SHOWING
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THE MYSTERY OF THE
SHOWING
TO-DAY
THE LOVE
RIDDLE THEY WERE
AFRAID TO SOLVE!
Even Warner Bros, who challenged theunderworld with "Public Enemy," shocked America with "I Am a· Fugitive," upset a smug social "sys- tem with "Life Begins," bolted the doors of the studio while they made this picture!
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Wassail
One
The Gift of the Magi
by O'Henry
brown cas-
dollar and
Down rippled the eighty-seven cents. That was all And sixty cade.. cents of It WES in pennies.
"Twenty dollars," said Madame. Pennies saved one and two at afting the mass with a practised Mime by bulldozing the grocer and hand. the vegetable man and the but- cher until one's checks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing Implied. Three times Della count- ed it. One dollar and eight-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
There was clearly nothing to do but dop down on the shabby little couch and howl So Della did it. Which instigates the moral re- flection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snifies predominating.
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It your Landlord does not know, his business, you can teach him the following method of making
Inn Keeper' Punch Dissolve about seven ounces, of lump sugar in, one pint of bolling water, add forty grains of 'eltric acid, seven pr eight" drops of essence of lemon, and (when well mixed) "half of a pint of rum, a quarter of a pint of, brandy, and a glass of sherry.
Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. He enfolded his Della. For ten seconds let us re- sard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction. Eight dollars a week If you are a Prohibitionist, you Give it to me quick," said or a million a year-what is the may like to know about a cold Delle
difference? A mathematician or weather temperance drink with a a wit would give you the wrong kick in it--not sufficent to throw The magi brought { you of your balance. It is called. answer. valuable gifts, but that was "not
Stlager among them. This dark assertion will be laminated later on.
Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the, table.
Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking, the stores for Jim's present,
She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else." There was no other ilke it in any of the stores, and
"Don't make any mistake, Dell," she had turned all of them in-
he said, "about me. I don't think side out. It was platinum fob
there's anything in the way of a chain simple and chaste in "design.haircut or a shave or a shampoo properly proclaiming its value by that could make me like my gi substance alone and not by mere- any less. But if you'll unwrap that package you may see you hac me going a while at first." As
tricious
arnamentation-as All It was
good things should do. even worthy of The Watch. soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim's. It was like him. Quietness and value-the descrip tlon applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she
hurried home with the 37 cents. With the chain on nis watch Jim might be propery
While the mistress of the home "is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished Ast at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description,, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax ring. Also appertaining anxious
A thereunto was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham Young."
The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a form- er period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was the letters of. "Dillingham" looked blurred, as though they were thinking seri- ously of contracting to & modest and unassuming D But whed ever Mr. James. Dillingham Young
shrunk to
White fingers and nimble tore And at the string and paper. then an ecstatic scream of Joy: and then, alast a quick feminine change to hysterical tears and walls. necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of the lord of the flat.
about the time in any
For there lay The Combs--the watch company, Grand as the was, he sometimes looked at it on
set of combs, side and back, that the aly on account of the old Della had worshipped for long in leather strap that he used in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with place of a chain.
Jewelled rims-just the shade to When Della reached home herwear in the beautiful vanished intoxication gave way a little to hair. They were expensive combs, prudence and reason. She got she knew, and her heart had out her curling irons and lighted simply craved and yearned over the gas and went to work repair them without the least hope of ing the ravages made" by gen-possession And now, they were erosity added to love. Which is hers, but the tresses that should always a tremendous task, dear have adorned the coveted adorn friends a mammoth, task,
Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonder- truant schoolboy, fully like a She looked at her reflection in the
cally.
ments were gone.
But she hugged them to her bosom.
and at length she was
able to look up with dim eyes and a smile, and say: "My hair grows so fast,· Jim!" -"
And then Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!!!
Jim had not yet seen his beauti-
a second look at me, he'll say 1ful present. She held it out to look like a Coney Island "charus girl. But what could I do oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?
came home and reached his fat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already intro- duced to you as Della. Which is all very good..
Della finished her cry and at-mirror, long, carefully, and criti- tended to her cheeks with the
"If "Jim doesn't kill me," she powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at
said to herself, "before he takes grey cat walking a grey fence in a grey backyard. To-morrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only 81.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She had been
coffee saving every penny she could for At 7 o'clock the months, with this result: Twenty made and the frying-pan was on dollars a week doesn't go far. the back of the stove hot and Txpenses had been greater than ready to cook the chops. she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. thing fine and rare and sterling something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honour of being owned by Jim.
.Some-
was
Jim was never late. Deild doubled the fob chair in her hand and sat on the corner of the table near the door that he always en- tered.
Then she heard his step on the stair. away down on the first flight, and she turned white for just a moment, She had a habit of saying little silent pray- ers about the simplest everyday. things, and now she whispered: Please God,, makes him think I am still pretty."
The "old English. merrymakings on New Year's Eve were of very ancient origin. The Head of the House assembled his
family sround a bowl of spiced ale (comically called "Lamb's Wool") After the Head had drunk the health of all, the bowl.was passed There was a pler-glass. between round and each person before the windows of the room. Per- drinking said the Saxon words haps you have seen a pier-glass waes hal (Le." "be""whole!be in an 98 flat. A very thin and well!'"good health"), The chil- very agile person may, by ob- dren of the poor carried round the serving his reflection in a rapid The door opened" and Jim, step. neighbourhood a bowl decorated sequence of longitudinal strips, ped in and closed it. He looked Poor with ribbons, begging the means obtain a fairly accurate concep- thin of filing it with "Lamb's Wool." "tion of his looks. Della, being fellow, he was only twenty-two- They announced their presence slender, had mastered the art. and to be burdened with a family! with
He needed a new overcoat and he, Suddenly she whirled from the
was without gloves window and stood before сде *{ glass.,,
3 Wassail Song, "Here we come a wassalling." Among the leaves so groen, Here we come a wandering,
So fair to be seen.
We are not dally beggars,
That beg from door to door; But we are neighbours' children,. Whom you have seen" before.
Here we have a little purse
Of stretching leather skin,
A little from your money baga Would line it well within,
So bring us out a table,
Her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face, had lost It's colour within twenty seconds Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length:
and every serious.
Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quall. His eyes were axed upon Della, and there was an ex- pression in them that she could not. read, and it terrised her. I Now, there were two possessions was not anger, nor surprise, nor of the James Dillingham Youngs disapproval, nor horror, nor any in which they both took a mighty of the sentiments that she had pride. One was Jim's god watch been prepared for. He simply that had been his father's and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair. Had the Queen" of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her
Its' ingredients are:-2 lbs. Loaf
OZ.
Sugar, oz. Essence of Cayenne. Tartaric Acid, 3 Lemons rind and
oz. Essence of Ginger,
Juice. Peel the lemons and boll the rind for ten minutes in half a pint of water. Strain and add the rest of the ingredients with two quarts of boiling water. Stir until all is dissolved. This makes about four bottles of concentrated essence to be taken in the pro- portion of about two tablespoon- fuk t où tumbler of hot water.
You'll have to look at the time R -hundred times a day, now. Give me your watch. I want to see
how it looks on it.
Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head
and smiled.
"Dell," said he, "let's put our "Christmas presents away and keep 'em a while. They're too nice to üse just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on.";
The mag, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manager. They invented, the art of giving Christmas pre- sents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bear.... ing the privilege of exchange In case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children: in a flat who most un- wisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the
him eagerly upon her open palm.wise of these days let it be said The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a refection of her bright and ardent spirit.
"Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunt- all over town to find it,
ed
CHEERFUL CHRISTMAS!
Consult Us
In Regard to
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that she had IDEAL
stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.
Della wriggled off the table and went for him.
I had my
hair hang out the window some "Jim, darling," she cried, "don't day to dry just to depreciate Her look at me that way. Majesty's jewels and gifts.
Had hair cut off and sold it because- King Solomon been the janitor. I couldn't have lived through with all his treasures piled up in Christmas without giving you a the basement, Jim would have
again— pulled out his watch every time
grow out 'present. It'TI
And spread it with a cloth:" And bring us out a mouldy cheese,
And some of your Christmas he passed, just to see him pluck you won't mind, will you? I just.
loạt.
God bless the master of this house,
Likewise the inistress too,
with
at his beard from envy,
had to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. Bay Merry Chris-
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So now Della's beautiful hair tamas!' Jim, and let's be happy. fell about her, rippling and shin. You don't know what a nice And all the little children,
ing ikea cascade of brown waters. what a beautifu, nice gift. I've It reached below her knee and got for you." "That round the table go!
made itself almost a garment for you've cut off your hair?” her. And then she did it up asked Jim, laboriously, "The Loving Cup filled
as if he - nervously- sweetened and spiced wine handed again
and quickly had not arrived at that patent Once she faltered for a minute round at the Feasts of the City of
fact yet even after the hardest and stood still while a tear or London Companies is the
mental labour, true descendant of the Wassail Bowl; two splashed on the worn red
carpet. but those who wish for a proper wassalling after the old style will take note of the following.
Recipt
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"Cut it off and sold it," said On went her old brown jacket: Della. "Don't you like me fust With as well anyhow? I'm me with- on went her old: brown hat. a whirl of skirts and with the out my hair, ain't 1?" brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, Jim looked about the room. she fluttered out the door and curiously, down the stairs to the street...*
Put into a bowl alb: of Lisbon sugar; pour ant 1 pint of warm beer: grate a nutmeg and some Where she stopped the ginger into 1b; add 5 additional read: Mme.
Sofronie
"You" Bay your hair is gone?? sign he said, with an air almost of Hair Idiocy.
pints of beer stir well; sweeten Goods of All Kinds." One flight. to taste; cover up and keep cover-up. Della ran, and collected her You needn't look for it," said ed for 8 hours; then add 4 thin self, panting. Madame, large, too Della. "It's sold. I tell you sold alices of toasted bread and 4 white, "chilly, hardly looked the -roasted apples which will float "Sofronie."
pleasantly on the top, You can "Will you buy my hair?" asked then begin asanlling, or, if you Della,, prefer to bottle the mixture and
- drink · it unceremoniously, it will
be ready for use in a few days in an effervescent state.
-"'I ́ ́ buy hair," said Madame, Take yer hat off and let's have
sight at the looks of it."
and gone, too. It's Christmas Eve, boy. Be good to me, for it went for you. Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered," she went on with a sudden serious sweetness. "but nobody could ever count my love for you. Bhall 1 put the chops on Jim'r
that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest Of 'all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wiseat. They are the magi.
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