The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-23

fore closing hours, late on the after
noon Of busy day. The head of the
office commissioned the officer to buy
a reasonable amount of food to tide the
family over until the next morning
when the case would be investigated
and provided for. He bought ST. worth
Of picked pig feet for them. Next
morning the family needed the services
of doctor. The policeman was sorry,
as Miss CottrelI said she had no doubt
many another unwise giver has been
when confronted with the i'll results of
disinterested generosity, but that did
not repair the evil.
"We are all too prone said Miss
Cottrell, 'fto consider the poor on one
day of the year and forget them the
othe, three hundred and sixty-four.
Streak of Fat Streak of Lean.
eve deluge them with spasmodic
and irregular plenty and leave them to
loneliness and want for the rest of the
time How would you like to have
stranger appear in your home on Christ
sions for you and disappear not to be
seen again until the next Christmas,
if at all?'
Miss Cottrell said the charity work
er knows the futility of the one day
giving, and, she said, while she would
in no wise curb the spirit of generosity
that prompts Christmas giving, still
she wished it might be efficiently
directed.
"Helpful giving" she continued, els
not the giving which makes it easier
for the recipient to avoid his respon-
sibilities; easier to indulge an appe-
tite to drink, nor that fills the heart of
young man or woman with hunger
for something good and wholesome
which it does not make it possible for
him to obtain
Charity means service. Tt calls for
the human touch and the sympathetic
mind. Most of us could find more time
for charity, for many Of us who do
give, give largely in December which
is the busiest month of the year, and
if time can be found then it could in
other months when times are less
rushing
Register All Giving.
Miss Cottrell emphasized the need
Of registration Of each family to be
cared for in order that some will not
receive two baskets and thus deprive
some other ceedy family of its share.
Next on the program was delightful
piano selection admirably played by
Miss Margery Miller.
Artistic and finished in every detail
was the charming reading by Mrs. Peter
f. Stair of "Christmas in Old Vir-
ginia, Thomas Nelson Paige's beauti-
full picture of period that is past, and
of characters which vanished as the
wealth of the south seeped away during
the Civil war and the time of the re-
construction. Mrs. Stair s treatment
of the subject was sympathetic and nat
ural and the warm reception given her
effort showed how thoroughly it was APP
preciated.
The Dream House.
Mrs Robinson responded to the toast,
"The House Of Our Dreams which
was the fanciful name given the pro-
posed woman s building, project mo-
thered by the club. Mrs. Robinson ex-
pressed herself as being most hopeful as
to the early contamination of the plan.
Who knows she asked, whether
there is not someone here in Kenosha,
merely waiting to see if we are in dead
earnest in this matter before giving us
financial support, just as five men have
come forward and promised $250,000 =
the Woman s club of Chicago for the
building of its new club home, upon
its fulfilling certain conditions?n
Mrs. Robinson expressed her belief
that if the women of Kenosha will for
get all personal differences and pull to- /
gether for the clubhouse that the plan
will be shortly realized. She suggest
ed that the first thing to do, might be
to purchase a desirable lot as land is
constantly increasing in price in the
downtown districts.
Mrs. Otis Trenary spoke of the de-
STABILITY of adding room for his
torical museum to any building erected
by the women of the town. Mrs. Stair.
Mrs. Faville and others advocated that
the woman's building contain rest
room for all women so that shoppers,
women employed down town and others
might go there to rest or to have
lunch.
Mrs. Bradford Optimistic.
"We shall certainly get our woman s
building some day." said Mrs. Mary D.
Bradford. "Some way, believe that
different forces, will cooperate to bring
this about If the women do their hest