The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-23

Faces were hastily scrubbed, for
Jhat was part OF the lady's teaching.
Then little HANDS Caressed her skirts.
and tears sprang smarting 70 ewes
unused 10 them as faded, hopeless
women and faded helpless men told
OF their yearnlngs for better things.
The weeks passed. The Postum
Trot Sunday school became day
school too The first good school
teacher ever in the Georgia noun
tains was hired The people came
! ''tromping down out OF the noun.
tings" 10 attend There were boys
! OF ten and men OF thirty, all learning
! 10 say c. The average age in the
school WAS twenty.
Z II is terrible when people forget
J II is terrible when they keep on for.
getting for a hundred years like The
people OF these mountains have. They
have forgotten farming-the best 81
it-and so there is famine much Of
the time. They have forgotten all
but the poorest kind of cooking, Their
preachers are primitive or there are
no preachers at all. and so II is not
surprising that the children have for
gotten Christmas-that they never
heard OF Christmas or Santa Claus
at all
SO when late that fall the Sunday
Lady proposed a Christmas tree for
the great holiday. there were eX
carnations Of wonder
II never heern before o no man
kind putin no :ootin' horns an
things on a tree" said Grandpap Dye
hen he heard about It, Grandpap
can remember the living faces OF
revolutionary war soldiers, hut he
knows nothing OF the telephone or
the wagon that moves without mules.
II was the purpose of the Sunday
LADY to give all the presents on the
tree. But the children wormed OUT
the fact that the Christmas spirit
means the exchange OF gifts.
Pears like | haint got nary moth.
in ter give you-uns' Christmas Tree.
lessen hit mought be nah bull-head.
ed dawg. said Fighting Bill
Bill was sixteen aud the terror OF
the children lie could throw stone
as accurately as his pap could shoot
( He was the hardest for the SUNDAY
+ Lady 10 train. but once won he was
her most loyal champion. The bull
headed dog was the one thing he had
4 ever owned. the one thing that ever
loved him. Yet he resigned this
treasure willingly because the sun.
day Lady said one must give as well
as receive AT Christmas
Bill led the forces that garnered
the tree and he bossed the gang that
set II up in the schoolhouse And
ne WAS made chairman OF the small
committee which should assist he
Sunday Lady on the great day
The celebration was 10 take place
at dark Christmas day. but the sun
day Lady reached the Postum Tro,
school house az noon so as 10 have
plenty OF time 10 trim the tree. At
The sight Of the clearing she stopped.
amazed The open space and as far
back i'm the forest s<she could see
was filed with mules. oxen. ram.
shaCkle wagons and people The
"mountings' had come down 10 see
the celebration. and they had come
early
Where do you all come from
she easped
The Sunday Lady was dismavcd
She had not expected so many. Bu,
not one OF these people was to 20
back into the "mountlngs" giftiess. /.
Oh, puppy. hist me clean up. 40
We-uns can see them thar red shoot. /
in crackers"
Hit pears like I'm just bliged ter
git that thar doll-hits dress is SO,
on same ~ a butterAy's wings" cried
Ninty. from Dark Corners. and later
She got that same doll
There were dolls and TOYS for the
little children. heavy gloves and caps
for their fathers. warm stockings and
ciOaks for their mothers. knitted nit.
tens fer the old women. and slippers
for the old lmen, bright ties for the
mountain swains. and ribbons FOR
their shyPgirls-happiness for every.
body.
BY mistake a tiny mirror, intended
for a girl, went to Cramps Dye. The