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CHRISTMAS GIFTSI he Value of Even a Letter as a RemembranceTo the Folks at home.j. ^ ^ r^ _____ I+ N CHOOSING YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFTS try+ and do so with some regard to the needs of$ those for whom they are intended.+ I he shops are full of pretty trifles, and It++++possible to please everybody from grandmamma down to the littlest baby.Do not be discouraged if the amount you can afford to expend is of the smallest.Dispatch each little gift with a loving sentiment, and it is sure to be welcomed and appreciated.Those who love you will love your gift, no matter how small it may be.So don’t feei unhappy because the gifts seem cheap to you. It would be v«*ry nice to have a full pocket as well as a full heart; but if you can't have both be satisfied with the latter, for it is belter of the two.Some of you at this glad Christmas tide are far from home. Perhaps you can't afford to go home, and perhaps you can't even afford to send home any gifts.But there is one thing you can all afford to do, and that is to write a Christmas letter.It isn’t aiwavs easy to keep up the home correspondence.At the end of a long day's work one is too tired to do anything but tumole into bedAnd on Sunday—well, the day is over before it seemshalf begun.So between one thing and another we get into shockinglycareless habits regarding letter-writing.But the oeople at horns never forget the absent ones, andevery day brings with it the hope of a letter from the son ordaughter.There is never a day o( the year that your mother does not breath a blessing for your welfare.She will value a loving, cheerful letter from you just as highly as though it were a present.( Don't forget to make the letter as loving as possible.Let her see that you think of her and love her and ap predate all that she has done for you.Tell her what you are aoing, how you are getting on. how you would love to be with her-Write so that she will receive the letter Christmas Day.You know the beautiful thing about Christmas is not the actual gift, but the kind feeling that prompts the desire to give. That same spirit can inspire vou to write a beautiful letter. Don't feel that the gift of a Christmas letter is not worth while.Itis very much worth while.After you have written to your family you may think of some lonely man or woman to whom a Christmas letter would be a great joy.Just the knowledge that some one thought of them at this happy season of the year would cheer them.Write all the Christmas letters you can afford to.Every one of them will give a thrill of happiness to some one
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The Twice A Week Herald
Amarillo, Texas, US
Fri, Dec 22, 1905
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