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fcanta ?laua I i on filings I < ! By E. $. HfiNDCRSON f ^? C<CC C g? ? ??C *P (Copyright.) HRISTMAS cheer was I M in the air, but the fact ' did not particularly appeal to Boyd WisrrWtX ner, for he was consumed with ennui and jHMf suspense. It was typleal old-fashioned yulejW] tide season. A great __snowstorm had blotKs?j?""Vb1 teci 0T1* evei7 country turnDike and the rail als> * road connecting his 1 town with Mayville. "Boyd mopes around like a lost soul," commented his sister Nettie to her mother. "If his fellow ace of airship fame in France, Willis Thorne, cannot get here in time for the holiday festivities we shall have a dull season of it." "It's Muriel Lane," asserted Mrs. WIsner. "A year ago this time both yon and Boyd had the time of your lives at Lane farm and the contrast is irksome to the poor boy." "And the poor boy,*" mimicked Nettie, "is on pins rud needles of suspense. Of course you know that he proposed to Muriel a week ago?" "I didn't know it, but I suspected it would come to that." "Muriel asked him to give her a few days to think it over, so she would be sure she knew her own mind. Then this storm came along and the tele , pnone wires aave ueeo uuwii uuui una morning." But that very day Boyd Wlsner heard from, the prudent maiden who ought to make no mistake in solving Hfe's greatest problem?marriage. His quickened heart throbs were a series of thrills as he foas called to the . phone at his office, and more alluring than the soft cooing of a dove were the fluttering words, "Is that you, Boyd?" "Yes, darl? I mean Miss Lano." "Don't be silly, Boyd. We are snowbound, but I wanted to tell you that I am sure of my mind now. The children are crying for last year's Santa Clans, and I?oh, I wish it would rain hot scalding water and clear the roads! Merry Christmas! Come soon f* . And then the provoking damsel dropped the phone. Muriel had made Up her mind! Boyd was inspired with the most radiant soul of hope. He reached the street to find it crowded with people looking skyward. "Double luck!" he jubilated. "It's Thome," and he decided that the airship aloft. * gracefully circling to land, must be the one which his fellow ace of France had purchased after returning home. Twenty miles distant, lovable and loving Muriel Lane looked out upon a * bleak, white expanse, surrounding the old farm home. Her six little brothers and sisters nestled about her. . "We can tqjm up the Christmas tree with last year's spangles, children," ' she said. "I want to see Santa Claus!" whimpered little Tim. "If he can land on a roof and come down the chimney he can ride on the air. Oh, sister, there's the telephone." It was the first time it had rung for a week. Muriel ran to it, and her cheeks grew to wild rose beauty and her eyes sparkled as the words came: "Look to the northeast for a new star ^ at nine o'clock tonight" 4,Boyd?" began Muriel, flutteringly. "No, Santa Claus, by air. Have the tree ready and keep the children up." xnat wise little head of Muriel comprehended. She was as unsettled and expectant as the children. The tree was trimmed, the candles all ready for lighting. She took a chair at the window and began telling them stories. Finally she leaned closer to the pane , and strained her glance. A speck of luster held her vision until it had re^ solved itself Into mingled colors of red, white and blue. "Wrap yourselves up warmly," she ordered. "We will all go out and look for Santy," and a great hush came down as the group discovered *the new star," and the outlines of B-32 became clearly distinct in the crystalline air and there settled to earth?Willis Thome's airship driven by Boyd Wlsner. Forth from the amazing air vehicle stepped a ^ym familiar to the wondereyed children?the Santa Claus of last I year with frosted beard and a bulging j bag of gifts on his back. And only the two older children ever guessed the Identity of this grand Kriss Kringle on wings. And, oh! | the marvelous gifts he had for them j all! And Boyd drew Muriel behind a door and kissed her, and only old *"? Grandfather Lane, going up the stairs to his bed, witnessed the event, and chuckled serenely. !| 1! I I I Games for Children ] at Christinas Time ; I l i I I | By A. NEELY HALL | ! Jl (Copyright, by A. Neely Hall.) It may be for a Christmas party, or for the family gathering, that you will need ideas; for either, the following games will furnish fun for young and old alike. The Game of Tip. This old English game requires the use of enough assorted Christmas candies, nuts, raisins, and other dainties, to make a small pile upon a table; also a pair of sugar tongs. One of the party is chosen, who must retire to another room while the remaining players decide upon one of the dainties in the pile to be known as "Tip." The i chosen person is then recalled, and with the tongs remores pieces from the pile, trying to avoid the piece named Tip, of which, however, he does not know the location. All pieces removed belong to him, unless he removes Tip, when all must be returned to the pile, and the turn passes to the next player, who retires to the other room while another Tip is named. A player may pass his turn when, after drawing several pieces, he wants to \ EgfTr # 1 Wl 4 Jrri^H avoid the possibility of losing them through drawing Tip. The game continues until the pile disappears. A Fill-in Game. For a laughter producer this game has no peer. A poem is selected and . copied upon paper, with each noun omitted and a line drawn in its place. Then the nouns are copied upon small cards, one upon each. The cards are dealt, an equal number to each player, and a player is chosen as reader. The reader reads the poem, pausing at each space, and the players fill in, in turn, a noun from the cards in their pile. The nouns will seldom come in their original places, and the result will be a ridiculous mix-up. Sliced Toy Puzzles. From advertisements cut pictures of toys, and paste these upon pieces of cardboard; then with a sharp knife slice the cardboard 'into irregular pieces as indicated in Fig. 1. Place the parts of each picture in an envelope by itself. When ready to play the game, give each player an envelope, and direct him to put together the parts so as to make the picture of the umjTi I toy. At the expiration of a given length of time, direct an exchange of the toys. Acrostic Place Cards. An original idea for the place cards for the Christmas party is to prepare them in the form of letters from Santa Clans, with the names and addresses of the guests worked out in acrostics, as Is suggested on the two specimen envelopes in the illustration; and have the guests find their places by inter* prating the Inscriptions upon the envelopes. 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