The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-12-14
THE CHRISTMAS PROBLEM.
Suitable Articles That Viii Solve 1t
and Give Happiness to All.


question to themselves just now
The one sensible solution OF this
puzzle is to make sure that each gift
is a response to desire.
Practical giving is not always CIV
ing practical things. The gifts that
bring happiness are the pretty things
long craved and yet given up as lux
uries.
The person who sheds happiness
abroad at Christmas time is the wise
one who has tactfully ascertained
what in each case is the one nest
longed for luxury or necessity. as i,
happens to be.
respectfully dedicated to the per-
picked Christmas shopper.
Don't buy Christmas gift which
will be equally useful to every mem
Der of the family unless you happen
to know of some one special thing
which she has long wanted to add to
her table or linen closet.
One of the new leather cases for
wells and handkerchiefs would be an
appropriate little gift and something
for her own individual use. These
cases come in all the pretty shades
o Feather. and in shape are like an
unusually long wallet, such as a man
carries.
They are made with two compart-
ments-one for wells and one for
handkerchiefs-and between is a
smelling salts bottle. A silver lorg-
nette is present sure to please her.
And very pretty ones can be bought
for less than S. in gray finish silver,
covered with raised design of VIC
let's. Or she might prefer gun
metal lorgnette with gun metal
chain, set here and there with small
amethysts.
But if her linen closet is the delight
tally pleased with a few handsome
towels. Even one towel of hucka-
back-a big one. q inches wide and
finished with broad band of Rem
Nuisance insertion framed in hem
stitching, would make an acceptable
~ O0OAC. ACh, ohC might INV ouS VI
the new luncheon cloths of linen, with
crepe finish and hand emproidered
in colors in an attractive floral de-
sign.
A suede safety pocket to pin under
the dress skirt and made for carry
ing money and jewels, is a present
not to be despised.
Another gift sure to be appreciated
is an autograph recipe book, attract
lively bound in leather and half filled
with the favorite recipes of a dozen
or so of her friends.
Don't give him a smoking jacket or
a necktie.
Send him instead a years subscrip-
ton to magazine that he himself
is sure to enjoy. If he writes at
home and is fond of his desk, he
would appreciate any of the new desk
appointments. A glass inkstand good
and big, with a brass top with his
monogram engraved upon it, or gun
metal inkstand would make an ac-
ceptable gift.
If he smokes give him a cut glass
cigar jar. If he is great reader
send him one of the new electric can
dlesticks. A hand mirror and set
of military brushes mounted in plain
ebony make a gift any man would
like. And there is no doubt about his
grateful acceptance of a cut glass
cocktail set, consisting of decanter,
mixing glass, bitters bottle, jar for
the cherries and six glasses.
Give man cigar lighter rather
than embroidered suspenders and a
solid silver bone corkscrew rather
than pair of hand worked slippers.
and he may never cease to praise your
judgment.
If you happen to be her lover, of
course, you know just what she would
like best, but here are few sug-
gestions which perhaps you may find
useful in making your selection.
A charming gift iN one of the very
newest long barrettes for the hair,
made Of amber with a gold design APP
baroque pearl. A spray of mistletoe
in rose gold, with the pearls forming
the berries, would be an appropriate
design for pin Of this sort. Side
combs, both in tortoise shell and am
Der and in white celluloid, ornament
ed with raised design in rose gold
and set with the baroque pearls or
turquoise matrix make welcome git
for any girl. A violet fan which mas
querades as a bunch of violets and
only looks like a fan when open, a
silver English walnut which is really
a puff box, and is made to add to her
chatelaine, leather work box fitted
with every convenience for SEWN :,
a leather-bound theater record book
a picture Of yourself hidden away in
one of the odd little chestnut charms
to dangle from the chatelaine. AIy
of these gifts are sure to please her,
Aunique gift for him would be
one of the miniature leather dress
suit cases which, opened, shows a
Jewel bOx-One arranged to hold hi