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Show 'Truth Absolute" the slogan of tile newest educational systems make it pretty hard sledding for ohl Santa C I. ins these days. The Blood goods have waxed very sentimental otr the holidays and aie trying to stage a real old-fashioned Christmas, only to find I, ' the chief actors in the farce entirely disillusioned disillu-sioned and quite unresponsive. unre-sponsive. In facl Stanford and Eloise arc quite openly disgusted dis-gusted with iheir parent par-ent for such childish- I I - Father gets .1 mysterious present from a busineJ friend. It certainly is just about the si.e it should t it it is what he hopes it is. And its weight is jui about right too, and. ves, by ffollv, it GURGLES Well. ell. well. B at the Par window on Chri Eve. The lady with the f ragile package tied with I some old darning wool, who expects it to reach ! Los Angeles b to-morrow morning. After she j leaves the window she will still have the package 1 and also quite a lot of not nice things to say of the I Postal Service and the absolutely insulting pcr- sons in its employ. 1 1 : Aunt Tobiathu's presents are always ribly out of the ordinary. In fct. Aunt Tobiatha is awfully clever at such things-. And this year .she has absolutely outdone herself She is Panting each, member of the family with a hand embroidered swatter. ' s The playful Uncle, who insists on trying out all the toys while Jfi they are being arranged. But as toys nowadays are only sup- a Jaf posed to hist until they find a purchaser, he usually ends up by g putting some mechanical contrivance on the bum just when all I the stores arc closed and it can't be replaced. fc: m-jh "Trouble with women is that they have no system leave Ujp everything for the last minute--know what I mean?, And"" then they have to fly around,'' etc., etc. And now we show a little glimpse of the stores on Christmas Eve with thesi same advocates of "ystcm" frantically pawing over the depleted stocks and carryina home their own bundles to bit ujtthe rest of the night getting thcrn ready to send. AMONG US MORTALS I "TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS" j V By RICHARD VINCENT OXTER. I "jpyciKiii, lift, n" v. THbunt Inc. H 'trad.' mart IUk n lli B. I'tunl urad BJJJJ " 1 ' ""i . 1 1 -" !,:...M. , 1 J-J U ' ' f . JU I j I The usual family pow-wow pow-wow over maiden Aunt Kathcnnc's present for two-year-old Junior. Last year it was only, a sailboat with nice javelinesquc masts and spars, but this year her homicidal generosity has taken the form of a fine razor edge tool i kit which even father is I afraid to handle. I "It's from Julia, and she just did it to embarrass em-barrass me the cat.' The last minute present from the friend who wasn't going to give presents to anybody outside the familv and made you promise to make it just a card this year. After the trcc has at hist condescended to stand upright, and the burnt out bulb has at last been traced fl so tint they -ill h-ht. and the ast lost-wire in the ornaments has I , n replaced with a hair pin, and the st n ladder has had its last collapse, and the tired crew, can at last consider opening a bottle of homo ! brew to contemplate their latere loo out-that's when the whole she-bang usually topples. i H I HUSH MiM UBIIIH 1H 1 |