Show It I Happy I e I New Year I LUCIUS COOK I J c T WAS un an lit tie the or town so It t t e young I h Hendell cold i the most cheerless place lIil earth to spend fir the r p 1 holiday season lIe w i there on business for hL hC firm Christmas land R been grand grund fiasco as fur far li It I ms f was concerned lie He hall m I relatives mIl and he I knew V one about whom he art enough to send even n a eul eulIt ca l It was New Years Year's r Ece E Iah In II l afternoon lie he left the one hot lintel 1 time town could boast boust about and dI and walk walked ed do down t tin time main street h t f was not that t r a one loneliness must hil have II u t. t friend to experience that was Just bored All that time l II meant to him were rI a r wreaths und rind strings i of holly mt ht h concealing wholly holl u ugly ly 1 t tand and time tile per perfunctory HerrS lell 1 t mas or Happy slew 1 ear ear- flint r 1 seemed to feel lt It v SOlI i n kIsa kI b sa say to him how could men such silly ss r I They couldn't I P l Jj fir mf mean them Hobert ne never ner r II aged J 1 lIe Ile wandered Into tin nn art ship m 1 attracted out him or of n mr II curiosity rth than a desire to buy There n in m m. m one he wanted to buy huy f- f a bore bOIe life was J As hr be a- a as s t about to leave the shop shoJI the kind a little old man behind till the m 1 JI t called cheerily after s New v Tear turned anti lunk Pat T f fn n t him There was In tl rG d twinkling blue eyes of time old od m 1 I 11 r rIn made hIm wonder and lie In help asking What cnn can theme flo h he that is 19 new The old mans man c et t just twinkled twinkled lie He seer f nl ml n a I R surprised by h the question que lie mIi rc l kept a silence that seemed 41 to 10 hide a athe a the wi wisdom dom In the worl w w I on How can there po possibly hr hI Jt f la happiness for one who is alone in ill U t world 7 The youn young old glue r ef r I twinkled more brightly and th this ti li e the lips spoke One Ora cant he be III alai U i 1 when n God Is his friend vow Now lint Hot t kept silence Then he smiled linn duet t f and went out hut but not Jr the old mans calm voice oice called n i i io o r 11 I r rN l c d I r it The Old Man M n Didn't at All rily after film Year rel- rel had been to a N his fears fear's Eve dance and he returned e his hotel to dress A t. t In the town had urged r y to come and he for i pac reasons rather than from anS' anS dr to mingle with local society It l lut ut the dance that met Rte She Interested at once like business initiative e k booked her for most of the e sl time evening Kr l iron v ti ill I i when nen Hobert HOU l returned u IU t u. u the day after New Years Year's f nr's hI he j t It cn d for COl the first time In Ills hoI t sensation of genuine Ine lon 1 le e I remarkable or of nil all he be felt elt t tai lOt J happy pp In his new sadness for III dd brio 0 always S hud had the vision of II a S e dark laughing eyes eye to cheer his hl 1 t se lInes More l than once III rl the ri t T he found occasion ion to It ItarU tl business trips trip to the tetra 01 tr 1 V d dark clarl tJi ur shelt sheltered red the laughing before another year yar had hac IIII loneliness had turned Into m t eke ked d joy for far lie he hud had the fi PJ 1 rOL In owner owner- of the e eyes 1 k At his own request his hl flag boned him hiltl permanently In f y town which a year 1 ago O eP f the ID most cheerless spot spat on c Id u e Crt fr Robert and Ethel settled own t l' l b 1 cosy comfortable 1 life h hIt It was New Years Year's ite gt it set Robert was S In the little II rt I where the old man with the twin te to d behind Rh hU blue e eyes e still presided II counter This time Robert Mitts Mitts' with definite Intent ile He had or ora or tibia n a frame for Cor one of If elv CW D It tear ar h r graphs Happy New hew de cordially to the little old I I 1 r blue eyes twinkled u said 1 thought there gas as n fur fUr new new- Robert To tolD It was n n a very ery different fro t ski al doubtful one that had curled ni hl tIll Witt the before as he had hIld Left leL year vear fOUNd love 10 th tb tt shop III 1 hadn't i i. i ern t e abo rep replied lied I Ic 8 61 But Bat lo love e Isn't new It t t l dr j oid e ng as ever e y ones one's friend the Oft to L 6 said softly a e to me lug In 10 k new al nut But It was DR I l Robert and nd ns as he left the sling f II I I Il d I 1 II h t hc hu who called d out Cheer II Oot to m I And ht he I New t tear again 0 Qt I I b blue a I Or Ors old mans man's It It The r merrily eve t W v to more mor tf t 1 he a 1 lt avert W V hs c 1144 Yn C t. t t r |