SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 10928, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG -- (Continued from Page 2.) ston with Mrs. I. G. Bogart as com- missioner and president of the local committee At present there are five companies of Guides in King- ston, the K.C.I., St. James', St. George's, St. Andrew's, The Rangers, and a newly formed company at Portsmouth, with Miss Elizabeth Henstridge as guider. A summer camp on the St. Lawrence, of great benefit to the girls and also a source of pleasure, is held yearly and many other 'activities engaged in, so that the parents feel that the movement 's of much value to their daughters. Miss Hattie Chown, Miss Henstridge and Miss Irene McCormick are also among the splendid band of teachers of which Kingston is justly proud, and to them as teachers in'the Col- legiate Institute, as well as officers in the Girl Guides, mueh of the success of this work among the pupils is due. The Public Library. Mrs. A. Kennedy, the librarian. is in a great measure responsible for the really good public' library we have in Kingston, (a free library since 1921) and when the day comes that Mrs. Kennedy and her books are moved to better quarters they and she will be in more fitting sur- roundings. principal feature of a library and Mrs. Kennedy has the books. She also has the faculty for making the children love hooks and sees that they have only the best. A children's library has been established by her at the ¢orner of Brock and Bagot streets, where the little ones gather to read and to listen to the stories told them by Mrs. Kennedy, who is a born story teller and adored by them and by the children of the Orphans' Home whom she visits weekly. She is also on the local council executive. No story of the activities of -the women of Kingston can be told with- out reference to the splendid work done by the self-sacrificing commit- tee of the quaint old grey limestone building on Union street where the children, who have for one cause or another, been deprived of their na- tural home, find kindness and yet firmness, comfort and teaching. war record of the boys who found re- fuge here was remarkable and many THE SPIRIT OF | CHRISTMAS TIME | feet. there is always warm But the books are the! The' happy wives and mothers owe their lessons in life to (thé superintendants chosen by the Orphans' Home com- mittee. The Home for Friendless Women and Children has strong committee of women with Mrs. W." H. Macnee as their presi- dent, who provide a home for the infants and their © mothers, who would otherwise be left on the streets, -------- Miss Machar. Among Kingston's noted women is our poetess and authoress, Miss Agnes Maule Machar. As an his torian, Miss Machar has given to the people of Kingston a story of their own city in her 'Story of Old King- ston" and her study of the history of the early days of Canada, when it was known as New France, has heen given to the world in several inter- esting books. Her poetry is lyrical and full of her love for her country and her love of and sympathy with the beautiful things of nature. She is the oldest member of the Cana- dian Women's Press Club, and many were the regrets expressed by the members at the iriennial meet id Vancouver in September, at this, her first absence from among them. Miss Machar was for several years presi- dent of the Local Council of Women and is now their honorary president. She is also an honorary member of the national executive with power to vote. As a member of the Kingston Historical Society she did valuable work for the city. Her interest in the dumb animals led to prizes for essays on kindness to them being given to the children in the public schools, and it was through her in- fluence that a Band of Mercy was organized. Sbe has been on the board of managers of the Kingston Humane Society as a valued®mrem- ber for many years. Both Miss Ma- char and Mrs. Oberndorffer have been identified with the City Poor Relief, the former since its inception. and many are the kindly aots done by them for the less fortunate mem- bers of the community. Miss Ma- char has been secretary for a num- ber of years and has always given the needed aid with the kindness and Christian love that made it indeed relief. Mrs. John Wright is now the president of this society. Mrs. Obern- dorffer was for some time president ar and frost and snow under the sun- shine in our hearts. also a | able | their officers at a later date. NA cB SP Aa a of the Jewish Society and is a char- | ter member of the Red Cross Society | and a vice-president of the Hospital I aid. She was given the degree of Chivalry by "the Daughters of Re- bekah, and has always been an out- standing figure among the 'Women | of Kingston. There are other so- cietles and other valued workers among them of whom we hope to be to tell the story with cuts of Kingston A Musical Centre. Kingston has always been; con- sidered a musical centre so we can- not close this brief story of the wo- men workers without a reference to four women who are well known to all our music jovers. Mrs. J. R. © Dobbs is the organist of Chalmers church and a teacher of singing and | the piano. Mrs. Dobbs has taught some of the Kingston girls whose voices have brought glory to their city, among them Miss Jean Chown and her pupils under her direction have given much enjoyed concerts and sung some of the classic ora- | returns every ACTIVE WORK OF KINGSTON WOMEN | FOR BENEFIT OF COMMUNITY His soul torias. Miss Shay. the organist of Sydenham street "Methodist c¢hurch and for some jime of St. Andrew's church, is also a well known King- ston pianist and accompanist. She is a teacher of the piano and a most successful one, her recitals are al- ways enjoyed and her success as a choir leader well known. Mrs. A. R. B. Williamson, Mus. Bac., was for nine years organist of St. James' church and is one of the finest con- cert organist§ in Canada. She or- ganized the Kingston Choral Society which so successfully sang "The Elijah" last year and looks for fur- ther success with| this fine chorus this season. She also is a pianist who is noted for her® brilliance and technique. Of another type of musi- cian is Mrs. R. C. Betts, who as Miss Francis Devlin was with her sister, Mrs, J. L. Jerome, the life and soul of the entertainments given for the men who mobilized in Kingston dur- ing the years of the war, untiring in her efforts to make the lonely days of wajting for a transport brighter. Both the sisters will long be remem- bered by the soldiers who trained in Kingston, and when they came back, broken in body and spirit, these bright girls sang and played them back to hope and life. parts. But Christmas is a world- wide festival in which every Christ- tian nation of the earth participates. tablished a happy interchange year as fresh and fragrant as the new-born flowers of spring. Christmas is always popular. | "Ever ancient and ever new," time] writes no wrinkles on the heavenly {brow of this annual visitor. | In our favored country this! Christmas joy is universal. Every | heart responds to it. | The young rejoice at Christmas. | t is pre-eminently the feast of childhood. They welcome the day | with gleesome hearts. They see in! their father's face a brighter smile, | and thelr mother's embrace seems | to them more tender than usual. | The aged people grow young again ! and share in the innocent sports and | mirth of the little ones. The spirit | of Christmas quickens them with | new life, gives them a fortaste of] the perennial youth reserved for them hereafter. | The poor man rejoices and why | not? Of all days in the year, does | he not feel on Christmas morning the dignity of -his Christmas equal- | ity ? The benevolent rich man feloioss: | expands and is enlarged | under the genial influence of heav- | en-born charity. He enjoys that| sweetness and most rational pleas- | ure of contributing by his bounty to| the happiness of others. And he fs | rewarded for his generosity by the prayers and gratitude of the recipi- ents of his favors. And thus is es- | of | goods between the rich and the poor. | The pilgrim and wanderer is glad | on Christmas, though far away from | the parental roof. He meditates on | the scenes of his childhood and re- | Visits the sacred shrines of his | Youth. | Joy enters the family circle Christmas--the day of the family re- union. The song and brothers, scat. | tered far and wide, are eager to! meet again in their childhood's | at rr -------------------- home and to renew the ed affections of early days. They love to hear their father's and mo- ther's and sister's voices and to par-| take with them of the family meal and to relate their. xaried. stEuggles on the tumultous sea of life: and they return to their respective pur- suits refreshed and fortified by the | endearing memories of domestic ties. | MRS. ISABEL |"The Grand Old Lady" of the Salvation Army in Kingston. MRS ISABELLA SANDERS When the history of the Great War | is 'written, and the list of those King. | stonians who made a valuable con: tribution towards the success of the war is issued, the name of Mrs Isa- | bella Sanders, a faithful member, of! the local Salvation Army Corps, | should appear prominently on that document To those who have never made the | acquaintance of Mrs. Sanders, it might be intimated that she is the | lady who appears on the street with | a War Cry bundle under her arm. | Forayears she has been in charge ot} selling the War Cry, and in addition to getting' the official organ of the Salvation Army into 'many homes, | she has done considerable Christian | work, especially during the war. | During the period of the war, Mrs. { Sanders spent practically all her time | visiting the soldiers in their different | quarters, and extending a word of cheer to them. She became so dear to the men of the Expeditionery Force, who were training in King- | ston, that it was not many months before she was generally known as "Mother" a name which she still car- ries, and is likely to do so for the I | cherish- generally had the War Cry, and if | the boys chose to byy, it was all right, and iY not, she gave them one out of the generosity . of her heart | |KINGSTON'S OLDEST rte when] SURHNG EXMATOR at the table with vB D ake | of hér Boa ee artalks jJonn McKelvey, Aged Eighty 3 only confined to the different lodging six, Was Chief Magistrate places ¢f the soldiers, but she carried in 1877. on an active Christian campaign | among the soldiers in the hospitals. An evidence that her work among wounded and sick soldiers was ippreciated bown in the fact! that a couple of ve 3 ago when the | great Salvation Army Congress was | held in Toronto, the patients at Sydenham hospital took up a collec- { tien and sent her as their delegate, | and paid all expenses. If Mrs. San- ders thought for a minute that the soldier hoys' socks or clothes. were "in need of repair. she used to mend | them free of charge. | SANDERS the was | Since the war, death has entered | the home of this gracious lady, and vy her partner in life, but it has not dampened | asm the welfare of | ex-soldiers, and she still con- { tinues to carry on her good work. | She has regular days to visit the | hospitals, and only Monday morn- ing last she was out at Mowat hospi- | tal, sitting at the bedside of patients. { The officers and the staff of the Ring- | ston military units certainly appreci- { ate what Mrs. Sanders has done for : the men. On several occasions it has | EX-MAYOR JOHN MeKELVEY | been suggested to Mrs. Sanders that | slie take things a little easier, but her | John McKelvey, Bagot street, who i reply has always been "They are my [Will spend the winter in the south, | boys, and I will never see them want /is Kingston's oldest living ex-mayor, | tor anything if I can be of any ser- | Mr. McKelvey was in business on ' {Brock street for more than Sfty {years and retired a few years ago |He was mayor of Kingston in 1877 Angry Customer; "This overcoat |2Dd for years served on the oity Worn out." {council as alderman. Mr. McKelvey Smart Salesman: "Well, you |l> the grandfather of John : and bought it to wear out, didn't you?" [Gilbert McKelvey, two members of {Queen's university Canadian champs jonship rugby team. He hes served |his day and generation well and i8 {highly esteemed by all classes of | people of Kingston. ExMayor {McKelvey ls eighty-six years® of | age. carried aw: { neverthe | her the enthusi for | | BC as | vice. | is MERRY CHRISTMAS ! Be merry! Twine the ivy. Adorn with helly. Feature the mistletoe. Burn the merry Yule log. And feast--but within reason. ; Also, and above all, enjoy a clear conscience 3 Be happy in the thought that yo have made others happy. Here's another safe rule! If you don't get what you want, want what you get, The thing is to be merry! rest of her life. It was a common oc currence when the soldiers would return from their morning parabe, and arrive at the barracks, to find | Mrs. Sanders waiting for them. She | Though unannounced by civic pro- clamations, it is forgotten by no one. It is eagerly expected by all; it is heartily enjoyed while it lasts, and leaves aftér it sweet memories. It is the Thanksgiving Day, though it is an- nually heralded by proclamation, is commemorated only by those who live under the flag and by our fel- sojourning in foreign The spirit of Christmas spirit of joy. Of all the festival , days in the year Christmas is al- ' ways the brightest and most "| WILLIAM McCAMMON Who 18 retiring from the positions of Market Clerk and Harbor Master of leg Kingstop, to which he was appointed' over thirty-three years ago. When you sce a man making fase at another man it mag. Bh . ice man mad at the coal man, SIR HUGH JOHN MACDONALD Police Magistrate Winnipeg. and son of the late Sir Jfhn A. Méodonald, one of the "Fathers \bf Confederation." He was born in Kingston. some." Though there be cold in the | low-citizens urnitiure Select your Gifts Early We will store and deliver before Christmas. 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