The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-17

sRiRtt this way. ladies and gentle- men; I want you all to hear this great, extra-a-o-ordinarie offer I have left just a few packages of my wonderful preparation. the greatest cleanser known; it will do for the laundry, for the toilet. and for you ladies who want to get rid of those wrinkies' NOW am going to hand out to each and ev- cry one of you package of this veg etable compound. And VIII collect In return the small sum of ono dime, ten cents. Here, here, who win be the first to take it. You boys. there. quit your pushing. Who wants it. oh, you gentleman over there; thank you, sir, you're lucky and wise. The greatest opportunity ever--"
 It Is the voice of the fakir. blatant but appealing: amusing. instructive, aud proiitable--to himself. You see him everywhere, on the corners and at the curb. talking, exhorting and turing with his tricks of cards and sleight of hand. Perhaps you feel contemptuous as you sec him laudlng some question: able commodity. But he stands for something more than you casually see Somehow his sQuawkIng Is the trumpet blast of Christmas' herald. For he comes with the crowd of holiday. he appeals to the generous spirit Of Yule- tl0B. anu U lS uON EAaa U AVA 'eAA " out the nIclxels and dimes for he places his bid before people imbue1 with that joy of spending that comes once
 For 1t is Chgistman season. and the street faixir ls but one harbinger ofthe period. subtty the approaching event impresses From every store window, on every corner fruit stAnd the, gaudy concomitants of 7Chrtstmas-tipe flare nd FehFtafnnAH hAlIR and toys, Every hour the shopping crowd increasas. and each night the poor counter Jumpers trudge home just a little more weary than before.
 In your walking you fall behind q couple of girls; unconsciously you overhear. "-Yes, bought Wiifs and mothers today, and am about through. You know, I have decided to make everything else l can make the ioweliest pillow tops, and pin cushions, and WilS said to me last--
 Oh. ft's Christmas: there'8 no doubt about that, even If every calendar of the universe had lost count overnight and proclaimed otherwise. The store folks will bear that out, every man of them who has figured through the summer over his holiday stock, and who has dreamed and schemed out his display arrangement and window dec orations night after night. and the clerks will endorse every claim of the holiday. with their. eternal pricing and wrapping and collecting.
 The express companies are already ccnters of hustle and hurry. The rush is started and the inevitable extra help has been corralled to accommodate the avalanche of Christmas things. Per haps 1t looks as if the season is lit- tie premature this year. but the early start bears out the requests for early shopping. Every institution affected by the holidays has endorsed the idea. and the public has considerably taken lt up.
 And 1t is possible that there was never a more altruistlc move on the mart of the great mass of buyers. For not only are they benefiting others in their early shopping, but themselves For in the ecumulation of work that Christmas brings to expPessmen and maIlmen, the bundles and packages have q nasty way of coming united and the rush and hustle of Christmas eve. there is a most distasteful pro- pensity that parcels have of scattering their contents broadcast.
 And speaking of mailmen, there Is due a rush at the postoffices of the land soon. There are preparations being made in Montgomery and six addi- tional clerks will probably start in to work soon. And there will be plenty for them to do, don't you forget it. For however ultra-modern and effete and blase this peculiar American people gets. there Is never deterioration oi the real old heartfelt Christmas spirit of giving things away.