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Show JUST FOLKS I j CU3PICIOUS 1 Something qnir Li goln" on 1 don't un derRtand at all. Last nljjlit. when my pa bams honi there was whlsperln" In the hall. An' my mother said to me: "Yon jus stay riiit where you are' Ki s,P away u liule while don't K" Pes terln' your pa." An' Kiev hustled op the stairs, an' peeked nround the door. An' I thought l navv n rlrum just lik I've been askln' for. Usually when ra comes liomo he Is glac to eo me 'round An' hs wants me at tho door now hi never makes a sound Hut eomes sneakln' In the house an' mi follows him upstairs. An I m sure they're hidln' things underneath under-neath lh' beils Jin' elialrs. Coz one flay 1 peeked 1 did an' I saw one parcel that Looked to me as though it wux xactly like a baseball bat WMi i understood it all pa says there's a Santa l'Iuuh, An" I'm sun- there must bo one, but it puzzles me beeuuse Pa seems different Just now an' not like he used to be. Every night when he comes home he just seems afraid me' Mothers tells me not to is 'k. Lait I pecked at hint lust night An' he had ni unfile whieh wus a coaster -led all right T ain't certain Ftire. of course, hut our chimney seems so small I'll Just i" t that Santa Claus couiin t get down at all. An' It's queer that pa should be so afraid o' me at night That he waits outside until he Is sure I'm out o' sight. Now I'll toll you something else, but you f Dr. Janies L Vance : 1 The dally papers have carried a n. WS Item recently of some boys who were playing hall In the street, "and bad lie k sent the ball down a chimnev. The bovs climbed to the roof and went down th chimney after the I all. They got BtUCk and stayed there I hours before their plight was discovered and they were rescued. That Is how muCh :i boy loves a ball That kind ef devotion Is propgefti of the heroic m manhood. A Ikj.v who loves his lnll well enough to risk his neck tO find It has In hup the making of a man who will adventure life for a cause that cap- 1 tuns his allegiance, The hall Is a boy's tail from the wild it is his summons to endeavor it v m I elVlllBS Mm more fiuleklv than a rod j which means that play iR a Mner met hi I ! Of training a chilrl than punishment Th.re i.- always somethtni, ..f the hSlv- I I age In a real boy. An man who line I been n healthy normal, obstreperous bt.v has not fori-.. .iten his barbaric irnii- ?. , iegan to assemble himself On the bafl field. There he had to recognise an-thorlty an-thorlty ami flo team work and praotlec .self-coriirol It Is hard to explain this pa n fr,r a hi tie round lump of something we call a ball But what a gun Is p. soldier I B tool to a workman, brUSh md cOHvaiil Let thai the boys of the town Build a churci,. U but don forget the ball field, it is a fH I calls : lay" ba'i r" 011(1 wh'n the um,)1- eaBsasV |