New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-12-19

Hard times make soft hearts. If it were not 80
how empty life would be of happiness, and the i'm
Fortunate stomach of victualsl We remember
several years in which financial tightness and
Christmas came together. and also that the
phenomena developed by this conjunction were
always charming. There the poor for instance.
What % miserable world this would be with no
poor i'll Ii !-nothng but ono flat, monotonOus,
tircs0mc routine of prosperity! Everywhere vulgar
plethora! Everybody absurdly comfortable How
arc we TO experience the thrill of giving with
nobody to give toi How clothe the naked,
if there are no naked to clothcs How
feed the hungry. if there arc no hungry to feed.
Thusvc that under the benign influences OF the
season, the hard up and the helpless are transmog
Iied into public benefdctOrs. Your real paupcr is
the man vino can find nobody Who'll wants anything
or WHO will accept anything Moreover, what
credit is there i'll being generous in flush times
What is gift worth which implies selt-sacriice'
We understand that there is no lack of The
loyelicst of real diStress-widOws beautifully
needy, orphans just rs hungry az the most generous
man could desire, opportunities of charity Which
don't come every day! We are not talking to the
rich-wo expect them to give rs a matter of
cOursc-but to those who know very well
how every dollar comes into their peck
cts. Now is the time TO make your
spare cash. and even the cash which you cannot
very well spare. go great way. Next year there
may be no erasshoppcrs. How do you know that the
Millennium isnr close at hand that ready roasted
PIGS will not be running about the streets with
knives and forks stuck in their backs, squcaling
Come and eat me" Extraordinary natural phe-
nomcna constantly occurrue-is there a scien-
tifc character who can honestly lay his hand upon
his Nautical Almanac and assert that next Christ
mas it may not rain warm jackets and tidy flannel
pttticoatsi Now il your timc Twelve months
hence the jolly beggMs may turn up their sleek
noses at YOU, as you 90 bowling through the
streets, trying III vain To get rid of your supelluity
BE wise to-day-tis madness to defer!
The Infant Asylum managers have established
their Annual Ball firmly in public favor as well by
the excellence and good taste of their entertain
ments as by the meritorious character of the
Charity which they are intended to support There
are three Institutions sustained by this admirable
organization-one at No. "a Clinton place, one at
Tenth-ave. and Sixtyfrst-st.. and at Flushing
in all OF which the efforts of the management are
directed not only to the support of the innocent
children of misfortune. but also to the reformation
and instruction of their young and crring mothers
This year the Ball promises TO be even more
full than formerly. On the first day the box
office was opened for subscriptions, all
the boxes on the front tier of the
Academy Of Music were taken and seven of the
proscenium boxes. All the arrangements, which
are in tho hands of Mr.. Theodore Moss, are OF
the most perfect kind. The supper will be fur
nished by Delmonico. The bands of Bernstein aud
Grafulla will supply the music. large sum of
money is needed to carry OH the institutions in
operation, and tho managers hope to raise a con-
siderable portion of it by this Ball The tickets
IN hnN rnnn trnT An han
may BIO obtained from Mis- g. l., Collins, No. "a
West Thirty eighth-st