Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — Shoe or Stocking. [ARTICLE]

Shoe or Stocking.

Soife' little French-Cdnadian children were discussing a Very important matter with some of their Yankee neighbors from ‘‘over the line.” ■, ‘trie* French children are In the hgbit of putting their shoes on the hearth instead of hanging up their stockings, on the night before Christmas, and the little Vermonters naturally thought this a strange custom. “Any way," said one of thp Canadian girls, “shoes are a great deaf nicer thad stockings to get bottles of perfumery in; because if it breaks and spills it can't run out.” o •