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Show of GHristttta0 ESER Many a woman la known by tbs Cbristross presents sbs takes back to be exchanged. It there Is a Christmas season In hesven the department store clerk will hardly want to go there. The woman who looks for the price mark on ber present generally gets mad If she finds it A good thing about some Christmas presents Is that tbey don't last more than a day or two. People who put off baying things tbey really need until after Christmas bsrdly ever find tbem la their stockings. stock-ings. Some people dont permit their children chil-dren to believe in Santa Clans because be-cause tbey selfishly want all the credit cred-it themselves. If Santa Clans were a womsn Cbrtstmaa would always have to be postponed for a few dsys while abe administered the finishing touches. tucky Givers. With happr bearta aorne people five Aad Doror mind the price: TTioy know the gifts tft-y will receive An aura to be aa aire. to "55 A Wsrnlng te tlsrs, "What was ths bspplest moment of your life, dear? abe asked. "It was when you said yes, darling." I ee replied. . 8he sighed and permitted her cheek 1 to rest agslnst bis breast for a long time. Then she said: "Harry, do you remember that diamond dia-mond ring we looked at tn niasem'i? t waa there yesterday and tbey bad it itllL What a splendid Christmas present pres-ent it would make." After be bad reached the next room be whispered to himself: That's always the wey. Never told a lie In my life without having Immediate cause to be sorry for It" Why the Celonel Osve It Up. 1 "Colonel." aald the beautiful grass widow, "why Is it you so strongly object ob-ject to the exchanging of Christmas 1 eresentsT" TU tell you," he replied. "I ased io be ss eraty aa other people over ' rhe sending of gifts. There- was a . flri that I thought a good deal of U i tboss daya, and a sister of mine who had been married only a couple ol years was made glad by the arrival ot a little one only about a month before Christmas. I thought a nice present for her would be a book on the care and nursing of Infants. So I bought It. At tbs same time I bought a very handsome volume of poems for the girls." "Tesr Tbey get mixed. I believe this Christmas present business is all fool Isbness." Csndor. "If I wart te ratrh you under the mistletoe mis-tletoe would you try lo set swarf "Of eourae I should but I fool almost sura that 1 should not succeed " -S. B. Klaer. An Exchsngs. "What did your mis tress give you for Christmas r "A box of cheap handkerchiefs." "What did you give herr "A week's notice." n ; A Lucky Man. He tees the sua throah rpreadlnf rlfta. lis hears the wind etna eon of sheer, Hla wife wltl buy M Christina flfte And hare them charged t hta this Vter. FAIR WARNING TO tANTA CLAUl There ain't ne Santa Claua, 1 geeaa, er tf there Is, why ha . Don't knew ee very jX"T - much about book- iA sfdy, keepta', eeewie te ryT . 1 I aet hla fer eocwe l ' ' '. 8 rabbtte and a i '"V J " of skate f -N And all ha left wae V-vSt.VvX nothln' bwt at-jZTr at-jZTr i tie slater hare. .l And Uat year when lit 1 e hla I EM tf " f('S LV(j And one of thoae I'liff W her apajtlel doaw I 'V thats kind of I brownlah red: I t Hut blame the tuck. " -,-r""-i i didn't it aott-tary aott-tary thing Lirrpt a cap aad overcoat aad plated napkin ring. Iv wrote hla thl year that t waat a hook -and ladder track And maie lantern and a goat that I pi i ,? 1 -p ' 1 "m ?! , X ran uaia buck. UftiH And mebb a four- Ifti 1 l" J'-r bladed knlf. If Li Vr5U h. ha on. yMlZQ spare. VltUf A 'Uv But I told him I j plain and honeat J T--f that 1 inm't want f jZi jfih' things le wear. SW A fU try te keep be- 1 mjrf "j hTlo' till be 2jl eomes a T e a d uUr ev-e more. ete-Zr But he got te do 'ZtJ i much better than ; ll be ever don be- VV if for ; If bo brine another obiter In lh pi ace of what I d Ilk. Way. I " suit bell in' :a bin tram thai aslaula. th old lkel |