Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-29


Little girls in sillten dresses and little
girls In checked cotton dresses; little
girls with butterfly bows in their hair
and little girls who have never known
the wonderful joys of possessing a but
terny bow; little boys with Buster
Brown suits and little boys with trous-
ers showing many patches, bridged the
distance which social conditions have
placed between them and Joined hands
in a beautiful Christmas frolic, at the
Ebell club yesterday.
The members of the Ebell club were
the hostesses at an affair in honor of
their own children, and the children in
turn were hosteSseS to the little tots
o. the day nursery.
Each year the Ebell club members
gave q children's party but the plan of
entertaining children less fortunate than
their own was never tried until yester-
day.
There were children everywhere-so
many of them, the charge of race sui
eide, laid at the door of the club wo-
men must have felt very small and in
significant in the face of the evidence.
The children of the day nursery have
talked of nothing else but the party
ever since the invitation was extended
with no less enthusiasm.
In private car the guests went from
the nursery to the club house and were
uShered at once into the auditorium
where a Christmas program was given
for their entertainment.
A group of Indian tableauX arranged
by Mrs. Edgar Lacey Swaine, depicting
different scenes in an Indian village,
was the first on the program Then
thprp c "a GII1 Tr
by Glare Cardell, who appeared in the
vestments of the choir boy. Clare has
q beautiful voice and he was heard in u
second number with Claud MacGregor.
Four little girls, none of them yet out
of Kindergarten, sang a song called
Santa Claus" and later sang Mother
Goose rhymes. One of the number, Lit
tie Beatrice Jacobs, sang a doll song,
and also "The Slumber Song
The Madonna of the Chair was the
next tableau shown and then came the
feature of the program, the Christmas
tree scene from Ibsen's "'The Doll s
House." with Blanche Hall in the lead
ing role and Amy Norton and Amy and
Hayes Busch assisting her. Mrs. John
r. Norton was in charge of this fea-
ture.
At the close of the program the
children We're ushered into the big tea
roo mwhere a beautiful Christmas tree,
strung with tiny colored electric lights
and bright tinsel, awaited their inspec-
ton. Piled high upon a large table
were the gifts which the Ebell children
brought for the little guests. Every
thing imaginable, from a rocking horse
to a set of paper dolls. There were
twenty-five guests and many, many
times that number of presents. Each
girl was given beautiful doll and some
of them received more than one, that
the children at home may have share
in the Christmas. The children were in
the seventh heaven of delight and went
into ecstasies as each new gift was re-
vealed. The girls looked at their dolls
and then clasped them in their arms,
and held them as if they feared to loose
them.
When all the gifts had been distribut-
ed, the children were taken to the dim
ing room above stairs where a Christ
mas spread awaited them. They were
seated at one long table laden with
good things to eat. At each place was a
pretty red basket filled with candy and
beside it bag holding animal crack
ers. When all the little tots had eaten
ice cream and cake and the other
numerous things which children like,
until they could eat no more, the pri-
vate car came and carried them back
to the nursery.