The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20

mus Is about the incest day in
year, an then there's times
when 1t isn't. You never can
tell what it'll be like till after
it's over. but you can say the same thing
Of a visit to the dentists or q birthday
party. Seems If 1t was question of age
for you don't fin anybody under twenty
f1in'in' fault cause it comes so often.
ITS the folks who haven't got half a
dozen young uns to keep up their in tres
who get tired Of 1t fore it's here, an
talk bout the trouble an expense it is. I
notice it's only what goes out they com
plain about. 1t isn't what comes in. Seems
II, Christmas IL be spoilt yet. by selfish
ness. 1t was only the other day that Mrs
Gray says to me, says she, I wisht there
wasn't any Christmas. It's alys a day
OF disappointment for me-
We'll, says I to her, says I, There's
plenty t it don't disappoint an dunno
as 1T would be good plan to abolish it jes
for YOU says I. It's your own fault If
you are disappointed, for you don't need
to set your min on havin' jewelry store
an a book store an a china store an half
dozen other stores in your stockin'
chris mus mornfn.' says I. If you'd use
common sense, you wouldn't be disap-
pointed, but here isn't anythin' so uncom-
mon as common sense, seems IT,
Grown folks are considerable worse n
chlldren. Children know what they want
an ask Tor 1T 'thout wonderin' if you want
TO spen' that much money, but with
grown-ups it isn't so much what thew
want as what they're willin' to receive,
TheyVe been pretty we'll stocked up at
the Chris muses. t have gone before. an
their first impulse is to tell you thew can
get along 'thout it If you asst EN- if they
want anythin', seems if. Folks d get
through their shoppin' quicker if they'd
buy first an asst after. an dunno as the
results could be any worse
wouldn't give peanut to spen the
day where there aren't any children
never thought Mr.. Brown was such a
smart man as you hear about till foun'
that ne an Mrs. Brown arys have the
chris mus celebration for all. their rela-
tives at their house. They haven't any
children OF their own. an as they can't
borrow EN- alone they take the parents
too. It's sight of work for Mrs Brown
but you can't have the Christmas feelin'
'thout payin' for it. An as. Mr. Brown
says We have the fun of spoilin' the
young uns 'thout the trouble Of raisin'
EN- says he
"Hes right an it's the children who
make the day. They've got some queer
ideas, but there isn't any that's stranger
n the real story, seems if was down
at Mrs. Olson's for minute yesterday
afternoon. Nora goes to- Riverside kin
dergarten, an she'd n.ado her mother pull
out the bookcase SO she could get benin
1t with The presents she was maxim. She
heard me talkin' to her mother an she
called out, says she Hello Miss Larson!
Do you know why we have Chrissmus?' .
'Of course didn't, for I'm not one of
those who alys have an answer ready for
a chill, an she stuck her head out from
benin, the bookcase an says she, says
she: It's because of the holy chill. Did
YOU ever think there could be~ baby all
full OF holes, Miss Larsan? Well, you
don't hear Of EN- very otter an that s
why we celebrate
II lef' it to her mother to explain, for
it isn't my place to NEEDLE an Mrs. Oh
sons got a way with her an she believes
in maxim the mos Of Christmas. Their
house isn't big but it's plumb full of mys-
terry at this time Of year an you can't