| Show t I THE WEEK BETWEEN g CHRISTMAS A AND N D NEW YEAR YEARBY i f BY R K c 1 9 9 t Christmas has jut just de departed and the scent cent of the Christmas tree still ms the house wIth Its pleasant The society woman capers around In n the sealskin sack and diamonds the tho Xmas presents which are not yet paid for lor forand and nd thus thul strengthens h her r husbands credit The small boy displays his no new skates Iud and sled Jed and Is the tho duet part Ic ular envy of the fhe boy whose father fait k ked ed In November and who got nothing at all to remind him of the return t c t the tha holiday or of aU all holidays Another ho 00 shows his independence or of the fact ct that he I is In the city where the mill mil prid flourish h by skating along alon the tho thoroughfare on hi his 1 summer or roller skates kate The Christmas wreath Is III hans hang hansIng log Ing on the wall to remind ono one ot of the tho holiday just passed close to the tho hornets hor hornets nets nest that brings pleasant dreams ot of the tho summer Bummer and unpleasant memories of what hat transpired at the tho time the nt nest was that make ono one feel that his head IS again a 1 mass maa or of throbbing knobs that seem like so many hot coals Tho Christmas turkey Is s not exhaust exhausted Id ed yet et There are still sUIl two wings for garnering ho ashes and n a wIshbone dr drying over the library door and a car carease ease aBS whIch will VIII be picked at for tor a few tew days more and then put aside to form the base ot of next weeks p pea 11 soup The toy window has a sort ot of do de look The ho macho camel looks sadder adder than It if lost In n the tho middle meddle of the desert lie looks nil as It if sighinG for some somo kind or of medicinal spring whoso whose waters would brace him up The pasteboard rooster also l looks as though lie he feels that there Is no real reason for his existence and the tho ducks seem as though about to split spill for lack of moIsture The Tho cast out Christmas tree treo standinG In the ash barrel Is full of the tho kind or of supreme lI sadness that pene penetrates the wistful soul Boul of Jt tilt the poet when the demands ot of the butcher make It necessary for him to add an n advertising feature to n a poem intended for tor The At r lanUe and sell It to a tooth powder con concern corn cern for his This Is the week that women who love exchanged presents are calculating the values between what they have hae given and what the they have received to see whether the they have been the tho gainers or the losers In the exchange The Ice carnivals nt at various northern points are In full tull blast and pictures and reports ot of the same till tillus tillus us all with joY jor except the Iceman who in 18 making nothing but who Js Is OIled filled with golden dreams as lie he saws sas the tho pond up like so much cord wood and packs It away to yield him ninny many she shekels kels kele of gold cold and silver when half n a doe doz on weary moons shall hn have passed and the tho poodle jangles n a can ot of stones out of tune over ever time he waGs his tall You can tell that ChrIstmas Is over by the appearance or of the proprietor tor of the toy store lie looks tar far sad sadder sadder der than that most popular ot of all sad creatures known In figures of rhetoric the attenuated rooster that has been out nil all night In the rain Before Christs mas he was air ail smiles and k to td all sighs of woe wac lie He I is the tho reverse tit cd the before and portraits In inthe the tho patent medicine ads He Is not look lookIng looking Ing forward to the tho Fourth ot of July with the tho small boy but to Christmas ot of next year ear Everything has an after Christ Christmas mae mas nil air about It You cnn can see it in the tho shopping districts and In the benevolent benevolent smile or of the clergyman ns as he strikes a bee bce line for tor the nearest mart to dispose of the many pairs of fancily embroIdered slippers with which he has hns been presented and which he could not wear nt at once even CIn It 11 he were a 1 human |
