Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — Christinas Customms. [ARTICLE]

Christinas Customms.

The small boys make it a point to at--tend Sunday school in force; ' Nobody notices the old maid when she gets under the mistletoe. The schoolteacher spares the rod from about Dec. 1 until the holidays are over. Little Johnnie always makes a noise,

even though it puts a hole in the head of his new drum. Uncle ’Rastus feels in honor bound to pay a nocturnal visit to the hen-houses of all his neighbors. The married man has not on’y to pay for the present he gives his better half, but for the one his wife gives him. Santa Claus is almost as blind, as his little friend Cupid. The old man seldom sees the chimneys of the poor. A-dog which was given a collar and chain, and tied 1 tip" all day and night, failed to appreciate his Christmas present. ’■ The mistletoe is always hbrfg up on the chandelier because it is not necessary to have any one out on the stairs ,or in other dhrk j ' L The tin sdldicfssWthe small Xojiib get are more bloodthirsty than they look. When they fight they show no quarter, and it isn’t long before the whole army is annihilated. — Judge.