Show 1 = CHRISTMAS is COMING Many Signs of It Seen on the Streets WONDERING WHAT TO BUY Throngs About the City Bearin Packages Postoffice Crowded Wit People Sending Gifts to Friend Woe of the Postoffic ElsewhereWoc Employees How tho Salvatloi Army Will Observe the Holiday Gathered bj Collection of Ideas Gatercw Watching tho Host ot Buyers atchng 1 tho proposition to It Is not believed proposiion I Fourth of July and Christmas Jiave the FOUlth come on the same day just for a chang The will meet with general favor wi the occasions are spirits which govern different plrls On the Fourth of July you dtcrent stalk around with your chest thrown 1e out hoping somebody will ash whereas on Christmas da > to fight you lght blessed Is filled with a your bosom fled would like to give some peace and you 1ke thing nice to everybody you know hinI two spirits different as Should these spiris clerent a the mixed within one they are become wltln distress result could not be other than it Is thought lug and for this reason ilg having the days coincide the Idea of I1Ylng will be frowned down Of course there like peace on the Fourth are those who lke 110 want who those there are of July and the r will not but they Christmas wi on to fight Chrstmas Jje considered at this time THE BURNING QUESTION Christmas has been coming for sometime some-time now For many days past the element which abides within human the corporate limits of this town and elsewhere near has been prowling around by thousands wondering what t has bcfen and Still te the to get That 1as J sti question with almost every burning Queslon wih one Some superior Individuals have known for months past just what to get but the common run of humanity puts It f until the last moment and then loins the mad rush Now there is 0 sufficient variety of II IIITAMP1 J I f rjfr i 1 r 4kM Lri b I i Pi2IVPF4J s > f7 S7 dLT9 J i > l < I Stamp Clerk Merchandise LadyTaint dyes at all just socks for Sister Marys boy who lives in Wyoming 1 O things to get judging from what maybe may-be seen In the store windows OC course In certain lines the best Is gone fallen victim to those wise people Who came early when there was no rush t avoid But there is still enough left 10 offer a fair chance for a good selection selec-tion and there will be one more buying day before the big event THE PACKAGE PROCESSION Its fun to watch the people fighting their way along the streets especially r U you have the time to do It Most ncrybody i too busy constituting one of the cush to be a disinterested observer ob-server but the few unhappy ones who 611 s arC not buying have some pleasurable thrills The crowd almost to a unit is burdened with packages these even inga Of course you cant tell whut It I in the packages but you can guew pretty well I you soe a girl come blushing out of a mens furnishing store with a small bpx Its u 10 to 1 I proposition she has either a necktie a muffler or a nalr of silk mispendors not for herself yoU understand For papa perhaps J you see a man come out of a dry goods store with a package nobody knows what he has but Ito ten money lies a clerk A man who would go into u millinery or dry good store and try to get a present for somebody some-body ought to have his head bored tot the simples that Is unless hes n married mar-ried man who Is In a position to knou tthafa needed HUNTING FOR THIKGS The Jewelry stores are pretty gom Plaies to see things UH Interesting toe to-e a youth with three dollars hanging over a showcase and wishing he eQuid buy some girl a S333 diamond Mamma Is there trying to buy something ap propiiate for papa while piobably papa would rather have the money Ir i Its all the same to her Papa floats l In occasionally Maybe some of the 1119 hive got pretty well lon up and ncd something In the Jewelry line and papa Is stuck for It Other manma float around buying things for the smaller ones There are slcdn an skates to be secured gobs of candy and perhaps a Christmas tree WhjQ In the butcher ahop mamma gets Ihe martyred turkey As she passes the grocery atorc she concludes to buy some cigars for pap and does It And they arc n cheap too Quite a bar earn Poor papa POSTAL PATRONAGE These are the days when the post office people wonder If hades Is all Itl cracked Up tD be Thee > keid e are the tul Dome days when the DOie u poor carriers an ofllcQ force have hearts and Ul bowed down All day long there Ja steady stream of people crowding ii to the windows in the clqwdlns ti Carriers are all that ana then som Peoplo her have friends elsewhere Tn < People elsewhere have friends heai I Paclcciges ailed almost mounlam big nr4 7r Sim moving along lw 11O and utrful nhtcrvatiomi Will diiits Critn wi dhilo Jnh IC grYoah d Ip1 lhaJHln carl > along IJeqcJlh the Jiepp Muu n Christmas Yes In cedJOh yes l vcrir get Perhaps the good housewife with the goo oC the occasion Weary filled William makes Us annual call and Imbued with the Christmas frcnzj the housewife presents him with 0 pal to the lord of the of trousers belonging belonglnE manor lo It Is a unique pattern perhaps the only suit of the kind In town ant William comes Into the business dis Vliam of th trlct will them The late oWner wlt walking down the street trousers Is waldng I wearing the coat of that same suit am emlng This William Is Just behind him makes the season more festive mlkcs What shall 1 wet is the qucstlor worrying everybody Not partlcularlj have in mind need the erson you that person know but just because It anything you Is the customary thing to do and because be-cause you want to show that you remember re-member him or her HELPING THIS POOR There Is another end to this Christ business and in buying gifts tot mas people mI you know arc not really In need Ol could of anything and who you know frequently easily satisfy their wants people quenUy overlook this other end The Salvation Army yes the Salvatlor Army tIm people who make a noise In the streets and whom you pass without a look have not forgotten the other n end They remember It every Christmas Christ-mas and have not forgotten it this year The Salvation Army will give i lii qIIIlL 111i i17W r I I I I ll 1 i I I I I II Inside the PostofficD Christmas tree to the poor children of he city at the Army headquarters 14C East Second South Christmas night The r will have 100 of the poorest chll I w1 Lake there In addition to Salt lien in additon dren Lke I he regular Salvation Army juniors mmberlng about thirty For weeks people under the direc the Army mst Son of Staff Capt Armstrong and wife o ton Staf canvassing the city Not I not selling books but coking for gifts selnh ooklng for needy children They have received generous donations of ilready reeived from merchants of tlothing and toys I he city and have promises of much nore et The building will be prepared buldln little Juniors each of whom b y the however poor i taught to do some The hlng to help poorer children mpply of gifts will be augmented by purchases made by the Army people The Army has been working through r visiting the poor families and he city vlsltn flmIcs retting the sizes of their children so hat the clothing may be made to fit as saving tho nearly as possible thus slvlng poor overworked mothers as much york as possible M M Wood of the Arm made n little trip around the city yesterdaY and found some things TOUCHING SCENES In the very shadow of one of the city school buildings where every day roops of happy and welldressed chi Iren assembled was found a sick nother with six children One of them vas IS months old and weighed less pounds Nothing to cat than efght p hats all Theres another mother Shes a has a boy 11 years old He vldow andhas a 1 vants Santa Glnus to bring him a vagon and adythlng else Santa Claus hlnks would b nlce for a little boy I vho would Hkato help his mother Theres n man who lives on the west wlf died two weeks ago side Hiswife week ago caving him for children two of them wins aged 3 i months The father nakes less than 10 a week The oldest t I S I fI 1 = I = wr i r I aPr l The Poor Clerks Merry Christmas child there wuntH Santa Claus to bring him something for his little twin brother and sister who arc only 3 months old and whose mother Is dead Another woman has six children to I support She washes when she can got It The sevenyearold boy was I found holding the twoyearold boy In his lap The baby was asking its I brother for some bread and was being I told again and again there wa nol no-l bread And there wasnt Hadnt been i fOI two days and the coal gave out I with the flour The baby wanted to 1 know why there was no bread and they could not make him understand It Mr Wood sent some food there and these little kids will be at the i Christmas tree Probably never heard anything about I this before did you 1 These are only a few sample cases There are enough e to make book right herein Salt Lake What are you going to do about it you PeoPle Who dont leo what to buy for Christmas si i i wi I Chlltmps 1 l 1 TllMIS FOR LARGE HEARTS I Uncover thrlstmas wasnt got up n I to mal < pi > onlr > sorry Ha a tlmo tog to-g forget that voure Uu selfish critter i 1 IQi lime to blow yourself with a fine disregard of the first of the month which is coming along In n few days coming and make get human Its a time to Is your u friends love you as they once did its a time to give things invay and get things too if you have luck Its a time to laugh and get plumb foolish L tme time to get good and drunk it n tme you feel l that way but you aro not advised to do this Its a time that makes little children think heaven Is so close you can throw a rock Into it and you can watch them and almost believe be-lieve Jt yourself ct Its a time to bo the best you know haw and to make everybody every-body else think theyre the only MBS KEABNSS LIBEBALITY Will Give Christmas Tree to Orphans and Turkeys to Poor Mrs Thomas Kearns has arranged for a Christmas tree at the Kearns St Anns orphanage tomorrow afternoon to which the little folks of the Orphans Home and Day Nursery have also beer invited The exorcises promise to be of unusual interest especially to the I children for whose benefit the entertainment ohldlcn tainment has been arranged Ills I-lls Kearns has also arranged for the I distribution of 150 turkeys to the deserving i de-serving poor of the city SundaySchool Exercises Nearly all the Sundayschools of tin city will have Christmas entertainments entertain-ments during the weelt This evening the First Presbyterian school will hav Its Christmas exorcises at the church The life of the Christchild will be told in song and story and a number 01 Madonnas will bo shown by stereopticon stereopti-con Tomorrow evening entertainment will be had at the First Methodist and Illtt churches the FIst Congregational Phillips and Plymouth Sundayschool uniting with the First Vctmln tel Presbyterian and A M JB Sunday schools Appioprfate and Interesting I programmes have been arranged lit al these schools and a merry lime is anticipated an-ticipated by all Flowers Are Higher Christmas lowers bid fair to i come high this year Carnations yestcrdaj a ere quoted at SO cents Si 125 and L50 per dozen American Beauty roses S to 18 per dozen La France Perlos I Meteors Bridesmaids and Brides rom 52 to 53 per doztfft Holy how I jvcr Is cheaper < hIt your than it I has icon In the history of the city for some lime most of the dealers asking but 15 cents per pound whereas In previous rears It has brought as high as CO cents per ppund and never less than 50 cents I For Poor of Seventeenth Ward Members of the Relief society of the seventeenth Avarcl will be at the hal on Monday morning between Sit and 10 oclock to receive contributions for he Christmas dinner for the poor of he Ward Donations have been so I idLed from the residents of the ward md will bo distributed among the decrying I de-crying poor of every class and creed Turkeys for Theater Force I Manager George D Pyper of the Salt I Jake Theater went out gunning yester lay The turkeys lie brought back lumbered fiftyfive and they were all I duly tagged with the names of the attaches aches of the Salt Lake Theater not even the extra ushers being forgotten or course oldtimers like l Uncle Jimmy Evans the stage carpenter and Uncle looper the veteran doorkeeper might hoc got the largest in the bunch but if L so this was an oversight which will he forgiven by the younger members of the staff |