Show THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS 9 it is ia the week before Christ christmas mag I 1 he center of american thought is ii arit ant now s far away but is centered in each american home it glows about father and mother and brother and sister and shines with brighter radiance for love the very air h N surcharged with kindness to others othera all the thoughts of this week will be about what mary will be most moat pleased with and how happy mother will be when she sees that nice but telling and half the pleasure comes from the concealment half the good of giving comes from keep ing the left hand from knowing what the right hand is doing nobody doubts the pleasure of christmas morning but the pleasure of the week before is just as intense and is longer drawn out the morning of christmas day is rich in its reverence and smiles but the week before christmas Chiist mas is educational to the soul and heart the heart begins to spout at thanksgiving and it swells until thi tha week before christmas wm wib i it is n rally raila to birst bint ait oit into full bloom from the accumulated sap of human kindness by which it has been fed the week before christmas has never had its dues the brightest week before christmas that ever happened was some twenty or fifty years ago itis it is tedious to count dates you remember about it you were a little thing but you never in ili after life were quite so important to your self there were whisperings which ceased when you entered the tha room and whan you woke up about midnight you found the lamp still burning and lour mother still up and working on somi sonin thins hing that she sha pats under the elair wan ahn yoa turned ovir in bil ane old turkey gobbler in his pen to his hii form tr ir associate on ta o it wu wai gibb gibblin linz leally alldis long lon si le ie eating corn with a glud my nv which was to bring its own recompense you found out for the first time that the bi business siness world had been working overtime all year ea especially specially ally to stock up on christmas girts fitts for boys and girls you had your 0 own n gifts from the others hidden bidden where one of poes foes wonderful detectives could not have found them in the middle of a woodpile or hung down the unused stock well in the field there is never a week before christmas to equal those that came then |