The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-11-13
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ueOpnluS lulStieuoWn ~ Sucu
human turkey" Tab had beell heard
explaining patiently: "hp knows m.
and he knows his iliiilr. He don't
expect US Ia e,it hinl why You cant
eat anything that knows ITS M me"
Hut every one else was just merely
sensible Aud they md been dis
cussing Christmas In this sensible
strain AZ the town nleptlng tlnt night
before Simeon and Abel hr,nn-ilei their
plan for .stnriardizing their aIiSil,ir
Ieanings
Somrlmdy had said that Jenny Wing
and Brine I,nle who was EhenrZerS
nephew were pxpe ted home for
Christmas and had added that II
didn't lock as tf There wonid be much
Of any Christmas down to the station
| TO meet them" On which Mis- Morti
mer Rates h,d spoken out. philoSoph
fca to fine point of brutality Mis-
Bates was little and brown and quick
and her clothes seemed always to cur
tain her nff 80 that her figure was no
part of her presence
Il amt going to do thing for christ
mas this year" she Declared III nearly
everybody In the village had tntermit,
tently Declared mot n living. breath
ing thing | can't. and folks might just
as well know It. Hat foot WHAT'S the
usp 0f buying tinsel and tlimfam when
you're eating milk gravy to save butter
and using salt sacks for handkerchiefs?
! I amt educated up to see It," -.
Mis- Jane Moran. who had changed
her chair three times to avoid u draft.
sat down carefully in her fourth chair.
her face twitching little az II it's mus
cles were connected with her joints.
christmas won't be no different
from any other day to our house this
year." she said We'll get up and ell
our three meals and sit down and look
at each other We can't even spare
hen-she might lay n we didn't eat
her"
Mis- Abby Winslow. mother Of seve'
| under fifteen tucked up from her rock
! ing chair Mis- WinslOw always sn
! limp In chairs az If they were reachirf
out to rest Der. and indeed this 0ra
! sional yielding to the force Of gravit,
was almost her only luxury.
You amt thinking Of the children.
Mis- Bates" she said nor you eitips
Jane Moran. or you couldn't talk tina
way We cant have NO real Christ
/ mas OF course fsdt I'd planned some
little things made uut, Of what . had II
the house things that wouldn't b.
anything and yet would seem littI'
something
! Mis' Mortimer Rates swept round N
her -
children" she said. fought tO NJ
showed how to do without things
Beinet< aud Gussip amt expecting II
silver of nothing for Christnias--not n
silver"
Mis- WINSTON unexpectedly Jared NJ
" "Whpthers II shows through on the
outside or not" she said Ill net yOr
they are"
MY three" Mis- Emerson Morse pm,
in paciicaIly. "have been Kept from
popping corn and cracking nuts all FIJI
sos they could do both Christmas night
and it would seem like something tha'
was something"
THAT amt the idea" Mis- Bates H.
sisted: IL want them learnt TO do with
out ("Theyll learn that" Mis-
Abby Winslow said: they'll learn -
Happening IA II does to most every
one of us to have no Christmas. they
/ won't he NO distinctions drawn None
Of the children can brag-and children
Ia limbs of Satan for Dragging" sh,
added She was remembering briet
conversation overheard that day he
: tween GusSie and Rep. the minister \
son:
1--WE got doll" said Gussie.
"I've got a dollar" said Pep
My mamma went to tea party
said Gussie. Ill.,
"My mamma give one" said Pep.
Gussie mustered her forces. my
papa goes to work every morning.
she topped 1t.
f. MY papa don't have to-" said Pep
and closed the incident.
II can't help who's a limb Of Satan
Mis- WinslOw replied dOggedly."l can't
seem to sense Christmas time without
Christmas
| ut won't he Christmas time II you
don't have any Christmas" Mis- Bates
persisted
'Oh. yes It WILL" Mis- Winslow said
4 "Oh. yes II will You can't stop that -
1t was Mis- Bates. who. from the
high backed plush rocker. raped with
the blue glass paper weight ON the red
glass lamp and. In the absence Of Mr.
Bates. called the meeting to order. The
Old Trail Town society was organized
on platform Of ''membership unlimit
I'd. dues nothing hut taking turns with
the entertaining. officers to consist Of
president. the host OF the evening Tor
wife. II any. and no minutes to bother
with" And II was to a meeting 81
disposed on the subject NJ christmas
that Simeon Buck rose to present biz
regiment ..-..
Mr. President" he addressed the
Its Nine President. you mimi
GEESE" corrected Bnn Miles. soto