Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-24
WILL BE GALA DAY
IN NEWARK INSTITUTIONS
In Every Hospital, Home and Asylum Inmates Will Have Holt
day Treat-Turkey Dinners, with Good Things Galore,
Will Be Feature-Candy and Gifts for All.

/ their own Christmas entertainment
with a Christmas tree and games. Next
Friday night the children will be
treated to an entertainment of magic.
No special exercises will be held at
the House of the Good Shepherd. To-
morrow friends and relatives of the in
mates may visit them. a turkey din
ner, boxes of candy and fruit will help
the inmates to remember that it is
Christmas Day. Speaking and singing
made up the Christmas exercises at the
Newark Foster Home yesterday after
noon. After the entertainment presents
We're given to the children from a big
Christmas tree and q special supper
was served.
At the Home for Crippled Children d
small private entertainment was given
today by the children. The Christmas
dinner for tomorrow will be donated by
Mrs. Robert r. Ballantine. There will
be a Christmas tree in each of the
three wards, and the presents will be
given to the children by a Santa Claus.
Christmas exercises at the Hon for
the Friendless will not be held until
the day before. New Years. The chill
dren will present a play called "A
Japanese Christmas After the enter
tainment gifts and candy will be given
out.
VIII Hang Up Stockings.
That the hanging of stockings on
Christmas Eve is not confined to chill
dren, is proved by the custom of years
at the Home for Aged Women OH Mt.
Pleasant avenue. Each Christmas the
old people awake to find their stockings
filled with candy and fruit. The gifts
at this home will not be given until
night Every plate at the supper table
will contain a present.
The Young Peoples Baptist Union
viii entertain the men and women at
the Baptist Home for the Aged at
2S5 Roseville avenue. on next Wednes-
day night. Besides the turkey dinner
and the usual stocking full of candy,
each person will receive two Christmas
presents.
Next Thursday will be the big day
at the East Side Day Nursery. The
girls of the auxiliary will trim the tree
and the interior of the building with
holly. During the afternoon the chill
dren will receive small presents and lis
ten to speeches inc singing. At night
an oyster supper will be served to the
mothers. The Hill Street Day Nursery
will hold it's exercises Monday after
noon.
Twenty children will take part in the
Christmas cantata to be given at tho
playground recreation centre, at 10.
Commerce street, tomorrow afternoon
The leading part is taken by Miss Edna
Hopper. The performance will be oper
to the parents and friends of the play.
ground children.
An Athletic Carnival.
An athletic carnival will keep the boy.
and girls who frequent the Prince stree
playground interested tomorrow. A
five-mile run, starting at the grounds
through the streets, will be the mali
feature. Potato races, jumps and {
"ffteen-minute Marathon" for the very
small children will be some of the Other
attractions.
The Bureau of Associated Charities
which provides dinners for all the PEG.
pie who cannot be taken care of by tn,
separate charities. will distribute 15
baskets containing Christmas dinner,
tonight. Each basket, besides contain
ing enough food for five persons, will
have n or two small toys for the chill
ihC iAooNi q VII LOydtH SLIe6
will be opened by the bureau for thu
first time tomorrow. Each day instruc,
lions in economical housekeeping will b,
given to all those who apply. A specia
entertainment. with a Christmas tree
will be held there next Friday.
Many invited guests will attend tn,
Christmas dinner to be given tomorrow
at the Rescue Home, Is Spring street
OF course, turkey, with cranberry sauce
will occupy the most attention and tim,
during the dinner. The Rev. Loui.
Shreve Osborne will give the inmates O
the home an informal talk before til,
dinner.
Lucky are the prisoners who are sem
from the different precincts to thu
county Jail. Unless fortune favors then
those who remain will have none of tht
usual Christmas joys. There will moi
even be a special dinner given at an,
Of the stations in the city.