Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1924-12-19

that they will never again have any other kind
Their system to pay cash for every gift that they
buy AS 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
VIII buy more in January and February.
Christmas day has it's humorous side of course
and the wits are always taking their filings at the
side-ights it throws on human nature. For ex
ample, George E. Phair, in the Chicago Herald and
Examiner, very APPLY sings:
lis the day after Christmas and all through the
The womenfolk hurry and scurry and swoop
They come by the dozens, they come 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 armful OF gifts to exchange.
And Rio" who conducts ''colyum" In the
Chicago Evening Post, hits off the day pretty sue
cessfully with this with bow to Carl Sand
burg):
This is prickly green wreath of holly tied with
bow of scarlet ribbon.
This is sprig of green mistletoe with the white
berries and their love message.
This IS our advertisement in all the Sum
day papers in old English type hoping for a
continuance of your trade thru the next as
thru the last year that is dying with it's
boots
This is our water-color Xmas card with engraved
sentiments to your wife and you from my
wife and me.
This is cur dawn -shivering ring your door
bell as the boy hands you your newspaper and
you blink in pajamas and clippers and slip him
dollar.
This is our office building elevator with it's fes-
toons of frizzy green and red crepe paper and
box with coin-wde slit in it,
This Is same to and many OF them of the
package-laden commuter friend the Christ
train to the covered suburbs
This Is all these, and then some.
This Is the glad laughter of the tousy lit
tie boy playing with his electric train of cars
the morning of the Christ child, and you
tho glad boys father and mother and sis
ter and brother and friend who gave him the
electric train OF cars.
And he and kisses you, and wishes you
Merry Christmas.
In comparison with the religious and economic
significance of Christmastide the Christmas din
ner may seem TO many materiaiistc affair, un-
worthy of more than casual mention But is 1t?
It.is not Long before Christmas day our mouths
watering from It's eats Humans and human
nature built that way. Nature-which is to
say. Proyidence-has given us many material joys
and not the least among them is the delight of
satisfying healthy appetite with appetizlng food
skillfuy cooked. And the Christmas turkey
oh, what's the usel
And in a very true sense the Christmas feast
is the browning 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--is the outward and
visible sign of the inward and spiritual gracee
Of kindness, charity, genteness forgiveness fol-
Grafton good WILL unsefshness. the desire to give
Joy to others-in short all the qualities which are
best In human nature and on which rest the hopes
of mankind for the future.