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Show Make Christmas Burden, Be Unhappy Rest of Year IT IS so customary nowadays to ' hear disparagement of Christmas as a season of vanity, selfish display, greed and covetousness that we like-to like-to point out the other side. Some of our cynics declare that Christmas-gifts Christmas-gifts are themselves dictated .by self-interest self-interest that they are meanly offered of-fered in the hope of a return with Interest or are an exhibition of vanity. van-ity. And yet, who would dare to say this of a mother, who deprives her self to give happiness to her children, chil-dren, or of the girl who willingly foregoes fore-goes some little vanity for the pleasure pleas-ure of her parents? People who make Christmas a burden and a tax show the same attitude throughout the year their own false standards of living are to blame, and not this holy festival. fes-tival. Rural New-Yorker. |