El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-13
SECOND Of MAY
IS BUNDLE DAY
Associated Charities to Col
lect Cast Off Clothes For
Poor of the City.

Save your bundles for Bundle Day.
! Don't scornfully cast aside your pink
| outing kimono. Sew a set OF new but
tons on the baby's shoes. Fold neatly
( Mary AIMS last year and outgrown
/ pinafores and William jennings out
/ grown trousers-and make a lot OF
folks who are in i'll fortune. feel and
! realize that this isn't bad world at
/ all; and that FL PasO women are fine.
I reasonable and sympathetic. Il can be
| done with the spring cleaning. II
/ should be done when the doors and
( windows Of the house are opened and
/ all balmy May is let in.
New institutions.
/ Bundle Day is an altogether new in
I stithtion. It means decorating the
( front porch with bundles OF clothes
/ that won't be needed on the place ever
| again. It means that, after the front
/ porch is decorated, that q great many
1 FL PasO women. in a great many auto
mobiles. win drive up in front Of your
Z house, smile at you and the bundles,
I grab them up with alacrity, depart
( with them with more alacrity. and go
] whizziug off to town with even more
alacrity.
1t is all going to happen on May 2
May is chosen by the women Of the
Associated Charities because 70 Is a
time when everybody is about through
with the "pla Eued OvercOat and that
I dusty suit and that "old fashioned
I hat with the ostrich feather and the
sheets that have got holes I'm them
| and the pillow slips that the washer
woman scOrched, and the table cloths
upon which Sammy emptied preserves
and father his coffee, and SalIie cut
her finger while slicine the bread
Have Faith in Future.
The problem arises that. If the VIM
ter clothes are retained &c means more
space and more moth balls and more
remOdeling and making over when fan
o.
clothing to people who can use them
and will use them Don't keep over 4
whole lot Of troublesome shirts and
skirts and shoes and hats. Just trust
that next fan will be as prosperous a 3
last fail. send the pink kimonO. and
the scOrched sheet. and the bent derby
out on the porch. wrapped no I'm at
least one good sheet, and make stacks
Of folks happy.
Wholesome Institution.
Now Bundle Day is a wholesome in
stttuuon- III It were not the women
who thought ont the idea wouldn't
have been discussing it this past four
weeks at all their meals. It's whole
some because it's going to do a whole
some thing. Right here in this SPLEEN
did. thriving. thrObbing, pulsing CITY
there are a lot Of sick men and tired
women and thin. undercared for little
children who need the things that you
no longer need Fortune has given
you a chance for new palm beach \
new blue serge. a new panama hat.
any number Of silk Isle hose and all
kinds of 50-cent neckties. Tt hasn't
done the same by the other people on
the other side Of the wall
$50 For Clothing.
During March. and March wasn't
particularly cold month. the Assoc
lated Charities sDent-S0 perfectly good.
sound safe and hard earned dollars
for clothing for folks who needed IL.
when that same $50 was needed to fiji
stomachs.
Dedicated TO All Fl PasO.
Vow Bundle Day is dedicated to all
III PasO. II viii lift a great burden
from the social agency in having
plenty Of derbies and pink kimonos
and scorched pillow slips and discarded
overcoats TO give out to folks that
have reached the embarrassment OF
showing their shins and skins because
in health or no jobs put them in the
unpleasant hole.
So Bundle Day-the finest institu-
ti0n Of the crest month Of spring
viii give TO the house wife Of FL PasO
q chance to decorate her front porch
i'm n way that viii rival flowers and
vines