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CHRISTMAS GIFT September IT. 15 BAIL* tomorrow. 1 am devotedly thank ful to dad for insisting that mother take me away for a while, I'or haps we will remain * year. I hope It may be ten, 1 hate America, loathe, New York, and want to live the rest of my life In Europe - Asia ? Afrlcu ? any when*, ;?? fur away from ltiv??rslde a po?9iL>I?- Mother say* I'm a silly Utile lovesick Kill; but dud thinks I need ? change. I'm not silly and I'm not lovesick. Curl hutf behaved In a most und*n> Keunn?ly way. T Just because 1 motored to J'akevfood with Hum Perkins and his slstei\ Is go reason why he should get crone tad lutu! that sctreawy - looking tenon with him ?tyrywherg ho goea. Sam's uislor lays fUo in a Frenchwoman. I always did ha to IVench. and I'm glad ! rofuBo<l Carl to moot hor, flad I tmubbud Carl and glud i wa? oik wbOQ ho oiled. Two long, mis erable weok# vl t ho u t seeing. Carl? and tomoiv row wu Hiiii remaps I won't tee jjjui for months?maybe never again. I l wonder if I caro. October 20. Hore than a month haB paaaec} alnce 1 have written in my little diary. I jroulda't write now, only this morning i letter came from Carl, and I Juat fcave to record it. Carl way a he ia lonely; he miaaes ?e, and he cannot underatand why I no away to Europe so suddenly. The letter la full of reproaches for HY treatment of HIM, when all the ime it wa8 HIS meanness to me that sade ine ao ill, ao that I had to get iway from everybody. He does not mention one word about that horrid French creature. I shall not write. Well ? perhaps I ?111. November 24, ? At first I hated Paris. London waa nice, Vienna stupid, but Paris? impoaaible, until laat Sun day, when we met Mrs. Harmon. Isn't it atrange what a change one jay, one hour, can mafco In a girl's Ufa? Mr. and Mrs. ' Field, frtauU at mother**, g*vo a dlpnar for ua. Mrs. Harmon wua one of the guests. 8he looks much better iu the evening gowit lhau in her Ktr?*ft suits; not nearly so froway, und the rouK" ou hor cheeks <U><an't show at night, i w4s appalled when mother introduced me to her, to roc ognise Gift's French friond. Hbo is his cousin !?*?? tne huH llvud In I'aris wince sh? wuk a little girl. We hud a lovely talk. She told me all about her recent visit to America and how good Carl had been In taklog her about. I like her now thut I know her. She says Carl w?? perfectly miser able over a girl In- Wfcft in love with, who had gone abroad for the winter. She did not know the glrl'H name. I blushed furiously when she spoke of It. That was Sunday. We huve scon Mrs. Harmon several times since then. I made mother promlae to take me home. She cabled dad, and said she would be thankful to get back to plain home cooking and her own bathroom. Mother is u dear, and bo funny. December 16. What a happy, happy Christmas day It has been! The very best 1 have ever known. Once I said I hated America ? New York ? but I don't. I love New York and America, Riv erside, h o m e , mother, dad and Carl. Oh, l love Carl best of Ml! He han been ho sweet, ho d" ui and kind, uiucc w a came homr two weeka ago. met us at the pier. I was never bo glad to see any body In my life as I wan to see dear old Carl. Dad wim there, too. My Christmas gifts are lovely, lies! of all Is Carl's love and the ring h? gave mo as a token of his deep, un dying love. I think it was sweet of him to give me such a wonderful dia? mond, besides the candy and books and flowers. It flashes lire as I turn my band in the light, Daddy saya I'm too young to marry, but I Bliall coax him to let me marry Carl in; June. I'm the happiest girl in the world tonight, and Carl is the hap piest man. He has told me so him self. I wish everybody in the world were as happy aa we this Christmas night. I (THE OLD IADY SPEAKS) By James WMtcomb Riley Copyright by J?m?? Whitcomb RlUy Laut Chriutinuti wuh a year ago, Says 1 to l)uvld, 1- -aayn l, "W? 'n- koIii' to morning aorvlce, ?0 You hitch up right away; I'll try To toll tho glrU j?'H* what to do For dinner. We'll bo back by two." I didn't watt to hoar what ho Would inoro'll Uko tuiy hack to me. Hut banged tho wtablo door aud flew Hack to tin; rouHf, Ji h' plumb chiliad ; through. Cold! Wooh! how cold It was! Mjr? Oh! Frost flyin', and tho air, you know, "Jos' b h a r p enough," hoerd David swear, "To ehavo a man. and cut bis hair!" And blow and blow! and snow snow! ? Wher a It had (lr|ft? <i long the fence And 'croet the road ? u o in i places though, Job' swop' cloun to thy $ ravel, ho The goin' wan as had far sleighs Ah 't wan for wagons? and both W?yj8. 'Twixt snowdrifts and the bare ground, I've .Job' wundered we got through alive; I hain't saw nothing fore er Bonce, 'At beat it anywheres, I know ? Last Christmas was a year ago. And David said, as we Bet out, 'At Christmas services was 'bout As cold and wuthless kind o' lov? To offer up as he know of; And as fer him, he rallly thought 'At the Good Beln' up above Would think more of us ? as hk ought ? A-stayiug' home on sich a day, And thankln' of him thatawayt And jawed on, in an undertone, 'Bout leavin' Lide and Jane alone There on the* place, and me not there To oversee 'em and p'pare The stuflln* fer the turkey and Tfce ease and all, you understand. I've alius managed David by ies' sayin' nothing. That was why Ho'h crafted Ude'a 'beau away? CttUBO l>id? ?he'd alius lako up Perry'* ?id? Wh<?u Do>ld tuck ji it <1 him . h i > o. L a b t I'lmittnttH \su* u year U"<'. ICi ttithor, 'bout a . vwK afore, - r. ft I)uv*4 uud Perry'd i| i r I'<1 ubout BniiuV tom fool argyn>?ut, you know. Anil imp told him to "Jr*' git out O' t her#, and not to coine no more, And when in wont out. to abut th? door." And its iu* piiHHvd ? t??- winder, we Huu Perry ? whit? ;?h white <<>uid be M l sh pawl, onbtioh bif Iiohh, and light A b? i K.vur, and lopn out o' night. Tlu'ii I Id.* hIic WhW i" Bit and crledf And i said notbln* wit ??> pi?d And y It, you know, that man Je?' got Right out o* t )n ? r?' |( In d I). - n ?hot, P'tondln* ho muut go und f^ed The nto< k ?t voQlpio'. Then 1 tried To git the pore gul puclftod. Hut' glttln' buck to-? where vu we?? Ob, ywet ? where David leetered me All way to uioet* t?\ high and low, LaBt Christmas was u yoar ago: I'^r all tho ttwful cold thero wa a A fair attendance; inOHtly, though The crowd was 'round tho stovoa, you Bee, Tlmwlii' their 1) o c 1 a and acrougln' us. Kf 't 'ndn't bo'n fir the old uqulre Oivln' lite 'scat- to u?, hh In * Wo stomped, a-falrly perishin', And David could 'h' got no tiro, Efa'd jea' 'a' dropped there In hlfl tracks : And nqulre, an I was tryin* to ylt Make room fer him, says, "No; tha fae'e la, 1 got to git ud owl v\t 'Hhout no preaoUin*. Jrii' tot word ? Trial fer life? can't be deferred!" And out he putl All way through The Bermont? and a lone one. too ? I couldn't help but think o' squire And us changed 'round bo, and admire HIb gentlo ways. ? to give his warm Bench . up. and have to face the storm. And when I no ticed Davld^-Jie Wm peedln' Jab J Wn' 1 thought boat , To kind o' sort o' l??t btm rest: ?reared like h*-al"p' so peacefully! And whim 1 thought o' home, and how And whut Uiu ?yrl? wuh doln* now, And kind o' prayed, 'way In my breast, And hrcHhod iiwa y ;i toar #| U\o Aa David waL?d, and church was. throuKh.l By time we'd "howdyed" round and ahuek Hands with the neighbors, must V luok A hulf hour longer: ever' one A'Saylu' "Chiiatinaa Klft!" ufora David er rue? bo wo got none! I hit Davtd wurmod up, more and more, And got so Jokey-like, and had Uia apcrilH up, und 'peapod so Khid, I whispered to hlin, " 'Hposo you ast A passel of 'em com# and ti) Tbair dinners tylth us. OyHi'l got A lulland-pleuty fer the lot And all their kin!" Bo David passed The invito round: and ever* Heat In ever' wagon-b^d aud sleigh I Was Jen' packed, as wo rode away,? The youiiK folks, mild er ho ulong, A strlkln' up a slelRhln' song, Tel David huitthed and yelled, you know, And Joh' wblrped up and sent the SHOW And gravel flylu' thick and fast? r Last Christmas wan a year uro. W'y, that air seven mild Junt w* come ? Job' seven mild scant from church tc home It didn't 'pear, that day, to bW Much furder rallly 'n' 'bout three! Hut 1 was purty u(iu?ainif>U by I lie tinm homo hovo in nlgl't and I Hog two vohlckloa standi n* thore All to inygoT, And presently David h? sobered; and says h?, -Huin't that ulr Sijulro Ilanoh'e old Buggy/' flays he, ? ' n n <1 claybanli maro?" Says I, "Le't fH out tho cold? Your company's high 'bout froze!" He says. "Whose sleigh 's that-air, u-utundlu' there?" ? Rays I, "It's no odds whose ? you Je?' Drive to tho house and let us out, 'Cause we 're jes' freozln', nifcb about!" Well, David swung up to tho door, And out we piled. And first 1 4ioord 'Jane's voice, thon .Llde's-r-I thought afore I reached that gyrl I'd jcs' dlo shore; And when 1 reached her, wouldn't koored , Much if I had, I was so glad, A-klssln' her through my green veil, And Jes' excitin'. her bo bud, 'J? t she broke down herself? and Jane Rhe Cried ?and we all liUKtfed agula. And David? l>avld Job' turned |>al*? I xiokml at the ftyrU. and Mum at u?e Then the open door ? u u 0 then? 'la old H <| u i r ? Hanoh ih.i aays bo. The old Hgutro uuddculy utcMKl In Thef doorway, with . ft ?n?ukln' grin, !? l'erry Andum In tboro too?" Buyti David, Uni lt> i In' nil through, Ah t,ide and mo both grabbed him, ami IVrry b top pod out and wuvod Ula hand And nays, "Yes, Pip." And David jes' * Stooped and kUnod Lido, mid ways, "1 gurus Yer moihoC'v much to blamo an you. Kf who kin rt Hk him, 1 kin too!" Tho dinner wo had then hain't no Hit lietter'n the ono today 'At wo'll have for 'em. Il?ar som* sleigh A Jin flln' now. David, for me, I wit i you'd Jes' go out and boo Kf t' ey're In Bight ylt. It Job* does Mo jod to think, In times Ilko those Ltd ? done t?> well. And David, he't H< tractahler'n what be was ? I. In 1st n ? it u was a year ago. Camping Gear. Personal liken am) prejudices havtj much t<> dp with the form of idi\i clujaen. My own preiVivno i fdf cither iii<> a pr wedge tout, yyiOj 1)19 IlndHon'H ltny model OS >n <1 t U Itio, for general utility. Either of the e i i particularly adapted uIbo (0 winter travel where tho tent mn.it ?>n? n i> ? pitched tippft tho snow. It', how. v< r, tho tout la only to be UB?d in Hum mer, and particularly In caiTon travel where a light, eaally erected mnd< 1 la desired, tho Fraser tnnt la both ideal ior comfort and Ik an exceedingly lightweight model for portaging. ? Out ing. Rubbing the Other Way. At tho tender ago of three masou* line cdncett had grippod that BmaM ( boy with a relentloa clutch. He had kissod a in tic girl of three, and sho was rubbing her lips vigorously. "You .'mustn't do that again/' said the boy's mother. "Sho doeHn't like it. .lurit *$0 hOW bard She is trying to rub your Ulsa off." "C;h, no, she ain't," aald the boy. ??fthe 1b rulibln' it in." Grandchild of George III. 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