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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... xxv love'S way and christmas giving One day, during the last Christmas rush, I overheard a little ragged boy say to his baby sister as they stood gazing hungrily at the big show window of a toy shop, "How I wish I could get that dollie for you, sister. You know you never had a dollie. I do wish I had money to get that one." One of the most pathetic things in life, one which has often made my heart bleed during Christmastide is to see poor ragged children like these little ones, looking so longingly into the gaily dressed shop windows at the dolls and toys and other beautiful things, the like of which they never had in their lives. What a wonderful time they would have; how happy they think they would be if they only had the money to buy some of these wonderful things! But with the wisdom which comes prematurely to the children of the poor, they resign themselves to the consciousness that they never can have them. Not less pathetic than the children are the mothers who vainly long to brighten Christmas for their little ones with the gifts their child-hearts crave. When I see poor women who are obliged to leave their children at home and go out washing or scrubbing floors, standing with their scrubbing pails on their arms looking so longingly at the Christmas show windows, I can read their thoughts. How they long to take some of those things home to their loved ones, things which they know that though they should scrub their fingers to the bone their children will never have. Yet how eagerly they look at the pretty clothing, the dolls, the toys, the things which they see other children have, but which are forever denied to their children, who are just as precious to them as the better-to-do children are to their mothers. We are all looking...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 123039611X
- ISBN 13 9781230396118
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages60
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