The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-12-25

that they will never again have any other kind.
Their system is to pay cash for every gift that they
buy. AS a result they make fewer purchases; but
they have no bills The substitution of the Pay
as-You-Go Christmas works hardship to no one.
1t means wiser and more liberal expenditure within
the Immediate home circle and greater generosity
toward the really needy and unfortunate The
merchant will not suffer by it, for his customers
will buy more in January and February.
Christmas day has its humorous side of course
and the wits are always taking their filings at the
side-lights 1t throws on human nature. For ex-
ample. George E. Phair, in the Chicago Herald and
Examiner, very aptly sings:
IT'S the day after Christmas and all through the
The womenfolk hurry and scurry and swoop.
They come by the dozens, they by the scores.
And boldly they bump their way into the stores.
And they batter the line like the famous Red
Grange
And each has an a-mful Of gifts to exchange.
And Rig" who conducts a "colyum" in the
Chicago Evening Post, hits off the day pretty sue
cessfully with this with bow to Carl Sand
burg):
This is prickIy green wreath of holly tied with
a bow OF scarlet ribbon.
This is sprig of green mstletoe with the white
berries and their love message.
This IS full-page advertisement in all the Sun
day papers in old English type hoping for q
continuance of your trade thru
thru the last year that is dying with its
This is our water-color Xmas card with engraved
sentiments to your wife and you from my
This is our dawn-shivering ring your front-door
bell the boy hands you your newspaper and
you BLINK In pajamas and slippers and slip him
dollar
This is our office building elevator with its fes-
toons of frizzy and red crepe paper and
box with a coin-wide slit in 1t.
This Is our same to you and many of them of the
package-laden commuter friend the Christi
mas train to the snow-covered suburbs.
This is all these. and then
is the glad laughter of the tously haired lit
tie boy playing with his electric train of cars
the morning of the Christ child, and you
are the glad boys father and mother and sis
and brother and friend who gave him the
electric train of cars
And he up and kisses you, and wishes you
A Merry Christmas.
In comparison with the religious and economic
significance of Christmastide the Christmas din
ner may seem to many materalistic affair." I'M
worthy of more than casual mention. But is It?
1t is not. Long before Christmas day our mouths
are watering from its eats. Humans and human
nature are built that way. Nature-which Is to
say, Providence-has given many material Joys
and not the least among them is the delight Of
satisfying healthy appetite with appetizing food
skillfuily cooked. And the Christmas turkey
OH what's the use
And in very true sense the Christmas feast
is the GROWING touch of Christmas day For
Christmas day Is the family celebration of the
year And the family, at it's best-and It Is sure
ly at Its best at Chrstmas-s the outward and
visible sign of the Inward and spiritual graces
of kindness, charity, gentleness, forgiveness toll
Grafton good WILL unselfshness, the desire to give
Joy to otheIs-in short all the qualities which are
best In human nature and on which rest the hopes
of mankind for tho future