The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1937, Page 21

ODs i e &5 %&: 'fimmaar"flqlorv { hristmas the head 1 be ien the mines the next hollow ent to the head o families of Smoke Creck Jim Knox, who lived at the very head the stream, was perhap. e Mo unhappy of all in the Composing a letter to Sa may not be lit He Noticed Something Like a Carg Tacked on Hathway’s Door. - ~ His wife and ¢ had died. 1g a4 common mountain ith his on.” He was Joe did not care much if it should be 1y, @ bitter enemy with whom himself; life had come to meen had had many difficulties. So but little for him. y night of Christmas eve While Jim was thus dreaming, Joe s Jim sat before the open wood in another log cabin fire, with the light of bi hick- R s & ogs e AHIE tompany, but a few yards down tk 3, Joe's attention W e was it fear for his own safety BY c¢b A book on a shelf. The Jol teacher had given it to his Hathway stream, w Joe Hathway had thr called to life sat dreaming his eye ghter who had died from the pened to rest upon his rifle sidemic on the creek The title ng in tk €O! r of the log room. appealed ) him-—“The Christmas That un of Joe Hathway's will Carol” He took the book and be- cme day tell the tale,” he said to gan to read. Page after page and And a Wish for Your Happiness Always IESY » WITH OUR Y This Is Serious Busines THE DAILY ALA T am a happy little tree. I stand cottage on a quiet street. Each beautiful colored lights, and all who pass share my beauty and c something of the joy of Chri: But I was not always happy like ch mas. :surrolmded by trees so tall I cou only catch a glimpse of the blue | sky above me, and I felt very small land lonely. I, too, wanted to be ilike the others and feel the sun |shining through my branches. I |would stretch out my limbs as as I could, and send my roots deep- er into the earth, but my progress |was so slow I grew discouraged. | One day I saw a man and a boy | coming through the forest. The {man carried somtehing over his | shoulder and they seemed to be !looking for something. Then the boy saw me and cried: “Look, fath- ¥y o a is indeed serious business. The writing : 2 re st the tree we want. ury, but he usually manages to fill the orders. er, there is just the tree we wan He ran over to me and fairly hugged me in his eagerness. The yman looked me over. “Fine” he chapter after chapter, he read on.!said. But when he began digging It was the first book Joe had ever with the thing he had carried on read. It filled him with new vis- his shoulder I began to tremble. ions and new ways of thinking. He|I felt my roots snap one by one read on till midnight and had been|and soon I lay a tumbled heap on so impressed that he decided to read 'the ground. Life seemed over for a chapter from the Bible before go- me. ing to bed. By mere accident thei 'Next I was tied to a funny look- chapter was one on the birth ating thing on wheels, that sputtered Bethlehem. Its teaching overpow-!and growled when the man and ered him—he had found the more boy climbed in and we started off abundant life. down a twisty little road that On Christmas morning when Jim,wound through the forest, then out Knox went cut to the spring for a on a big shining highway until we pail of water he noticed sumnthmg‘cnme to a wide driveway that led like a card tacked on Joe Hathway’s | through a sloping lawn to a white door. He saw no smoke from the cottage. chimney. Taking in the water,| Here I was untied and put into a cautiously he approached Joe's ‘ca- ldrge earthen jar filled with sand Ibin door, and read the note which,and carried into the house, and {low for me any moré. Maybe 1 can | stationery. said: set in a corner of a big room be- “Dear Jim: You will find me|side a sunny window.Oh, the joy gone, I reading some last night|of having the sun on my branches. in “The Christmas Carol and in the|T began to feel less scared and io Bible. I read that verse that told look about me. of peace on earth and good will to| "In a big mirror opposite I could |man, Said to myself, ‘My family!watch the man as he fastened me is all gone—the last was Mary. She|upright. Then he put a string of left the book to get me on the right’ Daddy, Mamma;” he shouted and track. There’s nothing in this hols| A NEV TOY find work by New ' Year’s over oni . Cedar Creek.’ You and T never could | get along. So to make things better |t for us both heregfter T am leaving ybreak. And Jim, as ‘T say on earth goed will to'me. And another result’ of “The Christmas Carol” "two mountain- % eers were better men, and though 3 they had no Christmas cards or| presents, and no Holiday programs, the pines on the hillsides seemed a bit greener and the music of the sireams seemed sweeter. b Ta Rl How About Letters? There are many lovely gifts for |} the student who is away to school. If you want them to write home often, keep them well supplied with e DECEMBER 24, ‘MOTHER NIGHT’| Long before Christianity came to the Anglo-Saxons December 24, was | called This is only one of the many nev Modrenecht, or “Mother | Christmas toys in the stores. WISHES FOR YOUR YULETIDE JOY AND NEW YEAR SUCCESS. MARINE AIRWAYS N TN L el o 0 SO e e S St i SKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY | beside the front entrance of a white | | Christmas time I bloom out in'! {this. Once I lived in a great forest, | tall; to look out on the big world | 5 DEC. 2], 1937, | o pointed to the window. “There are | Pai | | CHRISTMAS GUS! two children out thére. Bring them awnt | soon parted. | Wifey—Oh, John, how much are you going to give me for Christmas | presents? | e i ilights whistling top to my toe, he worked. Theh & = Z Two Little ¥ the Window Pane. I heard a door open and a I’ feet—a little boy and a girl into the room crying: come quick, and see our Chr tree.” They clapped their hands and danced about me. Soon mother came with a box filled with shining lovely things and my plain green dress was covered with spark- &% ling jewels. I hardly dared look in &F the mirror for I remembered I was X only a humble tree after all, and §g what I saw could not e at all; fi; but the great silver star on my & topmost branch made me feel very X happy. I seemed to draw cou from just looking ab it. After a time I was left to my- self. I was glad, as I needed to rest up a and get used to my .,;’ strange surrounding! ew dark N out and snow was falling; bul §¢ i my star shone a s pea Ame oV me. &k Then once more the doors opened 3§ ) it and a me group of e 1€ g:, .. This time there was ‘uh(‘r'i’;; and Grandfather and Grandmother, | g ling the little :fi i nd g one was saying | },\\}’ how lovely I was; but I did not | ¥ want them to look at me. I wanted | i them to see two little faces outside | £ pressed against the window pane. The boy saw them first. “Look, R y; give them some of our " clapped Daddy, it’s cold out When they w ing rather Then Father told the old story o the Shepherds and the Star that led to the Christ Child. Then a man wi V' presents, including the little ere, There were [errererrerereeRRERERRRRETT TR ana e 1rore | Brighten eried “Oh £ 4 and e brought in look- many of vs will finc children I L 1 and much s the lives of le can be ate ‘youngsters if we get out sive them a coat of gayly listribute them a red coat his back gave ever e | these t ang- | colored enamel and andies i nuts, and such a babble ourselves or turn them over to a social ¢ to be handed out to Nick's needy your sters on St 02 (AP RART R & S, \\%‘&fi\\fi d SRS 2 I'he gay and happy season of feasting merry-making — the time when peace good will inhabit every heart — time when O o here, and welcome. pleasantly diffused with memories of past holidays — and in realization of this present jovous Yuletide — we extend to you the 15 of the Season. 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