The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-20
NEW YORK FULL OF
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
GREAT CRUSH IN HUNT FOR
GIFTS. HEARTS HAVE NOT
TURNED COLD.

! NEW YORK, \. A.-OnCe again
the Christmas spirit is bubbiing and
seething hereaboutS and anyone who
thinks New Workers do not get into
the yuletide mood just the same as
other people ought to stroll around
the shopping district. A few minutes
will be more than senough An hour
might easily prove fatal. But even a
! hastv glance will show that New York
lis anything but cold. People ram and
Icrunch each other, glare daggers and
fly into a rage precisely as they do in
other sections OF the country which
fondly believe that they have a corner
on the real meaning of Christmas.
: Carloads OF Christmas trees have
arrived and through some remarkable
Oversight they are priced way below
what has been asked in the past few
years. Even at that they aren't sell
ing with any undue rapidity.
AL however, is not wrath and
gloom. The real old chimes and holly
atmosphere is thick and fragrant in the
Ivocalization classes OF the public
schools. With materials supplied by
the junior Red Cross the punpils are
Ifeverishly constructing toys of every
description. On Christmas eve these
tiny motor cars and monkeys, jumping
Jacks and clowns will be distributed
Ito children in the hospitals and to lit
tie immigrants who are spending their
| first American holidays on Ellis Island
Oddly enough, one OF the happiest
yuletides will be that of an l1-year-
lold boy afflicted with leprosy. The
child is the only juvenile in leprosy
colony isolated upon an island and the
New York department OF health made
jpublic his modest appeal to Santa
Claus. He wants a toy automobile and
a suit of clothes, and in response to
public demand-and generosity-San-
ia Claus will make his first trip in
years to North Brother island
These are some of the things close
to the heart OF New Workers while
they scowl and grunt their way
through the vivid shops.
This week we have a striking lesson
in being careful of our china tea sets
What if Martha Washington had set
the plate on the floor for the cat to
lick off the crumbs, and had then her
Iself stepped on it? What if she had
entrusted it for washing to a careless
maid who dropped it? The answer is
as obvious as it is dramatic. If she
had done of either OF these things the
plate from which George Washington
ate at birthday parties would not have
I$910-or about the price OF real good
meal today.
+ Few Unkissed Men.
He called his town the wickedest
city in the world! Shame on him, who
ever he was Forty PAGES from Broad
way the New York University OF y
Purity League has been founded. In
order to become a member of the
league a university man must never
have smoked or cursed and almost
never have kissed or been kissed.
There was a furore in purity circles
when it became known that the
leagues first president, who is also
captain of the football team-honestly,
we amt fooling-had been accused OF
smoking, swearing and kissing. His
past was dragged forth into the lime
light of a specially summoned meeting
| and while some were for him and
some against Kim he found himself de-
posed and Ralph C. Walker, a divinity
student put in his place. Even the
Walker past is not absolutely unspott-
ed. There's one kiss upon it. The kiss
was given at a garden party as the re-
suit OF a forfeit in game, but since
the young man seems to have been
more kissed against than kissing he
holds the presidency. Fore some rea-
son the membership of the league in
creases very slowly, If one may haz-
ard a guess it is not that there are SO
few men in the world who have never
been kissed. 1t is that so few will ad-
NIT it.