The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-20

| In books or music, but now the man who would send such things would be ridiculed and girl would say he had been coached in the art of love making by his great grandfather"
 Why "@said he laughing, If my Guv'- nor knew what I could give to a half dozen of the incest girls I know, without having them bat an eyelash, further than to bend over the box to see if THEY were 'CLOCKED' or EMBROIDERED in mongram in gold thread on the instep, the old gentleman would drop dead from mere SHOCK! Give a perfectly nice young lady STOCKINGS. WHY, when he was little fellow he didn't know that young ladies even possessed such thing as legsl His mother had taught him that their skirts. And to think of a girl ac- cepting STOCKINGS from young man. The very idea.''
 Funny" he unused, what a lot of queer things you can give girl these days for Christmas-isnt it?"
 The masculine mind is a curious thing very.
 It hasn't been so many Christmases ago when men sent girls the strangest looking hand painted monstrosities in pink and pale blue, filled up with absurd silver backed brushes and boxes for handker- chiefs that no woman ever wanted and which if you'd search through garrets all over the country you'd find stored away with dust foot thick on them
 
 said Maiden Aunt of Angeline's, "a short time before her engagement to Jack Thorington was announced"
 The object to which the maiden aunt pointed with such pride was nothing short of Celluloid collar and cuff box, handsomely handpainted
 This came only a few days before An geline's engagement was announced to Jack" volunteered the Maiden Aunt, Angeline's engagement being announced.
 Jack has been in the family now some dozen years, and he's the same sensible, dandy fellow he was when AngeIine mar ried him.
 Not much imagination probably, not much sentiment possibly, but for good hard horse chestnut, hickory nut sense- give me Jack!
 He hands out the week before Christi. mas $50 an1 says to Angeline's family:
 '',rake this and buy what you really want for yourselves. Put a card on it for me and say that send Hearty Christi mas Greetngs-which I do by the way. But get what you want" Good, kind, nice, sensible Jack. He's the real tningi
 The matter of Christmas giving can be reduced to a very sensible basis. Your best Bachelor Beau may forget you up to Christmas morning and then rush hur- riedly in and send you two dozen Ameri- can Beauties when he might have taken the same amount of money and bought you some of those lovely hand embroid- cred handherchiefs that you've longed for all winter-if he had just given little thought to it.
 Your "best chum'' will send you some fool apron all hand embroidered and tied up with pink and blue ribbons, instead of sending yoi some nice gloves or peau- tiful jabot-both of which you are just dying for.
 After all the old order changeth and the new is seldom altogether undesirable. l Certainly the new ruling in the court in New York is distinct advance. l If man gives girl Solitaire rinS | it is hers for keeps. 1 She may own it or do with as she likes. l In the same a Christmas Gift is no gift at all if i- comes with a string attached | to 1.-the worst sort of string being the kind that made somebody send you some l thing at the last moment because they felt they must do so for a sense of duty and not from feeling of love and affec- | tion The obvious lesson on Christmas Giving i to my mind is the thought that is be- slowed upon the giving of present, and the thought resolved a gift usually into something sensible and something that can be enjoyed