Good form Etiquette of Christmas Giving. “In making Christmas gifts we should take many things into We must try to choose something that consideration will give pleasure to the recipient and of which not al ready more than enoigh No wants to send to Newcastle, says Florence Howe Hall “1f, however, my friend is very fond of reading I may properly send her a book. Unless it is one recently pub lished it is safer not to write the name on the fiyleaf, as it may prove a dupli cate. “It is always more difficult to find a suitable gift for a rich than for a poor person, because the former usually has so many possessions of all kinds that a new object really becomes a burden. To a woman of this sort it is glmost al ways safe to send flowers, since they give pleasure for a few days and can then be thrown away, or one can some times select a gift that pleases by its novelty or oddity “It is easier to find a present for a person who does not own a great many things, but the very fact that she has | few makes It important that shall be good of their kind, go that here also pains must be taken a suitable gift We must be of giving useful and regard to a friend of modest her taste He in another dire Margaret De land has a delightful story pf a woman to who » A purse of spend it on She did nothir 4 buy nstead the | blue s dress for wh she had long | ed all her fe ai inviting all her | friends to rt ‘ew people enjoy Ot} | something she has Ole conls POSsSessions these to secure ware, prosaic to wever, kens of our means If tion mortie enring receivi urely useful presents course in the keys are gories of the chiefs, gloves and neckwear™ When Paying a Call ] i winl formali i express) Mm of conurtes er is the time of ty. the call st should ! and readily see w reason for this hostess must not be ght napping.” and the caller should give her time t finish duties around the home, and at the same time a departure should be made that willl enable the hostess to prepare for din ner It is permissible to make a morming call that is not entirely a A call that has for its object a chard | table task, the inquiry after the health | of one in the household or the gation of a servant's standing can be ] any luncheon. nap or social one. | investi | made at a convenient hour in the morn- | ing. Do not make a call of this char | acter on the "at home” day, for this! entertainment demands extra duties | from the hostess, and she ought to be | undisturbed. This type of call is not counted a social call and eannot be made to pay off any social debts If a friend has a special day on] which she receives callers choose this | by all means. The Issuing of cards| stating the day and the hour will make | your calling list a very simple thing. | Keep cards of this type and enter the facts In a Httle book If a bride Is In her new home and has stated on her cards a social date It Is disconrteous to eall before that time. She may not be prepared to re celve visitors. Allow a reasonable length of time to elapse and make the first eall. In a neighborhood where it is the custom to call on newly arrived residents there should be a comfortn ble time given to allow of a settling In the new home and an adjustment to one's surroundings, An unmarried woman shonid eall on a matron first, and a younger woman pays the first call on the older one without regard to the fact of the for mer's being married or single. The best thing to do 1s to acquaint yourself with the social customs of the city or country in which you reside. Now, there are some calls that are obligatory. If you have been brides maid or an attendant at a wedding you should call on the true hostess of the wedding reception, the mother of the bride. This should be done short ly after the wedding. | men and women seem, by one Hea a - EE Christmas Not a Humbug. “Christmas a humbug, uncle?’ sald Berooge's nephew. “You don't mean that, I'm sure." “1 do,” sald Scrooge. "Merry Christ- mas! Out upon Merry Christmas! What's Christmas time for you but a time for paying bills without money, a { time for finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer, a time for bal ancing your having every ftem in ‘em through a round dozen of months dead If | could work my will every who about with ‘Merry Christ mas’ on his lips should be boiled with pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart should!” It is many years since the conversion books and presented goes his own of old Scrooge from the error of his | ways by the three ghosts of Christmas | past, Christmas present and Christmas | donkey on which St. Nicholas rides, in yet to come. It is many more years since the first Christmas anthem rang | triumphant in the hush of an expectant midnight hour over the plains of Pal estine. And yet, In spite of the years and their message to the world, there still exist those unfortunate souls who, mas a humbug and lose sight of the real spirit and joy of the day. “Christmas a humbug!” one is moved to exclaim with old Scrooge's indig nant nephew a feast of good cheer, of kindly pulses, of generous giving, If hearts are free im opened and sympathies allowed play, If cynicism is barred and pessi mistic philosophy banished to the lim bo of all unpleasantness. For the very essence of the spirit of Christmas Is that of kindliness, of affection When the flame of the real spirit of dim altogether dead Christmas is or | there are a dozen ways of fanning it So things the it, kind, forgiving, char time In renewed life foster to nephew sald, “a into combine many to Christmas at mosphere, make as Scrooge's the only the itable, pleasant time, the of long calendar year when consent f lv ont | to open their shutup hearts freely ane of people below them as to think i I they really were fellow passengers » the grave and not another race of crea tures bound on other journeys A REAL SANTA CLAUS. for you ANTA CLAUS By , 1 hang the m wkings two W 3 bring to other DOYS And to him a Christmas seemns Merry only in his dreams reams then. Santa Clau rs wit? because t's filled up to the brim rat 4 ry pster Bherms A QUESTION. Santa Claus, who i» ir feet yop where gifts are aml 3 walk along the street? gets you thinking, though you're t an be About the songs and laug! tree ter round the children’s Christ: ? Though y~u vow “‘this Christmas t is » aulsance anyhow.’ ce at work the frowning from your brow mpet sour blast that ur soul giness There’ that clears The sn tin tru wak serene To homage for the doll a queen And the once prosaic world where It has been your lot to dwell realm of fascinations mystic falry spell If there lan’'t any Santa Claus, who is It, day by day, turns thoughts to Christmas, strive to shun it as we may? Who comes at this bleak season armed with telepathic arts And by generous suggestion dominates our minds and hearta? who is a lady and neath some That our ! a oasis ii SA CONSTANT CHRISTMAS, Oh, never falling splendor, Oh, never sllent song, Still keep the green tender, Still keep strong! earth the gray earth Still keep the brave earth dreaming Of deeds that shall be done While children's lives come streaming Like sunbeams sun! from the Oh, angels, sweet and splen- did, Throng a our hearts and sing The wonders which attended The coming of the King! «Phillips Brooks Bf fe te fo fo wefan) | CHRISTMAS TIME. EACE and good will toward men! Rleat Christmas time That brings to famished thousands a good meal, While even those, immured in cells, that steal From others—make their crime Now sit at tables with the best of fare Children, unused to luxuries and joys Now have abundance, are e'en blessed with toys, For 4id not Christ take such unto his care? The laborer sick, his family hungry, eold Is now remembered; wood and coal and rent And flour and meal and fowl to him are sent By them that know the genuine use of gold, Whose eyes have seen the shepherds watch by night, Who've read the Sermon on the Mount aright. «Bdward 8 Creamer in Brooklyn Bagle Hvelithood In against you? | idiot | He | | peasants still | the dows to guide the sacred It | like the wretched Ebenezer, call Christ. | their windows to g . N | feasts and leave their doors open that No, not a humbug, but | | out Christendom there 1s a belief that Wee eel THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, | CHRISTMAS IN HOLLAND. § Fpopomsgninpnipest ion | In Holland Santa Claus pays his an nual visit to all good children twenty days before he comes to this country | Dec. b ix the feast day of St. Nicholas, | alias Santa Claus, He has nothing | whatever to do with Christmas, and | his visit there Is an Anglo-Saxon an achronism, As thelr patron saint, chil dren were taught to look to Nicholas | for care ap’ protection, In England | the custom was abolished with the | worship of saints at the reformation | and re-established in the Amer! can guise of Father Christmas in the | middle of the iast century, But in Holland Santa Claus contin ues to make his visits on the right day, | Dec. 5. The Dutch children do uot | { hang up the'r stockings. but place their | shoes, filled with hay or straw for the | wus Sallie Fearful — “I certainly would like to marry Charlie but I'm scared of the hard is work, and I have seen too The Christ Child. many girls slave their lives An Irish legend tells that on Christ hot bi over washtubs and in . / i ; Wie ot kitchens and lose all their mak eve the Christ Child wanders out looks after they married.” in the darkness and cold and the put lighted candles in Anty Drudge — “Well, you needn't to tell me. Those girls didn’t know about Fels-Naptha Soap. You go right ahead and marry Charlie and be happy. I will give you a box of Fels-Naptha to start with, and if you will always use it afterward your hard work will be cut in half and you needn't worry about losing your good looks and not hav ing any time to yourself, either.” front of the ‘ireplace. | tle feet, that they may not stumble on | the way to their homes. In Hungary the people go yet further in their ten derness for the Child. They snread he may enter at hix will Through no evil ean touch the child who is bors on Christmas eve | oes de deste de ie ok de eee ie de de dee ded de eke de 5 “KNECHT RUPERT” WAS : GERMAN SANTA CLAUS » Ee If you want to get through your washing in half the time next