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 THE SIMPLE HOME FESTIVALS

ON'T you just love the simple old festivals, like Thanksgiving Day and Christmas?

That's one thing that Papa and Mamma and I agree about. And this year we had a very simple sort of a Thanksgiving Day.

Of course, it's rather a bore if you have to invite a lot of relations.

But one must always sacrifice something to gain the worth-while things, mustn't one?

And what is more worth while than simplicity?

Simplicity! Simplicity! Isn't it truly wonderful!

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself: "Have I been simple and genuine today? Or have I failed?"

Papa always has two maiden aunts to Thanks-giving dinner. Dear old souls, I suppose, but frumps, you know.

And Fothergil Finch was there, too. I asked poor dear Fothy, because otherwise he would have had to eat in some restaurant.

He tried to be agreeable to Papa's aunts—of [96]