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Show Early Christmas Shopping. From the Tacoma Ledger. Far-seeing persons are already en-gaged en-gaged in Christmas shopping or are planning to begin at once. They intend in-tend to go about it deliberately. They are not going to buy because they feel they must provide presents of some kind or character. They intend to take their time in order to select something particularly appropriate for the person per-son to be remembered. It is a much greater compliment to receive a present that has been selected with deliberation. delibera-tion. One does not like to think that at the last hour somebody rushed through the stores to find somehing or another that would "do" and finally in despair grabbed an article and rushed awft.y home or to the post office or express ex-press office with it- A good deal of the commercialistlc spirit of the latter-day Christmas season may be avoided by early shopping. From the standpoint of comfort it is well worth while to buy early. To struggle strug-gle with difficulty through a crowd to reach a counter may put one in a mood not consistent wih the Christmas season. sea-son. Then, the clerks are to be considered con-sidered as well as one's own personal convenience. With Christmas buying distributed over a few weeks instead of a few days, it is more satisfactory all round. |