Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1907 — Opposing Christman Gifts. [ARTICLE]

Opposing Christman Gifts.

To make of the C)iri»tmas holiday a genuine day of joy without the “evil of gift giving” i* the aha of a crusade nowbegun by the Chicago Woman's Club, upon the suggestion of its president. Mrs. I. 8. Hlackweldor, and Mrs. Ellen M. Henderson, chairman of the reform committee. They s*y that the whole custom of giving at Christmas, witty the shopping mania, is pernicious and a symptom of degeneracy in .Queries ns.