Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . Christmas morning- in the country. neighborhood that will not have somewhere withinits borders or in its village centre a home needingthe relief of practical Christian neighboring. However riotous the Day may be in the morning—the surprises of gifts, the sleighing and coastingexpeditions, the dinner home-cooked and home-grown and spiced with the skill of weeks of prepara-tion as only a farm dinner can be—there comes anhour in the late afternoon when the guests gohome and the shadows creep into the house. Evenwhen the year has been most kind and rich-
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . Christmas morning- in the country. neighborhood that will not have somewhere withinits borders or in its village centre a home needingthe relief of practical Christian neighboring. However riotous the Day may be in the morning—the surprises of gifts, the sleighing and coastingexpeditions, the dinner home-cooked and home-grown and spiced with the skill of weeks of prepara-tion as only a farm dinner can be—there comes anhour in the late afternoon when the guests gohome and the shadows creep into the house. Evenwhen the year has been most kind and rich- infriends and happiness this hour crowds full of mem-ories of other Christmases and other friends. The home that has had its sorrowsince the last reunion gathered- around its fire—no matter how brave a front itmay put forward—meets this hour with a dread that everyone knows. And will you have a tree, they say, when one is dead and one away? heart that knows what it meant to lose them makes her tree brighter thanever, then
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