St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
There Will BE No Jingle Of
Sleigh Bells This Year in
Washington.
A Homily on the Sad Condi-
ton Of the Homes Of the
Very Poor.
Reflections on the Question
Of Dressing Men to Core
Spond With Their Wives.
Ipecial to the Globe.

class of people who earn their crackers
and cheese by hard work. The congress
will not be in session. True, many of
the representatives of the dear people
will remain in the city, but they are not
Important factors in prOpria persona.
Only when they throw aside their
cigars, fill their mouths with tobacco,
stick their heels upon congressional
desks, do they jump into prominence.
During a recess, they never get their
names into the papers nor cause any
work for the boys; not even when they
say they 90 over to Baltimore with "a
lady cousin who doesn't like to
travel alone" That is the latest
racket, but don't give it away. The
statesman who invented it, comes from
Western state, and is quite breezy
character. 1t was he who started the
conundrum, "Why is Mills, of Texas,
like a crane?" If his wife should ever
get onto that lady cousin snap, she
would make him resemble BALKAN, the
polite man. But, to return to our
sheep, the vacation will be enjoyed by
The scrbbers, but think of the poor
shop BOYS, SalesladieS, porterS and
''sich," who must work more hours
every day than at any other season of
The year. 70 them, Xmas is irksome,
Of course. But who cares?
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
This grand old earth must borrow its mirth,
IL has trouble enough OF its own"
FEW REFLECTIONS.
So we will forget the workers for
lime and let them weep alone, while we
laugh and grow fat on the wines and
hines OF our friends of the senate and
house. All we lack here for perfect
Christmas weather is heavy fall of
snow. All we lack for perfect Christ
mas joy is money to buy happiness
with. Statesmen and otficehOlderS, as
well as newspaper men, have the money
with which to bride Santa Claus into
visiting their homes, but down the
block in the alley there are cellars, at
tics and back rooms filled with squalor.
Through the shattered panes OF glass
there comes the chill breath of the frost
king, bearing the music of the bells as
their molten golden Threats pRanS
peal. From the warm gorgeous cathe-
dral come the harmOnics of the great
organ, blending with the voices of fair
women and strong men, singing:
Behold! | bring you glad tidngs-glad
tidings of great joy which shall be to all
But the birth of Christ in manager,
lowly and poor, brought with it no
magic of man nor miracle divine to
Danish the winter chill from the homes
of other little ones, who are also chill
dren Of God, younger brothers and sis
ters of the lirst-born. This is not the
day nor the hour for reflections SOmber,
but the more gladstone the day, the
more plethoric the abandOnmentS
of all to the pleasures OF the holy
day season; the more wildly do the
sufieringS Of the poor thrust themselves
before me by contrast. A stable was good
enough for Him TO come to and make
musical all surroundings with the wall
of babyhood. To-day his priests must
be housed in palaces, while only from
the chancel of costly edilice, beneath
frescoed architravc, in the soft light of
stained glass windows, do they pro-
claim that there is Joy in Heaven
among the angels" over the BIRTH of one
who chad not where TO lay his head"
Here in the capital of
a GREAT AND POWERFUL NATION
we are told that those angels came down
from the select choir on high and sang,
Peace on earth, TO men good Will
But. when we see the lack of peace,
the amending battle of poverty and Suf-
1eTlllS, lnSllHcllNtIy we uuCSIloH WHY
that flock of angels flew back and have
never been heard of since? But. it's all
right. Whatever is, is right. The
summum bonum is not here, nor ever
will be. Human happiness aud human
good are scarce and Scant as the skirt of
ballet girl.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland
will attend the Christmas services at
DIR. Sunderland's church on Tuesday
morning. The members of the cabinet
with their families will worship where
their choice of creed may lead them
Secretary Whitney will give to every
employee of his great department a great
big turkey, and thus thousand people
will bless the secretary of the navy,
whether they bless the Lord or not 1t
is singular how stomachic religion may
become at times. The dresses of the
ladies are never gorgeous in this eli
mate with the warmth of sable, seal
and similar furS. They are too warm
We are situated at a point on the globe
where it is too cold for summer clothes
and too warm for the garbs of the great
North and West. Washington women
shine on Easter Sunday as on no other
day in the year.
The children, and they alone, can
look upon this season with true happi-
with all the garish glory which pleases
childhood. They crowd clear up against
the heavy plate glass, pressing their
little rel noses fiat against the panes,
while their big eyes busily and brightly
shine upon ana absorb the beauties
spread before them. Little Tot. the
shoemaker'S daughter, Just wishes and
wishes and wishes for some of those
things; and Little Daisy, the colonel's
pet. goes inside and buys some of them.
The ladies Christmas club, however. is
doing its
ANNUAL ACT OF AFFECTION:
and Little Tot will find something's in
her stockings; some sure enough TOYS,
put there by the loving hands of wom-
anly charity, so that papa and mamma
may rejoice with Little Tot, in belief
that there is really and truly heaven;
and one who cares as much for poor
little children, fully as much. as he does
for the SparrOwS. Among the beatti-
tudeS uttered on the mount. there
should have been one saying: Blessed
are the women, for in them We see the
best evidence of the fact that there is,
somewhere, Il world of love" The la
dies have taken census of every block
in the poorer portions of the city.
They know the number and the
names of the pitiful poor. They have
diligently labored for weeks to accumu-
late money for just this time. and to
see the toys and candies they have
bought, as well as the goodies contrib
uted to them, would make all Christen-
dom unite in approving of the beati-
tude which is suggested above. They
are going To give one good, big dinner
TO the poorest poor, too. Is there such
club in st. Paul and Minneapolis?
If not, can't one be hastily organized to
do something for the poor there away?