Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-24
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OUR WISH FOR you!

Merry Christmas
. May tomorrow fulfill greatest expectations and
BRING to you and and and contentmen and
Christmas cheer in overfowing measure.
And the Christmas spirit abide you every day
OF the coming year-and forever.
We believe in Christmas, it what it typifies
what it does every twelfth month for the whole worldand
for Christmas might become exactly like scroggs that fam
Gus character Of Dickens you'll find in his christmas
They don't exactly to be Grabbed fault find
They don't intend ALLEVIATE their friends by their
fortunate traits of character they tried to
1t is for the people who busy plng up dollars
and schemeng for thing and another they think worth
while that makes glad of Christmas For on this day
they can't stem the mighty tide Of good will They must
smile and give back the CHEEKY greetings they get The shell
for institution that will do this if is only day
in the year.
anything that will lift us out of the rut for an hour
day worth while We solve the great mystery
of creation We do not know why here how long
vved 1900 of savagry the human struggled
upward and onwards towards the light.
Tomorrow in ten thousand churches the story the
shepherds who watched their ocks by night the three
who followed the star the in Bethlehem and
ndng Paid hGmage age to the new born babe with rare and
and story.
And We'll all feel pretty kindly towards each other and
there'll be lot OF forgiving and forgetting.
After ALL you get out of life exactly what put into
them they'll wish we'll and help too The more you
do it, the bigger dividends you'll get. Anyhow that's what
And after the big Christmas dinner tomorrow. proba-
bly, you'll begin to talk about the folks back
wonder what they're doing. And you'll maybe get bit
homesk for regular snowstorm for the sound of sleigh
bells for the frost the window pane the big apples
and the thousand and other things that Memory brings
before you.
Perhaps you'll the little church the hill with it's
spre pointing straight up to Heaven and maybe those
whom you have not seen for long, long time will
roopng into your thoughts That's the way with Christmas
You have time think of things have time
rest of the year.
And from the snowy hills and Valleys the nipping cold
the red seds and redder mittens thoughts will jump
back to and you'll look out of the window the
golden sunshine of perfect California day bathing
peaceful Valley And you'll be pretty glad at that that you
don't have to bring in heaps of wood for the big fireplace
and do all those chores did out in the biting cold
Then the youngsters.
We've saved them for the last because they best
part of Christmas If you have more you know all
about it. You don't need to read in any newspaper about
their shining eyes, their fixed determination catch Saint
Nick in the act of filling their stockings and told about
the glad shouts that will hl the house about daylight
Christmas morning The Saint Nick scheme always ivvers
for the youngsters but their joy dampened by
fact the next morning.
If you have child you understand and appreciate
the story of The Child little better than those who can
only read about and imagine it.
Christmas!
The day of the child.
We grownups can get much real Joy and happiness
out of the children if we only badly enough
Surely.
Merry Christmas to you, and the happiest gladdest
New Year You have ever known!