The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-11
CHRISTMAS GUILD.
Annual Exhibition of Gar
ments Made by the Cath
olic Society Next Week
at St. Aloysius
Academy.
INSTITUTIONS BENEFITED
Parishes Represented in the Work
Results Accomplished
Among the Churches.
INSTITUTIONS BENEFITED

The Christmas Guild will give its an
nual exhibition OF garments and provis-
ions next Wednesday, from four to eight,
in the hall OF st. Aloysius Academy,
Grand street. The exhibition is always
an interesting one for many reasons, and
it has always a large number of visitors.
This time the members of the Guild ex-
tend a cordial invitation to every one to
attend the exhibition. The parishes of
st. Peters st. Mary's, st. Patrick's, ST.
Joseph's and st. Johns Churches are in
terested in the Guild.
The Christmas Guild is an organization
of the Catholic ladies OF Jersey City. 1t
has the same object as the non-sectarian
organization. the Needlework Guild, and is
operated in the same way. Each mem
Der of the Christmas Guild pledges herself
to secure twenty-five garments, new gar
ments, not old, by begging them from
others. In Some case the garments are
begged for a special institution, and in
others no institution is designated. In
such cases the officers decide what char
ity the garments are most useful for. The
Guild contributes to ST. Francis Hospital,
st. Michael's. ST. Mary's, and st. ~Joseph's
Homes for the Catholic orphan children,
and the Home for the Blind, as well as
the poor of the several parishes. In the
three orphan asylums 500 orphans are
cared for. Until this year the Catholics
of Bayonne have been united with the
Christmas Guild of this city, but this time
they decided to form a Bayonne organiza-
ton and care for the institutions n
poor of Bayonne. The contributions will
for that reason go to the Institutions and
a.nnrI ~ A~Eax We A
The Christmas Guild has an interest
ing little history. About six years ago
there were some seven or eight ladies sew.
ing in st. Peters Church, when one. of
them, Miss Edge, the President of the
Guild, proposed that the ladies should
devote their energies to preparing 9 sur
of Peace, a Sister well known in the city
for her nlinistrations among the poor. The
Sister gathered together each Christmas
barrels upon barrels of provisions for the
poor n such garments as she could Sc
cure. Miss Edge had frequently seen the
worn out clothes given the Sister for the
poor, and she proposed that the sewing
circle make a large number of perfectly
the Sister Superior for the poor.
The ladies Enthusiastically agreed.
preparing the garments. AT last a large
number were finished. and the Sister was
taken TO see the many piles of perfectly
new good garments. Her delight was so
great that the ladies concluded 10 con-
tinue the work. The circle gFew and grew
until finally Miss Edge, about two years
ago, suggested that the circle copy the
Needlework. Guild, and organize with
branches in each church. This was done
and last year the first public exhibition of
the Guild was held. 1t was so successful
in every way that it is to be repeated.
The member of the Guild expect a large
of garments and a large stack Of
provisions. All the articles will be ar
Wednesday morning and will be
ready for exhibition at -four o'clock.