| Show Find Snow Baby Babi at Their Door 5 Bij By LAurA LAUCA ELAINE CAMERON Lonely Couple A R n U It N Made Happy IA T TUCKER U 0 K E It When They and his wife tar e r ra 0 lone C ere some They Ab Abandoned had admitted m that Christmas W Waif ail f meach fact t to too each onci ch other otier several se times during the evening In a sort of resigned tone as If it there were wro nothing that could be done one to Improve e the situation It was Christmas Ew Ern D and the world was waiting with eagerness for tor forthe forthe the morrow All day dar the snow had been falling failing until now everything was covered with a blanket of downy softness soft soft- ness At Intervals a sharp north wind came cume and drifted the sno snow Into shel sh sheltered places piling It t up In great white heaps heus It was a night w when hen the I warmth and coziness of home hom was very er attractive when men and ant women hur hur- hurried hurried ried tied eagerly to warm firesides But Dut although a big fir fire was blazing upon the Tucker hearth and everything In the home homo bespoke warmth and plenty It was not enough to make the Tuckers happy bapp I For or orther they ther belonged to that body of humanity that finds Its greatest happiness in having Ing a part In making the happiness of others especially especially espe cape dally those of their own fireside Up until a few ft months month ago ngo this ambition I of ot theirs had always been satisfied for for upon their only daughter the they had lav la lavished fished all nil the tho wealth of ot affection that was possible But all nil too soon she had grown to womanhood and a few tew months before had married the man of her choice going to make malle her home In Ina Ina a distant city Since that time their lives lI had been very ery empty and as ns Is usual In such cases the advent of Christmas seemed to make them realize real ize this fact more than ever er For all allaround allaround around them others had bad some of their very ery own to share with them the Joys jOS of ot Christmas time Suddenly on the silence that had fallen between them came cam a n low feeble tel wall wall the the cry of a little bab baby They both Jumped to their feet and stood In an nn attitude of ot listening Then the sound came again louder and lustier than before and In a moment they w ware ure re both at the door Its a baby bahr I l they cried In unison a n poor little abandoned baby babI I l lAnd And sure enough It was a n baby a baby a wee little mite of humanity that lay layn in n the pile of snow that had drifted to the doorway With tender hands bands they unwound the many wraps that encircled the tiny form then a n little cry came from the woman as the soft sort rosy face of the child came come Into view Oh Warren arren t l she whispered In a n sort of ot awed voice as she held the tiny form close In n her ller arms let us keep kepp this child for tor our very Cry own God must have known of the emptiness of our hearts and sent It to us I think lie ne must have surely done doneso so her husband answered reverently It n will w help to make up tor for Ethel's Ethels absence ab sence sense IS VT Western it Newspaper New aper p r Union |
