Show find snow baba at their door ELAINE it it H 1 lonely couple annan made when bleg happa JA S T and his it wife B n were lone ion some iney i i i abandoned had admitted that Chr wad fact to each other several times during the evening in a eort sort of resigned tone as tt if there were nothing that could be done to improve the situation I 1 it was christmas ere em und the world was waiting val ting with eagerness for the morrow all day the snow had been now everything was covered with a blanket of downy softness at intervale intervals a sharp north wind came and drifted the snow into nth sheltered pieces places piling it up in great white heaps it was a night nigh when then the warmth and coziness of home was i ery attractive when men ana abd women hurried eagerly to warm fi resides but although a big bit fire was blazing upon the tucker hearth and everything in lit the home bespoke warmth and plenty it was not enough to make tho them tuckers happy dorthey for they belonged to that body of humanity that finds its greatest happiness in having a part in making the happiness of 0 others especially those of their own fire fireside alde up until a few months mouths ago this ambition of theirs had always been satisfied for upon their only daughter they had lavished all the wealth of affection that was possible but all too soon she bad grown to womanhood and a few months before bad had married the man of bere her choice holce going plug to make her home in a distant city since that time their lives ilves had been very empty and as Is usual in such cases the advent of christmas seemed tomake to make them realize this fact more than ever for all gill around them others had some of their very own to chare share with them the joy joys of christmas time suddenly on the hence silence that had bad fallen between them cam a low feeble wall the cry of a little baby they thel both jumped to their feet and stood in an attitude of Uste listening then the sound came again louder and lustier than before and in a moment they were both ut it the door its a babyc they cried la in unison a poor little abandoned baby I 1 and sure enough il it was a baby a wee little mite of humanity that lay for in the pile of enow snow that had bad drifted to h the doorway with tender hands band they unwound the many wraps that encircled the tiny farm form then a littly ittia cry came from the woman as the sofa soft rosy face of the child came into blew lew oh warren she whispered in a eort sort of bf awed voice as she held the tiny form close in her arms ams let us beep leep this child for top our very own god must have known of the emptiness olour of oar he hearts and tent sent it to cs us 1 I think he ile must have share surely done iso her husband answered reverently it will help tor for ethel ethels ab sence i 1122 atom 11 newspaper union 71 |