Show I 1 CHRISTMAS reflections E another issue of this thi pa per the festive christmas day will have come and gone this day set sei apart for the celebration of the birth of jesus christ has become a lay ay of varied observance among ur mr people some wise bat a major are otherwise what may be per oper and what may be improper do on this day is not for us ns to ct et ermine one thing seems evi ent that is if the day ever had any sacredness or religious religions significance it has about become obsolete I 1 ind and nowadays the jew the heathen t the he infidel infidel the free thinker thicker the unitarian as aa well as the christian all treat the day as the proper occasion for an ex exuberant aberant flow of spirit and social excess gift making has grown to be almost a passion and t ase who give and those who receive ceide ara kept in a state of nervous excitement during this season of the year with others it becomes a day of eating and drinkin drinking 9 and the glutton anil and drunkard vie with each other in celebrating the day in true bacchanalian style the thea ter the ball room and the banquet r 7 hall will be crowded at this time far NL more io 0 o than at any other time in the year extravagance in dress and living is indulged in at christmas mas time without stint or limit with a few charity is thought of nd and is bestowed upon the needy but with many it is an afterthought by way of donating the broken food wid and crumbs of a christian feast to the widow and orphan the day otter erSome aft i bom e will wil I 1 go to church to pra yand others to show their new cloak k Ob or bonnet onnet but few we imagine are extremely pious during merry christmas or think of the real significance of the day it is said a child chii awas WAS born bom under an asiatic sun nearly il nineteen cen turie agg who became a 3 great reformer tana and taught the golden rule the fatherhood of god and the brotherhood of men ile he lost hia life in hi hia s efforts to im improve pr 6 v e the conditions to filiti 66 of his fellow i 4 man and a aromnd the traditions of his z arisen a groat great gioe which has baa 1 iff ined many creeds and I 1 w s a jancha es of 1 ora WOE o of chrit Jh rit t e a r i W re thag t I 1 z r 1 1 ap M E f SW S VS s sr S tl t atin U sect are eve afaf k kwuen y is sy az va t TM ASI A SI AI Us atif ea oam aff a ippa refit d A t s i fc 5 aaa wai joae abl go u it w c T ry T aft P v F Ys hf s t h SS wk v SF aiji A yi A sh f h has inthe in the past for years year to 0 come these reflections are not intended to be critical bur merely a plain statement of things as they really seem we will doubtless eat our turkey and indulge in many foibles foible 9 the same as the rest of oe our rear readers lers to whom we wish a merry christmas |