Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-15
CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS
HAVE LAST CHANCE TO
"DOT EARLY" TODAY
Practically is Leading Note
in Many Types of Gifts.
Noah's Arks Popular
AS Ever
OOKS AS PRES EN- 7 S
Including today, there are only nine shopping
days before Christmas.

Today ends the shop Early" season.
This day. December 10, was set py the
| Consumers League as the time all
Christmas shopping should be over and
through with. So many of us have dis
graced ourselves. The only way we
can help the harred workers In the
counter trenches of the shops now Is to
get the necessary things as soon as pos
sible instead of leaving II all to be done
on December % and a.
And then to resolve to shop early next
Christmas.
A sturdy practically appears in play
things that are for sale now. n wooden
doll, that seems very popular, has an eN-
preston that is far from wooden Equal
ly unbreakable are many of the toy
dishes animals and other nursery fol-
bles. The Pom Pom baby Is made of
stockinette and is named from the dam
ty ornaments used upon 1t.
Noah's Arks are as popular as ever.
They run from 10-cent Arks up TO
$40 Arlks, but they all have the same
shape impractical for sailing. as OF olu'
The $40 zebras lose the left hind leg as
easily as the 10-cent zebras do. All the
animals always seem to lose the same
leg, and probably they are still weak in
that member. They never can stand on
three legs and It is still necessary to
have a pot of glue medicine ready In the
Ark hospital.
Apropos of Arks, there Is a clever book
in the shops "The Log of the Ark v
which shows very humorously that II
was not all beer and skittles for Moan
on the original vessel.
More "highbrow" literature is also in
demand. There are new books out COM
paratively recently by Wells C'The Re
n hNv
owe Twain'D, and good war books by
Bennett and Edith Wharton. Books are
n great standby for gifts, If they are
good enough to live longer than 1t takes
to glance through them once For boys
and girls one cannot go far wrong IN
giving Stevenson's Treasure Island
which everybody ought to read at least
once a year.
The men and women who shiver on the
street corners and stamp first one foot
and then the other do not get any re-
ward all the pennies that are droppeu
into their boxes go toward the Christmas
dinners of poor children, poor men anu
women They get no reward except the
feeling that they sacrifice themselves for
others. They, at least, then, are expert
encing the real Christmas spirit
The Volunteers of America, as well as
the Salvation Army are making DIE
preparations Colonel Alice V. Heron
says the greatest need she encounters 10
proper clothing and shoes for children
Children are going to school In dilapi-
dated affairs not worthy the name or
shoes: full of holes, that let the stock
ings touch the cold sidewalk every step.
and where the stocking presses soon there
Is the bare foot touching the bricks and
inviting continual "snlffies" and pneumo-
mia and all the rest of the demon crew or
winter maladies
Every sick child is a sermon. Colo
mel Heron urgently asks for funds to
bring help to the many cases, all of which
she personally investigates.
The good work which Lieutenant Sam
uel Little and the police of the Goth and
BerkC streets station have done at
Christmas time in making glad the hearts
of the poor children in their district. the
2Sth, is to be repeated this year, and a
committee consisting of Lieutenant Lit
tie. Sergeant Lawrence Johnson, who
originated the plan four years ago, and
Policeman David Hubbs has made an
appeal for funds TO carry out the pro-