Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — Yuletide Customs. [ARTICLE]

Yuletide Customs.

It is customary to give a quarter present and expect a $5 one in return. With the usual perverseness 8f nature, Christmas comes in the middle of a hard winter. The modern highwayman doesn’t say “money or your life!” he wishes you “a merry Christmas.” The small boy who tries to make too much noise is apt to blame Santa Claus for not giving him an extra head for his drum. Some people wish you a merry Christmas instead of giving you a present, because it’s easier to pay the cqmijliment.pf the season thaa.it ik to Santa Claiis. • w Your wife expects you to look pleased when she gives you a S4O smoking jacket and tells you she has had it charged.— Truth.