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Our Best Greetings to You
Christmas! And the bells are clanging! Christmas! And the goose ishanging high and joy’s abroad! Christmas is the happy season! Thoughthe weather may be freezin’, human hearts are thawed! Here we seethe ancient codger sporting like an artful dodger with the laughingkids; here we see the haughty chappie smiling broadly and as happyas the katydids. Every one has shed his sorrow, dropped his burdentill tomorrow, dropped the world and care; Christmas is no time forsadness—all the world is full of gladness, each should have his share.
Therefore, if you deal in lumber, let your business rest and slumber,till the day is o’er; think no more of lath and plaster; frolic fastand frolic faster till you split the floor. Cast aside all thoughts oftimber; show the folks your legs are limber, and your soul unspoiled;show your heart has not been toughened, show your nature’s not beenroughened, by the years you’ve toiled. Let no thoughts of sash andsiding your attention be dividing on this day of grace; help to fillwith glee your shanty, till grandmother, sister, auntie, bless yourcheer-up face.
Christmas! When the reindeer travel, and Old Santa scratches gravel,making good his dates! Men who don’t get good and mellow when is duethat brave old fellow, surely are cheap skates. When the Christmasmusic’s rollin’, and the children’s socks are swollen, we should allbe young; young as when we watched and waited for those reindeer,rapid-gaited, by the night wind stung. We can be as young in spirit asthe kids, or pretty near it, if we only try, though our heads are grayand dusty and our joints are worn and rusty, and no longer spry. Thenwhen Christmas time is ended and we to our tasks have wended, we shallbear away something of the youth we captured when the whole world wasenraptured with its Christmas day.
THE CURTIS COMPANIES
CURTIS BROS. & CO.
CLINTON, IOWA
CURTIS & YALE CO.
WAUSAU, WIS.
PITTSBURGH, PA.
CURTIS SASH & DOOR CO.
SIOUX CITY, IOWA
CURTIS, TOWLE & PAINE CO.
LINCOLN, NEBR.
TOPEKA, KAN.
CURTIS-YALE-HOWARD CO.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
CURTIS, BOOTH & BENTLEY CO.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.
CURTIS DOOR & SASH CO.
CHICAGO, ILL.
CURTIS DETROIT CO.
DETROIT, MICH.
CURTIS DAYTON CO.
DAYTON, OHIO
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