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Show CLASS AND CASTE FORGOTTEN Christmas Season Is One Period of the Ytar When All People Are Equal. 91 HIS Is the season of equality, the ono brief period of the year when the Christianized world niomentnrlly forgets clnss nnd caste. Itlch and poor, great and lowly, good nnd bud, today Btnnri more nearly on a footing of equality than they have stood since tho Inst Vuletlde, or limn they will stnd for another year. For this Is the Christmas season nnd Christmas belongs to the child, nnd untutored childhood knows no caste. It Is only from grown-ups that the llttlo ones learn fnlso standards of social place. In every human henrt that Is not calloused to all Joy or sorrow, or dead to the llpest emotions of manhood und womanhood, there Is enshrined some child, either dead or living for child love Is the universal emotion of the soul. For this brief senson, then, let childhood child-hood take our gnarled hand of sophistry and beguile us by tho linger back to a fleeting glimpse of thnt lotus I und of nqunlity we once knew and ttn know cnly one. |