Show christmas past it was indeed a gracious gra cloua time and aa wo we read ot of the revels and ceremonies and find foolish beliefs ot of christmas past we might regret what we have lost in this tamer and lesii picturesque age it we did not know that never before in was christmas kept so truly and heartily in fit the spirit of the day as it Is now we have dropped a good many rudo rude and some pretty customs but wo we have gained a broadening spirit of almost universal charity a feeling of real brotherhood that Is perhaps none the less real that it la IS bold in check a good deal during the rest of the tha year charles I 1 dudley warner |