Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-12
FOR EVERY MAN TO READ,
Some Modest Hints ~ to What Many
Women Want for Christmas

Some Modest Hints - to Whist Many
Women Want for Christmas.
From the New York Sun.
As Christmas comes on the faces of the mas
culine half of the human race are Swallowed
with perplexity. They don't know the shops,
and the clerks in the shops pity their ignorance
because they do not know what q woman wants.
or some things q woman never has enough
fine handkerchief, curious bits Of jewelry,
silk stockings and kid gloves. Neither does
her soul grow weary Of dainty bits of bric-a-
brac, of quaint silver teaspoons, nor Of curious
brass candlesticks and lamps, no matter how
thick they may stand about Women always
like etchings too, or q good print. no matter
how small they may be. So, Also with bit of
a statuette in bronze or marble. or in plaster.
Even if q woman doesn't know about these
things she is hattered that you think she does.
If she be your mother OF your sister or your
wife you will not have to keep up any Of these
fattering little ictions, but can Just give her q
sensible, useful gift Give your mother a new
lizard or seal pocket book, or give her an
eiderdown cover for her own bed, or a pair of
fur-lined dressing shoes for the feet Then
there's a bit of real lace for the little gentle
woman, who will lay it away in rose sachets
and think up dozen ways to wear it and be
happy in it.
Perhaps your sisters leather card case is a
little worn at the edges, she's lost her visit
ing list book. II she has set up her afternoon
tea table give her a copper kettle or wrought
iron crane. If she hasn't set up the tea table
give her one in bamboo. with the cunning little
tea stool that goes with it. If she hasn't a
triple dressing mirror give her that by all
means; there's nothing in all the world that
comforts and sustains womans soul like be-
ing able to see her back hair and her eyey and
her profile all at once. Or there's a party fan
an ostrich feather one if you can, a gauze
one if you cantor a big black Spanish lace
scarf to wear about her head of an evening.
You can give your sister or your wife Dres-
den china box for her dressing table, with
big powdery puff inside of it, or q blue delft
tray for hairpins or little china night lamp
that will burn ten hours and has screen be-
fore the flame.
II your wife spends your money anxiously
and thrifty just 60 and buy her what she will
call foolish gift that is .'too fine for her.
She will like it all the better because it's fine
and because you thought to give it to her. One
man brought tears Of joy to the eyes of his
little wife by giving her the prettiest, most ex-
pensive pair of house shoes he could find in New
York. She had not had such pair since she
bought her wedding Shoes because they were
SO expensive.
For your sweetheart avoid bnying perfumes.
because any girl knows what she wants best
herself; things to wear, because her father has
the right to provide them for her; stationery.
because she has her own distinctive style; lew
elry, above all, because no man should give
woman jewelry unless they are betrothed or
married.
Make the gift useful, but not too useful;
pretty, but not expensive; impersonal, yet deli
cately personal