INSTEAD OF A CHRISTMAS TREE
Instead of a Christmas Tree ONE family who were over the stocking hanging age decided last Christmas that they could not have a tree. The children were disappointed and feared a stupid day. An...
...The separate collections were then taken into different rooms of the house and hidden in such way that they could not be found without considerable searching...
...The girl divided them into groups, having one gift for each member of the family included in a given lot...
...On Christmas day a small boy of the family dressed in the costume of a Christmas herald of Elizabethan days went through the house ever> hour during the day blowing a trumpet and proclaiming that a Christmas hunt would be held in a certain room...
...As the family was a large one, ttu excitement was prolonged well into the evening, and all voted it a much more interesting way of giving presents than to have them all in the morning stockings or hung on the Christmas tree...
...An ingenious sister solved the problem of gift giving in a somewhat novel way...
...The family had a merry time until all the gifts were found and opened and enjoyed them in a leisurely way until the next visit of the herald an hour later...
...She asked all the members of the family to wrap their gifts for each other into neat packages, direct them plainly and leave them in the library on Christmas eve...
...No one was told what was to be done with the packages, and each member was sworn to secrecy, so that she did not know that the others' presents were to go into the library also...
Vol. 6 • December 1914 • No. 46
