Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-16
GO ID
 GOOD FELLOWS
Monday Mail will Bear Let terS of Importance to Poor Children Of
 This City
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Monday mail win bring to all vol unteer Good Fellows she lists of names. ages and sexes of children whom they have agreed to make Christmas merry for t win be pleasant Sunday occupation to pre- pare the separate lists from the Ions one which is furnished by the secrc- tary of the bureau of charity of the board Of trade. This will not mean that the work Is completed or that tho Good Fellow movement is at an end. There will still be a short time. Stin it is desirable to make the puT- ] chases early and an application sent in today will be answered tomorrow with list Of the number of children | suggested and the age and sex Of each. This will enable a malicious se- ! lection of toys and gifts by each Good Fellow for Ee or she will not want to give a jumping jack to a twelve year old nor a doll to some manly little boy.
 Applications for aid. applications for lists from those who will give that aid continue 10 come to The Re view. Truly the greatest of these is charity.
 One writer to A. Good Fellow says .i Please send me list of four chlid- Aren in some needy family, children to whom Christmas might mean nOtb- .I iug. ! am alone 5n the world ou' \ here and expect no holiday happiness \ except what I may giean from seeing four youngsters enjoy themselves \ Christmas is a day of sad associ1- \ tions to me owing to losses of rela- | tive at that particular season but l ! will try to forget Islis by the action which you suggest. did have child x ren of my own and then there was .l something to the day. Maybe this \ year it will be less dreary than | dsual
 f Now here is the right spirit oi true good fellowship. Though un- happy himself. the writer is not a \ pessiI1ist nor groueh. If he can nor have his full measure of joy he | will try to see that his own mislor- tunes do not prevent some others from having theirs and in that way he hopes to mitigate his own lot and il is a cinch that he will succeed and will be enabled Co forget, at least for the nonce the sadness that rises from recollections Of happier past at this the ordinarily happiest season Of the whole glad year.
 What does Christmas mean to you. reader2 Is it a nuisance and period you look forward 10 with dread? it was not always so. Let youc thoughts
 wander back to yoGr own childhood
 days Recall the eagerness with
 hich you arose from your bed, lett
 the warmth that was ordinarily Sd !, entcing and in your little nightic k needless cf the chili morning, of tho frost on the window and the creab
 of passing vehicles over the snow
 frozen pavement without. rushed
 fRom your room shouting Merry Chrlstmas2 Merry Christmas, z
 eager to see what presents were
 there awaiting your coming. Remem
 Ter how you used to count the day.
 from far in advance till the all event
 fall Christmas eve arrived.
 Other children, those of today are
 just as you were then only some arS
 not so fortunate. Will you seek {, put in their lives a few rays of th' z brightness that iilumined vour oWI U fife in those happy. thoughtless day r. Of long ago? There is something fo F all the Good Fellows Of Bisbee t' U consider this morning.