Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1911 — DISTRIBUTING CHRISTMAS GIFTS. [ARTICLE]

DISTRIBUTING CHRISTMAS GIFTS.

Last year we bought a large, flat clothes basket, draped it with white cheese cloth,v and trimmed it with holly, and then filled it with our Christmas packages for the family. We went into the room one at a time and deposited our gifts, and when the pile was completed, spread a large sheet of holly crepe paper on top.. We sat around the dining room table with the basket in the center; and the youngest member of the family took the gifts from the basket. Only one package was presented at a time and the recipient opened it and all saw and admired It before passing on to the next. We had original verses and apt quotations written on many of the bundles which the distributor read aloud and all enjoyed the fun. —Housekeeper.