| Show marthas christmas by alice B palmer liMU lUCS of tile the long ago kept ringing like in the ears of dear old aunt martha as slie she sat alone in her favorite window seat by the side of some old fash cloned geraniums and pondered the tact fact of its being christmas eve she looked outside beyond the icicles which hung like grini grim sentinels toward the snow coated trees and heavy drifts heaped high by the wayside and she was reminded of the beautiful story of snowbound but in that home ir ji there had bad been people people and people gentle and boisterous voices everywhere this ill never do suddenly spoke martha graham rousing herself and trying to shake off of the haunting memories 1 I must prepare tor for a joyous merry christmas just as if those people were really here with iab a spirit of youthfulness beyond ordinary endurance aunt martha dashed ard every libre of tier being enriched by the christmas spirit the next moment she was busily engaged in preparation of 0 all the hollday holiday delicacies which she thought these people would like soon delicious odors of sizzling doughnuts and soft sour milk cookies such allot as only aunt martha could make were in evidence when all was completed together with a pitcher of steaming hot chocolate aunt martha sat down and realized that there were no people to partake t ie of her carefully prepared delicacies with a start she realized reali sed that she heard voices real voices not visionary ones hut but loud wild ild shouts coming from k she could scarcely see through the blinding snowstorm now she actually heard footsteps footstep sl 1 it must he be true aniel thought aunt martha as she threw open the door sure enough there they were her tm im in luary snowbound people for whom she rhe hid had heon been preparing the yuletide Yule tlde resist feast twits the joyous carol singers ringers they lind had lp lenine nine lost in the snowstorm and mele ne frozen collep ill iii come ome in cried dear old augat hirtha thin followed such a welcome anti ami as ag they had never rilei acht hiawtha hi martha artha their hostess host ss sit at the head bead of the table ling ing and passing her christma ales and pouring out the sn stes lint chocolate she secretly I n 4 joleen us its site she accepted the carol singers els us As kill an answer to her loving thought of 0 demee on christmas eve 0 newspaper Nw union MINING allig LO CAnON NOTICES tor for salo sale at times office |
