HINTS FOR CHRISTMAS.
Don't ask your child what he wants unless you intend to give it to him.
Though money m&kes the mare go it makes Santa Claus come."
Don't buy your best girl a present on the instalment plan, as she might gilt you before you had made all the payments.
Rub the price mark off the present unless it is an expensive one.
If you wish to surprise yonr girl never ask her what sho would like for Christmas.
When you have the Christmas tree up it doesn't mean that you have it fixed up. At Christmas time it is well enough to ape the English as far as the plum pudding is concerned.
Some persons never wish you A Merry Christmas unless they think they will get something for doing so.
Santa Olaus would never make a sohoolmaster. Whatever is good he put 3at the foot of the stocking.
If wa don't have baseball at Christmas we have the cricket on the hearth.
The bachelor who puts his thumb into the boardinp-bouse Christmas pie is apt to pall out a collar button. — Judge.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2078, 21 December 1893, Page 5
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