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Show ??anj t(, ? Gmhiim IlKEC words meaning more "ap to more people than almost ij "ci"! I any other greeting or salu- tation or phrase. Three words fraught with significance. sig-nificance. I There are the happy people. Families Fami-lies where affection, cheer, Joy in one another, unseltislmess toward one another, an-other, love and sympathetic understanding under-standing llourisli. They know the fu'.l meaning; of A MKKUY C1IKISTMAS. There are the nlmos;. happy people. People who sometimes bicker and quarrel, make speech.es only half-meant half-meant which sound twice as harsh. Christinas comes and they rouse themselves. them-selves. After all. there is happiness for them. The wives with loving slyness sly-ness make little sacriilces and buy the husbands gifts they know will bo acceptable. ac-ceptable. The husbands rush at the last . . . A eVV..g ,- ) minute Into gaily decor;itcd shops, purchasing those gifts they knew will be acceptable. accepta-ble. They have paid more attention atten-tion of late. They have noticed what was missing, miss-ing, what w a s wanted. Arriving home n little late the very sound of tlielr steps has a n e w crlspness, their voices joviality jovi-ality and affection. affec-tion. They jog them selves up. They have A Merry Christmas. Christ-mas. There nre tho poor families, buying what toys they can for their children who have the same eyes ns all chll-rcn. chll-rcn. lives which see doll's carriages, trains of cars, dolls, mechanical toys, books. Eyes which look deeply Into the windows of shops. Bet-hups those more financially fortunate will load them Into shops and let them rcallr.e some of their dreams. There are the charity children, children chil-dren who receive dinners given by charitable organb.al Ions, being photographed photo-graphed so that those who are Independent Inde-pendent may feel undisturbed by all that they possess. Children whose pictures reveal at times a little shame, a little shyness that they must tie photographed when eating a regular meal. And yet they know (he meaning of Christmas, too. This, for them, Is good luck. Perhaps l( can be made belter. A Merry Christmas. Three words but synonymous wllh those three words nre many others -children, children's gay, excited, happy voices, parents with home - coining sous and daughters, g,lfls and generosity. generos-ity. Christina trees, appealing!)' etiiply stockings left by tho trusting on Chrlstnis live, cordiality, true hu-iiiimlh-. A Merry Christ mas. 0 l:1:,'. Wi'l,.rn Niwni'pr Viilon) |