WENIM BGBR-IHILADJBLPHIA, TUESDAY, MOMTBBB 20, 'HH.6 ,Y DOOM BROTHERS MAKE AGED HAPPY ii- - -i Follow Custom Started by 4 Their Father Forty-one V i Years Ago .&MFOOD PROM SOUP TO NUTS By KNOX ," Inst n bout everybody know tho Doencr , lejr. They are tirollir three. They run a tiottt. It In a cood hotel. It (it on Tenth ' fttreet about ninety teps north from ' Chestnut street. Thero may he found food for man, who sometimes Is ended tv beast If you ever wandered Into Dooner's Hotel .. you would find It a che.ry place. Dnrky waiters would toko the warmest hind of a. personal Interest In you And you would fed Into tho outer world well fod and con tent And you Would wonder whether there must not be rt noul back of tho Dooners to - tn&ko It such ft satlofnctory "chow" place. ("Chow" means eatlrlgV Soonera lias a soul. It linn four of them. Souls sometimes have names They dp In this story, This Is n ntory of three )ho ouls and tho memory of a soul and the memory Is the best soul of nil. "Dill'' Dooner Is ft bis; sort bf a chsp. ' Ho asked mo on Saturday night a rather fake sdrt of a Christmas live this year whether I would take n Christmas jaunt with him come Monday, I said, "Sure." I didn't know what It -Sill was about. All I did was merely to say that ono word, "Sure " It's funny how one little word llko "cure" will let you Into no much happiness. Well, bo. Bill and me loaded oursehes Into a taztcab yesterday nt noon with about forty pounds of coffee and a -bunch , eC candy and nobody but the Dooner boys knows what elm. And mil, who Is rather , inclined to be fat and puffy, nnd who looes J hln breath remarkably easy, he says to tho chauffeur of tho taxi, "KlRhteenth , street, above Jefferson," Just llko that; nothing more. And off we wont. eighteenth street Is like any other Phil adelphia street. It Is rows and rows of houses, each s pattern of the other, until you urriyo norui oc jouerson street, 'men I Eighteenth street takes on nn Old-World . flavor. Kor here, rchchlns; almost from ' block to block Jefferson to Oxford street I Is that Institution nbout which most . people know too little, "The Home for yAced of Uoth Sexes, without record to , Creed or of Nationality," under tho care of that self-sacrltlclne band of devoted i women who are known as tho Little Sisters , of the Poor. Tho homo Is tinder tho Invo cation of tho Immaculate Heart of Mnry. - "Bill" Dooner rang tho "day bell." Tho door swung open nnd "BUI" got a real Christmas greeting from the nweetest faced Bister of tho Poor man) over laid eyes upon. Wo wero hustled Into n tiny room where It became obligatory to don n. big white waiter's apron that covered one from neolt to midway from knoo to ankle. Then th good Christmas work started. "Forty-one yearn ngo," a little Sister whispered In my car a French sister who had her heart over there whero her broth ers are fighting "Peter Dooner founded the custom of giving our old mon and our old women something to remember that Christmas was for them ns well ns for the rich. And every yenr since ha died his sons havo kept up tho good old custom." I felt a grip upon my arm. "Time to get to work," said '"Bill" Dooner. And I found myself before a huge pile of plates. It seemed that tho Dooner boya had Impressed a lot of the loafers and barllles of n big lintel Into somo real service. "They sat In rows at long tables nround the rooms, these old folk; who had been taken in without regard to religion or nationality. "Bill" Dooner put on an apron. So did Frank. And so did Ed. And so did the Dooner barflies. And no did those wives fit those barflies who hoppened to have wives. Arm every ono smiled and looked terribly happy. Which thoy wero. Then In Jhe men's dining room, In tho WOmen'o dining room, In the men'o Infirm ury, in tho 'women's infirmary, much food was served, including nil that should be In a Christmas dinner, turkey nnd all Its trimmings, and plum pudding nnd cake and punch steaming hot and cake nnd coffeo and for the mon pipes and smok ing tobacco an soap and two cigars nnd much else and for tho women packages about the contents of which It was bad form for a man to astc. And then came Frank Dooner and the ld people knew him from many years ?Z!h.. nnd f PP1udd- And then came Bill" and told funny stories and got a hearty "God bless you" from all the old folk who had ihad nn ordinary day turned I into a Christmas holiday. And finally came Ed Dooner with his , sweet voice and his sornri nt inn,- .n And be sang for tho feeble women In the women's infirmary. And he snng for the feeble men In the men's Infirmary. And he ang for the women in the dining hall. And voice Just as sweet as though he had never sung a song that day he sang for the wen In the men's dining hall. He eang songs of long ago. Not senti mental songs. For those kind of songs make folkApry when they are In the even- ,aff,.cf Jlw Dut BWeet ola Irl! ongs With a twlshof humor to them. And there were smiles all about when he had UU1HCU, It seems that forty-one years ago, gone yesterday, the daddy of the Dooner boys dear old Peter Dooner. of blessed memory started the custom of giving the old folic a happy Chrlstmus. And since his death blazons hava considered It a trust fund and haven't felt It Chrlstmastlde unless theymada the old folk happy up at Eight wnthvand Jefferson streets. May Cod glvo Philadelphia more Dooner bays. n in i i, ii I ii In i , niii 11 i " ' " 11 SQSJBBBv I JHkVBTttfsHsVs $m hJB v 4BLj-zB. IsIHhh WILLIAM UUCIIMANN Though only six months old, he put on n uniform nnd shouldered n rlilo ns n Chrlfltmna tribute to his nbscnt uncle, Dnvid Ahcrn, of Bat tory B, Second Pennsylvania Field Artillery, who In down on tho border. ILL MAN KILLS HIMSELF Machinist, Unablo to Work, Turns on Gns In Iloom A long period nt III health Is nuppottrd ,to han caused Ocorgo Knlpc, forly-nljc years old, n machinist, to commit sulcldo early this morning by turning on thn II lumlnnttng gas In the room of the house whero ho boarded, nt 31C West Berks r.trcct. Kntpn had been unnblo to work for a long time, but yesterday nppenred to ho In better spirits than usual lie retired enrly, nnd about ,1 o'clock n fellow boarder detected tho odor of gas coming from his room. The door was broken down nnd Knlpo found nnd tnken to tho Stetson Hos pital. It was too Into, however. Tho nun was unmarried and tho pollco nro hunting for hl:t relatives. DIETING RULES CITY ON THE 'DAY AFTER' Stomach Experts, Man at the Bar and Others Ex plain Reason Why CATTBLL HAS FIGURES 'Tts the itnu after Christina; nnd all through the town The peop'e are ruing the grub Ihev put rloum. ' Yet, pills or ly$pepia then Mttetlv trti. And hope the nrtm Reaper toll! please pan 'em bg. Now comes the gsstronomle "morning after," If you called dear old arandrna a gourmet as sha sat on her easy chair yes terday afternoon, completely under the In fluence of turkey and coffee, yotl would have been rrled down ns disrespectful. But from (Irnndma down nearly every dno this dny feels the result of too much feeding. It was nit forecast by the nation's foremost dietitians, but, hardy as they are to the Jibes of Jolly trenchermen, they hesitated to anoint the annual turkey with the sauce of apprehension, by telling folks beforehand to go easy with the knife and fork "Of course," said Dr. Wllmer ICrusert, director of tho Department of Health and Charities, "our citizens ate entirely too much yesterday. Feollng that thera wan nothing to do until lomorrow, they went at their meals nn If they never expected to get an other. As n dietitian said, There are more persons who eat themselves to death than drink themselves out of this life I' I heartily belleo that. But any one knows that the aeraga person dislikes extremely to bo called a gourmand 1" Tcslcrdny 160,000 turkeys wero con sumed In this rlty," said K. J, Cattell, rlty rlatlrlan. 'There are 3GO.O0O fam ilies In Philadelphia, but hardly half of these "to turkey, It Is safe to assume." "Supposo yotl plnco all thn cranberries eaten In tho city on top of one another," wns suggested to the statistician. "Supposo TOU do It," smiled Mr. Cattell, rotreatlng. Nevertheless, some of the essential facts of yesterday's municipal bolt cannot bo overlooked. For Instance, If tho mlnco pies eaten In this city wero Bpread out flat on the ground they would nearly cover n snunro city block; If they were lined up edge to edgo the) would reach from hern io JTtnton i borons fnbrfo by fastening thtlr edge to rether they wonld cover one tide of lh Lfthd Title Building7 Nine hundred tons of turkey were consumed, and If the tur keys who perished to make a, Quaker holi day could be1 rejuvenated and sllowed to gobble in chorus the sound would reach well, Just put It that way- ''would reach " A meAl such an yesterday's set the Phil adelphla people back an aggregate of 141, M years and eight months of their lives, as nuthors on the subject agree that one day of the very heaviest feeding shortens a pctson'n life two months, 'It'ii n peculiar thing" said Dr. V B. Hawk, of Jefferson Medical College, 'but folks who sigh ns they talk of their fellow men as wine bibbers, sit down nt a meil nnd eat three times what Is sufficient and twice what Is good for them. "People eat too much etcry day of the year, But on Christmas they go on a sort of debauch. It Is a little extreme to say thnl they perceptibly shorten their lives. "Now, Its this way," said a little man with rubbers and an umbrella. In discuss Ing the situation over the polished wood. "I go and I buy a turkey and Ma hands It to us on Christmas. Then the next day we get it again. Then the next day we get It sjraln with fl apology. Day after that we get a funny kind of hash that. shows the Influence ot turkey, but Ma doesn't apologise this lime, so me and the kids Just butt Our heads down, shut our eyes and keep going. Well, last year, on the fifth day, I went home and found ft flock ot the queerest little balls In place of meat. Wanting to make a. joke I says, 'Ma. are you trying to ball Us ontr" The little man sighed and cried out for another. "1'ou don't Knew my wife, do you." M the. little man, wiping tne sweat from his brow, "Well, when. I tried to be funny she Just stops dead In her tracks, puts her hahds to her hips and starts in. I can give you what she eald, but not the manner " 'I've been noticing,' eald Ma, 'that you have been retting n. bad example of waste fulness to the children by making faces at our turkey behind my bnett for two days. Now those are turkey balls, and what I want to tell you Is thlss tf you don't like turkey, don't buy It And If you must buy It, n ttd 4sV titi a tt . --i ft week. then'. 'UF3SVF&& "nrgtierej burble.1 "l,Tenttte6r., BUtIKhi,,,mMd,m'Ml'll right? t,,tTnM bUt ! 1 ' "' " - .. rt... n M u lf PP7nsgijo5eo i RAG HL CUAS. M. STAUFFFR, Pree. and Gen. Manager LEWIS SBMMEL, Vice President V. S. KECK, Secretary and Treasurer I A. EBERTS & CO. INCORPORATED WHOLESALE GROCERS COFFEE ROASTERS Confectionery, Tobacco & Cigars Main-Office and Warehouse Bethlehem, Pa. Stores AlUntown, Pa.; Easf on, Pa.; Bangor, Pa. IJfes While Preparing Holiday Meal WEST CITESTEn, Pa., Dec. 2 J, Mrs. Alice Bollock, nurse of the Social Settlement Society, died here while making prepara tions for the Christmas dinner for her fam ily. She was recently superintendent of the Normal School Infirmary, "There's a Wood For Every Need" We have it in stock from a single board to carload lots. We also take the lumber and turn it into the finest grades of material in our own planing mill. ( y Wo Solicit Out-of-Toxun Correspondence Brown-Borhek Company II. J. MEYERS, President ' ARNON P. MILLER, Treasurer II. D. SNYDER, Manager Bethlehem and South Bethlehem, Pa. That Wear How many times can you uso your bnKH? For years tho International Bap; Company, makers of bags for every purpose, has been nidlnjr manufacturers rcduco production costs by providing containers that can bo used ngain and airnln, baR3 nnd sacks that stnnd up under the hardest wear. Our policy of KlvinR n little bet ter quality than is expected has created such n demand for Inter national RaRB that a larger plant beenmo imperative. To meet this increased demand wo havo erected a modern factory at Bethlehem. Pa., to which has been ndded a clennintr and dyoinjr department, known ns tho SWISS CLEAN ERS AND DYERS. With Increased facilities at our command, wo now nro in a posi tion to render oven hotter service to nil users of prnln sacks, ammu nition bajrs, money bajrj, cement bags, flour sacks, etc. The International Bag Co. BETHLEHEM, PA. Share in the Wonderful Future of the Bethlehems 'THE BETHLEHEMS constitute the fastest - growing industrial com munity of the United States. IN TIID pnstfilf teen months tho four municipalities comprised therein havo grown by leaps and botradi But tho growth has been insignificant compared with the demand. Tho cxpnnolon of tho mighty plant of tho Bethlehem Steel Company bound to continuo oven after the war and of tho othtr 1 industries of this most nctivo section of tho progrosstvo Lehigh Valley, makes tho construction of at least 12,000 now houses nn actual present nccd. AT THE moment there aro approximately C0.000 people In tho Bothlohems. The Steel Plant alone has moro than 20,000 on its pay-rolls. Any ono conversant with conditions In othor Industrial centers knows that 25,000 workmen should menn a community of all classes of nt least 125,000, And tho Steel Company great ns it is is not tho only Industrial activity of tho Bethlehcms by any mean. UNDER exlstinp conditions many of tho cmploycft of tho various Bethlehem plants nro forced to commute to other points:" Their preference, naturally, would bo to reside in tho nlaco of their occu- -patlon, especially considering tho health and topographical conditions of this splendidly endowed section V of Pennsylvania. THIS condition of affairs leads us to comment on tho excellent outlook for Bethlehem realty. Housei nro being constructed on every sldts well-designed, permanent residences that effectively counter act the suggestion of temporary boom and values nro increasing accordingly. AS THE largest real cBtato operators and developers in tho region, wo aro in a position to advlii conservatively tho prospective capitalist nnd Investor. Wo personally own several hundred acres of the very best building sites in tho Bethlehcms. Theso sites nro accessible- to both industrial .and commercial sections. Wo can offer tho builder seeking n field for profitable operations unusual con' dltlons and terms. ' l May we point to our residential parks, WEST SIDE and EDGEBORO, and to ouj; .. lesspretentious developments, OBERLY TERRACE and LYNPJELD, as examples of tho 'work we arc doing for the community's upbuilding. J Bethlehem I llli i iii i WrHUBJ S&TlQ' iTPiflrt till. Jl it III vySBHEljw1LK ..'':' f. ii . - - Foering & Heller, Pennsylvania STRUCTURAL STEEL . Bridges Buildings Special Structures Designed Fabricated Erected Prompt Shipments From Stock Vanderstupken -Ewing Construction Company Bethlehem, Pa.- K i !1I 3i .f- ;. Jfci RAILWAY WORE STRUCTURAL STEEL WORK FROGS SWITCHES CROSSINGS STANDS BRIDGES BUILDINGS STAIRS ROOFS JEa - A s WILBUR TRUST COMPANY south Bethlehem, pa. -i -Ul i .. ... i -T'- -sr-!! . Mf, I- The Guerber Engineering Co. . Manufacturers and Contracting Engineers OFFICE, W' Angles, Channels, Beams, Plates, Bars, Ralls, etc., Carried In Stock for Prompt Shipment ORKS and STOCK YARD BETHLEHEM, PA. IN OUR BANKING :" - DEPARTMENT ' ' We receive and carefully handle checking accounts. We pay 3 interest on savings v accounts. t f We buy and sell' commercial paper.( ) ' . mmI Lil I JL. F' nfriii ilr" ii'i Y1 1 i'liii if 1 1 . nrf ;. IN OUR TRUST .4 DEPARTMENT i. We act as executor, admin , istrator, trustee, receiver, "assignee, etc. Wed id store raw up wills, an them free of charge. We transact all kinds of busi ness of a fiduciary character. Our building at Fourth Street and Broadway, South Bethlehem. Safe Deposit Boxes, r Our safe deposit boxes are installed in a burglar and fireproof armor-plate vault. We rent them at $2.00 a year and upward, according (to size. W. A. WILBUR, Pres. ELDREDGE P. WILBUR, 2d Vice-Pres. ARNON p. MILLER, Vice-Pres, CHARLES T. HESS, Sec'y-TWs. HBHBH f wblijs&b Km i I. 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