The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1936, Page 23

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY. DEC. 20, 1936. ‘ KEEPING UP CHRISTMAS & Mk Marian turned slowly from the i full length mirror where she had j been surveying herself for a cniti- ; cal moment, and looked acrosss the Lroom at her twin sister. £ “I'm so tirca of all this Christmas # fuss,” she said languidly; “it is all 750 old-fashioned, so out-dated.” ©' “Are you expressing my feelings?” <‘Nadine’s voice was even more lan- % guid; “but how in the world are we # going to make our dear family feel jas we do about the matter? You % know they are already in the throes #of Christmas preparations.” She # threw out her slender hands in a jgesture of infinite boredom as she % finished. # - “We can let them know that we # won’t be a part of the silly business i —We can serve notice on them that |in his direction; they couldn't trust themselyes ~to - speak. There were | things they had forgotten when they made their big resolve to do away with Christmas preparations. As sqon as dinner was over, they hur- ried from the table. The days that followed were not |very happy. The twins could find ‘no one interested in their plan to change the way of keeping Christ- mas. Even the most modern of their friends laughed them to scorn. No one was really interested in advancement, they decided. Here they were, willing and eager to get a new crusade started, one that would save time and temper and 'money, and no one, not even their |best friends, would lend a hand. {They grew fretful, impatient, even ipeeved at each other. | One evening Nadine came home |and found Marian in their mother's |bedroom, peering into some boxes | that had just been delivered. Nadine ismiled to herself, and hurried from: |the doorway so Marian would not !see her. | But next day in the top depart- i When Christmas §[:rew Right | From Hulll He was a small boy named Tim who had never been more than ten miles from his home in the Ozark hills. His teacher said he couldn't even bound Arkansas, his own state, but what his teacher didn't know was how well he knew the mountaia “crick” and the hill slopes circled with green-gold pire trees that bounded his father’s tiny farm. He also knew what it took to keep u« family of six children and that for as log as he could remember his father’s farm had scarcely been able to produce enough to stretch over every need. It was just before Christmas time that he heard his father tell his mother that if there was to be any- |corner now in that bureau drawer left after buying our Christmas. Gee dad, I love this old farm! It's got lots of surprises on it yet. This one ain’t the last one.” The father brushed a tear from his eye and kissed his wife. Then he shook hands with Tim. “You're the kind of son a man can be right proud to own,” he choked. “But dad, will you forgive me?” the boy suddenly implored. “Why Tim, forgive you what?” the father asked in surprise. The boy led the way to the kit- chen. “You see dad, I just had to have it?" The father pretended to frown as Tim pointed and then he winked. “Well, being as it's just about Christmas for us, as well as the rest of the world, I guess I'll have to overlook it.” For there in a far of the room stood the ax. It was Tim who had borrowed it. - D - Street Car Infirmary RICHMOND, Va—Doctors said | MISTLETCE ~ HUNTIS ON | By-O Baby Dad When the mothers of young chil- |dren in the east Oklahoma country | side sing this nursery song to thei | little s they may out of loyalt |to Mother Goose add the next two | lines Bunting, gone a-hunting” to find a.rabbit skin, the Baby Bunting in.” But that isn't exactly what daddy does down there. When it comes | the time of year that the baby needs warmer covering, daddy takes his gun and goes out to shoot dow {mistletoe! T he sells for | Christmas trade and buys Bur 1 different kind of raim: For mistletoe, with its well-kn holiday meaning, grows in abur dance there and always found ng the bare ter bran | year, vember and the d teadil, f the f the north e m formly much such tin be strewn with « | for the condition not be s shot do mented that reappears ir however ruth treated ——ee Tokyo Growing TOKYO—Tok don in popu crease in had a pooul: 1900 The Season’s Greetings 7 and : Sincere Cood Wishes for ristmas and the tew Year E. O. FIELDS CARPENTER AND CABINET SHOP thing “extra” to give the day its!18-year-old Luther Scott would 1@ native elm. Little boy meaning for the children, he'd have |need plenty of sunlight to recover|climb for it, of course, but the quick- to get the ax and hack out a few|from critical burns, so his parents est way to gather it for commercia ties. Her face went white, for she |bought an old sfreet car and con- use is to shoot it down knew what that meant. So often |verted it into a well ventilated “in-| “Oy on” for m had they been forced to remain on ! firmary.” ing begins about the last of = we are going to work against all 'he‘ment of Smith's store, things came ';nmsg Sud es ol mRce about 45 o showdown. The twins ran into # Christmas. 3 leach other, found themselves side ¢ Forgetting their pose of boredolz‘l\hy side elutching for foolish things zand Sopiuistioation - fer, & IROMMIL 1, 0 lay on the counter. Brown eyes the seventeen - year - old "wmslchal]enged blue as they stood in jumped excitedly around the room- g crowded aisle, Guilt showed |the hacking of a few ties to be sold | - § “Just think of how they Will be|,.0 on both faces. to the railroad for dire nec 4 shocked!” Marian cried; “I can fix‘ Then Nadine was speaking, quick- | that practically all their % mother and dad. It is all going to {ly, incoherently: “You might as well available for that purpose was gone. | ffso exciting—fighting the world, sy, Marian, I'm chucking your|And trees don’t grow over night. -to speak. !'silly plan. I'm going to do like every-[She could tell by the look on her _But they were taken back quite 2 |4, "e1ce T'm going to make a big [husband’s face that he was taking little when they announced their g0 apout Christmas. I want tola desperate and back-breaking big news . . . mother’s voice Was|ngp through the crowds—to buy fchance of finding a few logs tough 77 very serious. “If you really feel that g, g, things—to hang up holly |enough for the commission man fo 3 way, I guess.the rest of us will have | g eaths to—to do just everything! |buy ;\m celebrate without you. We're| " ang ir 1'm not mistaken, you're| As she looked out of the window Bigoing to miss you B lot, of COWS®: |yt dying to do the same?” and saw the passing cars of winter pibut we must consider your ‘E";i “You're absolutely right,” Marian | “touristers” on the new scenic road _;.;ings The twins failed to Selc k“; |answered, utterly careless of the!the government had built through <) twinkle in her eyes as she looked o ;ceq glances thrown in their di- | the hills, she wondered by wh # across the table at dad. irection. “We've been a pair of fools, | magic folks could come to own auts and take time off like i As if to make matters worse, Bill ¢ were going to have one grand | mobiles ;",_and Dick ‘l‘aughed in dcnslonl “'and glorious time in the two days|that to go traveling. But she hadn’t %\ their plan. “I bet they'll be on their |y, ‘ave Joft . , . We're going fo|many moments to spare on such “““?5 » 59! 1,“ e o e before:m'ke the biggest fuss about Christ- | thoughts, for her husband had re- i Christmas,” Bill predicted. A"d_ 25 'mas that has ever been made.” turned to say that the ax was gone. Jier that wers not enough, he sug- B Could one of the children ha : i 2 gested that now there would be| 3 " . s # nothing to buy for the twins, mayce| JUST LIKE OLD TIMES | (’:n‘:;"fl;fi;';;:e piolbig ;,311'3 could have the moving picture I the " hills; . had . someono | 160 Seward Street R EE T letoe hunt No- (Y PR e SEHATHE A outfit he had wanted so long. through 2! hope g . ind,| 'NASHVILLE, Nov. 25.—The Van- | made off with it? axkiope you don'y GHAURE Yo "fmd'* % o | The father had borrowed an ax | % cweet sisters,” he cautioned, as he derbilt Commodores were heid | ) a t I & 1 : from a willing neighbor but on the #i proceeded to put a huge piece of gooreiess three Saturdays in suc-|day before Christmas he was silent Fipie in his mouthI do want that ’ i‘picturv machine pretty bad.” cession this season, a record un-|as he unhibchg-(l his team in the wa- The twins threw scornful glances paralleled by them since 1900. gon lot. Christmas tomorrow and B he had been forced to bring back {the load from town. The commis~ {sion man had been truly sorry, for he did need ties; yet none of these | 4 were large enough. | % | He crept up to a window, lost in | |the sense of failure that made him | § |ashamed to walk to his own door. | | There an odd sight straightened | | him. Inside were Tim and his mo- | |ther joyously trimming a Christmas itree. Tim raced to the door to keep | 4 the younger children from bursting | | gleefully into the room and learn- | |ing its great secret. | | When the father entered the |y se, no one asked him about the | * ‘Dad, dad!” Tim shouted. “Do | ‘you know those red berry trees that !grow way up the erick? Awful hard | to get to, but when I found 'em 7| %3 | thought they were so purty I took | ) |some to school. The teacher said | g | ‘that’s holly’ and then I read aboul “holly and learned that folks will pay for it to have it for Christmas. | # |80 I gathered a lot of it and made me a holly stand up on the new road Just hopin’ they would. And dad, they did buy it! Stopped their cars | and said, ‘Why it’s holly; who would | have thought we'd find it here!’| They wanted so much I had to work afwul hard getting it, but gee, it was fun! I wanted to surprise mom and you, and now I'll tell you both that I made. $27.82. There’s $20 right | SPECIAL m-:uvggx 2 L -t he Season's Greefings May you have a HAPPY CHRISTMAS and When Christmas Comes a year of It brings to mind all of GREAT PROMISE our old friendships and the memories and happy thoughts of seasons that have gone before. May these days of happi- ness repeat them- selves. S e st - X WARRACK CONSTRUCTION CO. Juneau, Alaska i 2. X e e bagta ey ' GARNICK’S GROCERY PR SO LSS