Merry Christmas
from Gram and Gramp
Cramlparenta seem to specialize
i gifts no parent ever buys.
Thai's how I know when Christmas
J romes
That Norm will get a set of drums;
loung Jim a monkey, genus rhesus;
Jele a puzzle, thousand pieces,
nil Andy will receive a stock
f)f teen-age records, roll and rock,
fell, yes, the grandfolk really dote,
that'll they get for me? My goat!
1 Betty Billipp
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"Why don't they
make a cold tablet
Donald can take?"
Quips and Quotes
A young lady was vacationing in Florida
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The girl nodded, a little surprised.
"And do you always go to church
"Yes, I do," she said, getting more and
more interested.
"And read the Bible?"
"Every opportunity."
The boy was noticeably relieved and
said, "Then will you hold my quarter while
I go in for a swim?" James Shurluck
Then there was the fellow who com
plained: "My wife is on the telephone H
hours a day wish the phone company
would come and remove her."
Gloria Biers
Those Toys
"To Be Assembled"
Each Christmas Eve I view a scene
That really wrenches my heart:
It's Dad putting toys together
While he slowly falls apart.
Lucy Lolli Rankin
Donald John Ecklet, age 6,
Midwest City, Okie. His mother
found a new way to help.
"Then a friend told me that
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At the age of 35, he was still very much
of a mamma's boy. He had never married
because he feared it would offend his moth
er. But at a party he met a girl he couldn't
resist, and they eloped. He insisted, how
ever, that they keep the marriage a secret
from Mamma, and for a year they saw
each other only on weekends. At last his
wife would have no more of it and insisted
that she take her rightful place.
Finally the husband went to his mother
and said, "I must tell you that Alice and
I have been married a year. We hope that
we have your blessing."
There was only an icy silence.
Anxiously, he pleaded: "Please, say
something. Mother."
"Fine thing," she snapped. "You and
Alice married a whole year and me still
doing your shirts!" F. G. Kernan
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