Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-22
PEACE AND GOOD WILL
Christmas Festival to Be Gen.
orally Observed.
TOUCHES OF SYMPATHY
Celebration in Institutions Where
Invalids Wait for Health.
SANTA AND HIS TEAM OF EIGHT
Scheduled to Make Annual Visit to
GLADDEN. the Hearts Of the
Children.
ANITA AND HIS TEAM OF EIGHT

Christmastide, season of joy and good
WILL stirring the strings of the heart and
loosening the strings of the purse, is
close at hand, and already arrangements
have been made to celebrate the day
in various institutions in Washington
where invalids wait for health or where
those who for any reason have no home
Of their own are provided for.
1t is, therefore, not only about the
hearth where parents and children gather
that the seasons gladness will be felt.
Lonely hearts will be made happy and
the warm touch of human sympathy
will spread the kindness of man and
woman to woman.
In the homes holly will decorate the
rooms, with here and there a spray of
mistletoe discreetly disposed sufficient to
offer a reasonable excuse to those who
can pretend not to see it until surprise at
a salute calls attention to the presence
of the Druids' sacred branch. Children
are already counting the days before San
ia Claus will harness his horned eight-in-
hand for the scramble over the roofs
and are wondering what the good old saint
will do if the weather bureau refuses to
furnish him any snow. Not that they
all believe in Santa Claus. for some pre-
cocious lads and lassies, taught the reali-
ties of life before they have had chance
to begin to believe in fairies, are already
skeptical, but they look for gifts all the
same, and care little whether they are
brought in the old saints legendary pack
or are purchased with papa's good money
and thrust into a waiting stocking by
mamma. The presents are there, and
that is what counts with them.
Family gatherings and dinners Will De
the order of the day, from elaborate en-
tertainments to the feast of herbs where
love is, which is said to be better than
stalled OK and hatred Herewith.
In the Local Institutions.
But where there are no family gather
ings happiness may also reign. At the
Baptist Home, 324S N street northwest,
the Christmas observance will be COM
paratively quiet, since several of those
who live there are somewhat i'll. but a
special dinner, the gift of w. F. Har-
ban, will be served under the direction 3l
of the matron, Mrs. Sarah B. Phil
lips. Mr.. Harlan has contributed
a Christmas dinner for number OF
years, the Thanksgiving dinner being
given by Mrs. William Mcknew.
At the Bruen Home for Destitute
Women and Children, 1876 M street north
west, a Christmas tree will be provided
for the children Christmas eve by the
Calvary Baptist Church, and about a
hundred little folk will be on hand TO
a
eye of Mrs. Elizabeth K. Flick, the SUI
perintendent Christmas day special
dinner will be served, though many OF
those in the home have been invited out
to spend the day with friends.
At the Children's Hospital. 18th and w
streets northwest. the Christmas tree will
be revealed to the convalescents in the
morning of Christmas. Fer once the
operating room will not be place of ter
ror. for it is there that the tree is to be
placed, and all the children able to be
moved will be taken into the room to see
it, For those who have to remain in their
cots something will be provided to keep
the disappointment from having too keen
an edge.
At the Columbia Hospital for Women,
18th street and Pennsylvania avenue,
special dinner will be served and I'M
usual efforts made to help the patients
have a happy Christmas and one as COM
Portable as possible.
Although Christmas is to be spent very
quietly at the Epiphany Church Home for
Aged Women 1919 H street. and no eX-
ercises will be held, the superintendent,
Miss Helen NJ. Bigelow, says the Christ
mas dinner will be more or Less of an
event. and that the day will be properly
observed.
Crittenton Mission.
A Christmas tree will be the feature of
the day at the Florence Crittenton Hope