SAGE COUNSEL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16365, 2 March 1921, Page 3

SAGE COUNSEL.

(By

WALT MASON.)

The Christmas season conies apace,, j when smiles will hang from, every face. ! The Christmas spirit, for a time, will I make our lives a thing sublime. Alas, beshrew tne. and dodgast! The Christmas spirit does not last! A day or two it warms our hearts, then straightway shrivels and departs : why doe.s it chase itself so soon, and leave our lives all out of tune? It is because we cat too much of turkey, pudding, pies and such ; the < hristnias spirit cannot dwell where people with dyspepsia yell. The Christmas morning finds us calm ; the season, like a soothing balm, has healed the troubles and the cares that man through weary workdays bears- AY© look with kind and loving eyes upon our smiling fellow guys: we send some peanuts to the poor, and think the spirit will endure. And then we eat a gorgeous meal, including turkeys, ducks and veal, and pies* the kind that mother made and doughnuts, cakes and marmalade. At night our burdened innards balk, and through long hours the floor we walk: and in the morning, cold and grey -the morning after Christmas Day —we. groaning. leave the sleepless berth, and care no hoot for peace on earth. And now- 1 spring some, good advice, which, followed up, will cut much ice. Eat humble grub on Christmas Day, and give the gorgeous things away.