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Show K) BE A TIME OF JOY FOR HIM This Little Story Stows Just What a Lot of Good Things the Bacbelor Misses at Merry Christmas Time "My wife has been questioning mt tor the past three weeks about what would like for Christmas." "Well, I suppose you told her?" "Yes. The first thing I thought of was an umbrella. 1 really need an umbrella, because it is quite a distance dis-tance from my house to the train, and I have to walk it. A nice umbrella umbrel-la would come in handy on rainy days. Then there are some books 1 would like very mucin. I gave her a list of them as nearly as I could at the start, and have been adding to it day by day as I happeLed to think ot something else in .that line. I mentioned men-tioned cuff-buttons and studs for full-dress full-dress occasions, and I gave her to understand un-derstand that if she didn't feel like troubling herself over the matter I would be glad to take the money she had set aside for me and buy myself some cigars. Last night I had occasion occa-sion to look into a closet we don't use much, and there I found my present, all ready to be placed before me on Christmas morning." "Of course, then, she hadn't adopted adopt-ed your suggestion as to the cigars." "No. I'm going" to be made glad with a beautifully worked sofa pillow." mi'llMMI'-JeB?ailj4jMU.ULJIIllDJWmLMlllLLM |