Show Grandmother Compares Present With Long Ago ENVY and her great grandmother J JENNY were having a little chat while they waited for tor the announcement from the maid that Christmas dinner was ready Grandma Smith had been bornand born bornand bornand and reared In the South She was spending the holidays with her daughter daugh daugh- ter In the North Grandmother was In her early nineties but a remarkable woman for her age Tall erect spry she would never grow old mentally forshe for tor forshe she was too progressive In her think thInk- ing lag uJ Jenny enny as I looked around the house honse Just now I couldn't help belp but realize what a n difference a generation or two has made malo In our mode of living I couldn't keep from comparing this day and home with a Christmas Day and home I knew long ago You know Jenny Andrew and I were married on onono one ono Christmas years ago Andrew built a little cabin on a plot of ot ground he be owned It was perched up on a hill I thought It was the loveliest most beautiful cabin ever built In the whole world And It was It was the thelast thelast last word in cozy home architecture ure of the times Inside It had bad a dirt floor noor and a few pieces of hickory furniture which Andrew had made I wove all the linens and other cloth which we used We were so happy We had a abIg abig abig big home wedding One of ot my weddIng wedding wedding wed wed- ding presents was a tin cup That cup was was u prized possession much talked about and envied by my neighbors Sometimes I wonder we lived Jived so simply sim sIm- ply ply and and happily happIly and and now V how complex com cow complex plex are are are- The dinner gong boomed forth a n welcome welcome welcome wel wel- come sound The family gathered and with Joyful hurried In to the tho festively arranged Christmas dinner dinner din din- ner Eleanor Eleanor E. E King Q 1125 W Western stern Newspaper Union |