WENIM BGBR-IHILADJBLPHIA, TUESDAY, MOMTBBB 20, 'HH.6
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DOOM BROTHERS
MAKE AGED HAPPY
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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.
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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,
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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. (
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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
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Foering & Heller,
Pennsylvania
STRUCTURAL
STEEL .
Bridges Buildings
Special Structures
Designed Fabricated Erected
Prompt Shipments From Stock
Vanderstupken -Ewing
Construction Company
Bethlehem, Pa.-
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STRUCTURAL
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FROGS
SWITCHES
CROSSINGS
STANDS
BRIDGES
BUILDINGS
STAIRS
ROOFS
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WILBUR TRUST COMPANY
south Bethlehem, pa.
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. Manufacturers and Contracting Engineers
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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.
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We buy and sell' commercial
paper.( ) ' .
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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,
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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.
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