The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-31

with it's bountiful dinner comes Christ mas with it's multiplied pleasures. The Iwell-filled stockings on Christmas eve, Ithe dinner at which Mrs. Robertson's 1 gift of turkeys has so many years been Ijoyfully welcome, the great Christmas Itree, the delight of which was aug mented this year by the rendering of the Birds Christmas Caror by mem bers of St. Paul's church, made happy lmany hearts.
 Extracts from few letters will give levidence of how much the Christmas is lenjoyed.
 A girl writes T spent Christmas Iwith my sisters and we sang the carols lasylum. I believe I would give any thing if I could just step into the asy- Hum just to hear the children sing. know they had turkey dinner" Another says: "I am teaching school this winter and have twenty pupils. A few of us have started Sunday school which we hold in the schoolhouse. We are going to have Christmas tree, but it will be very different from the one we had at the asylum"
 Another says:-"I am coming to New
 Haven, and A---- and l are going
 10 get as many of the old children as
 we can and go to the Sunday service.
 love to go back to the home. When
 was there I had no idea whatever
 of life away from the asylum. We did
 look forward to Christmas; l used to
 think of the tree a long time before
 and for weeks afterward."
 The monotony of ordinary asylum
 life. has been many times broken by
 the kind thoughtfulness of friends who
 have provided for trolley rides, sleigh
 rides, automobile excursions, pienics
 and several church entertainments. An
 invitation by Prot Jepson to the organ
 recitals in Woolsey hall led to an over
 whelmng sense of the size and gran
 deur of the building. One little fellow
 remarked that it must be like heaven, : While another was led to comment on
 the difficulty Samson would have in
 removing such massive pillars.
 We wish to make renewed acknowl-
 edgement of our appreciation of the services of our physicians and sur
 geons and our attending physician, Dr.
 Wheeler.
 MT. s. o. Preston, with his wide ex- } perience and ready response to calls, 1, has as usual rendered us most valuable assistance.
 For the first time in thirty-three
 years the volunteer canvassing of the city in behalf of the New Haven Or phan Asylum by the gentlemen of the
 Donation Day association was sus-
 pended. To this association is due Q much of the asylum's prosperity, and Q much appreciation is felt of the many 5 who have given time and effort for this 3 purpose An open house on the after- 1 noon of October 18th brought many 1 friends and gifts, but the happy ar 1 rival and interest of the association ? was greatly missed by both children and managers
 In the year just completed two Of ' our workers have passed from us. The one, Dr. Frank c. Beckwith :. was our attending physician previous 4 to 1884, and since then our consulting ! physician till his death which occur o red December 27th, 1906. The other was
 one who was intimately connected
 with our asylum interests and whose large Christian sympathy herewith as
 a member of the board of managers
 brought her into very close relation with her fellow-workers. Every mem
 Der of our board will deplore the deatf of Mrs. John c. Lewis, who died or
 the 22nd of March of the present year Il Her life was one of untiring devotion
 and her nine years of loyal service vii : be affectonately remembered. z We deem the finding of suitable < homes for our children an important I feature of our work, Besides the mos z careful investigation of country homes :, before children are placed in them, ar 7 equally careful watch is kept over then
 till their adaptation is fully proven
 Thirty-two visits have been made this
 year for this purpose, and such vista |, tion in many instances requires a grea :, measure of tact and wisdom. Mistakes N are sometimes made and often homt i. into which one child does not fit is hap N oily adapted to another who may re
 main long after the time of indenture e In illustration of this point, one O a our girls writes: T may not be her, ' many more years, as the farm vii :. change hands. It was fourteen year! '' this month since came here. do no
 know what l shall do when leave.
 am very busy with church work 9 have Sunday school class and sing II
 the choir"
 n It is often remarked by visitors tha l. our asylum lacks the traditional insti
 tutional character and takes on the ia s more desirable marks of great home It is gratifying that our children lool 70 back upon it as such, and thls Is ev s denced by the many letters they senC us with happy references to incidents Q which they recall and which have gonl
 so far towards making their lives pleas = ant and memorable.
 o One girl writes: T am nearly eight q cen and have a good deal to be thank 1T full for. I hope when my name i e crossed off from the asylum some othe '- poor child may have as good a hom IS there as I have had"
 Il Another writes; q enjoyed my visi t, to the asylum to see the friends an, $ live over the old days; the faces groy e stranger each year, so many are goinl l. out to take their places in the world IS Still, the old love clings to the asylum
 home, and l never forget that all tha d l am owe to the home"
 ,- This one says: T enclose one dolla
 for the benefit of the asylum in som e way. think it my duty to send it t g the home which sheltered me in m