The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-12-19

that they will never again have any other kind.
Their system is 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 1t, 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 it throws human nature For ex-
ample, George f. 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 armfuI of gifts to exchange
And "Riq,' who conducts a "colyum" in the
Chicago Evening Post hits off the day pretty sue
scessfuy with this with a bow to Carl Sand
burg):
This Is prickly green of holly tied with
bow of scarlet ribbon.
This Is sprg of green mistletoe with the white
berries and their love message
This is our fu-page advertisement in all the Sun
day papers in old English type hoping for a
continuance of your trade thru the next
thru the last year that is dying with Its
This is our water-color Xmas card with engraved
sentiments to your wife and from my
wife and
This is awp<shvering ring at your front door
bell as the boy hands you newspaper and
you blink In pajamas and slippers and slip him
a dollar.
This Is office building elevator with its fss-
toons of frizzy green and red crepe paper and
box with coin-wide slit in IT.
This Is our same to you and many of them of the
package-laden commuter friend the Christ
train to the snow-covered suburbs.
This is all these. and then some.
This Is the glad laughter of the tousy-haired lt-
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 m he
electric train of
And he 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 materialistic affair, un-
1t is not Long before Christmas day our mouths
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 appetzing food
skillfully cooked. And the Christmas turkey
oh, what's the use,
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 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 toll
Grafton, good will, unselshness the desire to give
joy to othersin short all the qualities which ara
best in human nature and which rest the hopes
of mankind for the future.