St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-26
DAY Of GLADpESS.
CHRISTMAS BROUGHT GOOD
CHEER TO THE PEOPLE OF
ST. PAUL.
EVENT WAS CELEBRATED
IN THE CHURCHES AND IN THE
HOMES THROUGHOUT THE
CITY.
THE WEATHER CONTRIBUTED
To the Enjoyment of the Observa-
lion of the Great Event OF
Long Ago.

Christmas services were held in
nearly all of the churches yesterday
AS is their custom the Catholic and
Episcopal churches provided elabor-
ate song services, comprising the
works of the famous composers of
sacred music. The musical pro-
gramme at the cathedral and the
Church of the Assumption and st,
Johns Episcopal church, st. PauPs,
st. James and Christ church were
especially fine. The services in each
of these churches included a sermon,
and in some of them the holy COM
munion. The affairs, pillars and me-
mortal tablets were tastefully dec
grated with flowers and plants. All
of the churches whose doors We're
open were crowded, the ideal weather
as we'll as the beautiful music having
much to do with the large attend
ance.
The Christmas Of 1895 was not an
exciting day in st. Paul. Punch was
served recklessly at many hotels and
other places of public resort, and a
man made an attempt to kill himself
for $125. But even frozen egg-nogg
sometimes fails to entrap willing,
but temperate, man into the secret
joys of duplex vision and irresponsi-
| BILE intoxication. Many were thus de-
! ceived. When a man puts on pink
underwear and stern look and pre-
| pares to drop a hundred feet into
| cold water, respectable citizens are
! justified in promising themselves a
sober, yet genial, thrill of sympathet-
| ic excitement at Witnessing THE sui
cide's weird contortions in mid-air,
the sickening collapse of his feeble
form upon the unyielding surface OF
| the cruel Styx beneath, and the un-
canny sight of four limbs and a head
attached, in a disorderly manner.
to a suit of pink underwear drenched
with human blood But the deceftful
+! bridge-jumper struck on his feet. He
| didn't get wet enough to catch cold,
and he had the fmpudent indecency
to turn a handspring in the very
eyes of a man who was about to
! telephone the coroner.
Yesterdays holiday lacked excite
ment. But there were milder diver
sions in abundant quantity. Almost
| everybody received a present, and al
most everybody had desired oppor-
| tunity ITO express his contempt for the
stupidity of everybody else. Nobody
but the reader ever knew exactly
what to give as a Christmas present.
But this necessary dissatisfaction did
not prevent a hundred thousand
heart throbs, more or less inspirit-
ing, at the pleasurable thought of be-
ing even inappropriately remembered
All the hotels prepared special bills
of fare, although few persons ate. in
public on this day of domestic merry
making. The different charitable in
stitutions of the city provided eX-
ceHent meals for their inmates. The
soldiers home at Minnehaha made a
particular Qualification" All the the
aters were crowded, and the attrac-
tions there presented were we'll suited
to please the greatest number. The
principal pleasure of the day lay, OF
course, in the many and charming
services provided in almost every
church in honor of Him whose natal
feast is the dating point, Throughout
the year, for the best of best times
when the pleasures Of benef1cence
| combine with the recreationS of in
| nOcence.