The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-12-27

FOR THE COMING YEARS.

How many pearls did you string this
Christmas time to put away in your
jewel box that you will AXE out in fu-
ture years to count over lovingly when
g has touched them with her magic
wand. softening their luster and their
coloring?
How many happy thoughts and pre-
cious memories will you be able to look
back on as belonging to last year"
when Christmas of 1907 rolls around?
After all that is what count Per-
haps o ate too much dinner or per-
llaps o didn't get that pearl necklace
or the new davenport you have been
longing for all the year. but If there
weren't enough other things to over
alance the account when credited up
IN the other side. then Christmas was.
after all, only q sorry failure n you
should see to 1t that Christmases OF
that kind don't come ottener than once
in a lifetime.
Maybe you received everything that
your hear desired and a lot more be-
sides. and yet because you we've away
from those with whom you had spent
tother happier holidays you couldn't
seem to think Of anything else and you
finally just gave up trying. settled your
self in a little heap on a sofa and
enjoyed being miserable for the rest
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body else around you as uncomfortable
as possible. That is perhaps all right
tAs long as you enjoyed 1t. but what
ARE you going to have left in other
years to look back on?
Some oma who wrote what she
called. real. truths on Christmas. claims
that III only people who really get all
there ts out Of the day are children and
engaged girls, the rest of the world are
only looking back on the days when
they rushed down in their little nighties
to scream with joy at sight of the
terious toys. or a little later on tool
the cover from the big box Of flowers
that told palmer than words what they
liked best to hear. Perhaps she was
right. this woman, but after all there
are some who get real pleasure out OF
ones of which she tells do lie bac in
tho years. They are the ones who fill
the day SO full with plans for other
peoples happiness that they have no
time to think of whether they are sad
themselves.
from home and friends insured herself
against a long, cheerless Christmas by
borrowing a poor child whose hearth
stone Santa Claus did not nave down
on his visiting list, and preparing for
her a rea Christmas like those other
more IOTluIldte CnllQfen are So uSeQ TO.
Il Y had such a lovely Christmas
In my life" she said When asked if she
had been repaid for all her trouble. "As
long as I live 1 shall never forget that
child's screams of delight when she
saw first her stocking filled with sim
pie little toys. n afterwards a real
Christmas tree glistening with tinsel
and lights. She forgot about every
thing else and just sat down on the
floor, folded her hands and rocked back
and forth. talking to herself all the
time. She wasn't noticing me so 1 just
backed off in a corner and had a little
cry. l couldn't help ito see her maxi
ing so much over what other children
take as a matter Of course. The whole
thing only cost me IS and now /
wouldn't take a hundred for the mem-
Dry Of it. 1t is one OF the things that
will last when other ~recollections have
faded into insignificance. I know now
now to make my Christmas last and
how to insure against the heart ache7
that l near so many women complain.
>ng of at this season Of the year."