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Show GOOD FELLOW DROPS INTO POETRY ABOUT HIS WORK Quotes Longfellow as a Text and Urges Other Good Fellows to Hurry With Their Offers, as Time Flies TO JOIN THE ORDER OF GOOD FELLOWS Order of Good Pellows Salt Lake City I live at No street I wish to take care of children 1 prefer them m the part of the city Please send me a list of names I enclose stamped and addressed envelope (Signed) LiH TY MAIL bag is beglnn ng to Vl fU1 np sad Go0d Fellow lVJ. yBterday afternoon Some of the old timers have al ready sent in their appl cations and I look for more of them today But be sure and tell them to hurry up Just think I Three weeks from to day wljl be Cl nstmaB eve The time is short, and there is much work to be done I hope the Good Fellows won t delay It makes things harder the last few days Perhaps it may mean that some poor k d will be disappointed on Chr stmas if we don t get an early start Good Fellow s telephone rang, and a woman reported a family with tour lit tie tots that would need the help of eome big hearted Salt Laker The names were f led And by the way said Good Fel low that woman is to be congratulat ed She gave me the names of the chil dren and the r ages Iow the Good Fellow who gets that liBt won t have any trouble selecting toys for presents Please repeat what I said in my letter yesterday that it is very important to give the proper address of children in need their names if possible or at least how many are girls and how many boys and the age of each Quotes Longfellow Good Fellow glanced at some papers on his desk Here, he said Look what I found today in browsing through sonle books to find an inspiration for the Order of Good Fellows. That is a new ooe for we really have plenty of insp ration those of us who helped make the kids happy last Christmas Listen to this verses from a poem about children which was written by Henrv Wadsworth Longfellow Wliat the lea es are to the forest With light and air for food Ere their sweet and tender Juices Have been hardened Into wood-That wood-That to the world are children Throuah them It fee s the glow Of a brighter a d sunnier llmate Than rea hes the trunk below Ooean t that hit he spotr asked Oood Fellow entt usIastlcaUy Doesn t It Just describe the Christmas Inspiration that the happy eves of some unfortunate child on whom the hand of poverty has rested too heavily -an bring to us busy old codgers who spent 864 days out of a year at least, worrying about our own troubles And again Longfellow save In vour hearts are the birds and the sunshine I your thoughts the brooklet s flow But In mine is the wind of autumn And the first fall of snow All Are Invited But when Longfellow wrote those erses he dldn t tl Ink ned e er allow Cl rtstmaa to go by without making sure that all little children had sunshine tn their hearts, bo let s Inspire ourselves to better things by attending to that sun shine Wl on you stop and think what happiness a few ten cent toys or some warm stockings can bring to thoee I ttle folks you ran t help but Join the Order of Oood Fellows Oood Fellow asked that the statement be r derated that the Order of Oood Fel lows waan t expensl e He can furnish the name of one child or of a dozen de pending on the slse of the pocketbook lie said he needed tl e help of the man or woman who co id b y tovs for one voungater Just as muci as he needed the help of the person who wanted to help a big family of them Seemed good today to hear familiar voices on my phone Bay Hel o, Oood Fellow Want to help sou again this 5 ear And there were some new ones too All their names went down on the list and Just as soon as we can get around to it thev wl I be furnished the names of poor children who need good fello vs to come and see them Oood Fellow has his office at The Tribune and can be reached bv n all or telephone He wants a whole bag full of appl cations to come In todav |