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Show WONDERFUL GROWTH OF THE PENNY CHRISTMAS HEALTH SEAL AUhoush the Christmas Hetiltli Seal idea originated in a very modest way, it has spread over the country until now its story is hoth comprehensive and romantic. Fifteen years npn, Miss Emily Y. EisseJl, of Wilmington, Deleware, started the Christmas Seal idea in an attempt to raise funds to help in the nnti-tubereulosis work of her s'ate. She had read in the Outlook magazine an article by Jacob Iiiis on the Christmas Christ-mas stamp sold in Denmark for the support of a children's hospital. At the time 71185 Iiissell was sec-retiryof sec-retiryof (he Peleware Kcd Cross Chapter. "With $10 secured from two friends, as her capital, she obtained the official consent, of her chapter and the postofTiep authorities to put a few thousand seals into circulation. Stores, li v.m. s j.i j if j a iiuw iriiifij n iiui'3 an supported her' with great enthusiasm from the first. Through such generous gener-ous and united effort, three hundred thousand, to her a number beyond till her dreams, were sold that first year and $1,000 was paid on the site of the first tuberculosis Sanatorium in Peleware, Known as Hope Farm. As n result of Miss Bissell's demonstration demon-stration and earnest pleading the American 1-ed Cross decided to tahe vp the enterprise cm a nation-wide scale the next year, 1J10S. The parent organisation was handicapped hy lack j of funds and again Miss Bissell found the necessnry backers who shared her faU'n. She personally undertook the task of writing to -tOOO newspaper editors throughout, the country, asking ask-ing (hem to publish the fact Wiat. orders or-ders fur seals should be sent to National Na-tional 1 Ie:idiuarters. The result was a veritable flood of orders. j The seal 'design varies from year lo year. This , year's seal with the , mot Iter and child, is symbolic of the helpful guardianship of this cross over ov-er the children of our country. (Ivor one billion Christmas Seals i will be in circulation this year in Do-1 ( coiii'ior. j |