Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-12-27

When IN, doors we're opened
They all begin sing,
Then they turned them round about
And formed pretty ring
The king he sits on that side
A. counting out his money,
III. queen she sits on this sid.
Eaiing bread and honey.
We al put The washing,
So don't hang ont the clothes;
And every little maiden
Ma, savsd her pretty nose.
And after tina, little Jack Homer sat in the
corner, and after that little Bo Peep sang the
woes Of her sheep, and then Jack and Jnl
vent up the hill and all the rest OF it, and then
the sleeping beauty's oft.told tale was. told
again in the pretties, Of juvenile pantomine.
Little Gardie Macfarlane was the beauty and
Walter Hayselden was the prince and Phil
Wallace and Fneas Macintosh were officers
Of the court and Miss Berry was the wicked
wicked witch and the rest Of the children were
the other characters and i, was all very, very
pretty. doubt IL in all Christendom there
were prouder fathers or fonder mothers or
gladder children than they who gathered at
Miss Berry's school TO see and to perform what
I have told about SO meagrely.
And on Tuesday night the Bethel Sunday
school had its Christmas tree. 1t was purely
sundaysehool affair, parents not being per.
mitted to send presents. Mrs. s. NJ. Damon
was the fairy godmother and Mr.. Tmustno,ell
hsname was Santa Claus and Misses Carrie Car.
ter, LIME Campbell and Addie Peterson, Mr..
| J. o. Carter and Masters Ernest and Willie
| 1hrum were Santa Claus assistants. or fI4pu
pills only were absent; one was away on Mali,
one little boy had been naughty and had to be
kept at home, and the third forgot all about
it"-something that think never happened
before, within the era Of Christmas trees. Such
a pretty tree they had 10 feet high with 81
branches and, on each, two waxen ,apers. The
branches were leaved with maile and tipped
with the sprays Of the dwarf orange, and
around the foot of the tree was mound Of sol.
idly matted ferns. completely hidden by pres.
ents from Girls Cringle's overlooking pack. The
tree itself was laden with gifts and among them
gli,tered and cleaned siIvern and gilt stars and
crescent moons and bits Of ,inscl that gistened
like dewdrops. Santa Claus said he had never
seen pre,tier tree and guess he was right.
When add that each pupil received At leas,
four presents, and that even the poor friend
less reporters received each candy bag, am
sure that Iona will acknowledge that the tree
must have meant much Xmas merrment--o
the old time sort his own childhood knew.
Wednesday night came, Christmas Eve, ten
, derest Of festivals and in the Sunday. schoo
OF the Chinese Church gathered as ,rul,
Chis,mas.keeping band, as one need care tt
t see in any land. Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Damon
Miss Payson, Miss Pierce, two Chinese teach
ers whose name have misiaid, 4S pupils, tn,
parents and friends OF the children and few
e helpful haole friends Of the mission were pres
! ent. OF the Sunday school, 60 pupils wer,
S boys and "a were girls. Picturesquely attirec
most Of them clean and neat, all Of them. 1
S was something more than an occasion Of gift Civ
!; ing, too {; for songs and hymns were sung ane
1 Christmas poems rscited. in both Chinese anc
: English. Then the candles on pretty tire,
a were lighted and pretty presents distributed
n from many little tables, where. oriental wise
f they had been arranged in little piles, on eacl
/. a card, pcncilled with the pupils name.
nd 10 =. 4.
Christmas candles were lit on Xmas-eve. NJ
y yule logs brightly burned and neither holly no
5 rnistletoe hung from the chandeliers. Blu
male wreaths and unfolding fern fronds anc
HIBISCUS blossoms and leis OF "sweet lehua,
t made our Christmas homes as Christmas Xix,
I in all essentials-as any homes in Christen
!. dom. do not know of all the homes tina
{ had christmas trees. But do know that Cri
o Cringle visited the residence Of Consu
n Schmidt, on Beretania street; for it was brill
h liantly Illuminated, and lanterns were hun,
n from the front, on each luminous letter an,
d the whole spelling "M-E-R.R-y CHRIST
IS MAS. y; and through an open door the passer
e by caught glimpses Of a tall tree, its gittern
e branches down.laden with gifts. Consu
l. Glade, on Judd street, also, had Christina
1t tree. The good people Of the Punahou vicin
rs age gathered las they had gathered a, Wood
e lawn the year before--in the beautiful parlol
y Of Oahu College. And the Xmas.merrimer
'f they undergraduate grandsires, strong me
L. and blooming matrons, young gentlemen an
n young ladies' boys and girls and babies-ws
lie Of the sort the angels have loved to look upo
lie since that night at Bethlehem. At Cap,ai
IN Fuller's on Kukui street was another gleefr
re gathering. At Mr. John Warehouses; 30 d,
lighted childrsn--most Of them grandchild re
of Gran'ma Rice--helped dcspoil one Of III
as prettiest of Christmas trees. The Bensons,
little further up the valley, had pretty ue
ne And those do not know about kept Chris
st mas eve, doubtless, in half the houses Of hs
ne the streets Of town.
iii
=" And then the Christmas morning dawns
IS and many a pair oftoddling legs wen, dow
:" long halls to find what Xmas stockings held
!" and many 4 child Of older growth found Chris
:" mas gifts for him or her in like mysteso
~ receptacles. One Of the graccfulests Of Il
=, days acts wa, the presentation by Rev. C.
w Hyde Of few Christmas gifts sent by Il
Waikiki Sunday School to the lcper ehildI,
At Kakaako. Mr.. Hyde took them out Al
J. : gave them to the acting lady superior Of Il
. three sisters Of mercy at the hospital. 81
showed him the pretty little tree that had be-
:" made ready and he told her Of other gins
We come. One gentleman, whose business brin,
nc him into nearly daily contact with native