El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24
What Girls are Doing.

"Christmas comes but once q year,
but when it comes it brings good
cheer" This is trite and true old
saying. But this year some of the
haps they have been expanding too
much of their energy on making Christ
mas-tide happy season for children
and themselves only. OF course they
have thought of 6the poor, ard have
given or sent q certain amount to make
the season happier to some of their
less fortunate brothers and sisters. But
now some among the girls have decid-
ed TO give what they call IAN old peo-
Piles Christmas party" this winter.
They have heard SO many remarks
made for the last few years about there
being mo longer any place for old
people in this country" and, sob dear
I'm too old now; no one cares for me!'
"Young people don't care for old folks;
they are too prOsy and stupid and be-
hind the times!" The girls have suf-
fered from such remarks for a long
time past and have never been able to
decide exactly what to do to comfort
the old people. An 'old peoples
Christmas party" is what they say
among themselves they are going to
give. They have not called it that be-
fore them, though. If they had, not
one of them would have accepted.
The scheme is this: A handful of
girls who have had the above exper-
fence in their families with grandmoth-
ers and grand fathers, aunts and un-
Giles, and sometimes even mothers and
fathers, have sent out Invitations to
them all to dine at p. m, at one of
the girls houses. They are goiog to
give them all the nice old-fashioned
dishes they can think of; no French
entrees, which might give them indi-
gestion, but all the Observation-Disclosures
turkey, roast beef, saddle of mutton,
game, plum pudding and miuce pie.
All the ''old people" who are asked
know each other very we'll, of course,
as they are the relatives of the six
girls who will give the dinner, so they
are sure to have q jolly time. The
table is to be set and decorated in the
most approved Christmas style, with
the oldest couple at the head and foot,
and the others ate d according to re-
spect for age. Holly aud mss.Ietoe
will be used profusely in the floral de-
coration, and there Is to be small tree
in the centre of the BILE, with q gift
for each one on it.
The evening will be spent In playing
games, like dumb crambo, magical
music, etc. Then the girls have ar
ranged some awfully funny charades,
some Of them taking the part of men,
and kthey will act scenes of how
they suppose the old people
behaved when they vera young. They
will make some of the scenes exceed
ingly comic, and will try to represent
some counting between their respective
grandparents, which will be sure to
lake them laugh. The costumes will
also be very funny and exaggerated,
and the girls will even dare to bring
out some of the little peculiarities of
the Old people. For instance, one of
the grandmothers has always been
known to be very simple In her taste
for dress, and of most retiring, modest |
They will represent her
rs q very dashing young woman, show |
lily gowned, aud In the height of the |
fashion of fifty years ago. And so on
with each one of them. One of the
gfrls--the one at whose house the |
dinner is to be RiSen-has prepared q |
pretty little speech. which she will get |
off beforehand, begging lepiency for
all perscnalitie S, and saying that the
charades were written in q spirit of |
fun, which she hopes will not be mis- |
Acknowledgements Bazaar.