Show T yv I 1 FILLING THE STOCKING va y vor for little children eory here A joyous season still we e make we bring our precious gifts to them even een for the dear child jesus sake lake phoebe 11 hoebe cary there are children the WHERE christmas Christ stocking should never be forgotten nothing can take tile the place of it for nothing else arouses quite so much speculation itlen und and pleasurable anticipation as what santa claus will put into that homely article the general distribution of gifts may inay well take place after breakfast Is out of the way a but no child can be expected to wait very cr long for the feel of something old sant banta a lias has left it if all tits ills gats are given ghen immediately on waking making excitement will run high find and dressing and breakfast will le ile gone through with alth great difficulty also a considerable quantity and nuts will liae bave vanished lieford the morning meal Is served ered find with them will have hao disappeared ill all signs of an appetite As a means of avoiding these conditions tile the christmas blocking ng serves it good purpose carefully filled it hlll satisfy tile the longing for christmas the first thing in the rooming in will gle give hlin a testo of goodies without destroying hiti appetite for breakfast and will leave leac lent expectancy concerning tle the other things coming so that lie will readily submit to being properly bathed und find dressed sed an orange for the toe of tile stocking some soine especially espelin ily d desired esi red toy wit I 1 C I 1 will prove proe of untold interest colne article of dress in ili which lie he can parade around a liand tul of pop popcorn corn at a small box bo of cracker 4 tind and it a stick or jeane cane ut of pure sugar vandy should make a stocking antly bulging to td please any hild child ait AH the food fond it contains conti ins tan can be consumed without continual warnings of aint don t oat eat too inteli mui li now or better save sae the rest until breakfast the toy and the one other gift will hold the hilds childs interest until every ciery one Is as k aed 1 for ili the big distribution which need not be hurried 31 margaret argaret bart lett in farm journal |