The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-15
HUNT XMAS
SEALS EARLY
Nina Wheeler Wilcox Tells
Why She Gives This
Advice
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.
Noted Author and WOmcn's Leade


was making the remark the other
day, to George, that's my husband,
that it certainly is strange how ma
ture works, everything comes in WHAT
YOU might call its season. And he
says why l don't know. lookit green
houses and the way they raise hot
house carrots and so forth I guess
you don't realize it. but some people
are even raising dollhouse eggs by
lighting up the hen-coops: | guess
modern invention has got nature beat
all right, what were you referring to
in particular? And says why
was just today noticing that even
stamps is seasonal, of course we have
the hardy perennial pink two-scenter
which adorns our daily mail, all the
year around, but there is also the
early autumn five-cent stamp that
commences to grow profuse around
the time we start writing longer,
fatter letters home in anticipation of
II merry Christmas present or two.
And what ! was thinking of just now
was these Christmas seals. And
George, who is Of a very suspicious
nature. at once looked nervously
over the top Of the evening paper and
says Christmas seals whatter you.
mean, haven't told you we are
broke and there was nothing doing
this Christmas on any seal coat?
And I says isn't that just like a
man, here as usual you are not pay
ing any attention to what I'm say
ing, nobody mentioned Christmas
seal coats, I'm talking about stamps
in season, and mean these Merry
tuberculosis Christmas seals that
you stick them on the rear side of
your letters. And George says Oh
hosh! well we can't afford them,
because one of the best ways TO lick
tuberculosis is to lick on u big sheet
Of them seals eery time they are in
season which is now. And George
says aw moo, do you think them big
organizations really do any good
with that money? And l says you
bet your sweet life they do, and no.
body is getting any profit out of this
Tubercular one, except the patients
they treat, and the ones they keep
from becoming patients. 1T just an
other case, Gorgeous, of a bunch
of decent minded citizens getting to-
gether to do the governments work
without any Of the fancy titles of a
government position. | wish you
would take bunch of them stamps
and use them, too.
And George says uhuh! and made
q dive for the paper again. But l
was wise to that, because with
George, the same as with most hus-
bands, when they merely say uhuh
they. forget it promptly.
Say, Gorgeous, says very loud
and clear. DO you realize that our
Junior IS going to a public school.
that he rides on the public subway
any plays on the public street? How
would you feel it if he was to pick up
one of these tuberculosis germs.
eh?"
Well, there are times when George
seems to realize Junior is human,
although good part Of the day all
he says to the poor young one is to
stop il, don't do that, what are you
looking for, Q licking? Or words to
the same effect. But this was one of
the moments when George seemed to
see Junior as a citizen with rights.
He actually put down the paper and.
what was even further, put his hand
in his pScket-the pocket where the
nest-eggs is-the only egg that the
male bird of the human species sits
on, and George carries it in the hip
pocket, where it is hard to get at,
the ssmple as many other tired bust
ness men do.
"Well," says he. Il guess you
better buy q few dollars worth OF
them Christmas seals, after all, It
certainly is cheaper in the end to
buy few every year, then Doctors
l,illwould, be. and. - the saying gDes,
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