Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1910 — BUYING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. [ARTICLE]

BUYING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.

“krt Etolr Cecilia Sara—She Has Already Began to Look. 'This year,” , says Cecilia, according to (he New York Sun, “I am going to buy my Christmas presents early, earlier than ever. “I don’t know what will happen, but I am going to make a great effort to get through this year in time. I began weeks ago to make lists of the things that I want to give. My, I wish I could give everything I’d like to! And I know pretty well already what I want to get. I may have to revise these lists Bomewhat as we go along. I may discover that some of my folks or friends change their minds and express in their casual conversations, of which I take mental note, new preferences which I shall want to regard, bnt I have got now pretty good rough lists of what I want to buy, and I have already begun to look. I have done this now for two or three years, but I »m going to get through earlier than ever this year and avo'd the rush. ‘They tell me that in the old times people used to put off their Christmas buying till the last week before tbe holiday and the last day, and then all Join in one mad scrimmage, and l guess there must be many who do that now. I know there are, because I hear people say now distractedly when the crowded days come: ‘I don’t know what I’m going to get for John;’ bnt I know there are more and more people nowadays who. think these thlugß over in advance and make up their minds, and then go ahead anabuy the things, one or two at a time, and' get tbem into the bouse out of the i way. i * —.—: j "I know I do that I start weeks in advance and find the greater va-„ rlety and get what I want and things that haven’t been mussed.”