Show THE MYSTERY OF CHRISTMAS one day of the year that all other day days are learning to envy and imitate it seems to me that always as the ath of commenced to shorten eh orten the white fleecy snow began to all fall says a writer in tho craftsman waca the street lamps flick ered up like candles on an altar they gazed on a world that was white the strife of tho the city was carte carts went by but you had to peer out through the blinds to know that the they Y were passing they made no sound an atmosphere of gentleness had do de sc ended everyone in the house wont went about with stealth ae an though planning come some secret kindness and then the night and the trying io to keep awake till santa claus should come and the waking up with the frost wearing weaving patterns on the panes somewhere far away a harp was wa u b ing played and a cornot cornat was challena chal leng las ing the silence the tune they played was an accompaniment to the most beautiful legend in the world at first dreamily you tried to remember why for once the darkness was oot not frightening fright etIng and then ah all ite christ masi mast As an you turned feet made the paper crack and at tle end and of the bed you were too content and happy even to look at your predate why was it that next day everybody and everything wa was different ferenti dif the air was fuu full or bells singing riotously every one for this me rie day ceased to think of his own happiness and found hai hal mineso in bringing cheerfulness to othera others the stem stern gulf la Is fixed between children and grownups grown ups had vanished there any grown tips ups somewhere in your childish heart you wondered why every day bo be made a day of kindness and that wonder of at a childs heart la 3 tho the christmas once a year by a divine conspiracy all the ships a 0 our hopes and fears turn back from rom their to the tha harbor of tenderness they are borne back on the crest of at a white tide of mysticism that sweeps round the world A truce of at rod Is to declared to all sightings figh tings and men and women walk aa as children through a world that Is kind they com commence menco to elve give and cease to annex they act in tho bell belief af that god la to in his heaven the spirit la one tr nu lous IOUs white day of unselfishness a day which gradually some other days in the tho year tear aru are le arnin to envy and iral tate |