Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-29
YULET|DE FEAST MAKES
zoo CASH GIRLS HAPPY
Mrs. William A. Clark, Jr., Gives
Elaborate Dinner to En-
pIoyes of City Stores

OF all the Christmas parties given
during this holiday season there has
been none more gay, more obviously
appreciated than the dinner given last
night by -Irs. William A. Clark, 1r..
| at the Y. M. C. A. to the cash girls of
| this city. The invitation extended in
cluded every cash girl in all the stores,
and places were laid to accommodate
| any number of extra guests who had
not formally accepted but might have
changed their minds and decided to
drop in at the last minute.
| Nearly 200 sat down at the beautiful
ly appointed tables with Mrs. Clark at
the head, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ross Clark
and Miss Mollie Adelia Brown assisting
her. The elder people displayed degree
| of kindliness and Christmas cheer be-
yond the ordinary amount and all the
! little girls had no sooner taken places
for the feast than restraint was cast to
the winds. formality became for
gotten factor, and everyone began 10
enjoy herself to superative degree
COLORS, WELLS AND SONGS
Little groups of girls would suddenly
| give the cry of the particular club to
which they belonged, either in the Y.
| w. C. A. or in the stores, for they Of
ten do form small clubs and have yells
| and colors of their own. The yells
| would be alternated with songs, sung
It first with some faltering, but
speedily as 4e singers gained contl-
dence 18th enthusiasm and good cheer.
| Everyone applauded everyone else, and
all through the dinner laughter and
conversation held sway so that it was
| almost a question whether the jovial
young guests were thinking of their
| food at all
The decorations of the room lent
themselves we'll to a festival spirit In
one corner Christmas tree was hung
with red lights and holly. All the pill
| lars were decorated, some with red
and others with green. At every place
the usual party favors We're added to
| by red and white striped candy cane
| tied with red ribbons.
The girls waiting on the table were
volunteers who belong to the Y. w. G..
A. but who were not in any other way
| connected with the entertainment. They
came to help merely out of kindly
| feeling and though they everyone of
them had been working all day-some
| at stenography, some at telephone
switches or in stores-they were just as
enth lsiastic as the smallest and noisi-
est girl there.
After dinner the party adjourned to
the large club room on the seventh
floor and, gathering round the open
| fireplace there, passed a happy cVen-
1 NNAAN
doing impromptu stunts"
Miss Mollie Adelia Brown was sup
posed to be in charge of the enter
tainment but refused to arrange any
thing formal.
"They are having such a good time, y
she declared during the dinner, that
1 am not going to dampen their spirits
| with cut and dried program. I'll sing
to them and do anything they want.
but thev certainly are in a sufficiently
happy lood to suggest their own
amusements and they're quite sure to
enpoy their own plans"
Miss Browns ideas on the subject
were proved correct, for the little girls
certainly were "in the mood and con-
tributed more to the entertainment
than any group of older people could
have been persuaded to do. Miss
| Browns singing captivated them and
drew forth not only much applause but
a good deal of response from the de-
lighted children.