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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1902
Page
26
A Virginia member Mrs. Rupert describes sending coal and reading mater ial to aid the poor in winter. The Tribune Sunshine Society notes generous gifts from readers, including papers, books, dolls, garments, and various small comforts for children and workers across the country.
Ernestine von Rosenkrantz visits Heinrich Braun in his High Street flat, defies social rules, and faces family pressure as her mother and the von Rosenkrantz clan react to the improvised meeting. Braun confirms his love, and Ernestine declares her wish to marry him, leading to a scarce but decisive betrothal confirmed by Otto and accepted by the castle circle. The episode ends with plans for a trousseau and a courtly future.
At the Pilgrim Mothers dinner at the Waldorf Astoria, Mrs. J W Trow reported overheard comments on women’s public roles. Speakers included Harriette A Keyser and Miss T W Law urging noble deeds, temperance, and labor legislation, with praise for home support and critics of child labor. About two hundred attendees, chaired by Mrs. Lillia Devereux Blake, featured monologue and song performances.
Retailers report turkey costs climbing to 23 to 25 cents a pound ahead of Christmas amid light supplies from a harvest of only a third of last year. Geese remain around 20 to 28 cents, with wild mongrel geese at 4 cents. Western and Philadelphia stock drive scarce chickens, while quail, partridges and guinea hens show varied high prices and limited availability.
Seven Brooklyn youths calling themselves The Have Nots plan to spend time before Christmas transforming old toys for needy children. They will repaint, repair, and rework toys at Cooper Hall with help from volunteers and donations. Mrs Laura Littiz supports the effort and invites contributions of old Christmas treasures or funds for the Brooklyn Christmas tree charity.
The Frank Bottome Memorial King's Daughters' Home in Harlem warns that only Mrs George Moulton, who carries credentials, may receive contributions for Christmas dinners. An unauthorized person collecting funds in their name is not connected to the work.
In shops scarlet immortelle bells hang from red satin loops. Tiny corper pots hold miniature holly trees while larger doll-like sardinieres cradle growing ferns. Hanging baskets or table displays show beaten copper sides that catch sun and glow brilliantly on a dull winter day.
A Christmas celebration is planned at St Mark's Hospital Thursday afternoon from 3 to 5 o'clock. The event titled Christmas in Children’s Ward will bring festive activities for young patients. Earlier, at New York Hospital, the children's ward will be lit at 3 o'clock on Christmas Eve for a Christmas entertainment.
The Mizpah Circle of King's Daughters, a T. S. & branch, will host a Christmas tree event at a member’s home this year. Thirty pensioners will receive cheer, each child a toy, parents a basket of provisions, and members will donate garments. Florence Hart Jerome notes sunshine work remains central and seeks hats for colored girls and caps for boys with help from a wholesale firm and Brewsters, N. Y.
Names and small monetary gifts from multiple donors across El Paso Yonkers Dover Lenox and Brooklyn are recorded for Christmas relief and a mourning veil is requested for Miss Bettie Lipscomb Greenville S C. The gifts total modest sums toward clothing and a dinner for a poor family and aid to an invalid.
Manhattan Branch No 6 secured warm clothing and Christmas greetings for two widows with six and three children, one14 a crippled boy. their husbands died recently. The branch president found both cases deserving. Yesterday boxes were packed for Bloomingdale Day Nursery Sunnyside Day Nursery Last Side branch and many others including West Virginia Branch 13 and Branch 3, totaling 23 other families.
A list of numerous gifts for fatherless children is compiled from donors in New Jersey New York Connecticut Massachusetts and New Hampshire including dolls toys clothes and bags. Donors include Mrs Fordyce Barker of Tuxedo Park L D S of ld N J and the Danbury B B B Branch along with Miss Edith and Mrs Humphrey among others, with items such as handkerchiefs cushions mittens undergarments and canned goods.
A New York City gathering of the Car Passengers Rights Society, unaffiliated with any paper or party, outlined plans to draft separate petitions and send them to Mayor Low Governor Odell and state railroad authorities. Officers and members discussed endorsements for a Cantor track simplification proposal and decided to meet at Lotus Hall on West Seventy ninth Street.
The annual report shows 1 278 ward applicants for eight months using one sixty two bed ward. Morgan funded new hospital on Second Avenue opened last January near elevated stations. Manhattan births reached 51 688 with 875 admitted for hospital care and 2 419 in outdoor services. Wages averaged seven twenty six weekly for husbands, rent at 78 monthly, leaving 68 cents daily for food and fuel. The Ladies Auxiliary aided sanitation, clothes, and meals, while education expanded with 209 students and 38 graduates. Total expenditures reached 78 469 12.
The piece discusses how 15 cent lunches fail to supply nutritious meals for working women, especially those boarding or living frugally. It notes menus favor male tastes and the need for affordable, palatable options. It also cites a The Independent view on improving manners and mutual respect as women enter business life.
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