Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-12-23 | Page 4 | Father's Finances Sure Indicator of Christmas Time

Fathers Father's Finances Sure Indicator of Christmas Time Cares of o Parenthood Weigh Heavily on Brows rows o of Po Police Police Po- Po olice o- o lice Officers I ITIlE HE battle Is nearly over 01 th the TIlE I shopping Is nearly done the stores whoso whose counters and shelves were ere once gorged with the wares of ot Cincinnati Paris Grand Rapids and the Transvaal now present a 0 over handled over d-over and haggard aspect Yet lot the tho money Is not yet all and several prominent promInent prominent prom prom- mon men still sUll smile but mainly epitaphs arc are being hung over tho the financial corpses of at the Christmas victim victim father A short census of ot daddies Yesterday yesterday yesterday yes Yes- revealed the fact tact that several several sev soy eral oral citizens hitherto of at unimpeachable unimpeachable financial standing admit themselves broke The They oro ore not merely morely bent bent they they have havo gone all the wa way way Capt John Hempel of or the police poUce department with ono one son in his family has hal completed his Christmas shopping and yesterday proudly displayed ed 40 coats cents which ho he still sUll had Lewis A. A Merrill admitted he lie has not done dono his Christmas shopping He has three children and says saya ay ho confidently expects to be bo broke broko by tonight George Chase city detective detective de- de de de- has six children and three grandchildren to give e presents to and lines of care caro arc are beginning to furrow his manly brow These are but a a. few many thousands of other das dads are aro experiencing the same horrors I If you ou see a man walking do down don n the street mumbling to himself and digging digging- his hand by habit into an empty empt pocket have hayo pit pity on him and do not worry hIm hos somebody's somebody some some- body body's father