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Show (Greens tT MARGARET BRUCE f t HERE Is one jaunt I hop never to deprive mj .ff h -J youngsters of," said a KVeVJ business man the other day, "and that Is the annual an-nual trip to the woods nfter Christmas greens for the house. Every year since w were married, my wife and I have bundled ourselves up In warm togs and gone put a day or two before Christmas nnd gathered nrmfuls of spruce and hemlock branches, sprays of ground pine, and occasionally some mistletoe, though this is rare In cur part of the country. coun-try. "After the children came, this excursion ex-cursion Into the woods became ai much n part of Christmas as the tree, the stockings, nnd the dinner. When we were living out in the suburbs, near the open woods, we used to go out and chop down our own Christmas Christ-mas tree nnd bring It home on a low sledge. "Then the time came when we had to move Into town, Iwuuse of my if ape? having :i good deal of night work, and It took too long to get way out Into the country lafe at night, ft'o couldn't bring homo our own Christmas Christ-mas triv any more, of course, but we could, and did, take a whole day to i:o out niul get our Christinas greens, and we do It every year. If tho weather Is ojh'h and there Isn't too much snow, we take the car and drive out to tho woods. "If there Is n groat deal of snow nnd it Is Impossible- to take the car out. w go en the train to n con-M-nii lit country station, get olT nnd tramp lhroii;-h (Jio woo,:, and collect col-lect our Christmas decoration. If we hac too l.irg a lead to take Into the coach, I hud that tho bnggaga car will hr'ng It In to town for u half-del', half-del', ir i r so. Tho spirit of Christmas comes Pack with us from the woods, nnd the twining of our own greens Into In-to wreaths nnd festoons means a hundred hun-dred times mora than If wo bought them out of n wooden packlm; box at lb florist's." UVwrllM |