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W vy CHR CHRISTS CHRIST'S ST'S B- B BIRTHDAY Y IN III 1 THE BIG TENEMENTS An AIl Intensely ey Human Feast of Joy in the Most Crowded Section of the World O 0 most people the thought of or Christina in New York brings t t 0 pictures of roaring streets long rows S of carriages before Jewelers Jewelers' Jewelers Jewelers' Jew jew- r elers' elers windows that shine like treasure uro houses of Oriental tales garlanded Broadway flood a-flood with I eager men and women a a. turmoil of or I magnificence where women omen walk with fortunes on their backs hacks and other fortune fortunes fortune's for for- tunes tune In their purses to spend a city that thal displays s 's in Er C every one of ot its riotous riotous riot riot- ous show streets the thc tribute of or two hemispheres poured out almost wantonly wan wan- ranton ton tonly to In ever every shop and to tomake m make kc every window o a a. bewilder bewildering Ins Ins- maze mazet a a festival world that t Is hum a-hum from t the dark bay bap to the f off far heights where the white Acropolis polls of or America stands t n s shining from a serene selene sky Kly as If It too were set high among the steadfast stead stead- fast stars Yet he hr who knows New ew Yorks York's Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas only thus dots does not know It at all To know it ft where it jl really comes home in Its old simplicity stripped of or all the show a true feast of ot good will one f must pass e east cart t and west cst of the glowing slowing where the holiday season Is celebrated with monc money Where the tenements make m a black sinister frame I around New York York robbing robbing the city of ofUs Its Us e on the cast east in the morning und and blotting bloWn its sunset fires on the west I with hideous lines that cut Into the crimson on sit sky like th the silhouettes of burned and ard blasted towers towers there there inthe in inthe the pits of or streets in the mine shafts of ot hallways hallwas and the cells of rooms looms Is Christmas Forgets Their Ugliness I Ir In the these et last afternoons before beCore the day its spirit fills Oils the dim lm and nd unlovely I ly streets till one almost tor forgets their ugliness Long before it Is evening c In Iny inthe y the wider avenues of o more favored city districts the tenement house world has hasI j I lost the sunlight for the sun sets behind berr bet be be- t rr hind the river frontiers of barr barracks before before before be be- fore its time It Is as ns If these hideous structures s. s not content with stunting the little children and making malting the adults pale an and unhealthful were actually ac- ac actually ac ae- enga engaged cd In n unholy conspiracy to cheat cheal the swinging world It Itself elf of or its share of ot light and Hull warmth There Is more of or a a. chill chili in the air all there than elsewhere elte the wind has in It Ita 0 a touch of the atmosphere of or sunless cella cellars s. s The river br breathes athe a blended odor never to be forgotten always as to be associated with the tenement river ilver districts districts dis dis- ever er afterward aCt a blend of or the chlorine of ot exposed mud bottoms of or keen good salt water of insistent spice smells from the wharves hancs and through It all the ever present smell of kerosene kero hero sene acne and petroleum from the whose tall chimneys pierce every distant dis tant view from those river river bordering bordering 1 cliffs cUffs Conquered by German Christmas The ordinary every ery da day day- odors of or the houses themselves are conquered by J odors From the thc 4 new new true Christmas f doors of or the bakeries rush rUfh warm sweet breaths of ot sugary and marzipan German delicacies are these which one will find everywhere here through the tenement house t colonies universal ul of or course coure in the German East EastSide Side prevalent lent enough In the Ghetto to stump champ tho the City of the Jew with their theirY Y character plentiful lv even n In the cub colo ales of or the exclusive Irish For the German German Ger Ger- man Christmas 3 conquered the thc greater reater part of the ten tenement nt world long ago i The v very r Christmas tree trec Is 15 a 0 German l importation Into the tenement house e world Wine Vine merchants thrive nt at this time of the tho year ear on th the cast east and w west sl 11 Long II slender German Rhine wine winer r bottles are to be seen een everywhere peering peer peer- eri er- er ing from the half lids of or market i baskets protruding from the pockets of shabby overcoats and stand standing Ins on I r I rust rusty fire escapes the wino wiro coolers of or orthe the tenement All Ready Rendy for Christmas The Tho delicatessen shops shop bright with evergreens c and nd pine branches display newly Imported German hei herrings rings Pickled things s are th they swimming In I brine and vinegar covered co with a dozen dozen dozen doz doz- en different spices and condiments another another an an- other G German food that has won its way through Irish h. h Hungarian Italian and Hebraic settlements They are dis dis- displayed played temptingly in cleah clean unpainted wooden barrels tilted to show the bronze and gold sold of or tho the submerged half fish I Smoked goose glistening in transparent I ent masses of fatty tatty gelatine pasties of or game and common meats and tubs full ull of pickled cabbage are rc regular lar features of or every other window of or shops devoted to food Food and drink are the great Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas features of or the tenement district The butcher shops shop gaudy with pap paper r flowers l show how venison entson and rabbits rabbit and squirrels b besides ld immense beeves bee and miles of ot links link of every kind of oC sausage from the black and red to the white rich all nil of or them delicious The groceries fenced with Christmas tr trees es und and under evergreens er reens display tubs full Cull of nuts oran oranges es and raisins The raisin is a great grent favorite ta The Thc bakeries are choke a with good odors Sugared wreath like cakes and JI heavy an yellow and brown raisin cakes Ire predominate Queer Delicatessen Stores But the delicatessen stores tores remain the true courts of Christmas in the tene tene- ments Cheap Cheal and high priced foods of strange c kinds are arc piled up in each tene-I tene of these thes curious establishments from Russian Rus Itus- sian caviar lar and smoked sturgeon to queer German chee cheeses 8 like the pale and nd I alarming sinkers sinkers' that are arc baked in full tull view lew of the public nubile in the coffee and nd I cake establishments of or America The is a n truly trul German Getman institution that has become a n. universal goody goody- on the east cast and west sides It Isa is isu a u sugared honey cake It comes In ht many grades and qualities all Imported Some of the liner finer kinds are shipped in beautifully beautifully beau beau- decorated decorate round boxes of oC embossed embossed em- em bossed tin ether n are shinned shaped Into reindeer and Saint Nicks ranging In size Ilze from tin tiny cakes to figures two and three fret feet hl high h Some of the better better better bet bet- ter grades of or are several months In baking and preparing for forone forone forone one part of or the process in Germany Is Isto Isto isto to soak oak the cakes in honey for weeks In glass Jur Jury Jars s sMore More Costly Than Marzipan Is 18 even more expensive c than It is a most delicious almond paste laste very ery heavy so fO that one une gets a discouragingly small quantity ina In Ina Ina a pound Marzipan comes come In hundreds of or different forms being shaped to male make miniature carrots potatoes strawberries ries rles apples and other fruits and vegetables vegetables vegetables vege vege- tables and animals Each piece Is colonel colored col col- ored onel exquisitely with vegetable colorIn colorIngs colorings color color- In ings R and besides being a delightful thing to cat the the- Christmas ma marzipan is decidedly ornamental and decorative for the Christmas table The tenement house district loves the Christmas tree Only the ver very poor families arc are content to do without one and even cven they th try to have at least a branch which the they bang with gilt lit nn and tinsel el and set with aa as a many sunny colored can candles as the they c can n afford Consequently LIy the dr drep ep gorges of or streets tr ets are embowered with beauty now for there are few corners that do not nol show how bundles of or trees on the sidewalk either cither before a a. shop or on a a. peddlers peddler's cur curt cart The Tho Open-Air Open Bazar These recurrent bowers bowen of or green yeen form pretty settings s for a tl quaint and pleasant pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant characteristic of or the tale tenement- tenement house city and particularly of or the cast ast side fide That is the open air all holiday mar- mar i I ll g j IER IS THE CHRISTMAS s I V ket keto It Is like a n count country fair Booths Booth push carts sidewalk stands and baskets baskets baskets bas bas- line the sidewalks Ilce The The- Theair air all Is full of the piping and bra braying and ard Jingling of or music and noise making toys toS the thin brave bra clatter of or tin mechanisms and th the voices of or the peddlers lets with each other in a mad Joyous amazing In ing stirring medic medley of or no noise e. e In a thousand thousand thou thou- sand rand note notes registers re and dialects These street t markets m are not congregations congregations congre congre- of mere re sidewalk hucksters The They are open open- open air Ir bazars baars on no mean scale l Every Ivery vcr kind l of or toy from the 1 c cent cont nt tin novelty to boxes of or high class papier macho mach animals and pewter soldiers soldiers sol tol- sol sol- diers of or perfect design ma may be nd ad there Clothing decorations decorations- for tor C cs es can candles les rubber boots boot books books all all te to e piled side b by side in indiscriminate MI at 1 profusion Ilene e Is the Christmas spirit 0 O seek through the city's show plathe pla pla- the grand giand human simple Christ a H i joy of ot the thc pages of or Dickens and seek In vain aln In the tenement streets crowded with the cr very poor and the almost as asToor poor Toor and the the- fortunate ones who have risen to the thc incredibly splendid position of actually being able ble to make ends meet and nd have ha a little left over that spirit rules complete and true Here are mothers rs with shawls pinned over head he and shoulders with wIlh thin worked hard hands holding holdin tightly to chil children rn who keep their gaze eo so firmly on th the wonders all around them that they must b be dragged and not led Everywhere E the children are being pulled along sideways like he-a he heavy barges swinging In a D. twisting current I behind a but bu like business I ness like tugboat F Fathers Fathers Fath Fath- thI th- th ers with scant overcoats Q pulled up UI as ns asfar I far as l they the will go go never never quite far farenough farenough enough h it seems scorns to the comfortable observer ob oh- server ser shrinking In his ample garments push push through the laughing dickering i gesticulating crowds w wit with 1 babies held hellI hl high h. h The little ones are arc painfully red with cold old but hut their eyes ces are aie beautiful with the wonder of or the Christmas mystery mystery mys mys- tery that thal has so strangely sw swept pt Into their dull lives ll dulled even e in infancy though h unconsciously by the hard fight for dally daily life Tho The Lovo Love of tho the Tenements here licie Is 18 something fine and Inspiring In I sight of these hundreds and scores corlEs of ot hundreds of ot family groups I each ach herding a little flock Hock of marvel marvelling I lI ling hag 1 children debating for hours how 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I iI iH I ri l r Ti ly l r f I 4 1 4 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 t i I 2 29 9 30 I NOVEMBER WOODS ARE EARS BARf AND STILL r R DAYS AP ARC t CLEAR M AND D FRIGHT BRIGHT t J 1 Ii r tA c HA NT I big as ns the sum that more prosperous I persons spend pend In a a. moment for a a. knickknack knickknack knickknack knick- knick knack for some Fome acquaintance not for tor love but as a n. mere matter of ot social ob ob- Immeasurably Imme liner finer r Indeed than toS to S see the carriage folk foUt sweep Into a a. royal 1001 shop and spend nd a a. years year's Income for tor a single let Immeasurably finer than to see all nU the wealth of the richest spendthrift among cities poured out on every ery side under the glare of or a million lights Germans and Huns and Magyars aSars and I Croats Irish and Italian and Jew are I here crowded side b by side sille taking hard Jostling and heart hearty knocks into the ribs with entire goodwill For this se season son trul truly Is to them a n. season n of or goodwill All these men and nd women differing In l eyer every custom appearance habit and wish in tn C every other w way are one In to the I love that animates them no now A Wonderful Elusive IDu lve Likeness Radically unlike as they are arc one feels after a n few hours hou of ot crowding and pressing pressing- among amons- them that there Is a n wonderful elusive likeness bet between them all And that likeness s Is in the eyes ees of ot the women Those eyes ees of or th the mothers of the tenements are arc the finest Christmas sights in all the great city of or sights Brave e true tru filled with love looking at atthe atthe atthe the offerings of or the shops and stands with perfect un unselfishness lon long after the recollection of or all nil the rest of or the strange scenes has faded the thought of or those thousands of r brave women's eyes ees remains an nn uplifting uplifting- memory Once let him fall all under the influence of those cr eyes s and the ob observer will feel reel as ns if Ir he should bow his head heid before them in obeisance He thinks of or the worn hands that have been robbed of or orall all physical grace STace b by hard toll and sees how they thep have struggled le to save a little for or this holiday time He sees secs the tul beautiful stratagems planned long ago that they may delight the ones they love He sees the crowd crowded d rooms stifling stifling- with the odors of or barrack life lICe unlovely ely barel barely habitable and lo 10 he sees the solemn Influence of or him who walked in poverty in Galilee making them divine |