Show christmas div giving ing and being happy ah how ow yuletide problem was waa solved in most satisfactory manner by CATHERINE katherane EDELMAN loain WIN WARNER nn ills hla alfo sat talk ing in the ilvina room of their ditth bungalow until till tl c clock ock on the wan tel struck the mid night hour good gracious john ill I 1 E ellen ilen said 1 I had no idea that it was wag so late ivi ats because you were so inter ested dear john answer answered eil when it 11 to making plans for betty yet forget timo and everything else t E ellen aien reddened ever so go slightly sho sh inea that what john said was for ever since hetty had conio come to them now nearly six years agn ng her whole ilfe had heon been wrapped up in the child ailers was such a passion of mother tave that sometimes sho she grow grew almost frightened tit at its intensity into nalty and often when john find laughingly teased tier her about forgetting jilin him for detty betty her conscience smote her ber and now she hud had talked john into lettl letting ng her buy alli the big doll that had been in Har Ilai wells window 1 etna itaw the reason dil opened ened john had tried to tell hor hei that the small gifts had already purchased would he be enough for betty but bait firl finally ally ii bad given in to her Pled pleading lilg she agreed avith him that twenty dollers was ti it big sum to spend for a dolls doll but bul betty wag betty and dese deserved ivd it for the War carlers lers were poor not nol poor lh 10 the utter abject poverty that flaunts its filce face to tile the world im benni ed b hut it poor in tile the poverty that moans worn old md threadbare carpets clothing grown grow n thin and shiny from long usage and a careful pausing before tile the spending of an unnecessary penny fenily somehow since hetty betty cattle came they had never been able to get ahead was always something or betty tty and she had always gotten it next neit morn morning ing ellen left the house e early aly with tile the wonderful twenty lot dot aars larsin in tier her purse betty had been left next floor door all unconscious of the errand eirand lier her mother was on liala way to tor two women entered tile the biar cur yi r ard and sat back of E men ellen they were of 0 E t b e 0 I 1 I 1 1 I 0 v e rb sis F alvi ype P ss t eo woin av en overdressed over dressed dressea ancl contemptuous ot of those who possessed little of things scraps ot of their conversation camo to ellen at times through the ineize aninzo of tier her busy thoughts 1 I think its perfectly awful I 1 do one of them was saying tile the way some women do its really sinful in these days to bo be dowdy A s got to wear good clothora clothe 4 to be I 1 anybody and belleve believe me its the dowdy women who walk alone youve just said bald it tier lier companion answered As I 1 tell george when lie kicks libcke about tile the bills a woman has got to dress nowadays or get nothing out of life the words sank into ellens brain as tier her eyes were scanning an advertisement tiso ti ment at a crossing be fair to yourself buy your millinery nt at madam courteaux Courte aus and as other words of that ilk floated hack bacic from the women bonic n they began to stir up a queer feeling inaldo of ellen warnet iler her glance alance traveled to tier her fa p tier her shabby mended gloves and hv face began to burn as she thought of the little lint hat she ellie was wearing slie she tried to shake on off the feeling that was wag upon tier her and to got get tier lier mind mand back on tier her mission but somehow everything seemed different now in tile the light of the unrest that was filling tier her heart was slie a little tool fool as women lind had said bald was avas she fair to herself lier self had slip she in tile the little mean tillas things that were tier lier everyday portion and which until now had seemed to tier her veritable things of delight cheated herself out of till nil that meant so much to other women had alad she really been fair to herself lier self in sacrificing so much tor for tier her child tile the car pulled up with a jerk she bhe alighted quickly and made tier lier way toward Har wells suddenly she stopped short A sign overheat overhead c abight lier her eyo eye bo be fair to yourself buy your willi millinery nery at madani audam courtl aus then tier her gaze traveled to the window with its array ot of tempting millinery and as she gazed tier breath began to como come quickly her hinds to teo open and close with nervous twitching movements for a little hat fiat in it 0 dull shade of blue caught tier her eye she was as gazing at it fascinated for LIE as the dim in outshines out shIn shines s the stars stam so to ellen lid did particular lint hat eclipse nil 1111 tile others in the window somehow it seemed fie C m ed to tier her at that moment as it if she had been wanting a like gill all tier her life tile the little pink ros rosebuds that nestled around the crown seemed to call and beckon to her and almost before she realized what sho she was doing she was inside the store and ak asking to see tho the lint the saleslady with all the art that was hers placed it with a skillful touch on ellens licad head and as ellen looked in the great mirror she saw a face that was hushed flushed to a rose pink with excitement and above it the lie much wanted liat aliat which clemed to be n very part of herself so BO thoroughly it was she wanted the lint so bad bladl I 1 the soft lovely colors brought out all the charm i qt her ber fifer icly loneliness and she thought though how flow in much ch mai would like to see lier her as she looked know now the thought of tier her husband tb 1 brought abrought another thought to 11 her or too perhaps all those these years while they had boon been leing lina and skimping lie too i had wished for and wanted many things lings ti surely ho he must havel have I 1 not perli perhaps tips things like women cared for but other luxure lux url that many of arlanda had she ro re how longingly lie he had often 1 li oward the golf hillis wallac what it big bl tiling thing it would be it christmas would bring him blin the things necessary to play the ganie game the city maintained a free curse course not far from their home and it if she wanted so badly to spend twenty domars for a lint hat surely john who nho was seeing and hearing licar lne things every day clay must often have wanted something pretty badly too she thought now how wonderful lie had always been ne never ver a word of complaint but cheery and happy she rea realized lizea now n fooling feeling tit nt tier heart beart that hat she had not been fair to hini him sho she hail had riven given their child more than tier her share sham of the little tiley they had bad dut but from now on thing bilings werl hrire gaeng go ang to bo be different john must have tile tho best dotty betty lind many years ahead to enjoy things lings ti and besides she realized now it did not take expensive gifts to please children with hands that trembled ellen rea reached chef up and took tile tho hat from tier her henl head and not daring to look at it again hurriedly left tho the store that christmas christinas v aas a very ba liappa appy one for tho the warners for although hetty icetty did not get the big loll doll sh she seemed jut jul as pleased ond and happy as a child could well bo be and ellon ellen felt a n now new glow at tier lier heart when she presented john with his christinas gift for lie was as jubilant JublIn nt ns as a boy about it her sacrifice sac had bad been indeed worth what did a becoming hat matter when put beside the happiness she felt just now but the good Christ christmas fairy must have live been watching nil all for tin an hour later inter johns boss called up tip to wish him a merry christmas and to tell him blin hut olt old man jinson wits was going to resign and that john would have ills his place A wonderful christmas sur ariso it 11 was for it meant an extra five hundred undred li a year to the warners I 1 which made it probable that ellen got tier her much wanted lint hat after nil all Q 1925 western newspaper paper union |