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Show Piute County News, Junction, Utah It Was Christmas From Home Folks Merry Christmas Time Here Again Post Office Employee Takes Time Off1 to Enjoy His Own Package. Every One Is Filled With By ELEANOR E. KING T WAS certainly not an easy job, for there Is no such thing In a post office at Christmas time. But, It kept ones mind Peace to Men of Good Will Spirit ' EDELMAN II III STM AS has come again tho happiest, gladdest, merriest time of whole tho year. Glad bells pal upon the air; holly By KATHERINE Ipr qfod hands occupied. To attend college Is one privilege, but to be able to go home for Christmas Is another. Charles felt It keenly this very moment. lie had the first privilege and was fifteen hundred miles from toe are everywhere and hearth fires glow with a warmer welcome. Every home Is tilled with cheer, every face alight with happiness and every heart is tuned to catch the message of love and peace that Is lhroad. Men and women greet each other with added friendliness; little chiland radiantly dren stand eager-eyeexpectant. All humanity Is filled deep with the desire to give, to serve, to love. A new bond of fellowship Is encircling the world and bringing hearts toduy together; we are all one great, big family, watchful and solicitous about ono anothers welfare. The ties of homo and kindred grow oven more close home. However, mid the rush and tumble of sorting Christmas packages, stacks of letters, and cards, he hardly had time to grieve. The postmaster could not understand how Charles could turn out so much more work than the others. It was all very 6lmple. lie eagerly searched every card, letter, or package to see whether or not It bore his name, hurrying on to the next one. I surely do get great fun out d friendships more dear of this, burst forth Charles. This one is vu-cu- nt was the happiest boy In the (, 1325, Western Newspaper Union.) Saved to Buy Christmas Present for Her Daddy of the four children was THE eldest ten their mother had been ; dead three years. IIow the father had kept such a young family together was a miracle even to him, but with the help of the day nursery, he had managed very well. Bor the third Christmas now the widower tucked the children snugly in bed with a promise to call them at daybreak. Then he tiptoed to his own room. Half an hour later when the house was quiet, Santa Claus entered the tiny kitchen and proceeded to fill the four little stockings hanging In a row behind the stove. Then suddenly he remembered that he had forgotten to bring a present for the father of the house. How disappointed the little ones would be to have their father overlooked like this I Why, they would think hes not been good! But it was too late, now, to get him anything. Nothing could be done. Shortly after the house was quiet once again, the little girl stole into the kitchen and hung a stocking with a package in It near the others. For months she had saved her pennies so that when Christmas came again she would be able to play Santa Claus to How surprised n happy he daddy. will be," she thought, as she crept back to her room. II. Lucius Cook. (, 1925, eyes. The very nir la full of some strange, wonderful force (lint tills us with exhilaration and delight. Youth grows more tolerant of ago and age looks with new understanding Into the eyes of youth. Streets are crowded with happy throngs simps are filled to overflowing with gift seekers. Thousands of Christmas stockings are to be filled thousands of older hearts are to bo made happy because they are remembered. The gospel that It Is moro blessed to give than to receive Is In A evidence everywhere, and Its practice Is bringing rudianee and beauty to every face. Christ mus lias come again Its star Is gleaming In the sky Its magic is The young and the all over the land To Get r.n-- Give Most Christmas Card That old, the gay und the wise have fallen Christmas under Its spell. And every heart is Plaasure Ended His Loneliness the song of the angels the years circumstances had '"pi i ERE is Christinas generosity and singing FOR several echoed over the hills of thit A song Christmas charity. James Wiiigl move from In llie Glory to God Judea long ago But there should always bo Christtown to town so that he seemed to lose on earth peuce, and In the highest almost the entire conned ion with his inas tact. men." will toward good When you are giving to those who past, lie was so occupied with trade 1926. Wontern Nv.vnppr Union.) lie did not note the passing years, nor have in t as much as you hue do n it realize that almost all Ids schoolmates give your presents with condescending It Is Christmas now were married and he a bachelor manner or with u patronizing air. we shall wish a merry In due time . Do not act as though you were of thirty-fiveto Christmas except thoM everybody One Christmas Eve, however, when superior because you could give. Do he returned to an empty hotel room. not attach a cold, haughty speech to who cull it Xmas. It wTas with feelings that In spite of his your gift. Sometimes people can give so that business success, something vital was Chocolate Caramels lacking in his life. Perhaps that was all in glow that comes from the gift Use one pound of brown sugar, ons why he disliked Christmas so. When Is the one they themselves receive befourth pound unsweetened chocolate, business ceased, nothing else remained. cause of their own feeling of having shaved, and cupful of water. In the solitude of his room, he been charitable. Sometimes such a Boil same ns fudge and before removwhich cards the Christmas few can all the real exlract speech opened pleasure ing from fire add a generous lump of still sought him out. Every one lie out of the gift to the one receiving It. butter and one cupful of walnut or one Christmas Is the time for true charscanned he tossed aside, except other nut meats or they may be omitfrom the first girl he had ever ity, for that charity which comes from ted. After It Is poured Into a butkissed. He held It tenderly and read the heart, which loves one's fellow men It In squares before it tered cut pan You faithful dear," and wants to do all that Is possible it many times. liard. gets to bring joy wherever possible. he murmured, and going to the tele' when he could catch as It a Ghe were phone, inquired though pleasure What to Give? a train. He had decided to go home to give not us though you were being one When thinks of what to give an a and see his friends again, and find noble. old friend for to life Christmas, the first conmake Do he if could, not as partner, give though you thought Now what did I give him sideration 11. Lucius Cook. Is, a success. had assume to the by giving you really right last 1923, Western Newspaper Union.) year? a certain attitude of disdain toward 1erhaps that Ls as good a as to open the question of way any those who were somewhat beholden New Years resolutions. to you. If you are more fortunate In worldly White Christinas Trees Santa a Curiosity goods It is your opportunity to have To prepare white Christmas trees the great pleasure that is derived by Jud Tunklns says he wishes there take branches of evergreen of desired giving. There are few greater pleas- were a Santa Claus, because It would size and dip In thick starch to which a ures when you give with the real be such a relief to have a stranger small box of borax has been added and Christmas spirit. drive up to the house and not try to while trees are still damp sprinkle There is Christmas generosity and sell him something. Washington each with artificial snow. The trees Christmas charity. Star. when dry may be placed in pots or But there should always be Christbaskets and the top of earth covered mas tact. Mary Graham Bonner. Coconut Balls with moss. A larger tree may be made 1925, Western Newapaper Union.) Into a saucepan put three cupfuls to glitter with artificial snow by of granulated sugar, add two cupfuls sprinkling it on while the branches are cold water and boll until sugar spins moistened with glue. Tufts of cotton C-'AA 'AvV thread from tip of fork dipped Into it Tand glass icicles may be used for Into this oirup stir n coa trimming. coconut, grated the prepared dry conj conut does not answer the purpose For Golfing Friend IIILL air, the brilliance of ft quite as well take saucepan at once encrusted snow, carols, ever- - Iff from fire and turn contents into bowl For ones golfing friend, a nice gift would be a small score pad in a leather greens and feasting. These conor set saucepan where candy will cool stitute Christmas to the senses. wrist strap. It provides a space for quickly. When cool enough to han- But deep within man there J die make Into balls with the fingers, keeping ones own score, that of ihs some tiling which the brightest ron jn powdered sugar and wrap In opponent, and the number of holes in Is carol itself, cannot, waxed played. paper. a sense of kinship with all the fjj v world, that expands and bios- - ft Test Common Type sums into a spirit of real broth- - ft He has proposed, but does he Jud Tunklns says his lolks a way a erhoud and tills Is Christmas. ;ij love me? off their Christmas arrangements put D. W. Iennypacker. Wait and see what he sends you a 60 that along about the 23rd of De- w'ieVn Newspaper union.) m5, for Christmas, girlie. Then give him ; ft hfl'er they have to shop both early nd late. Washington Evening Star. your answer. , open-mouthe- floor, 1 Expensive Presents Do Not Give Most Fieasure were to spend Christmas with Mr. Gorses wealthy sister on her farm. But we cant; we cant, insisted Mrs. Our rent lias been raised this Corse. year, and living is so dear in town we cannot afford presents that even her children will enjoy." It's us they want, and not our gifts, rejoined Mr. Gorse. You leave the presents to me." On Christmas Day the Corses drove up to the big white country house in their flivver. Such a welcome as they received. Not an idle nor an embarrassing moment even for Mrs. Gorse who discarded so reluctantly the weight of city poverty. Laughter, music, fun prevailed. And after dinner, when the grown-up- s peeked Into the nursery to see what the children were doing, Mr. Gorse had his triumph. The children had discarded their expensive toys, and sat in a circle on the floor playing industriously with some magnets he lmd brought. You know our childrens likes better than we do, said the charming hostess, as she lead the Corses back to the living room. And nothing I received pleases Ine so much as the books you brought me, unless it Is to have you here on Christmas day." Even Mrs. Gorse knew that her words rang true. II. Lucius Cook. Mil. AND MRS. GOIISE teu-ce- (. 1925, Western Newspaper Union.) 1 at (, I one-hu- I ; J (, j I j ; HIS GENEROSITY j Eve-Bla- (, 1 j i a Burning the Yule Log nged provincially. ll I Western Newspaper Union.) The burning of the Yule log at Christmas time, in parts of England; and the continent, is a survival from an ancient festival annually held among the northern nations to celebrate the return of the sun after the winter solstice (December 21). The Yule log Is thought to bring good fortune, and frequently part of it is saved to light the new one in the fol-- : lowing year. The Italians regard the charred Yule log as a preventive Yule Is an old against lightning. word for Christmas, and is still soj Our thoughts fly on eager wings to who are those absent the chair grows sacred In our heavy as lead, slides around In the box like a cake on a plate. Silence followed, broken only by the constant thud of the good will messages. I say, shouted some one across the room. Tour name is Llefler, isnt It? I was just cussing this heavy, bunglesome thing when I discovered the name. Its heavy, said Charles making a wild dash. It rattles? An hour later, the postmaster making his tour of Inspection, stopped gazing at one corner of the room. There, sitting on the world. The Captain, as the boys admiringly called him, understood now why Charles work had accumulated In the last fifty minutes. Around him on the floor was a sea of tissue paper, ribbons, stickers, and gifts. Riding the crest of each wave were smiles. His radiant face was a Joy to behold. The postmaster grinned. Charles felt some one looking at him and gfrnced up Into the eyes of his employer. It is Christmas, Cap, from down home. more mamorles precious. good-size- d . j J I I hear that you are going to give an automobile for your Christmas. Yes, but It Is guaranteed not to run more than half way from her house to mine, without breaking down. mother-in-la- j i a 1 (, ) g |