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The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16
A PAUPER
O
By H. M.

.CK DRAYTON'S posi-
ton at $50 p. m. that
Christmas eve was as
follows: He had Is
cents and a stamp in
his pocket, and the
MSS. of six returned
nnuoIc ON his table. he
The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16

1000 walters. Chicago has about 1000
and Philadelphia 1000 less, Nine
thousand walters all told-and in the
light of the figures already set forth,
their share of the millions in the
Christmas box certainly amounts to
several tens of thousands of dollars.
Even if each waiter only got five
dollars, the sum total would be 49,
900. But it is undoubtedly above that,
for even the food singers in the
"bean shops and "hasheries' say
that nearly everyone remembers
them; and as each waiter of this
grade has to look after several o
of customers in the course of a day,
the nickels and dimes soon turn into
dollars.
Another contribution of generous
proportions put into the Christmas
box is that for dinners to the poor.
Hundreds of dinners of this character
are given on Christmas day through
out this broad Landowners with
turkey and cranberry sauce and pie
and ice cream Inc all the good things
associated with the day. And these
good things cost money-turkey at 70
The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16
CHRISTMAS TREE FEATURE
Dancing Dolls Above Parlor Decor
alton Produces Pretty Effect i
for Holiday.

Dancing Christmas fairies always en-
nance the children's delight in the
Christmas tree, and once made can be
used year after year, says Woman's
Home Companion. Buy up a dozen or
more of five and ten-cent dolls. and to
d to the variety have among the num-
Der some Japanese and colored dolls.
Dress these to represent fairies in bright
hues of spangled gauze, tarlatan or It's
sue paper, and literally sprinkle their
hair and garments with diamond-dust
powder. Each doll should be provided
with a dainty pair of fairy wings made
from spangled tissue paper and fastened
to the body by means of concealed wires.
These wires should be coiled to obtain
motion in the wings, and nothing better
be used than the fine spiral coils
that come out of WORKOUT, unrestricted
brooms. The least motion will set this
spiral to quivering, causing the wings
to move as If in fight. In like manner
use the spiral wire to attach the dolls in
lowering positions over and around the
tree. The effect is magical; every foot
step causes jar enough to start the dolls
dancing and circling above and around
the tree. as If invisible fairies of the air
mad come down to ioin him ip the
Ghristnaas glee.
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thousand seven hundred and fifteen
Germans were made happy by the re-
ceipt of 1884 .328.04 among them.
Though less than 5000 Italians sent
money gifts to relatives and friends,
the average value of each gift was
thirty-three and a third dollars; while
the 81. 900 Englishmen who remem-
bered their old associates did SO to the
extent of something under ten doll
lars apiece. The Hungarians sent
the most generous gifts, each aver
aging SO. Then came the Russians,
$3.50, with the Austrians next, a few
cents less than SIT. The Germans
sent the smallest gifts, $3.50, they be-
ing the only ones below the English.
The Italian, with his pickax and
undiscovered clothes, may seem any.
thing but sentimental and warm
hearted when he is passed on the
street, but the figures prove tina. at
least at one aso of the year he
leads all of our new citizens in dis
pensing Christmas cheer across seas,
where, but for the immigrants CEN
tribution In the Christmas box,the
day. would be a cherries one indeed
for many a family.
The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16
CHRISTMAS GIVING.
IT Is GENERAL AMONG ALL
CLASSES IN AMERICA.
The Rich as a Rule Give Generously
Of Their Vast Means-Vast
Sums Sent to Europe by
Emigrants.

Christmastide is the time of good
cheer. The time when, with a nat
ural impulse, the millionaire, banker,
broker, merchant and the wage work
er remember their less fortunate
brother man. The man who would
undertake even to approximate the
millions given away at this time OF
year would set himself an impossible
task, but the following information
may aid one to form some idea.
The present-day custom of en-
ployers of giving money gifts to their
employees undoubtedly had it's origin
among bankers and brokers; but it
has gradually spread until now the
employer who does not distribute
Christmas envelopes to make glad the
men and women who work for him
is the exception that proves the rule.
In New York's financial center,
Wall street, the year 1901 is still wei!
remembered for the great sums of
money given by the fnanciers, bank
ers and brokers to their thousands Of
employees; it was the record year for
good cheer. For instance, it IS a
well-known fact that the firm of J. P.
Morgan & Co. gave to its employees
alone upward of half a million dollars.
Every clerk received an amount.
equivalent to his years salary, while
the heads of departments had checks
amounting from $4,000 to $4,000 hand
ed to them with the firms best wishes
for a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year"
But while the gifts have not been
so large since, no man who finds mis-
living in Wall street suffers for want
of generosity on the part of his en-
ployer at this season. For years, no
matter what the condition of the aar
ket, one well-known broker has given
$100 in gold to each of his office boys,
twice that sum ito a few of the clerks,
and $500 to the rest, the t~elegrapners
and all others in his employ. All told.
this broker drops something like $10,-
900 into the Christmas box.
Although wage-earners in o:her
marts of trade probably, as a rule,
The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16

Christmas handkerchief l embroidered
for him. He didn't seem to notice me
at all. l doubt if he knew ms. But
he wants to see you dreadfully."
Jacks uncle? Annabel felt bewil-
dered enough, but she rose and made
ready with a sigh, feeling quite sure
that Juanita was mistaken and that it
was only a book agent making a most
untimely visit. Who else ever called
upon her?
The caller stood by the parlor door
as If he could hardly wait for her com
ing, and, c%uriously enough, he held in
his hands-of all the ridiculous things
"a stubby pair of red mittens. But it
was not a strange face that bent over
them. 1t was the face, grown older
and altered, but certainly the face, OF
the boy for whom the little mittens
had been knit, John Warren.
The DOM whirled strangely to An
mabel, but it was surely John who
caught her. 1t was Johns voice that
was explaining that he was indeed
John, that his name had been changed
to suit the provisions of the will of the
maternal grandfather who made him
his heir, with the condition that he
would take his name.
Somehow in the surprise and the be-
wilderment and the comfort of having
John again, John to whom she had
told every thought, the pitiful little
story of the spoiled Christmas day
came out. Then she raised her head
in sudden modification, and held it to
the light till every wrinkle and worried
pucker from the broad forehead to the
mouth revealed themselves
in p~itiless plainness. "Oh, what have
l said? What must you think of me?"
she cried. But the man who had been
John Warren drew the little head
down again, and, quite unmindful of
Juanita, who was certainly peeping
through the crack in the door, kissed
the trembling lips and the white cheek
that grew suddenly as rosy as Juanita's
Sweetheart" he said, you shall
never spend another old maids Christ
The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16

cents a pound, and the other delica-
eies in proportion.
Last year the Salvation Army fed
300 900 poor in our large cities, and
over 100000 was collected for his
purpose by means of the army's pot, now
a familiar sight at this season to
every dweller in New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Boston, and other cities.
Amounts varying from enc cen to
$500 are dropped into the, pots. So
many pennies are contributed in New
York and Chicago that machines are
employed in counting them.
While the Salvation Army dinners
are by far the most ambitious of all
dinners to the poor, those given to
newsboys by their patrons and the
meals spread for the delectation of
their constituents by the political dis
trict leaders of New York's East side
are not to be passed over lightly.
That is a poor and small dinner, in
deed, which does not cost 5 $1,000, and
the S%ullivans, of Bowery fame, have
oSSh IN LIVE hoUlI o1 opCuu1uS oCt-
eral thousand dollars for turkey and
trimmings.
Many millionaires there are also
Wte arc noted fer tS.eir gifts at this
time of the year to cheer the poor. A
big wholesale poultry dealer in New
York has had one of the country's
leading m%illionaires for a regular GUS
toner for the last six Christmases,
and each season he places an order
for 500 turkeys-$1,2 200 for this one
item alone. John e. Andrus, mayor
of Yonkers, N. Y, and wne of $780,
DOC, 900 worth of property, gives away
more than a quarter of a million dol
lars to charity every year, and by far
the greatest part of this fortune is
distributed at this season. The door
of Yonkers always have a merry
Christmas, because of Mr.. Andrus.
Last year he sent out 1900 dinners
and gifts by the wagonload for the
children.
In this connection we must also
take into consideration the money
sent to Europe by Uncle Sans new
citizens just before Christmas. 1t
has amounted to about $4,000, 900 year
ly since 1900. The Christmas boats |
Of 1908, the first sailing on December
IL, and the last on the 18th, carried
to the old country 161 SOB post Office
money orders valued at 81. 1896, 295. 90.
besides many thousands of dollars in
registered letters. Of these money
orders s1,331, calling for $S30,63S.1 Is,
went to Great Britain. Thirty-two !
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and tied them with red ribbon. Jsst
then she Yves called away. TIE pres
ents lay out on her table as carefully
arranged as the specimens in a scien-
tific cabinet, hers on one side aud
Juanita's on thu other. So they would
have remained had careless little
Susette Kept out of the room. But
Susette wanted baby ribbon for her
own small concerns, and nobody but
Aunt Annabel kept it on hand. In
helping herself to it, she knocked two
small packages from the table. They
were both about the same size. soft
and tied up with red ribbon, and the
envelopes TO hold each had laid, al
ready directed, beside. Susette, hastily
picking them up and trying to put
them back, exchanged the packages,
The stubby red mittens in their dainty
wrappings laid beside the envelope ad-
dressed "Mr. Walter Taylor to whom
Juanita had meant to send an en-
broidered handkerchief.
who is Mr.. Walter Tay,or??" Aunt
Annabel had asked, and Juanita had
replied, lightly:
"Oh, he's Jacks uncle" Jack was
the boy who carried the skates for
herb He's a lonely old gentleman and
| thought it would please him to have
me send him something. He's a Wild
over, and he has lots Of money. and
Jack is his only nephew" And world
ly-wise little Juanita smiled meaning
ly at the unworldly little aunt who
would never, at her age or at any age.
have thought of future prospects in
this way.
And SO, by Susette's mistake. Mr..
Walter Taylor received the stubby reds
mittens instead of the handkerchief
that was designed for him. It was q
lonely man who opened the little red
ribboned package, though no one but
a girl like Juanita would have thought
OF calling him an old gentleman.
When he unwrapped the package and
read the card that said In the small.
dainty, old-fashioned .lady's hand.:
with a great deal of love for Christ
from Annabel Wilder" his face
suddenly changed into the face Of 4
boy. He whistled. Then ne laughed.
Then he scrutinized the postmark.
snatched his hat and was OF Ike 4
shot to find q directory. But Miss An
nabel's name was not in the directory.
she lived with her sister and sisters
husband. It was Christmas evening
before he traced her.
It had been a lonely day for Anna
bel. Juanita's words had taken all the
pleasure out of it. Sister Agnes and
Brother Char.es and their children
were as kind as could be, but they be-
longed 70 thoroughly To- each other
and were SO absorbed In each other
she could not help q very sore
feeling. She went to her room
early with q headache, and some tears
had believed the pillow before Juanita
tapped at the door To say, ID an aston
voice:
There's q caller In the parlnr for
Aunt Anuahel. Its Jack uncle.
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had consequently avoided the shop
for the past month or SC.
Il shall be wanting some cigars on
Friday" he went on at last, "and you
can keep me a couple of boxes of your
best Soberinos-those at $40 the hum
bred. I'll call for them on Friday"
Wouldn't you prefer to send your
man for them?" sneered MIR. Dibbs.
Il have just received a little legacy
of $5,OOO," observed Jack, quietly.
ooh! Is hat it? I congratulate You,
sir" said Mr.. Dibbs, with an eager
change of manner There is a little
bill outstanding, sir, fancy, but, Of
course, there amt no Jury about that.
P'r'aps you'd prefer to take the cigars
with you now, SIR"
"Well, perhaps a dozen; the rest you
a send around on Friday. Oh, by
the way-this $4,000 is in a check
which l can't change till the banks
reopen. Would you mind lending me
a flyer just to take me over Christ
mas?"
Take you over Christmas" echoed
Mr.. Dibbs, blankly, and assuming an
aspect so very similar to that of Mr..
Jorkins in response to the same re-
quest, that Jack almost laughed.
Take you e Christmas? Excuse
me a-sayin' of it, but you'll be taken
over to the police station if you come
them little check lodges too often.
You take my tip and"
But Jack had not waited. Once
more he stood in. the cold, cold street
with $4,000 in his pocket that, for all
the use it was to him, he might just
as we'll light his pipe with.
However, he had made up his mind
to trouble no one else in the matter:
so back to his room he trudged, buy
ing six stale two-cent buns on the
way; and upon these, and tea, he made
his breakfast, dinner and tea that
day and the day following.
On the Friday he went to the bank,
pretty cheap, opened an ac-
count, and was, able t o arrange with
the manager for sufficient immediate
accommodation to settle UP with Mr5.
Mr.. Jorkins and Mr..
a task which he performed
with so much good humor that they,
one and all, regretted their suspicious
Of two days before. Drayton is now
a famous man and his novels are read
-ar and wide; but he always says that
he quaintest experience of his whole
life was his starving his way through
l Christmas day with $1,000 in his
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denly. Then there had been sickness
and unexpected removal in her own
family. If John had written to her,
she had never received the letter. Her
W childish, misdirected epistle to
him had come back to her months aft
erward from the dead letter Office.
John had passed completely out of her
life. But put away among her most
precious treasures were the little red
mittens waiting to be given to him.
What had an old maid to do with
such mementoes? How Juanita would
laugh if she knew her foolishness!
She would get out the mittens this
very Christmas and send them to her
brother Bob's boy-Bob's boy who was
always losing mittens.
1t was a hard day. Juanita's heed
less words seemed to tinge everything
with bitterness. They sounded in her
imagination again as she sat wrapping
up the Christmas presents. A foolish
mist was in her eyes as she did the
stubby mittens up into a neat parcel,
wrapped them in white tissue paper