The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-01-19
DROADBRIM'S N. Y. LETTER


called chestnut" We can now safely
sit down to count the cost, foot the bills
and gaze upon the ruins Had good
timer Oh, yes, Hrstrate time and no mis-
take; splendid time, haven't had such a
Christmas for years. Aunt Phoebe sent me
a pen-wiper, and Cousin Mary pillow case
full OF dried apples, and Uncle Joe a
horseshoe tied with RIBBONS that he took
off Aunt James old summer bonnet; Mrs.
Filkins sent me tidy, and our minister 8
wife sent me Christmas card, and m
niece sent me nice plated thimble, oh,
can't tell You all got. Did on make any
You see, you can't help it, when folks
remember you. Aunt Phoebe said they
didn't expect anything from us this year as
we had so many TO give to; but If we did
send anything, Susie would like new silk
dress, but she hoped that we wouldn't get
anything expensive; and that Johnn
| hadn't had a new suit of clothes for over q
ear, and if 1t was not asking too much we
might just throw in an overcoat and pain
of rubber boots Aunt Phoebe said that
she didn't want anything for herself Of
Uncle William, but her wrap was looking
so awful shabby that she felt quite ashamed
TO call on US. And Uncle William hadn't
mad a new overcoat since our centennial
rhe minister's wife thought that If we sent
anything for her husband, handsome rug
| or a rocking chair would be better than a
dressing gown or slippers, as he had not
worn several of those which he had got
last year. Everybody had to get some.
j Thing. Mere on usl l can't tell where
all the money went to. The week before
| Christmas John drew a hundred dollar.
out of the Savings Bank and b. Monday
Christmas Eve, every cent of i. was gone,
/ and he had TO go down and get forty more
to make the thing go around. It's fear.
fully expensive, but I'm awful glad it's all
| over.
Each year the necessities forced upon us
these holida' become more oppressive
| and burdensome. No one desiies to be
considered mean or penurious, especially
1t such joyous holiday time, and it roa
'eems as though conspiracy had been
inferred into by all sor of dealers and
| manufacturers to take advantage of the
generous impulses that stir our hearts at
Christmas and New Year. If it brought
10 punishment, 1t would be hard enough,
out 1t does. In the kindness of theil
carts everybody feels under an obligation
| o send the children candy, and the con
| equence is that they stuff themselves full
md In addition to the depletion of hi:
'ank account by presents, papa is bounced
jut of bed In the middle OF the night
Willie and Minnie have the by ache
It's showing Ike Sam Hill, but the child
la-en will die if you don't hurry up; ant
Shen you get down to the Doctors he /.
not at home, he had just gone down t.
Farmer Dusenburys; six of his children
were ALI down with the same complaint
Now, am not complaining of the money
nat would go any how; but it's the anxiet,
If the parents and the suffering of the
/ 'hidren. Is the game worth the powder
aud would it not be better to put the none
II the saving bank for the little ones, OF
put these Christmas gifts in some subslanti
al and useful form that would do then
| Sood for all the yearP A few illuminated
'hristmas books will cost as much as 9
moderated, useful library-and some of the
most expensive dolls have wardrobes thai
cost as much as a yonng lad IS fit-out fol
BOARDING school. There is scarcel houst
the land that is not scene of ruin wher
hese Two glad holidays are past. Broker
oils, ruined arks, disjolnted horses
lephants without their baggage, marbles
alls, tops, shuttlecocks, putty blowers
iancing jacks, miniature theatres. and al
Il those juvenile marvels that make up
Merry Christmas and Happy New YeaI
But suppose II is no use to moralze, 4
Gather might as well try to stem th,
orient of Niagara. Candies will be made
Grandpa and grandma will buy them 1,
)ut III the children $ stockings. The child
'en will eat them, and as natural conse
iuenee the children will have the bly,
ache. And the doctor will come at twC
lollars clip, then come several prescrip
ions at the druggists; house turned upside
Town; father mad; mother almost sick with
ear that she is going 10 lose her darlings
Jamaica ginger, hot drops, paregoric
mustard plasters. Hooray, hooray, hooray
for Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
will try and interview old Santa Claus
between now and next December, and see
# the old saint won't make some amend
ments in bis Christmas gifts.
A novel case occurred here this week in
,he discovery of a blooming damsel OF
eighteen who has three loving husbands,
and all of them lawfully married 90 her,
and to-day she could lawful, sue every
one of them for non-support, and If they
had any money she could make them pa,
the piper. She met her fate in Brook n
while she was sorting rags on an old ash.
dump, and her Cupid was a ,ddler in the
rag business When he saw how deftly she
did her work, he saw visions of prospective
wealth in the alliance, and he offered her
his hand and cart. She accepted. A new
fVe-cent calico completed the wedding
lrosseau,and repairing at once to the resi-.
dence of the Rev. Mr.. White, who is the
outhful lovers friend, and who takes an
thing from ham sandwich to a postage
stamp for tying the nuptial knot. Mr.
White, In less time than it takes to record
II, had made two one as fast as bell, book,
aad candle could do 1t, minus the bell and
candle. Three DAYS of welded bliss satls-
fed Mr.. Frederick Weisse that he had
made slight mistake, so he gave Mrs.
Frederick Weisse Alambasting and left her;
she then went TO Connecticut. and there
she found her second flame; he was only
eighteen years Of age, and of no particular
account at that. A week sufiiced for the
courtship, and she entered into the pro
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