Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1915 — Holly Scratches [ARTICLE]

Holly Scratches

By HARVEY PEAKE

NEVER looks gift in the cost mark. • ’ All that glitters is not diamonds. Mistletoe makes the heart grow fonder. The gift deferred maketh the heart sick. Belief in Santa Clans is the best policy. It is a wise merchant who knows his own>goods when they are brought back for exchange. To give hideous gifts is human, to forgive impossible. Gifts make the man, the want of them the fellow. Ono Christmas bargain makes the whole of womankind spin. Christmas bills are stubborn things. Santa Claus is not as red as he ia pointed. in haste and repent at Uneasy lies the head that's trying to make twenty dollars buy forty gifts. • •» And thereby hangs a stocking. Every Christmas tree must stand on its own bottom. Gifts are seldom what they seem.