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When it comes to analyzing our individual attitudes "towards the Twenty-fifth of December we fedl of December that they were not going to buy even a card are the very ones who jam the shops on of two, but twenty natures strug- the twenty-fourth. Fgw of us can sling within ws, Indeed ghere are] be so high-hat as to maintain with, many different Christmases to con- any degree of truth that we do not sider. "There is, for instance, the want any Christmas presents, Wo memory of our childhood Christ- all do want some; but we want triases. Few of us can escape from them from those who really care the lasting spell of that, its frag- about us and for whom we cate Fant, mysterious, ecstatic memory. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Chri We can be philosophical about most nas could realize that ideal? of the vanished joys of childhood it is, about this time of year, and console ourselves that a work- as one goes around the shops one ing reality in the hand is better overhears a good bit of worrying. than {wo singing illusions in the|"Rushed to death, my dear! Don Sush; but Christmas-—yes, we would kno like to have one of those perfect age."
"And of course the chi festivals again.
Knowing, however,! must have their party! that few can recapture that bliss, think of 'a thing he wants. most of the world bands itself to-|do hope I shall get something I gether in a Kindly league to make can really use!"
"Wouldn't you like Christmas as happy as possible for to go to sleep and wake up to find children everywhere. There is, that everything was all practical unani in the feeling th one's family home, Christmas that the grown-ups may catch as! is a dreary sort of time, catch can, but that children must One remembers, be considered first on that day. one is in the Then there are -many different. remark that a ma toward the reli significance of the day. There are eyn probably none of the old guard left inevitable and that now who once prided themselves struggle against upon their Puritanism and flouted snow it, we shall be swept up on{ Christmas cheer as "Popish pomp;" the top' of the glad festival wave but in many of us the central mean- a ings and grumblings ing of the day so far as will be lost in the exciting thrill observance goes is as mythical as/of finding just the right things for Santa Claus himself. For many the dearest people that ever were.
however, Good Will, ir- Whether itch" peace and good of creed or church, is} will from the holly and mistletoe all around or whether we grow it from an inner conviction of brother-hhood—somehow it comes, and those The Giving and Receiving of us who are cynics to-day will When it comes to the observance be jovial (and genuine) holiday-of Christmas as "Present-Day" the makers on the Twenty-fifth. And feeling becomes less unanimous. remember, there is always the Most of us protest that we do not Ricsha Mission and various charity care about receiving gifts, no, nothable Christmas parties to start one ing so childish for us;'and that off on the way to the Christmas we do not intend to give any, ex-spirit. cept perhaps—and right there our good resolutions go flop. One Christmas present sent where there A Good Lend is any possibility of an exchange And did you let hit kiss and the game is up, the rest is a real toboggan-slide and those who pro-Betty: Let him? Great heavens, tested most stoutly at the beginning I had to help him!
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