Show I IThe IThe The Christmas Spirit I It Can Never Be Cheap HE worked orkell In what was ns considered SHE L a second-rate second store In a big city To her though the store tore was n a beautiful beautiful ful one And when It was decorated at Christmas time with Its tinsel and gay gar Christmas touches she thought It the most beautiful place on earth She loved the Jewelry that was sold there Sometimes she would hold abit a n bit of cardboard from which hun hung a n cheap earring to her ear and would think that when she site got her pay the following week she might buy a u pair The They were certainly becoming and would be more moro so when hen off the card card- board How ITow crowded the store became around Christmas time The people would look and admire and buy She would be so busy It was wa splendid to tobe tobe tobe be busy and even to he be tired with th the Christmas rush There was something so 50 stimulating about the Christmas rush There were several floor walkers Inthe In Inthe Inthe the store store-m store an extra one was added for forthe forthe forthe the Christmas season True their presence was not so magnificent as the floor walkers In the great expensive sive e stores but hut the they were grand to her And ste she loved to sa say with a beautiful manner Just n a moment madame I will call the floor walker And then this Christmas greater than A happiness ever er came to her most wonderful floor walker came asan as asan asan an extra but hut they said he would betaken be betaken betaken taken on for good good he he was such a capable man And she took him on for good For hadn't the they fallen In love lo lovei with i each other at once Oh to some thi thu store might seem cheap the people In It might seem funny runny imitations of the people who ho belonged to the very expensive stores stoles But there was glorious Christmas happiness hap hap- In that store For It radiated the Christmas spirit And the Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas spirit can cnn never ne be cheap Mary I-Mary lar Mary Graham Benner n 1926 1925 Western Newspaper Union 1 lT dr I fili I 1 I |