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Show YOUTHFUL MIND IN DI8TRE83. Awful Possibility That Loomed Before Slx-Year-Old Jackie. Six-yoaro;l Jncklo's mother lie lloveil that nbsoluto trutlifulnosa was tho only rock on which to build thnt youthful gentleman's chnractcr, nnd ttto consistent working out of this j prlnclplo did nwny, of courso, with be- j lief In nil Biich things na fairies, Santa WM ClntiB, nnd other Illusion dear to childish hcnrls, nnd they liccnmo In-stead In-stead "innkobollovo" games, Snnta CIrub In particular being n pot "joko" between his mother and himself. Hj Jncklc enmo In from play ono nfter- HH noon much excited nnd coucorncd. I ".Mother, .llmmlo Norton bollovos thcro is n really and truly Santn Clatts. He says he Is sure that Santa ClniiH does come down tho chimney. 1 He wouldn't believe mo at nil when I told him It was Just n Joke," with riding anxiety. Jackie's mother wns Romowhat nonplused. non-plused. "Well, son," she temporized, "perhaps Jlmmlo's mother will toll , Mm (ho Joko some time soon, nnd then " "Oh, I hope she will," broko In Jncklc, forgetting his mnnncrs In his cnrneBtnes8, "because, you know, It she don't, when Jlmmle hns little boys of his own they won't ovor got nny ChrlstmnH presents." |