A FRIENDSHIP CHRISTMAS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 11, 28 January 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)

A FRIENDSHIP CHRISTMAS.

Eustacia: “What shall we done this Christmas?” Edmonia: “You give me back all the things I’ve given you that you didn’t like, and I’ll, give you all the things you gave me that I didn’t like.” CH RISTMAS RECIPROCITY. “What arc you going to give for Christmas presents to your family, this year?’ asked Mrs Fluffey. “I don’t know,” said Mrs Duffey, * but we arc not going to do as wc did lul year.” “How was that?” “Well, all of us had the usual puzzl 'd time to know what to give, and we decided to give money and let each oh« spend it the way he wanted to. So we all hung up our stockings, and filled th?tn with nuts and candy, then each one put in whatever amount of money he wanted to. "But when wc looked in the stockings in the morning, we found that everyone had given everyone else a five dollar gold piece. Of course, no one was out a cent, nor in anything. We had each given away twenty-five dollars, and each one had received that much. But some way, it seemed such a farce when we began to think about it that we decided to buy presents this year, if we didn’t get anything more than jumping jacks.” The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is • willing to do for others.—Lew Wallace. She: “What shall we get the baby for Christmas?” Ho: “I wish wc could get him the rest of his teeth.’ Stockings on the limbs of a Christmas tree, like those on a bicycle girl, should bo well filled.