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erwoman.
The Armenian church celebrates Christ
mas on Jan. 16.
Don't try to do shopping while you are
hungry or tired.
Don't give present merely because
you expect one from recipient.
Don't buy a gift in the presence of the
person for whom it is intended.
Don't forget to remove the price mark
from the gifts before you present them.
In all the states and territories Christ
mas day is observed as a legal holiday.
A handsome lamp shade seldom comes
amiss as Christmas gift for woman.
The happiest home is where a baby's
stocking is hung up for the first Christ
mas.
Better small gift where love is than
a costly present for the sake of being IN
the swim.
The Christmas turkey, not the Christ
mas conversation, should be stuffed with
chestnuts.
The Greek church celebrates Christmas
on Dec. %, old style, which is Jan. >,
new STYLE
Don't attempt a shopping expedition
without a carefully compiled list of ar
ticles desired.
If money only brought happiness. there
would be little Christmas cheer in a ma
jority of homes.
Almost any housekeeper would be glad
to have lavender sachet bag among her
Christmas gifts.
The custom of giving Christmas gifts
on Christmas day is general among all
Christian nations.
Christmas wreaths may be allowed to
remain until Ash Wednesday, provided
. they do not wither.
Don't forget to use discretion in select
ing gifts. 1t is the much desired gift that
is mostly appreciated.
For an invalid no more acceptable gift
can be made than a pair of bedroom
slippers for a winter night.
Christmas greens proper are the hol-
Iy, mistletoe laurel, ivy and pine. Yew
and cypress are unlucky for churches
1t is the wise man who betrays no sur
prise when his wife jumps and hides
something when he enters the door these
days.
Hatpins are always acceptable to a
woman. The dull gold beads set with
small colored stones are pretty, and the
large beads are novel.
''Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
Does it? Really, oft we ponder
If at Christmas 'twould be pleasant
Were there absence of the present.
Different countries and localities are
rich in Christmas lore legends, proverbs,
superstitions and beliefs, many of them
as beautiful and suggestive as they are
curious and interesting.
Don't buy things because they are
cheap or because they especially appeal
to your individual taste. Think of the
occasion and inclinations of the one for
whom they are intended, and purchase
accordingly.
When in doubt, give pillow. This is
sage advice in selecting O holiday gift.
For matron or maid benedict or bachelor,
a handsome and comfortable sofa pillow
or cushion, as it is variously termed,
never comes amiss.
The employment of candies at Christ
mas time dates back to the saturnalia,
when they were used not only for pur
poses Of Illumination, but as gifts from
one friend to another as tokens OF
brightness and cheerfulness.
In the Greek island OF Chios on Christ
mas day tenant farmer takes a pole,
decorated with fruit and flowers as a
present to his landlord. The offering IS
expressive of good will and typical of
good crops for the coming year.
Handsome purses shopping bags and
chatelaine bags are always acceptable
gifts for women. If ones circle of ac-
quaintanee is large enough to admit it, a
dozen purses pocketbooks, chatelafne or
shopping bags may be bought at whole
sale.
It is not that such a variety of can
dies or confections should be provided
at the holiday time for the sweet tooth
that many find a firm friend from youth
to age, but there should be no failure in
the provision of some of these tempting
sweets.
OF course, we all appreciate a gift be-
cause of the spirit that prompts it, but
how much more We think of it when it
is something that corresponds with our
needs, fills some gap long unoccupied,
and it is a suitable as well as a loving
remembrance,
Decorations of evergreens for temples
and houses during the winter months
were popular among the Romans and
Druids, who practeed it in order to give
aid to the dryads and wood spirits. who
must die unless they had the shelter of
their native foliage.
A stout laundry bag made of canvas
and ample enough to hold all of the
soiled clothes of the week is convent.
ence which any housekeeper appreciates
For those who prefer to make usefu
Christmas presents rather than those
which are merely ornamental the bag is
to be recommended.
Perhaps the briefest reference tt
Christmas contained in any novel is tina
in Robinson Crusoe" 1t is a striking
illustration of the fact that Christmas is
nothing to a man in solitude. Here is al
De Foe says of Robinson Crusoe's Christ
mas on his desert island
Dec. 25-Rained all day