The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

| Taking into consideration the nu- merous homes of the wealthy. tose.n- CT with the big family hotels. inciuu ing the Waldorf-Astoria, the St hesis' the Gotham. the Savoy and the NetneI land. where hundreds of wealthy ram | files reside six months out Of the year. the showing Is exceedingly smau, ~ | least according to the Rooseveltfan standard.
 Above Ninety-fifth street poorer class of people reside in the Avenue, principally in large flat houses. ana here the figures take on better pr0por- tions. In only thirty-eisht piochs ninety-five babies were born. | After First Avenue-which takes the lead in prolific offsprins-bayard street comes. This street Is only SIX blocks long, but there have been ios babies born there this year. l All the fashionable thoroughfares make q very poor showing. In Madi- | son Avenue, and this Is mainly devot- | ed to brownstone residences, only twenty-one babies were born between Twenty-third and Fifth-ninth streets There are forty mansions and sever al large apartment houses In Gramercy Park, yet on all four sides only three babies made their appearance this year. Washington Square was three better, but then this picturesque square is much larger and has a mixed population
 of in the fashionable section of New York, but they are not such rarities on l the densely populated East side. | According to the health department. the poor have five times as many children as the rich in this city. In one block, facing upper Fifth Avenue. there is one baby to every 167 persons. Farther east, on an Avenue A frontage, there is one baby to every thirty per- sons.
 l Ho! for the shops of New York at 1 Christmas time. One never realizes | the immense outpour of wealth in this great money center till one sees the way the money goes at Christmas. There Is no end of the gifts that the millions give. To be guest In the home of one at that season costs good years winnings. The giving of gifts to the servants of the household is a tremendous item. Think of eighteen, twenty. twenty-five servants to be re- membered It Is worse. on the pocket than the old-tim Christmas gif'. mas ter! Christmas gif' missy" of the old servants on the plantation! For 1t is no small gaudy gift that these pam pered servants expect, these Irish and
 English buffers. maids, coachmen that draw wages by the thousands.
 But the joy of looking at the toys in
 the great shops of the city. It Is then
 one thinks of the bright baby faces in
 the homes one lives down South and wants to be a millionaire just for
 Christmas anyhow!
 There are dolls of all sizes and all
 complexions, and apparently of all
 ages! Babies, children, boys. girls la
 dies. Of all stations, nurses, messen-
 ger boys, brides, queens!
 , | ,ntr Nf nhAr Q n fI out of proportion. Ducks as large as camels and horses as tiny as rabbits; : a bunny as big as live baby heading
 a row of cows as big as live rats; here : all of a heap, but just perfect to the child who gets each one singly. At one place was an elephant as large as Shetland pony with an almost life
 size child riding on 1t. There were many life-size goats, and hundreds Of
 pigs-indeed, the good fat pig seemed the popular animal this season-pigs
 as big as your thumb up to pigs as big
 as a good six'months well fattened
 shoat There were trains with parior and dining cars and engine, baggage car, mall coach, all complete and run
 ming on good schedule time on real steel track. There was pond of real
 water and boats and swans and float
 ing, swimming things out of number
 upon it. There were doll go-carts and
 wagons, and carriages that would set
 any little girl mad with joy. There
 were race courses around which tiny
 horses swept with speed, and electrical
 toys and noisy, explosive toys, and fire
 works which would come up to and
 soar above any boys best Christmas
 hopes.
 And the Christmas trees!
 Decked in all the glitter and gold possible.
 Hundreds of Santa Clauses presided
 over these toys Here, there, every where in the stores one comes upon the
 good, jolly fellow.
 'The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza
 de Vaca from Florida to the Pacific,
 1536-1541," edited by Ad F. Bandelier.
 will be published next week in the
 Tail Makers" series, under the con
 sulting editorship of Prof. J. B. McMas-
 ter. This is the original story of the first white man to cross this continent. Mir Ianac p ConuolIv rafnrned from