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Show About Christmas. Here are sorrfe of the genera fundamental funda-mental rules for Christinas keeping: Have all the fun you can; find as much as possible of It In making things cheerful cheer-ful for other folks: be delighted with everything that is given to you; give what you can afford and not very much more, don't eat much too much: don't drink any too much, finally. If ybu can, get Into the country and take all the family with you, and have a good old-fashioned time, with plenty of outdoors and us much sport as possible. pos-sible. In it. 1 don't know that the old-fashioned Christmas 1 as ev r been beaten, or ever 1 will be. The Ideal calls for a hospitable hospit-able country house, a large family, sundry established Institutions, some carols, some wassail, some mistletoe, a boar's head, a big, open fire, and' a yule-log, and other approved and ven- j erable properties, and plenty of cheer- i ful people. We Americans out of our abundance have contributed to this Ideal the turkey, the cranberry, and j Ihe oyster. We have borrowed the I Christmas tree from the GerinuiiH We hang green wreaths in our windows where did we learn thai " and drape our churches and our dwellings i 1 1 1 more greeh things. Santa Claua la a naturalized citizen of our country. lllustiiiicd Sporting News. |