The Washington times., 1935-12-25
NOW
Merry Christmas
To the World
AND PEGGY! .
BY HELEN ESSARY
Merry Christmas!


Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you!
Merry Christmas to your mother
and your father and your uncle
and your aunt and your sister and
your children who are having
Christmas dinner with you. And
to the relatives you should have
asked but didn't. And to the
brother-in-law who couldn't come
because he isn't married to your
sister any longer.
Merry Christmas to the cook
who is basting your turkey. And
to the kitchen maid who is curl
ing the celery. And to the butler
who will not drink the leftover
champagne because he has been
a good butler for Is years and
can buy a better brand.
Merry Christmas to all the
RooSevelts - the blood related
RooSeveltS. To SiStie and Paulina
and Buzzie and Franklin and
Eleanor and Alice. To T. R. jr.
and Anna and Jimmy and Elliott.
Merry Christmas to Happy Her
bert of Palo Alto.
Merry Christmas to the people
who say there's nothing like a
white Christmas.
To the girl who got a photo
graph when she expected a dia-
mond bracelet - the Seasons
Greetings.
The same to the husbands who
got lamps, sofa cushions, over
draperieS and bread trays this
morning. The same to those other
misunderstood males who tomor-
row will exchange new cigarette
cases and ties for smoking
tobacco.
Merry Christmas to the unem.
ployed who couldn't use their snow
shovels because the busy sun came
out yesterday.
To the man with the shiny
l2-cylinder automobile who says
the Administration is taking
the bread out of his mouth-a
Merry Christmas.
And to the presidential possibili,
ties with the apprehensive eyes
greetings!
Our best wishes to the reformed
sinners in the Salvation Army
Volunteers of America and the
Gospel Mission who have gone
over the offerings of old clothes.
rundown shoes. three-legged
chairs. leaky double boilers. ETC.,
we've sent in during the past year.
Likewise to the men in the Ami.
NAL Rescue League and the Pound
who sort the stray dogs.
Merry Christmas to the traffic
policeman with the most gestures
to the bus conductor with the big.
gest foot on the break: to the
Carol Singers who f1atted on the
two hundred and thirty-fourth
singing of Holy Night.
To the Christmas goldfish. soon
to float upside down. to the
Christmas canary that trilled be.
fore DAYLIGHT: to the Christmas
kitten that some day will eat the
canary-the days cheeriest!
Merry Christmas to the White
House cooks who burnt their
wrists on the new ovens and wish
they had their old kitchen back.
A greeting to the motorcycle
demon who lost his ear muffs.
To the reluctant guest who had
to sit through family dinners.
To the magnificent advertisers
who are almost filling the pages
Of this paper; to the circulation
boy who had to come three times
this week for his quarter because
we had no change-our gooc
wishes.
Merry Christmas to Jim Farley
who isn't going to resign until hi
feels like it.
Kind thoughts to the people
who know that boxes of fruits anc
nuts and wines make Christina
merry.
To the telephone operators VIII
work on Christmas night. Tt
credit men who inspect holida.
charge accounts. To writer's o
fan mail who sign themselve
"Well Wishers."
To people who can't walk OF
ice. To the men who wiring tn
turkeys necks; to the fellow VIII
will have to burn his unsolt
Christmas trees on pile tomor
row-the seasons greetings.
To Harry Nice, spending hi
first holiday in his re-ag-ed guber
material mansion in Annapolis
merry Christmas.
The seasons happy thoughts II
the limp mothers of successful
debutantes. To people in hospi
tails eating a slice of white mea
off a tray. To discarded motor
men and street car conductor
who sit in car barns and watcl
the new buses roll in.
Merry Christmas to Peggy, ski
ing down a Swiss snowdrift OF
her nose.
To Santa Claus!
A merry Christmas!
Chrietmae Shnnnnr