The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-28
CHRIsTHAs CHATTER.

Present time and paSume are
pleasantly joined at Christmas time.
Darn the stocking that catches no
Christmas presents. o. HcGVtt1ge.
Christmas trees are looking spruce.
Children pine for them.-BoSt01a Tran
script.
Man wants but little here below;
but he appears to want that little on
Christmas day.
There should be no holes in Christ
mas stockings if they are worth darn.
N o. PicdyRsse.
Big feet may be laughed at all the rest
of the year, but their stockings hold
most at Christmas.
Boston girls never hang up their
stockings; an exchange says they "sus-
pend their hosiery"
Christmas comes but once q
year." and if it came a week later 10
wouldn't be in the year at all.
"A weIlfed hog reused up in his sty,
And cropped regretful tear
"The beautiful snow has come" he said,
''And staying win soon be here"
"A man who don't buy a Christmas
present for his wife now and hide it will
miss much of the romance connected
with the legendary day.
1t is stated that stuffed birds are
a very toney Christmas present." but
we should suppose a live bird would
be more toney.-BoStOas Post.
1t is the whoIe-souIed people who
make holidays worth remembering.
The half-soled man is too thin for
Christmas.-N. o. RcGyune.
On Christmas day everybody living
will have Christmas present.--Bosto
Transcript. And likewise Christmas
past-time-unless he was born this
year. Philadelphia Bulletin.
-Embroidering Remember me''
on a pair of presentation suspenders
will not hit the mark. Omitting to
properly fasten the suspender buttons
will ever keep your memory green in
the mind of your husband. -Nel0 HGUess
Register.
The morning dawns, and the house,
hold is awakened by the sound of drum
and fife. But it is not war. 1t is not
the summons to go out and slaughter
the Zulus. Nay, brethren, it is Christ
mas, and don't you forget Yo1skers
Gazette.
The young men converse: What
are you going TO give your girl this
Christmas, George Don't you find it
rather hard to select anything appro-
u
me. I shall give a few things my last
girl sent hack to me."-LoUeH Citizen.
The Partisan says: According to
French superstition, a young girl who
wishes to know the name of her future
husband must. on coming from midnight
mass on Christmas Eve, give an aims to
the first male beggar that she meets
and ask him his Christian name. Her
future husband will bear the same
name"
"A jewelry firm in New York has
just received diamond valued at $780,
900. The name of the journalist for
whom it was ordered as a Christmas
present for his girl is withheld. Norris
totCn Herald. Yes, we didn't want
anything said about it then, but fiji
necessary you might mention it now,
though please print our initials correctly.
Derrick.
Why, Jennie, you foolish girl, come
into the house. What are you out in
the snow for without wraps?'' "Oh,
nothing much, ma You see Augustus
has just called. and here are his foot
prints in the snow. Pm measuring to
get the right size for those slippers, and
do you know 1 don't believe I've got
half enough cloth for them"
The editors stocking
stocking hung from the mantel-piece;
But bad as it was, L BELONGED S dI to man
An editor meek and lOwly.
1t hung all night till the light of morn
But alas, for the hose, and alas, for the man
Twas filled to the top with sshesI
Ashes OF many hope deferred,
Ashes OF benefits conferred' '
And ashes OF desolation.
Woe to the man with the shattered sock
And woe to the fellow who filed IT up
-Hdckensdck Republican.
Among the superstitIons connected
with Christmas Eve are the following.
The bees sing in their hives; the oxen
may be found on their knees in adora-
ton of the newborn Savior; bread baked
on Christmas Eve never grows moldy.
They are all from English folklore.
Farmers in the north of England firmly
believe that the oxen in the stalls kneel
down on the eve of Christmas, old style.
1t seems to be general popular tradi-
ton that an OK and ass were in the
stable of Bethlehem when Christ was
born. and that they warmed him with
their breath.
Who will venture to say that the
women of the West are not econom-
ical? A young married lady of Madison,
Wis., who is very FOND of her hus-
band, has concluded that a hox of cigars
will be very nice Christmas present
for him, and, accordingly, has purchased
the gift and concealed it from view in q
bottom drawer OF the ''spare bureau"
But she cannot help intimating to her
lady friends what shrewd bargain she
has made. why James always pays
ten dollars box for them, and I got
these for one dollar and fifty cents.''
Unhappy James; he little knows what
Christmas has in store for him. -E1~
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