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Show You Better Believe It 'Hi By Betty Fowler I 1 There was a young couple who liked to celebrate Christmas Christ-mas the old-fashioned way. They lived in a small town in the west called Lehi. In those days there weren't any strick laws on cutting your own trees so the young couple who loved the out-of-doors, searched the forests in the mountains surrounding their village, vil-lage, until they found a perfect tree. The one they had been searching for. It was only about five foot tall, but its branches were spaced exactly right and it smelled heavenly. The young couple decorated it with lights and ornaments arranged ar-ranged so as not to spoil its natural evergreen beauty. Everyone that came to their house that year commented on their pretty little tree. Even their dog "Butch" liked the tree. Oh my goodness, no, not for that reason! He would just sit back on his haunches and gaze and gaze at the tree. Then he'd move over, curl up close and happily go to sleep under the tree. That tree was the main present for the young couple that year. There weren't many gifts to exchange. But the tree was special and they knew it. They left it up until after New Years enjoying the beauty of it over and over again. Then, finally, they took it down. When friends came to call, they'd say disappointedly, "Oh you took your tree down." Then one evening in February, Feb-ruary, they invited some friends and relatives over for cake and punch and lo, there on the table by the window stood the little tree again, just as beautiful as before. Everyone was so happy, "Butch" too! He was wagging his tail and yipping. The friends exclaimed, "How come you put it up again?" The happy young couple explained, ex-plained, "Why not? The needles are fresh as ever, and we decided decid-ed if something will do something someth-ing as special for you as that tree did for us, why have it just at Christmas time?" We've thought about it a lot since then. We were some of the relations there! That young couple had the right idea! You know, we should keep that special joy and feeling whether it involves a tree or not. That darling little Christmas Christ-mas tree was a tangible something someth-ing that you could see and touch and smell. But there are also intangible somethings that you learn to recognize only when you realize the glorious significance signifi-cance of Christmas itself. Then if you've found the secret, indeed, in-deed, you have a "Christmas tree" to put up in your hearts again and again all through the year. Our wish for you is that you may find your own very special "Christmas Tree Feeling" this year. Merry Christmas! Sign in a cluttered, old-fashioned old-fashioned hardware store: "We've got it if we can find it." Help thy brother's boat across, ac-ross, and lo! thine own has reached the shore. |