Show Merry Christmas the Big Policeman's Wish HE big policeman standing In Inthe inthe the middle of ot the road there where two streets ts cross Isn't Just a part of the street furniture furniture furni furni- ture like Uke the hydrant or the I I bridge of course but I had seen him there so gO many times tr a day week Irr hr week out season In season out I haul hadi I quite forgotten that he was humanlike human humanlike like Uke myself perhaps s a little more tired but perhaps a little happier But I woke up on Christmas day last year to his hie reality as a human being I 1 was crossing the street with avery n a very gloomy heart Everything with my life Ufe seemed to have hove gone wrong and the crisis had been reached this Christmas day My eyes were wele down down- downcast downcast cast at nt the dirty slushy snow underfoot underfoot underfoot under under- foot and I 1 gave a 8 glance at no one Then suddenly out of ot the sky out of ot the nowhere came a n voiced deep hopeful Merry Christmas s I Yes there was the big policeman merry me and as though he meant It too In my surprise I gave It back heartily Merry Christmas yourself And with that cheerful spoken word bur bursting automatically from my surprIsed surprised surprised sur sur- lips the day changed There was a miracle for tor you I Not out of ot the New Testament but out of ot today this day of ot policeman and hydrants hydrants- and the Christmas spirit On the opposite opposite op op- curb I met happiness face tace to face tace In what form It came does not matter That is my hearts heart's secret But It came camel I And this 1 I know it would could not have come com or coming I would oud have surely missed It It had Inot I T not lifted my eyes to return the big policeman's M Merry rry Christmas and aud had not the surprised smile slOne stayed with me until I reached that curb The policeman this Christmas Is to tome tome tome me a symbol Never again will he be part of ot the street Ethel furniture Ethel Cook Eliot 1922 Western Newspaper Union l I t G s THE KIND KINDLY LY STAR r r HE little boy was afraid of ot p J the dark but as he looked 5 out through the low window g upon tho the panes of ot which Mr c Frost was making his pictures S She he saw a bright star that was vas aa winking at him with a most friendly and assuring light It fe 1 shone through his tears and L m seemed to say soy that It would 1 I 1 watch over his sleep So he shut J j Ll v his eyes and stilling his sobs fc the better to hear the carol singers sing- sing g ers era across the street was safely ft g away to slumber and ond a a. dream yf The dream lady looked like his K mother all dressed In a robe that K glistened and sparkled like snow 3 E and she ahe was bringing him the I h hope of ot his heart the sled that v 9 was to take take- him eo so delightfully y u down the hill hUl And when he woke so earl early on Christmas It 2 morning he found that his dream dreams i s had come true Christopher true Christopher G. G Hazard t 1 Tr 1921 1123 Western Newspaper Union t r tl f UI 11 t 21 JI 11 I l I C |