The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
A Young f,hrss<r..

One Of the most blessed things about
Christmas is that it makes so many pco.
PIE feel young. It is the one season If
the year when everybody feels that they
can dismiss abstruse thoughts nut dc.
nlty aside, forget the worries of Tia
Moria' ana for time return to their
youth. 1t always seems pity that men
try TO conceal this feeling SO often at
christmas. Only few men nre cana
bic of being gracefully caught in the act
or making miniature train of cars 90
oyer the carpet. Catch them at It n
night or two before Christmas. and ,,ina
out OF every ten will instantly xet ,In
from the carpet, brush the dust from
the knees of their trousers-for dust viii
get on the carpets of the best-regulated
homes--and Immediately begin to apoIo-
gize. have often wondered why men
resent being caught in this way. But a
woman feels differently, and it is n
blessed thing that she does,
l must confess that like to gee n
woman dress doll, and the older the
woman the better like to see her. There
about t0 II tt s Extremely a d {a .
hour as she straightells out the miniature
petticoats, fits on the lillio,itian stock
ings, or tucks on the wonderful little
bow at the throat which always makes
a doll look SO fetching to me, and with
out which / can never imagine the dress
OF really ,well-bred doll to be com.
ple.e: Al TINS makes woman feel
young again, and why should it not? The
good Lord knows we have enough in this
world TO make us grow old; why not
have few things to make us feel youngt
And nothing brings this feeling with
stitch perfection as the full and keen
enjoyment of Christmas and it's TOYS.
some OF us have not children for whom
we can buy. toys or dress dolls. But
even then there is always some child
whom we can make happy at Christmas.
tide, and the very fact that she is be-
showing happiness makes a woman feel
young. For Christmas makes ,1y han
py and young just i'll proportion as we
enjoy it with others and make them
happy. \ selfish happiness,, un enjoy
ment OF our pleasures alone, is nc, happi-
The real delight of Christmas, that de.
light which brings the color to the cheek
and the sparkle to the eye, and the feel
ing of joy to the heart. which nothing
else in the world can bring, is the delight
of sharing the happiness of the day with
some one else. and making some other
person feel as happy as we do ourselves
It is in this that the real essence of
Christmas happiness lies.
A Christmas full of joy and glee, which
will make us feel like children. is only
possible where envy, malice and hard
feelings are forgotten, and where we
merge our own happiness into that of
others. Then it is that we grow young
again. Why should we be ashamed to
be like boys and girls again for day:
What means more than the glad happi-
ness Of youth? We are happier this year
as nation; let us be happier as indi-
viduals, forgetting the world and it's
worries for a day and being once more
as we were years and years ago.. The
children who see us will be the happier
for it, while we will feel the younger
because of it. And the feeling Of youth
will not harm us if it lasts Tor some days
after Christmas. So to my readers this
year. do not say, after the usual tritc
fashion: May you have merry Christ
mas, but l say: May you have a young
Christmas-a day when you may forget
that you are 40, so or 60, and feel that
you are once more back to boyhood DAYS
and girlhood years. Once such Christ
mas comes to you it will be the happiest
Of all your life. And that is the sort of
Christmas I<wish for each and every
one of my readers this year-the happicst
in merriment the youngest in feeling
Edward w. Box in Ladies' Home Jour
nal