Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1914 — Christmas Temptations. [ARTICLE]

Christmas Temptations.

“I don’t know how it is,” sighed Mrs. Wescott to her husband, “1 start out to do my Christmas shopping full of generous impulses, and lose them by the way. “Last year ,1 bought the waist for sister all right, but when I got it home it was so pretty and just the color I love. As long as she didn’t know about it, I reasoned, there was no harm done. “Well, I kept the waist for myself, although I never told you, James; and as I couldn’t afford to buy her anything expensive after spending so much on the waist, I found a pretty stock collar, and sent that. “I really didn’t enjoy wearing the waist as much as I thought I should, and a few days after Christmas I just confessed the truth, and tpld her she could "have it. “The joke of it, was,” concluded Mrs. Wescott, “that she had done the same thing, only instead of sending me a stock collar, she had sent handkerchiefs."