| Show t The Time Old-Time Christmas timers Old timers Old caught In the holiday rush tush and gazing at the wonderfully t alluring panorama of the shop win- win r lows clows often fall taU into a reminiscent mood and re live the Christmases of oft t 4 the long ago Who does not fondly recall the magic of Christmas in his childhood it Most of the presents were home home- a made s grandma d dt t S h mittens knitted Eby oil lamp after p 1 you had been tucked In bed thick bed thick f warm mittens matens with a u long cord that it extended up through coat sleeves and around the neck to prevent loss Aunt Saphronia gave you ou a basket of tt Christmas cookies shaped like animals animals ani ani- i mals and stars and covered with delicious de tie- licious colored sugar 4 Uncle Tom gave you a watch and Nt his generosity appalled you even if it y it was the old turnip that he had dis dis- carded cardd Yuo can the reactIon you would get if It you tried giving ASS a 1925 boy a second hand timepiece Most Moat of the presents were useful in the old days including a reefer r k 3 overcoat and a ne new pair of shoes As Asfor Asfor Asfor for boughten presents they were limited to The Erie Eric Train Boy by Alger Henty's With Clive in Indi India a a new Testament a sled a pair oi ot of skates and that most moat wonderful of al all all time old-time toys a tin monkey that climbed a string At that Christmas of long ago represented proportionately I ne as big un an outlay as now comparing earnings in the two periods But Dut the gift girt was secondary to the spirit of the giver Somehow every up grown-up cant can help the Chrismas dinners of those days were superior The Christmas Christinas entertainment entertainment entertainment enter enter- at the church was as en- en as the modern movie And he ride in a cutter over the deep snow beat the trip auto of 1925 1025 Christmas is always alwa's changing and to adults never for tor the better hI |
