Show I I 1 E a L y 1 r T a rC 3 t. t I iti i a ap p v 1 FO d t 9 t A 4 7 Sr bk v h h y E 1 i t s t Y rz G S w n r 1 2 t C f fr r I Happy Christmas for Aged Artist Finds Fairy Spirit Shines Behind Gloom and Cold of the World By CHRISTOPHER G Q a. HAZARD R It EaT E 0 T a as s ever eve r and striking his cane sharply upon tho rho pavement a as ai ashe he strode along the old man was waa wasa ti a distinguished I figure amid the hurrying Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas crowds He pressed on like a a contradiction of ot the Christmas spirit He had not far tar to go before reachIng reachIng reach reach- Ing the ancient looking house that had bad once known youth and gayety as the result of ot his prosperity but which In Its loneliness and disrepair had become become be be- come a surviving sympathy In to hi his later and adverse experiences Thero There he could sit and renew In memory the events and associations of ot happier days which like pictures in the gallery gallery gallery gal gal- lery of ot life Ute were vivid again for a n moment out of ot theIr their tarnished frames They were more real reni than the pIctures pictures pic plc- tures that hung upon his walls for tor itis It ItIs ItIs Is the artistic atmosphere of the day that determines the light In which Its art shall bo be viewed and these works of the past had become only memorials to the present to which he had come But the present realities of ot the past are as helpless as the old fashioned n nesses of ot the present to succor fainting mortality and tho the old artist had to confess on that Christmas eve that he was not only hungry but rather hopelessly hopelessly hopelessly hope hope- lessly so It was true that his artistic remains were not wholly despised Mr auction room was not very far away and there was was' a dally daily slaughter of ot bel helpless pless pictures there But this massacre of ot Innocents their father could not conse consent t to he felt ready to starve first Then certain publishers had offered something for tor fora tora a set Bet of ot skeletons but in order that they might reproduce them upon a reduced reduced reduced re re- re- re scale which was Intolerable to his artistic pride So that The Solitary Solitary Soli Soli- tary Pine whispered to The Old Meeting House that it looked as though they would all go down A 1 1 I r 1 f IrP Q The Tho Old Artist Had to Confess That He Ho Was Hungry er and The Mountain Summit suggested suggested suggested sug sug- to An Evening Sea that it might be better to stoop to to conquer There was no token of this last Idea however In the preparations for tor the night that signified the old mans man's Intention Intention Intention In In- of ot remaining in and sticking the situation out He had no ear forthe for forthe forthe the chimes that had begun to ring out There was not a trace of ot expectation expectation tion of ot Christmas cheer in the determined determined determined deter deter- mined expression of ot the face that was reflected from the old mirror They must all belong to the past forever There was another thought on the way though and it found expression that Christmas morning when the artist artist artist ar ar- awoke to a rather cheerless envIronment environment en en- to be summoned to his door doory by y the loud knocking of a very rotund florid lorid and merry merry- individual who seemed teemed to have brought his years with him lim into a congenial and friendly cli clI- mate nate An old friend from a far country country coun coun- try ry he took In the state of ot things at a alance glance lance and as quickly decided upon his us course of action After the greetIngs greetings greet greet- ings and the historical were vere over and as a result Of f this most unexpected visitation a number of ot the paintings that had concluded to die were vere Introduced to a new life upon the walls valls of one ono who had never lost his love ove for them and it appeared that the he one aim wm of ot their new possessor had tad been to get them at their makers maker's prices All of which gave to the old artist a n new view of the fact that while the arts may change hearts do donot donot not tot and a new Idea of pf the reality which all aU art strives in vain to fully represent the reality of the fairy spirit that hat moves and ond shines behind all the gloom loom and cold of the world Ill b tie be hanged ganged he said If he didn't look Just like Ike Santa Claus Q 1025 1926 Western Newspaper Union The Christmas Christinas Shopper i itC tC g 4 I I I II I i 4 I M v Y Y 4 I t n k y s sy v is I d r yG fY A tf pt 1 w rr J |