Show all did their bit to make christmas mer merry E in brompton know knew LJ that it was all the hammonds could do to make ends meet A ble big family and ft a small lucerne Is 1 not a combination to make easy living yet tet at christmas time the family managed to hay have all the good food things that go with the day and to he be able to purchase pur chaar the tb gifts of loye love that mean so 0 o much it was wa all due to the plan mrs mr 11 ammond na nimond had worked wor cd out when the children werf were dinall several weeks before christmas a 6 contribution box WM was placed in the li hammond leammond dining room across it wits was written in big letters of if red and green ereen do your tour bit to make christmas merry and each member of the family faintly was vas supposed to contribute something be it ever so little arid and it was surprising just juat nn an aoa soon BA as the box was put up each year how many wonderful ways cropped out for or earning exira nickels anti and dimes even WOO little tim in spite of being only five contributed his mite to the cheer fund and the fun fua the family had in trying to till fill the box why it was nearly as good as aa christ mae itself 1 each evening it wits held up and weighed by the smaller children and they always agreed that it was waa getting so go awful heavy 1 when it wax wa opened just juat before christmas Chrls tinaa there ans always alays a shout of surprise and joy and they declared thit that it contained much more than they lind find thought it would and now they were spending the made up of so much such auch planning and scheming us there was to ret get the roost most out of it and when christmas morning dawned there was no li tippler family in nil all brompton the christ inns faintly fund had brought them I 1 M ninny good things natherine JC delman 6 s bess western now paper ihen |