Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-12-06
MAKE PLANS
| FOR CHRISTMAS
Work Them Out As Soon
is Possible.
(By Barbara Boyd-)


The last few days before Christmas
every year see wild moo of excited
fre1z.ed women rushing frantic@lly
from store 10 store making last nin--Ile
and wholly unsatisfactory purchases.
Every year Christmas day finds hun
dreis1 of women prosJrated il body
and Disappointed in mind Yet not one
Of there deliberately intends 50 unf0r-
tunate a fnish. If they absolutely
knew on the first of December th1t
such would be the outcome Of theif
Christmas preparations they would be
Ihorrifed. Yet they go placidly forward
! 10 this very. catastrophe, and then be
vail bitterly that il las come upon
,hem.
/ For the woman who makes no plans
whatever. who has no definite line o.
satson. IS almost sare to come TO tai
disastrous end in her Christmas pre-
! erations. Now and tlen a woman may
be lucky; here and there may be q
woman with but few gifts to buy ana
little else to do. But these conditions
do not fit the average woman, AMI she
had better not trust to chsnce. Il
she wants things TO 90 we'll With her
she must take thought for the matter
af0retime.
/ TIE Christmas celebration nowadays
with all its complexities and ramifca-
tons, should be planned as carefully
as a general plans his campaign. Time
should be taken when one viii not 5e
/ interrupted to 60 leisurely over the
whole 1.tua-ion. Not only should the
question of gifts be studied. but the de
tails of tie home celebration should 5c
Icarefully thought out; even the matter
Of dress. if social affairs are on the
carpe-. SHOULD be considered. Every
phase of the matter should be taken up
sepsrately and thought out in detail
Every point should be mentally run
down 10 its finish.
It is we'll to jot down on paper the
campaign mapped ou-. One can SEE
more clearly and much further wien
things are down in black and white
she can plan more Systematically, she
can d0vetsil work together better. II
is useless. to burden the memory when
a scrap Of paper ami a pencil can re-
Ieve IT, And with the best memory il
the world in TIE hurry and confusion
OF the hundred and one things to be
done for Christmas little things are
sure to be forgotten One will como
home from shopping to discover she
has forgotten something that could
have been attended to right in the
neighb0rhOOd where she has been.
THIS means another trip there, a GO
ing over the same ground again.
Christmas time and energy are too
precious for this.
As this careful planning may seem
useless to the woman who has never
done it. But she will find that It pays
| Christmas times are not ordinary
times. All sorts of mishaps occur
Things happen watch would make lit
tie difference at other seasons, but
which are momentous now. When these
happen, and they are sure to, a woman
without well-dafned plans loses heI
head. She begins to fear she isn't go
ing to get done And then she joins
the frantic mob, and her state grows
worse from day to day. But if hel
course is mapped out, no matter what
happens, she knows exactly where she
is. She doesn't lose her poise. She
may have to hurry little more THAR
she intended, but her maps and charts
are there to tell her exactly what to do
1.-THE important matter of thinking does
not have to be done now in a RUIN.
And it is the thought back of the
Christmas celebration that counts. the
thought that goes into the gifts. And
here the value of planning tells.