Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-10

| A Christmas without calendars
would be like dinner without dessert.
Just why Christmas rather than New
Years should be time to remind the
wayfarer in this vale OF tears that
'tempus fugit'' is a question tina. is
| open for discussion.
The giving of calendars is matter
| that requires the most delicate dis
| elimination. For instance, it is not
good taste to remind that maiden lady
who, with the aid of art and cosmetics.
is trying to forget the fact that the
wheel of time has carried her around
to the year of grace 1900, that she was
/ twenty years ago. For man to send
a calendar to lady Of any but the
most tender years is dangerous mat
ter if he is at all interested in retain
ing the fair ones good win.
Calendars are meant for the stately
exchange of eourtesies which prevails
at Christmas between ladies who be-
long to the same club and vote the
same ticket-a state of concord which
the ladies amiably endeavor to ce-
ment at holiday time by the exchange
of formal and intellectual tokens.
School girls honor one another with
all sorts of curious affairs-calendar
in the shape of shells or bouquets,
yards of cats or dogs or stage beau
ties, or whatever may appeal to the
careful, aesthetic sense of the damsels
and harmonic with the condition of
their pocketbooks. There is no one
more punetilious on the question of
beauty than the school girl gift giver,
but it is loneliness from her own
standpoint.
Elderly ladies, too, who in their
spring of life have attended the same
singing schools and taffy pullings re-
call that halcyon time by stately cali
endars marked From Jane to Dear
Eliza" or with some other appropriate
inscription. Scenes of other days are
those ladies' favorite topics, and the
cover will display quaint Kate Green
Always or other poke bonnet figures
archly gamboling about upon an i'm
possible landscape.
There are all sorts and varieties of
calendars, from those of the Mother
Goose kind adapted to little friends of
tender years to the Scriptural quota
ton sort, which are excellent as gifts
to the dear bishop or the pastor of
ones church.
Great pictorial calendars on costly
paper with etched or Photographic
copies of famous paintings are sold
for as much as $40 or $12. So are
those facsimiles of artists drawings,
SO cleverly executed that one scarcely
detects that they are not originals.
Gibson and his school are the favorites
of this class. Coon" calendars, 'Yel-
low Kid" calendars and such humorous
of time. The most costly calendars
are put up in boxes. If the gift giver
buys moderate priced one and is wise
enough to secure a box for his or her
calendar and carefully pack it in tissue
paper before sending it away, it will
look quite as we'll as many of the ex-
pensive ones.
College calendars are among the nov
elites of the season. These are made
representative of the different colleges.
Nearly all the larger institutions are
represented, and Harvard, Yale, Prince
| ton and Columbia are made of delicate
| ly tinted ovals of paper with a womans
| figure adjoining the cover. The Colum-
bia cover shows a Knickerbocker GIRL
and the Harvard cover sober gowned
| Boston Minerva in evening dress with
| plenty of violets scattered about her
and a band of violet ribbon drawn
| through a cut in the cardboard. The