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Show Grandmother Compares Present With Long Ago JENNY and her great-grandmother were having a little chat while they waited for the announcement from the maid that Christmas dinner was ready. Grandma Smith had been born and reared in the South. She was spending the holidays with her daughter daugh-ter in the North. Grandmother was in her early nineties, but a remarkable woman for her age. Tall, erect, spry, she would never grow old mentally for she was too progressive in her thinking. think-ing. "Jenny, as I looked around the house just now, I couldn't help but realize what a difference a generation or two has made In our mode of living. I couldn't keep from comparing this day and home with a Christmas Day and home 1 knew long ago. You know, Jenny, Andrew and I were married on one Christinas, years ago. Andrew built a little cabin on a plot of ground he owned. It was perched up on a bill. I thought it was the loveliest, most beautiful cabin ever built In the whole world. And It was. It was the , last word in cozy, home architecture of the times. Inside it had a dirt floor , and a few pieces of hickory, furniture I which Andrew had made. I wove all the linens and other cloth which we used. We were so happy. We had a big home wedding. One of my wedding wed-ding presents was a tin cup. That cup was a prized possession, much talked about and envied by my neighbors. Sometimes I wonder, we lived so simply sim-ply and happily and now how complex com-plex are " The dinner gong boomed forth a welcome wel-come sound. The family gathered and with joyful chatterings hurried in to the festively arranged Christmas dinner din-ner table. Eleanor E. King. ((c), l(Ji:5. Western Newspaper Union.) |