Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
CaShin9 In Christmas Gifts

One Of the busiest departments IL that
where the dolls and Teddy bears glare at
each other. II IL a sad time for the doll
Apparently she has had her day and, judy
ing from the proud unreconciled expression
on her papier mache and wax face, there Is
revolt and tumult
She stands arrayed in gorgeous gowns
blond as to hair and blue as to eye, with
the exterior OF a peri watching the antics
vulgar. she denominates them in the mid
night hours, when the tongues Of dolls are
loosed-of the kicking, grinning, woolly
creatures that have ousted her from the
public regard.
Occasionally she feels like the aristocrats
Of old who saw their companions taken
from the Conciergerie to the guillotine,
the reason being the approach of some
haxen haired angel, as like herself as two
peas and through the paper package that
attendant nurse or mamma carries she
can see the head Of a doll that stood by
her side the week before and was proudly
sold into the household OF refinement and
tradition.
"Change it, quick" she hears the childish
voice chirp and she sees chubby fist point
not TO the case of dolls, but toward
rougish Teddy who is dancing to an maud
ibie hand organ and whose beady black
eyes she fancies have defiance in them as
well as understanding.
Some apparently grownup women are
carrying various articles TO the desk of one
Of these departments, and having obtained
the credit cards start Immediately Teddy
bearward
"They are not getting them for children"
one OF the salesgirls explains. 1T is quite
true that there is a type OF women who are
eli. d, tg r1
Heaven gives us our relatives but we
choose our own friends" quotes one young
woman who is standing at one Of the ex-
change desks to a feminine companion.
She has in her arms a good sized package
made up OF smaller ones.
There wasn't enc friend that sent me a
present this year that wanted to exchange
and there wasn't relative that sent me one
that didn't" she went on. About the
friends gifts there always seems to be the
touch Of personal feeling, the desire to give
something that, however humble is pretty
or useful; the presents from the relatives
usually look as IL they were the things that
happened TO be nearest the door when they
went in to shop.
This is the result. I was mad when l
got them and shall lose the better part OF
a day in exchanging them"
the companion who has a small packet on
the sill OF the window. This is a collar
from my brother. real Irish point and
beauty"
But don't see why you want to change
that"
"All on account Of the wonderful observ7
ant faculties of man. have been wearing
one exactly like this for months and sup
pose my brother has seen it no less than
thousand times. Consequently when he
selects a Christmas present he gets me
this"
A young man at the exchange desk Is
taking the clerk into his confidence.
'I had a pair OF sleeve buttons from my
aunt" he says.
They're pretty" says the girl as he un-
wraps the box, showing a pair Of red stones
set in heavy gold.
Eyes, they're pretty enough, but she
sent me a pair exactly like them last
Christmas. I've been trying to cipher out
whv she did It."
"oh. lots OF old womn do that" answers