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Show HBH GOOD T.l$T$ iX CI-II.TAfAS rnEs'E.Yis. TnK following pertinent remarks on this timely subject are from the column of the lidkt'1 Jlome Jour-nab Jour-nab "Good taste discriminates between the needs of country ami town, and doos not send an opera class or party-has party-has to the farm-lio'ise; neither doii It giro tlio boy a book w bich h ought to like, but tries to select onoto complete com-plete his favorite scrie. Children's stockings aro sometimes tilled, from U14 standpoint of maturity. Utility and not suitability gocrn) tho choice of their contonts. There has been many a disappointed, sorrowful heart on Christmas morning because the powers that be, forgailng their own childhood, had catered tl the tastes of forty instead ot to those of four. "So youth sometimes courouudsasi Tho young girl who "adores oliws" perplexes ber plain old auntie by the presentation of a queer littl dish fur Ablcti her domestic economy finds no use It is wise not to consult our own prerercnce, butlodLscovcrandj;rutify too individual fads and f.iucics of others. "On the principle of likf attracting tike, the most vahruble gift oficu finds Us way tolhsono who needs it least. In souio caei good JuJgment dictates lhe gi ing of money a tho kindest ibloslo bu done. Hmv often souic poverty-straishtencd 0119 has sighed oerthccvpeusivcgIft,"If I only bad the mouey this eot." No field affords, a wider opportunity for llioevcicise of common sense tnan Christmas si vui;r. Women, by exercising judgment, not only bcoelitlhoinseKcH butsro a psi-tive psi-tive blessing In their example totrm entire sex, and tho Yule-tide uf IbOu will beabappronclmtcodlf common sense is more employed iu Christmas gift"- |