Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-11-11

TO get ready for 10, and six weeks aiters
still pinching TO pay up for past saeri-
fees.
A little common sense applied at the
right time will save nerves and keep
down friction.
In the Erst place do not plan your
Christmas, my dear whose income is
limited (vsry), on the same scale sc
your friend who has al unlimited one 70
draw from.
You may consult together over
Christmas shopping, but what will be
perfectly right and easy for her to do
In the way OF buying brie-a.brac, arr /
needleWork aud pretty tribes would DO
positively wasteiul II not sinful for yous
Stick your longest pin In there.
Now II you will make out \ list OF
those TO whom you must make present,
being they OF your own blood and house,
hold, the nearest and dearest. and those
you would ike TO, and those you re-
ceived presents from last year, ana
whom you feel under obligation TO do
something for this year; SO much FOR the
Sunday School class. so much Tor the
poor. Now II IL is Gil filed out full,
lust 60 over IL and strike out that.
"obligatlon" debt first A gift which
creates an obligation has none OF the
blessings which gift OF friendship
should convey. Give with no expeeta-s
ton OF return, IL you give az ali among
mere acquaintanees. II n lurking sense
that something may come OF it fingers Ia
the mind, IL Is mere exchange, and nov
a gift AT all IL will do no hurt In re-
yising your Christmas list TO cut or
many OF your beloved, that IL, III times
are hard with you and money scarce
Your husband, or may be- brother or
married sister can each be left off the
list, aud each eat out your obligation 10
them at your Christmas dinner, aud re-
joice In the younger peoples happiness,
also, feeling no lack OF Christmas cheer
because OF being overlooked by you.
A Christmas dinner ca fdmilie, Is nott
necessarily the formidable thing some
persons make OF the event.
Good planning and a little personat
attention 10 details, will enable the
thrifty housewife to get up nice
Christmas d nner OF good table dimen-''
sions. al which grandpa and grandma,
auuts, uncles, cousins and the children,
will all find . welcome, with here and !
there a chair for the bachelor friend,
CT she who used 20 oe called
an "od maid" now known as the lady
bachelor There are those who W
compose such merry group aropnu
this good dinner table with It's music
and old-iasLloned games after IL, thu
"iavors" with which wealthy people
garnish then feasts provideds by q
caterer, will never De missed. And tho
Lord has, happilt>so maie the human
heart, just as muchAQu.ne happiness
may be experienced arou0Nm2 homes
like home dinner table, as athered
about the arstocratlc board.
In buying Christmas presents n
selection simplities matters
rid OF the idea that only ex
things are beautiful. And az the Emd<
time get rid OF that other idea that the
lad" OF the hour must be had no mat (
ter what other pretty things are passed
by.
Study the tastes OF even children, and
manage to get for them the things they
are likely 10 appreciate. Some.iii q.
boys, for Instance. want sic
Aurora or "DorA" painted 4
other skates; another, top or
not give the sled TO the skatlugN
the top and pail 10 the little man -
hopes Santa Claus will bring him n
pretty sled. Very young children have
tastes. A little study will discover
them.
II Is pity when children have 80
much given them for Christmas, they
cannot enjoy anything, like little Ruth
aud Esther Cleveland at the White
House, who receive so many Christmas
gifts the library looks like toy shop,
and the Christmas tree Is big enough
for q Sunday school. 10 soon becomes
wearisome TO child thus placed, u The
mamas and nurses do not gut away out
OF sight most Of the superfu0us play
things, the babies would not want any
of them, ard fall 10 smashing them with
their little hatchets. just 70 get them
out OF sight 10 Is the same way With
grown up people who have a super
| fluffy.
Some people never give anything but
| books 10 children, which il generally 4.
safe thing 20 do. since there are 50 man
pretty illustrated books for little folks
from nursery rhymes OF Mother Goo4
to the lovely little poems written esp
cially for them.
A we'll selected book IS always acceptV
able TO a person Of re6nement and cnl-'
| ture. and IA one of those tokens which
do not create that dlsagreenbe sense OF
obligation on account Of its expenslve-
ness, which some other things do.
There are some things not 10 be lef1
undone al Christmas tide. II one can dd
anything a. all.
While you can stop giving 70 those
near TO you, becsuse they have every
thing TO the way OF iewelry and brlc.a1
! brsc, or can be sppeased with Christi
mas dinner. you still have obligstiona|
10 those who have not the power 10 pod
any brightness or cheer into Christmas
for themselves.