New-York tribune., 1907-12-24
THE GRIP LES CHRISTMAS.
Plenty of Turkey and Presents for Unfortu-
nate Boys and Girls.

One wear ago Isabel was living in cave in
Florida: she had never seen shoe or stocking.
never learned to read or heard OF Christmas: and
her poor short useless legs were boxed back like
the half OF a hoop. Yesterday, at the dinner and
Christmas tree festival at the Free Industrial
School for Crippled Children. No Al West 5Ith
she walked downstairs with only the banis-
ters help her. A years at this school and
at the Lulu Thorley Lyons Home, at Claverack.
n. Y, where the children taken in the sum-
mer. has straightened Isabers legs and stretched
them out so that they are twelve lnches longer
than they were. Also she has learned to read. and
is now, she puts it, outside the primer
Isabel and the rest of the crippled children put
themselves outside few other things yesterday,
too. One hundred pounds Of turkey had been pro-
vided for the sixty children, not to speak Of
mashed potatoes and gravy. peas. cranberries.
cake, candy and oranges The candy and fruit
were sent by Mrs. Frank J. Bodgett All the chill
dren except big boy. whose legs are quite
paralyzed and who had to be carried got down.
stairs TO the dining room without aid. singing a
hymn as they marched, crept. hobbed swung
themselves along on crutches- One boy, whose
legs too stiff 10 descend stairs the ordinary
way. solved the problem by clasping the banis-
ters with both and letting himself down back
ward. Another lad. who lost both legs under
Mrs Arthur Elliot Fish and Miss Florence
Guernsey, the president and the corresponding Sec
retary Of the society," there TO help the super
tendent and teachers 10 see that the Children got
all they wanted Most Of them ate two platefuls
of turkey and vegetables. and a few even more
When the ice IN small chap
seemed to miss something. IL seems that the
who served the ice cream at the dinner last year
had fit right in the middle OF things Yesterday
TO of this small boy with memory
Please he suddenly piped. very shriu, please,
who's eoln' trow de mt dis year?
There was plenty OF entertainment. though.
without the fit At the end Of dinner splendid
frosted cake brought in. and the children
voted to decide who should cut it. Most OF them
said. Miss Guernsey
Now, children" they asked. did you say
that because you wanted Miss Guernsey, or from
polteness?'
wanted her." most Of them affirmed. but
small boy said sturdily:
"P'uteness.
With the cake the children had the treat Of .
weak cup OF coffee
Dinner over. the pathetic procession wound its
way upstairs again The children looked actually
fatter, Andrew Carnegie'-so named because
he is so poor-and 'Dimples.' who has naturally
small appetite. though he lives in a boarding
house. where he Is kept by the school. having no
father mother, any worldly possessions but
"a head brace. a merry disposition and a pair OK
deep dimples.
Upstairs the children voted 10 who should
become the posssssor Of a stuffed cat which had
been sent the school The lucky child drew
deep breath she casped the whiskered creature
1T looks Ike fairy" she stammered delShtedF
All the children had presents. and a pretty tree
was dressed for them Before the distribution OF
presents there entertainment-HoVIns
picrurc3- This treat was the gilt OF Arthur BerJl'
Broadway merchant
Some really fine specimens of work done by inc
crippled boys and girls in the school were on exhl-
biton. There wood carvings. including ChalfS'
and shirtwaist boxes; pieces OF leather
tooline-hangings screens and sofa pillows %
artistic and worknanlike these things that IL IL
strange 10 think that they the handiwork OK
the handicapped. The money realized by the sals
CT the articles is given to the young makers ms
school is supported by voluntary contributions