The Washington herald., 1911-12-22
BY JULIA CHANDLER MANI.

Remember that the women who crowC
you in the elevators and are packed ir
dozens of rows around the shop counters
are no more foolish than you have beer
to put shopping off until these last two
days before Christmas. 1t behooves you
TO be patient with them instead Of peev-
ish.
Remember that the girl behind the
counter is not to blame that you have
put off all your shopping to do in one day
after you have worn your nerves dowr
to ragged edge with a thousand and one
other things before you began it.
Don't make her take down the same
article to show you a dozen times OF
more because you can't make up your
mind. \Remember that she has waited or
hundreds of other people this Christmas
season and that there are dozens elbow
Ing their way to her counter while she
Is waiting upon you. These folks are in
the same boat that you are: their time
Is short just as yours is, and. besides
the girl behind the counter is worthy a
kind, considerate thought.
DO Not Waste EverybOdy's Time.
Don't waste your time, the clerks time,
and the time of other shoppers by look
ing at things now you have no intention
OF buying. All these attractive offerings
of the shops will not run away during
IN" holidays and you will have ample
time and opportunity to spend in their
consideration after Christmas
Don't go in debt for the last gifts be-
cause you have spent too much money for
the first. Better cut your list down than
10 make purchases for which you haven't
the money to pay
Before you start out for the shops to-
day remember how you found them YES
terday, and leave the children at hime
1t is about as hard to thread the proverb-
ial needle with Sne camel as to drag
babies around through the human maze
In the shops just now. Children will be
infinitely better off in good care at home
-than tagging after you in the pushing
croWdlnE, frantic buying that you will
do to-day.
DO Not Weep Over ImpossibiIittes.
Remember that the boy or girl who
cannot have his or her every wish graft
fled is better off than the pampered child
who knows nothing of seIf-deniaI. and
let the memory dry your tears for the
beautiful toys you cannot afford to give
them. 1t isn't a good plan to call their
attention to the cost of expensive pIay-
tRlngS and express your regret that thew
cannot be purchased for them. Better
point out the children who will have less
than they than the children who will have
more.
If you have put it off until tomorrow
To take the children on an inspection tour
ct the toylands, don't plan to accomplish
thousand and one other errands be-
sides. but give them the morning. and
Don become peevish because their dear
Young hearts crave everything they see.
Thi3 is the nature of childhood, and does
not mean that your children are par
tcularly greedy.
When YOU mail the belated package re-
member that it is not the fault of the
postal clerk that YOU didn't do it earlier.
and spare him your crouch. Neither are
the other folks strung out in a long line
before the window to blame for your pro-
crastinatiOn, and deserve a better fate
than your i'll will.
II, in your tour Of the shops. YOU nick
up Il package that some one in their
great haste has left on a counter turn it
IN to the lost and found department
promptly, for the loser may be much put
out by delay in its return.
Whatever the COndiuons you may meet