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Show MAKE If A MERRY CHRISTMAS I,: 3 eewee Other te Be Happy andTj ttl , 'ttMiayaftacrHlea-Alllnltl r-' U Front Jtanka. U v -ChrtatmL ;ery ytar It cornea and every1! jtear, welove it pad wonder why we haVfent made the spirit of It last all thtogh the year1 writes Margaret Mott-TQor-don; Perhaps we do not have 'the timet Bat te "What de we give -our " timet Aid why la Ifthat at Christmas we all "tile tJ-W" te de the mariyut-tlthougfctfal mariyut-tlthougfctfal things that we tape been postpoilaf tor months and IMnnttia i' 1 - r. - ,w. ( Qne of 'the thfcsg we seem to forget Is that the more we give to others the v more wo have ourselves, and the more we have the capacity for giving. It Is a wonderful thought and one that wo should carry around' with us all tho time. For wo always feel so tingling and joyous when we hnvo made a sacrifice sac-rifice or see that wo have really made someone else unusually happy. This year for most of us is very different dif-ferent than any wo have yet lived, because, be-cause, even though wo are not all actually ac-tually on the firing line, we ore there In our heorts and tho thought cannot 4 but give us a strange exultant feeling to be In the front ranks, marching with' the music I B After nll.that Is Just what tho spirit of Christmas Is. During the Yulctldo wo are all In tho front ranks and triumphantly tri-umphantly moving forward, for wo nro thinking, not of ourselves, but of others. And that very .sense which loves and therefore serves, which understands un-derstands and therefore sacrifices, Is f ' the true spirit of Christmas. It Is tho '"'I real thrill of life. It Is tho greatest oiid most far-reaching emotion In tho J world, end Just to know thnt wo are callable of that feeling, even though It should come only once a year, would . show that there Is the right spirit with U In us, and with a little cultivation wo r . might make It last all through the I year., |