The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-03

T.: SUNDAY NORM
lturys OF course khe clectrsca, ,uver,iops
take the LEAD. for how could We get afonx
without our, electric street cars. ctc.7 Why
| We can even cook BY electricity nowadays.
| I WAS reading the pther dav that the Ger
man kaiser Is nhout to have his private
train heated by electricity. II seems ms
though we could hardly get along without
1.-THE telephone and cable IN this advanced
| age. and II seems TO be IN most common
use. so guess Ill have to vote for a.,
though I'm in state OF doubt yet Cope.
some OF YOU bright high school boys and
girls, give us some good talks on invep~
iious. II Is a fascinating subject. and Mrs
Foster deserves credit for thinking OF Il,
for we will learn more from 1t than any
contest yet. Hustle along the good letters
Ali tomorrow Is the day Of giving
thanks for our many blessings during the
past year. and new inventions have had
big part in adding to our pleasure and hap
piress and comfort, The Pilgrim fathers
had none of these, but how grateful band
they were on that cold, desolate land that
Thanksgiving Day for the blessings
they did enjoy. Freedom to worship their
God--how much 1t meant to them! Are We
as grateful for our great blessings of today
as we should be?
Guess I'd better begin 10 commence TO
quit" or there won't be any room left Ia
the basket for more letters, so il you all
find your letters in print next week, thank
me. please, for stopping up that cavernous
gaping monster beside our ediiress' desk.
With greetings to all the boys and lisses
for all the girls, remain.
John Stumpfer.
vn,..t .xl...
want to write q few lines TO you and tell
you all how glad and thankful I am that
you are going TO get chair for my dear
little crippled frionu want us to get 1t
by Christmas II we can. 1t would be such q
sweet present for her. I am very busy
going to school now, but had little leis-
ure time Saturday evening,so went out and
collected a nice little sum In Just a few
minutes.
Or. sharp, 81; Ed White, so cents Rob-
ert Kerr, 20 cents; l.. s. Pitts. % cents;
Ed Wilson, 10 cents; Julius Van Ess, 10
cents; Mrs. Crunk, 10 cents; j. B, Gregory,
8 cents; Homer Gregory, cents; Lena
Gregory, % cents VIII Dougherety. 10
cents. Total, SITS.
/ will try TO collect more before long.
Yours for hammering happiness
~ Lena Gregory,
+. S.-The last collection we got ur my
sweet little nephew sent his little nickel.
but he can't send one for Edna's chair.
for on a quiet Sunday morning, August g.
he went TO beautiful home above. where
there are no little crippled children, for
God is light and there is no sorrow there.
l.. r. G.
Victoria, Texas.--Dear Haphammer; 1
am sorry that am too late 10 vote In the
animal contest but can say that I'm
glad the noble cow won,
Some of the boys say the girls voted
for the COW because she is spoken OF as
she" o no. that's not the reason at all,
not mine at least.
Just think minute. II all the COWS and
horses should die then which should we
miss the most? Why the COW, of course.
a great many people would starve to death
and as to war. | think people would soon
invent something to take the place oil the
horse, but could they ever invent anything
to lake the place of the COW? No some
people depend on the COW alone for food.
and II It were not for the COW, many would
die III atnrvation What should we do
for milk, butter and cheese? | dare say
there wouldn't be so many lives lost IT
the horse was out of the way.
Almost every day We read%an account Of
runaway or other accident caused by the
horse Do We ever hear of an accident
caused by the COW? Very seldom aud
when we do hear OF one it's not near so
dangerous as that caused by the horse,
Some seem to choose the horse on the ac-
count of beauty well we ara not Judging
the use OF the animal by its beauty are wea
Can not. an animal he heautitnl without
being useful aud can 1t not he useful Will
out being beautiful? Why OF course II
can Tell me isn't a Jersey COW heauS
tiful little animal, and she is also Nety
useful Seine people seem TO think COW
cant be beautiful. ] think they are
little mistaken about thar, y would rather
have COW than ten horses. indeed |
would.
Well now viii leave the cow and talk
OF something else
am glad TO see the helping fund grow
larger each week, although it's slow but
sure. think it ought to stew more rap
idly, for just think how many Flaps there
are in our circle. over ten thousand.
| suppose most of you are like am,
always putting of or course We should
never put oil till tomorrow that which you
can do today, but sometimes we can help
it, Courage don't stay long with me- |
only wish IL did don't know what you
Haps think OF me for being such a lack
slioer. / have been Hap nearly five or
six years and haven't written many times.
ito tell the truth about IL. | don't doubt
that you all think me- a stranger. But
that's no reason that don't read this IN
tereStlng page, Tor / 90 just do fSSutafiS
as it comes The other day was looking
through some old papers which | had been
saving a long time, and 10 my surprise,
came across a few "Haphammer pages,
which had been printed in 10 and 'ah.
read them. compared them 10 the late ones
and you can imagine what difference
there was. You would hardly think them
written by the members OF the same club.
o, such an Improvement. | don't think !
ever noticed before. ] hope we VIII have
another contest soon. ! think Gould we
gain more by reading than by travelling RI
would be a very good question 10 argue
don't you. Haps? BY that mean which
is the more beneficial, reading or travel
ing?
What do you think about 1t Mr.. Hap?
We would have to put on our thinking caps
then Haps how many of you saw the
shower of stars that was TO come! I'm
sure / didn't. although watched for 10,
and the world still exists, didn't be-
lieve that it would come 20 an end that
night. anyway,
Joe Farmer and Sunset Wood, where
In the world are you? We haven't heard
from you in a long time. Have you con-
cluded not to write TO this interesting
page any more? ! hope not
Henry r. Boyer, Willie p. Carpenter and
Thomas Taylor come again, like TO read
your letters.
Hoping We will succeed In getting the
chair for Edna Fowler by Christmas,