Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-24

feature in the observance and every
where will be seen the beautiful Of
California's flowers. The red poinset-
tia, CALIFORNIA; famous winter flower,
will adorn pulpits and affairs in great
masses, and thousands of these flowers
will be used tomorrow in practically
all the churches.
To the easterners In the city of the
Angels this will be a marked contrast
to the usual snow of the eastern
Christmas and the great, flaming red
flowers will be a pleasing novelty In
the Catholic churches the beauty of
the flowers will be enhanced by hum
dreds of burning tapers placed on the
affairs.
Will Feed Prisoners
For several years the Los Angeles
Fellowship has had as its special in
terest at Christmas time the inmates
of the county jail Christmas morning
a group of Fellowshippers will go to
the county Jail taking with them a
bountiful supply of vegetables, oranges,
apples, nuts, pies, etc, to grace the
jail table at dinner time. They will
give entertainments before the various
tanks and in other ways seek to carry
some of the Christmas joy and spirit
into the Jail. The committee having
Blight. the minister of the Fellowship;
Mrs. V. o. Bartoo, Harry Bobey, r. o.
Parker, Miss Vera Hileman and Mrs.
Harry Goodman. The entertainers
will be Miss Florence Paine, violinist;
Mrs. Il. NJ. Bartlett, soprano, and Mrs.
+. J. Wallis reader.
The children of the Fellowship, Sun
day school will entertain the children
of the Utah street sewing school
(Which is conducted weekly under the
auspices of the Fellowship with an
elaborate Christmas tree and gifts and
entertainment in Blanchard han next
Tuesday. The Fellowship believes lit
10 more blessed to give than to re-
seive," even at Christmas time. and
the children have caught the spirit of
their elders.
The young people of the Fellowship
are uniting with the young people of
the Unitarian and Universalist
churches to give a big Christmas cele-
bration to the needy children of the
Utah street district, Sunday. 1t is eX-
pected that more than 1000 children
will be rememberd.
Reception at Y. w. c. A.
The Christmas festivities at the
Young Womens Christian association
began the first of December, and have
included many enjoyable occasions by
the clubs and organizations of the as
sociation. Last night forty children,
whose names have been furnished by
the teachers to the Mothers congress
were entertained by the Indoor-Out
door club. The program began at I
o'clock. The little ones were accom-
panied by their mothers. Christmas
night, the whole building will be
thrown open to receive the stranger
and friend alike. The social commit
tee. of which Mrs. D. X. Edwards is
chairman, is planning to make this the
merriest of all merry occasions. The
program is divided into two parts.
The first part will consist Of violin,
harp, cornet and vocal solos, with a
reading. The program will conclude
with a sale of rag dolls, games. etc.
Between Christmas and New Years
the Hermosa club is planning to en-
tertain at dinner, a number of strang-
ers who are employed in homes.
A circle Of young women of leisure,
under the auspices Of the association,
are making preparations to send out
a number of good cheer baskets on
Christmas day.
December 3O $50 young girls who are
employed will be rendered a dinner
at the building by a friend of the as
sociation.
An impressive manger service was
held yesterday afternoon at st. Johns
Episcopal church, in charge of Rev.
l.. G. Morris, the rector. The chill
dren of the parish took gifts for the
poor and deposited them in a manger
at the church. These gifts will be dis
tributed today and tomorrow among
the needy. Christmas morning holy
communion win be celebrated at $50,
and 10:30 a. m, with a special mu-
scal program at the last service. Sun
day the Christmas music will be re-
peated and Rev. Mr.. Morris will preach
a Christmas sermon.
Will Hold Communion
In the Episcopal churches the day
will be marked by the celebration of
uarly communion. AT st. Paurs pro-
cathedral, the first celebration will be
at 7:30 o'clock, with the second cele-
bration and morning prayer at IL
O'clock Rev. G. Hibbard, recently
elected honorary canon of the pro-Ca-
thedral, will preach the sermon at the
last service. The Sunday school of the
parish will hold a celebration on the
evening of Holy Innocents day, De-
cembor 2S, with a service in the
church, followed by an entertainment
in the parish house.
AT the First Lutheran church sun
rise service will be held at o'clock
Christmas morning. The annual cho-
raj service of the Sunday school will
be held Sunday evening.
Three Christmas festivities will be
held by the Sunday school of st.
Athanasius Episcopal church. Mon
day evening the choir will give the
operetta Caught Mapping" and Tues
day afternoon the children will par
ticipate in the celebration of the mis-
sion in Edendale. Wednesday night a
similar festivity will be held at the
Trinity mission, Dayton Heights.
Potatoes for Poor
At the Naomi Avenue Christian
church each class of the Sunday school
will bring some special article of food,
and the admission to the Christmas
entertainment TO be given tonight will
be two potatoes for each person. The
potatoes secGred in this novel fashion
will be distributed among the needy,
as will also the provisions brought by
the classes.
The manger service of Christ Epis-
copal church was held last Sunday
evening, and the gifts brought by the
Sunday school children have been
distributed among the needy. Satur-
day morning holy communion will be
celebrated at 1880 and II o'clock. At
1890 o'clock there will be baptism Of