Christmas charity and temperance contrasted in a city column
The column contrasts gifts given from compulsion duty and love, praising a reformer who stopped costly gifts to aid poor children. It describes Lena Sittig organizing a Christmas Tree for poor kids, noting miseries of destitute mothers and the temperance debate. It also laments the burden of manuscript examinations and warns against unpaid reviewing requests. It ends with Martha Foster, the spirit photographer, under arrest in Indianapolis.
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Christ
Galilee
Lena Sittig
New York
Brooklyn Rink
Sittig
Express Office
Literary Bureau
Eleanor Kix
Martha Foster
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