The Nevada County picayune., 1920-12-23


 AOr7S ONE boy to another
 $ : !: :::: :::: :: :: ::::: i: :::: !: l tcJ%yT IzSYS1 a> q billy-gOat around i ,AStJ{IdZgI thC ears-I want 10 give ] C-if9ds3 e t as my opinion that a . SSWNfpT. Christmas anywhere but IN oS9AS6A1 in the country is no # ....:..... ......%.. ... .:.-".. 2. . ...:. i. tl#,..sl5=#a Haise alarm. an imitation. have lried botH kinds, and so l know. Acitv Christmas has all the lin and tin>e aed Chat is all. By the time you get as cid and feel as young as am, you ind most of the plate worn of.
 Honestly. boys faud girls1, 1 don't think santa Claus himself ever feels very much at home except OH d rural route He has Il mighty poor job in q big town, with flues instead Of clim- neys. and everything. And t is hard 10 see where lie gets room to turn 8 sleigh and eight reindeer around, tiny reindeer though they may be. He'll he pretty certain to bump into q hydrant or tip oyer on I curb.
 And with twenty families all using one Hue tand, what k worse, q soft coal hue at thaD how in the world is the most experienced santa going t0 find which iS Browns and which k Smiths, and where the Greens hve$ Even if he dared rap and ask (which no santa Claus is ever supposed b do) nobody could tell him For per haps the Browns and the Smiths have never met" and the Greens might live across the ha1l for month be- fore anybody thought to inquire their name.
 For that is one thing you don't get much of in the eity-ueighbors. Some times when the woman across the road keeps running in just when yogr mother k canning, or baking, or treat ine Shirt-boSem kindly hut firmly with a hat-iron. your mother may al- most wish that they weren't quite So plentiful ill the eountrY-but she wouldn't. She would miss them, just the same as you would miss having the same boys to play with year after year.
 For in the city you are always get ting fresh lot of pIaymateS-and sometimes they are q mighty fresh lot, too. Of course there are some good kids, also; but it always seems that just when you get to liking some fellow up the street or across the alley, the landlord boosts the rent and his folks have to move. and you never see him again. He may move only from one side of the city to the other. but 1t might aS we'll be to another state. It K five or ten or twenty miles miles of houses. no, miles of flats. and streetcar tracks, and railroads, and factories-and you never see him again or any of his folks.
 The boys you know this Christmas probably won't be around at all next Christmas if you live iu the city. That iS funny thing about city folks : they are always gong somewhere aud never getting anywhere. Why. even if the landlord didn't raise the rent October l or May l or whenever the lease expires they might move any way People who live in flats instead of homes are always looking for some thn4 bettcr and getting something worse They have fue most Waader'H collection of rent receipts. hut moi a foot of ground not roof or rafteE they can call their own.
 Now. don't know what you think, but flna }Aat every family ought to have house of it~ own, d house il lires n Aear after year. Yhat is. ef eUT,e unless fhp fafhet ha, saue >ori of ioH. that mIae~ l. necessary tag Dim 10 move to some other toWu every =other year or ~o. Eut it k q great ding To live in a hoIae uot iu~ 4 ho8~e. and that is about gbe hest place and the only place. to have d Christ mas. real. surc-engugh, houest-to. goodness Christmas.
 Most of you hol who live on the farm and in thc small town hayethal klnd of home, and l wonder if You know hor lucky you aro= Wouldn't you hate to wake up Christmas morn ing and took at tbc ectIfu1 and reat5H thaf someone else owned it. and tbeu lct up anl go ouf in thc from yard and realize tha someone else owned thal, too--Vhy, youd 2ct So at'cI awhile that. everything you saW, VOL would wonder who owned it
 telI you. #boy~. tt.~ q ~atiSfae fiou te have T back yard aud To kHo" it's yours and that you cam mFits peop'c unto it, or invite people to sfal outof fl. just as you please. Why, flai is what brought the Pilgrim Rather, f5 America they wanted Il spot they plf. n eaH their own don't say t'la' il nuS exactly hack yard they wam
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