Lane County leader., December 25, 1903, Image 9

H A N G IN G
OF THE HOLLY.
■With r o l l * I chained to be hanging the
holly,
With Tolly, the rogulah, with Tolly, the
Miy,
With Tolly, w h o’e brimming with frolic and
folly,
A quip ou her lip and a Jeat In her eye.
there. She waa to tail for Europe the
next day aa companion to a rich woman
who had taken a great fancy to her, and
played and sang such sweet, old-fashion­
ed airs as “ Then You’ll Kemeiuner Me”
and “ Home, Sweet Home.” That was
four years ago, and some sentiment re­
The wind. It waa frlevlng. and ahadowa specting the absent sister had caused
were w earing
Their dark w eb without o’er the face of Mr». Shaw to generally keep the melo-
deou locked ever since.
the aky;
Within It waa merry with green leaf and
Mrs. Shaw was engaged in her usual
berry.
And Tolly, cloae by, with a gleam In her occupation of mending when her husband
eye.
returned. "I've sold the melodeon,” he
•Thla holly. I know, air, you wUh mistle­
toe, a ir!"
Cried Tolly, aa o er ua a wreath we hung
high;
I looked at her, laughing, to see were she
chaffing,
And oh, what a glint there shone out
from her eye!
IIow lik e’ the roae petals on which the bee
settles
Her checks were! Her Ups were the holly
fru it’ s dye;
«‘ Be It m istletoe, dear, a minute or so,
dear!’ ’
“ A m inute?” breathed Tolly, with mirth
In her eye.
^
“
It’s oh. to be hanging the holly with
T olly!
With Tolly, the mischievous. Tolly, the
aly,
With Tolly, the genula of all that la Jolly—
A lure on her Up, and with love In her
eye!
—8 mart Set.
WHAT CHRISTMAS BROUGHT ~
BY GENEVIEVE ULMAR.
Ì
lI d o' know n» we can make much
Christmas ter th* children this year,"
said Mrs. Shaw to her husband a few
days before the holiday. “ I don't see
no way 'thout money, an' 1 guess it's
just about as scarce as it kiu be this
year.”
•‘It's not only skurce, Mary,” said Mr.
Shaw, “ th’ simply nin’t any."
"W ell, w e c ’n sell the melodeon. and
that's good for $15, y ’ know."
"Y es, but M ary. 1 R>v’ ye that th’ fust
Christmas we kep’ house, and I feel re-
puRuaut to partin’ with it," said her
husband.
said, putting three $5 bills in his wife’s
hand.
“ Perfesser Wilson said he
wouldn’t send for it till the day after
Christmas.”
the sidewalk, Mrs. Shaw burst into joy-
fill t»afr. “ It isu’t L ucy?” she cried.
i
“ Hut it is, sister!” answered the young
woman. The boys crowded around, and
helped carry the many packages iuto the
house. Lucy explained how Mine. Bron­
son had died three mouths, before; had
left her several missions to perform iu
Europe, aud had made the young girl
her heiress.
“ And I’ m coming back to live with j
you,” she announced. And when they j
told her o f selling the melodeon, and how ‘
they found the bonds in it, Lucy said: ;
“ You can give it to me for my Christmas
present.” — New York Mail and Express.
So they sat and planned what should
TH E C H R IS T M A S S P IR IT .
be done with the money— about $4 for
presents for the boys. $4 to the doctor, W e M u st N o t A ll o w O u rs e lv e s t o F o r -
$2.50 for little tokens for others, and
s e t It* T r u e M eaninir.
the balance was to be expended ou good
E must not allow
things to eat. Monday was a busy day
ourselves to forget
in the Shaw household. The boys’ pres­
the true meaning of
ents were safely hidden away. A minia­
the Christmas spir­
ture pie was made for each, and the tur­
it.
It will bring
key was, for the time being, of more ab­
happiness to us just
sorbing interest than even the venison
in proportion as we
steak and the roasted ears of com upon
bring happiness to
which Keen Knife regaled himself in
others. T o some the
spare moments.
day will this year
When the boys had gone to bed, the bring other than happy thoughts and
stockings were filled. There was a rous­ memories. Sorrows are harder to bear
ing snow storm just beginning; the air on festal days than at any other time.
had a penetrating chill. Mr. Shaw took But no sorrow should crush the Christ­
but a brief survey of the scene, remark­ mas spirit from our hearts. It is not lu
ing:
the amount that we do, or are able to do,
“ Well, I guess, mother, we’re goin’ to that we shall find happiness for our­
selves and fo r others.
The simplest
hev real Christmas weather.”
“ Wouldn’t mind anything. Samuel, ’ s pleasures and acts ofttim e» make the
hearts
of
others
to
overflow
with happi - 1
long’s the boys had a good time, except
th’ melodeon,” she responded, patting the ness. To fail to do something because |
you feel that you cannot do much is j
instrument tenderly.
Mrs. Shaw sat down before it and be­ wrong. W hat seems ever so trifling to j
gan an old air she had known when a you may make some heart sing all day
girl, aud then suddenly the sound ceased, long, which but for you might pass the
though her hands still touched the keys. day without a note o f happiness.
Let us not disturb the Christmas tradi­
“ Why, what’s the matter with it?”
tions. It is a duty to ourselves to keep i
she exclaimed. “ It must be broken.”
Mr. Shaw looked it over. Then he this day as unlike any other. And we j
carefully removed the top. Some papers can only do this by fanning Into flame |
the smouldering embers of the Christmas
lay upon the bellows.
“ Something the boys have dropped in!” spirit which is in every one o f us. God |
implanted it there. It was good that we
exclaimed Mrs. Shaw.
should have it, or he would not have giv­
“ No, ’tain’t,” he replied. “ Let me have
en it to us. In childhood the fire burned
’em. They look like— like— they ~
brightly enough within us; in old age the
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- more than I do,” she answered,
•t seems to me that I jest couldn’ t
to see it go away. But we must
ft little money for Christmas, an’
that $<> balance to the doctor.”
»npposp th’ chil’ren’ll feel putty bad
J don’t hev no Chris’mas.” said Mr.
, reflectively. “ Well. I’ll see P er
' W ilson to-day.”
Iles had once been good with the
ft. but an ambitious brother had
ft'l Samuel into indorsing notes,
the alm ost invariable result. He
0 mortgage the place, ami the in-
kept them poor. Then came the
Prions loss o f a thousand dollars in
ally hoarded government bonds.
1 were tw o boys at home, Fred nnd
rt- T o-day they were oat coasting,
‘ tly a chnm had become possessed
number o f literary works, bearing
f on the adventures o f one Keen
otherwise the "Prince o f the Prai-
tnd the boys had spent long and
>tfal afternoons in a hay mow in
°1 o f the books. Bnt even these
* were forgotten now in the atnux
of Christmas, nnd possibilities of
’ arpenter’s tools and a small print-
fess.
■ melodeon was always treated with
a sp e ct in the Shaw family. The
hftd not heard it in years. The
ime waa on a aoft summer evening.
Mrs. Shaw's young aiater was
mother, sure’* you're born, they’re the light of Christmas will reflect in our
faces and our natures. But in the mean­
bonds.”’
time we must keep the spirit alive, so
Yellow and dusty and wrinkled— there
that it may glow the warmer and softer
they were, those precious bonds, a thou­
in old age. Let us have an old-time mer­
sand dollars’ worth o f good negotiable,
ry Christmas this year—a real, old-fash­
government promises. The couple looked
ioned, happy one. Let us make every­
at each other in astonishment.
body forget that there is anything in
‘T hey’ve been there more'n three
the world but good fellowship and happy
years!” exclaimed Mrs. Shaw.
laughter. To the sick let ns bring for- j
“ Yes. an’ I reck’lect now how It was.
getfulness of pain; to the sorrowful, the
too,” said her husband. “ ’Twas that sweet halm o f a happy smile; to the
warm night in September I threw my
aged, loving thoughts o f consideration; to
coat across th’ melodeon. I never thought the poor, a suggestion o f the greater ma­
about the bonds not being iu my pocket
terial blessings which are ours. Then,
till I went to the bank in th’ loomin’.”
as we bring light to other eyes, color to
Mrs. Shaw again seated herself. “ W e’ll
other cheeks, happiness to other hearts,
sing one verse, even if it does wake the
we shall he happy ourselves. The Christ-
boys,” she said, and the little instru­
raaa spirit will keep alive within ua.
ment enthusiastically responded
to
“ Praise God from Whom All Blessings
M i n c e P i e H is t o r y .
Flow.”
Christmas mince pie was originally a
The snow was still coming down when compound of the choicest spices and edi-
the family were at breakfast Christmas ble productions o f the Orient. It waa
morning. The window sashes were piled eaten in commemoration o f the offerings
high with it, and the drift» were deep in of the three wise men who carried rare
the front yard. All hands went into the spices, frankincense and myrrh from afar
shoveling business, and a * a y to the to the infant Christ horn in a manger.
front rate had »ctrrrlj been cleared I
B ow ed O at
when the Mg sled belonging to the Beebe j
house came around leaving the arrivals I kissed her under the mistletoe bough;
She said t*> *sk her father. 1 don t know
from the early tram.
how
• What on earth fa It stopping here
It sorted, but fhla la a fact, I know.
for?” exclaimed Mrs. Shaw.
That bs had also a ariaale tae.
But when a pretty foang lady rma upj
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