Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
DAYS BRING THEIR
JOY TO MULTITUDE
Only 10 of Them Left Between
Now and December Is, When
All but the Tardy
Will Finish
GIFTS FOR THE HOSPITALS
Including today. there nrc only 20
.hanntn,r dnys before Christmas

rnciudinr today. there nrc only y
shopping days before Christmas.
seoinr that everybody is supposed t.
have his or her shopping done this yeai
before December 15 and as there are only
ten shopping days left before that date
the presumption is natural that sugEes
,,ons about what to give for Christmas
proscnts would be now out of place, every
body having decided what to give, If he
or she have not indeed already made the
necessary purchases. However
There are a few things that may have
been overlooked. This sometimes hap
pens. A few things are sometimes bought
IN the shops by good many people at
about 4:S7 p. M, December q.
II is generally admitted that the bcs,
thing to get for little girl is a doll
for a big girl an engagement ring, or II
there is any danger that this might be
taken seriously, then some other similar
" amusing trinkot; for big boy, pipes
or cigarettes or something nasty like
that; and for little boy, leaden soldiers
and cannon-but stop!
There is controversy this year ahou.
this question of toy soldiers for boys and
It had Netter be settled at once. There
is no narm in giving a boy toy SOL
dIsrs, because he must kill something
dust as his father must connive In hav-
ing cattle aud harmless vegetables killed.,
and IL is far better that he should kill toy
soldiers than live flies. If war IL to be
played at all It Is better that 1t be played
on a playroom floor than on n battle
field; and as for inculcating murderous
tendencies. 1t is we'll known that the most
benevolent persons that ever lived, like
n,,l lia ~ tt,--
Bryan, all played with toy soldiers when
they were little.
These gifts to the heroes of the sister
republic across the seas will reach Paris
before Christmas, as they are going
on the steamship Rochambcau which
sails from New York next Saturday
morning The gifts will be in charge OF
Mrs. Mary II. willard, chairman of the
International Charities Surgical Dress
ings Committee. She will report to Mime
Waddington. chairman or the French
Committee who will see that they get
to their destinations is the hospitals OF
France. Any contributor may inclose his
Christmas card. Mr.. Bailcys phone Is
Cynwyd l59 w.
The hospitals will be remembered. This
does not matter much to many who have
never been in hospital, but it is worth
while knowing that a hospital is a great
place in which to be forgotten It is dis
NAL and cheeress. at least to those who
lie there on cots. Some remember, how
ever, and these thoughtful ones are asso-
ciated In the Prison and Hospital Evan.
gellstic Association; for a prison is a
sort of hospital and hospital is a sort
OF prison.
( But 1t is not directly for the prisoners
In prisons and the prisoners in hospitals
that the Christmas baskets are being coll
lected by the association. They are for
the equally unlucky ones whose bread
winners are confined. Many families will
receive gifts of food and clothing If the
appeals of Matilda Silverman address,
care of 9Th District police station, 18th
and Winter streets) and Mrs. Albert S.
Smith, 1926 Powelton avenue. reach under
standing ears, To Mrs. Smith money can
be sent, as she Is the treasurer.