Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-01-25
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The Christmas holidays have come
and gone. They brought JOY to many
and particularly to the little ones.
To the middlc-agcd who gathered
their children about them, they
brought the pride and qualification
OF parental love and tho pure pleas
ure of sympathy in the JOY OF the
young and light Of heart. TO the
Old Christmas is season Of memOr-
ies-swcct, but also sad-and full
OF lonely longing for what has been
IN the years gone by.
And are we as thoughtful OF the
aged as we should be at sucn times
Of fcstirtty?--the aged in our own
homes and in the neighborhood III
which we live? Let each Of us trv TO
make some SAD life brighter this year.
for by next Christmas they may have
passed away and our opportunity be
lost
The past Christmas was spent by
the Sun@hincrs trying to brighten the
lives Of all who were sick, or who in
sadness dreaded Christmas because OF
the vacant chair that held such a
large place at the iireside and in the
heart. tried to remember all the
old people, the sick, the we'll, the
rich and the poor.
! sent out Il great many papers and
hnnls h,;c
cards, 81 pictures, one pair OF child $
shoes. 9 hair ribbons, % handkcr-
chief bags. 80 handkcrchiefs, box
doll caps, 4 doll hats, dozen toys. =
boxes Of toys. ) pincushons, II na"s.
packages Of doll clothes, - strings
Of beads, | pair of gloves, pair OF
stockings, | chair cushion, | lap robe
for chair. 4 packages Of quilt scraps.
packages Of clothes, quilt, | fancy
pillow given by Mrs. Edmund Foster
to Il. NJ. Fitzgerald.
SO many helped make sunshine
work success that am afraid
cannot think of everybody. But if
the names Of any Of the donors are
omitted ii will not be Intentional ON
my part.
The Fair Play circle sent a box Of
beautiful handkerchief bags that
helped me so much. wanted to
write TO each mumbcr and tell her so,
but my hands were too full OF the
work.
Miss Laura Niebourn Of Pittsburg.
Pa, sent me two boxes Of books. toys
and a dozen beautiful dolls dressed
by her mother, who is SO years old.
or shall | say SO years young? Every
dress was nicely trimmed in lace. and
the dolls all had on lovely caps with
ribbon strings. The little girl that
got one OF those dolls was certainly
fortunate. Every dress had nice
pearl buttons, the buttonholes being
beautifully worked. We sent more
than 80 dolls. but none as nice as
Mrs. Nicbourn's.
Mrs. Warren Davis sent half
dozen handkcrchiefs; Mrs. George
Pike, three-fourths dozen.
Misses May Hubbard and l'rcdda
ilughs, Pauline Davis, Beth Coc, Car
rie McMahan and Yancy Sigh dressed
the other dolls for me.
Little Mary Gambrell gave me
some Christmas cards to send a little
girl: Mary Julia Shanklin gave a
dressed doll; Jamie Neville Shanklin
gave package OF clothes to little
girl whose mother is a widow with
three children, one blind She is
just out Of the hospital, not strong
enough to do hard work after the
serious operation she has undergone,
but is doing what she can to keep
her children.
Mrs. ]. b. Pickett gave pictures
and two lovely handkerchief bags;
Mrs. Lena Reid, scrap books; Mrs.
J. b. Shanklin, scraps for fancy
work; Mrs. Rubic, money to pay the
postage on the packages sent by
mail; J. b. Shanklin. Saturday 1--we
ming Posts; Miss Maryc Shclor, a
box Of books, magazines and papers.
| divided books with the Hiawatha
Society Library.
The Misses Davis, ,Sallic, Julia and
Myat, helped me pack and get the
things ready to send.
If it made the receivers half as
happy as | was in sending | was we'll
repaid. From some Of the answers
get | think it did. One card I got
came from a poor woman who can
bcrcd on Christmas, who says: 81
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