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Show n r n BB- EARLY BUYING BB The Christmas gift custom Is a very charming BB one If handled with some common sense and consld- B cratlon for those who serve us. But It millions of BB people wake up about a week beforo the holiday to BB .the fact that the usual gifts must bo purchased nnd BB cenj. tho simultaneous burden of work thus created BB' J -.makes a lot of trouble. BB As a result of this Identical Impulse, the peoplo BB "nil at once, In what might seem like an attack of BB -popular hysteria, begin to throng tho stores. In some BB .or them the rush becomes u Jostling mob as tho day BB approaches. Tho tired clerks show that tho holiday BB is not ono of peace on earth and good will to them. BB Then comes a grand scrlmmago to do up the BH - packages and send them by mall and express. All BB1 over the country offices nnd railroad cars and teams BB aro suddenly swamped by several times their usual HBJ business. Tho employes work many hours over time, BB -under conditions of strain and worry. They look . BB forward to Christmas as the most unhappy time of BB the BB Wo do not glvo any too much time for Chrlst- BBl .liias-, only wo glvo injudiciously. Tho purchaso of BBJ 'Christmas gifts on tho part of those who huvo any BBJ juoney aliead, should bo made all through, the year BBl 'as one sees sultablo articles. Or at least It should BBi ibgln early In December nnd should be concluded a -week or two beforo the holiday. Packages should be BBb Rot off at that timo by mall nnd express. BBl' Then tho last week might well be left. to tho BBB people who aro hard up for money nnd cannot nntlcl- BBB 1'ato their wants. If the strain could bo distributed BBB r 'n t'l's wu' the occasion would impose no great hurd- ship on anyone, nnd a great deal of happiness would BBB 1 given. H H. M, I-M |