Show ma alum e ma FOSTER hurried KENNETH K through the crowded streets everybody looked so happy so BO eager so good natured lie he boudet wondered why he be felt so do out of tune with them all for although kenneth was on his way to buy christmas gifts and had money to buy something for everyone he feel the least bit thrilled and excited in fact he be felt that the thing was going to be a chore something to ta get over oter with as quickly its as possible As he pushed his way through the crowded aisles he looked disgustedly at people reaching out for gee ge gaws as he called them nothing like that for him he was going to buy useful practical things an and d he was going to see that they were made for f 0 w wear er and service no one had w any b business I 1 throwing money away on frivolities kenneth said to himself with all the wisdom of his 0 20 0 years from counter to counter he went he wanted to compare values to get the best price on everything he bought ue was going to do his christmas shopping in ID a sensible way the way it really ought to be done i passing through the art department his bis eyes fell on a beautiful piece of pottery unconsciously he stopped and his hl eye fell on a beautiful piece of pottery admired its exquisite art A sudden thought flashed through his mind mother love something like this she get a thrill ou out J of showing it to her friends quickly his resolution to buy nothing but practical gifts vanished into thin air he would buy the for mother for the rest of the family and others he would get the gifts he bad planned but mother must have something to bring that light into her eyes that he loved to see tie he was quite sure this lovely pottery would turn the trick he could almost hear her say oh ob kenneth ive wanted something like this all my liter life the purchase thrilled him with a strange satisfaction ile he knew that be have got the same joy out or of buying something urd ordinary Inary ile he going to sneer any more at people buying gee gaws christmas seemed to call for something different there should be practical gifts too no christmas tree was complete without handkerchiefs sweaters hose and gloves and such things but th there ere should be other things lings ti too llan alan did not live by bread alone kenneth was ivas finding dading out other things were it necessary ec essary too suddenly his face broke into a grin the very thing lie he would do he would buy every last one of the ra family m 1 ly something practical but he would al also s 0 buy them so something methin that he felt they would love to have some bit of beauty or frivolity that they would not lot otherwise get the money that lie he was spending had bad come to him in a letter from his grandfather a few days before buy christmas gifts for the family with this the old man had bad written it Is quite a sum tor for a young fellow to spend alone but I 1 am sure that you will do it wisely and I 1 want your report of wit what at you bought after the holidays are over kenneth had bad felt sure that tits his grandfather grund rather would want him to buy sensible things but now flow he be felt differently ferent ly something inside of him seemed to say that the way be was going to spend the money now was ex acely as his grand grandfather rather wanted him to what a letter he would have to write surely he be could put pill all the newfound joy that he be was into every line for now kenneth was really in tune ith the spirit of christmas christinas there was not a shopper on the streets as happy as he be was every counter seemed to nave aken on new interest shopping was really a pleasure the biggest thrill that he had known in it a long time he hurried to the book counter jane was going to have those leather bound volumes of essays essay that she load had wanted for so BO long and gimmle gimmle was going to get th that at motion picture machine machina he had been talking about uee lice he be could see Jimm jimalea lea race face on carl s t was morning he be get a ahr thrill out of showing the thing to his friends and dad vell nell dad was going to get a new set of golf clauhs a brand new bag baik of drivers mashl mil shies ps arid and put putters I 1 anil and was going to get a letter about the shopping trip and its re results stilts that would lift him right out of Ms bla V western union |