Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-06
Our Country! In her intercourse with
foreign nations, may she always be right,
but cur country, right or wrong.'-Stephen
Decatur.
A CHRISTMAS DINNER AND MORE
FOR THE POOR.

Fifteen hundred persons IN Brownsville
whose calendar shows Christmas a. 4
bleak, dreary, dinncrless day because they
have not the means 10 provide d fuIl,
square meal with which 10 satisfy the many
hungry stomachs OF their families are
scheduled 10 experience a pleasant sur
prise of this thousand, nine hundred and
sixteenth anniversary OF the birth OF
Christendom
Fifteen hundred Christmas dinners are
TO be served To the poor Of this city.
They are 10 be provided through the
aetnTties at The directors Of the Browns
VILE Charity Home and Hospital. who have
made 1t an annual custom ia recent wears
To attempt, through this means, to make
one day IN the year a cheerful and pleas
ant one TO a large number of the city's
worthy poor. AT a meeting Of the direc-
tors Monday afternoon it was decided to
make the dinner this year reach a great
cr number Of persons than ever before.
The directors of the Charity Home are
10 be commended for the spirit in which
they have taken hold Of these annual char
iy dinners and FOR the success with which.
IN the past, they have pat their plans into
actioa and substance. The many good
people of the city who have always come
forward freely and willingly with help are
made OF the kind of stuff that makes the
best citizens OF a community.
Tho>eswho contribute financially to the
fund for this dinner may DO % with assur-
ance that every cent will reach the desti-
nation for which they intend II. the Hos
rital and Home directors and Ill connect
I'd with the work donate their services,
and more than services, free.
The fact that this small hand Of women
Is working day IN and day ont throughout
the year IN the interest of a practical and
effective social uplift cause and that the
general public j. rarely called upon to III.
down INTO their pockets TO help. j. food
for thought for the people at large of this
city. Ii j. by no means fair nor fitting
that a burden cf this sort should be borne
upon the shoulders of n handful of willing
people, The entire city. in fact, could fit
tingly share the burden and by doing 20.
not only make il lighter for those who are
now carrying the whole load, hut bring
about greater and more better beneficial
results.
Al present the subscribers to the Char
iy Home and Hospital Number twenty
three. The number ought more nearly APP
proaeh one thousand. The people Of
Brownsville are charitabl. generous and
willing Ia help in MI good worthy works
and the fact that 20 few OF them have sub
scrihcd to the Charity Home. in view OF
the remarkable record being made hy that
institution ~ a means of lifting the poorer
classes into a better and more productive
plane of life. i At least anomalous. Ii j.
only fair that a burden of the kind and
proportions of the Charity Home and liz
many subsidiary good works should be
''totcd squarcly' by all.
The work of the Charity Home, more
especially. perhaps, than that of any 9TH
er organization in the city outside of the
puh.ic schools, ought 10 be the common
meeting point of the entire city. Every
person who i able 10 DO %, might very APP
propriateiy put hs name on the regular
Subscription list of the Home and in doing
so feel eonfiden; thai lie i doing what j.
right. nohle and c~om'nendahie.