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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 152, 23 December 1911, Page 10 (Supplement)

It. is one i)[ tlio prime secrets of happiness to recognise and :ieeept imc's natural limil a I ions. hut philosophy of this kind is. t lerhapr-. hardly to be expected of I children. A little girl had sent hack her plate for turkey two or three times, and had lieen helped hoiini ifull vto all I lie good things that go to make a grand ChrMmas dinner. Finally, she was observed looking rather disconsolately at her unfinished plate of trifle. "What's the matter, lOthel'/'' asked I'ncle John." "Y mi look mournful." "That's just, the matter," said Ethel. "I am inore'u full.'' And then she wondered why everybody lunched. The shades of the goose and turkey were discussing the circumstances which had attended their respective deaths. "Did \on oll'cr any objection when lir.--: the cruel fanner laid hands 011 you?" input helically cn<]iiired the gobbler. "Yes," replied lii* gooscship; "I" cried out. 'Halloa ! Whaf's this?' " "What, did you say next?" enquired the now tiioroiiijhlv interested turkey, as I lie ot her pau-ed for a, moment. "Oh." ihe goo>e replied, "I did not, sav ;> n\ 111 illLf mure just, (hen; 1 was wrung oil'." Tommy (on Christmas morning): Where does Santa Clans get all his things, mamma? Mamma: Oh. he buys them. Tommy: Well, ho must be a jay to let anyone palm oil' a tin watch on him. l!corgi 1 : Ah. Lily. dear, this will lie I lie jollies! - Christmas I've ever spent. \ow tlinl. we're engaged I think only of the future. Lily: Do you? Well, at this time of Hie year I think only of tie present. And she got it.