Delaware gazette and state journal., 1895-12-26

nice perfume all around her. She was
pretty when sho was baby. and when
her father died some kind people got
the Sisters Interested in her, and they
took her in the school for nothiu'.
An shu was so bright and pretty that
they taught her to play on the piano,
an sbc could sing and talk to the
laundress that lives in the same house
with us, and who comes from way off
across the sea Just as we'll as she could
to me, though the langwidges was diff
ferent, always thought she was goin'
to bo q teacher, an when sho come
home to my poor place, Just lone room,
l used TO think how comfortable we'd
be when she got a situation an we
could take cheap little flat and enjoy
ourselves. But no, she said she was
goin' to be an actress, | don't know
how she managed it. No, | never
went to see her act. Somehow 1t didn't
seem right TO me. But she sent for
me once, an went to big hotel, an
there che was loolSin' like queen, an
she told mo sho was married, an showed
mo the picture Of handsome young
man. An she wanted to give me some
money, but | said No, my dear,
know Jess how fussy some son-in-laws
are, an this one shan't say that your
mother's interferin' with you.
A LONE OLD WOMAN AT xMAsTIDE.
81 could always keep myself decent,
but just made up my mind I'd have
to give her up, Once in a while the
neighbors 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 mover 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 to me, Mother, I'm bad girl,
but | have come back to you, | re.
membered that story in the Bible where
his father went far out TO meet him,
an never blamed her. She had few
trinkets, and they went first to get
medicine. Then came that awful night
when her baby was born. They both
died. The poor little baby seemed 10
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, | don't want you TO forget
me, and | promised her | wouldn't.
An to show / didn't, got this crane
bonnet and that veil and wore them to
the funeral. That was Christmas eve
she died, nearly year ago, and during
the year | have been strapped pretty
tight, and | bundled up lot of things
and took them to the pawnbroker so
that 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 of my veil
and left it. An | have been Worrying
for it ever since ! thought I'd ret
here in time to redeem it, cause |
kept my ticket, but | appreciate your
kindness, lady, an | think you can
understand why just when it was get.
tin near Christmas ! wanted to have
my veil on, cause it seemed to tell
those people who knew her that, no
matter what she was, no matter how
she acted, she was my girl, an wore
the ven IN memory of her. God give
you and yours a happy Christmas. "
A HAPPY CHRIsTMAsl
Will it come to you or to mo unless
we have deserved it? Tho bells can
ring, the air can be filled with Christ
mas merriment, and all around there
may DO joyful people, but the spirit of
christmas only abides with those who
have made somebody else haupv. IT
need be only unto the least of these. -
but be sure that your opportunity
comes, and don't you let il 20 by. To
have the chance of doing kind acts and
to refrain from it, then can you expect
Christmas to come TO you? To have
IT in your power to make little child
happy, and to push it away from YOU
can the spirit of Christmas abide with
your 10 be able to make women and
children happy is the work Of Christ.
mas spirit wrought out in men and
women. 1t comes along so quietly, it
stands by you, and it fills your heart
| with loving kindness until you brim
over and share of your good gifts with
those who have nothing.
No matter who you are, mako for
yourself happy Christmas. toll
| You it is well worth while. You need
not look Tar TO find some ono to whom
/ you can give, for tho one that YOU
| should help is always close to YOU,
| Christmas is the festival OF the Mother
and the Child. therefore make some
mother happy and make somo child
happy. Even il you have To 90 far ia
40 1T. Tho shepherds Travelled way
over the deserts bringing their gifts ia
that wondrous Child, and surely YOU
can 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
70 rule you for little while. Such
thanks Will come to you il You make q
merry Christmas for some one elsa as
you have mover had before, aud the
spirit of Christmas will stand by YOU
ana give you a quiet happiness that
VIII last over all the year. II is strange
how that spirit OF Christmas brings NJ
IN our hearts the desire to keen before
us always those for whom Christina,
was made Joyful many years AGO. There
are professions of children who AR,
thought Of, and the memory Of eacI
one comes back to tho mother heart tha'
has each missed little child. Anf
mat mother hoart can sympathize will
tho hard, common looking old wunnr
who longod 70 for her black crapn Vel
that she might show on Christmas DA,
sle had not forgotten her daughter.
None Of Ms want tp he forgotten. pnt
az OF u.s. year in and year out. utte
ile same prayer without knowing it
Lord Keep my memory green,
BAB.
Brereton- Erhnrd Nuptlals ut Ieyves.
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