| Show GOOD TASTE IN CHRISTMAS PRESENTS THE following pertinent remarks on this timely subject are from the columns or of the ladiew ladies home journal good taste discriminates between the needs of country and town and does not send an opera glass or party bag to the farmhouse farm house neither does it give the boy a book which he ought to like but tries to select one to complete his favorite series childrens Childre ups stockings are sometimes filled from the standpoint of maturity utility and not suitability governs the choice of their contents there has been many a disappointed sorrowful heart on christmas morning because the powers that ber be forgetting their own childhood had catered to the tastes 0 forty instead of to those of four ho youth sometimes confounds age the girl who adores olives perplexes her plain old auntie by the presentation or of a queer dish for which her domestic economy finds no use it is wise not to consult our own preferences but to discover and gratify fir the individual individual fads and fancies of others un on the principle of like attracting like the most valuable gift often finds its way to the one who needs it least in some cases good judgment dicta dictates tea the giving of money as ad the kindest thing to be done how often some poverty straightened ine one has sighed over the expensive gift if I 1 only had bad the money this cost no field affords a wider opportunity for the exercise of common sense than christmas giving women by exercising judgment not only benefit themselves but are re a positive blessing in their example to the entire sex and the yuletide yule tide of 1890 will be a happi one indeed if common sense is more employed in christmas gifts |
