Show a journea bourne A ame lofv for grown VPS mary graham IF t L doii donneta clr had no 11 children at ch christmas ri thoms time she ahe up especially 1 to feel th the a need d or f I 1 ilam I 1 it seemed bf as though kit ev every cry time lime she turned arn around d she should see I a do daughter or a son uku or a small chubby child of tier her 0 own oc one of those a 0 ale bad tire dreamed 1 of and ad dr nha b had ad neer el ar stepped outside entente of her dreams ghelf lost les sa s1 eclie a gertrude ude harding was wo a b born to maiher other to whom he on nn children led had b been 1 be born but ill this year she ile told find forgo tor sota so bething most important to be done and it atna a only several dais before christmas christiana she went down tow town mod h her or pu pur chase after quite a dd aday U so II 11 left f t ahe be shop hop 0 were thare small fl children tit let r faces close against the window ando pane able ill their 11 eye eyes gle gleaming boil small ill cla alq imme bodies tense and ad with emotion aw RG ne look at it stop step s 1 the sta t joe I 1 there on altes off ff ifie V I 1 k DOW I 1 no she 1 t she 9 tack lack on again ahe in second c hild child w wa readi a sign chev sala tint I 1 in ID this here shop thor ll it a the land A lie the it decline of children come true 1 D vf ve suppose alv ineys giddin ilia tar tard child a little girl who alid was cu ing what once had bad been a doll was nas looking at one in the shop a window olf if I 1 could jes touch her hair she h U old voa IOU ill 0 to go 1 da ill tle imp 7 gertrude harding asked the children they looked at her bar abruptly DY mean it and through the shop hop straight to the he children a department she ahe took a 0 hem it waa ans a revelation to her to realize th the J joy oy ill that t was do derived baethe by we a children III d r on train from the intimate contact act with toys they knew they could never neve a own I 1 hey it baca a t go gone in a inside one of the big she shops P and ad h had ad hem been treated as well wall as anybody abod iliev had 1 not I been laid the they had ad looked to their hearts heart s COD can tent car it its true what thesis chev s sold said the children agreed abtey at toward ward iu in I 1 there one it it Is the land all right where children a dreams come true for far the reality ot of F fairyland hod had be been expressed by the marvelous marv clous and magical tors love and games and ad gay decorations of the he Cl utta hop if ff gertrude harddng told old h asole afterward f the thew children had so 0 o loved a trip into tile the of a children a hop were there not others mio he would tile like to journey forth irto bout the world of 0 m tov tons too slip she thought it over and did not top atop there she rang as UP a certain number ame and asked for tile the matron you ie 0 ill the matron U of th the 1 children ilonen a 9 cpr ho attal or aren I 1 toul well I 1 won do red if an adv of our I 1 children bi clr would attire to go eo with me demir tomorrow to and Is talo a trip through if the children hildrie I 1 I 1 the taci re re most at filed up this afar our and ad acme e of thim have a goal santa claus and ad ninny any 1 nalter I olvas 1 sn go gonrich linking called for far ill the hildren arc there e 15 who were ha sers eg ll 11 1 ie R to go and 0 of f eliat I 1 15 I 1 I 1 the he majority ly mere acm lember such a an abon afternoon as gertrude cl arding hart ad and such ill nn an afternoon a the bad those thop in the shops seemed especial majal ly n I 1 0 lo 10 o do 11 what they it could d in for lao oblie th the e children hi b n nho were r so 0 obviously busly avem vem a hem home or h hospital hoi pital tile the lev lial 1001 li al toys orem even beefed to ant of I 1 more re tile into alk role fr performances gr ger trude harddng thought As they were avre coming home sacral little bonds bands found their way vas into both of gertrude bonds 0 on clathon cla dun thod lied a little ve finger r another had bad hold of her thumb so a I 1 it I 1 went ent mis alls one of them let a pro pretend land were vars nil all alldren hll dren fr from a kin and that vou em re our to teach h or flon lit 11 tina were a m rm a hp h p eha 1 w I 1 lef that tant she an we tanin I 1 I it or how hall gouid old 11 ll do lo in prout it ahai he I 1 I 1 A ii II 11 your I 1 mother and alm ou all 11 my children hit it r on would uld you yoo hooi honest would you yo ki pretend he ha one no bk aked ad and iha be ott em looked a 1 her r eber 7 bop I 1 Is hop wils I 1 ing hoping oe he woold not r rt f fuw thal would be tile lie host apai pretend if ift 11 she be at ai them so 0 o laev pretended ard and so 0 ill ihly ey ent back very happi Y from their h r aps shopping trip thice is 01 ol ahe he took look the hem on n the ahe dav I 1 fare etore christmas it was hard ell gottig through the lie crowd crowds but bui it w was as arih h every Y extort 1 in on one of the it shops hop a gayly biord m led tile the children in a Ps spin ion 0 once a in a while lie he turned and ad nt at them RS as to say M 0 know knew what to fun all 11 this la 13 ilon do I 1 W cl we were to 1 in the secret of the th to lun 1 childr n 11 can bae be a or at christ ch blat ewt it liue met U the grew grownups I 1 up k know a nothing of 11 they moat let just juit let ua go s long along and share her our secret together eh all 7 and ben the cloan belt beat upon dpn his ha drum tit unit tile the children all 11 in archd behind when b in a magnificent sao santa clim claux 8 asked led theor the children dran to sing with him film and n d tile the volca voices of the Inet hospital pital dill children dren sang out it with the ile rest real gertrude hard ing felt herself swelling with pride la later v when santa T clans I 1 5 7 perc elied a 1 thet ill that at one no e of the hospital 1 p I 1 tat c 1 1 adien had hu it an unusually 1 lovely IY voll he asked h him rn to in sing ing am alone and there them in ilia snap he be bang song bang with tile the thrill of ivinno happiness hap 1 that a bird sings m w with fth who when fit fi t Is he feels 1 11 11 tha warmth and sweet at frig muce of the spring he had nver inver bein I 1 ached rod to 19 b before hallad re like 1 I this in a big shop hop what where people a pie were and where her people listened to him not at because he was being vl visited in a and ad amt do his part 1 to entertain the ile visitors 4 but bill because somehow or other they liked hla his voice it rang rane out true and strong he shifted the crutch n bib he be bad never mell been without and which he would a never P r be without to the end of his hia days a and u it it thin he naked led to sing an 11 encore HIB race foce was flu flushed tied with the plea pleat hooli ure of redoing dolog something which we was liked in this big otylda world rid Us de looked led at seats santa clang U mod and hearted beamed he had bad already bung a popular song which rich he had 1 learned amil from the squeaking talking machine which someone Boni eona had bad ghea ill the e hospital abon it sel no longer fit at fo for r the home anil and now he ha than thought he would sing something bet per somehow he felt it ft would to bo proper and vaguely perhaps he felt it would show a gratitude for christmas that went deeper almly he be thought these things someone lied ill them a bin tn the hospital a ban which he bal had always ened oil it made tie one I 1 feel fee better at to stronger h a somehow an how it was a very 91 glorious Iu by hymn be had bad atam wars I 1 thought mahr and be sang earn it do upon the Is irish elt clear that oarl of 1 old from e angele mpa bending moda near 11 the larih earth ahu to touch to their harps of if sold poem pence on I 1 the earth in rood d IL rill 1 to men fron from heaven e on all era cd c cloua ot alk hang a the A world 1 in clemn 1 ilia lay or to lier in the 0 angels O ing right to 10 the end of tit alie by hymn tie be komg eang and the people thanked him and so santa tit claus clans told him it ft ha had been lovely and ad gave him a man ilk like 1 lap p on ile ehe back gertrude harddng id had felt a lump 11 P in tier her throat threat anil and had smiled with fib ri ees that BID were misty no the angels did bedd near the earth even een in these dava and even em over hospitals where crippled a and it children bere rere iduas it wai the humans not the angels who he for forgot got and who wool went through life not at thinking I 1 back to the hospital she took tho the child children late a t 1 late to that afternoon the hospital was sea 1 in semi mi dar darkness bIles chil 11 their day of dreamed of Plea pleasure ure dren d r who a had been 0 I 1 I 1 too recently r c oily op O U lop eted aerated up upon or who b coald mal d not leava their he beds go sat I 1 up as best they could to hear bear of the news of the outside world little whiteclay white clad figures listened to the glow ing accounts brought to them 0 1 ile great lifa if which bich went 0 on beyond tile ward and tor for ever every little child who had bad to a stay IQ in the hospital gertrude hard ang as had brought a small present ool only a twitting tiit ting one but a remembrance flu troia the gr great world rid then the the hotl hp tl aulet arvi which bid beba bee liffe for a tew kew minutes afir afur the ones who he had been out so late had bad tome dole back 1 in order again go id anil there tto no i silence in the ilia word ward OR and d there would ouli come com sleep ithen she he got home that evening tired bu but very Y very happy she said I 1 to horse herself ian it re are be born mothers the yi y yes I and the a are late born children 1111 tool t a children alto io need deed to he be loved as aa much us na bunion who be need to love lov and tilloah Is a difference between of one tie a very own and ad thas atio he me aie not at it seems be afi 4 though I 1 DO ott on falio ho p li H boru born mother should stun iliJ go uli life walking blindly by the amly balb leva children for far every ery childless mod mother er there I 1 a others other ls to choro hem one can ghe some me of the oe loe and interest and tile the pride which would otherwise go to waste in her sleep she seemed to hear bear the christmas carol caral which the hospital led lad had bad sung g and ad she be kow kali ft hat had been revealed reven led ad 1 to ber beshe bad t traveled bod min into the lead land of children at christmas christ ti aline in a a and ad had bad smiled the smile that but em can be etien bee one gets geta a took looft at the heart of a c child itald I 1 ug 1310 jsn valor 1 |