Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-26
stufing, fanked with snowy white potatoes
and deluged with gravy.
% nt this ON the table, ;,

stufing, fanked with snowy white potatoes
and deluged with gravy.
"Put this on the table,
Done, and in fast succession turkey No. l
was followed by others of the specie; and
plate No. was the starter for double line
of bountifnlly supplied fellows.
"Dinner's ready!''
And the guests were ready. They seated
themselves, and did ample justice to the
toothsome and wholesome meal bountifully
spread before them.
1t was Christmas, and even to these un-
fortunates it came not without certain
cheering. Jokes passed and repassed. There
was no roughness, but every man conducted
himself with decorous propriety and dis
charged his duty at the table with good
Christmas appetite.
The substantials being disposed Of, pies
in profusion were handed around.
Nobody refused the delicious pastry,
and washed it down with copious drau ghts
of aromatic coffee. A first class hotel din
ner for anybody!
After dinner, pipes were drawn out,
charged with tobacco, and the windows be-
came the egress for dense clouds of soul
comforting smoke.
When the last bite was sschewed'' up, and
the mouth was cleared for shout, three
rousing cheers were given for the generous
Christmas dinner and the donor.
Christmas comes but once year. Let all
the world rejoice. Why not?
General Resume.
The colorel population spent their
Christmas at their snug and cosy little
church under Odd Fellows block, where
they held fair and church festival Very
pretty and very cheerful did the very neat
little church look with it's little tables of
little toys, contributions of needlework,
candies and fruits; its clusters of sparkling
eyed, joyous visa ged children, its groups of
happy talking age and light hearted youth.
The little church was literally crowded with
little people-there were "both
young men and maidens, old
men and children" and one would
be at q loss to imagine from whence came so
many we'll dressed colored people. The fai,
was kept open till about half-past ten at
night.
But large as the attendance was at the
churches, perambulating GLOBE man
noticed in his peregrinations through the
city that the great mass of the people OBJ
served their Christmas at home with visiting
for wherever he went groups of people were
windows of we'll nigh every house. Oc-
casionally sleigh or carriage would dash
past him down the street carrying its
occupants to some expectant friends. Very
few pedestrians were observed on the streets,
and the GLOBE man pursued his way in
search of items in solitude, without even the
company of old grim Seven Corners. It
was noticed that the saloons were doing but
dull business, and from the Dayton ave.
nue. church to Dayton's bluff not solitary
vehicle was met And all day from "early
morn till dewy eve'' no FOSTERING, bolster
GUS hilarity was heard belching forth from
low grggeries; not a single man was seen
measuring ut once length and breadth of
street, not one disputing with a lamp post
the right of way or arguing the question
OF sobriety with q hydrant. st. Paul, yes
terday, was sober,-as she always is-but
yesterday rigidly sober. After O'Clock the
streets were little more animated, but still
they were dull with not so many people On
them as on Sabbath evening after church
has begun. The places Of amusement were
hardly SO we'll patronized as on ordinary
ngs-Knauft's had just fair number
of patrons, and the Varieties drew no more
than on any night A few solitary individu-
ais loEnged about the saloons and seemed
disconsola.ely unhappy. There was, indeed,
one man, and only one, whom the GLOBE
man encountered who had appeared to have
taken his Christmas dinner in liquid form,
and he was quietly seated upon the sidewalk
warming his hands and shins by an iron
post grumbling all the while at his wife for
not keeping better fire in the stove. But
one swallow does not make a summer nor
| one drunken man brutes of the whole COM
munity, and st. Panl was sober yesterday.
Her people spent Christmas wisely and ra-
tionally in true enjoyment of social inter
course.