The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-08
DRIFTWooD

Christmas is on the home stretch and so is tine ChylstEnas pocket-book the only thing worrying the marflea stretch sufficient to meet the require Enenta of the home stretch, s
 Mr. croksr says that wohnen are dis qualified from politics because it is impossible for them to keep secrets.e However, when it came to emphatic deniais they could hold their own with. any male politician. se 4 Texas prophet has predicted the turs. We aren't worrying down this way in Gods country, but of course 1t may seem that way te Texas maH-
 awhat Is a sausage?' enquiries The Omaha Bee. A fellow who would siT In one corner Of the parlor all even-3 tug with a pretty girl in the other would be our one best guess. sabe7 i, George 3. LIndsay, lawyery iu. Phitr edslphia. has broken his leg four times thIS Is funny or not but thoughEs we'd saksss shAnsS st printing t. G
 An. average of 300 employees q shs are injured by accidents each month, end there are lots of people who hope oe those insolant conductors on Broad way surface cars. ..i', When the sun kisses Montgomery 1t satisfaetlon that it dispiays wAen kiss. lng no other city. especially Is this true In the case of Houston, Texas, which gives 1t bad taste in the mouth.
 Tha rauy aranaror oP rshina uRras bs. eavoTite nip and his faVoTtte ls catRlp so far,--Atlanta Journal.
 You forget that he has thirty wet RnPseR,
 All the world is holding its breath for its sides Father) while those French surgeons are operating on Castro. In vain hope that hey will cut out his nasty disposition. s Ths white mans burden this time of the year is chFistHas presents.
 Many a man hugs the deIusion that hs could hug something else if he'd a T. R. seems destined to go out of eflce remembered by the one word "fraSzle." We would offer an amend "ent' and have 1t read "azzle. !"
 Do your shopping early SO the papers say, which seems to be most good ad- vice for those who work or play, but why don't these same papers tell what we'd like to know worse, how can we shop early upon an empty purse?
  Cheer up-although the Thanksgiv- ing turkey is but memory the grand Christmas turkey is a joyful anticipa- ton. (PasS the soup) old Fashioned Chria'mas of Long Ago. Oh the old fashioned Christmas O long
 ago
 He tells Of 1t with cheeks agiow
 For 1t gives his old heart joy. "Chrtsnas was Christmas then" he
 says,
 Beyond the mountains of shattered Beyond the ocean of tears ''oh the old fashioned Chris'nas--o' . When I wuz a care free kid Oh the stockin's we hung up in a row An thought O the things we'd dld.t Wonderful if Santa could really squeeae Down the chimbly the way ma said Then we'd drop off to sleep till the sand
 man would tease
 Us to dreams in the little white bed. Oh the old fashioned Christmas O long
 ago, Fore children got so bright AS to doubt old Santa's existence--oh--- We b'lleVed in hip all our might. Ap' jss' fore ChFismas every year We boys all got so good That we fetched In the water with real
 good cheAr
 An we smiled as we cut tn wood Oh the old fashioned Christmas O long
 ago,
 When tn house was in a whirl With mother a-rushin' to an fro
 With gran'ma an tn hired girl. A stirrin' up good things with a spoon Maxim tn cakes an piss-- Everyone wild as loonY loon
 Gtudyin up some surprise. Oh the old fashioned Christmas O long when we fetched the Yuls Log in. To make the bright flame leap and To the young folks merry din Oh the ola time dance on Christmas where each old time lass an beau Were glad lp the days when hearts On the chsigmas Q Ions ago"
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