The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-12-16
PLAN. CHRISTMAS
FOR EACH OTHER
1t Bitter disappointment Aydifs These
Waits Unless Someone Helps Fulfill Their
Baby Expectations Of Giving and ReceiU-
lng Little Joys of the Season.

P'viIlle, do you know what ! am
ing to get YOU for christmasT
ron, what 10 III"
r am going to get you a big rub
r ball."
Are your NY, I'm 90 glad"
This is conversation actually
erheard at the Orphans home of
Sokane. And neither Of the chill
en has a penny to get the good
lngs promised each other, nor a
rent to turn to In childish faith
d Christmas anticipation.
Yet they are busiiy and happily
Inning Christmas gifts for each
her, hoping and working rs chill
en will hope and work under any
fcumstances In accordance with
loving Instincts within their lit
breasts.
They are not building on belief
Santa Claus, for gentle legends
out of the orphan and waits life
tn earliest understanding. The
nel, cutting mark of neglect Is
E first impression stamped on the
brld's overflow of childlife and
hder it's crushing force wither
bst of the sweet traits and fond
pectations that make babyhood
nearest approach to divinity on
nth.
Yet one element Of nature clings
d springs to the last and revives
responses to the merest kind
ISIS. The faith of q little child
hnds as the test OF human prepar-
lon for the perfected life to come,
ID whether you believe It or not,
u cannot deny the claim this
ith places upon every person with
human heart.
The Press would plead the cause
every homeless child and does in
general way. But there is one
8 house filed with orphans who
EN- more likely than the others to
overlooked, and for them The
Tess speaks particularly. This is
e orphans home mentioned In the
)ening paragraph, the place where
|e little ones are so confidently
aiming Christmas gifts for each
her.
No county aid is given this insti-
|tion. 1t has nothing to depend
BON for support other than what
|e public will give. Under that
|rangement you can easily esti-
|ate how much will be left over
e actual expense account for
esents, however pitifully cheap.
Yet what right have you who
I've plenty to let those little ones
wake to a barren Christmas morn
IL, a day of grief and sadness
ter days of happy planning for
lch other?
There are % orphans in the
bme. A fraction of the total
hristmas presents prepared and
hrchased In this city so small as
be beyond computation would
lake them all happy and would
over be missed from the grand
|tal,
That little band of orphans COM
Uses childhoods instincts from
(e softly developing human bud of
20 years up to the age of 10 where
opacity for suffering Is keenest. ;
Mrs. l.. M. Dey, the superintend-
bit, wants to meet In some manner
(e Christmas expectations that
hrround her. She wants to see
kch child the happy possessor of a
~ and the gratified little guest at
Christmas dinner garnished with
bmeohing better than the usual
Ire.
She wants to bring to them the
Falization that all over the world
is Christmas day and that they
the orphans home In Spokane
kve been remembered on that date
universal gladness as they tried
remember each other In their
hlplessness.
To aid IN making this happiness
bssible is a privilege and a pass
brt to the best and highest satsfac-
on the season offers to men and
omen.
Their thoughts have been given
each other, their all on earth.
hese little brothers and sisters OF
hnianity to whom the day will
flnghnothing but the heart break
Is, knncomprehending disappoint-
u pshe children upon whom pow
Fty has laid Its heavy hand must
EAR the best they can, unless
pmebody thinks Of them.
This is not q sermon on charity;
Is nothing in the nature of char
". The true Christmas spirit
anks n a higher and holier order
pan charity. Christmas IA a deifi-
htion OF child love. the CONNER
ration OF the babe born in the
langer, and to whom the wise men
their strengt hof years and learn