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Show strings together. I never buy a single present till the genuine Christmas fever is on me; till the shops are gay with pretty things and crowded with shoppers. shop-pers. Then I join the throng and share the infatuation. I rush right and left all daylong and am in an agony of suspense sus-pense and indecision; what I want finally comes to me by inspiration, and then it is such a satisfaction to have settled upon it. "Why, half the joy of the season would be lost to me without that delightful de-lightful rush and bustle and worry. It seems to me almost sacrilegious to take Christmas time by the forelock. I positively posi-tively could not do it." All of which goes to show how complex and indicate a thing is a woman's method of reasoning. reason-ing. New York Times. Baying Christmas Presents. Tve been about among the summer thops all the morning," said one lady to another on the piaszaof a Saratoga hotel ! recently, "and I have picked up quitean accumulation of Christmas gifts. I al-j al-j ways buy them at this time," she went I on, "and put them away until just be-; be-; fore the holidays, when I sort them out j In that way I avoid any rush and fatigue at the last moment." Three or four of i her companions agreed with her, but one, a vivacious young woman, dissented dissent-ed emphatically. "I call that dreadful," she announced. "Fancy selecting Christmas presents in cold blood as it were. I could never do it I should be guided by economy and prudence, I know, and pull my purse |