Show the shadow on the there much mow snow yet but there ia Is a heap of shadow and the shadow is the shadow of christinas which like other events projects its umbra in front of it in every household two problems are hastening to solution and while the elder members are asking themselves 64 what shall IT we e give ive are no less e eagerly a er ay speculating as to I what they theys shall ball get the b boys ys drop baue vague hints of the desirability of planca and kledt an and d books ot of adventure and exciting narratives while fhe the little girls are bemoaning the dilapidated dilapidate condition of th the present rf sent generation af dolls and artfully elly trying to inveigle mamma into the phrase so full of promise well see at christmas time it really is no easy my task to select a line of christmas presents so as to insure that every little one shall get just what it will most appreciate and nope shall b be q unduly lAv i and ag as the ho holiday I WAY leas season in draws near the careful I mother feela feels more than at any other thime the need of some reliable manu manual sil by referring to which the she may know just what ia is to be had bad and just what everything costs and lu luckily ackil jr in this age of journalistic enterprise the very thing she wants lies ready to her band F for or the winter of the quarterly er 14 out and a copy can be ll 11 had r for or on only y fieten I cents the compass compas of its ninety odd pages afro ate illustrations of every kind and description of christmas gifts from the rattle or toy for the tho year eat old infant up to tu ahe he gold header ca cane e or dressing gown far papa or dr the ion long avil W I ed for watch fo for r mamma dolls and dolls furniture tin toys toyo mechanical tov telegraph io bonbon boac velici fancy stationery gorgeous plush covered boxes sity savings ings banks magical apparatus books of every kind in short the whole a range of possibilities in the way IVRY of christmas present presents Is covered and parents purses and ebil childrens drens fancies can alike bo be suited however fastidious the one or attenuated the other indeed we vre believe it safe to say that such a mass of useful information for so email small a price was never issued from the press before the fashion iq p published u b li bed b by Y T megyn M ebe g riah dubros of new york at 50 cents a year X or 15 cents a copy |