Show fa T WAS foolish to waste time and I 1 IT material making them john carlson told his mother when she said she would like to make some gingerbread dolls for the christmas display in the window of his bakery no one was interested in such things any more yes he was a very good son to her he had given her a good home she had nothing to worry her now no responsibility but she would enjoy making the dolls that seem like work she would furnish the materials and make chemin them in her own kitchen of course if she wanted to make them she could john said that he was wrong john had to admit we have never had so much interest shown in the window display and never sold more than we have since we put those gingerbread dolls in the window john told a customer who had returned for a second purchase of dolls huldo hulda carlson had made not one type of doll but different ones and grouped them into families her idea of grouping them into families is new what attracted attention 1 the customer said when john told his mother this she smiled it was the love and happy thoughts glad memories mw W 6 i fitl 2 I 1 what attracted attention the customer said which went into the making that was the cause she told herself her children had loved the sweet bits she had made for them at christmas her children and grandchildren had outgrown such pleasures but there others who would enjoy those things there proved to be m many any and what joy it had brought her no profit in money but large dividends in j joy oy real christmas joy that of serving and giving happiness 0 western newspaper union AS LS A |