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I} Sho found " at Int. It surely had boon made for Jim and no on. cl”. M in: no other like it in any of to not... and she hid turned all of .0- indie out. It wt. . pUttmms fob-chain. mp9. and chain in design. propeviy proclaiming its "tue by sub- "Give " to no quick!" aid Dolls. oh.andthersxttmrhemmtid by on my wings! For.“ the hated nmpbor. Sh. w" nmucking the not. for J im’s mount. "t buy hair," aid Mad-me. "Take yet hat off, and let's have a sight " the looks of it!” Down ”pied the brown cascade. “hasty dolhu!” said Madame. lilting the mass with a method On wont her old brown jacket: on mt hot old brown but. With . whirl of skint. artd with the brilliant spark]. nil! in be eyes. do ttuttered out of the door and down the stairs to the otreet. Whore also stopped the sign rend: “Mm. Bunnie. Hair Goods of All Kinds." Otto ftitrht up Dell. ran. and, collect-i hunk. putting. Madame, hm, too white. chilly. hudly looked the “We.” Della So now DOHI'I beautiful hair fell about her, rippling and shining like a cascade of brown watt". It reach- ad below her knees and made itself drum a tgarment for her. And then an. did it up “in nervously and quickly. Once in faltered for a min- Ito and stood still, while a tear or two [pin-bod on the worn. red carpet. There use e pier-glue between the nindovn of the room. Perhepe you have seen u pier-flue in e 87.50 tutr. A very thin end very agile person mar, by observing his refieetion in a npid‘ eequence of longitudinal strips, obtain! . fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della, being slender, had mas- tered the art. Suddenly she whirled from the win- dow and stood before the gin-N. Herl eyes were shining brilliantly, but her! face had lost its color within twenty; seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair, and let it fell to its full length. Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took A mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch. that bad been his father's and his grand- hther's; the other was Delh'l hair. tUd the Queen of Sheba lived in the thtt across the airrhaft, Della would have let her hair hang out of the win- dow some day to dry, just to depreci- ate her Mejeety's jewele and (lite. Hod King Solomon been the Janitor, with all his tenure: piled up ht the', bement. Jim would have pulled out his weteh every time he mend, i?) to see him pluck " his beard from envy. l Dolls flnith.ed hor cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder-rug. She stood by the window and looked out dully " a any eat walking . grey fenee in a my back yard. To-morrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only one dollar tmd ninety-four cents with which to buy Jim I present. She had been suing every cent she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars A week doesn't Co far. Ex.. penses had been greater than she had eahetht ' ; they always are. Only one dollar sud ninety-four cents to buy . present for Jim'. “or Jim.' Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something ' for him, something tine and an and sterling, oomethhtt just a little Mt nut to bo. ing worthy tho honor of being owned by Jim. The "Diltinttham" ind bun Bung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity. when its manner was being'paid thirty dollars per week. Now, when tho income Wu Ihrunk to twenty doors, the letters of “Dilling- ham" looked blurred. as though they were thinking mioualy of contacting to a modest and unassuming "D." But whenever Mr. Jamel Dillingham Young come name Ind reached his Bat Ibuve he no culled "Jim," and greatly hugged by Mrs. Dillingham Young, already introduced to you n Della. Which is nil very good. _ While the mint”: of tho home is (nanny sub-11min from tho but my. to tho second. take . look n the home. A furnished Bat " $7.50 pot woek. It did not "actlr bount- description, but it certainly had that word on the look-out for the mendi- - squod. In tho vestibule below wu a Into:- box, into which no mm would so, and an electric button, from which no‘ mortal fittger could cool a ring. Ami opportunity: thereunto wu I eaigl beam: the name of "Mr. Juno. Dil- lingham Young." "aoethotateeht-,ru-nt-usueeettte W one“ mile”. It In I chi-min. talc. full " curator, -ttmqeW-.oetd numb”! ' OI. dolhr our! ninety-four - ohm done. out! not by nutrition. the no all. And manly-four canto; arm-amnion, u all good Wind " tt was in cuppa: and on. andubodddo. in " . time by bulldozlng the m It m even worthy of the watch. and the vegotoblo nun and the but»: Al ooon u the out it she knew that din, until 0110’. check. burned with' it must be Jinn. It was like him. to dlont imputation of ponimony quietness and "tue-tho description that Inch close dealing implicit Thm' oppliod to both. Eighteen 60th than Donn counted it. One dollar on! they took from her for it, and she hur- nhuty-four cents. And the next ar rind homo with the two dollars. With would tte'Chriatmna. {the chain on his watch Jim might beet ethane bybulldodng them' It we. even worthy of the Witch. all the "tNtabto men and the but-{Anion udemit eheknewtlnt diet, until one'e cheeks burned with it must be Jim'e. It was like him. the dlent imputatio- of perlimony. Quinn“: and "lu-the Myth]: “and! close dealing Implied. Three} npplied to both. Eighteen dolhrl than Della counted it. One doliar and) they took from her for it, and in but- ninstr-four can”. And the next by; dad home with the two dollers. With would wartime. EM chain on his wad: Jim might There was clearly nothing left to do.', properly be anxious about the time in but to flop down on the shebby unto! any commu- Gmnd u tin-Watch couch “a howl. So Della did it.I '19, he sometimes looked at it on the Which indicates the moral "tuetiotrtsrlr, on account of the old leather that life is mug. up of lobe. .mm“,' strap that he used in place of 1 chain. eobe, and smiles, with "t'dfie. prey, When Della HIM home in in.. dominating. ltoaliidiion" gave way . little to pm- White the minutes of the home ial dence and reason. She cat out her gradually subsidizing from tho out: wer irons and lighted the In. and stNrtt to the second, take I look " went to work repairing the "Yaw the home. A furnished fUt at 87.50171!do by trtsnerost'tr added to love. p" week. It did not exactly tmrear, Which is always a "mention task, deneriotiorc but it ccrtainlv had that} dear friend.--. mammoth task. Filer Gift--and His "Will you buy my hit?" naked "on [0”. brim"! gym unique cmmmu Otory trom the in: slender, had mas- ehirled from the win.. efore the glass. Her g brilliantly, but her ' color within twenty , Della wriggled off the table and Iwent for him. i "Jim. darling," she cried. "don't I look at me that wny. I had my hair ‘ rut " and sold it, because I eouldn't have lived through Christmas without ! giving you a present. It'll grow again. I You won’t mind, will you'. I Just had l to do it; my hair grows awfully fast. 1 Bay 'Merry Christmas,' Mm, and let's ',be happy! You don't know what a _nier--what 3 beautiful, t ice gift I've l got for you!" _ I Jam was never Inte. Della doubled the fob-chain in her hand and eat on the corner of the table near the door that u always entered. Then she heard his step on the stair, away down lon the flrat Bight, and she turned lwhite for just a moment. She had a habit of saying little silent prayers about the simplest everyday things, and now she whispered: . "Please, Heaven make him think I lam still pretty!" l The door opened, and Jim stepped i in and closed it. He looked thin and ivery serious. Poor fellow.' Y" was only twenty-two-- and to be burdened with a family! Be needed a new over- coat and he was without gloves. Ir, "You needn't look for it," said Della. "it's, sold, I tell you-sold and gone, too) It's Christmas Eve, boy. Be good to me, for it went for you. May- be the hairs of my head were number- ed," she went on, with u sudden uri- ous ,weetrtess, "but nobody could a. mnuit my love for you. Shall I put the shop on. Jim?" that of his tune. Jim seemed quick- tr Co “to. He Molded Dana. Por ten mn& let us fund with dir- cunt scrutiny some inconuqucntic! object in Ae other dipction. Swen donors . week or a million . yesr--sUt b the ditrereneet A mathematician or , wit would (in you tho mac tuner. Tho Magi brought wonderfulgu, but'tht I. not among than. a dark “new” in! be A: uminatod later on. "Cut ft off and sold it," said Della. "Don't you like me Just as well, only- how? I'm me without my hair, aren't It" "You've out " your hair?" asked Jim lttborioturlr, ts if he had not ar- rived " that patent fact yet, even after the hardest mental labor. "You say your hair in gone'." he aid. with an " almost of idiocy. Jim stepped inside the door, as im- movable aa a setter at scent of a quail. His eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it terri- tUd her. It was not anger, nor sur- prise, nor disapproval, nor horror, no? any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar ex- pression on his face. of the stove, hot and ready to cook the chop; - - - A A _ "tf Jim doesn’t kill me," she said to herself, “before ho taken . second look at me, he'll say I look like B Coney Island chorus-girl. But what could I do? Oh, what could I do with one dollar and ninety-four cents?” Within forty minutes her head wu covered with tiny, don-lying curls, which nude her look wonderfully like a mum schoolboy. She looked " her "gteetion in the mirror, long, care- fully, and critically. Jim looked about the room curious- Dell," he said, " gold my watch to buy the combs for you I Potatoes But she hugged them to her bosom, and " length she was able to look up with the dim eyes and a smile, and say: The Magi, as you know, were wise men-wonderfully wise men--- who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of gig- ing Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of ex- change in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely saeriflced for each other the greatest treasures of their house. - have adorned the coveted ornaments were gone. i'My hair grows so fast. Jim." And then Della leapt up like tt little singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!" reftect/o spirit. “Isn't it a dandy, Jim ? I hunted ull over the town to find it. YorAl have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch! I want to see how it looks on it." "Dell," said he, "let's put our Christ. mas presents away and keep them awhile. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on!" _But, in a last word to the wise of these days, let it be said of all who Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm. The dull, precicus metal seemed to flash with a reftect/ov, of her 1rright and arrlent \ Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch, and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled. For there lay the eombts--the set of combo, side and back, that Della had worshipped in u downtown window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoiseshell, with jewelled rims, just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair, They were expensive combs, she knew,; and her heart had simply craved and yearned over them without the least‘ hope of p.ossessiort. And now they were hers; but the tresses that should! White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper. And then an ecsta- tie “mm of joy, and then, the! a quick feminine change to hysterical tears and wails, necessitating the int- mediate employment of all the com- forting powers of the lord of the Bat. "Dont make nny mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't think there'a mything in the way of a Iaireut or u shave or . shampoo thnt Uuld make mo like my girl any less. But M you’ll unwrap that package, you may see why you had me going awhile at tlist." Della looked long anit anxiously in the mirror. Jim drew . package from his over- coat pocket and threw it on the table. Ctt., comm who par acre, m. chain; at” for lemurs. mm Potntou yielded m m. pct an. oe a; Na 1mm up». "" 70mph Old... Totem, Ont. IWymrtue Ferttitaerat Thtftrtttt-rtttttter-ud" Wrttq to: out {no Panto In“! At ttin nte ot “In. what would VOW potatou In" mum Soil-d050, can items of Mr. Jon. at per bushel TORONTO '" Fall, kindly words, in great heart- whispers, tall; Mantle the aching hearty lest they in. crease; . . Cover the wounded souls. the friend less call, A Crown all the restless wth a wreath of peace. Ere kind words cease. Fall, Magic snow, in great white thaes, and still; ' Mantle old Mother Earth in radiant white; Cover the sweeping plains, the valleys ill], Crown all the hill-tops with a hazy light, This winter's night. brush past; And hearts have found the Christmas 10y While the Christmas bells are ring. lug! uthqm'wiuut. Evorywhr new!” 11191th .t'vofu,theiasttmtmmrarthe- ttttGert-tderive-tat Still, I hear them singing! “Peace on earth," 'tig come at last! "Good-will to men," as their wings Again, the dun bring Christan! my. "Peace on earth, good-will to men'." The any of the Holy Story! And soul of (lee m in the air. And merry bells peel everywhere For the Holy Child Who come to earth And chose a stable tor His birth And stripped Himself ot His glory. Ease from the pain ot yesterday . Strength for a brave to-morrow; Purest joy for the King's birthday, Cast away care. ya sons of men! . Bet aside gloom and shining; Into the liable. with the sheep, Come, with the shepherds' winning "Peace on earth, good-will to men'." We hear the angels lit-sing. And our hearts rebound to the glad some sound. . And we not the bells springing! Eager, we welcome thoughts ot peace. Bullet our long-worn sadness: Glad thlt the battle's noise is dim. Glad for the thought of gladnesn! Anxious to spread some Joy and mirth Where hearts were tall of sorrow; Clear, from the afar of the Baby King, Rays ot the brightness borrow. Watching the Falling Snow. And a heart's surcease from sorrow Christmas, 1919. The Gillette Safety Razor make: a very acceptable and serviceable Clam... gift. You get the full, tare-war value for every dollar you spend on it. ‘EASING UP tl,g,u't htthes-heartasdsoa0fasot tueyturtr.rartdhstumii. ',',.lt'd,'fs'li.lll"irll.t'; w, WWW: a MGM! dean an. 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The candle will “and firmly in plnce it it is melted I lime and “net in the pan by " own van The van; do away with the dan. ger of setting ttm to the window tratnW when the candle burns so low that the wick tall: over, for tho, an In” mouth to can]: the wick in whatever direction it may (all. Draw in should than be drawn luck and tacked to the windcw names or taken down. At last the time came for the party to break up. The traveler's Christmas Eve was over. Everyone looked ‘he better and the happier for the im- promptu service. Everyone had a friamlly word or [knee for Jerry Ind for the jolly, male, young father. min Jerry noticed the woman in the buck dreea, standing with her arm mud her frail daughter. He reached tor-ward and took the woman's hand. The section of Jerry's friendly neighbor remained the centre of the gathering. The p1Nuuurc-Getrd wife still sat quietly resting, a faint smile in her eyes; the children at up straight, listening with open-mouthed wonder. But, somehow, Jerry found, the eyes of everyone began to turn on himself. Not every eon: proposed we. generally known, but Jerry did hi. winning beat to make everything go. It was surprising the number of tune. and verses he we: able to remeenher-- the songs cf his old Sunday-tdural deye. They an: them all unreetmin- edly. with contagious mod will and I sudden feeling of fellowship for one another. A little Inter Jerry Ctrrtwrittht lay stretched in his berth with raised win- dow dude. suing out on the dim Pot- m of prairie. In the out Sirius M the an" of Orion shone out baégttter and more clearly than he had not Beeet them at home. "t with you both n hnppy Christma- tl u still huppier New Year," Jerry The woman's wan features becamo min-tad. “We lave to thank you and your friend for a happier Christ- nu Eve than we expected to spend thin your, have we not. Mabel?" the ”not carols "Mr'." All“ hig unuttered thought. "T got on this thin In ill-natured as a bear. A mm with a friendly, buoy- mt heart make: no forget it and help othm to be more cheery and forget their troubles. too; and Bow-t kitten could play with me. Why, it's been one of my best Christmas Eves!" Tho pleasant custom otureor.tia. noun windows with and!“ on Christ mu Eva gun he made much - “It's Christi-nu Eve, you know," he said. "Why don't we get together and have a few real, old Christan» '11). m - .V._, and“ slowing at at hum Ah but, on Gavin“ In no not in o podhunor. 'i'iTiGuitotaotr, particululy unpleuwt that, on an. night of all the nights in the your, 50 should have to put up with 1mttortet- inl surroundings. The - - tucked away his mulch and he at- tlod himself in his compartment with a feeling that this was to be I Christ- mm Eve that he ohould not are to stem at but! Candle Holden For Christ- _ mu Eve. A '" “WW-DO: one. seems N h WIND SMN RIDINS " oma m