Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-12-20
SOCIETY NEWS OF THE WEEK
Once a Year

scflsmus comes but once a year.
IL gifts drunk nobody don't keer
such Ia the song that the plantation
dafkles used 60 sing IN the south, ana
4 suppose they still sing A. unless
fhInrs have changed nightly IN the
,ast few YEATS. w. win pass over
Tho mornl nApeet 81 the case aud con-
slider only the philosophy that w em-
braced IN thsse lines
who. besides the kids. wants Christi
mas TO come mort than once a year
or course 20 ask this question " un-
orthodox. but all the same the CUES
ton IL there.
~ Kits drunk nobody don't kcer
In other words, WI are all off on a
big one. and nobody has right 10
crlticisc anybody else.
The worst thing about chrhiinnh
IA that everybody tries too hard 70
have a good time These things can
be made 10 order. The high lights OF
ralciy are those that arc illuminated
Nv spontaneous combustion. Never ~
your life did YOU ST down ana plan
real hlp-hlp.huffsh occasion that X
didn't turn out a wretched fizzie whvn
the returns were all In. It's got 10
happen just 80. or Il went happen AZ
all -
Look the thing squnrely IN the face
There are q LOT OF folks IN Albuquerque
today whose whole thought npou.
ChrIaimas II that they VIII Dc goou
and glad when Il y over, Thcfu ~.
still othefn~-end OF those the less shiu
the hotier---to whom the season means
that they viii have 10 put up for some
Christmas Kilt that means npihinR
h A
"A Il given. bur that II Is a matter Of
form-somcthlng that 10 expected, And
there nre those 10 whom Christmas
mcrrimcnt IL but an anodync TO dead
en- the remembrance OF things that
had better be forgotten.
There are few--a precious lew
who love Christmas for its own sake
May their shadows never grow less
and may their tribe increased
AAA
A "ncw thought person defines
hell as destructive energy gencf-
nted In ones own thoughts This
N annoying, also cumbersome.
Think of being Obliged TO say;
Get the doasructlve-energy-gen-
cratcd-ln- one's-thoughia out OF
horo,"
A GREAT Work.
The work that has been done dus-
ing the past week BY the Christmas
committee under The direction Of Mrh,
Neil n. Field. ably aided and nbctted
BY Colonel u. X n Sellers ana divers
and sundry ladies and gentlemen
whose hearts are In the right place,
can not be too highly praised, The
hungry have been fed. clothing has
been furnished 10 those who sorely
needed Il. warmth and cheer have
been given 10 cold. cheerless 'dobc
rooms. and happlnees---at least COM
pnratlve happiness taken the
place OF dull misery
Five days remain until Christmas
day. and there Is much that can be
done IN five days. Also, there "
much that needs be done: but with
Mrs. Field and Colonel Sellers on the
job. there " no danger that those
things which ought to be done VIII be
left undone. II Il only necessary for
those OF ~ who have some Idea cf
what human life Is to tran In and
make their work the easier.
The tree which next Thursday af-
ternoon Will reveal Itself TO the Won
dering eyes OF eitR=full OF kids IL
W ht y HlAfNti~~ one 81 the fnlnkh inut
Will be worth the while OF anybody
20 take a trip 70 soc. II was a wise
idea 10 change the location from Rob-
inson park 70 the Iot opposite the Al
vHrndo, for II Will b. better fun and
viii make better Ahow--two consld-
erations neither one Of which the peo-
pie In charge could afford 10 over
look
The municipal Christmas tree IL not
an Albuquerque Institution. There
were others who saw Il first hut II
] am not mistaken the Albuquerque
tree. IN all thai goes to make for what
q municipal Christmas tree ought 10
be, VIII huve something on any one
that has yet been erected In any city