The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-16

slime in your heart. Smile. And don't
be afraid you are going TO overdo u.
The world can stand for u mighty big
surplus of smiles at this holiday season.
And good cheer is rapid grower and a
sure blossomer. So spread il around,
here, there, and everywhere. Make your
Christmas truly merry Christmas.
Some people will tell you that celebrat-
ing Christmas is just for children. IL
| is for children. II il weren't for the dear
children in the world there wouldn't be
any Christmas, and IL wouldn't belong
before there wouldn't be any world eth
er. Christmas celebration is for children
for children from one minute old up to
| 100 years young. Mark Twain used TO
say he was 40 years young Age
doesn't depend ON your arteries NJ your
liver or the date your grandmother wrote
down in the family Bible. Time itself
was probably invented by some person
who had clam bank back In the days
wheI seashells were the same. as money.
How old or how young you are depends
on your heart, exactly on the way your
heart feels for other folks who are jour
neying along the great highway the same
as YOU are. If you have to be old-fash-
toned to radiate good cheer, be old-fash-
ioned and the world will love You for it.
Everybody should celebrate Christmas.
And lust as heartily and happily for its
deeper spiritual significance as for its
lighter side. Put your heart in it. That
will make it possible for you to give the
great gift.
The Christmas spirit is not alone for
the rich. 1t is not alone for the poor.
II knows no fine shades OF social distinc-
ton. II knows not the strong from the
weak, the sound bodies and those that
may have become twisted or broken. 1t
knows nothing but human hearts. 1t
asks nothing but that thing you can give
the great gift--and be happy for it.
Do not commercialize your Christmas.
Do not let this holy anniversary mean
the appraisal by worth of your gift.
Give. Give freely. Give things that
are pretty. Give things that are useful.
Give the veriest jim-e cracks ii you viii.
Give what you can afford to give. Give
what you want TO give. But with 1T al
put your heart in the gift, with the
Christmas spirit and give with each re-
membrane the great gift, the gift OF all
gifts-love. Again and again wish you
all a merry Christmas.
The second instalment of the serial,
"The Secret of the Storm Country by
Grace Miller White, author of Tess OF
the Storm Country" gives its readers
foretaste of the intensely interesting
complications and situations to come.
"The Christmas He Didn't Want" by
Mabel Dill, illustrated by Frank b.
Schoonover, is full of pathos It's about
an old man and dog-a dog that came
back and filed an empty spot in his
masters lonely life Charlotte Wilson
has charmingly written, and Watson
Barratt illustrated. the story, Bread and
Hyacinths." 1t has a Christmas setting,
and emphasizes the fact that hyaeinths
are quite as necessary to the soul as
bread to the body. my Christmas at
the Front" by Mary Jane Maehi, is an
interesting account of the authors per
sonal experiences as a nurse OF the Chi
cago unit of the British expeditionary
force at Etaples, France. Rhymes and
Chimes for Christmas Time" is page OF
the good old Christmas poems we learned
and loved when we were children, and
which our children, and theirs, too, VIII
learn and love.
John D. Wells has written another
poem. christmas Cheer at Home" which
will find place in the hearts of all who