Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-24
,.rioht is the Night Of All
The Long Old
Year.
gpRECEOENTEO SHOPPING.
Writ Of Giving Holds Full Sway
In Salt Lake in Spite Of
"Stringency."
eo rlcatncss low Except Stockings
s.~rcI right with Goodics-SaIt
faLcs Elaborate Observance.

Merry Christmas and Happy New
Tt.
The same to you and many OF
II h.m'
So says the banker 20 the coal wag-
Oh driver as their oddly contrasted We
fces pass so says the street car
rotorman to the policeman and so
avs the boudholder to the blind man
rndug out shaky Christmas music
nom "a time-worn but well meaning or
an The spirit is In the autumn like
VI bin and its just as catching as spring
eyer IT'S a great many persons ten
tsncy TO grow tighter and more self
contained. self-satisned as the months
Ol around. Just as the case appears
70 be developing incurably, along
comes Christmas and the disease is
shattered. The cure is usually ef-
ected a few days before Christmas,
when the store windows all red ana
green become filled with gifts for ev-
. sry possible sort OF a person. But II
not before cure Is certain the day up
i on which Christmas eve falls. The man
/ who has been telling himself and
/ friends how economical he is going
4 to be this Christmas sallies forth ana
/ buys more and better than ever be-
4 fore
AT LAST MINUTE.
There are hundreds OF that sort or
men hurrying from store to store to-
day in salt Lake. there are hundreds
/ Of women hurying from here to there,
io0-Women have knowledge that
passes belief Women know the last
Day sees tags brought forth which
proclaim that This IS beauty must go
4 i0r Sl4s;" there are hundreds OF chill
iren hurTying around, because fond
ppas and mammas and grand-papas
md grand-mamas have discovered
half dollars and dollars which win be
out Of date after Christmas. SO in
II Salt Lake there is a mighty hurrying
at the sixty-ninth minute. The stores
are crowded to their very doors: where
f a shopper had to wait 20 be waited
" upon a few avs ago he must now
wait his turn to get to a counter. And
n above the cries Of CASH" and the
noise Of scootng change and parcel
baskets on wires overhead can be
heard:
Merry Christmas and Happy New
Yeari"
~ n nAit nNuI past AllluuAbul lhHN
right store windows saw clerks pin
/ hing placards upon the -r>ticles therein
With financial conditions unsettled,
salt Lake merchants are very anxious
10 get their shelves cleared OF Christ
mas goods. There are two reasons; TO
get ready money for spring stocks and
e. run up business 70 tide over the
DUN period expected for some weeks
after the holidays. Bargains are as
easily found In Salt Lake today as
trouble and the streets are thronged
with persons meeting with as much
suecess at finding bargains as people
has who search for trouble.
Whole wagonloads OF gifts are
rumblinR 70 various portions OF the
city. wagons filled with toys and
clothes and edibles and countless small
but costly presents. For tonight, ac-
c0rding 10 the good. old story. santa
Grams his rotundity into a foot square
chimney and descending 10 the hearth
below fills the stockings Of children
who have been good and who ever saw
a child who wasn't good as Christ
mas time drew near?
POOR REMEMBERED.
And Christmas will come not only
tn children with parents and homes
either. The spirit of Christmas tide
has been dropping into Salvation
in the shape Of gold and silver pieces
and today these donations will be ac-
counted for In the shape OF big, we'll
filled baskets; Christmas trees for
homeless waits or those Of destitute
homes and dinners FOR those who
Wouln't eat had no one noticed those
boxes.
SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS.
Salt Lakes churches and Sunday
schools will have their usual celcbra-
hons and services. Various institu.
tons win make special preparations %
make happy those within their walls.
The hotels have their dining rooms
decorated IN evergreen and holly ana
elaborate meals Will be set before the
lonesome travelling man and traveller
miles away from home and friends.
The hospitals ana asYlums and orph-
images are making glad the hearts ~
those whom fortune has sighted IN
Irivatc homes an viii be merry and
happy unless n be I'm some home
here there 3D. "a vacancy. For those
Who havo lost "a loved one n viii be
90 hard Christmas-hard because the
time stands for Joy complete. But
whore an are together there will be
a laughing and a singing and through
out the exchanging ~ "A merry
Christmas and happy New Year.
PECULIAR WEATHER
on what kind OF vehicle VIII Santa
Claus come from the frozen north TO-
night2 Dr. Hyatt hangs out but little
promise OF "a snow. and the reports are
that gasoline Is short
Overhead the Skies suggest thnl
now spring bonnet would be in fashion.
Indorfoot the demand D. that he come
lu mud scOw.
The frosty chill of former years ihal
added an annual tribute NJ testimony
to 9randma's maxim that when inc
DAYS begin 90 lcngthcn, the cold ifelia
to ftrcngthcn is this year absent fol-
owing the precedcnts Of last winter
each cold morning D. followed hy I'M
mediate south Winds, ANA nav,
Christmas day appears to l' ronllnk
with the thow following SATURDAY
cold snap at its fun height
THAT SANTA REMEMBERS.
Tomorrow many "a litue tot VIII
awake nffh a. $500 rnir nf skates IN
Die stocking placed there by
santa ,aur 100 ln' .Nl "
score az wears ago when ne akhie
down CITY creek and switched nor h
on the Ninth West canal, rushing hht
wind over "a glaged. smooth speedway
clear 30 Bock'e lake. 90 The north ana
ihm hod before him clean SWEEP