Just as dessert came on, the door opened and in rushed mamma and papa; the train had gotten in, after all. They were so glad to see their darlings happy instead of moping that they gave them each some extra kisses. You may be sure little Guido never went hungry and barefoot after that. Long afterward he would say: "That was a fairy Christmas!"
That night, after Tita had said her prayers, she said:
"Mamma, I know something. Whenever you feel sad and lonely, if you will just find somebody sadder and lonelier than yourself and cheer them up, it will make you all right."
And I think that that was the very best kind of a Christmas lesson of love. Don't you?
ETHELDRED B. BARRY.
[THE BALL GAME.]
Did you ever know a boy
Make believe he had a toy?
That's the way