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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1909)
r The Omaha Sunday Bee. roa au. tmz Ntws ths OMAHA BEE BEST IN Tiil WX3f run szttx CHRISTMAS VXCT3 I TO 111 SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. n J. "V J! Tl v.. VOL. XXXIX -NO. - OiLULV, SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 11. I'M. JJ4J V i,1 Jsiv 0& v4 a v J82L4 mm NSH VM !l . vn i if i i iiiii i l i n i ii i - m 1 U I II ' Early in the Season and Early in the Day Your Biggest Gift to the Workers Behind the Counters and On the Delivery Wagons HRISTMAS is almost at hand and the spirit of Yuletide cheer already here. One can feel it in the air can read it on the face of the passerby. Thoughts are turning to the selection of gifts each one to add to the cheer of the time. If only these thoughts could be converted into action. Now while the clerks have the time and spirit for courteous and smil ing service. It is to vour advantage to do .your Christmas shopping early. Your choice is better shop service is' better you are surer of satisfaction in every way. And still further back think of, the candy makers, toy makers and box makers, whose health destroying "overtime' 1 work follows the belated or ders of the late Christmas shopper. Think of this tumult keeping up until eleven o'clock Christmas eve. And then for another moment think that all of Make your shopping motto "Early in the season . this could be so easily av oided by a.Iittle thought and early in the day. Make this your gift, the most welcome one on earth, from the shopper to the worker. Just as surely as you do you will do your part toward banishing the cruelties of a time which should bring nothing but joy. Picture a moment the usual late Christmas rush If instead of thinking of selection the great pub- -in various shops, which has grown to such propor lic were buying now. tions in the last few years. Think of the seething crowds of nervous people irritable tired of body. Think of the workers girls with aching bodies and pale drawn faces paying tribute to the demand.- of a thoughtless people. Step a moment back of the scenes. Think of the shipping, the packing,' the wrapping and delivery forces working in feverish haste to the very limit of human endurance. How the Yuletide cheer would swell and grow, until every clerk every delivery boy in every store in the land woutd rise up and call the Christmas shop per "blessed." - Now is the time to do your shopping now hile the stocks are fresh and clean. Now while the stores are yet uncrowded and the 'air is pure. foresight on your part. Is the world, indeed, heartless and inhuman ? Is it only heedless ? Does each individual buyer imagine that his nec essity differs from all others and that he alone is justi fied in his late buying? Does one impulse of pity for the worn-out shop people visit a single breast ? We wonder also what the simple Workman of Nazareth, if He looked down here on things below, would think of the manner in which the most en lightened of nations celebrate His feast. Is it consist ent with the spirit of Christmas expressed in the words on artlr (Snub JtUtll ctarit lllnu