The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-26
GOOD CHEER FOR
 THE EUNFORTUNATES
Christmas Spirit Extended Among Lowly and Stricken in All the City's In
 stitutions.
UNTO THE LITTLE CHILDREN
The Orphans Are Made the Happicst of All-LThouSands of the Poor Are Fed and
 Cared for.

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 Even as ye have done it unto ono of the least of these, have ye done it unto me. The true spirit of Christ mas is that of giving rather than re- ceivlng, and especially of helping the more unfortunate brother by the way side. This Is the spirit which was carried into the work of the various public institutions of the city yesterday and made happy thousands of those for whom otherwise Christmas would only emphasize their poverty. From the high places of the city good cheer and more substantial remcmhrances went out to tho lowh scattered throughout the town and to those places where multitudes have bren gathered together by misfortune of re straint From the unfortnatos at the city home at Springsidc to the rich man in the hospital, the day was made brighter either by remembrances of a substantial nature ar by words of good cheer and Christmas song in most cases by both.
 At inc County Home.
 Those for whom Christmas should mean the most are the children, for to them the old story Is so real, so fresh and ever new. Yet what of those in the orphan asylums and the County home, who have mo mother to tell them tho old legends or father to masquerade as santa Claus? Early l yesterday morning the children al the County home began the day with the singing of Christmas carols, and later Rev. Mr. Burgess of Christ church, conducted a Christmas service Tho glory of the day was the tree. all be- f dcckCd with candles spauglcs and strings of popcorn about the base of which were heaped the presents in Iall sorts of mysterious packages. Af- ter the big dinner there were recta- tione and songs by the children, talk ing up most of the afternoon
 The Orphans Made Happy.
 Al the New Haven orphan asylum | | lll' ' - iIlIlWli'll NFif up llllEIl dHN early to investigate the contents of thcir stockings, as supplied during the night by santa Claus In the nom 1 ing there were Christmas soryices and then came the event of thc day ,tbc turkey dinner with all the fxjuss. The tree exercises will bc held on | New Years daN according to custom.
 The 425 children at the St Francis i orphan asylum had a big trcc ycs- terday with 2 present on t for every one of them but these remained as objects of admiration and subjects for guessos all day and will be taken down to-day. thus prolonging the fes- tival vet another twenty hours l Early in the morning there were scr- vices and affer The fine dinner at noon, there was in the afternoon an i entertainment furnished hy the chi dre themselves with singing. reclta- tIons, piano selections and music by l the splendid asylum band
 The City's unfortunatcs.
 Al SpringsIde too, there is a mum bcr of children and for these there 1 was a tree Christmas eve. with a present for each one Yesterday morning there were services in tho chapel. conducted by Father Ford and 1 splendid singing of chrstams songs by the choir of st. Marys church. At l noon there was the annual dinner with candies, oranges and all the rest for the 46S inmates, and in the afternoon there were fifty or more visitors most of whom brought gifts for their l friends
 Tho cloudy day outside and the spe- l cial dinner inside the walls made even incarceration in the county jail little less depressing, There was the usual I Christmas dinner which sheriff Hugo knows so well how to provide, and candy cigars and fruit
 Salvation Army santa.
 Three Christmas trees were prcpar- cd last evening for several hundred poor children at the Salvation Army and the large hall was crowded with tho little ones who were eager for a glimpse of santa Claus, who was there in an his glory with a girth which would throw Mir Taft in the slade and make him grow thin from envy. The Houblein orchestra offered to as- sist at the entertainment, large part of which was given by the children themselves. And never did the mu- scians play better or to a more ap- preclative audience And to top it all off Santa presented eacd child with some candy and nuts or a present, so that each one received something.
 t,I0O Poor Fed.
 Tho tables groancd and crcakcd un- der load after load of turkey and all sorts of good and substantial things to cat all yesterday afternoon at the hall of the Christian Army on Ex- change street, until moro than LIDO had been fed In addition $50 chil- dron received presents which had been donated by tho George $. Vib- berts company of Centcrvlle, and there was a special service in the aft ternoon All the food was paid for out of voluntary contributions and a full accounting of the moneys rcceiv- ed and expended will be made in a few days by the commander
 Cheer at Hospitals.
 Special services conducted by Fa- ther Devlne were dch yesterday at St. Raphael'a hospital and the first Christmas dinner served at the insti- tuition was prepared for the patients. There was also a gift from each pa tient and tho management wishes to take this opportunity to thank all those who were SO kind in sending rriris o,,d dfur,r sunn1fge