Gunnison news-champion., 1923-01-12

city one should keep Christmas
gift-record book. Such a record start
ed now may save many embarrassing
moments next year.
Now that the holidays are over and
the useful gifts received have been
put 70 some use and the useless ones
packed away to be passed to some one
else next year, the time is ripe TO start
keeping definite gift-record book.
Then when another year rolls around
you will not have TO trust to the MEM
ory when making out your Christmas
list for you will have written record
for reference telling you just who con-
tributed to your pleasure this year and
whether the Yuletide remembrance
came in the form Of gift, An intimate
letter or a greeting card. Your own
Christmas activities should also be
carefully recorded. Such a book well
kept will eliminate all danger Of for
getting any ono whom you may wish
TO remember.
For this record a simple note book
will do, preferably one with ledger
leaves. II only book with plainly
ruled pages is obtainable line can
be drawn through the center Of each
leaf to form the two columns. Then
draw line through the right hand
column dividing it into two smaller
ones.
The use of the two colunps was apt
ly described by n high school girl
deeply Interested in her dramatic club,
as "a place TO record the exits and en-
frances and get your cue for the next
act'.
Now on the left hand side of each
page write the names of all persons
who in any way contributed to your
pleasure this year together with the
names of all friends and relatives to
whom you sent gifts, letters or greet
ing cards. Then in the first Of the
smaller columns record your own
Christmas activity, SO well expressed
by the high school Miss as your exit
In the last column write what came to
you from the person named.
II a Christmas gift-record book is
accurately kept from year to year you
will not make the mistake, a certain
friend did this year when she return
ed as gift the same present that
had been sent TO her by this same per-
son last year.
After having had the pleasure of
receiving gift there is nothing wrong
in passing it on to some one else. This
is frequently done and often the same
article done duty several seasons, or
until it finally reaches some one who
has use for it, and she keeps it, thus
breaking the chain. If one keeps a
record for reference and wishes to
give someone else the pleasure of q
certain gift received this year or last,
the present may be safely sent in a
direction other than the one from
which it came.
Not very far away lives q woman
who has kept an ACCURATE gift record
book for more than twenty years. By
referring to its pages she can tell
you the name of every person who has
an any way contributed to her holi-
day pleasure during the entire period,
and whether the remembrance was q
gift, Chritmas card or a personal
letter. She can also review her own
activities and can accurately enumer-
ate, not only the various "exits" and
entrances, but she has also kept an
extra record for her own personal
use and knows to q penny just what
each Christmas has cost her for
gift.
This particular gift record, kept
nearly quarter of century, has
now become an intimate companion.
It is read annually from cover to
cover when happy memories are re-
called and much information CLEANED
from its pages. For instance, she
makes a note of the reason why GER
tain persons receive cards or gifts
from her one particular year and at
no other time. Opposite such names
one will read memos like this: Moth
er died in June;" Married in Sept
ember-new address,; "Away at
School," baby girl born in July.
When discussing this particular
feature of the book, this woman ex-
planned that it was her custom each
year to remember insofar as possible
any friend or acquaintance, who DIR
ing the last year suffered a bereave-
ment, she also has list of "shut-ins"
were friends of her mother. She says
she takes joy, too, in surprising brides
and new mothers with Christmas
greetings. Her record shows, too,
that she varies her "exits" from year
to year, sending cards one season, a
letter another time and gift some
other Christmas; and some years she
does not send anything, and gives as
her reason that she does not wish the
pretty custom to become habit SO
fixed that Il might incur an obligation
on the part Of the recipient.
With the Christmas Just past fresh
in.the memory, Il viii Be easy to start
= reccrd Of this seasons ;aetivfties
perhaps lAst year's happenings may
q alto recalled, and II q, there win Be
nohdsy activities for two ysa1s d.
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4 beek ~ this kind, vfen once
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