The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-12-29

that he and his assistants made the clink
OF coin the music of the air for the space
OF five minutes.
Then came the stripping of the trees
and the distribution of the presents, with
Mrs. Irvine ard Mrs. Orcutt to the front as
dispensers of the peoples bounty to the
orphans. In very few moments Babel
was reproduced in the confusion of
tongues, but it was merry music-those
childish, eager, happy voices that clam
ored in the air. while books and dolls and
candies, balls, bats, knives, juvenile tools,
and ali manner Of toys went here and
/ there in tie hands OF q half-score Of as
sIStants en- route to the owners of the
names that were shouted from the plat
form.
Meanwhile Mrs. Judge Mcfarland,
Mrs. Rideout, Mrs. Paine Mrs Burr.
and dozen other ladies-that their names
escape US is wholly our fault-were pre-
siding over the joyful host and beanling
with satisfaction over the happiness of
the little wards whom they, by the grace
OF the State of California and the gener-
osity of the people of Sacramento, are
enabled to elothe, shelter and feed, and
otherwise care for. since these have no
homes of their own, no sheitering arms
of kin to flee to with their youthful sor-
rows, no mothers breast on which to lay
their heads and seek the solace only a
mother can give.
There are some halforphans among them
| It's true, but here they are all as OF one
kind and alike in the asylum are home
less, but for the institution for which
these good women so earnestly labor.
That they make some mistakes Of adj
/ mlnlStrauon may be true; but do not
their boastful lord and masters, men, do
likewise? Let the people remember that
they are human and engaged in work
that crowns their womanhood glOriously
and brings them just another notch
critics may ever hope to get unless they
emulate their example.
1t was very successful, very happy.
a very satisfying Christmas festival for
the orphans. But for twenty years it has
been the fortune of the RECoKD-U MON TO
make similar records for this asylum,
and last nights festival no more, nor any
less testified TO the generosity OF the peo-
pie OF this city. Theirs is an unbroIlen
record Of contribution to the homeless
and fatherless They have never let
Christmas-tide come or go without filling
every one OF the hearts Of the orphans
with Joy rounded and complete. They
have had their Christmas trees year after
year, their presents and teasts, and so
they shall so long as their ranks remain
and the foundations Of the city are not
oyerthrown.
To know how to give one must give to
good works constantly. Like all other
noble functions, that of generosity must
! be constantly eXercised-sO our people
believe, with regard to the orphan asy-
lum at least, and in that faith they are
blessed.
Now what are they going to do about
the present need Of the institution? Its
old building must be raised up three feet:
| the health officials have condemned the
plumbing and drainage of the structure,
and the need is pressing TO correct it. So
u , one yard the building must go to let
air and the plumbers beneath; then new
foundations must be prepared to main
tain it there, and the house must be re-
fitted thoroughly.
cit is 10 extravaganza we contemplate,
no luxury we wish TO indulge in" said
Mrs. RideOut, lit is absolute, homelv
pressing necessity" ''YeS,n added Mrs
Paine. our State aid and the regular
monthly contributions of our people meet
! the expenses of this charity; but that is
| all. All these things here tonight
! have been the free outpouring of gener-
Gus people. There is more at the asylum,
clothing and heavier articles, and we have
/ been given money. too, for those things
we have to buy for the season.
~ have 200 regular monthly money
contributors said the first-named lady;
upon them we feel we can rely. with
other contributions of supplies, Tor cur
/ rent support"
Then the stupid reporter opened his
unbusineSs- like mouth and suggested
! borrowing the $1,000 necessary, with the
] property as security. I'VE can do that.
was the reply, but would you seriously
/ advise such step and counsel us to take
up the burden Of interest?"
If the good Lord will forgive that one
bad break, the RECORD UNION repre-
sentative will go in sackcloth and ashes
until the ninety days of new charter
making is ended. For the whitening.
critical, amazed and rebuking glance of
| four pair OF honest women's eyes burned
down into his soul, and the self-reproach
made him a misery to existence.
But, soberly, the ladies need the $4,000.
| They say SO, and declare that the esti-
mates are masculine and expert. They
/ have consulted wise business men, and
! the problem is now in the process of in
cubation. Shall there be found 60 men to
! give Sl00 each; or 100 men to give $50
each or Loco people to give So each or
! 5000 to give 81 each or-how shall it be
done?
Those children who took leading parts
upon the stage last evening at the festival,
who are inmates of the asylum, were !:
Storm Herald, Willie Hopkinson; Jack
| Frost Lester Haney; Willie, Eugene
! Wheeler; Sally Sloyen, MoIlie Glenn;
! Alice May, Mardenna Glenn; Blanche.
| Mary Mohns; Louise, Emma Sunholm;
1 Kate, Aggie Mohns. They were assisted
/ by outside friends as follows: Santa
/ Claus, George d. Irvine; Bob Buster,
| Alfred Lafayette; Winter Miss Blanche
| Ficks.
Christmas day the orphans had turkey
dinner, w. II. Wood & Co. sending them
! twelve good fat turkeys. To-day they
will have their regular annual holiday
festival dinner, for which the ladies have
provided.