The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-12-24

count red in mid-afternoon entering
tho ""ch-advertised. much-crowded
boof-room OF q department store IN
haste TO get at the forty-eight center,
and th'rtv-niners: she was high and
broad and muscular. an Amazon that
need not have put on extra effort to
make her way-but the spirit Of
Christmas-the modern-was strong
upon her.-and as we passed her on
the way out into blessed out-ofdoors,
even in our hurry we could not but
notice her wild look. her painting
breath, her elbows out on defensive
and offensive the way IN which she
marched on. unswervingly, unrelent-
ingly like an avalanche. toward the
ba~oo'n hooks.
Overheard at the book counter
'Dont you think a nice little book
liFe this is a good present to give?"
"A little book? What is the name?"
why don't know. but It's nice
little book in clean white binding
believe I'll get a dozen. A dozen.
please. and see that they're all fresh"
The calendar square again. Won.
en- madly struggling: another Amazon.
this one brow-beating a pale.faced
girl afflicted with a cold and. wearing
= too-much Christmas air: Cant YOU
get me envelopes to put those calen.
dars inY"-dimensions OF calendars 10
by "a inches-"It's 80 hard when you
get home to hunt around and pack
things. I wouldn't have bought the
calendars II hadn't thought you
would pack EN-. Say, take that new
one out of that nice box. hang II up
and give me the box. Not allowed to,
What's the diff. they'll never know"
And the pale-faced clerk bends to the
Amazon's viii.
A large. canny. prosperous gentle
man at candy store. carefully select.
Ing and considering purchase Of 2s
cents worth Of Kindergarten mixed.
Brave. foolish. big-hearted shop
girls many spending their present.
all. and drawing on the future. To
make a Christmas for the army ~
home.
We do generous deed. one tn,
calls for large sacrifice. We have
gone down town all saddled. sp
bridled. for the days work. three neat
long pencils neatly sharpened to lonr
points, when we become one of n mob
assailing the enclosure where blank.
books, tissue-paper, holly-stickers and
all that are confirmed firm the greedy
hands Of thousands hungry to get
their share for the urgent necer sit,
OF doing up gifts with approved ornate
completely. The clerks here all pale
and grippe-y lookingi one, so wee and
pallld. has momentarily lost her rea.
son because OF the loss of her pencil
A line OF people wait with feverish
impatienCe, scowls deepen. muttered
growls are heard. the wee, pallid girl
grows moro pallid and grippe-y look.
ing With mighty effort OF the will
We hand forth one of those precioup
neat, long-pointed pencils; the pale
face CLOVIS, the tension Of the crowd
lessons, we feel ourselves both pri
waite and public benefactor.
Another pale-faced, grippe-y look
ing clerk. this one standing looking
wistfully at cases where bright silver
CLEANS through the glass. Give me
a spoon for a child, something cheap
And she herself needs pair o
shoes!
Husband and wife shopping in un
wonted personal partnership. Away
the talk of what 1T" will like. Tit
Child. And the sight of the deepl!
interested faces Of the many husband
and-wife groups sets us to believe
after all. There Ia method In the gen
eral madness, for who would not b
q fool for The Child's sake!
KATHERINE POPE.