The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-29
Four Hundred of Them Partic;.
pate in q Jolly Festival.
THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES
Never Did They Have So Much Fun Be-
fore-They We're the Guests of the
Teachers of st. Paups Sun
day School.

one that for utter abandon of jubilance
could touch yesterday afternoons
Christmas entertainment and feast of
goodies given by the teachers of st.
PauPs Sunday school to the 800 scholars
and more than 100 poor children of the
city not connected with the church.
One would not be wise if he should at
tempt to guess with any pretense to
accuracy the number Of big cream and
chocolate Iced cakes that fell into pieces
beneath the ravages Of the slicing-knife
and melted away with marvellous celer-
ity between the several hundred rows
of cleaning teeth that kept indus
triously in time with the chattery buzz
that drowned all other sounds.
The 800 Sunday school scholars, led
in class sections by their Is teachers,
grand march, led with piano music.
They circled the hall several times,
swung right and left, and finally broke
into compact rows on either side the
room. Here tiers of benches had been
paced, SO that most of the children were
able to find seats, the larger ones TAX
ing the higher benches to the rear and
the little ones sitting down in front.
Those who overlooked pumped them
selves down on the floor in true picnic
style and spread Japanese napkins that
We're given them, for tablecloths. 1t is
quite certain and must not be contra
dcted that never in all your life did
you hear such a wonderful chattering
as went up from those hundreds of
diminutive tongues. AS it is the duty
as well as the right Of all girls to gig
gle, and to giggle harder and more
continuously the less reason there APP
pears for giggling, there was no dearth
lf Crirr Ia otl t- tt,a RI Hem o.
province of all small boys to yah-yah
upon all state and public occasions
which their mothers have trained them
to observe with silence, there was
very creditable amount of yah-yahing.
So that betwiXt the little gay petit
coated madens and the bigger gay
petticOated maidens and the small
white-collared Johnnies and the larger
white-collared Johnnies and all the
other Johnnies who wore no collars at
all, there was the very mischief of a
racket. The jolly, happy kind of racket
it does one good to hear, especially If
one is growing gray or has lots of bills
to pay.
A Peep Into the Kitchen.
1t was some time before sufficient
quietude could be esta blished so that
the entertainment programme might be
opened. But nobody minded the delay,
because everybody was there to be
happy, and a little laughter and fun
making more or less won't spoil the
best of things. So, while the boys and
the girls were settling themselves for
the music and recitations and the other
things, a score or more of the ladies
of the church We're busy in the ante
kitchen Git is much nicer to say ante
kitchen in this case than Just plain
kitchen), sorting out and making ready
all sorts of Christmas goodies for the
delectation of small mouths. A peep
into this busy bee hive of preparation
was like to make ones mouth water,
such loads of delicacies there We're.
Chocolate cakes five stories high, cream
cakes with frosting white s the drifted
snow, cakes. little cakes, round cakes,
square cakes, tall cakes, short cakes
cakes, cakes, cakes!
Then there was candy enough to start
Main street confectioner's shop and
oranges enough to establish half a doz-
Ell swarthy peddlers Of Italy in indie
pendent business and keep the nickels
jingling in their several pockets for
week. Oh, it was a beautiful sight,
thanked with huge punch bowls that
brimmed with delicious lemonade. And
when one remembered the crowds of
merry faces in the other room, waiting
With eXpectant eyes and mouths that
We're watering already, one did not feel
n least little bit sorry that all this mag
nificence of display was going, like Ma
poleon's army, to quick destruction; or,
more properly speaking, was about to
go to humiliation. Indeed, one felt
very pleased.
Wishing a Happy New Year.
The programme was a delightful one
and most delightfully."- gone through
with, fromTthe opening Christmas song
thanked the teachers for the splendid
energy they had shown and the great
kindness that had prompted them in
getting ready this feast of good things
to brighten the Christmas holidays for
so many, little folk. And he spoke
Christmas tide, which is the spirit of
the good Christ, who was born in a
manager on this very day, only so very,
very many years ago, far over the sea
in the town of Bethlehem. He was the
great Gods first Christmas gift to all
His children on earth, the most precious
gift ever given. And now-to-day--
because these kind ladies, their teach
! ers, loved them and wanted them to
have a share in the Christmas joy and
their little hearts to be filled with hap
piness, they had invited all these hun
dreds of dear children, from homes of
the poor and the rich, to come and sit
! down together and be happy in the
feast that was their Christmas gift. He
told them how very much they ought
W llidHh tlitlI tedGlleTS LOT tUlS GIilGI@
tainment and he wished them all, teach
ers and children and friends, a bright
and successful New Year.
With the singing by the full-throated
chorus of the ''Adeste Fidelis," the en-
tertainment programme closed, and
while merry airs were played on the
piano more than a score of ladies enter
ed, laden with the goodies for the feast.
Then 1t was very jolly sight to
watch the big cakes and the little cakes
and the round cakes and the square
cakes and the tall and the short cakes
with the chocolate icing and the white
icing and the cocoanut topping disap-
pear down hundreds of impatient
threats, while heaps Of yellow oranges
played hide and seek among the chat
tering multitude and whole basketfuls
of sweetmeets were stored away in
countless pockets for future use.
About 5 o'clock the feast broke up
and then it was thar hand ball was
played with oranges and jubilant
youngsters pelted each other merrily
with crumpled napkins and went a-slid-
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