Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-12-30
S O CIET Y
Dear Ledger;

Dear Ledger: {
Some man has said that a
girl starts hanging up mistletoe about I
the time she stops hanging up her {
stocking. 1
Isn't that like a man to say
something mean about us?
This same man probably is n OF
those creatures afraid to hang up
his own stocking because he be-
lieves Santa Claus would steal it.
And then again, If l were a man,
| would go rather easy on Christ
mas sarcasm. If you will study a
minute, you might recall this is the
season that many of this big-head-
ed specie get knocked out By a good
stiff punch and It's not in a prize
fight either.
One great mistake so many make
is that it is better to give than re-
ceive the things you don't care for.
No Christmas present is so use
less that you cannot pass it along
next year and, in the end, it may
land at home again.
1 heard a mar say the other day
the only smart thing he ever
thought Solomon did, for he guag-
ed him a fool to have 1000 wives,
was that he lived before Christ.
mas was instituted and escaped CIV
ing all his better halves presents
each year.
If l we're this mans wife. l would
give him a new dress for Christ.
mas and not the cigars in the loud
bands that are not puffed up with
pride.
Sprigs Of mistletoe
And a pretty maid
Make the foolish nan
Seek a lawyers aid.
The parents who try to shatter
the Santa Claus visit for their chill
dren is like the fellow who waits
for everybody's back to be turned
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mistletoe-half the fun is lost.
l remember a Mexico boy who
dared another to kiss his girl under
the mistletoe. This kind of bravado
has about as much chance Of win
ming in the fight for love as Ell
> bert Hubbard's celluloid dog has of
. catching the asbestos cat running
! through His Satanic Majesty's do.
mains.
Be sure your remove the price
mark from your gifts. Once upon
a time a Mexico youth put a fig
ure one before the Sc dollar mark
on a gift for his best girl. Unfor-
tunately for him she had priced the
article a week previous. After that
his prospects of annexing that partic.
, ular .''piece of Calico were about as
sanguine as the other Mexico youth
who tried to kiss a girl friend at a
party when the lights went u and
when they were suddenly turned OF
was discovered by all holding the
African maid in his arms who wal
supposed to be passing refreshmentl
around.
vi The best I've heard in som
time was about one of Mexico's mos
attentive beaus.
1t seems he spent quite a sun
procuring the young lady of hi
fancy a suitable Christmas present.
H. In some way, / don't know hoy
n he approached the matter, he toll
A her mother what 1t cost.
The result was a scolding TO
70 spending so much money.
mi I wonder If the girl will ave- know
Its price?
u. | saw Eliza Gibbs to-day.
The South seems to have agree
with her. She looks as happy a
she always did and the good thing
we hear about her success in Ker
lucky where she is teaching voca
music are merely the confirmatio
Of our predictions.
/ have It from a reliable sourc
that another Mexico girl is maxim
. a great success away from HON,
Mildred Whitney is back for tn
holidays after several months |
n her st. Louis expression studio.
~ Mildred became a fad. That mean
money and success, of cours'
~ Well no M is any more please
than / at her success. When a gi
= has the energy and spunk to g
out and hustle instead Of sittin
around the parlor and waiting fc
a man while mother does the wor
M. she deserves every bit Of success
a she wins.
al Mildred and Eliza are not IL
ny kind of girls that have to wait Il
Il. a man either. When the right OF
comes along art will lose them.
:, Gertrude Fry has returned fro
:, her Eastern school and the local co
tingent at the State University a
VI home for the holidays. Mexico &C
tainly does send a fine looking 8
of girls away to school and that
one east we maintain our rep
ers tation for beautiful women.
oil Did you ever notice how your idea
ed. est" enemy always manages
De. bring her guest and call when "
ate are deep in your work and dress,
an. In "regimentals?"
INST The men. though. are equally
bit bad. isn't It provoking for 20
ear husband TO stop in the midst Of /
icy serving when you are giving a smi
slit dinner party and ask where a c.
ms tain piece Of furniture came fro
ars And then, Of course, the children
hey ways forget their manners and
like young cannibals.
But these are the little things
life that make the good things b