Show I BUYERS I t tI STREETS I HaE Happy pY Crowds Busy All Da Day Y Buying Pi Presents Presents' for Greatest Greatest Great Great- II I est cst Holiday I 1 l I EVERYONE TIRED BUT GLAD CLAD I I r O Merchants Say I There Was Wasi e a i 1 Tints linio 1 SS Business Was n So Good The Christmas shopping crowd on the streets streets' s' s yesterday wa was wasu a typical h holiday throng n Men lel and women all heavily laden with bundles of every conceivable Izo anti and shape shape- bustled about the streets from the early morning hours bouts until the shopkeepers closed their doors late Inte at nt night and the last 1 cars took them then to the their l' l homes loaded down with the presents thai would be hidden hidden hidden hid hid- den awu away from the I sight of or little Wil Willie Illie Il H 11 lie and anti sister Mary for three long loner da days g Withal It was a merry crowd for what could be he a more pleasing pleading task I than han to prepare for childhoods childhood's greatest da day r 1 IJ Won me I Ired When hen n night I h t canter came however how everybody e was us tired The shop girl who had patiently pa pa- stood t ol b by all aU the long day waiting wait wait- waiting ing while men man women young girls nil and youths made up their minds and tried I to hind something that he would like that would be suitable that they could afford arrold or III that would fill fin the tI mall ins and various requirements for the annum gift to father mother brother J I Ister friend or 01 loved lo one ono The rhe street mr lUI man was worn out null with the heavy on his car was tired with heJl III Ing heavily burdened women oil un and atul or off I his cur car It was too a tired man that you saw when you rind ou looked at the workIng work- work Ill Ing man loan who toot mot the good wife downtown downtown downtown down down- town after his hit work was over and then started on their rounds to get set the thc toys the can candy d time the presents for the older ones and the Christmas dinner Every Everyone one el else e was tired out and glad that toda today would b bJ be a day Jay of rest to prepare prepare prepare pre pre- pare for the greater rush to come to to- to morrow morlow But nu t when tho they were tI tired red the they were happy happ The Tho preparation forthe forthe Corthe for Cor the greatest day a in all tho the year hard hai-d hardas haidas It IL ml might ht be well worth as was everything everything every every- thing It cost both in money and exer- exer Lion Llon Everybody will know this when the da day comes that brings such Joy JO into the young YOl hearts that never forget their happy Christina Christnia days nys Wits Was ns there ever any n n. n II V one n who no did no ft t i n H b I AH J viii- viii JIU I er Il the f first t I pair i of top red boots O t the h woolly l lamb Iamb mb the watch that really ticked and the countless counties mementoes oV or orthe the days when their hearts wore young oung Jn i r and nud Father Shopped Tine The crowds on the streets were as varied yesterday as could well be pos pos- sible From the tot who was out shopping shopping shop shop- ping her older sister to hU buy a pair of oC slippers for to the white haired bent and antl feeble grandfather grand grand- father who was bent on buying something something something some some- thing that would make malce some young heart glad glad all all were happy happ and Ii tilled filled II cd with Christmas spirit The streets yesterday presented too many pictures to lo be caught In a camera there were ere so man many varl varied d expressions writ on the faces Caces of or the Christmas shoppers shoppers shoppers shop shop- pers as the they moved about a part of that great thron throng which was filling th tho streets and the stores and md looking Into the thu shop windows Most of or these sigh sights ts' ts' ts were those thoe of gladness and happiness but hero an and th there re the eye caught a glimpse of ot a n. pinched l face ace and a n. maddened expression The They told of or poverty and of oC suffering their faces were JIlt pitiful I Cui to look upon as they viewed with regret the gladsomeness that showed itself everywhere e re about them A group of poor ragged children looked ed into a window window win win- dow filled ClIle with toys and pretty things s that they wished for COl and wanted anted but which they could not haveThe have havo The Gladdest Gh t Day J ur of or the lie Year Yem car There were children of or the rich driven cn up UI to the stores In carriages and at attended attended at at- tended b by their fond mothers they went from counter to counter in the store stor selecting se- se selecting se se- the to toys toy 9 the dolls and pretty prett things s without limit limit and and their little hearts were filled with wilh joy There were others who walked to to tot t the he stores with their thell mother moth I and looked about to select Uie theone tine one thin thing lhing that their hearts desired the most When hen they the saw It wrapped and han handed e to th tit m to take lake home holOt ever MJ so carefully their hearts were filled ruled with greater r r I gladness than were their thew rich brothers an and sisters IS who had every wish of their Ih lives s gratified To these thc little hittie children I I Christmas meant more morp than to any oth r I class To the children of or the poor it meant so o much but Vitt t 11 It was nas sorrow Borrow instead of f gladness To tho the children of or the rich and of th the middle class It ht meant so much It it was the gladdest day of their lives Added to all these there was vas the young yount school girl Irl buying a n present for Cor her sweetheart and he was somewhere else at the same time buln buying something for Cor her There was the happy P father I and mother buying the present that should fill not only onh tho the hearts of oC the I children with great joy but theirs too n when hen they saw aw the happy little band of youngsters oun circle about the Christmas tree ever so earl early in the morning morning- taking their thell first peep at tine tho treasures Greatest t in ill City Ili History tory When hen they had hatI the time to smile the merchant viewed the never ending pro I ees cession lon of customers with Ith a n glad Iad and happy smile lIe ITc was saying laying to lo himself clr that he lie was prospering that there thet never r I was a greater creater holiday h business s and th that 11 It was Indeed a 11 Christmas such as nev cr CI was seen u before rort In the t rl Thi I 1 was VMS true too k Store were too I busy to say last night how much business busi busi- business ness the they were cre doing oln It H Is certain tain however how ever that never nevel before in m the history of this city was there a larger Christmas business in the thc city There Thel are are c more mort I people here than th there le were a year yea l' l a ago o and the they aro arc all III prospering Tho The farmers farmers farm farm- I ers have prospered as at never before and their prosperity rit i has brought brough a season I. carm-I. of plenty plent to the cities s. s I |