| Show Christmas Day Dal in Own Home Ap e ETHEL EntEL COOK COCK ELIOT Mother Molher Father M at ALMOST I and Children glad glad we were we're r e p not oot going to Have HaDe Special our Grandmothers Grandmother's Grand Grand- Quests Guests at mothers mother's for tor Family Feast C a Christmas h b r i I. I s t m 01 a s this year Mrs lira Will VIII confided to Mr Will a week before that great day Do you OU realize rE-alize weve we've never had a Christmas Christians 8 here In our own home Just ourselves and our family F Yes Ive I've been thinking of ot that that Mr Will Wilt replied d. Lets Let's keep It Just ourselves ts and give the kiddies one truly home Christmas to remember As usual Mr and Mrs Mra Wilt Will were In complete agreement In to their Ideas and emotions Mrs olra Wilt Will sighed contentment con con- Mr Wilt Will sighed contentment content ment went too for tor after all such harmony as theirs thE I Is not so common In this workaday world ot of wives and hus bus bands But Hut as S Christmas day grew nearer and nearer Mrs Will suddenly realized 1 she was nursing a 0 sick conscience There Thre was f something she he had not the heart to confide to Mr Will 11 Now Mr Will had hall a n sick conscience too There was something he had not the heart to confide Olinde to Mrs Will But fortunately everything was straightened d out before Christmas that day of ot peace pence dawned Bill Billy their oldest didn't know what the word con conscience meant Of Ot course he ht had heard mother and father fa ta fa- fa titer ther whispering about how v nice a a strictly family fal Christmas would b be r rIle lie Ill had hod heard Ird them thE but perhaps he hadn't understood their sentiment Anyway at lit luncheon two days before before before be be- fore Christmas Christians he suddenly blurted Say Mom Ive I've asked Jim Larkin to our Christmas dinner and the tree You know his folks are ure In Jo Europe and hes he's Just f staying on at lit the school Thought hed he'd like It here better More homelike Oh bother Billy Lucy cried cried cried- year thirteen Lady Lucy Ive Ie asked Tatty Brown She hasn't an uny aDt folks anywhere re even In I Europe Just that snobbish h great-aunt great who's giving lag ing Inn a n big house bouse party all old folks und and doesn't want Tatty fatty alt around She needs a home Christmas more than Ulan your our J Jim I Father was eyeing ej mother anxiously anxious anxious- ly tier Her bright smile amazed him Welt Well Ill Im I'm sure theres there's ro room m for them both bolli I 1 am glad you ou have hae such kind hearts hE children But hut now Mr Will spoke tI timidly mill Ir Im sorry mother but I 1 too have asked a guest Couldn't help It somehow somehow some some- how howl I That young youna Miller at the of ot flee fice lips lies so cut up ul about his mothers mother's mothers mother's moth moth- ers er's death and a boarding house Is III a dreary place to spend Christmas Christmas' Mr Wills Will's voice was timorous almost pleading But Hut Mrs Mra Wills Will's bright smile limite had now turned to a calm relieved one Oh that's splendid dear she said For Joor do de you know I myself have Invited In Ui A v 11 f- f J. J I II i i that pretty little Gladys Haver Haver- Ill Ill She looked s se woebegone gone when I Imet Imet met her at the grocers grocer's Saturday and naked asked her IlIr whether she was going home for tor Christmas She said a poor school schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher couldn't travel travE-l way across a continent even for tor a Christmas Chr at home hom What could I do I And do you know Ive I've always thought Gladys and Tel Ted Miller ought to meet They're such nice young joung people and people and Gladys Gladysi i Is so pretty I ISo I ISo So that's what happened to the Wills Wills' precious family Christmas Christ mall But not one of the Wills Wllis felt that he be had been en cheated of ot anything On the contrary I And Mr Ir and Mrs Will are In closer harmony than ever You see they are the same sort ROrt of ot people not people not a too common common common com com- mon thing In workaday life And Billy and anil Lucy are growing up rather like them un 1522 1 We Western t rn N Union |
