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Show EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY Throw Forebodings to the Winds and Let Christmas Season Be One of Joy. Let Joy reign! Lot caro go to tho dogs. Throw forobodlngs to the winds! Christmas comes but onco a year. Let tho young folks enjoy it to full! Lot tho old folks stop their croaking about rheumatism for that day at toast, nnd romombor the tlmo whon they, too, woro young and could dance with tho merriest. And lot tho little stockings bo filled, fill-ed, nnd let us nil bear with equanimity equa-nimity tho blowing on toy trumpets, nnd tho tooting on mouth organs, and tho drumming on sixpenny-halfpenny drums, which aro sura to follow! Tho boys can bo boys but onco, and what Is a boy if ho cannot make a nolsoT And so tho years go on, and one Christmas follows another, and wo eat and drink and aro morry; we greot our frlonds, and wo part with thorn, and our lives march along, and through faith In the sacrifice which our Christmas day commemorates we look forward to a more perfect Christmas Christ-mas when tho guests shall gather la the Father's house. |
