Show GIFTS FOR THE UNWORTHY fielding discloses SOMO soma or ol his flis christmas plans HE WILL REWA REVA 10 SPECIAL NUISANCES some unique and appropriate pros pro whom we W all know girl and ibe bore wa bott ahlm ont ot tte it it te a mn the fluchs are arc all to no ile ray for fg copy cwb w 1 la this thi charitable season when the who need nothing gt got 10 0 o many tatti rich while the ibb poor who need billing gal 10 n advance of ct 3 on afi bolit rosf I 1 aften t take an hour to their of tbt great gifts I 1 would me ko if f I 1 bad balth wealth I 1 generally wrap P a piece I 1 of cloth around tho the clapper of on r ih ball go BO bat people with bills can ca amuse themselves without annoying other nd then I 1 ot ct with alth hir libut eyes grid nd ta la my iny mind cuke ake happy dappy I 1 BO out and buys buy present ing useful something t 0 can ao both bot huto use 99 s to AD umbrella rolla or so an calr to a person six feet bot lo 10 inched ac so in 11 height and nd to so thin that mat s depond depend for hll his comfort entirely tho be up b 0 eisterer upon I 1 m liberal you yon see ei in real life but when I 1 fall all to d reaming there ther it Is really no do limit to my generosity I 1 giro to the who do docot dot deserve it a ind rid ibis requires a great wad of moncy I 1 b tow gold pieces upon our janitor and file surprise tills kills him and h he dies very vry wyvil hard this la Is one on of 0 TOT my pleasant the tat lut time I 1 gave him anything in reality it wl was ball bialt dollar and enill I 1 remember chasing him down three flights of 0 stairs in order to borrow thirty cents of 0 it back to pay tho leemin but intas la th christmas season of my dreamt dreams there Is no currency except red eold obit ai the belizar on park biow by nigda no to longer longar blesses mo me for or a plug plugged gett cna cana dian dime I 1 go to my iry tailor and forgive him find and settle his little bill and when he be recovers consciousness I 1 order worth 7 IN r togging the educated quarter at 0 pantaloons paying cash in advance they ire are all made from rom one arid rati fit toon soon as they are done I 1 sulvin on thirty poor roen men as aa miscellaneous la in deformity as a company ol of stage theo thea each cach man selects the pair or of pantaloons which comes nearest to him and some of them go ivy away quite happy the object of such an institution as Christmas to make people happy md and somehow the undeserving have a capacity lor for enjoyment enjoy mout which Is rarely jolted among the good tave take toy my friend gimmle for or instance I 1 know what jim into would bald like tor for a christmas present and he bo shall have bays it when my dream tomes true what jimmie wants Is a perpetual two dollar loan A lump jump ot of money would afford him no permanent eat he ha would probably lend it to point lome other poor sinner and never got it t tack ical ho he understand wealth lathe bathe knows what it li is to want two else CUM and to got get them and to spend them and then want them laco as hard bard allm aitio lett ceil day I 1 will have bavo a machine built for jimmie and at any hour of the ly day or night lo ho shall be able to drop a 1110 ot of woo won into the slot and got two linkers I 1 have comparatively little how ledio of mee machines blaes but I 1 think that a machine can caa be built strong imga to uko take in one ot of jimmies stories lorlei without gett getting ing seriously out ol of order perhaps it can also receive his bl to pay without jail all on the tollow follow saturday and nevor never start a rhet but I 1 shall hall not ask the mechanic tio he makes k it to guaran the machine in i case if fertile should bring back the ticey ue always means to do it bless adm i and aad it does his hl heart good to icel feel the honest bonev manly determination to his big gratitude by prompt payment ku the first time lime he does it the sun bun and moon will fall all out of 0 the sky II if iachino worked without the story atory a the promise it would bo be ot of no use to n ko 0 o they shall be essential because mish M h to make him happy as he wen heretofore piu iia I ia afraid for or after s tou ta know it rest real good goal fan nn to ain be a borrower when hn people are so 10 stingy with their money there is I 1 a man who always makes me m PAT his fare whoa when we wa rids ride together on the ivie elevated road I 1 am going to rive give him blut a bushel of tickets of 01 course coune I 1 do not expect him to deposit any ot of them in in tins the box but I 1 think it will give him pleasure to havo have his bis pockets full ot of them a II T J zwing the bell when astop I 1 top up op to the window to buy for hive him and for myself lie ile gets a groat great deal of tun fun as it le if by following me up the to stairs stain crying III let t me hofem t am ive pot got a dime right bandyl ba tie alo be forced up ahead ot of me n by aa n hydraulic press ho he likes to see sea me change a bill at the window and receive the handful of strange bogus which tho the ticket seller always ways gives f specially it he has previously had the pleasure plea suro ot of reject rejecting ingroy my last dimeon dime on th the ground aground that it has been bitten by then than I 1 hold out my band and take mulberry bond nickels and flattened bullets and Chlo esil far farthings things BI at a pint and a halt half to the cent cant and fan an tan chips and wampum till my pockett pockets bulge out with the worthless stuff all this the ollow follow who never pays bl his tare fare enjoys to a certain extent but I 1 war ant him to got even more fun full out ot of ILI it 80 0 o 1 I shall give him the tickets I 1 would like 1119 9 also to do something tor for the ticket sellers and I 1 am thinking ot of giving each ot of them a quart of brass suspender buttons which can easily be passed parsed as alve fi dollar gold places pieces by men who have had bad as much practice as they have I 1 shall remember the mart man who drops in to tell me while I 1 am al work there will b be a now chair in my my office tor for him after day it will bo be stuffed bluffed with eiderdown eider down avid and upholstered with sticky flypaper fly paper so ho he cannot be led away by generous gonor oui impulse I 1 are am a hard worker it Is not so hard I 1 think tor for anybody elso else in ili this adrid to work woric when I 1 am engaged u finishing some boino thins thing which really must lie be done two or throe three days before but of course I 1 cant find and the old boy will bo be to pay about it then my logs legs coll coil sinuously around those ot the my iny tongue hangs hanga out aud and buttons tall fall off toy my vest I 1 used to think that nothing could stop me at such cuch times not dot over oven alo abo principles ot of english grammar but I 1 hald had never known mcgarragan McGirr agan and his storing stories in those das lie he Is duo due here now in five minutes and at least I 1 ra must flora finish what I 1 have to say about him before he arrives arrive otherwise I 1 might bo be lod led to speak 0 him unkindly ho like my office chairs poor fellow ile ho shall ball certainly havo have a new one at christmas I 1 shall buy umbrellas tor for my typewriter girl probably it alil not nol rain on more days than that during the abs coming year so the she will have an umbrella to take out to lunch whenever she loaves leaves hers bors at home vi with ith the wind east the sky overcast et anil and the weather bulletins explicit tor for a dear day I 1 shall not toll fail her that the umbrellas umbra rollas liaa are here her sho aha will enjoy them more deeply it if the she thinks they are mine atlas I 1 will have ono ready every day and I 1 will request her to bring it back within fifteen minutes oi she bhe will of course leave it in tho the restaurant or lend lead it to the young man who waits tor for her to in the shelter of our doorway on rainy days day she shall not know how many more umbrellas I 1 have tor for that would put a damper on her innocent ili mirth no she shall have jut just as much tun fun as in n the pat pait when I 1 had only my eifes umbrella and forgiving spirit to depend upon there Is a man ho lunches with me every day upon whom I 1 would like to bestow some token of way may regard his front namo name Is billy and judging by the way ho he cats I 1 should say his last name ought to be goat geat but he travels under an alias on alternate alter nato days I 1 pay for the lunch that seems seams no more than fair air on the other days he matches quarters quarter with me to sea esho he will pay and he h stick me with a regularity which I 1 hesitate hel late to ascribe to chance I 1 hardly know what to give this friend it would seem as though so thrifty a man could require nothing it if there Is ii anything he be wants why dont he go and match quarters tor for it I 1 might give him an invitation to lunch vi with ith somebody else also but that would not express my real feelings toward him he is an entertaining follows fellow and be abstains from paying for things thing on an principle and not from meanness me aBnett why should anybody pay tor for anything when there are soft olt marks mark like m me born every minute I 1 will give him a battle ot of old dr Manhat Manhattan tans 1 perpetual appetizer I 1 will got get him a quarter with two heads on it and dated odd on oil ono one side and tan even on the other he hilt alto his place in the economy of nature yes it Is certainly in the tha economy that his place to tl found I 1 would remember all such follows fellows as billy they ere the th men who can be ba mido mado happy by a tint thoy they can appreciate the th advantages ot of acquiring property properly io ill that thi tway way nature furnished them with frith this appreciation and ad if ft wo we othon others have anything left utter after they got get through we should give them a pt part of it why should to the generous mn to the th giver do wo we sand our oar w watched aches to tho the blacksmith certainly not cot we send nd them to the pawnbroker he knows 1 noart do with them he ha hm has probably bad them before lit let us u la in like manner 1 bestow our christmas gilts gifts upon ill tho par son who knows how bow to take who la Is an expert fit it who takes takei everything to in sight this will be ba a good ox eraclio in generosity and litter after you hav bays dono done it pace or twice tho the really desery deierl ing ln may ednd stand s chance of getting something out of you FIELDING |