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Show How the Janitor Enjoyed His Christmas "les; tbe other night when I asaed him where he was going to have Christmas dinner, he said. 'No place boney; I ain't got no mo' bome dan a alley-cat I' and so I told blm to come here. I forgot to tell yon." Mrs. Barrows, who could always rise to a social emergency, smothered her Irritation, and hurried to the kitchen and when the glorified Caesar In well brushed suit, shining shoes an-1 rt4 necktie was ushered Into the dining din-ing room be found small, well an- pointed table set for blm In one cor oer. "DIs suoh Is great doln'sl" be ex claimed; and throughout the meal he kept up a stream of jukes and rem Inlscences which set the family at the hip table first Into chuckles and then roars. When the dessert was finished. Hob erf asked Muhel to bring his hnnjn down from his mom. and for nn hour he played and sung college son ni negro spirituals, while Caew.r tlilmed In with bis rich baritone until the room rang wltb melody and har mony, too, of many more kinds than one. When the plaintive strains of "Going "Go-ing Home" were ended, Caesar said: "Wal, I nevah did byab dat tune befo'. but It seems lak I knowed bow to sing It jes' by Intermission, as day say. Ah reckon dut tune Is a purty R(md one to go home on an' I've bothered you alls long enough any way." X'xt'Xmm'xmX'Xtx'xm "So bother 1" exclaimed Mr. Barrows Bar-rows heartily. "Tou've done ns all a lot of good." "Yes," said Mrs. Barrows, "you've cheered as all up Immensely." "Hyaht flyahl" came the rU-b negro ne-gro chuckle, "Ah reckon you all don' need much cheerin' np. Tou'i a tulghty cheereome famly." And Caesar departed, leaving echoes of laughter and song. Myrtle Soon Cherryman. t& Hit Weatmi Ntwimim Dnloo.1 THE Barrows family was having a gloomy Christmas. Mrs. Barrows. : depressed by recent misfortune, made v little effort to enliven the atmosphere ' and Mr. Barrows, resenting her gloom became gloomy himself. Robert. home from college for Tacatlon. was t ' blue he,r:8!)e a sprained ankle kept So It was only ten-year-old Mabel who was In tune, and even she felt rather wistful as she looked out on the snowy street. Suddenly, she gave a startled exclamation: "Oh, mother I Here comes Caertnr! I forgot to tell you I'd Invited blm to dinner 1" "Caesar I The colored Janitor at tbe churcb?" cried Mrs. Barrows. |