The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-12-26

FOR THE COMING YEARS.



How many pearls did you string this
Christmas time to put away In your
Jewel box that you will take out In flu
ture years to count over lovingly when
age has touched them with her magic
wand, softening their Iuster 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 counts. Per-
haps you ate too much dinner or per-
haps you didn't get that pearl necklace
or the new davenport you have been
longing for all the year, but IL there
weren't enough other things to over
balance the account when credited UP
on the other side, then Christmas was,
after all. only a sorry failure and you
should see to IL that Christmases or
that kind don't come oftener than once
in a lifetime.
Maybe you received everything that
your heart 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 q sofa and
enjoyed being miserable for the rest
Of the day, as well IS making every
as possible. That Is perhaps all right
as long as o enjoyed II, but what
ARE you going to have left In other
years to look back n
Some woman who wrote what she
called real truths on Christmas, claims
that the only people who really get all
there is out of the day are children and
.s-l. fla xanf nF fha MsOrId a ro
only looking back on the days when
they rushed down In their little nighties
TO scream with Joy at sight OF the
stockings fairly bursting with mys-
FERROUS toys, or a little later on took
the cover from the big box OF flowers
that told palmer han words what they
liked best to hear. Perhaps h was
right. this woman, but after all there
are some who get real pleasure out OF
ChrIstmases even though the Joyous
ones of which she tells do lie back in
the 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.
One girl this year who was away
from home and friends insured herself
against a long, cheerless Christmas by
borrowing q poor child whose hearth
stone Santa Claus did not have down
on his visiting list, and preparing for
her a real Christmas like those other
more fortunate children are so used to.
II never had such a lovely Christmas
In my life,'' she said when asked IL she
had been repaid for all her trouble. "As
long as / live / shall never forget that
child's screams OF delight when she
saw first her stocking filled with SIM
pie little toys. and 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 l just
backed Off in a corner and had a little
cry. / 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 SIS and now ]
wouldn't take a hundred for the mem
DRY of II. 1t is one OF the things that
will last when other recollections have
faded into insignlicance. / know now
how to make my Christmas last and
how to insure against the heart aches
that I hear so many women complain.
ug OF at this eason Of the year"