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Show CHRISTMAS GIFTS THAT COUNT M031 Jl" KNItY came homo from town tin li diiy Iji I'uio Christmas line handed .Mrs. White a package saying wii h ii grin : "Grandma Cook sent you a Christ mas present." "Why, bless her dear old lieart,' Mrs. Wlill u cried, "what In the worli Is It?" "Well," answered Henry, "she snl she had made some soap, and thin the haleh lunied out so well she want eil you lo have some; she said It inadi a line suds, ami I hat slie wished you i Merry Christians." And sure enough, when Mrs. Wlilti unwrapped the clumsily tied package there was a brick of home-made yel Jovv :,onp, smelling strongly of sassa fl'llS. A friend of the family who win present was Inclined to take the mat ter as a Joke. "What a funny thing," she laughed "I didn't suppose anyone made soa lit homo, nowadays." Tint the liar of aromatic cleansei meant more to Mrs. White than I mere piece of soap. It stood foi friendship. It was a symbol of serv Ice Kindly given. Orandma Cook'i soap was n real gift, .something sh thought was nxl.ni nice and therefoi'i wauled to share with one she liked. Oh, when will we get away from th Idea gifls must represent money, that we cannot give unless we have th wherewith to purchase the glltterlnr wares displayed In the window and on the counter, during the holiday sea son? Last Chi'lslnuis a friend hap pened (o look out of a window and espied n neighbor's little hoy coming In the gale; his secretive air and care f ul tiptoeing up the walk made the friend slop behind a curtain, where he "could see without being seen. Cautiously Cau-tiously the boy crept upon the porch and, his little face breaking Into smiles, deposited a newspaper-wrapped newspaper-wrapped bundle at the door, then, still tiptoeing, ho hurried down the walk and out of the gate. Wailing until he was out of sight, so ns not to spoil the "surpri e," my friend opened the door and. irion un doing the parcel, found a tiny basket made of cardboard and covered with gaudy red and green paper, put on with many a glaring stitch an 1 smear of glue. It contained several pieces of hard, striped candy, a hor.e-made yarn hall, some broken nut m.ats, laboriously la-boriously picked out with patient little lingers, and a broken-bladcd jivkknlfe, doubtless his most cherished possession. posses-sion. Frank Herbert Sweet. ((c). 192G. "Western Newspaper Un'on.) |