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Show MAKE OUT GIFT LIST EARLY Thoughtful Shoppers Start Task Several Sev-eral Weeks Before Rush Begins in Busy Stores. (C570 HE buyer who really puts t'LU s"inL altruism into her Christmas gifts makes out CQTi her list several weeks in advance. ad-vance. If she be a canny somebody she has kept her list of the year before and is able to see what were her gifts the preceding season, and thus avoid the risk of repeating herself. her-self. Still more canny is she if she lias made mental or written notes from time to time of various articles for which she has heard a desire expressed by friends. Such note taking will greatly lessen her labors. For it is no light thing to choose Christinas gifts judiciously. The whole secret of their acceptability lies In their appropriateness. Not only must they be appropriate to the person per-son from whom they come and to whoit they go, but to the circumstances in which the latter is placed. For an instance, in-stance, there are few housekeepers who do not welcome an addition of fine linen to their store. But if to a housekepor who lives plainly in simple sim-ple surroundings one sends a superb lace-trimmed tea cloth or doilies that throw all her other possessions Into the shade, there Is an unsuitability about the gift that robs it of much of Its charm. Harper's Bazar. |