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Show On Christmas Day we repeat the old familiar greeting that, each year, in some mystic way rings fresh and true "Merry Christmas." Like such words as "hello" and "good-by," there really isn't any-tiling any-tiling else to say that pulls at our heartstrings as do these old dear words. And so again we say: , ' Merry Christmas to the littlest ones who skip downstairs in the ' gray dawn to cx- Jrjjjyj. plore their stockings jTyS' and the wondrous CRT" aj) tree and to look at Christmas with the KWRWA. sPcia' radiance of youth who lend (vvB to the rest of us lit- fffm tle glimmers of the (Ifll Pl real Christmas lis S'arnour' )))? " VAi Merry Christmas (liS V) t0 father who'll strain a point any day to give us all the things we want . , . who probably works much too hard and yet keeps younger and more alert because of the responsibility responsi-bility of family and the competition competi-tion of business . . . who makes the gesture of tut-tutting all the fuss and feathers yet beams with affection and excitement. Merry Christmas to mother who really calls the tune for the holidays and does the plan- ning and pulling to- ((T ' gether . . . who flut- A.q) ters and bustles ra- i ' diantly for weeksi 5 ahead and undoubt- f4vv edly has the best W and busiest time of LJ Merry Christmas to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker, not to mention all those who sold us shoes and ships and sealing wax ... for what would Christmas be without them? For through them we've all been able to share our own little prosperity in the most wholesome whole-some way of all by spending it." Merry Christmas to dear friends far and near who've sent us greet- fings and gifts . . . most especially do we cherish the greetings because even more than gifts they express the true spirit of Christmas. Merry Christmas to the dropperg-in .who come with holiday cheer and ; friendship . . . who come to our parties or stop by to leave a glass (Of extra elegant jelly or an original origi-nal privately invented relish. Merry Christmas to ourself, for that matter. But then we feel pretty pret-ty sure that we'll have one for we've put so much work and excitement j and loving getting-ready into it. For !of course we all get out of Christ-j Christ-j mas just about what we put in. |