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WHEN IT COMES. Tfc was a merry Christmas. All giftgiving was regulated. No one gave anything to anybody unless ho wanted to. No one received anything from anybody unless ho deserved it. All undesirable gifts were abolished. Everybody received just what he or she liked, and from just tho person he or she liked to receive it from. There was no swapping, no exchangOift hooks were forbidden. Shopping tours became unnecessary. Children were delighted with the toys they got. and saw no reason to cry for the toys of other children. Husbands made no complaint about the them, and wives were agreeably surprised by the size of the cheques their husbands lavished upon them. The lied the servants. .Landlords declared a month's free rent for all tenants- Janitors gave them—the tenants—their blessing- and positively declined to be rewarded for doing so. It. was indeed a merry Christmas. The nations declared aJI wars off. and all international debts cancelled. The lion and the lamb lay down together. Peace was on the earth and good-will was in the hearts of men.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17223, 14 December 1923, Page 7 (Supplement)
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