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BOYS TAKE
SEASONS FIRST GAME
PITCHERS BATTLE sEyEN nm
IN1N rIr.L nIaH school
mof BLOWS IT,.

Ia the first game 90 the Season the.
tnlyersitY baseball tehW wuu yes
fesuaN afternoon on Denny flalH
FROM thN broadway htah arhpWi
bunch hN Is score uf % a. in A.
game which wac "a pitchers hHttle
CLARKE Tor the college boys snA
Lord Ter the high achaai wrfa beth
there with all ktuda 90 speed ard
eentf0s at the start "a the game atni
Clarke continued ga hltaW good
form straight through tMtd affaF
holding the eaftaNianH hitleHH Yn9
a~eFarni innings blow up. and baisff
las eunld he fnrhud nut nf thr box.
sever runs a crossed tbs plate
Coach "podu" Thinker was ver~
nfaud ~ thh showing his protn&HH
made ywnieraHN ana sitter tFr sans
ntfuttad NJ II down tho Held uNdaf
= smile a fuBt wide
Hui Lewia ~ the hiah school gave
e. classy exhibition a. short for htA
teAHn. and Waa the star while
Charley Mullen Was the Individual
iuHtrg ~ the cuilbHianH shout tha
first step.
Tha Wrauua useFa a. fa4fawat
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mlnAA.n e...asr .lsa.

MKMrtifA Tsun. MnFrh 10 =
GhafteH street. Inc AtADs MA hmF
who distinguished himself ~ rafrM
iuE . bali thfawn fFens the tHu ~
the AaaktNNten HNnHmHfeHA Hae
siEusf wNnt Hs refers % aa 4 aid
ing eeHfFaft with Manager EaHtitlnu
% thn WNHhin9tan team ard tsfs uis
han1r N TNHEatHa km FwusfG a. the
tFAtuiAg ~44artaFa N3rnet s~aniaAnri
that nta men EMmtEnFt Calfssf fnN fNte
bnuvH " re Ru~a MrpUMh the
championship s&1aRatNn sa the
water ago
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FAMOUS BEAUTY is
NOW AGED AND DECREPIT

SIOUX FALLS. r. D.. March 10.
Hy u - Aged and %dncrupit. living
1n aims. hrr name forgotten. JuHir
Manifold, tho girl FOR whom El
Htuhns killed "Ilm" Flalte DE the
early seventies in New York. h. llp
Ing today nt Whtart0wu, mar here
"a pataiytiU depending on charity for
support
AZ watortown. she ~ known ~
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CHICAGO March i0-By u. p
Dustin hhrnum the young and
handsome leading man " THE Vir-
gininn ana Hfha Hauawman" com.
pauioH today ~ in -p1sarsslou of o.
marriage license to wed Mary 49,
tonwelt IT radix Ohio, who waH his
leading lady two years ago The
license has rs DAYS 10 run aud Fur
mum refuses 10 reveal when ~ where
the wedding viii take place FAR
mum took out r. license under tho
name Delaney tafuum and gave
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AGAIN TAKES
ON HACKENSCHMIDT

Frank gotch and George Hack a
achmidt. he 'itnasian Llou.H have
aligned Tor another wrestling match
for b catch -aHsatch-cau cham
piOnAhtp ~ the world. % be pulled
off In Meibuure. Australia, on the
9th % nest November. The fight
has been arranged By an Australia
syndicate and Will be 90 q finish.
The only previous match between
these two men ven 3 hours and 40
minutes without either getting
"a fafI. when Hack showed a yellow
giving ths match 10 gotch rather
Than have n said 1f him that he had
been thrown.
lie afiN maintains that bio has
never been thrown. and aaEA Gutfh
can't do g.
Goteh viii now proceed 20 an
Tighten hiuI@on November ath.
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UTICA ~ Y. March 10 by u.
y John Bntteffield. who vas one
~ the party Of sever who outlined
and established the nmit overland
mali route TO the. Pacific coast III
1858. later adopted by the American
Express company. died at his home
hnra Iaal nlRhl. aged -.
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OMAHA MAY GET THE
JOHNSON-JEFFRIES co

OMAHA. Net March 10 Az
rAuNemanfs are unw WW8wf way heE1
for = uHhf . cen jim Hnffftra aut
4Ark iuinsun. the Tight 60 tAhn place
faWfra raffFufh and MARTA WFaaY o.
aam Francisco are e-rEtnaHftuR ti4
contrast and aahua Craaa a. attrna
leg 90 the Omaha END mhteh ins
eEWaNn the passage 20 n hlH through
tha Legislators permitting boxing IN
this state
Already this bfH has hnaH prepared
and much work. has beer put on it
TIE taftfuFNtamR WIZ bm So umaA.m
an April Z 10 nlann thu deal IN tNe
h4t4 passes ira f~ralaiatufa NaHamNH
% TIE central taraffa8 - Omaha the
promoters believe the largest fight
efead ssnr satharui can be aFaak n
hthEttan
A. WiaHEea m0W tha contract win
csft for q t~N-Faumd tnkina contest
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Al that ~ uaeaaaafY for the bis
fighter ta 40 is % taha dH@n Nla
ufnfHt Hire ~ five inches TMte hn
can 81 In e memsh " tive uf q n
niMtaHf TRAILING To Develop hiN
aruss aad wrists = fraettou ~ an
innA AnW tralHHF can 10 thls fur
him IN three maHfha To fun Oft
- qaunds % san fAt, Wnirh Will
disappear az gnr ssFae time h4a maist
decreases sud viii nos reanifN az
aitfaaat ~trAtninK TIE iuvrraNa htp en-
pan#inn a tFiffe and rwENin enmffut
% hts Wind Sa naoFs training all
tui1 han HvsfY fasihaN player has
20 So through feNutaftg sHefF seas
on nnaeF hsa uWn direction and
which a. self with BIS expert RATA
urs Asia NHag&RA should prove . tmnfe
ptEMVnn@
Thsfn yea have o.
Ne says ~ Sin nEht 10 - can
got ia aHapn.
Hs ran get in SHAPE. ~th~rrfugs
no atA fight. aaa probably mtft
rhMffSnKw tnhnson Tor the hsagNn
@eieht this whleh hu fuFta4t~a 10
Burns h.fnre the anow Tiles Hkatu
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Mrs Mary LAWYER w New York
She known as one NJ lia most
ftfuuftn beauties WHOM = young
W0mHn she waa cGurled aud petted
ly society and many ~ the famous
miilianairnG 0f her Day were slaves
io her command. Row she is 10
yuira old and non % her former
friends seem 10 know ~ her eNiht-
Duen
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mere
what memories the name ~ Tom
Connect brings 20 The follower ~
athletics. We sea him. short. rt0cby.
POWERFUL. resllns of the quarters On
t4erklay oval. Manhattan neid. 1raF~
ern Ialand. Of IN Madison Square
Garden. as he 40 in the soH. IN
hsafahle ~ tire cracks who were
plffad against him. and they ~ere
the flowers of Amefiean
CONNECT has nsvsr had m e.laal
IN fhgn country. Mile runners 81
late have received p iof ~ credit.
notably Trude. for his splendid Ger
fDrmance IN the Martinique. hat that
little old mark 81 AIS -, made ~
Connect at Traverk Island 81 Au&aAt
1896. refuses 70 give way 70 the BEST
Thaf record mile was run without
mace. on a track tina Was not he
fastest a. any time II was ~ hot
fhaf C0nneM wanted 10 postpone
tha attempt against time. but
Count glaunini. me coach. laughed
and cent him after Father Time.
Couneff scarcely seemed 10 touch
the ground ~ h. bumped forward
AZ the pBatol crack. At the half Il
was certain ne had the record at bis
mefcy. and when. about 100 yards
from the wire. ~ tor or a terrific
sprint. the crowd broke int0 "a roar
and Connect finished apparently not
the least tired.
a week before Conner had catah.
Ilahed 4 thFea-qnartaN mile record
n 2szf As. which mark also stands
10 this day In winning he defeat
ed Fitzpatrick. OytOu. Carter and
Remington.
II has been conceded by critics
that had CDnDeff been IN competi-
ton the day IN established The
present mils figure Re would have
run seconds faater No man WIFI
run his best when nof forced,
That same sufqmef, 81 Bergen
Point. Connect ran q and ne
fourth miles IN 54N f-5 and one
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with Winters chills, come washday
ills"
Ever heard that old rhymef It's going
out of date now. Every woman who
abandons the old back-breaking, health
wrecking, washboiler, hot-watcr way of
washing clothes, and uses Fels-Naptha in
lukewarm water, is giving it a kick farther
back.
Fels-Naptha soap has done more than
anything else in the world to take the ills
out of washday. Especially in Winter.
The Fels-Naptha method does away
with boiling and nauseous steam and sick
ening odors. Does away with washtub
drudgery and redeemed hands and face.
With Fels-Naptha you wash clothes
comfortably, in lukewarm water, without
hard-rubbing, and the clothes are far cleaner
and last longer-hannels, woolens, colored
goods as we'll as the white things.
II you aren't in the procession, better
join. Get a cake of Feis-Naptha to-day and
see just how easy a washing can be.
Follow carefully the directions on the
red and green wrapper.
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MARLIN. TeK. March The
first ncelaunf va the Giants camp
accurred whou OTIS GFandalt. the
hnrruiean pitcher. fell. while turn
iuE first bass HpEatniuR his ankle
t. nov HH NfufEHAAs
taking tFsatnYent runI tnn iraiuaf.
y no hopes % lapa hia charge aNie
a. wNlk la a rguuia - MaNkM hut
81 viii b. q louH time before tho
his frlius al pitch
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and 0neh half miles IA Gas 2-s. and
neither performance has ever been
cqnalod.
Conuen is all bat forgotten now
ana ~ VIII surprise many To- know
that he ~ wearing uncle Sans
blue iu the Alaskan gold fields.
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Mr. Snburbs-' I'm just going into the drug store to get a
supply Of quinine, Anty. My wife had the house Ike
a Turkish steam-bath with boiling clothes before |
came out and can feel myself catching cold already"
Antv Drudgc-" That's too bad. Mr.. Suburbs. I'll just
go right up there and show Mrs. Suburbs how TO do
her washing with Fels- Naptha in lukewarm water
without boiling or hard-rubbing. Then you'll never
have steam or odors in the house on washday and IL
win be 80 much easier for your wife"
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NEW YORK. March ia sun
mons was served TODAY on James T..
Joffrtes and another on lanes soilv
manager - the theatre where
tefsriea ia appearing. directing them
10 appear IN police court and ax-
plain why @effries indulses IN %
.thoatre. IN violation Of the anti.
prize fight law
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MA TENEE IDOL WILL
BE MARRIED SOON


ihls age as - Miss conwella age
WAS given as "a.
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BASEBALL

pade Drinkers university a4uad
- tuWchfd tn Nputa Wffh mea W.
chow Considerable class Tha per.
forsaaRrs ~ Pitcher Isn Ctarks. Ia
sea ~ waa remarkable N regard
20 ms cuutraA speed and tha an-
aaranee ~ hiH Eresa AFrn
Manager sfsesFt ~ tfs snGver-
sits b. sehati lean has been a great
pains % prepare a suitable diamond
Tor the boys 10 Emmhol on. without
danger 20 eyes aud noses from hal
hnuheNH taken or l@nar stones whien
Formerly covered the dlamund Al
these have been removed tf pillow
ins up the earth and sitting Il frua
- the pentiss. then putting o. hack
sSata and tamptsa - utth a ssnam
roller.
Gvnesni opinieu seems e. give the
White &ca = r1iunr position ia thn
nnal rating Tor the coming season.
Ell due 60 the iaaH ~ Fislier Jones'
There f. no doubt thai Jones' e. =
mtsu. rut tEat his lose Nffl
0ellift tho soNH chances H. ~ say
AZ lsaat q dnhmtahls question
President 0nrlans arsam % a
soft aeaf ln tae National iea qua has
fallen through already. Nos comes
the announcement that Fgiilam can
MNHM ~ MA.M ANY TIME W. MNsfNH Va
and that 10 bn don't take "a IoNuute
HnNdtaf Will ha thm man Too bad.
Mr. VBrHHawn.
Charley Carr. tie labkN manager
% the Indianapolis champs ~ the A
a. last NHar has Jared southwark tn
N0bhle up n battery and a couple ~
outfiniderm from tha FIRST bunch that
McGfaN lets a 20 Marlin Springs
Rube Marquhard. the 81. 00s
beauty. and King chrtafanahf
Matthew aon got tuKether with the
two teams q tha NInnfa yesterday
and believe me there were SOME
doinmH Tho King finally got away
with the goods. however. ny "a
margin ~ pna run in a game o.
which the score WaN E1-1F
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DO you want 20 borrow money
Sec who loans u. on page G. $50
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WANT-Board and room. Soc
page G. 80
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HOLDER OF Mile RECORD
NOW IN NOME COUNTRY

NONE. AlAaks. March A-Tommy
Connect. at n time the greatest
runner IL America ard the holder
Of tbs amateur miie record, z -
the army engineer corps stationed
here.
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nnY a Champion Gas HanEe and
ket a coal Or woea range free. sss
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Moore Theatre

John cost Manager.
Matineea Tomorrow and Saturday.
A ~s4ubbors Cinderella
BY HouEh. Adams and Howard.
Musical Comedy Event Of senasm.
Homer ~ Mason aud Notable Cast,
s0c % tLbe. Mats. xsc 70 81.
Coming Week of March IL
Charles UfiAfH Eham's Complete
Production.
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COMPANY 81 s0--Orrhesfrn Of 20.
Seat Sale Thureday. Mail orders
Nav
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very late-look! It's almost nire.Y"
and the girl and the boy cried out to-

~S~N>A S~SO o. s>AO
gether.
"Oh, the Beasts! The Beasts!"
They pressed against her, a head on
either shoulder, and held her hands in
theirs, while she told them tale of
boy in German forest whose ia
Their and mother were so poor that
there was not enough to eat in the
house. She told them how he lay in
his cot on Christmas Eve and heard
them plan; how he listened as they
divided what food was left into three
portions for tomorrow breakfast,
the largest for the boy; how he
sobbed to himself in the dark as he
heard them arrange tc kill his two
friends, the old horse Friedel and the
old COW Minna, rather than let them
starve to death; how, lying awake
late in the night, he could not bear
to think that the dear horse and COW
stood hungry in the barn, on their last
night of life; how he stole into the
kitchen and found the coarse bread
and the milk that were saved for his
own breakfast, and carried them out
to the stable; how, as he came to the
door, he heard strange hoarse voices
speaking low, and listened and found
that it was Friedel and Minna talking
together; how then he remembered
that once a year, at midnight on
Christmas Eve, dumb beasts may find
speech in memory of the night when
the Christ-9lild lay among beasts, in
the manger; how little Hans listened
| to the thin old horse and the hungry
old COW and heard them grieving for
the poverty of their master and mis-
tress and heard them speak of the Sc
cret which, If the beasts might have
speech to tell 1t, would make every
thing right; how Hans went in boldly
then and gave the animals his break
fast, and asked them to tell him the
secret; how they told him, in unused,
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morniag-couldn't 6isappCint the ba-
by" said the steady voice.
Il know" the clergyman agreed.
I'm in the same box. Yet" he
harked back, "it's taking too much
risk. You have no right to run such
a risk. How much are you carrying?"
Three thousand dollars"
The man outside drew a sharp
breath as if the distinct words had hit
him. Three thousand dollars!
The clergyman inside repeated
them. ''Three thousand dollars! It's
too much to carry after dark through
nest of banditti"
"Banditti!" The others tone pro-
tested.
But DR.. Harding persisted. cat least
leave the money in town."
"Where?" Maxwell asked. "The
banks are closed. The mems wages
must be paid the twenty-sixth. I'll
carry 1t safe enough-the Maxwells
have carried their employees wages to
Maxwell Field for five generations"
The clergyman's reply was serious.
with two Maxwells killed to discour-
age the practice" he said. There was
silence for moment. Then, 81 see
what can be done," the older man
spoke. Give me the money. I'll take
it to the rectory tonight, and to-mor.
row you'll all be over to service and
you can fetch it back. How is that?"
you've lonely drive, too"
"Only two miles, said Harding
"And there's no danger for me. No.
body suspects parson of money"
Maxwell considered, hesitated. 81
think I'll accept your offer, doctor,
he said at last. "Quarles, the man
ager, objects to my landing with a
bag which l carry carefully myself, as
must when it's loaded this way
The man outside, strained forward
could imagine the manufacturers
hand laid on the stout bag on his
knee. my dress-suit case 1 throw
at somebody to be put into the trap
and think no more of it, but this
keep by me, and I'm so we'll known
about the country that they are ia
miliar with my ways"
The confident voice, the voice of {
parsonage, went on, but the shabby
figure outside relaxed, shivering bit
against the wall of the station. He
was thinking fast. but his listening
now was less careful; he knew the
rest; his data were collected.
There was whistle down the track
and a wave of humanity drew togeth
er; the train pulled in, the man how
ering in the background waited t.
see Mr.. Maxwell of Maxwell Field, ii
fur-lined ulster with it's collar an,
cuffs of sable, and the thin clergy
man in his overcoat a little gray a
the seams, enter car together, be
fore he sprang unnoticed into the ca
behind them.
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rusty voices, that beneath the empty
stall of the stable, was a treasure of
gold, buried a thousand years before
by the Romans, which would make
his mother and father richer than
they could dream; and how just then
the bells of the distant village rang
for Christmas morning, and the poor
beasts were dumb again, and Hans
went back to his bed and waited for
daylight to tell his father and moth
found it and were happy with the
horse and COW, and rich ever after.
The story ended and the children
were quiet, as if listening, thrilled, to
those stammering hoarse tones of the
good brutes in the chilly stable.
Nov, chickens, you must go to
your roosts," the mother broke their
dream, and her words ended in a sigh.
Father! it's too bad to have him left
out of Christmas Eve, isn't it?"
Eyes, it is" agreed Benny sturdily
Nobody can say Peaceful Was the
Night 'cept father. It's too
bad for father he had to go
to the thing-ma-jig's funeral"
and, being Christmas Eve, Benny went
unreproved for the description of his
great-uncle.
"Father'll be home before morning,
won't he?" asked the girl, and went
on. "Oh, remember. You said some
time in the night, but we can't tell
when, cause the trains get late Well,
hope he'll be here in the morning
when we wake up. 1t wouldn't be
Christmas without father; would 1t,
mother?"
II can't bear to have him out SO
late" the little woman said, and her
tones We're troubled. She went on as
If thinking aloud-a way she had
with her big babies. Father isn't
well-he ought to go SOUTH wish he
| could CO." and Benny answered in
strong baby tones:
'Oh, ne can't go, mother. We have
not got money enough-you said we
hadn't"
No. dear we haven't" she sighed;
and the girl shook her name of hail
| back thoughtfully.
Il wish | could find a lot of none,
like Hans, for father" she said.
The fascination of the freight as
the children lay in their beds, theil
mother gone, held the drowsy eyes
open. The girl. the more aggressive
the more imaginative of the two, wen
back, with thought working its wa!
in her mind, to the story which haC
a hold on both, the story of how two
dumb brutes may talk once year OF
Christmas Eve.
do you believe it's true, Benny?
she consulted her brother "Mothe
didn't say it wasn't, you know"
Then it's true, and believe it,
true" said Benny stoutly. Pm gla'
they can. l know Niger would enjo
talking. He looks like he wanted t
talk when he squeals, and he squeal
words sometimes. l heard him sa
corn bread one day"
Y CONTINUED on Page
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Andrews

close against the woman between
them; the girls hair was spread CD
her mothers shoulders and the boys
pressed her arm.
Say The Night Before Christ.
mas again mother" he begged. You
promised you'd say it next"
mo, she didn't, Benny" objected
the girl. "She only promised she'd
say it again; she hasn't said While
Shepherds Watched at all yet, or TOLD
us the story of the beasts on Christ
mas Eve. Have you, mother?"
"My knee, Benny-you weigh a ton.
DEAR" demonstrated the mother, push
ing a heavy foot. We'll do this,
Alice. Benny knows While. Shep-
herds Watched as we'll as l, and if
he'll say it, then I'll do The Night
Before Christmas and the story, and
just anything you want"
II like your saying Of it, mother,
better than do Benny's. He always
makes the angels talk like people"
Alice demurred.
But the boy, undisturbed by criti.
cism, began at once. His large brown
eyes fixed on the fire, he recited,
slowly and conscientiously, the two
hundred-year-old Christmas carol:
While Shepherds watched their focks by
night
All seated on the ground,
The angel of the Lord came down
And glory shone around,
the reedy voice repeated, and listen.
er might have understood what Alice
meant. 1t was much as if John Jones
had met William Smith and men
toned to him matter of news about
mutual friend, an angel. But to the
woman who listened with the boys
head against her shoulder, the incon-
gruous infections were sweet; the
audacity of it seemed to bring so
near, that it thrilled her, night
when, for another Childs sake, the
skies had rung with song that has
echoed always. Benny's fresh tones
disclosed, with careful conversational
emphasis, more and more facts about
angels to him a shade less real, a
shade more holy than his mother.
To you in David's town this day
Is born of David's line
A Saviour. who is Christ the Lord
And this shall be the sign
was calculated in realistic manner
and the child proceeded to explain
Thus spoke the seraph and forth
with appeared shining throng of an
gels-praising God-who thus ad
dressed their joyful song
An atheist would have got an i'm
preston, hearing him tell it, that the
boy had seen with his eyes and heard
with his ears what he related. Their,
was silence as the sturdy tones end
ed and Benny's eyes gazed on into
the heart of the fire, as if they saw il
a vision the still eastern night, the
shepherds on the hills, the white fligh
of angels.
You repeated it very nicely" Mrs
Harding said softly, and put her mouth
against his head again. Now yol
shall have yours"
The big 11-year-old girl caught hel
mothers hand-a hand worn with
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"say The Night Before Christmas Mother He Begged"

The two big children and their small
mother sat on the rug before the fire,
the fire being an especial luxury for
Christmas Eve. The nursery was a
pleasant room; the spendthrift fire.
light washed brightness over gay col
ors of coarse stuffs, over cheap prints
of fine pictures, over the whitewashed
walls and the peace of the two white
beds folded back for the night. There
was homelike atmosphere, full of
the alert leisure of house where
much is done. The children leaned
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housework and sewing-and held It
against her cheek.
Twas the night before Christmas
when all through the house," the Mo-
man began, and went on, as many
women have begun and gone on with
the charming old poem, to children on
Christmas Eve. The fire cracked in
the pauses, and the logs fell apart
with gentle heaviness. an accom-
paniment to the swinging sentences.
Now just one more, children dear.
and you really must go to bed. It's