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HE BUYS HIS PRESENTS
The Great Xmas Problem Solved
A MAN’S WAY
(By O. T. H.)
I AM one of the Christmas shoppers that the shops do not like. I do my Christmas shopping late to avoid the rush of those who do it early because they think they’ll avoid the rush of those who do it late.
But, then, of course, I have a little idiosyncrasy that counterbalances that. I write down suggestions on the backs of envelopes, so that I can buy everything without a hitch. I put alongside the entries where I am going to buy them, and the prices I am going to pay. And then I lose the envelopes, and my Christmas shopping’s done.
Today, though, I remembered that I had borrowed a handkerchief from a girl, and that at the time I had decided to give her a really good one back for Christmas. I went into a
