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Show An ,Airplanet buFloren.ce Harris VVells ) L '27 1IIAT do you kids think you're i Jf going to do with all those Christmas ads the airplane era 1) lias been showering over ' vmtJ "le town every afternoon?" nancly Roberts demanded of i llls sma" brotner and sister ' Effo3 a' the table a few evenings j before Christmas. I "That's what I'd like to know," Eleanor, nineteen, chimed in as she folded her napkin. The twins, Beth and Bob, aged but seven, looked at each other over their plates and then turned towards their mother. "Beth and Bob are quite justified," Mrs. Roberts assured her two older children. "Those advertisements are unusually attrac- "V W'Sffl holly wreaths, VxPZw'W bells' poinscttins i 1 3jfiKpl and their red, gold fSiYvfiK and Sreen letter- are mnl;i"S Christ-'V Christ-'V SyfT nuts cards out of W "iem wlth tlie ald m'tyftffyi o Paste cardboard $f, a verse now )ihWsJ naa then cliI1I,ed itk?(-3r from some moga- IXS' nvn llloa and tlmt is what every one IMS m-M is striviug for now" flTM adays, you know, uniauo and original origi-nal Christmas cards." Mrs. Roberts' brown eyes twinkled. "I'd say they're original all right," Randy grinned. "But go to it, kiddies. At least you're saving expenses, and that's what we're all trying to do." He turned to his father at the head of the table : "How about the doctor's bill, Dad? Is It reducing enough so that we can manage a turkey for Christmas dinner, din-ner, or shall we regale ourselves on something simpler?" Mr. Roberts smiled wearily: "I don't know, sou, you know that incision in-cision Isn't healing as it should and I've only worked two days this week. Kvon with your help and Eleanor's the bills just about stand still." "That's nil right Dad, I was just asking. Mother's cooking makes everything taste good." He stopped on the way out to look nt the heap of ads piled on various chairs. Suddenly ho picked one up and scrutinized it. "ye here, folks. Listen what it says on the Smith Market announce-, announce-, ment 'Some of those advertisements . t, are marked. The one turning in the f greatest number of marked ads will receive a 1-pound turkey at our market the morning of Christmas eve.' Hnbics. the turkey's, yours '. There can't .' anybody beat a collection like this." 0 And nobody did. Ucl. It iO, Western Newspaper Union.) |