| Show Grandmother Compares Present With Long Ago JENNY TENNY and her great grandmother eat J were having a little chat while they waited for the announcement from the maid that Christmas dinner was ready Grandma Smith had been born bornand bornand bornand and reared in the South She was spending the holidays with her daughter daugh daugh- ter in the Ibe North Grandmother was in her early nineties but a remarkable woman for her age Tall Tall erect erect spry she w would uld never grow old mentally for forshe forshe forshe she was 08 too progressive In her think think- lag ing Jenny as ns I looked around the house just now DOW I couldn't help but whit what a difference a generation or two h has 18 made In our mode of living I couldn't keep from comparing this day and home with a Christmas Day and home I 1 knew long ago You know Jenny Andrew v and I were married on one Christians years eara ago Andrew built u It little cabin on a plot of ground he owned It was perched up on a hilt bill I thought It was the loveliest lo most beautiful cabin cobIn ever eer built In the whole world And It was wal It was the thelast thelast last word in cozy home architecture of the times Inside It lend had a dirt floor and a few pieces of hickory furniture which Andrew had hod made I Ioe wove o all the linens and ond other cloth which we used We Weere were ere so happy We had a abIg abig abig big home wedding One of my Iny wed wedding wedding ding presents was a tin cup That cup was a prized possession much till talked ked about and envied by my neighbors Sometimes I wonder onder we lived so simply mini sim ply ply and and happily and happily and now how complex complex com plex are ore are The dinner gong boomed forth a welcome welcome welcome wel wel- come sound The family gathered and with Joyful hurried In to to the festively festively- arranged Christmas Christiana dinner din ner table Eleanor Eleanor EX G. King o N w p |
