Show Evening Chit Chat I RUT Bum want to 10 lift up m my amy ol voice tonight against a good hood custom that st seems I to be he fast becoming an evil 11 one one one- in iii other words against the frenzy n y of formal gifts into which the present present pres pros ent cut day seems to have havo plunged ed or E Every po possible occasion nowadays s 's sIs is made a a. gift giving time Our fathers fathers or or at least our grandfathers grand grain fathers fathers can can remember the days da s 's when n even tn at Christmas the lh the the- grea greatest of all Rift gift Ift giving days days there there wt vero n ro but three or four or a half dozen gifts in tIme the family and anti most of these for fOI the children Today for a month beforehand It seems as If the whole worM world were nero working Us itself up mIT for December 25 lo PEo l who n-lu-i give giveand giveand giveand and receive twenty emily or thirty gifts girts are legion and I know kno not a t few whose gift girt giving and mounts up into the forties and fifties s. s Almost er c everyone one sp spends more mor morley money time and energy than he lie should upon his imis gift giving Christmas t eve 0 finds many of of- ofus us with ith worn orn out bodies and fm frazzled tempers in instead In- In stead of in the peace on earth arth good lood goodwill goodwill will toward in inn n frame of mind that ought to prevail on that beautiful birth birth- day In a report of a II committee that in investigated iii- iii th those se abominable salary loan as associations lions which lend at exorbitant Interest In- In terest on the security of salaries and get man many young men hOIt hopelessly I Isly into IntI d debt bt I found it stated d that the need of money for Christmas st g gifts w was o one of WI i mn the that most t. t often got t young men into the time clutches of the time loan lorm sharks hark Birthday giving is growing glo more mora elaborate dab dab- t Ig or orate each year Charles Lamb Lamn spoke pok of tIme the children fI of his Imis day as thinking of their birthdays as na occasion to be made noteworthy h by lye cake and orange Imagine tim the child of today who ho would be satisfied with anything anything any any- thing less than cake alia and ice Ire cream cleam and half a a. dozen en gifts on elm his birthday New Kew Years Year's giving is running a lose dose second to Christmas 1 in pome comae giving ties li lg Easter day r l is St. St rapidly Valentino's 1 ti becoming day f. f a is gift m tue Occasion l n of more memo or ot- Ip less s gift r and last Thanksgiving f a florist fiorit told me mp that he lie sent out quite a few flowers as aR Thanksgiving gifts And tori in addition to lo gift giving da days s 's we C ar arc ae constantly constant finding new n gift I giving occasions oc To the time old time weIding wedding wed weI- ding gift Kirt has been added d the engagement nt and anti the shower shover gift If any one Of our friends goes on 00 a journey y must nowadays be bl a mm going OhlA gift ift for him Once Onee upon 11 a time timo when hen H. H girl Irl graduated from hl high h school schol or OJ college ge her father and mother gave an h her r some comae little timing Nowadays mill all her relatives relatives and thes and nd intimate friends a. a also aiso contribute i I All this i t n-t l normal I It isn't healthy It Isn't sane Cane I If 11 all th these s gifts were the spontaneous expression lon of the love lovo loof of the giver this 1 abundance of gift cut Ift giving would be hI the lie sl sign 11 of a It rapidly approaching hing millennium I But you know they arent Some are aie simply slavish slam obedience to society's formalities Some are ale simply foolish and even wicked lions I If you ou are ame time the most generous bt being ing living liv liv- ing tog I am tim willing to ager wager that there have ham bt been occasions in m the past paRt year ear when whelm you Oll have said Oh dear Ive I've got gotto gotto gotto to give gln so and so something Haven't there And Amid is a gift Ift in in- such sucha a spirit a 1 true fOP gift What are w we going goin to 10 do rio about it Nothing probably But Ill I'll tell you OU what I wish we WP rould do T I wish we w- could nil III Il make a II r resolution tn ion u H to make male it tt our OW to tobe be e worked to towards to 10 wards to give generously ly wh when n we n-c C feel feela a a. real desire to give o-Ive ho no matter whether there la is any especial occa occasion or not and amid to refrain from giving when w WH we do rio not genuinely desire to She give no iii matter what time the demands of or the occasion rna may muY be be- 7 f tic Crt iii r. r i |