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}
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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
<hiiten, was | | week, use Fels-
mun to | { Naptha Soap.
All you need 1s
cool or lukewarm
water—Fels-Nap-
tha will do the
rest.
The Santa Claus idea has grown out
of a variety of
The festival of St
| friend of the children, was
legends and customs
Nicholas, who was
1 Germans
ono
It was ea ¥
de with the
Clothes soaped
with Fels-Naptha and
put to soak are prac-
tically clean when
you come to wash
them. hey don’t
need hard rubbing or
boiling. It is just as
good for all kinds of
housework.
Bad Day For Birds,
after Christmas, St
oxing day in England),
joer way by some of
and Ditchfield
Fels & Co... Fhilade's hia.
Thursday, December 11th, 1913.
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«If the brat
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their horns in passing
not
inches
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