Life — December 25, 1902 — page 55: what you’re looking at

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Shopper No. 2: GOT ANY MORE OP THYSE VASES? SEND ME UP Two DOZEN OP ‘EM RIGHT AWAY. ALL RIGHT; Shopper No.3: ARK THOSE FIVE HUNDRED PIECES OF PLATE Mann! hild in his arms, and kissing her be- neath the mistletoe. This is very nice, and just what the public craves, But the next year he must make a fresh combination. Two fair-haired children creep down a broad stairway in their trailing nightgowns, while in the hall below the handsome officer kisses a pretty young girl beneath the mistletoe. Very nice again. Always a popular grouping. A third combination shows us the handsome officer lifting the fair-haired child so that she can hold a sprig of mistletoe over the young girl's unconscious head, the nature of the jest being made ap- parent by the beaming faces of the spectators. Next Christmas three fair- haired children roguishly drag a grand- D FOR ME YET? father or great-grandunclo beneath the mistletoe, that he may be ardently embraced by a bevy of pretty young girls. Next—a bashful schoolboy, in correct Eton costume, proffers a kiss to the original fair-haired little girl, who, doll-in-arms, resigns herself sweetly to the sitna- tion. Next—but pity the artist, as well as ourselves. How must he regard mistletoe, and the Christmas that comes but once a year? Our an- cestors loved the day. But then the blessed bareness of their lot ! Agnes Repplier. Shopper No. kt SEND ME UP TWO TONS OF ae. SORTED SILVERWARE AND A PECK OF DIAMO! CUNISTMAS PRESENTS. NDS FOR comicbooks.com