The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 22, 1935, Page 35

4 THE DAILY ALASKA LMPIRE SUNDAY DEC. 22, 1935. mmmmww&mmm % Christmas ~ W * | At Jhe Barraelw B., Helen Gaisford o } “I hate Christmas:~ Marcia thought | passionately. She pressed her face close to the toy window, so passers-| |by would not notice her buining § | cheeks nor tearfilled eyes, Suddenly she was face to face with it—that overwhelming longing for some one to make Christmas worth- Our Most Sincere Wishes That your Holiday Season be Gladsome and that the New Year following be one of great Happiness and Health for you. Allen Shattuck, Inc. INSURANCE SINCE 1898 WE GREET YOU WITH A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A HAPPY, PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR SANITARY GROCERY GUNNAR BLOMGREN, Proprietor 7 REEDREPN i |under her > | man looking at her. while. “Why am I such a fool?” she asked herself miserably. “‘A grown woman weeping at a store window disp! r | Well, why not find some one? And then, as though in a er, she saw the item in the paper, “Poor children of this and neighboiing communities will be treated to a real old-fashioned Christmas dinner and tree at the McKinley Barracks. Offic- and men are providing tur- and all the trimmings, and several hundred children are ex- pected. Churches and social ag- encies a d to furnish wemen to act as also cars to transport the chil- dren to the barracks.” Marcia stepped timidly into the cocial welfare bureau. to the barracks on he asked. nicer than—than any- she finished lamely. lly meant that it would children cut hristm: | be s thing e vnuuon rrom nn( of her friends. “I to find the right youngster—I might adopt one.” She had never been to the bar- acks before, and she thrilled to the | He Was Taiing the Coat Off a | ousle-Headed Boy snowy road, bitt she inated by the childrer And then they were there, piling children into the great building, find- P8 | ing their places, taking care of wraps, ¥ | warming cold little fingers, and through it all a glow. Christmas cheer! That was it! time in years, Marcia was having.a really, truly Christmas. She straightened up for a moment with the realization, and found the the coat off a tousle-headed boy, and X | across the lad’s head he smiled at Wishes You a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR MRS. JOHN McCORMI Phone 547 haperones and ‘,' “I wonder if | you could use me to help take the! “It would | even thought maybe, if I happened E PSS ——— her. Marcia smiled, too, but her heatt seemed to stop beating. He stood tall and straight in his officers’ uniform, a handsome man, inot many years her senior. As soon as the children began eating, he came over and introduced himself. “Having a good time?” he asked. ‘Glorious.” “So are you.” “What?” “Glorious, of course. Don't mind my bothering, do you? I thought you seemed, well — understanding. When I looked at you—remember?” Marcia nodded. “Somebody once said that if you look into a person’s leyes, you create a bond that can never be broken. I know what he meant, now.” “I felt it too,” Marcia murmured. They looked about. “I say, shall we ditch the program? TI'd like to show you around the barracks.” They didn’t notice the cold, the falling snow, nor later, the chil- dren’s carols. “Goodness!” Marcia exclaimed at (last. “They're leaving. I must look after my carload of youngsters.” “Wait!” he caught her hand, held it fast. “I'll want to see you again, soon. We have so much in common, children, we enjoy Christmas par- tles—and I want to know if you like hiking and tobogganing, movies, op- eras, lots of things. Me for instance.” “Of course,” answered Marcia. ““But let me go now. Here comes that welfare lady.” you know—we're both lonely, we like | She pulled away ‘of the homes in Hungar: “We were just coming gized. The lady smiled. “No hurry. But I wonder—you said something, you | know—have you decided what child you want to adopt?” ‘Heavens!” declared Marcia. “T| forgot!” “Well, why,” asked the soldier, I mean—wait until | | | | “‘adopt one? | Things change z\)‘ | | next Christmas. in a year.” “In a day,” breathed Marcia. e Soviet Stars Top Kremll [ | | ! | | | | Displacing Czarist Eagles | MOSCOW.—Gilt stars on which ‘% are superim, | sickle have replaced | headed eagles atop the to [] Kremlin for three centur i For 17 years Soviet lead: eagles remain on guard over € ! seat of government, but recently Jos- | § eph' Stalin ordered them down. ] The stars are 65 feet in height i At night lights play on cut stones and sickles. i Gilt crosses still adorn the spires | § of Kremlin churches. [] BRI AR g H ! | | ] Electric nghtmg [} Scarce in Budapest BUDAPEST. — Municipal statistics reveal that half the population of ‘ Budapest is withoui electric light and that there is gas in a four e — ! b | For the first | N He was taking ", ° b Christmas [ Wish That the Holiday Season and the New Year may be abundant with Joy, Good Cheer, and Glad Tidings, and all things worth while . . . FOR ALL OF YOU. s “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” A Merry, Merry Christmas THE FRIENDLIEST OF ALL GREETINGS A Very Happy New Year JUNFAU BAKERY HENRY SULLY, Proprietor | | | | SHE APOLO- | gy s - s ) a4 %