Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-26
CHARITABLE PEOPLE
SUPPLY THOSE IN NEED
Richmond Children Do Not Hang Up
Their Stockings in
Vain.
ARE REMEMBERED
Need Will Continue After Holidays,
and The Times-Dispatch Will Re-
ceivc Contributions for Relief OF
Those Out of Work

AS the wini is tempered to the shorn
lamb. so yesterday We're the vicissi =
tudes OF life among the poor and needy
tempered by the benevolent activities
OIL the Associated Charities. by the Sal
walton Army. by other charitable or
eanizations and by several hundred
individuals. 70 whom n touching story
OF distress was not told in vain The
spirit of giving was never more vital.
The Christmastide was never more
blessed with thanksgiving voiced by
people who had thought the season
would bring them nothing but Il
strained discomfort. nothing but the
cries of hungry children or an appeal
from the eyes OF women who had for
gotten how TO weep Richmond met
the need. For every family having no
means OF its own there was n Santa
Ciaus For every hreless hearth there
was fuel. For every vacant board
there was food. And in every little
stocking, token Of child's simple
faith in the mystery of the man who
drives reindecrs through the snow
whipped air, and carries with him a
never decreasing armful of gifts. there
was left some remembrance of. Christ 5
natal day.
CHILDREN DO NOT HANG
UP THEIR STOCKINGS IN VAIN
Through a list OF unfortunates, com
piled by Mrs. Buchanan. wife of Dr.
james Buchanan. general secretary of
the Associated Charities. 297 families,
in which are comprised 776 children.
were visited by private individuals
who had come to learn of others woe,
and TO every member of every family
was given some material token. All
received food and fuel, and the little
children did not leave their stockings
hung in the chimney corner or at the
foot of the bed in vain. The Elks. fol-
lowing q custom that originated with
the order. gave TO the poor 400 baskets
filled with material Christmas cheer.
/, The Salvation Army. whose officers go
where woe and want and suffering are
known with each days rising sun, dis
trihuted several hundred baskets
among the poor.
In every prison house in the city,
from the big pile where criminals go
to the grim building by the Shock oe's
turbid tide. there was some manifcs-
tation of the cheer of the outside
world. To many the parcel post
brought remembrances from those
whose hearts are turned towards the
SUM- whose eyes are free to look whore
they may. and the prison officials pro-
vided them with more than the usual
neagre fare. Even in the boarding
houses guests Of day or week or
month were fed with something more
than the usual hash, and contented
stomachs were stanch against the
outer gloom
EVERY CHILD IN LOCAL.
HOSPITALS REMEMBERED
The Richmond Rotary Club joined in
the gift-giving movement, and every
child now in Il hospital was remem-
bered with Christmas present The
club sent out l50 gifts. and, so far rs
II knew, every little patient received a
token of cheer.
Down on East Franklin Street, where
the grim pile of the Associated Chari-
ties, a famed hostclry in it's day, rears
itself among newer walls, Dr. James
Buchanan and his devoted wife labored
| through the bleak. wintry day for
those who came asking a pittance OF
| food. rag to keep the cold away, O,
place where they might sleep pro-
| tected from the shrill blasts Of the
storm king. In the wnyslde inn, as the
| department for transient men Is
known, nfty-cight men foregathered
from the cold and were fed and com.
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