* J 3 ^'— -—- - - — jother homes ol mourning made glad *hat night as well as mine. -And wbat a merry, joyful Christmas we had! How the Christmas tree sparkled in uler ita many tapers, loaded not only with the gifts of the children to each other, bid with more costly presents to me and to them *rom their delighted father! How pioudly did Ellen lead her fathet to the pictures her industry had wrought, and say, in uimv »r tobis surprise, “ Mother taught me T’ . h*wHhIo Muv sin fkvorile