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Show GOOD FELLOWS EAGER FOR CHANCES TO SPREAD JOY Many Letters Received From Those Seeking to to Make Christmas a Most Happy Day for All Youngsters. ! TO JOIN THE ORDER OF GOOD FELLOWS. : Order of Good Fellows, Salt Lake City: : ; I live at No street. : I wish to take care of children. I prefer them : in the part of the city. Please send me ; a list of names. I enclose stamped and addressed envelops. (Signed) MOST people don't know how much they have to be thankful for," commented Good Fellow as he poured the contents of a well-filled well-filled mail bag upon his desk. "You've seen 'em, and so have I those well-fed fellows who loaf around the club while the blizzard rages outside and say nasty things about the weather and the world in general. Fact is, I've been rather pessimistic at times myself, but a few days at this work and things take on a different aspect. "Take this letter, for instance. Here's a little fellow who has been a cripple from birth, father In bed with rheumatism since last summer and mother taking In washing wash-ing to get flour and potatoes and occasionally occa-sionally a sack of coal. Says he'd always wanted a sled, but needs clothes now to keep him warm. Should Be Thankful. "You and I have two good legs and two good arms, and, more than that, we are ; able t work and liave work to do. Yet I doubt if we appreciate even those bless-; bless-; ings unless we see something like the : note from this little chap. "If it wasn't for such notes as this we'd be in a bad way," he continued as he spread another letter upon the table. This ia what it said; Chief Good Fellow: Greetings Send me address of family of small children, chil-dren, three or four youngsters. We will undertake to care for their Christmas. Christ-mas. Our office force has been with you each year and have had a lot of pleasure out of it "See, they're some more of the old guard. Once a Good Fellow, always a Good Fellow. Every vear along in midsummer mid-summer I think I'll be too busy at Christmas time to look after the unfortunate unfor-tunate "kiddles' of Salt Lake. But there's no getting away from it. By the middle of November 1 find myself unconsciously un-consciously getting mv woi k in shape to run Itself "for thirty days while I go back to the old job. And I'm not alone. I've kept a list of the Good Fellows in Salt Luke from year to year and when I check back I find the old guard showing up year after year. Touching Appeal. "Hello! Listen to this: Dear Good Fellows As Christmas is nearing I thought I would write you a little letter. I have a brother, aged 10, and a little sister, aged 8, and I am ill. Mv brother's name is Frank and my sister Is Myrtle and I am . Our papa Is dead and by mamma isn't able to do much for us. If you , come to our house, come in the daytime, day-time, as mamma works In the evening. even-ing. "Think of it! Those little youngsters having to slay alone at nifiht because their widowed mother must work night and day to support them. I'll sea that some Good Fellow goes to that homo in the daytime, all right. S'pose the youngsters young-sters would be afraid to open the door after dark. "But we must got busy and busier if 1 we are to care for all the needy kids of I Salt Lake in the next twelve days. And ! don't forget that my office is at The 1 Tribune. Call around tomorrow and 1111 tell you how we're getting along." |