The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-23
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.

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
reeord-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
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 well 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
Army win commence the distribution
of these baskets, and over a 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 and
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 in
which the army will celebrate the Ma
tivity, for it has prepared two Christ
mas trees around which the children
of needy parents will gather on Tues
in the afternoon will be given to all
who come The tree in the evening
will be for the benefit of the children
of the organization s three Sunday
school classes.
Koreans, Also.
There are great preparations going
on for a Christmas celebration in the
Korean mission on Punchbowl street.
near Reretania avenue. Long strips of
gay red cloth are being decorated with
strange gilt figures that will, to Korean
eyes, convey the same message as those
Christmas texts that are traditional in
the Sunday school Christmas socials of
our own race.
The entertainment will be given Fri
day night at the mission. commencing
at seven-thirty. and will be opened by
hymns and closed with benediction. C.
NJ Han, the Rev. T. s. Kim and the
Rev. c. H. Min have the three first
numbers on the program and will rem
der a scriptural reading. prayer and
the opening remarks. respectively.
The Korean children of the Susan
nah Wesley Home are on the program
for songs and recitations. and the mem
bers of the Epworth League will sing
Korean tunes.
One of the features Of the program
will be the Conversion of Buddhist
Priest \ member of the mission will
be dressed to represent priest of the
Lord Buddh and will perform on the
stage the actions and the minutia of his
daily life Finally a door viii open
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