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ye FTER all,” murmured Dolly
9 to her rickety pine dress-
er, “Christmas in the city
isn’t so awful!” She had
just clambered up four
flights of stairs, and
marched rather solemnly
the length of four dark
halls. All the doors were closed in the
halls; behind them she had heard
people laughing and having a good
time. In her arms she had carried a
few bundles, mostly things for sup-
per. She knew no one here to whom
she could give a present if she wanted
to. She knew no one who would, by the
remotest chance, give her a present.
Well, she had wanted to leave the
country village where she had been
born and brought up. It was too dull,
much too dull for Dolly. Her parents
had begged her to stay. The old man
with whiskers who kept the country
store had shaken his head over her,
Her Uncle Jonah, a hard-headed, tight-
fisted, rich old farmer had declared
she shouldn't have a penny, not a cent.
of his money if she “up and kited out
to the city.” And she had retorted im-
yertinently that she hoped Uncle Jonah
would have a grave large enough to
hold all his old money bags, so he
‘could take them right on to which=
ever place he was going when he died.
Tnele Jonah somehow had not relished
this remark. He told her never to
set foot in his house again, and Dolly
flew out in a fury.
Now she dropped her bundles on
her very narrow bed, and dragged off
her hat. Her bright hair tumbled about
her ears, her blue eyes looked tired,
her mouth sagged a bit at the corners.
She threw her coat on a chair, and
sighed. She had intended to begin at
once to cook her swpper on a tiny
electric plate, then clear up the things
and go out to hunt up some fun. Some
of the girls at the store said they were
going to the “movies” and then on to
a cheap dance. They had invited her
to come along. Dan Dugan had in-
vited her to go out to supper with
him, but she did not tell them that.
They would have thought her so dumb
not to have accepted. Dolly had liked
Dan because he looked a little like
Roger. But he really wasn't in the
least like him. She discovered this at
their second meeting, Dan worked at
a soda fountain and had a lot of smart
cracks which sounded funny the first
time you heard them. But she had
grown tired of his humor very soon.
He was generous enough but some-
thing in his too familiar manner made
her want to slap his face, So she had
declined his invitation, saying she was
going somewhere else. Danny was mad,
of course, and said a number of un-
pleasant things about dames who
worked a guy until something better
came along.
Dolly didn't care. Here in her small
room, with the rickety dresser and
uncomfortable chair, she began think-
ing of Christmas at home. She assured
herself that she was perfectly satis-
fied where she was, but it did no harm
to remember some of the fun she had
had in the square old house in the
village.
She forgot her supper; she forgot
that she was going to the “movies.”
She sat on the edge of her bed and
clasped her hands around her knees.
Her blue eyes were blind to the
cracked window shade and the dusty
looking globe of the electric light. She
saw instead the big lamp on the mid-
dle of the living room table at home.
The lamp had a cheerful yellow shade.
Books and magazines were scattered
about. Her mother was wrapping up
the last packages. Her father, in house
slippers, was smoking a pipe and read-
ing the local paper. Her younger sister
was sewing on a pin cushion destined
for Dolly's stocking, Her brother was
pacing restlessly up and down the
room urging Dolly to “get a hustle on”
and come out skating.
There were long garlands of ground-
pine hung about the pictures. There
were bunches of holly pinned to the
She Dropped Her Bundles on Her Very
Narrow Bed.
curtains, There was mistletoe. There
was a general smell of good things
which had been put away in the pan-
try. There was, in short, a warm se-
curity of home.
Then Roger had burst into the door,
bringing a cold blast of wintry air.
“Come on out, Dolly,” he shouted.
“the skating’s grand. Moon's up and
everything.”
“Do go, dear,” her mother had said.
“It’s a shame to stay in a night like
this, I'll have doughnuts and hot cof-
fee for you when you come home.” So
she had gone with Roger. Millions and
millions of stars in a deep blue sky.
Frost in the air and sharp shadows
cast by the bare trees en white houses
Roger had laughed and joked all
the way to the pond. They had skated
around together, skimming over the
smooth surface as easlly as swallows.
Gradually they had stopped talking. It
had all been glorious and somehow
very sweet. Then snddenly, shyly,
Roger had stumbled over a few words,
asking Dolly to marry him. She had
loved him for it, but she said “ne.”
She said she first must try her own
life in the city. She must be inde-
pendent, She could not bear the
thought of settling down in the dull
village.
“But we won't stay here always,”
Roger had begged.
“No,” Dolly replied. And they went
home without saying another word.
“Well,” sighed Dolly aloud, “I must
get my supper.”
While she was busy heating water
and washing lettuce in her sink she
heard a man’s footstep pass the door.
hall she dropped the lettuce, and with-
out knowing what she was doing, she
flung open the door.
a feeble -likeness to the cheery tune
now descending the stairs, The whole
expression of her face had changed.
Her eyes sparkled, her face
flushed, her very hair seemed to curl
more prettily about her ears.
The footsteps halted; the tune
stopped. Bolly kept on with her end
of it. A man was coming up the stairs,
A tall man with broad shoulders and
red hair. He wheeled about at the
newel post and stared at Dolly. At
this point she stopped whistling and
man made great haste in approaching.
He had nothing to say whatever. He
gasped for breath,
find his hat and come into her room.
“To think,” said Roger, “that I have
combed this darn city fore and aft to
ago and never sent home your address.
To think I chose this house, this very
house, and have been coming in and
out of it for three days, and never
knew you were here, I'd about given
up hope.”
Dolly twinkled at him out of her
blue eyes. Roger looked about at the
rickety dresser, the narrow bed, the
one uncomfortable chair. He said
when he finally took her hand and
said softly: “We can catch the nine
o'clock train for home, if you hurry.
‘I came to get you, Dolly. I could not
dreary hole. Your mother and father
are waiting for us. They've hung up
your stocking by the fireplace. And the
pond is frozen solid, Grand skating!”
in rer clothes, She
hat and caught up her coat.
Roger, let's go!” she said.
They went down stairs, At the foot
a man was waiting, At the sight of
Dolly and her companicn, his jaw fell.
“Merry Christmas, Danny Dugan!”
sang out Dolly, and clung more tight-
ly to her escort’s arm.
Christmas night Roger and Dolly
were slowing skimming around the
pond. There was a moon. There was
Just enough frost in the air to give
the landscape a silvery white look. As
they skated in rhythm and their
breaths mingled in a sort of frosty
cloud, Roger whispered, “Will you
marry me, Dolly?’ “Yes,” she said.
“Let's see how fast we can skate
around the pond and then go home to
she laughed happily—“coffee and
doughnuts 1”
“Come,
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grinned a wide, happy youthful grin. |
“I'd know that tune, Roger, if I heard |
it in China!” she called out. The young |
merely sent his hat sailing somewhere |
into the shadows and took Dolly in |
his arms. He hugged her until sha |
nothing but his voice was very tender |
bear to think of you alone in this |
Dolly found her sult case and flung
jammed on her |
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ANTIQUATED LAWS REAL PERIL
By JUDGE FREDERICK E. CRANE, New York Court of Appeals.
NTIQUATED laws are the bane of the American people today.
We are trying to adjust our modern scope of life to fit laws
that were incorporated practically centuries ago.
I do commend the progress, little though it may be, that law
has made to date to become modernized. There are articles always being
printed criticizing the law, Most of these articles were written by men
who never even served on a jury, let alone profess a knowledge of the
law. Because of their profession, they take advantage of the exemption
law, exempting writers and newspaper men from serving on juries.
Probably no one ever thinks of the law in the same light as his reli-
gion—but it ean be viewed in the very self-same light—for the law is
part of mankind. There is one law that is even higher than the Consti-
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master-and-servant law.
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B how to do the work, A would have no recovery under the old law for
injuries, because he would then be classed as a master.
The law is to be used every day, and not kept as a monument to the
dead, or living on past performances. The thing we call the law is an
instrument of government, for the protection, control and regulation of
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SIN IN MODERN DISGUISES
By REV. DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK (Baptist).
Present-day individualism is a psychological cosmetic, under which
sin, nastiness and filth are being paraded just as they were in the Eight-
eenth century. One of the most characteristic phenomena of our time is
the way we rationalize sin. We take every-day, garden varieties of nasti-
ness and personal infidelity, dress
ology, and say “Oh, how modern.”
St. Paul tells us that sin can disguise itself as an angel of light, but
Paul never dreamed of our new psychological cosmetics, by means of
which any sin from adultery up can walk abroad, now as self expression,
now as release from an inhibition, now as the new freedom, or now as
overcoming a complex. Amid all this looseness, disguised in the paint
and apparel of the new phraseology, we all of us need to hear a salutary
and challenging summons—*“pull yourselves together.”
This is not by any means a reactionary appeal to old moral codes
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DEFECTS IN SOCIAL ORDER
By DAVID SEABURY, Psychology Expert.
Our social order has never been built in the past on a knowledge of
human nature. Marriage and child training have always been based on
the old prejudices and stereotypes, not on human nature and its needs.
Experimental psychology is pointing the way to a new aristocracy—
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