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Show I . . ! Edna Is Forehanded Girl I By Ring W. Lardner. I Useful Christmas Gifts' Chicafro, T"ec. 13. DEAR Mr. Sullivan: Well. Mr. Sullivan, Sulli-van, T have been wailing in vain for thaL phone call, but I presume you have been too busy to waste your valuable valu-able time on a foolish little nobody like . Well, you have not been the only busy one as I have been busy too making Xmas presents. This year I thought I would give only to my mother and my very dearest friends, but when one "counts noses" one always finds that there are at least twenty persons whom Lhcy must remember or their feelings would be hurt. Don't you find it that way? BUT I am trying to make moSt of my gifts as I think a gift is all the more appreciated when a person knows it is the work of one's hands. I believe this is especially true when most of one's friends are girls as in my case. In fact there is only one "man" for whom I care enough to wish to exchange Xmas gifts with him. Can you guess who it is'.' But perhaps I ought not to of said that or you will think I am hinting for a "present." Please don't think that, Mr. Sullivan, as although I do intend to give you some little remembrance, I do not expect you to reciprocate. I think it's terrible when a man thinks he "has" to give a girl something just because she has remembered him. MY girl friends and I usually tell each other what we would like to have and T think that's the nicest way for it seems so sjily to spend one's time and money on useless gifts for which the party will have no use. As far as I am concerned I had a hard time thinking up things that I would like as J don t like to have anyone else pick out my wearing apparel as I think a person can do that best for themselves. I mean things like gloves, stockings, etc. OF course it would be different in the case of ornamental things like jewelry jew-elry or flowers, or those things for they are things I never would think of buying buy-ing for myself though there is nothing I like better than either jewelry or beautiful beau-tiful flowers. But flowers and, things in the jewelry line that f need, such as a wrist watch, cost more than my poor little lit-tle girl friends could pay and of course I wouldn't think of asking thorn to spend monev on me when I know they can't afford it. though I have seen some beautiful beau-tiful wrist watches in the windows down town lately which are wonderfully inexpensive. inex-pensive. Js Well, Mr. Sullivan. I won't bore you any more with my chatter and I just Xl-ili AM wanted to let you know I was still waiting wait-ing for that phone call and also I wanted want-ed to ask you if you would like to come to Xmas dinner with just mother and 1 at home, nothing elaborate, but we would try not to let you starve and mother would like awfully to havo you come though not nearly as much as Yours (?) EDNA. |