The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-01-05
The Passing show.

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Editor IntelliGencer.
10 the way Of introducing the matter,
winch / herein ask you to publish, will
you kindly reproduce from the Beau
Monde, Of Dallas, Tex, the following:
promises to be the greatest
Christmas in the history oil Dallas.
Never before have the people within
200 miles Of the town been 50 pros
porous. Magnificent crops and mag
n,icen, prices have rewarded the labOrs
Of the farmers. All wealth comes
from the bosom Of Mother Earth and
when tho tillers Of the soil are pros
porous, then all branches Of business,
all departments Of trade flourish The
banks are bursting with deposits oil the
people this year, merchants have done
and are doing an enormous business
workingmen have plenty to do al
remunerative wages, and the financial
skies are clear for a year TO come at
least. The people of this favored SEQ
ton Of the terrestrial globe have q
great deal to be thankful for. On The
olhA.-hA.a-the shrill blasts of winter
sends the unfortunate poor, the MANI
ed and the shiftless ones, the indigept
widows and famishsd and tattered
orphsns to their miserable garrets or
eheerless cabins. Dallas has always
been liberal and deaf 10 the wall
Of distress from without or within.
Yesterday the school children made
their annual Christmas offering to
relieve the wants Of the homeless and
hungry. II was q magnificent Offering
greater than ever before. Thousands
Of children contributed and hundreds
Of hearts will DO gladdened, not only
during the holiday period. but through
the long winter month by the warm
hearted generosity of the children OF
the public schools. This custom had
iI origin in Lexington, No., an
aristocratic and historic old town on
the banks Of the turgid Missouri river,
g.
the girlhOod home Of Mrs. George b.
Dealey, and was first suggested here
BY Mrs. Dealey, who has always taken
a deep intsres, In the schools and their
pupils and In the school reforms which
have been instituted 10 this city oil re-
cent years. II is a beautiful lesson; it
teaches the grand truth Of Christian
charity and beneyolence and the beauty
Of the prscepts Of the loWly Na1arene'"
The history Of the origin Of this
custom is 90 interesting and instruct
i've that / doubt not you will feel
justified In laying IL IN full before your
readers. Some years ago the pupils in
the Lexington High school used to
bring natural objects 10 school to use
as models in the drawing GLASS, among
these objects were apples and potatoes.
The apples doubtless went the way oil
-.
all apples among the children, but the
potatoes, which were generally fine,
large specimens, the boys carried
away and threw at each other on their
way home, and doubtless more than
one window was broken that way
|, There was at that time q very poor
, woman living near the school house,
and two Of the teachers, Miss Florence
Arnold and Miss Mary Smith, asked
that the potatoes be given to them fol
her. So many were brought that they
: we're an important addition TO the ole
womAn's table, and out Of this begin.
!, ming grew the custom that has spreat
I over two Of the most important state
Q OF the union and engage the attention
D OF some six millions Of people.
( understand that this custom Of th'
children bringing q Thanksgiving off
r ering to the poor lin Texas, on &C
count OF the climate II is put later-a
/, yuletide) has often been referred 10 II
8 q Lexington paper and the credit Of II
orgInatlon given to Professor IL. d
9 Demand. It Is right that the credit o
il DO gwen where il belongs. "Righ
P wrongs nobody" There is, In m
opiniou. q strong reason why the credi
should be given TO the ladies wb
9 began Il. II the men Of the Unite
States did their whole political dut
there would be no poor here u, relieve
The custom originated by these tw
kind hearted women has more lesson
" than one. 1t may show the childre
the value Of cooperation. 1t could b
d used rs q lesson TO The boys, teachin
3 them 80 to sc, when they are men, O
to remove the causes Of poverty
Necessary aud creditable a. II is undo
present circumstances, Alms-giving
m an injury both to him who gives an
him who takes. II bss other lesson