The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-12-20
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.
lrlstmas comes but once a wear.

What would Nmas be without Tue
cook?
How best to make Xmas happy is q
question of import just now.
DO you expect to contribute as much
to Xmas day as will the turkey?
1t won't be long before our girls will
grow tired of those long coats.
No two hats of this season look just
alike, nor do the faces beneath them.
Don't forget the preacher on Xmas,
and don't let everybody send slippers.
Our correspondents are doing well,
but we will all do better another year.
There was time when "cake bread"
was scarcer than the com cake, but not
so nova days.
Light wood knots are not as plenti-
ful in market as we have seen them.
There is demand for them.
Press the huckster yard, and then
let's 60 for a market house. Farmville
is no longer a Y road stand.
If Farmville had grown in population
as she has in business, we would now
have a population of 10000.
Does the "oldest inhabitant" recall
fall so rich in sunshine as the one
through which we have just passed
You can paya debt contracted during
the year now closing but you can't
restore lost opportunity.
We again respectfully suggest that
if you propose to "swear off" with the
lst day of the new year, begin now.
If the pop Of the pop cracker, and
the fzz Of the sky rocket annoy you,
don't forget that you were once boy.
The Xmas gifts which will be most
valued are those which are made at
home aud which 90 out from the heart.
Xmas morning will be good time for
speaking to some one you may not
have spoken to during the year 1901.
1t is commonly reported in town
that the "Old Maids Convention"
will not be composed Of quite 50 many
next time.
At the Xmas time it would be well
that friends estranged should become
reconciled and that brother Democrats
should agree to bury the Ratchet.
1t may be Santa Claus has a novelty
for this season, and Santa would be
wise to advertise that fact through
the columns Of the HERALD.
Don't exhibit the weakness Of fault
finding if on Xmas eve and morning
the little ones are restless. Remember
you were once a child and ;hat "Nmas
comes but once a year"
Whether it is a bright day or a
drear one, one Of sunshine or Of storm,
greet Xmas morning with smile, with
a grateful, generous, forgiving spirit,
and the day cannot be sunless for you.
When busy with the debts of last
year don't forget those to your preach
er, neighbor and your God. Money
pays some debts but not all debts.
While remembering those who have
contributed to your pleasure during
the year now closing, don't forget the
printers. They have done more for
you than others and at less cost.
Send the smallest tot in the home
one of the largest stockings in the
house, on Xmas morning, and then
fiji it to the brim.
A few more 1901 opportunities and
then they will all be gone. Once gone
and they will be gone forever. What
have you been doing with them ?
What are you going TO do with those
that remain?
Don't forget the Oldest member Of
the family on Xmas morning. Next
Xmas he or she may not be with you
and flowers on the grave will not take
the place Of flowers along life's way.
What better motto for Xmas than
this? "Peace on earth. good will
among men" 1t would do to shine
out from our lives every day Of every
year Of life.
We wonder what that Philadelphia
girl will say of Southern courtesy
since she was forced to listen to that
"cuss" song? The boys who "wore the
gray" were not only chivalric but cour-
teous as well
We do not admit that our fathers
did wrong IN celebrating the return of
Christmas morning with an egg-nogg,
but we are quite sure that those Of us
who 90 through Christmas day minus
the nog will not regret 1t next time.
The HERALD for 1902 will be more
and more intensely local. The fact Is
we are making it a Souihside Virginia
necessity. S0uihside Virginia homes
will be lonesome without its weekly
visits. Come early and don't miss a
visit during the year.
Santa Claus can have one hundred
copies of the HERALD for the year 1902,
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