| Show HOLIDAY extravagance tax wisest of social leaders and statesmen have favored the establishment nd observance of fixed holidays on which the masses may suspend their toll toil and indalesa in rest and a socia ocia recreation no doubt such relief afforded at intervals inter vaia during the year is beneficial and may be roade made so to a marked degree the custom of feasting and giving presents r eserts on oa christmas and new years FI is by no means to be condemned but it is nevertheless possible to carry iti ill to an extreme and we seed need not go away anav from home bouse to witness a strong tendency in toe the direction of overdoing over doing the holidays there is a departure from the simple and unostentatious conviviality with which they used to ro be celebrated in this community former have given place to display and extravagance in a degree which is an unhealthful sigu of the times few who are not miserly are willing to let the winter holidays pass pas without making presents to relatives and friends and the spirit of the times it yielded to will impel the individual to select gifts more costly than properly comport with his income the result will be that many persons to avoid being thought mean or ungenerous will spend so in much tich money in making presents or in giving dit dinners iners or parties orin or in otherwise signalizing signal izing the season of enjoyment that they will cramp themselves financially and probably make it impossible tor for kneut to do justice to their families and creditors temperance and moderation are as much in place when observed in ia celebrating the holidays as in any other of the affairs of life and in this as in most other things la Is productive of more real and lasting enjoyment then than extravagance the man who is strictly hon bonant st will strive to pay as he be goes aud and to live within bis income during the holidays as well as other portions ol of the year while both the wisdom and integrity ot of the man who runs runa in debt to make a splurge are open to question toys are less necessary for the children childred than shoes and fuel will do a family more goga than mere tokens 01 friendship trie the enjoyment of a day chica produces the unrest of unpaid bills is too expensive when a boom of any kind is sweeping swee over a community it is very likely to 10 influence all save those of sturdy tempera ro bt and to carry to extremes the light minded and frivolous but booms of all kinds are at variance with the principles and character which litis desirable that the majority class in this thib territory maintain |
