Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-01-12
"mERRY CHRISTMAS IN THE AIR.
A Club Man who Thinks It Costs Goct
Deal to Give That Greeting.

Club Man Who Thinks It Costs Good
Deal to Give That Greeting.
Old Marley may or may not be as dead
as a deornail, but this is not a Christmas
carol And yet it happens to be about
Christmas. There were lot of young
men in various indolent attitudes about
the loa6ng room of Fifth avenue club.
They all belonged to class Of young
men who frequent the clubs for the rea-
son that they can get there month and
fifteen days credit for what they eat.
drink and smoke. and thus are enabled
to live a month and half ahead of their
incomes The Oldest member Of the
group was reading one of those alleged
humorous periodicals which blossom out
in the holiday season with fearfully and
wonderfully illustrated legends. satirical
Christmas stories and pithy maxims OF
the peace on earth, good will toward
men order.
The man who wrote that was either
churnp or liar" asserted the reader
suddenly. throwing down his paper
What did he writer asked man
who was staring at the embers of the
open fire.
why. the Poor Richard, or King Solo
man. OF Martin Tupper who runs o col
umn of aphorisms in his blooming paper
says:
It doesn't cost any money to wish
people merry Christmas.
Now that fellow has never lived in
New York in about the social rut along
which we are grinding, or if ne has he's
willfully supressing the truth. You fell
lows know as well as do that it costs
money, lots of it. to wish people merry
Christmas Why. without a moments
reflection any of US could string out a
long price list of assorted merry Christ
mases,' to wit:
wishing elevator boy at your apart
ment house merry Christmas, from s. to
So; wishing hall boy ditto. ditto. wish
ing washerwomau merry Christmas.
from 81 up; wishing elevator boy at
your Office building ditto. ditto; wishing
merry Christmas to your Office boy one
extra weeks salary: wishing ditto to
stenographer. ditto; wishing your waiter
at luncheon place merry Christmas 81.
wishing your barber the same chang3
out of the bill given up for Shris5'
mas shave; wishing merry Christmas to
hostler who takes care of your horse s..
ditto to stable foreman. one box cigars.
$3.50
"At every club we enter a Christmas
list stares Us in the face. and the old
doorman and the call boys. the coat check
boy and the clerk keep one eye on the
list and the other on each entering mem.
Der until he has added his autograph to
the growing collection. If a fellow goes
to law school OF medical school. he
finds the janitor waiting in the hall on
the last night before the Christmas re-
cess with a subscription list tackled up
by the door and the gas lighter in his
hand as pointer wherewith to call at
tention to it. tell you there's no way
for single man in big city to beat
this Christmas game Talk about the
tariff being a tax; it's nothing alongside
of Christmas Money talks. and it's the
only kind of talk that goes in this merry
Christmas business.
'Of course fellow does get a present
from a best girl or two occasionally. but
he has more than to make it up by return
presents direct. or indirectly by flowers.
theater tickets. etc. Christmas is awfnlly
one sided. The companies. clients and
patients who employ US fellows never
wish US merry Christmas in the New
York vernacular."
NO" said the man who was still star.
ing dreauiily into the fire: the only was
to get square with the game is to riaEry
and then your wife will buy yorr pres
ents and have EN- charged 10 your ac-
count.
And the back log snapped ont shower
of sparks in emulation Of this brilliant
solution of the dificulty.-New York
Tribune.