The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-12-18

that they will never again have any other kind
Their system is to pay cash for every gift that the,
buy. AS a result they make fewer purchases; bu
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 1t, for his customers
will 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-lights 1t throws on human nature. For ex-
ample, George E. Phajr, in the Chicago Herald and
Examiner, very aptly sings:
Ills the day after Christmas and all through the
Thu 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 tho line like the famous Red
And each has an armful 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 a bow to Carl Sand
burg):
This is our prickly green wreath of holly tied with
a bow Of scarlet ribbon.
This Is our sprig of green mist1etoe with the white
berries and their love message.
This is our full-page advertisement In all the Sun
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 Its
boots on
This is our water1color Xmas card with engraved
sentiments to your wife and you from my
wife and me.
This is our dawn-shivering ring at your front-door
bell as the boy hands you your newspaper and
you blink In pajamas and slippers and slip him
a dollar.
This is our Office building elevator with Its fes-
toons of frtxzy green and red crepe paper and
a box with a coin-wfde slit In 1t.
This is our same to you and many of them Of the
package-laden commuter friend on the Christ
mas eve train to the snow-covered suburbs.
This is all these, and then some.
This is the glad laughter. of the tously-haired lit
tie boy playing with his electric train of cars
on the morning of the Christ child, and you
are the glad boys father and mother and sis
Ter and brother and friend who gave him the
electric train Of cars.
And he runs up and kisses you, and wishes you
A Merry Christmas.
In comparison with the religious and economic
significance of C~brfstmastide the Christmas din
ner may seem to many a materialistic affair, un-
worthy of more than casual mention. But Is 1t?
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 us many material joys
and non the least among them is the delight of
satisfying a healthy appetite with appetizing food
~skillfully cooked. And the Christmas turkey
oh, what's the USE
And IT. a very true sense the Christmas feast
Is the crowning touch of Christmas day. For
Christmas day Is the family celebration of the
year. AND the family, at its best-and it Is sure
ly at its best at Christmas-is the outward and
visible sign of the inward and spiritual graces
of kindness, charity, gentleness, forgiveness, tol
Grafton, good will, unselfshness, 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. |