The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-12-24
CHRISTMAS is
A RECORD ONE
Shopping Crowds This Year Are
Larger Than USUAL and
Prosperity Shows.
Entertainments ARE MANY
Various Organizations Vie With
One Another in Making
Up Programs.
Entertainments ARE MANY
From Thursdays Advertisero

The present Christmas season, when
ended, will stand in the annals of Ho'
nolulu as one of the most prosperous
in its history. There has been more
record breaking shopping done the last
few days than ever before. There are
still two more days to come, and by
the time the figures for these are to-
tailed up with the rest, the resulting
sum will be interesting whichever way
you hold it.
The biggest crowd, so far, turned
out Monday of this week. and one
store on that day sold over thousand
dollars worth of toys-a record for the
| town. Particular care was taken of
window decorations this year, and
| some stores instituted orchestras for
| the pleasure of the shopping public.
There are more social preparations
going on this year in anticipation Of
J Christmas than heretofore. A number
of charitable movements are on foot in
| which, as usual, the Salvation Army is
prominent.
Baskets of Happiness.
This organization is following out its
usual custom of distributing baskets of
food to the needy of the city, and in
Honolulu, as we'll as in all the cities
of the country, hundreds of the poor
will be made happy. At half-past
eight on Friday morning the Salvation
i Army will commence the distribution
of these baskets, and over hundred
are already prepared. Each basket
has in it sufficient food to supply five
people with a regulation eat-till-you
can-eat -no-more. Christmas dinner.
For month, the army has been look
! ing up the needy ones. Great care has
been taken that no frauds creep on the
list, and the records of each family
are known. Tabulating the poor ant
drawing distinctions between the wor
thy and unworthy has been one of the
/ secrets of the success of the orgaiza
ton.
This will not be the only manner il
which the army will celebrate the Ma
tivity, for it has prepared two Christ
mas trees around which the childrel
of needy parents will gather on Tues
day afternoon and evening. The on
: in the afternoon will be given to al
: who come The tree in the evenin,
l will be for the benefit of the children
of the organization s three Sunda.
I, school classes.
Koreans, Also.
There are great preparations goin;
on for a Christmas celebration in tn
! Korean mission on Punchbowl street
near Beretania avenue. Long strips o
: gay red cloth are being decorated wit
! strange gilt figures that will, to Koreal
eyes, convey the same message as thos
a Christmas texts that a1e traditional il
. the Sunday school Christmas soeials o
a our own race.
The entertainment will be given Fri
4 day night at the mission, commencing
q at sey en-t thirty, and will be opened b.
1 hymns and closed with benediction. {
NJ. Han, the Rev. U. S. Kim and tn
Rev. C. II. Min have the three frs
numbers on the program and will rel
der scriptural reading, prayer an
Y the opening remarks, respectively.
The Korean children of the SusaI
nah Wesley Home are on the program
e for songs and recitations, and the men
bers of the Epworth League will sin
Korean tunes.
One of the features of the program
e will be the Conversion of a Buddhii
n Priest. A member of the mission wi
IS be dressed to represent priest of til
IS Lord Buddh and will perform on til
l. stage the actions and the minutia of h
st daily life. Finally door will ope
n and Christian minister appear, ever
y tually to bring the priest to the croi
\ of the White Christ. The flight {
is Mary to Egypt will also be illustrate
n in like manner.
l. Other Korean songs, including III
IT national air of the Hermit Kingdoi
g will be rendered and these with I'll
n. distribution of presents and the ben
20 diction, will complete the program.
n Week Replete.
-. The entertainments will not be CO.
- fined to Christmas day and Christm,
eve but every evening of the wee
will have its own celebration. La
night the Methodist Episcopal ehuIC
held its exercises, tonight the Susana
Wesley Home will do the same ar
smaller entertainments will coincide.
"He who should die would rise aga
to be the King Of Kings and Lord {
Lords and yet the Child Eternal as
is tonight" was the sentiment of Il
exercises rendered by the Sunday seho
children of the Methodist Episeop
church.
The feature of the evening were tw
quasi'tableauxs respectively called. ii
Star of Bethlehem and the Mr.. SAINT
Claus Stocking, In the first name
piece seven stars and the moon wei
represented ON the platform when ii
Star OF Bethlehem appeared amor
them aud explained the Significance
It's coming 40 II spoke tho moon !
terrupied, sayingi "oh, star, be silel
for I see cross, togb~-" and 4
moon 10 turn eas answered by the w
latlon given,
MT, Santa CLAUS
la fha saeana fabian ala Ranl