Rose Hill Ladies’ Soldiers’ Relief Association Benefit

“For the benefit of the Rose Hill Ladies’ Soldiers’ Relief Assosciation. . . . Massett will read, for the first time in public, an original home sketch, entitled A Christmas Dream. . . . After which he will recite On the Crosswalk.  To be followed by the comic song, for the first time in America, The Irish Jaunting Car.”

“A good many exhibitions are announced for the benefit of sick and disabled soldiers and such as that; but we seldom hear of the soldiers getting any of the proceeds.  Many of these so-called charity entertainments are bogus, and the public would do well to look before they encourage impositions of that sort.  The army contractors are not the only ones making money out of the necessities of the poor solider.  The respectable press is pretty severe on prize fighters—why not touch up the vampires who are sucking out the life blood of our sick and disabled soldiers?  Are they in for a contract, or do they hold shares in a ‘charitable entertainment?’”