The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-19
THE CHRISTMAS SEASON IS AT HAND.

On the best of authority it can be
stated that Christmas will be held this
year on December 25th. A good
many people imagine that it is coming
some time in the distant future (they
can't tell just when, and that in some
unknown way they can somehow es-
cape giving up any money to buy
presents.
Now, you may as we'll face the
music. Christmas is coming a little
less than a month from now, and the
days will spin around before you know
it. You know you want to give them
all presents they will appreciate and
enjoy-the wife, the children, daugh-
ter and son, father, mother-and your
sweetheart, if you are in the true
lovers class.
Buy your presents now. You have
more time to make your selections
you can shop with comfort you get
first choice of the fine stocks of Christ.
mas goods; they will not cost you a
cent more. By doing your shopping
early you give the storekeeper and the
clerks chance you distribute bust
ness over a longer period you ac-
commodate them and they accommo
date you. 1t is of mutual benefit to
buyer and seller.
Just at this time early Christmas
buying would help to revive business
and should be substantial aid in the
restoration of prosperity.
Join the prosperity promoters-the
wise women and considerate men
and buy your Christmas presents now.
And you will rejoice and be exceed
ing glad when you find you will not
have to fight your way through the
surging throngs that crowd the streets
and stores just before the holidays,
fighting for goods, and at last taking
not what pleases them, but what they
can get. The early Christmas shop
per gets the best.
Thus writes the Baltimore SIN.
Now here is another view from Bry-
ans Comn0ner:
With the coming of the Christmas
season we are again confronted by the
newspaper advice to "buy your Christ
mas presents early" We refuse
Buying Christmas presents is not
case of bargain hunting. Even the
poorest of us, if we have but dime
or two to spend, want to get the most
possible out of it, and the Joy of ming
ling with the Christmas crowd, the
glare of the lights, the contact with
others who are filled with the spirit of
the season, the rush and crush and
bustle-what would Christmas be
without all these things?
Sordid merchants who want to de-
crease the expense account, and who
want you to get your purchases earlier
because the prices rule little higher,
will advise you to buy EN- early"
but if you succumb to these blandish-
ments you are going to miss your
rightful share of the season. This
thing of buying Christmas presents
ahead of time and storing them away
is too much like eating tomorrow's
supper this morning in order to make
sure you'll have it.
Besides, what's the use of buying
the Christmas presents early and try
ing to keep them concealed from a
bunch of kiddies that can detect a
hidden treasure in the house as easily
as dog can find the place it buried
its last bone?
Why, who of us having experience
in such matters would miss the ting
ling delight of trying to sneak into
the house an evening or two before
Christmas eve, with our arms full of
bundles, and getting them slowed
away without arousing the suspicious
of the kiddies? That's half the fun
of the Christmas season.
Buy your Christmas presents early !!
Well do no such thing. Well wait
until the last minute, and then we'll
get into the rush and have Our toes
stepped on, our skirts torn, our hats
crushed, our coats ripped and our col
lars wilted-but through it all we IL
be as happy as kids just out of school.
This cold, calculating, time.saving.
nerve-conserving, mechanical method
of observing the Christmas season
does not make hit with us.