Show HOUSE OF CHRISTMAS TREES odd retreat of an Arl on barren sand flat in kansas C city I 1 ty kansas city mo it Is safero safe to say that no one else in kansas city has treasured the symbols of christmas christinas longer than has dennis hooley who lives on a barren flat ant at the northern eiten extension slon of the foot of tracy teacy avenue not that dennis IF Is a man particularly full of sentiment this Is merely a case of irish ingenuity the superintendent odthe of the city dump near which dennis has built bis new home had given elven orders that no shant shanties lei should be e allowed on the field that kept home made out of christmas trees hoboes hobles out but it at all fair to dennis who Is a regular employed of the street department and keeps halt half a dozen blooded dogs to prove his respectability ability after new years day loads of discarded chris christmas imas trees began to ornament the bank of t the be river dennis saw in these an opportunity he gathered some of the best preserved of them for a protection from the wind the superintendent object to the windbreak for it if was almost orna mental on the lee ice side of the windbreak dennis planted some boards on end the object to these either then dennis hailed some horizontal boards over tho the top of the perpendiculars they appeared to make a roof when a stovepipe was struck through this roof the eye could almost be deceived into believing that this collection of boards and christmas trees really was a shanty but it for when the superintendent sa saw the place he wo grinned and spoke no word of remon that la Is the complete completo lin bib tory lory of the house that dennis built which every day harthe has the air of christmas its gr err r reaal says de dennis |