Show Grandmother Compares Present With Lon Long Ago AgoNY VENNY NY and her great grandmother J 3 were having in Ht a R little chat while th they waited for lor the announcement from the maid that Christmas dinner was r ready ad Grandma Smith had been heen born bornand bornand and reared In the South She was spending the holidays s with her tIn daughter dough daugh ugh ugh- ter in the North Grandmother was wasla la In her carl early nineties but hut a n remarkable woman for her a ape age e Tall rail erect spry s she c would never grow brow old mentally for forshe forshe forshe she was too progressive e In her per thinkIng think think- ing Jenn Jenny an I looked around the house just now I 1 couldn't help but realize what a difference a generation or two h has B made In our mode of ln ll living I couldn't keep I from comparing this day and home with a Christmas Day and home I knew long ago You know kl ow Jenny Andrew and I were married murrle on onore ore one Christmas years ears ago Andrew built a n little cabin on a plot of ground he owned It was perched up on a hill I thought ht It was the loveliest most beautiful cabin ever built In the whole world And it was It was the thelast thelast thelast last word In crY cozy h home me architecture of or the times Im Inside ide it had hud a dirt floor and a few pieces of ot hickory furniture which Andrew had made I wove all the linens and other cloth which we used We were so happy happ We e had a abIt abig abl bl bIt big home wedding One of my ray weddin wedding wedding wed wed- din ding presents was a tin cup That cup was a u prized possession much talked about and envied b by my neighbors Sometimes I wonder we lived so simply sim sim- lm- lm ply ply and and happily happily and and and now how complex complex com COlD COlDI I plex are arc The dinner gong boomed forth a n a welcome welcome welcome wel wel- come sound The family gathered and and with jp joyful ful hurried hurrle In to the festively el arranged Christmas dinner dinner din din- ner Ier table El Eleanor Eleanor anor E E. King ICing 19 1925 5 Western ester Newspaper Union What Vhal this country needs is to get by just one Christmas without an anoil anoil oil scandal I |