Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-17
THE AkT OF GIVING.
Suggestions Along That Line
Worth Reading.
II You Have a Surplus of Money And q
Disposition To Spend It Y ou May
Become an Angel of Light.

The good people of Clarksville--
the ladies especially-will next week
spend hundreds of dollars for Christ.
mas presents. The work has already
begun, to a certain extent, but the
bulk of the presents will be bought
next week. Just about this time
every year newspaper writers begin
telling the people what kind of pres
ents to buy. The best article along
this line that has fallen under our
eye is the following from the New
York Sun:
Don't be too particular about
giving useful Christmas presents,
Notwithstanding that hosts of practi-
cal individuals, especially those of a
philanthropic turn of mind, are for
ever advising just to the contrary.
or course where extreme poverty is
in question, when the very necessi.
ties of life are lacking, ton of coal
or basket of provisions is doubtless
more suitable gift than would be
silken table cover or an embroidered
scarf; but barring such extreme cases
the greatest degree of benefit and hap
plness experienced by the exchange
Of gifts at the season of "good to
men" does not, as rule, result from
those of a strictly useful nature. At
ter all, men and women are only boys
and girls grown tall and, pray, what
healthy boy or gir' would prefer
pair of boots to toy pistol or pair
of skates, doll or box of candy, as
his or her annual contribution from
Santa Claus d?
"In poem are these lines:
"And am tired-so tired Of duty,
SO tired of all my tired hands find to do;
yearn, faint for some of lifes free beauty,
Its loose beads with no straight string run
ming through.
"Aye, laugh if you VIII at my crude Speech
But women sometimes die of such greed
Die for the small Joys held beyond their
reach,
And the assurance they have all they need.
"Women oftimes want a great
many things they don't actually
need things, however, which can
not be classed among the extrava-
gances; and without question one
may be just as true philanthropist
by catering occasionally to these as
hy ministering to the more prosaic
needs of humanity.
"a box of very handsome, fash
ionable nCte paper, given to one who
must content herself the year round
with a cheap quality, is known to
have given an amount of happiness
entirely disproportionate to the
amount expended, and the sweet lit
tie mother of large family, for
which the husband and father has all
he can do to provide the very PLAIN
est food and raiment, went into
almost childish ecstacies not long
ago on the receipt Of a Christ
mas present of a set of table
candelaOra topped with dainty satin
shades A barrel of -four or bibs for
the children were more needed, per-
haps, but the little woman longed-
oh, so much for just such a beautiful
suggestion of comfort and prosperity.
"You have no idea," said she, "the
pleasure it gives me occasionally to
light up my candles at supper time.
can almost persuld myself l am
giving a fashionable tea, and after the
manner of Dickens iailbird, who cut
up his allowance of prison bread into
omelets, salads, beefsteaks, etc., as
his fancy dictated. l try and make
my bread and butter and apple sauce
represent a menu suitable for the oc-
casion.'
"Of course there are exceptions to
all rules, but take it all in all it is the
lack of ornamental in their homes and
Wardrobes and of pleasant diversion
in their lives, which, quite as often
as the lack Of the strictly needful,
prematurely ages and drives to de-
spondency so many women.
"The Christmas tide affords to every
one with surplus of money and the
disposition to spend it an unequaled
opportunity to become veritable
angel Of light to some one. The pity
of it is that for lack of earnest, in
telligent thought, such piles of
money should be spent each year so
indiscriminately and with so little
care rs to results"
In IA recent letter to the manuiac.
turers, Mr.. w. A. Baldridge, Millers-
vile, Illinois, says: "Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy gives the best salts
faction of any cough medicine /
handle. and as a seller, leads all other
preparations in this market. | rec
ommend it because it is the best med
icine | ever handled for coughs, colds
and Group" For sale by Owen d
Moore, Druggists.