The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-29
TOPICS IN NEW YORK.
CHARITIES AID ENTRAvAGNNCEs
OF THE CHRISTMAS SEASON.
The waddetl. EntE Company Claims the
Prize Of $50. 600 for tho Rest Street
Car Motor Surgeons Open aud
Scrapc Fieural Cavity.


and many circumstances continue to prove
hat New York - very wicked city.
But charity covers multitude OF sins
ana az no other time ot the year has the
greatest Or an virtues more plenary power
than the b.ssscd Christnas;ide New
York may lack civic Prise, hut the huna-
olest 81 her denisens may lord the sun
q the nativity day squa7ely and say with
s.. Paul IS De sees atout him The al.
most couaaess and senerous Efforts to
help the Reedy and destitute: Il am a citi-
zen or no mean city" Everyone seems 90
realize me sentiment Ok universal brother
hood sid humanity chat should he charac-
terStic g. TIE season.. Every hand is
stretched ont willingly and az once TO give
@ practical demonstration ~ good will
- al men, The Sse 81 soryid greed and
different n0tcris-.sn has not vet dawn
ed 10 Gotham.
EARLY MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS.
one Of thoss inquissuve persons who are
continually hunting up odd topics has
been asking a number OF prominent peo-
ple what their first remembrance OF
Christmas was. Among others Cardinal
GIBBONS was questioned. lie answered as
follows. through Father T. c. Thomas:
The earliest rscollectiops OF the cardinal
ward 20 the day with liyellest anticipation
Of Joy and pleasure And doubtless an
element OF that Joy and pleasure was the
knowledge of the extra amount Of good
les he Mould get"
Ex-Governor Fiizhuch Lee OF Virginia
sent this reply 10 the same Inquiry;
y had the customary experience OF Vir-
g1an boys in the old homes OF bygone
DAYS.
Stockings were huns up in the bed
rooms Xmas eve and filled with candles,
nuts. oranges etc by Santa Claus, who,
leaving his reindeer and sled outside
came down the chimney while we were
al asleep.
we somehow always walked up Xmas
morning az the hrst glimpse Of day, and
Immediately attacked the good things in
the stockings and then ran for the tables
iu the room, upon which had been tasuly
arranged the presents The remainder OF
the day was spent IN showing these %
everybody on the place, eating sweet
meats until We were sick, and blowing
horns until our breath was exhausted.
The bad boys never found the threatened
switches IN the stockings, but enjoyed the
holiday just as much and perhaps more
than the good boys
''rhgse nerrymalilnga were kept up
week. During the festivities the negroes
Jii no work, except tHe house servants,
aud they only what was absolutely neces-
Everybody for miles around seemed to
be singing.
lie; the wide word wag as IT win,
Wen bs gay ami happy sill."
SANTA CLAUS BIG BILL.
some people like to see everything fig-
ured out iu totals OF dollars aud cents.
Their Christmas pleasure exon Is taken
IN this mathematical and financial count
ing One Of these husiuess-niuded DE-
voices OF Santa Claus computes that the
cost Of the holiday season Is about 49,
10000. This Is the way he adds up so
startling total: The Christmas dinners,
TO begin with, mean an expenditure of at
least 100000; on the decorations OF
churches, houses. etc, he allows there IS
another fortune laid out; for china, glass
ware. pottery, etc, put down $bWOpNi
books ami the various items OF literature,
SS.O01,O00; pictures and art productions
swallow up 15O),O0Q; toys, common anu
expensive s4G00.000; candies and Christ
mas trees s3,501,0O1; jewelry. trinkets, gold
and silver ware and other sundries So
900 go. These and other items thnt VIII
crop up IN all directions easily make the
total of Si9O,OO0o0O claimed to he put In
circulation nt Christmas time.
PIES BY THE THOUSAND.
Christmas and pie he's been lnseparaby
linked together for ages The normal con-
sumpuon OF pie in New York is 100000
aay. and IL rs reliably asserted that Christ
mas doubles this amount The lnrEest Of
the four blg PIC batteries III mus el'S' a., a iI
the largest IN Jne WoI'u' tul''s w -'
pies day II has ten ovens; eaen holl-
l1s I'm Nv :" -, az, R{,ai,,,g, Srcrn o.,locl,
tnu 'iee 1i I'm r.s,ocI, in ne ~
~ ~. '''- ~ -, tTsso Cooked MICS yvbare
"a, i'o1t' ,, f co., cnt mem for,y.siy
IN ,, 80 L,,.5 ,t work ali AK,
49,, .I,, ,,i'.r,. ia an extensive three
80, ltrrct,iro On me I1ast Side The
5.oiS ~ to ,",nort and a dazen
ovens , "'G ", Ita,,3 bn1ore them Ioading
-, ,,'' .,l,i, ,be ,sy niea on wooden pells
and mon drawlne them out when baked
aH' men w ,la,.,,5o,-, RAJ carry
non, ~ tbe delivery department on the
s 49, coor tstrty expcrt dough makers com
pose 'l Jne PH''T T,,o 6iifns. b made on tbe
aag,. M. "a score or more of women They
,'0,i a5,,Ics ana slice mem. mix mince-
rg,.it mako. cuetafd and numpRin Glings.
rho apples are sliced by machinery. one
girl has n record OF TWENTY-FIVE barrels
IN one day, NnlS rs the slatnuhtH hl-'llo