Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-12-21
CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
Present Your Frien DIS with Some Tol<-
! en- OF Your Love, However
Small 1t May Be,

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year is at hand, when, we begin to
prepare gifts of love for Christmas.
It is indeed pleasing indication of
the rapid spread of feelings of kind
ness and good will throughout the
world that the preparation of beauti-
full articles for Christmas gifts affects
the industries of all civilized nations.
The choice of articles for Christmas
gifts is a perplexing pleasure. Ac-
cording to Emerson, articles of beauty
rather than of use are appropriate for.
, gifts. i In giving we have to avoid, on.
the~on hand, the imposing Of a sense
of obligation, and, on the other, OF
making the discharge of just obliga-
ton the occasion for assuming to+our-
selves the role Of benefactor. The
donation: party given at Christmas to:
the faithful pastor whose past due
salary is unpaid is only an unfair
method of making him appear: the
recipient of "a favor, while: his just
claims are disregarded.x Nor can we
refrain from suggesting to the hus-
band and father: Do not make, r. a.
Christmas gift to your wife of a new
carpet or pair of shoes or cooking
stove, for she needs and has a right to
these things anyway. Your little; boy
needs new schoolbook for the next
session of school, but he would prob
ably experience sense of wrong
which it. would be difficult for him
to explain if he should find it in his
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we may suggest as an idea wholly. for
eign to Emerson that if the husband
and father has from negligence or
RIGHTEOUSNESS failed to provide his
wife with a good supply of dry, we'll
cutwood or fuel for the kitchen stove,
or the needed quantity: of winter fan.
nels, it would be equally inappnopri-
ate for him to present her with a pair
of big pink glass flower vases or some
similar article the. price of which
might have added vastly to her COM
fort had the money been placed for
spending in her own hands. 4 i =: " :,
= Gifts for children> depend but lit
tie on their value: for the pleasure
they shall give. A houseful of chill
dren can be made entirely happy ;by. a
quarters worth of mixed candy placed
in their stockings, each piece of candy
being wrapped in a separate paper,
thus multiplying: the number Of gifts.
It is very important, however, that
the gifts be put in their stockings
The sweet Illusion adds a priceless
value to the veriest trifes.x s s*EEE :5z;-}
And so we feel like saying tonour--
selves and to our readers: Let JUS
prepare for q merry, happy Christ
mas; let us forget for a little while.
all the environments OF our lives that
are sad and depressing; let us think
of the treasure we possess that IMAM
did not. make and cannot MART let
us give tokens Of love. to our friends.
though it should be only a gera1ifum
leaf or a rosy checked apple. Let us
celebrate Chris mas. The yokeslo6ss.1
ened and laid aside for a Ii tile 1ial
give rest 3and streng til 70 the shouldsrs;;
the affections Of the heart cal led int
play and INDUCED wi give strength
to our soul; and both will 1T us tori
"a better pert of the dnyiess|
and work appo inted for US IN the COM
ing New = ear. Chicago Interior. Isl
i Gaus for sorrow. 4. s sas
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