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THE JUST-WHAT-I-WANT COLUMN 
---- Judy's Suggestions for Inexpensive Holiday Gifts --- 
if THERE on your list a difficult-to- 
place someone, whom you wish to 
remember at Christmas time, but to 
whom you do not wish to send a gift? 
If so, and on almost every list there is 
such.a person, the clever little Christ- 
mas cards which the book stores and 
gift shops are showing this year, will 
solve the problem for you. 
Quite the nicest of these cards are 
the so-called personal greeting cards, 
engraved with a holiday verse and, if 
you wish, your name. One very etf- 
fective card is buff with Elizabethan 
border and a cluster of gilt holly in 
one corner. ‘With every good wish 
for Christmas and the New Year” is 
the thought engraved on it. These 
are $2.20 a dozen with your name 
from your own engraved plate, and 
$1.20 a dozen without name. These 
prices include envelopes. 
One card that is jubilant with the 
spirit of the old-time Christmas has 
at the top a smart red coach and 
pair, and one can almost hear the 
tally-ho! ring out. The following 
lines are engraved beneath it: 
“A gay and blithesome Yule-tide 
With a good, old friend or two, 
A knowledge of the world wide, 
And the will to up and do, 
And comfort on your way attend 
This is the Christmas wish I send!” 
This style is $1.80 without your 
name, $2.80 with your name. 
Quite attractive is a little booklet 
made up in the new paper, the wil- 
low weave; a green border serves to 
make even prettier the gray center. 
A spray of holly and a quaint old 
lantern done in red and gold are in 
the middle of the cover and inside 1s 
engraved these lines: 
“Here's one big wish for happiness, 
Another one for wealth, 
At least a hundred for wisdom, 
And a thousand more for health.” 
This is a little more expensive than 
the others, costing $3.00 or $4.00 a 
dozen according to whether or not 
cne has one’s own name used. 
There is one disadvantage in buy- 
ing engraved cards; the smallest or- 
der that the shops will take must be 
for at least a dozen, and unless one’s 
list is long this may mean a lack “f 
variety that is displeasing to the care- 
There are many charm- 
ing cards, just as original, just as 
festive looking as their more expen- 
sive cousins although not engraved. 
At 25 cents each come the red bor- 
dered cards in their red-lined envel- 
opes, and these are as cheery as any 
in the shops this year. One of these 
is a simple little thing with the Eliza- 
bethan border and has the message, 
“Nothing much to send you, 
Nothing else to say, 
But to wish you Merry Christmas 
In the same old way.” 
Another has a group of curtseying 
maidens bearing garlands and the 
Yuletide wish, 
“At Christmas time old memories 
wake, 
So here’s a wish and a warm hand- 
shake, 
And a thought of you for old time's 
sake.” 
As low in price as five cents are 
some clever little cards that carry 
your kind thoughts just as far as the 
more costly ones. One is a tiny little 
white card mounted on brown with 
the following words: 
“°Tis said that good things come in 
the smallest packages, so I send my 
heartiest greetings and best wishes on 
this tiny card.” 
Beneath the bayberry dip and _hoily 
sprig on the larger, sepia card is a 
wish for a happy Christmas. 
. These are only a few of the many 
charming and inexpensive cards from 
which the early shopper may choose. 
There are all sizes, all styles to send 
tc all kinds of persons. 
For children’s gifts there are some 
new proof prints of Mother Goose 
illustrations by Frederick Richard- 
son; a series of these make a most 
attistic “frieze (for Vaenirsery, sand ya 
single one mounted is a gift a child 
will love. “Little Boy Blue,” “Bah, 
Pah Black Sheep,” and “The Little, 
Old Woman who Lived in the Shoe” 
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are some of the best. The prints are 
25 cents, and in white enameled 
frames are 50 cents each. 
For the last few years narcissus 
bulbs, daintily packed, have answer- 
ed the small gift question for many a 
woman, and this year she can buy 
daffodil or crocus bulbs in a copper 
jar for 50 cents. Pebbles and water 
added to these will make a tiny gar- 
den in any unoccupied corner. 
For “‘his” desk = (or for- hers)? a 
new mucilage moistener cannot fail 
to find a welcome. The bottle is cf 
ground glass, and is fitted with a 
sponge and a felt stopper. It comes 
suitably packed and with an original 
little card for 50 cents. 
After all, though, choosing a gift 
for milady is only selecting the choic- 
est blooms from a riotous garden; 
one must search long and _ patiently 
to find the remembrance that is just 
right for the man. Down with neck- 
ties and handkerchiefs and let us seek 
for something new! For the man 
who smokes comes a_ fascinating 
/foll man’ ashetray. <- They tray is 
green, and the man with his funny 
head (made of a golf ball) is array- 
ed in many colors. The head is quite 
expressive, as it may be moved from 
side to side. This costs $1.50.. There 
are any number of new cigarette 
holders and cigar humidors that may 
be as extravagant as one wishes them 
to be. Cigarette. cases in sterling 
silver or silver plate, and Io or 14 
karat gold are priced from $3.50 up- 
wards; and they may have allover 
patterns with or without a monogram 
spot, or they may be quite severe. 
For the poor, poor bachelor, who 
must sew on his own buttons is de- 
sioned the "Old Crone’. She hides 
under her skirts a large spool of 
heavy, black linen thread; in a bag 
that hangs by her side are needles 
and buttons; her head comes off and 
presto! there is the thimble. She 
costs but 50 cents. 
A most appropriate Christmas gift 
—send the BrEEzE to some far away 
friend or relative. Price, postpaid, 
Sovaxyear. 
Christmas Gifts 
Initi< 
land Embroidered Handkerchiefs 
Silk Hosiery and Kid Gloves 
Christmas Cards, Seals and Ribbons 
Children’s Sweaters, Caps and Scarfs. 
Rust Craft Novelties 
HARADEN & STONE 
Postoffice Building (Union St.) MANCHESTER 
