Fim FU I 1 S By HELEN The old lady who sometimes came to stay with the when their mother and father we went t to concerts lectures or meetings at the church was Vas coming to take the little girl She was taking each of the three children in turn so they mig v keen n their purchases a secret from the other members of the until 1 the tissue tissue paper packages were u unwrapped wrapped early Christmas morning Christmas shopping Christmas shopping this year was wasa a special event in the little girls girl's I life She had a a. round silver dollar to spend Heretofore she had frequented frequented fre Ire the cent 10 stores but this year she could inspect the prodigious ous display of ot the department stores until she found objects listed at a a quarter She could select four four four- one for her father one for her mother one for her younger sister one for her jer little brother Into the Gay Holiday Whirl She p put pOt t on her dark blue coat with the two rows of brass buttons the he red tam tarn and red mittens and went gayly forth to follow the example example ex ex- ample of the three original Wise Men Everyone on the street looked happy Bells Beils rang where dozens ot of Santa Clauses the Clauses the little girl had known for two years that Santa Claus Glaus was only a beautiful red spirit with white whiskers whiskers- watched cauldrons People were carrying packages slipping on the ice laughing Snowflakes drifted down and clung to the woolly blue coat Oh it was good to be 9 years old with a round silver dollar to sp spend nd It wasn't hard to choose a present for her father Three e handkerchiefs with a beautiful satin W embroidered embroidered embroidered dered in one corner were chosen The little girl wasn't so inter interested sted In the handkerchiefs as she was in inthe inthe the silver box that held them and the fact that there were three of them not them not one as she always ys had bought at the cent 10 store Her mother was next I think a gravy bowl would bea be bea bea a good practical gift the old lady said I 1 heard your mother re remark remark remark re- re mark that she needs one for use when theres there's no company some company some thing plain and substantial Well We'll go to the china department But But but she would have to buy a gravy bowl anyway the little girl objected Might as well get something she needs the old lady insisted propelling propelling propelling pro pro- the small coated blue-coated figure through the aisles It wont won't be like a present though and anyway gravy tastes all aH right in any kind of a bowl she fought her c se c-se se as she trod the aisle that smelled of balsam and spruce and evergreen Practicality Versus Bright Delight They came to the china department department department depart depart- ment and the old lady asked tn SP c. the gravy bowls She mi missed ed- ed the little girl for a minute and when she found her the little girls girl's eyes I were looking in adoration at a a. bright red tomato painted on a apale apale pale green background that deep deep- I 1 ened in hue as It neared the ed edge it beautiful the little gi asked It It only costs a a. quarter quartez i be because cause of that piece on the s sid sid where the color didn't take W can cover coven it up with bread or som sonic soni thing My mother would like th thi awfully well J I Your mother wouldn't want t tIn a aIn In fn her cupboard the old lady s sale k fc Here give me your They're wrapping up the grav gray bowl Jj The little girl found a doll fo fo her sister and a red drum for l J fie brother She had two silver dime dim of her of-her her own along which she h Ha saved during the past f few w wee weeks weeK in case the dollar wasn't Now walking through the dusk she knew that she ought t buy the old lady a present Stil 20 cents was too much to spen pe r ron on an outsider when your own l f fa father ther and mother just had O on f nickel more worth of present Sh Sn would buy the old lady a chocolate choc choco late soda to show that she her even if Af f she did wish that th theold the old lady had stayed at home B Besides Be B. sides she herself wanted a soda soda Christmas morning the present presents were unwrapped and duly admired When dinner was served the n W i gravy bowl was on the table Tile Th-e little girl wasn't very hungry S SIla kept thinking of how nice the h Hoi hit t biscuits would have looked on a agreen green plate with a red tomato in inthe a athe the middle of it |