Show VALUE OF A CHILDS GIFTS those made with their own hand hands teach good lessons and give inspiration it wo no stop to think about our christmas eting wo me realize that a gift meane means more to tho the chor gt or than it does to him who ho receives it it I 1 Is ghon in tho the proper spirit tho the donor finds out to tho the full that it ie Is really amore blessed to civo than to ro beho celi e a fact that la Is lost bight night of in aa an ago of tho the commercial spirit with children there Is a great educative value in their present giang it if it Is encouraged to be really their I 1 own giving if tho the mother holever how ho uever over simply prepares some little lemarn branco brance and sas mary this Is our christmas present to aunt ellen the gift has no meaning in tho the thought thoughts of tho oung giver and not only has it no meaning rne aning but it becomes actually harmful for the reason it pro pre the idea to tho the child that the gift without tho the giver ie Is really a gift and tho the child has put no thought or self sacrifice into the glang of that present on the tile other hand if tho the child be given pocket money which it may consider its very own or better still it it Is enabled to cam pocket money and Is then encouraged to set aside a por tion of its very own money for present making tho the idea of truo true gildig ie Is acquired tho the sacrifice tho the ton fori thought tho the love necessary to make ft a gift a real gift are there tho homemade gifts of children have many valuable lessons to teach the young givers many lessons la in sewing raffia bead beadwork nork or painting may be given under the gulso guise of making a gift in ono one family where the elder older sister had never made gifts 94 ats and really never learned to sow sew well until she was eighteen years of age the younger sister a girl of ten inspired by the example of a small friend wished to mako birthday gifts for her family once sho she asked her mother to teach her ber ho how to crochet another time to scallop and before she was t twelve elve years old she had become bacome as proficient a little seamstress seam as one would Y want N ant to see thus practical lessons are learned while the child Is inspired with ith the idea that not what hat we ne give but what we share the gift without the giver Is bare ADVICE bwll 4 IF can you suggest something for fol me to get for my wife for or christmas al be asked of the shopkeeper better get her a box ot of cigars I 1 expect said the shopkeeper she was miss in here this morning and bought a lace parasol for you |