The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1932, Page 26

?.j/&_t}fl.flangflal; JT\C ced up quickly nd seemed about then evide r of it. “Where going to be?” he| your mother asked presently. “In Boston, with Leila and the Of course, with young- t age, one has to keep r you say gues wth me, you know that” said Of course it was a hard blow for Ellen, just now, remembering other Christmases. Why, just last year, how she had been flying around joyously hecticly busy! with last min- ute shopping and | packing to g0 home for the holidays. She and Bob and twe- month-old 1ittle Jim, named for his grandfather. ‘Would they ever forget that last happy celebra- tion in the old home? Ellen’s father had loved Christ mas, and what Bob had twice was something to the R uld not have not cele- SIGNED FOR MOVIES Jane Viasek, who has been on the stage as a singer and dancer | eince she was five years old, has achieved her ambition to win a role| in the movies. Her film contract came via the night club and vaudeville route. (Associated Press Photo) | radio and it made him seem very UNDER THE MISTLETOE near. | “Lella and Will are going to| mail this for me. “Love to all MOTHER." | 'Everylhmg I did brought mm‘ back to me.” Ellen sat for a long, long time, thinking. PR AR RN S Hard to Answer «“Z is getting near- Tired Mother—What? ‘Boy—When Santa Claus was a Myrtle — It doesn’t follow that little boy, who filled his stock- | there is anything the matter with ing?—(The Country Home.) | his eyes because he can't see you | Boy—Mamma! ‘ | brating it. During the days which follo\\(d Ellen carefully avoided a rands which would take he town into the thick of the bund laden throngs. She bought 1li Jim half a dozen toys on her way | to market one morning. Now it is asking a great deal of anybody to describe in detail the | Gralx passing of a Christmas that | is not treated as such. It proved | the longest, dreariest, saddest day Yyou can imagine. Even little Jim | refused to be his uspal good-hu- red self and fussed ridiculously { irritatingly. ¢ 19n went to bed early, leaving | Bob reading. He had been pa- tienee itself. It . was on the morning after | ‘Chrmmas that a strange thing happened. Bllen had left little Jim and Nora, who came in to help morn- ings and had gone down to the post office for the lefler from her mother, which would tell how Christmas passed for her, She was back at her own steps | with the letter saved to read in the quiet and warmth within, when the pretty young woman from next door ran oug with a sweater thrown across her shoul- dears. “Do excuse me,” she said || breathlessly. “We ' are mnext door p| neighbors and if I may ask, isn't your name Cun- “Why yes,” said the other, W 7 Wil & pusled § ‘«q Ilook. yesterday I was passmg with a piece of plum pudding for a shut- in old lady below, when a middle- | L aged man stopped me and asked i me #f I could tell him where the, Cupninghams lived.” Ellen felt the hurting little squeeze about her heart that al- 'ay)')! her father. As if this wo- mlfi ‘had been speaking of him. “And I told him,” the other was “that 1 thought you lived hm m urged Ellen with the t est of feelings. “Yes." looked up at the house, and his head. ‘Oh, no’ he said gy positively, yet gently, too. fhiat couldn't possibly be it. There e be a wreath on the door. 1 | Miss Betty R. Webster, who won the title of “Miss Seattle” at the recent ways came with a sudden mem- —_————— l;lmdcr the mistletoe. Mix equal parts of gasoline and ! seed oil and use as a furnit uu\ Rub the hands with lard to re- ish Apply with a flannel cloth. | move paint stains. 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