Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-12-26
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M0DERN|zED BY
N. !. SOAP TIDE
Santa Brings Riddles
Toothbrush and Scrub
Cakes for Change.
Eels Displa4 Turkey
and Vitamines Rele-
gate Toys to Rear.
BY JESSIE HENDERSON
Speeiai Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune
Copyright, 1921 The Great Falls Tribune

New York, Dec. 25.-It's an eel and
vitaulines Yuletide. Not even the fact
that it dropped several cents below the
last-!ear price has enabled the turkey
to crowd into the limeiight. Eels first
gained public notice through the wall
rising from the Italian sections when
a shortage of those wriggly dainties
impended. Eels, it seems, are to an
Italian Christmas what the saxophone
is to the jazz band.
There was. however. no lack of Vita
mines. These demure thingammies
drew an equal share of attention. Santa
Claus. by agreement with the board Of
health. arrived on the east side with
his pack crammed with vitamines done
up rs packages of fruit and tooth
brushes bulging his pockets. To each
of the under-nourished youngsters in
the child health station he gave also
tube of toothpaste and cake of soap.
A far cry this, from the Santa Claus
of old Who flashed across the winter
sky as the bringer of sleds and candy
and dolls. But the children scrambled
as vigorously to get toothbrush az
ever they did to snatch a toy and
blithly accepted the cakes of soap in-
stead of resentfully laying down bar
rage Of them around the Christmas tree
as officials half expected.
Doing Honors Wholesale
Fragrant under the nip Of frost and
brilliant with electric lights. the muni-
cipal Christmas trees sprung up in
Madison Square. in Central park and
in score OF public: places. Saturday
night there were bands of children
singing carols under any window with
Christmas candle in it-medieval and
pleasant touches in this most modern
of towns. The I. S. S. Wyoming at
the BROOKLYN navy yard was sea
Santa to 500 youngsters in whose be-
half the officers and men had raised
LOO. Nobody, in hospital or prison.
among the insane, among the unem-
ployed---nobody had been slighted. Ex-
cepr, of course, the honest, hard work
ing bourgoisie, to whom this is hard
winter and for whose benefit no or
ganized relief is planned and who
wouldn't accept if it were.
Max Birnbaum does not share the
holiday spirit. People keep inter
fersng with his plans. Officious
friends, for example, butted in twice
when he tried to commit suicide lately.
Three times within two hours Birn-
baum made the attempt, affording an
admirable example of man sticking
to one idea. The third time he
jumped head first out of third story
window-and landed on his feet IN
hurt in time to be sent to hospital
for observation.
Parcel Of Reform
But true to leyity This. my mas
ters, is serious world. Gotham is
in the clutches of reform. No less
an authority on social welfare than
Alderman Peter 7. McGuinness intro
duced at board meeting new city
ordinance which. if passed, he believes
win do lot toward eliminating sin.
The ordinance provides that no
hotel restaurant or public resort II
the city of New York ''in which people
meet for refreshment or entertain
ment, shall allow any female to smoke
in any such place Take that
Llvinp On Is Cents a Week
And again, truce to eyity. VII
liam Mohrman himself arises to re-
pont that this il a serious world +
M,,hrman hass an income OF S2uU ~
sc.as,.5fa On P.se Seventeen,
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