Show i l d i 1 Fe i lJ MARGARET RGARET 1 J te CV a t BRUCE B sl t J HERE BEnE is one jaunt I hope hop never to deprive mj my youngsters of said a 8 dI business man the other o 0 day and lIand that Is the tIle an aa annual nual trip to the woods after Christmas greens for the house Every year since we were married my wife and I have bundled ourselves up in warm togs and gone out a n day or two before Christmas and gathered I f armfuls of spruce and hemlock branches sprays of ot ground pine and occasionally some mistletoe though this is rare in our part of the conn conn- f tr try After ClAfter the children came this excursion excursion ex ex- I in into to the tho woods became of as much a part of Christmas as the tree tr the stockings and the dinner When W we were living out in the suburbS suburb near the tile open woods we use used to go out and chop down our own owa Christ Christ- mas alas tree and bring brin to It home bome on a low 4 I sledge Then the time came when we had bad to move into town because of my d p I i tit It having g a good deal of night work andr 1 It took too ion long g to get bet g way may out InN b the tho night night- country late at a 1 couldn't bring home our own was tree any more of course but vve tra l Z could and did take a whole day t i igo go out ou t and b band get our Christmas greens H If the and we the do it every year weather Is open and there isn't and 4 much snow we take tile the car t drive out to the tho woods If there is a great deal of and It is Impossible to take the out we go so ou on the train to a con c J and 4 i w off re country station get l cu f tramp through the woods and our Christmas decorations we have too large a load to take tat ks the tho coach I find that the baa l car will bring g it in f for ra a dollar of Christie or so The Tho spirit oad comes back with us from the w. w t tand and the tho twining of our own greens b noI to wreaths and festoons means a j tired Bred times more than If we e ethem them out of a wooden packing box the tho florists Copyright t |