Show THE ROAD TO CHRISTMAS in retrospect grandfather pictures yuletide journeys of many years ago all the year long we have been tr traveling toward christmas I 1 and my old wife our children and our grand children not all by the same road not all with the same expectations but all looking out alike for the first glimpse ot of its smoke ising above the wintry landscape of the year now we can almost fancy that we hear the chiming of the famous bells all christmas towns are famous for their bells and we know that w shall soon be at our inn it if life be a journey and each year a stage upon the road I 1 do 0 not know where else a sensible man would stop tor for the recruiting of his health than the fine old christmas towns there it if anywhere men are to be found living together merrily the inns are warm the cheer is good the amusements are ot of the heartiest and the society is of the best I 1 have been through many a christmas town for I 1 have traveled tar far and have rested thoroughly in each I 1 never found two of them alike ot of late they have been much grayer and quieter than they used formerly to be but I 1 do not think that I 1 have been less happy ot of the quiet towns at which I 1 have of late years resided let me confess so much As tor for these about me who declare them to be not quiet by any means but bu perfectly uproarious with jollity I 1 do not interfere with their opinion children so easily deceive decelie themselves it Is enough for me that I 1 am old enough to see things as they are |