Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone--if still alive.

The approach of Christmas brings harassment and dread to many excellent people.

They have to buy a cart-load of presents, and they never know what to buy to hit the various tastes; they put in three weeks of hard and anxious work, and when Christmas morning comes they are so dissatisfied with the result, and so disappointed that they want to sit down and cry.

Then they give thanks that Christmas comes but once a year.

The observance of Thanksgiving Day--as a function--has become general of late years.