Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
rn the Fringed Gentian.


Blows efilly from the purple hills, and
Lays lily loved sisters low, thine eyes OF
Look through their fringes, white wiki
frozen dew,
III to the skies which in the mornings cold
send messages 10 earth on beams of gold
And those sweet messages l pray thee tel
To me- bright blossom that / love so vel;
For looking in thine eyes so deeply blue,
! feel thou art OF flowers most brave and
That may be like thee, wilt thou not
The occult wisdom of the sky and air?
Earth is most wondrous fair these autumn
days,
That hides her face. Reflected in thine
eyes
Alone / see the brightness of the skies:
Then, happy blossom, tell this day to me
The secrets which the sunbeams bring to
Trust on, though skies may not be always
blue.
And clouds shut out the sunlight from your
view,
Is whispered low. They who will watch
for clouds
Shall md them, for Doubts sable mantle
The heart that doth not look to heaven for
cheer;
Turning toward Light, you sunbeam
-Seraph Maltbie Dean in Union Signal.
Christmas.
Less than seven weeks remain before
Christmas, Within six weeks the pack
ages of gifts that will be sent to rela-
tiyes and friends in other states should
be started on their journey. Have YOU
given the matter a thought? Are you as
fortunate as the woman who remarked
to d friend the other day: We'll, all of
my Christmas presents are bought or
made and are laid away, ready to be
boxed, addressed and forwarded"
We pay and pay dearly for procrasti-
nation. 1t is the thief of time and
often the thief of our pocketbooks as
WELL This is especially true of our
holiday gift purse. The woman who
does her Christmas shopping early has
dozen advantages over the one who
does not. She saves money, she saves
time, she saves herself annoyance she
makes duty a pleasure, her gifts do not
arrive a day late, her expenditures are
distributed over a long period so that
there is no unusual demand made on the
family purse during December, which
is always month of heavy expense; she
hghtens by so much the burden of the
Shop-glrl; she relieves the postal clerks
rush work; she gets just what she wants
for each person on her Christmas list
because she has had time in which to
shop deliberately; she eliminates a great
cause of worry; she does not make of
herself martyr to the season. and she
contributes much to the worlds depleted
ante-Christmas stock of smiling good
will.
1t is too late, even now, to do holiday
shopping to the best advantage. Prices
are already being raised. Selection is
limited. One must be satisfied with
what is now on the market. You may
wish to give mother or sister a table
cloth, but you remember that the white
sales the great linen bargain sales
are almost invariably held in January.
You wish to give a dear friend some
novelty and you remember that You saw
THE very thing" you wanted priced ri
diculously iow' last July when the shop
keepers We're offering all sorts of induce
ments to get people into their places of
business. You can recall many things
that you might have bought in the last
few months for half of what is asked for
them today. You begin to realize now
that Christmas shopping should begin in
January so that it will cover every bar
gain period of the year. This is the dol
lar-saving policy. 1t Is the time-savlng
policy. 1t is. best of all, the worry-sav-
ing policy. If you can not adopt if this
year you can at least resolve to adopt
it next year. And once it is adopted
there is no question regarding its con
tinuance. Il nearly collapsed from shock
on the day after Christmas last year.
said a fancyrwork store clerk the other
day. A lady walked up to me and
asked to be shown some patterns that
oh far wi hpiS m
shopper may have carried her early buy
ing policy to an extreme, but was her
course as ridiculous as that of Il majority
of her sisters who make their holiday
purchases after Thanksgiving :-Wom-
ans National Daily.