New-York tribune., 1902-12-15
CHRISTMAS FESTTV4LS
Hoar the West Side Settlement Brings
jon to Mann.

From now on through Christmas week the Young
Wcmen's Christian Association West Side Settle
ment, No $50 West Forty-fourth-st.. will be the
centre Of attraction for its neghborhood. The
joity began with q gingerbread festival last week
Gingerbread hot and gingerbread cold gingerbread
by the loaf, by the cookie, by the wild animal with
bead eye and red flannel tongue served, plus
accessories, the friends of the Settlement in
general and the Ada Laura Club in particular
The senior cooking class cooked while the club
ceived and the gingerbread hot served
from to guest
Then on Saturday afternoon Mrs. Rorer the
guest OF honor with the Junior cooking class,
member of which is more than ten years old. The
members mothers invited to meet the class
and its guest The occasion the close of a ten
lesson course in plain cooking. result of which
is that several of the pupils make all the
light bread for their respective families. besides
having acquired other culinary accomplishments.
Each cook in embryo received typewriter copy
of all the recipes used by the class. bearing the
quotation: There is right way to do everything.
IL Il be but boil egg
On the 22d of the month the members of the
kindergarten alumna will have their Christmas
tree at the Settlement They make their
decorations for this tree-bright colored paper
chains stars balls. etc-and with Settlement
sistance have prepared wonderful gifts for their
mothers who are to he invited to the tree. The
next day the kindergarten proper, that also makes
its decorations and prepares gifts for fathers
and mothers will have its Christmas tree. These
d
Settlement through the medium Of the Mem
bers of the sewing class invite their mothers to
enjoy Punch and Judy show in the assembly hall
of the Settlement, and present to them bag pin
cushions undergarments. needlebooks. etc, all
made by themselves
The day before Christmas the Busy Bees. in
charge of Mrs J. 3. Sharp and Miss Amy Laid
law and the G. ard T. Club (variouSly called the
Give and Take and the Giggle and TalEl will have
their Christmas celebration These clubs are the
wealthy associations of the Settlement They de-
vote themselves to rag carpet sewing ana rug
making. and their treasury is rarely without at
least a small balance in hand. Then Friday. the
iay after Christmas. the Ada Laura the GOODWILL
the Two and the --Other Girls clubs will all have
Christmas exercises. Incidentally, the
Two Club" q secret society of youngsters, VINO
EealoUsly guard the mystery OF the name from All
but initiated members.
Last of an on the Sunday following Christmas,
the very little Bible Story Children who meet
every Sunday afternoon. will have q choral service,
In which they themselves take part and OF Which
they are proportionately proud: 60,
One feature of previous ChTistmases, the SettIe.,
rent fears must this year be omitted, for lack OF
means This is the Outsiders Christmas tree,
which has heretofore been an after New year
festival for all the neighborhood VINO hao not
been remembered through some church or other
ranged in age from five TO seventy-two years An
old woman of sixty odd wept like q chllo Wieh "a
bright shawl pin given her from the tree II
was the first Christmas gift she had received IoL
during the last year has made such inroads on US
slender reserves that il fears this feature vi Is
many activities must be omitted, uhIesS eoLns I
friend Of fhe outs with npe Genus
S. their equivalents in dollles ana caIog aLI
.sChristnasn sness,'' who has a Fellow, IeellIlg 1o
those whom every else has passed oy VIII Iet
the Settlement know about It ana SO nii eiiS
threatened void in the usual Christmas cheer