Show the christmas tree every time I 1 eee see a christmas tree studded with electric lights garlands of tinsel eold cold festooning every branch and hung with the hundred cos costly ty the storekeepers invent year by year ito to make trade until the tree itself entirely un url der its burden I 1 have a feeling that fraud has been practiced on the kind ly spirit of vale yale wax candles are the only real thing for a christmas tree candles of wax that mingle their perfume with that of the burning fir not the by byproduct product of somo coal oil or other abomination what it if the boughs do catch fire they can be watched and too many caf candles idles are tawdry anyhow also red apples oranges and old fashioned cornu cornucopias coplas made of colored paper and made nt home look a hundred times better and fitter in the green and so do drums and toy trumpets and wald horns and a rocking horse reined up lup in front that need not have cost 0 40 O or anything like it jacob mix 1 in century |