The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-22

liked her. But I never saw her again tin
one night last winter near Christmas. I'd
gone to bed. There was a knock at the
door, and who should il be but nv girl
1 saw she was in trouble, and when she
says to me, Mother, I'm bad girl but
nave come back to YOU / remembered
that story in the Bible where his father
went far out to meet him. an / never
blamed her. She had few trinklets. and
came that awful night when her baby
was born. They both died. The Door little
baby seemed to know it wasn't wanted
in this world, an it just opened its eyes
an closed them again But she, she said to
me, Mother, l don't want you to forget
me, an l promised her ! wouldn't An
10 snow l didn't, got this Grape bonnet
anu that veil and wore them to the fu-
neral That was Christmas eve she died,
nearly a year ago, and during the year 1
punqled up lot of things and took them
TO the pawnbroker so that l might square
myself with the undertaken. They was
Things L didn't care for, but he wouldn't
gimme enough on them, SO l just yanked
on my veil and left 1t. An / have been
worrying Tor 1t ever since. l thought I'd
get mere in time TO redeem IL, cause /
Kept the ticket, but 1 appreciate your
klndness, lady, an think you can under
stand why just when il was gettin' near
christmas / wanted to have my veil on,
cause 1t seemed to tell those people who
knew her that, no matter what she was,
no matter how she acted, she was my
girl an 1 wore the veil in memory of her.
God give you and yours a happy Christ
Happy Christmas!
Will it come to you or to me unless we
nave deserved it? The bells can ring
the air can be filled with Christmas mer-
riment, and all around there NAV be 10y
tul people, but the spirit of Christmas only
abldes with those who have made some
the least of these" but be sure that your
opportunity comes, and don't let it go
Dy. 10 have the chance of doing kind
acts and to refrain from it, then can you
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nave 1t in your power to make a little
chlld happy, and TO push it away from you
w IA y me spirit OF Christmas abide with
you! 10 be able to make women and chill
dren happy is the work of Christmas
spirit wrought out in men and women. 1t
comes along so quietly il stands by Won
| and it fills your heart with loving kind
ness until you brim over and share of
your good Sits with those who have
nothing.
No matter who you are, make for vour-
sell happy Christmas. l tell you it is
Wen worth while. You need not look far
to ind some one to whom YOU can give
Tor the one that you should help is al
ways close to you. Christmas is the festi-
val OF the mother and the child, there
lore make make, some mother happy and make
some child happy. Even if you have to
go far to do It. The shepherds travelled
way over the deserts bringing their gifts
20 tna{ Wo1drous Child. and surely you
NO matter who you are, the fashionable
woman or the hard-hearted man of bust
liSSTi lCb YOUR hearts soften and permit
them to rule you for a little while such
thanks will come to you if YOU make a
merry Christmas for some one else as you
nave never had before. and the spirit of
Christmas Will stand by you and give you
a quiet happiness that will last over all
the year. 1t is strange how that spirit of
Christmas brings up in our hearts the de-
sire to keep before us ALWAYS those for
whom Christmas was made Joyful many
years ago. There are professions of chill
dren who are thought of, and the mem
each hoe -, a.
heart that has each missed a little child.
And that mother heart can sympathize
with the hard, communicating old woman
who longed so for her black crane veil
that she might show on Christmas Day
she had not forgotten her daughter
None of us want to be forgotten and all
OF US, year in and year out, utter the same
prayer without knowing it, Lord keep
my memory green" Bah