New-York tribune., 1903-01-05

There Is said 20 be great distress among the poor
Of England consequent upon the riSors of the
winter and difficulty in getting work At the
close Of warlike operations in South Africa thou
sands of men returned 70 England to find their
positions filed by others and result the army
Of the unemployed. always large has 'swelled to
enormous proportions. Christmas. however, with
It's feasting and holiday making, brought some
thing Of respite OF the thousands Of Christmas
dinners that were served IN England tn the poor
few appealed so widely to the universal sense of
human sympathy as the banquet given by the
Queen to the widows and orphans Of soloers and
sailors who lost their lives through the South
African OF course the obvious American
comment is that any dinner is & poor substitute
for husband or e father. even II II is the gift
Of e queen II is equally Obvious, however, that
nobody imagines for a minute that it IS substi-
tute; also that Christmas dinner is unlike any
other dinner in the whole year; that when no one Is
long on il makes bright spot that illunlnes the
past and trradiates the future And so on and
in the wear are temper 1rentaliy incapable Of com
prehending the physical exhiara{i ton and ae96i
OF square meal
It's the parents who make their children
naughty declared Z young woman positively the
other day. Il take sides with the children against
their parents Parents continually doing the
very same things they punish their children for.
= little girl who had been having q stormy scene
with her mother got up and rang the bell Did
you ring, ula'am% asked the maid when she ap~
Please take mamma away. She's very naughty
and cross and want you to lQSk & her up Ill III shes e
self and S6H see hY % s4 gn6s5 SaF conditions
Boston viii be the scene OF memorable gather
ing next July when the American Educational As
sociation will draw TO the Hub between twelve and
fifteen thousand persons. it is expected Fourdfths
of these as is natural, will be women In discuss
ing the programmes for next President
Eliot says that this convention is in great need OF
q new method Of procedure General sessions OF
an enormous body never be very profitable be-
cause few people can make themselves heard by
vast audience. and people would rather stay away
altogether than strain after speakers words A
broken up into department meetings. where special
topics can be presented by spee5ssIS 70 r9nv 9na1
against long addresses. Half an hour he says.
limit for one man to talk to a body Of people
Or one woman. either!
The eighty-second birthday Of Mrs. Mary A.
Ifvermore has brought TO this well known lecturer
and phiIanthropic worker greetings and feDcita-
tons from all over this country and England One
Of the secrets of her old age has lain in her
health is addressing audiences more or less every
ee and Is i1g PeGR9 n9 IN to al tbe sPangrs %ho
are always making pilgrfmages to her
Louisiana paper calls attention to q singular
feature in the Christmas number OF a leading
American monthly. In some way or other the Illus
traitors have hit upon sick bed scenes and no less
than six important pictures are of nvalids nesting
IN the depth Of snowy bedclothes IndivldualIy tne
pictures are well done and effective but collectively
they become a hospital
-ey-ouId YOU be sorry If your mamma was to die2
asked the smallest little girl the bench as she
Tains1a lingiy threaded needle and fell to work
her hemmfng-
.-Oh what silly question:" replied the plump girl
with 2 blue pinafore who sat next TO her. 'Of
course. should. And she gave VICIOUS tug al
her thread to shake the knot out Of II
ae77eT 7 Shouldn't be sorry If my father was TO
die nut in a thin little woman OF eight
The others looked shocked. and asked why
.s0h he's TOO fresh. replied the thin girl IN &C
cents Of deepest disgust
A Chicago woman who every year carves wonder
@l to1s TO be distributed poor children who at
.e,d the Christmas dinner OF the Woman's Relief
Corns completed for her Christmas work this year
conulete school in miniature, with twenty-five
51l ,,untls and a schoolraa'an TO look after them
II is a girls school Each pupil sits IN luIuflous
little chair before gayly painted desk WIN pooh
snread open before her. while the teacher wears a
long dress and sits before an imposing oesK on