The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-18
Signs of the Times

And now we have Christmas at
the very heels OF Billie Sunday and
just a week off too. The shops are
all bright with wreaths OF holly
and mlstletoe and with the tinseled
ornaments that bring joy to the
hearts of the small folk, as they
gllsten on trees shown in the drops
and the big-eyed youngster holding
on 90 mothers hand hopes that Old
Santa will decorate his tree Just like
that lulctide- spirit and Joy
abounds, and the great heart OF
Tulsa is spreading itself. From
the four corners come good idings.
for people are working to make the
homes OF the poor people glad at
the Joyous season, soon to be here.
Tile streets and avenues are filled
with shoppers who are buying gifts
for the home and the loved ones
therein and gifts for friends and
gifts for the lonely one. IL is all so
beautiful, Trains are coming In
with the school and college set whose
faces are aglow with anticipation
Of the fortnight they are to be with
parents and friends and the Joys
thereto. The face of the other per-
son now wears that Christmas look
that is Of Him, whose natal day we
soon will celebrate.
In the midst of II all are parties
Informal among the older folk and
the younger set are holding back for
one great rush that begins this COM
ing week. The season will be at its
height the week after, of course,
and there are few dates left open.
II viii be a busy time. The Country
club will be the setting for many
handsome Christmas parties both
large and small. The University
club will be used by its members for
lovely affairs. Homes are to be a
popular mecca for parties and above,
all, the Christmas tree for the poor
VIII be one of the most beautiful
celebrations in honor OF the season.
Entertainment galore. Even the
quietest OF those socially, have had
TO find a small book 20 line their
engagements up so as TO be able to
remember just what they will do.
And OF this social engagement busi-
ness, the JOY of il all is to see the
Importance of the young girls--the
subdeb and that boy who perhaps,
dons his first evening suit.
Tho dinner dance given Monday
evening, December IL, by MIR. and
Mrs Waite Phillips of the Country
club will doubtless initiate the bril-
liancy of the holiday season at this
popular place. On the evening of
Tuesday, December 20, members of
the Phi Lambda Epsilon fraternity
Will give their annual Christmas
dinner dance in the Country club.
On this same evening, the Tuesday
Evening Bridge club will be enter
tained at the club with Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence X. Cone as hosts. The
next day, Mr.. and Mrs. Cone win
leave for Florida where they will
SPEND the winter.
Again we have breath OF Wash
lhgton and the ways there socially.
curing the time the foreigners have
been guests of the nations capital
Tor the disarmament conference.
Ihe nervy and versatile writer, Daisy
flnhugh Ayrcs. who says what she
thlnks OF people, from the President
. and Mrs. Harding right on down
he line, and when ana how she
pieases, writes lately in this man.
her: Washington is certainly rub
Der-tlred, ball.bearlng proposition
thls winter. It's bearing more balls
than almost we can bear. The
peauty and the chivalry of our big
ouobling burg, and the rest of us
mat aren't quite so much so, whirl