Evening journal., 1914-12-26

yesterday between II and 1890 o'clock
Tor all children. Every year the Peo-
pies Settlement lays in a new stock of
toys at Christmas time, and the chill
dred Wa allowed to look at the toys
and D, with them Nassar College
sent .S;.H prettily dressed dolls which
the : Siren greatly admired They do
not r. ke these dolls home. and use
tfore auring the play hour. This at.
TIA ~ the girls viii come for a doll
L,,J when the new Nassar College
o,Rr;' o' win be christened.
y, eAt Tuesday night there will be a
&c and ON Wednesday afternoon one
( 'iho popular attractions will be the
Punch aud Judy show. This will be pre-.
coded by the Mother Goose.
Next Friday, New Years Day, will be
observed with a New Years reception.
Three hundred poor children at
tended Miss McClanerty's tree enter
iainment at Pythian Castle ON Thurs
day afternoon. Two Santa Clauses
assisted in the distribution of candy.
One of them was loaned by the Volun-
teers of America and the other was
I Edward Cannon, who acted as Santa
/ Claus in the morning at the High
School entertainment. The children
received gifts. including candy and
oranges. Previous to the distribution
a delightful entertainment was given
! by the Boys and Girls Glee Club Of
the High School They sang several
Christmas numbers and then several
of Miss McClaiferty's dance pupils
pupils gave an exhibition of dancing
Most Of the packages given the chill
dren contained top and an article of
clothing
AT the New Castle County Work
house yesterday there was a special
Christmas dinner which consisted of
roast pork with all the trimmings.
Each prisoner also received two boxes
of candy, smoking tobacco and cigars.
owing to the snow covered ground
the baseball games which were sched-
uled had to be put aside but instead
the prisoners were allowed the free
dom of the corridors, The choir of
Westminster Presbyterian Church
about o'clock in the morning sang
Christmas carols in which the priso-
ners joined. Warden Crawford and
his assistants gave every as
sistance possible to have the men and
women prisoners enjoy the day.
A turkey dinner was served for the
inmates of the State Hospital for the
/ Insane at Farnhurst. Through the
, kindness of two friends of DR.. William
. II. Hancker each man was provided
with a ten-cent plug of tobacco and q
ive-cent package of smoking tobacco
In addition pair of suspenders and G
necktie were provided and cand,
, given. Every patient to the number
J OF sixty in one of the women's wards
p was presented with a gift by the sol
= of a woman who died at the hospita
5 and was "A patient in that ward. Tn,
5 other women inmates were also wei
: provided. Seven Christmas tree
r adorned the various wards.
At the New Castle county hospital ;
. chicken dinner was served the 500 o
e more inmates yesterday. Dr. p. A. NJ
/ Royitti provided each inmate with
r box of candy. Each inmate also re
ceived a box of candy from member
p of St. Andrews Episcopal Church
s Services were held al the institution
s at o'clock in the morning by Fathe
= Launay Of the Salesianum assisted b.
4 an augmented Catholic choir. IN
r. members of which sing on Easter an
Christmas at the institution. Cigar
"a and tobacco were also furnished.