The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-12-12
TINY TIM KNOWS.

TINY TIM KNOWS.
Old Scrooge still lives in some callonysed
hearts, but so, Thank God, does Tiny Tim. Old
Scrooge will tell you that life is too serious, that
people are too poor, that hearts are too sad, at
this season, to give toys to the children, to fill
stockings with bullying goodies, to hang holly
wreaths in the windows.
But Tiny Tim knows better than that.
Old Scrooge will tell you that there are no
poor people any more. And that if there are it
is because they are improvident And that if
they are improvident it is their own fault. And
that if instead of giving children toys on
Christmas Day, would give them food and
clothing, should show our good sense. And
that they have more than they deserve, anyway.
But Tiny Tim knows better than that.
Old Scrooge will tell you that the world is full
of evil and that the people you meet are frauds
and that children are nuisance. And for
Christmas,-Bah-h-h! 1t is nothing but curse
and nuisance!
But Tiny Tim knows better than that.
Tiny Tim knows that it is a time when angels
sing their songs on earth. When lighted win
dows carry Christmas cheer which reaches out
to touch the hearts of even those like Scrooge,-
for if you know your Dickens you will remember
that after all was said and done the angels came
to Scrooge and blessed him where he stood to
block their pathway,-the angels of the Christ
mastide, who love little children, and who know
that the Christmas candles and the Christmas
toys are emblems of that joyful world that
born at the coming of-the Christ.
There is no community so poor that it cannot
give the children happy Christmas. There is
no heart 50 poverty-stricken that it cannot share
with otaer hearts at this glad Christmas season.
The ST. Nicholas Girls raising fund for
the children of the city,-those little ones, and
their name is legion, who would not have a
happy Christmas, were it not for the loving kind
ness of others 1t was through the love of lit
tie children that the Christmas festival in PEN
sacola was born, seven years ago. For several
year Miss Ward took the part of the Journals
St. Nicholas Girl. When Miss Ward went to
New Orleans Miss Ada White now Mrs. Nichols
of Brooklyn New York took her place his
year the work will be carried on by the girls of
Company G. of the Patriotic League who VOL
unfairly offered their services to make the chill
dren of Pensacola happy at this Christmas sea-
son.
This work has grown to a wonderful thing
Having its inspiration in the Christmas letters
that have been published year after year in The
Journal, it has grown until it has carried hap
pness into many childish hearts.
And Tiny Tim knows that it has been worth
while, no matter what old Scrooge may think
about it, Tiny Tim knows that little children
need the things of the spirit as well as those of
the body. Tiny Tim who shivers through the
winter days knows what it has meant since he
was a toddling baby, to know each Christmas
that there was to be gift for him upon the
christmas tree. But Tiny Tim knows more
than this. He knows that there is enough and
to spare Tor every child in Pensacola He knows
that there is enough wasted by the Scrooges in
this city every day not only to fill the chidren's
stockings, but to fill their hungry little stomachs
and to put warm clothes on their backs
The people who tell you that there are no poor
IN PENSACOLA do not know They have shut their
eyes to misery and their ears to the cry of
wronged childhood
There is plenty for all. And the children are
going to have wonderful Christmas. Companv
=. OF the Patriotic League is going to see to
that-tor Company G. has undertaken to make
every little child happy on Christmas mornno
IN Pensacola. They will act as the Journals