Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1884 — The “Green Christmas” Fallacy. [ARTICLE]

The “Green Christmas” Fallacy.

An old proverb says that a “preen Christmas makes a fat chmAhyard, ” and as mpst people accept a proverb as if it were undisputably true, it shoeld be said that there is no truth whatever in' this peculiar string. No warrant is found for it in statistics, and the very fact that people whose health are below the average nre advised by physicians to seek a mild climate in winter, should show others that when the winter holidays are mild and pleasant they should not lie- oppressed with any unusual dread of impending death. It is much more likely that old ladies who dwell in a world of proverbs will pome to grief than that the undertakers will have any special Reason to rejoice.— MedioalJournal. SisfEjuTV is an openness of heart; *tis found in a very few people, and that which we seo commonly is not it, but a subtle disemulation to gain the eonCxlence of others.— Charrtm. Somkbodv who writes more truthfully than i>oetieaily, says: “An angel wifhrat money is not thought so ranch of 'ijow-a-days os a devil with a bagf&l of guineas.” The old question among ladies of what to wear is varied with questions of what not .■