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Show THINGS THE BOYS LONG FOR k ' Youngsters Prefer Toys or Contrlv- nces to Test Their Muscular Skill . , or Endurance. WTIAT shall be cold of that blundering blun-dering kindness of home folk that considers giving the boy only presents of Mich things as ho actually actu-ally needs? It Is an outrage upon the spirit of Christmas to present him with new shoes, ties, handkerchiefs something that he knows lie will get anyway when his sleeping and waking wak-ing dreams for weeks before have been filled with visions of tops, balls, guns and magic lanterns, says Maud Sou-ders Sou-ders In the Woman's Home Companion. Compan-ion. The most beautiful knitted muffler muf-fler woman's fingers ever constructed cannot compare with a Jack-knife with four blades and n cork-screw nttneh-monj, nttneh-monj, when exhibited over the hnck fenco to a neighbor boy on Christinas-uiornlng. Christinas-uiornlng. Very soon after the days of kilts a boy reaches the age when ho yearns with his whole soul after auy toy or contrivance that will test jK his muscular skill or endurance. At tf this age nn appropriate present would P be a rawhide or rope lariat, such mi T Is ummI lp the nuffnlo mil riders. A pulr of li:iHl or arm stlltB will be re-,-cIvimI with ''iunl fvor. and In ho mimo category comes a new fishing rod. snow shoes, tennis racket, golf clubs, n good ball, lamp or cyclometer for his wheel, or even n live pet. a now dog. a .alr of rabbits or guinea Plgs-Komelhliig that he can pet and train for his own. |