Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
VERY GOOD PEOPLE.
How Many Friends Of the Dispatch
Viii Spend Christmas.
sonE WILL DRINK EGGHoG.
Nut Most Of Them VIII Remain at Home
with Their ramiiics-A Few VIII BE
st Their Posts OF Duty.

How people are going to spend Christ-
mas this year IL an absorbing topic just
now. AS most OF them have bought their
presents. this question now confronts al
most every one. Some, OF course VIII
stay at home and eat turkey and drink
eggnog: Others will so elsewhere and DO
simllarly. while there are those who viii
take ap their guns and 20 TO the fields
for sport Not a few Will find IT neces-
sary to be at their posts OF duty, but these
will have the tender sympathy OF the null
ts,udes who enter into the spirit or the
celebration OF the festival
In order 20 form an idea. or a number
of ideas of how It's friends intended TO
spend Christmas. the Dispatch has inter-
viewed many persons upon this point, ana
the following are their replies:
II. b. Bowles: Take my girl out for
ride on my wheel
Il. J. Bear: what am I going to do
Christmas? Are you going to Invite
Samuel T. Puiliam: I am going to try
and keep sober. What are you going 10
do?
reckon. Why? what's up?
+. ID. Barksdale: 1 am going TO have
a family reunion at home.
J. r. Tcasdale: l can't go hunting and
fishing and drink lots OF egSnog with
the boys any more. am getting Old and
am going 10 stay at home with the
children
Julius sycle: Rest. rest after my heavy
labors OF the year. Yes and take glass
OF eggnog.
r. T. Pemberton: No. you don't. You
got me once am not going to tell you.
AlphOise Metzger: don't know; have
fun with the girls, 1 suppose.
Charles Hutzler: Oh, I'm going 10 take |
care OF my friends.
O. Herbert Funston: Please. for gra-
ciOus sake, let me alone! / don't like to |
talk TO you newspaper cranks.
Alex. Meyer: / am going to get a |
wagon. III 1t with toys. and give them TO |
thu poor
Frank Dabney: 1 am going TO keep |
sober.
Emmett Saunders: Loaf around the |
street and smoke cigars.
Seymore Sycle: l am going to see my |
girl-and keep away from the boys.
J. Thompson Brown: / shall spend the |
day preparatory to moving into my new |
office.
II. II. Harrison: am going to be at
the store and wait on the sick.
John L. Rose: At home with bowl OF
eggnOg. and will be glad to see my |
friends.
David Mitteldorfer: I am going 10
spend the day with a bowl OF eggnog.
Joseph Fourqurean: am going TO have
"a good time.
T. u. Price: 1t IS not any OF your bust
ness. am going to Fredericksburg.
r. A. Hughes: Keep sober.
L. c. Mayo: l am going to keep sober.
l. H. Kaufman am going to indulge in
the usual Christmas frolic.
W. 5. Constable: Go to church in the
morning with my family.
a. 5. Davis: Let me pass-I am a mar
ried man.
Edward Hatton: am going to stay at
home. and enjoy the day with the old
lady.
Moses Thalhimer: am going TO have a
day at home with my wife and baby. |
Come up; will give you a good glass
W. NJ Miller: / hope TO have a plea
SAINT time with the children.
II. l.. Davis: The Lord only knows; and
he won't tell me.
Charles Haskell: / am going TO visit
my young lady friend in the country.
Linton o. Miller: l am going TO walk
around the street and see the crazy peo-
pie shoot crackers. / have been crazy
myself that way.
Alec. Schaap; / am going TO spend the
day in the bosom of my family.
r. \ Gaines: 1 am going 10 bed.
Abe Valentine: That Is my business.
Richard Wade: / am going to stay
sober; can't AFFORD TO get d.
Captain Charles II. Epps: DO as l have
always been doing-have plenty to
eat and ---. Come around
j. Harvey Blair: | am going to have a
good time on the hills OF Highland Park.
+. II. Smith: l am going TO spend
Christmas on Barton Heights.
John T. Anderson: Work as usual. l
haven't got any money TO spend.
j. {. Williams: At home.
Louis Nachman: 1 am going TO get
d. VIII you DO so. too?
j. NJ. Chichester: ] am going TO do the
proper thing-get fun OF eggnog
c. S. McRae: / haven't the least idea.
Wish you would tell me what TO do.
II. c. Ball: am going TO have a good
time with the girl in Petersburg.
George L. Newell: Will do better than
you reporters will do. will keep sober.
Judge Hinton: Quietly at home
J. W. Rothert: / have stranger AT
home. I shall stay at home and look
after the guest.
Manly Hutzler: Have ycu got any old
apple jack at the Dispa,>l office? That
is what l want.
Samuel Sycle: Take a walk and see
the boys shoot crackers. II my wife don't
object.
Charles Shuman: I am going to spend
the day at home and have fun with the
babies.
William D. Meyer: am going to Lynch
burg on hunt
Webster S Rhoads: am going to
Pennsylvania 10 see my little girl
Justice John Crutchheld: Hold court, at
tend TO my business. and try to earn an ,
honest dollar.
Ike Cohen: am in for anything Christ
mas-day. ] want TO have a good time.
A. u. Jackson: l am going TO do every
thing
Fred Peasants: am going to visit out
OF town. I
J. G Joplin: At home.
William II. Cullingworth: am great ]
lover OF children. and on that day ex- !
pect TO stay In the house and have lots
OF fun with them.
Alec Brownel: I am going TO tramp. ]
Let me alone. I
Gordon Wallace: Eat big dinner In ]
Fredericksburg. Why. what do you want s
me to DO?
A. f. Noel: At Bon Air. moving into :
my new home for the coming summer. {
Morris Crenshaw: 1 can't say. Sing at !
church. guess. I
c. c. Lambert: hope 10 be in the land \
OF the living. looking on at the boys. I
Percy Chisholm: am going to wait on 7
bridal couple. /
John Morris: j am going TO keep sober. !
why? =
Edwin 4. Ezekiel: With my family. l
stephen Hunter: / can't tell you. /
aont Know what I shall do.
w H. Courtney: Take walk and b
shoot crackers a
w. a. Hammond: No you don't I v
won't say. Come around: Will give you o
flower. d
Ar'hur Levy: l am going to bask un-
"er the shade OF Chrstmas-tree c
hopert Hill: AZ home with the babies. I
Moses l.. Hoffheimer: Do you want me Z
70 hunting with you. have got a gun. =
Sohh hcGeorge: It's hard TO tell.
JACK Cross: l have not formulated any u
pan what must do? Drink eggnog.
r,S {. Warren: l am going down the q
'" hunting with lot OF boys 4,
~ GFisg: With the children Mt '
! have got ten TO amuse. y
~, W, Featross: Go away. You are not y ),
my Girl on you. ""' "" y
INV ~, "; Ford: Stay at home and make ,