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Read Evelyn Wren’s Story on a Visit to Poor Homes Made Happy by the Generosity of Atlantans
GEORGIAN’S STOCKING FUND MAKES CHRISTMAS MERRY FOR HUNDREDS
Youngsters of SI um s
Now Certain Jolly
Old Saint Nick Can
Find His Way Any-
w h e r e---S a u a 1 i d
Hom e s Scenes of
Yuletide Revelry.
Continued From Pape One.
real Christmas to those who had re
ceived them.
They had made Santa Claus real t
the littie one- of the poor; had revived
their faith in the good fat saint who
doesn't know the dlfferen<> between
Peachtree and Peters street--; they had
meant at least ni- day of sunshine inti
year of daikness. Most of the older
children knew win m e the presents had
come, and spoke of it, shyly, but the
little fellows thought only of Santa
Cans, and explained wisely to each
other how he could find his way any
where and no matter how often any
body’s molhet moved into another
house
At tie very first home I visited a lii-
v tbo won . n. as a bird,
opened the door to me. She held a
baby tn her arms, and the baby was
trying hard to shallow a rattb- twii<
as big as ils insebud of a mouth. I ex
plained mv errand, and the moth- i gave
me a smile.
“Come in if you like." site aid. "You
must exetoe tppea rances. The chil
dren iia'.en’l given me a chance to
st night* n -i| yet. and 1 wasn’t expect
ing any i-o<i'. ’’
Miserable Little Hovel.
■Straight! n up! ” she 1 ad said. There
was miserably little to s'raighten in a
Im nr like tills! A bed with insufficient
covering. a pallet on the Hour without a
pillow or a mattress, a broken-ligged
stove, a rickety table, a lie; nailed to
tn<- wall for a cupboard. a oeking chair
so loose-joint-d that I: threatened .>
tumble down, a wood box tilled with
rotten pickings from the lumber yard
close by
And the family of four lived in this
room, i hovel you wouldn't have housed
your collie in. But what is one to do
with three children to feed and one of
them a baby in arms and your man
killed In the railroad yards'? One is
lucky to find the bit of washing or
scrubbing which will pay the rent and
buy enough to eat. such as It is.
I bad expected to hear a burst of
childish laughtei as the door was
opened, the sound of mere* voices as
the children frolicked with their toys
The quiet surprised me But as the
mother stepped aside I saw the two
elder children. They were sitting on
the floor, close by the stove, silently In
specting the most wonderful, the most
delightful of all the gifts. The toy en
gine and the drum lay In the comer,
the oranges waited on the shelf until
Inter in the day.
Oh, Such Wa'm Clothes!
Willie and Annie were running their
little hands over the soft smoothness of
the new underwear Santa Claus had
brought, feeling the texture of the
stockings, thrusting thilr feet proudly
into the whole new shoe- nice enough
even to wear to school If Annie didn’t
have to care sot the baby and Willie
wasn’t trying to find a job.
These children wore glad to have
their toys. Oh, yes, very glad. Later
on they would set the engine going and
bint flu drum and Anniy would hug
hi r new doll close in her arms and
pick out the very grandest name fur
h< r
Rut just now they were too happy
over big things like underwear and
shoes, and the meat and vegetables
their mother had bought. They were
going to have a real Christmas dinner,
with plenty for everybody, because
Santa Claus had brought mother atwo
dollar bill and told her to spend It on
•something for Christmas.
Homes Quietly Happy,
Most of the homes were like that,
quietly happy on Christmas morning.
There were children In some of those
homes who had never learned to play;
to whom the language of childhood was
unknown: to whom toys had small ap
peal. They were tiny old men and
women, these children of thi side
streets, with cares and troubles Which
had driven out the love of fun and
laughter and left only tile thought of
how to keep warm and have enough to
eat.
I wis glad that all the motley hadn’t
gone for toys, though the toys coat so
little in proportion to the fun they
gave the youngest of the children. That
part of the fund expended for warm
clothing and shoes and the bit of
money given the mothers went fur
ther. 1 believe than any such amount
ever w ent before.
" Fhe trongs you gave us made this
the first real Christmas I have known
since my husband died," said one
woman as I left her door. “I re
ceived your card telling me there were
some toys for my children at your of
fice. It made me bitter for a moment.
God knows. I wanted my babies to have
a toy or two for Christmas. 1 had
planned to spend a penny or perhaps a
nickel for some little thing for them—
just a stick of candy or an apple may
be.
But when I thought of all that
money in th. fund going sot toy s, when
1 hadn’t a lump of coal in the house,
wi.i-n my cables were shivering for lack
of clothing, when I knew their Christ
mas dinner- would be bread and a bit
of the cheapest scrap meat the butcher
Would sell for a nickel —lt made mo
wonder whether your kind of people
could realize how mis, ruble poor some
of us are.
"But I ..ent for the toys, anyway, and
when I found the warm underwear and
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THIS CORNELL CO-ED
IS PERFECT WOMAN
lh^»—-
Miss Elsie Scheel, of Brooklyn, a student at Cornell, who.
according to the medical examiner, is a perfect woman.
Miss Elsie Scheel, of Brooklyn,
Called “Splendidly Rounded
Athlete.”
ITHACA. N. Y, Dec. 25.—The “per
fect woman’’ at Cornel! is Miss Elsie
Scheel, of Brooklyn, a special student
in the College of Agriculture, who plans
to grow vegetables on her father’s farm
on Long Island. According to Dr. Es
ther Parker, medical examiner of wom
en, Miss Scheel is the strongest of the
400 coeds at Cornell. "She Is a splen
didly rounded athlete," said Dr. Parker,
"and it would ba hard to find a person
with more perfect control over the
muscles.”
Some of Miss Scheel's measurements
are:
Weight, 171 pounds', height. 5 feet 7
inches; normal chest, 34 6 inches;
.vs Ist, 30.3 inches; hips, 40.4 inches.
Her hobby is motoring, and her fa
coilte game'ls basket ball. Her favor
ite food is beefsteak. She does not like
candy. She never has tasted tea or
coffee. She eats three meals in two
days-and as a rule goes without break
fast Miss Scheel never has been sick.
She is an ardent suffragist.
DIVORCEES WHO FLEE
TO WED ARE BARRED
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.. Dec. 25.—When
a person violates the statute prohibit
ing remarriage within one year after
divorce, the remarriage is not legal,
'even if performed in another state, and
one party to the illegal marriage has
no claim uppn the estate of the other.
This opinion has been handed down
by the supreme court. The court says
that in some states, where the remar
riage of only the party at fault is pro
hibited. the law has been construed as
penal and having no extra territorial
effect.
me to spend I was so happy I couldn’t
-ay a word. 1 reckon, maybe. I came
away without thanking you. But it
wasn’t because'l didn't feel thankful."
The Christmas fund has been distrib
uted. The children have been made
happy for a day, the mothers’ trials
have been lightened for a little while.
But tomorrow Christmas will be past,
the Christmas dinner eaten, the Chrlst
nas coal burned in the broken stove.
The rent collector will be calling just
the same as usual this week, the grocer
will be just as insistent on seeing the
money before he can feed his custom-
Keep Up the Good Work.
You folk who gave to the Empty
Stocking Fund did a kind and gracious
thing, and 1 hope your Christmas is the
happier for the thought of it. But.
ladle- and gentlemen, the poor are still
there, and still are poor. Your three
meals a day will continue Just the same
when Christmas Is over; your beds will
be just as warm, your children just as
well < lad. What of the children you
mace happy for one day—one day of
three hundred and sixty-five?
If you had seen these children of the
poor as 1 have seen them, if you had
talked with the long line of mothers
who came through the rain of Monday
and under the sunshine of yesterday to
carry home the bundles, you would feel
a sense of personal responsibility, be
haunted by the idea that a little of the
money you waste would go so far to
ward buy ing comfort for these others
whose fortunes led them down while
yours took you unward.
The Georgian can not handle your
charities all the year round. It has
done what it could to help you help
others for this one day. Rut the Asso
ciated Charities is always there, always
searching out these homes of the mis
erable. doing what it can to help pro
vi-t* for present and future. It could
do more If it had more funds, more
subscribers to Its treasury. more
friends who would give work to those
oat of a Job. Tn re Is your opportunity
to make Christmas last all the year
round. Think It over.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1912.
LAO ■ NEYEB
SMILED J SUICIDE
Father Not Surprised, as Boy
Had Habitual Grouch,
He Declares.
NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Louis Farentino,
16 years old, whose father said he never
had been known to smile, shot himself in
the head in Central park and died in
Bellevue hospital a few hours later.
The boy left his home at 83 Colyer st.,
Brooklyn. In the morning and as he
seldom gave a pleasant reply to questions,
according to his father, no one asked him
where he was going Policeman Loh
meyer heard jx shot near the Arsenal, in
Central park, and found Farentino uncon
scious on a bench with a pistol beside him.
Corinto Farentino. father of the boy,
was called, his name having been found
in papers in the lad's pocket, and he
reached Bellevue hospital soon after his
son died.
“I am not surprised." he said. “The
boy had a habitual grouch. He never saw
anything pleasant in life. No one ever
saw him smile. We tried everything for
years to cheer him up, but it was useless.
We took him to the funniest farce come
dies and he would sit through them with
a frown and the corners of bls mouth
down.
“He had no reason to kill himself ex
cept he was naturally disgusted with life
and the world. He never saw anything
pleasant In any one or anything He could
find fault with anything. I have tried
thousands of ways and thousands of times
to cheer him up, and make him smile, but
it was useless."
ATLANTA WINS FAVOR OF
CUBAN CONSULAR AGENT
Atlanta’s hospitality impressed Cesar
A. Barrancas, Cuban consular agent,
and representative of the Cuban gov
ernment in the recent Panama Canal
Conference held here. Walter B. Coop
er, secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce, received today from Mr. Bar
rancas. in Washington, a letter ex
pressive of the fact that in his opin
ion much good will be derived from the
conference; also that Atlanta's method
of treating the visitors was great.
BIG LUMBER MILL. IDLE
TWO YEARS, STARTS UP
RAMSAY, LA., Dec. 25 After two
years idlenss, the big mill at Ramsay
La., acquired by the St. Tammany
Lumber Manufacturing Company, has
started up. and will, it is said, be op
erated continuously after next week,
when the work of pushing six miles of
railroad through the timbered wilder
ness will commence in earnest.
Between 200 and 300 men will be em
ployed in the mill. «
MANY CHICAGO POLICE
WITH USELESS PISTOLS
CHICAGO. Dee. 25.—With Chicago’s
crime wave rising higher, Chief of Po
lice McWeeny lias discovered the as
tounding fact that 203 policemen are
pacing beats without useful revolvers.
The chief found that revolvers of
these policemen failed to explode car
tridges tn practice. He issued a strin
gent order that every policeman get a
serviceable ifeapon.
FIFTY-FIVE PIANOS SOLD
FOR 47 1-2 CENTS APIECE
NEW YORK. Dec. 25.—Fifty-five
pianos were sold at 47 1-2 cents apiece
at an auction sale in the rooms of the
Edlsonia Company, at Newark. N. J
Starting with a bld of 25 cents, the
price finally reached the high water
murk and the lot went at that rate.
The pianos were second-hand ones that
had bten traded in for new ones.
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YULETIDE SPIRIT
INHOSPITALS
AND JAILS
Prisoners and Invalids Given
Special Christmas Dinners
and Holiday Privileges.
Surpassing any recent year, the'
Christmas spirit, having as its slogan
"Peace on earth, good will toward men,”
today prevails in every Federal, state,
county, city and private penal and
charitable institution in Atlanta.
Money has been freely spent to add
to the celebration of the day in a
kindly, human and sympathetic man
ner. Today every inmate of the Fed
eral prison, the county jail, the county
convict camps, the county almshouse
and other similar institutions will be
made to feel the significance of a true
Christmas celebration.
Santa Claus also did not forget the
twenty little sufferers in the children’s
ward at the Grady hospital. Due to the
efforts of Mrs. Gordon Kiser and Mrs.
John M. Hill, assisted by Dr. W. B.
Summerall, the superintendent, the lit
tle crippled, maimed and ill were given
a Christmas tree, heavily laden with
gifts. They were made to feel that
Santa Claus could find them as easily
in the big municipal hospital as well
as in their own homes.
The several hundred convicts em
ployed in the four county convict camps
will spend the day in rest. At each
camp there will be a barbecue dinner
at 1 o’clock. Many kinds of fruits and
nuts also will be provided.
At the Tower 185 prisoners will pass
the day in reading, hearing music and
as guests of Sheriff Mangum and
Jailer Golden at a big chicken dinner.
Presents will be distributed to the pris
oners at 9:30 o'clock this morning by
Mrs. M. L. Culver Smith, assistant
worker in the Atlanta Baptist associa
tion.
An extended musical program has
been arranged for the dinner hour at
the Federal prison. A big turkey din
ner, with many savory side dishes,
will await the marching of the pris
oners into the dining hall at 1 o’clock.
The dining room has been decorated
with holly wreaths. Christmas bells and
green bunting.
The almshouse patients have been
remembered, too. Religious services,
with music, will be held this morning,
and the Christmas dinner will be
spread at 1 o’clock.
Patients and nurses at the Atlanta
hospital will have a Christmas dinner,
and will receive gifts in the forenoon.
CURIOSITY KILLED A CAT,
BUT MARY IS NOT A CAT
HAMMOND. IND., Dec. 25.—Within
a month three-year-old Mary Susan
McLaughlin, of Portland, has battled
with death four times successfully, and
all because the chilli’s curiosity is un
controllable. First, she took carbolic
acid, burning her throat horribly, and
recovered. Then she drank a saucerful
of fly poison and neaily died. She was
just able to be around again when sho
ate a boxful of tablets intended to be
taken only one at a time. Now she has
been operated upon for the removal of
a pin which lodged in her windpipe.
ASKS $25,000 DAMAGES
FOR BREACH OF PROMISE
BALTIMORE, Dec. 25.—The alleged
failure of Winfield B. Harward, it
member of a prominent Harford county
family, to keep his promise to marry
Miss Cynthia Maria Ryan. 1427 Mi -
Culloh street, is the basis for the suit
for $25,000 which Miss Ryan filed
against him in the circuit court.
Miss R'-an claims that Harward pro
posed to her In June. 1911, and that on
the strength of his proposal she gave
up a profitable business Harward’s
family is supposed to be wealthy.
THIS GOVERNOR WOULD
ABOLISH STATE SENATE
PHOENIX. ARIZ.. Dev. 25. -Govern
or Hunt Is soon to convene a special
session of the legislature at which the
abolition of the state senate will be
taken under advisement.
The governor believes that this body
makes for the complication of legisla
tion. forecasting the day when it will be
a thing of the past throughout the
country.
FOND OF FACTS? THEN
YOU ARE A ZOOPHILE!
CHICAGO. ILL., Dec. 25.-Are you al
' zoophile'? ' You are If you fill your I
house with stray cats and let the fam- I
ily Sleep In the clothes closets and on
the book shelves.
LIST OFCONTRIBUTIONS
TO CHRISTMAS FUND
Following is the complete list of the
contributions to The Georgian’s Christ
mas fund for the poor:
Georgian's concert at Grand .. 226.49
Gus Edwards’ Girls and Boys. . $ 127.91
W. R. Hearst 100.00
J. M. Slaton 25.00
F. J. Paxon 25.00
R. F. Maddox 25.00
Forrest Adair 25.00
J. W. English 25.00
John E. Murphy 25.00
W. T. Gentry 25.00
George Adair 25.00
Joel Hurt 25.00
W. H. Glenn . ... 25.00
E. H. Inman- 25.00
Harold S. Holmes 25.00
A Friend 25.00
J. B. Cleveland 25.00
Mrs. J. B. Whitehead *. . 25.00
George M. McKenzie 25.00
Lindsey Hopkins 25.00
F. L. Seely 25.00
H. C. Worthen 15.00
Girls in corset department of
Rich's store 10.00
Scherer Lunch 10.00
W. L. Peel 10.00
James Lynch 10.00
John W. Grant 10.00
Henry Durand 10.00
Mrs. J. M. Slaton 10.00
Mrs. E, L, Connally 10.00
Oscar Elsas ' ... 10.00
Charles C. Jones 10.00
Carlos Mason 10.00
A. G, Rhodes & Son 10.00
Mrs. Joseph M. Brown 10.00
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kiser . . . 10.00
Morris Brandon 10.00
Preston Arkwright 10.00
Ira Steiner 10.00
Mrs. Santa 10.00
Inman Park Girls club 10.00
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Wilson . .. 10.00
Postoffice clerks 9.40
R. J. Guinn 5.00
E. P. Ansley 5.00
E. C. Peters 5.00
M. L, Thrower 5.00
S. B. Turman ... 5.00
Mrs. Robert Maddox , 5.0 C
I. H. Oppenheim 5.00
Joseph A. Willingham 5.00
Mrs. J. M. High 5.00
Mrs. George McKenzie 5.00
Mrs. P. H. Alston. , 5.00
M. H. Wilensky 5.00
A Friend 5.00
J. K. Ottley 5.00
J. S. Akers .... 5.00
Clifford L. Anderson . 5.00
Dr. E. G. Ballenger 5.00
Chief J. L. Beavers 5.00
Marion Jackson 5,00
A Friend ... 5.00
Dr. George Brown 5.00
J. P. Allen ... 5.00
Robert L. Cooney 5.00
Reuben R. Arnold 5.00
Marion Cobb Bryan and Flor-
ence Jackson Bryan, Jr. . . 5.00
Charles J. Haden 5.00
Howard Pattillo 5.00
J. K. Ottley 5.00
Daniel W. Rountree p.OO
J. K. Orr ." 5.00
Charles C. Thorn 5.00
W. E. Chapin ... 5.00
C. E. Sciple 5.00
Spencer Wallace Boyd 5.00
J. B. Hockaday 5.00
Poole & McCollough 5.00
Joseph T. Orme 5.00
James G. Woodward 5.00
Thomas C. Biggs (Viele Mo-
tor Company) 5.00
Charles A. Smith 5.00
George 8. Obear ... 5.00
Robert T. Small 5.00
C. G. Marshall 5.00
C. D. Bidwell 5.00
Willis Ragan 5.00
Arnold Broyles 5.00
B. Lee Crew 5.00
Mrs. B. C. Cochran 5.00 j
Hugh Richardson 5.00
J. J. Disosway 5.00 j
Mrs. Frank Pearson 5.00
Mrs. S. F. Jackson 5.00
Mrs. Frances D. Shaw ... ... 5.0 C
Lyrra Smith 5.00 :
J. J. Spalding 5.00
Arthur T. Smart 5.00 -
Class No. 2, Presbyte"ian Sun-
day school Union Point . . . . 5.00
Order of Owls 5.00
A Friend ■ ■ ■ t 5.00
E, M. Arnold 5.00
Shelby Smith 2.50 [
A, D. Williams 2.50'
A Friend ... 2.00
Eugene R. Black 2.00'
Dr. T. B. Hinman 2.00
Mrs. W. S. Elkin . 2.00
Olive and Frances Marion ... 2.00
Anonymous 2.00
M. H. Liebman 2.00
Edith Hall . .. 2.00
R. S. Wessels 2.00
A Friend 2.50
A Friend of the Kiddies 2.50
Mrs. L. A. Tiller 2.50
In Memory of a Boy . 2.00
M. B. Young 2.00
Julian V. Boehm 2.00
L. P. Nash 2.00
Two Believers in Santa 2.00
Jean and Ethel Cantrell 2.00
Cash . 2.00
Mrs. Cammack 2.00
Sam Norton 2.00
J. T. Kirkpatrick 2.00
Frederic L. Beers, Jr 2.00
In Memory of a Baby 2.0 C
Three Kids 1.50
( Wiley Jones 1.50
First Universalist S. S 1.34
Captain Brick . . . I.OC
I W. J. Speer . . 1.00
I Mrs. M. I. Randolph I.OC
I T. D. S 1.00
I j Walter J. Wood . 1.00
> Margie Stokes, Mystic, Ga. . 1.00
I Hugh Latimer Cardoza. Jr. ... 1.00
I Mrs. Bolling Jones 1.00
I H. H. Cabaniss 1.00
) Helen Lucile Dickson 1.00
I Meyer Regenstein 1.00
I Mrs. A. E. Thornton 1.00
I J. W. Maddox 1.00
I Hortense Adams, Jr 1.00
) Albert S. Adams 1.00
j Constance Adams 1.00
I A Friend ... 1.00
I Miss Lucile LaHatte 1.00
I Mary S. Connally 1.00
I Margaret Massengale 1.00
I A Friend I.OQ
Miss Crush 1.00
I A Friend I,QO
) Miss Emilie Liebman . 1.00
l Mayor Winn 1.00
> A Friend 1.00
I Dr. A. H. Van Dyke 1.00
I J. E. McClelland 1.00
) J. R. Nutting <I.OO
I I. N. Ragsdale 1.00
; A. J. Johnson I.QQ
I J. J. Greer 1.00
l Dr. C. J. Vaughan 1.00
I Albert D. Thomson 1.00
I D. J. Baker . ..- 1.00
I C. W. Smith 1.00
I Roy Abernathy 1.00
I Claude C. Mason 1.00
I C. D. Knight I.OC
l F. J. Spratling i_oo
I Jesse M. Wood . 1.00
i In Memory of a Little Boy ... 1.00
i J. H. Andrews 1.00
I Aldine Chambers 1.00
i S. A. Wardlaw 1.00
i John S. Candler 1.00
I J. D. Sisson 1.00
I W. G. Humphrey 1.00
; Orville H. Hall i.QO
i Dr, A. H. Baskin 1.00
I J. E. Warren 1,00
I George H. Boynton I.GC
I W. D. Ellies, Jr i.qc
, Ormond Massengale 1.00
I St. Elmo Massengale, Jr 1.00
l Friend E 1.00
, Julia Lowry Meador 1.00
l A Friend I.QO
! Judge Broyles 1.00
I Chessie Lagomarsino, Jr IJJC
! In Memory of a Little Niece . . I.DC
! W. A. Bowman i.qc
! J. F. Kneisel i.QO
! John D. Dameron, Jr i.qq
t Amelia Speer i.QO
! George A. Speer i.QO
, “Os Kors e ” 1.00
Emily Longino I.QC
, A Friend i’ oo
! Billie and Charlie Leas 1.00
| Emily Malone i.QO
! A Friend I.QC
, Cash 1.25
i A. S. Edwards 1.00
! Cuff Edwards 1.00
! James Gimm ... .55
J. B. Ran-.ey .50
! Henry L. Claughton .50
. A Friend .
J B. J. Covington . .50
Miss May Baker .50
1 Merryman Cross .25
I Alfred Acree .25
John Hopkins .25
I I Malcolm, Jr., and Emily Jones,
Willacoochee, Ga .25
1 ! Ernest M. Daniel.. Athens .... .14
I i In Memory of Martha Story ... .50
I I Little “Os Korse” .. .53
1-
I Total $1,568.99
,! Montag Bros., large box of beautiful
I toys.
D. N. McCullough, box Indian River or*
I anges.
I i Bell Bros., barrel of apples.
([Broyles' Store, box of oranges.
i Lowry Fruit and Produce Company, 25
I pounds nuts.
i Crew L. Wood, overcoat.
Ida Bee, Rosalie Bee and Edwa.d H.
Bee. Jr., toys and clothes.
BRONCHIAL
■ ■ . 1 • ' -‘A -i
COUGHS
I result from inflammation 1
■ of the delicate bronchial I
■ tubes which clog with |
I mucus —pneumonia easily I
E follows.
SCOTTS EMULSION work* I
H wonders in overcoming acute I
V bronchitis; it stops the COUgh, I
■ checks the inflammation, and r
f its curative, strengthening I
E food-value distributes ener- I
I gy and power throughout I
S the body.
■ Insist on SCO/ I'S for Bronchitis. I
Scott & Bf'Wne. Bloomfield, N.J. 12-80 I
GHRISHS BEIL
WOftKMYATTHE
POSTOFFICE
■
! Mail Clerks and Carriers See
Little of Santa Claus in the
Final Grand Rush.
Two hundreii ' mail clerks and carriers
dreamed of full stockings last night, thev
said at the iiestoffice this morning B ut
the stockings were packed with 200 000
letters and packages, and the dream was
a reminder that the job of distributing
the mail of Christmas—which is some
mall- must be accomplished, holiday O r
no.
So it wasn’t Santa Claus at all that
came to them lust night, but a bad dream
Santa Claus and the spirit of Christmas
dodged the postal workers. They awoka
to a realization of the quarter of a mil
lion letters and cijrds and bundles to b<>
delivered. So they arose and proceeded
to get or their jobs. It may be that they
didn't like it—but they’re just public
servants.
There was an early morning mail de
livery today, when the carriers ami their
helpers, laden- with a load like that of old
Atlas, staggered about in an effort to
distribute the mail that came for Atlanta
folks last night.
Extra Men Hardest Hit.
The bunch at the postoffice who prob
ably least liked the workaday Christmas
were those who had signed up. In a setni
blind way, as extra clerks, to help out
In the holiday rush, and to make a lit
tle pin money, or holiday spending fund.
To work on Christmas, the one holiday
of the year, for 30 cents an hour, to know
chat there is no reward for your industry
but the 30 cents, that your job end's
Christmas night or the next day—how
would you like to be a holiday clerk’?
Over their heads they realized the of
fices were quiet, and nobody was working
except an isolated person here and there
who came down to pen a few lines, or
to catch up With the records, or to pre
side over the court dockets for a little
while.
Outside, they knew the streets w<r* :
still with the holiday .dullness. And afte
the little space during which the win
dows were open for holiday delivery, the
postoffice itself was quiet. But ft was
Christmas, and the mail clerks hr,; t.
work. Orticfally. the crime of delaying
the delivery of that card trom Keokuk i.-
as.heinous as malfeasance in office, what
ever that constitutes.
No Cinch Running Postoffice.
Postmaster McKee and his executive
foTce were on the job during the time
oi the early morning rush, when the
windows were open to the public, liui.
ning a postoffice, Air. McKee has foun<
out this week, is a job that requires the
combined -alenis of a floor walker a
t>asebaJl, umpire and a Scotland Yard de
tective. with the patience of Job and the
tem’perament of the meekest
thrown in.
It may be that be has found out s
tact which is true, that the distribute :
01 the mail is a thing about which the
general public knows less, and about a
tangle in which they kick the hardest'
A man s house is his castle; his mail h
more, being his personal honor, his fam
ily Skeleton, his belief in the past and his
hope for the future. Which every post
office official knows, and will tel] you
upon inquiry, the knowledge having been
gleaned by them from the school of ex
perience.
I he branch stations had no such stren
uous day as did the main office. Only
«»ne delivery was made in the residential
section, although the carriers downtown
went- about twice among the office build
ings and stores.
SIMILARITY OFIIAMES
EMBARRASSES DR. BROWN
A Story appeared in The Georgian 1
October 17. last, detailing the allega
tions in a divorce suit filed at that time
by one C.’ N. Brown. The impression
has become prevalent in certain parts
of the state that the plaintiff was the
well known traveling optician, Dr. C. N
Brown. This impression is erroneous,
as Dr. Brown’s friends well know The
similarity of names has bten embarrass
ing to Dr. Brown and his friends wish
everyone to know that he was in no
way connected with the litigation.
■ (Advt.)
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Miss Robbie Gordone and Others
Little Emma Bunting
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"The Little Gray Lady."
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