The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-17
HOLIDAY SUGGESTIONS.

:" NICE present for q small boy to
purchase for his grandfather IL a
bicycle suitable in size for the
small boy himself. The thought
will please the grandfather. and the boy
will probably get the wheel, so that two
birds will be tickled by one feather,
Children with small feet win do well on
Christmas eve to borrow their big broth
er's caddy-bag and hang this up over the
chimney place instead OF their own small
stockings. A caddy-bag Of ordinary size
recently tested was found to have ca
dozen oranges and toys enough to set UP
a small shop.
Wives whose husbands smoke are again
reminded, In view of the approach OF
Christmas. that the man who smokes
intelligently would rather receive one
cigar costing Is cents than hundred
costing so cents. We sound this note OF
warning merely In the interests of peace
and good will.
Glass eyes on worsted slippers for your
pastor are no longer considered good
form. 1t often happens that these are
placed over the most sensitive OF the
clerical toes. and lead the wearer OF the
slippers into the use OF strong language
II by some inadvertence they arc stepped
on by an outside party.
Persons Of moderate means who wish to
present their wives with ropes OF pearls
or diamond necklaces or gold chatelaincs
are referred to that charming little vol
ume, Fifty Ways of Cracking Safes; or,
Burglary Made Easy" by Red Nike the
champion jewel litter Of the United
States, soon to be published by the Sing
Sing Tract Society.
Always avoid anything bordering upon
sarcasm in the selection Of your gifts.
Don't send chatting dish with full in
structions as to how mushrooms and
Welsh rarebits may be cooked upon It to
. dyspeptic friend; do not send an opera
cloak to your cousin who has married a
Michigan logger and who lives all her
days in the woods. and, above all, never
be satirical in your gifts to servants. A
set Of Burns for your cook, work on
Rest for your hired man, or How to
Dress Well on Four Dollars a Year for
your housemaid would be in execrabie
taste. Better far stick to the time-hon-
ored gift of an orange and an imitation
emerald pin for the woman, and q plush
polo cap for the man.
Remember that It II the spirit that
prompts the gift that Is best appreciated
at Christmas. The little things you make
yourself are often most welcome, so II
you embroider well, bit of embroidery
is a good gift to send; II you are good
cook, a pie will prove suitable gift; II
you are a poet little poem. and so on.
II cook would always send pie, poet
o poem, millionaire million, the gift
would always be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
the last.
A years vacation on full salary and
ticket to Europe and back are pleasant
Christmas remembrance for a vestry to
send to a rector: and the offer of a COM
promise for $50 down il a very excellent
gift for the rector to make to his vestry.
A suitable gift for millionaire to make
to his daughter-and make this sugges-
ton in response to an appeal for informa-
tion--is certified check for $1,000. To
present her with railroad might involve
her In bonded Indebtedness that she
could not well meet. and which. to that
extent, would later prove to be an embar-
rassment. A certified check for $1,000.
however, would appeal to the taste of any
woman.
In reply to the same appeal for infor-
nation we would say to millionaire"
that to give his 20-year-old son H,O00.OO0
is a mistake. The boy would spend it In
a very few weeks. probably. Rather give
him a twenty-story Office building down
town. 1t may cost little more. but he
cannot spend 1t, and 1t will keep him busy
renting the Offices on the upper ten floors.
-Harper's Bazaar.