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^^ y Her Qift«and His H«r« I* a brilliant and unique Christmas Story from the pen of the late O. Henry, now recognized aa one of the werld'e c^eatett atory-tellert. It Is a charming tale, full of character, sentiment â€" and surprlsesi One doUur and nin«ty^our cents, i^ance alone, and not by meretricious That was all. And seventy-four cents ornamentation, as all pood things ef It was in coppers saved one and should do. two at a time by bulldozing t1>e grocer j It was even worthy of Ihe watth.| and the vegetable man ami the but- j As soon us she saw it she knt»v.' that cher, until one's cheeke buri.ed with jit must lie Jim's. It wbs like him. the silent imputation of parsimony i Quietne«s and value â€" the des'-Tiplionl that such close dealing implied. Three | applied to l>oth. Eighteen dollars | times Delia counted it. One dollar ami tlwjrtook from her for it, and .she hur- ninety-four cents. And the next day would bo Christmas. There was clearly notliintf left to do but to flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Delia did it. Which indicates the moral reflection tihat life is made up of sobs, sniffles, sobs, and smiles, with sniffles pre- dominating. While the mistress of tihe honie is gradually subiridizing from the first Dbl'Iii looked lonj: .tnd anxiimsly in tlie mirrur. Jim drew a package from his over- coat pocket and threw it on tlie table. "Don't make any mistake, Dell," he ried home with the two tlollHrs. With that chain on his watoh Jim might properly bo anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch 1 was, he sometimes lookeil at it on the sly, on account of the oW leather, s»'d. "about me. I don't think there's strap that he used in place of a chain. ""J'^hing in the way of a haircut or a When Delia reached home her inJshuvo or a snanipoo that could make toxication gave way a little to pni-' "^o I'lâ„¢ "^y K'^l any less. But , if you'll dence and reason. She got out her un^vrap that package, you may see curling irons and lighted the pas, and w*iy you had me going awhile at first." stage to the second, take a look at 1 went to work repairing the ravages White fingers and nimble tore at the the home. A furnished flat at $7,501 made by geueiosity added to love, string and paper. And then an ecsta- per week. It did not exactly beggar! Which Is always a tremondou-s task, tic scream of joy, and then, alosl a description, but it certainly had that! <lear frieiuluâ€" a mammoth task. | quick feminine change to hysterical word on the look-out for the mendi cancy squad. In the vestibule below was a letter- box, into which no letter would go W/ithin forty minutes lier head was tears and wails, lU'cessitating the im- covered with tiny, close-lying curis, mediate emplojTneiit of all the coni- which made her look wonderfully like I forting powers of the lord of the flat. a truant schoolboy. She looked at her and an electric button, from which no i reflection In the mirror, long, care fully, and critically "If Jim doesn't kill me," she said to mortal finger could coiax a ring. Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name of "Mr. James Dil- lingham Young." Tho "Dillingham" had been flung to the bretxe during a former period of prosperity, when its possessor was being paid thirty dollars per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to twenty dollars, the letters of "Dilling- ham" looked bluyed, as though they were thinking seriously of contractirvg to a modest and unassuming "D." But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat ab ive he was called "Jim," and greatly hugged by Mrs. Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Delia. Which is all very good. Delia finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder-rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a grey cat walking a grey I fence in a grey back yard. To-morrow i would be Christmns Day, and pho had only one dollar and ninety-four cents] with which to buy Jim a present. She j had been saving every cent she could) fcr months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far. Ex- penses had been greater than she had calculated; they always are. Only one dollar nnd ninety-four cents to buy a present for Jim! llcr JimI Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something iiice for him, something fine and rare and sterling,! of y,e stove, hot and re^dy to cook the something just a little bit near to be- ' chops. Ing worthy the honor of being owned I jj^' y,.^^ n^yer late. Delia doubled *'^ni.^'"' ^^'^ fob-chain In her hand and sat on There was a pier-glass between the the corner of the table near the door windows of the room. Perhaps you | that he always entered. Then she have seen a pier-glass in a $7.50 flat? A very thin and very agile person may, For there lay the conibg â€" the set of combs, s:ide and back, that Delia had worshipped in a downtown window. Beatitiful combs, pure tortoiseshell, herself, "before ho takes a second; with jewelled rims, just the shade to look at me, he'll say I look like ajwear in the beautiful vani.«hed hair. Coney Island ch'>rus-girl. But what; They were expensive combs, she knew, could I dp? Oh, what could 1 do with' and her heart had simply craved and one dollar and r.inety-four cents?" : yearned over them without the least At seven o'clock the coffee was made! hope of possession. Ami now they and the frjiing pan was on the back| were hers; but the tresses that should give gfftii, these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as tliey are wisest. lOverywhere they are wisest. They are the Magi. Christmas, 1919. Again, the days In-lng Christinas Day, Tlie day of tho Holy Story! 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Had the Queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the air.ihaft, Delia would have let hor hair bans: out of the win- dow some day to dry, just to dejjreci- ete her Majesty's jewels and g'ifts. have adorned the coveted ornaments were gone. But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length .she was able to look up! with the dim eves and a sniik", and I say: heard his step on tho stair, away down: "j^y [,;,;,. gnnvs so fast, Jim." And on the fir.H flight, and .she turned then Delia leapt up like « little singed! white for just a moment. She had a cat and cricil, "Oh, oh!" j lwi)it of Faying little silent prayers j Jim had not yet .scon his beautiful | about lit" simplest r-vcryday things,; pie .-cnt. She held it out to him and now the whispered: | eagerly upon her open palm. Tho dull, "Please, Heaven, make him Hunk 1 1 precious metal .seemed to flash with li' am wtill pretty! The door oper.iiil, and tlim .stopped in and ciosid it. He looked lliiti and very serious. Poor fellow! lie was only twenty-two â€" and to he burdened with a family! He needed a new over- caat and he was without gloves. Jim stepped inside the door, as im- movable as a setter at scent of a (juail. Ills eyes were fi.\ed upon Delia, and there wrs an expression in them that she could npt read, and it terri- lied her. It was not anger, nor sur- pii.ie, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sent.imonts that she had been prepared for. lie simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar ex- Had King 'Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the ! pftssion on his face. i basement, Jim would have pulled outl Delia wrigglijd off tlio lalde and' his watch every time he iK'.ssed, just ^'^'int for him. j to see him jiluck at hi.s beard from! "Jim darling," she cried, "don't envy. i look at me that way. I had my hair' So now De!ia's beautiful ha'r f ell ! ''Ut otT and sold it, because I couldn't' about her, rippling and shining like have lived through Christmas without ' a cascade of brown waters. It reach- ^ giving you a present. It'll grow again. ^ «d Lelow her knees and made itself â- ; You won*l mind, will you? I jiftt had almost a garment for her. And then to do it; my h^ir grows awfully fast.i she did it up again nervously :ind , Say 'ilerry C^iris'mas,' Jim, and let's j quickly. On<-o she faltcre.l for a min-jbe happy! Yoi; don't know what a i ute and stood still, whi^i' a tear or two niceâ€" what a hcaOtiful, i.icD gift I've' splashed on the worn, red carpel. j got for you!" | On went hrr old brown jacket; onj "You've cut off your hair?" asked, went her old hiown hat. With a v.hirl; Jim laboriously, as .if he had. not ar-' of skirts, and w'th the brilliant sparkle: rived at that patent fact yet, even still in her eyes, she fluttered out of, after Hie hardest mental labor, tho door and <i(jwn the stairs to the' "Cut it off and .sold it," said Delia, street. j "Don't you like mc just as well, any- where she stopped the sign rend:' how? I'm mo witlioiil my hair, aren't "Mme. Sofronic. llioir Goods of A-Hjl?" - | Kinds." One flight up Delia ran, nnd^ Jim lookci) about the room curious-' collected herself, panting. Madame, !ly. large, too while, chilly, hardly !i)oked | "You say your hair is gone?" ha tho "Sorfronie." I said, with an air almojt of idiocy. i "Will you buy my hair?" asked I "Yon npcd:i't look for it," said Delia. Delia. I "It's sold, I toll youâ€" sold and gone,' "I buy hair," said Madame. "Take j loo! It's Chr;:tinas Kve, boy. Be yer hat off, and let's h«vu a bight at good to nic, for it went for you. May- thc looks of it!" be the hair.-* of my head wore luimbor- Down rippled the brown cascade. I ed," she went on with a sudden seri- "Twenty dollars!" said .Madame, | ous sweetness, "but nobody could ever lifting the mass with n practiced ! count my love for you. Shall I put. *i«nd. I the chops on, Jim?" | "Give It to ne fiuick!" said Delia. Qut of his trance Jim see-.ntd ipiick-' Oh, and tlio next two hours tripped- ly to wakx. He enfolded Delia. For by on rosy wings! Forget the hashed ton sacor.ds lei ua regard with di.^- metaphor. .'She was ranisacklng tho i erect scrutiny some inponsequential â- tores for Jim's present. I object in the other direi.lioii. | 8he found it at lant. It surely had j Seven dollars a week or a million a ^Mit made for J.:in and no one else, i year-what is the diffnence? A llkar* was no othjx- like it in any of ; niathematician or a vit would giv^' m» stores, and she had turned ail of you the wrong answer. The Magi Ibsm insldtt out. It was a platinum I brought woi.ilcrftil giifts. Iml that was tob-diain, Blmplc and chaste in disi^n, I nol amoirr thein. This riark assertion properly proclaiming its value by s-ib- 1 'vill be r''wninHtcd later on. reflection of her bright and ai'dent .spirit. i "Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all I over the town lo find it. You'll have to look at the tini? a hundred times a day now. (live me your watch! I want to sec how it looks on it." Instead of olieying, Jim tumbled uown on the couch, and put his hands under the back of his litad and smiled. "Uell," said he, ''let's put our Christ- mas presents away and keoj) them awhile. They're too nice lo use just at '' present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now su])poKe yo'! put the chops on!" j The Magi, as you know, were wise' menâ€" wonderfully wise men â€" who: brought gifts to the Babe in the! manger. They invented the arl, of giv- ing Chrislmc^ presents. Deiiig wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of ex- chanjre in case of duplication. .\nd here I have lamely related lb you tho uneventful chronicle of ^ two foolish; children in a flat whj most unwisely | sai'rificed (ur each other the greatest! treasures of their house. \ Kut, in a last word to Iho wi.io of thepe days, let it be said of all who i ;^?^a;??ti^i«i^.' Potatoes at 36 cgnts per bushel THK cost Items of Mr. Jos. Loughlln's potatoes, Dundas Co , totalled 185.50 per acre, In- cluding ^8.00 (or tortllizern. Fertilized Potatoes yielded 2ij5 bus. per acre. Untertlllzfld Potatoes yielded 80 bus. per acre. At his ral i of gain, what would YOUR poliitooa hHve yielded? Did you use Fertilizers ? He Did Writ* for our free- t'ottvlo HulU'dii Soil and Crop Improvement Bureau or till (.'HiiHillHn I'erUllxer AMs'n. 1111 Temple BIdg., Toronto, Ont. COA EASIMG UP her bountyâ€" provided foy sleeps the winter months. The earth has delivered her OY/ii, Cont^jited,. she And the rnen who woikcd v/ItH her, who toiled in lier furrows and delivered the harvestâ€" they, tv:>o, have earned a vest. Tlioughts may tura to hospitality and social evenings. Tho *^^ ^M k ^^ J>lays its part m the warm-hearted social hfe of the country and in the more ormal hinctiona of the city. Wherever a particularly clean shave is demanded Gillette service is co.nmissioiied. \ Gillette Service means shaving comfort, No Stroppingâ€"No » Honing, the elimination of the unnecessary, the saving oftime. SS.OO ai dealers everywhere. MADE IN _^:^i^is=^_ CANADA KNOV7M TK5 WORLD OVER The Gu.eiie Safety Razor makes a very acceptable and serviceable Chrislma* gift. You gat the full, pvC'War value for every dollar you spend on ii. 539 j-