Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1911 — A Silly Season Gift. [ARTICLE]

A Silly Season Gift.

“Take your wife a silly season gift of a half dozen assorted sealing wax candles,” the salesman said. “But I don’t know what sealing wax candles are,” the patron objected. “This Is what they are.” The salesman produced a neat box. “They are sticks of Beallng wax, each containing a wick. You light the wick when you want to seal a letter; the wax melts add drops off, and when you have got enough for your seal you blow out the flame. A sealing wax candle saves the expense and bother of a second candle. Won’t you take your wife a silly season gift of a box?” “But,” objected the patron, “I don’t think that it Is either customary or desirable to give wives presents In the silly season.”