Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-14
nWHTTE" CHRISTMAS
MAY BE REALIZED, BUT
WOULDN'T PLEASE ALL
Only Ten More Shopping Days
Before the Great Holiday
Is Here-Charities
Hard Worked
ANGELS" HANDS FULL
IucIuding today, there are only ten more
shoppine days before Christmas.

alternatives that always come up at this
season They are. for instance:
,,,bo,ber to wish for white" Christ
,,,s or for a green Christmas. The
dtaicultv lies in this, that a white"
Shristn,as. as now seems possible, is very
ofecrrul and all very fine for those vino
nc warm houses and thick clothing,
hrt very hard on the poor. But neverthc-
less the obvious thing to do is to wish
for a snowy Christmas.
and then make mp for II by giving the
,onr fuel and warm clothing. II this IS
pot n desirable thing to do, then wish
for warm green Christmas.
Then there is the perplexing alternative,
,o decide whether to give q boy an eleC-
trical railway, with switches and all sorts
M contrivances or cheap make-believe
railway that has to be coaNed along by
hand or with a spring that breaks on
december 26 Because some boys lose
interest in complex toys with amazing
facility. and others never lose their inter-
EST in the plainest kind of plain toys.
The riddle is solved by giving to the
,,ri,narinntive boy tho complex toy, and
10 the imaginative one the simple one.
n will be more fun for the unimaginative
bov TO break the complex ContrivanCC, and
tbe complex Contrivancc would only an-
nov the hoy with fancy which can see
things better when they are not too real
A New York newspaper has compiled
n list of the 100 worst cases of suffering i'm
that city. The various charitable or
ranizations co-operated, and the list reads
like a page from the diary of Il man i'm
the underworld. They are all the cases
of very poor people and in every instance
there is just one medicine needCd-moncy.
II would be interesting il n list We're
complied of the 100 worst sufferers in a
great city exclusive of those who need
money for the necessities of life. Many
have to so through life in the uniform
of good clothes, and while having thC
bare necessities are troubled about many
things.
Sherlock Holmes once unravclcd mys-
terry of an apparently very well-to-do
man who spent several hours every day
in the disguise of bcggar, rcaping a
harvest of pennies in his little tin cup
There are a lot of wcll-drcssed folks
who would like to try that way of cising
out now and then il it could be man
aged.
The Philadelphia Housing commission
Is sending out christmas cards.
what" asks the commission on these
gifts to the owners Of property in the
congcstcd tenement districts of tho city,
''couId n,nbndv moro Of Tho Christmas G
snirjt of rho,,rbtr,,Inoss for othcrs than a
personal visit to such properties, talks
viii ,o,,r ten,rts and tho rorrcction of
sucb derccts or an unsafe or. insanitarv
character os Won discover"
Probably some day the cities VIII tear
down these old shacks and build decent
places For the year 2lG7 is sure to ar
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now So ~ yon nIcas kin have another
one foot or one eve, / will love il. Yours
truly Lily."
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tlons TO help him out.
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always TO be found i'm sections over
whelminrIy industrial.
Christmas is "A better time than any
other to start TO give thought 10 such
problems. for they should he handled
with happy and bonefuI spirit and not
with WV face ana n desngirInr heart
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