Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-25
A GREEN CHRISTMAS.
The Season of Giving and
Thanksgiving Means
GOOD WILL TO ALL MEN.
Kind Work Done by Humane So
cietieS, Churches and People.
SOME FIT AND MISFIT PRESENTS.
A Touching Remembrance From a Dying
Child to q Dear Friend.
GOOD WILL TO ALL MEN.
SOME FIT AND MISFIT PRESENTS.
WHY TIE PRESENTS ARE 50 VALUABLE

Good morning, and Merry Christmas.
IT'S the same old song and the same old
tune, but like the sweet old story Of love, it
is ever new. A cordial greeting; shake of
the hand; smile Of friendship or of hoier
regard. and merry word-each or all of
these bears more pure pleasure and profit
to the giver and the receiver than all the
costly presents in the world, that embody
nothing perhaps but an unknown quantity
of bard cash.
That deaths head at the feast, that specter
at picnic, that bull in a china shop, the
weather clerk, actually had the nerve last
night to prophesy rain to-day. Just i'm
agiae. Rain on Christmasl A splash of
mud on fair natures smile; Psyche with a
hare-lip; Venus with patch of court-plaster
on her nose; Cupid, lovely Cupid, bow
legged. Rain on Christmasl If there is
ANYTHING human nature cannot stand it is
rain on Christmas, and if it does occur Wig
gins may as well resign from the present bluff
he occupies and try to I'LL the vacancy in his
own upper story.
Speaking of the number and value Of Christ
mas offerings this year. a queer explanation is
offered that has a semblance of sense. Granted
that everybody in this chilly cline buys heavy
outer and underclothing every normal year, to
the extent of, say an average Of SIS worth per
head-w1th a total population of 250,OO0-this
city has earned up to date S. 750 900 in not pur-
chasing heavy clothing.
This is q fact that can be proven by every big
clothing house in the city Every head of a
family finds in his pockets a certain amount of
extra cash, and as result the winter goods de-
partments are idle; while lighter fabrics have
had phenomenal sale, and If cold wave
sweeps down upUn this devoted community
one can tell by the color of the dear girls nose,
whether she wears diamond or a flannel suit
In regard to presents, a little thing happened
in the Postofice yesterday that for time
stopped the wheels of progress. One of
the window men, carelessly sorting over an
enormous bundle of miscellaneous packages
and letters, suddenly stopped, picked up torn
little bundle and walked slowly over to the In
spector's desk. He had found some illegal
matter.
A tiny bunch of flowers, clumsily wrapped by
some baby's chubby fingers. and in infantile
print addressed TO Mama" That is all-no
city, no country and no world. An incipient
lump in the throat rather impeded swallowing
and the distribution of mails after that, and
certain official would give half his salary if he
brings a pleasure that cannot be valued too
highly, and though each one tries in a certain
selfish little way to remember the other, there
Is One who remembers all.
fun comes in, and to an onlooker, the reaction
from pleasant tension. brings its amusement
in annoyance and the blues.
AFTER TAKING.
Twas the night after Christmas, and the effort
was vain.
To stii the poor kid with the dull throbbing pain
His howls were sufficient the dead to awake,
As he rued the sad day he had eaten that cake.
Twas the night after Christmas, when the dude
tried TO put
A delicate slipper on protuberant foot;
He tugged ull he bl1shed, and pulled TIL he
swore,
Then gave great yank and the dasted thing tore
twas the morn after Christmas and he tossed in
his bed,
And he said to himself what beautiful head.
Then he got up and dressed, and looked for his
hat
And swore of for a year, from an afternoon bat.
Twas the morn after Christmas. and the lovely
young miss,
Rubbed her eyes in amaze, as she thought OF a
Then looked at the diamond, when she fully
awoke,
broke,