Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-12-22

| mere SLE StOJu, sun ana sal f6u 4ooh-
ing, and with the precious veil in her
hand. After the ordinary thank YOU,
she said 10 me. you must let me pay
you the money I've got lady, and, as
I told you yesterday, I'll work out the
rest" l told her It was not necessary,
tha. was glad to think that l had been
able 10 make her happy And then she
began to cry.
THE MOTHERS ACTRESS DAUGH-
TER
She said, 1T mayn't seem much to
you, but It's a great deal TO ne. Times
J has been hard with me, else this'd never
/ gone into the pawnshOp. I'm common,
| lady. but l had q girl and you'd never
thought she was my girl. And she was
! like you and the other ladies and wore
soft furs, and dresses that rustled, and
! always had a nice perfume all around
| her. She was pretty, when she was a
| baby. and when her father died some
/ Kind people got the Sisters interested in
/ her, and they took her in the school for
nothin An she was SO bright and
pretty that they taught her to play on
the piano, an she could sing and talk
to the laUndress that lives IN the same
house with us, and who comes from way
eff across the sea just as well as she
could TO me- though the langwidges was
different. l always thought she was
g0.n' 10 be a teacher, an when she come
home to my poor place, just one room,
used to think how comfortable we'd be
when she got a situation an we could
take a cheap l.tJle fat and enjoy our
selves. But no, she said she was goin'
10 be an actress. l don't know how she
managed ii. No, | never went TO see
her act. Somehow it didn't seem right
10 me. But she sent for me once an
Went to big hotel an there she was
lo0kin like q queen, an she told me
she was married, an showed me the
picture of handsome young man. An
she wanted to give me some money,
but l said No, my dear know jess how
fussy some Son.nlaWs are, an this one
shan't say that your mothers interior
in with YOU.
A LONE OLD WOMAN AT XMAS
TIDE.
Il could always keep myself decent,
but l JUS made Up my mind that l
would nave 10 give her up. Once in
while the ne ghDors would show me
paper where there would be picture Of
her, and It'd tell how she danced and
sang and how much people liked her.
But l never saw her again till one
night last winter near Christmas. I'd
gone to bed. There was knock at the
door, and who should it be but my girl.
l saw she was in trouble and when she
says 10 me, Mother, I'm bad girl, but
have come back to YOU l remen-
bered that story in the Bible where
his father went far out to meet him,
an l never blamed heT. She had a few
Jrinkets, and they went first TO get med
icine. Then came that awful night
when her baby was born. They both
died. The poor Ettle baby seemed to
know it wasn't wanted in this world,
an it jusc opened its eyes an closed
them again. Blu, she, sac sad 10 me,
Mother, l don't want you to forget me-
an ] promised her | wouldn't. An 10
show 1 didn't &c, this Grape bonnet
and that veil and wore them to the fu-
neral That was Christmas eve she
died, nearly year ago, and during The
year | nave been strapped pretty tight,
and | bundled up a lot Of things and
took them to the paWnbroker SO that |
might square myself with the under
Uaker. They was things l didn't care
for. but he wouldn't gimme enough on
them, so I just yanked oil my veil and
left it. An | have been worrying for 1t
evGr since l thought Ia get here IN
tine TO redeem it, cause | kept my tick
ct. but l appreciated your kindness,
lady. an | think you can understand
why Just when it was gettin' near
Christmas wanted to have my veil on,
cause IL seemed to tell those people who
knew her that. no matter what she was,
10 matter how she acted, she was my
sri. an I wore the veil in memory OF
her. God give you and yours happy
Christmas
A HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
WI it come to you and to me unless
we have deserved il? The bells can
ring. the air can be filled with Christ
mas merr.ment. and all around there
may be joyful people, but the spirit of
Christmas only ab.des with those VINO
have made somebody else happy II
need be only unto the least OF these,
but be sure that your opportunity
comes. and don't you let it 80 by. To
have The chance of doing kind acts and
TO refrain from st, then you can expect
Christmas to come to you? To have II
I'm YOUR power 10 make a little child
happy. and TO push il away from you
can the spirit of Christmas abide with
YOU? To be able to make women and
children happy IS the work OF Christ
mas so:r.twr0ught out in men and VIC
men. 1t comes along 50 quietly, II
stands by you. and = fills your heart
WITH loving kindness until you br.m
over and share CT your good gifts with
those who have nothing.
No matter. who you are, make for
yourself a happy Christmas. | tell you
il IS well worth while. You need not
look far TO find some one to whom you
can give. for the enc that YOU should
helm IS always close 10 you. Christmas
IS the festival Of the Mother and the
Child. therefore make some mother
harDy and make some child happy.
Even if YOU have 10 20 far 10 do IL.
The Shepherds Travelled way over the
desert. bringing Their gifts to that Won
drous Child. and surely you cam take
little trouble. No matter who you are,
the fashionable woman or the hard
hearted man Of business, let your hearts
soften and permit them to rule you for
a little while. SUCH thanks viii come
to YOU # YOU make a merry Christmas
for some one else as you have never had
before. and The spirit Of Christmas will
stand by you and give you a quiet hap
p,ness that will last over all the year
Il is strange how chat spirit of Christ
mas brings up in our hearts the desire
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