The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-03-03

consisting OF twb bolts of native cloth
and a bar OF laundry soap to be dis.
tribptcd to some OF our poor here in
town. The plan was to do this on
Christmas day, Tut the rain was pour
ing so that was gut OF the question, SO
our girls are going two and two this
morning. That will end our Christmas
celebration With the exception of the
day school parcels. which are not giv-
en- out until examination time.
Yesterday all Of the students in our
and went to as many different points
to help the people in their Christmas
celebrations. We have Sunday schools
at all of these points and the girls had
made posters for all the pupils in all
of our Tang tanlSunday schools-tiyc
hundred In all. Four OF our country
appointments are SO located that two
|Of them can be taken in on one trip,
making it, possible for two groups to
unite, thus giving ia better program
than for one class to, go alone. The
Miss Jones went north and j south,
while lie went west with the group
that visited one of the islands out in
the middle OF our bay. The girls had
prepared concert recitatiOns. dialogues
and number of pretty drills which
the people greatly enjoyed. We had a
fine sunny day and were able to have
our exercises at each place out OF
doors on a cleanly swept court. Ii
was fortunate that we could for any
Of the houses would have been toe
small to have accommodated the
crowd and us at the same time. II
was long, strenuous day for. the girls
with their two programs and ter
mile walk. 1t was dark when we got
home, but good hot supper was wait
ing for all OF us and am sure that
all of the girls were happy in spite of
their wearineSs.
The day before yesterday was Sun.
day. We had our regular church sery-
ice in the morning with Christmas
sermon by our new pastor, and in the.
afternoon the Christmas for the chill
dren who attend our Sunday afternoon
Sunday school here in town. We have
two hundred pupils and as each child
had the privilege of bringing two
friends with him we had crowded
church. The church members had
their Christmas on Saturday. 1t
should have been on Friday. but the
pouring, rain made that impossible, SO
it was postponed. They had the church
beautifully decorated and it was full
both morning and afternoon The ex-
ercises were mostly given by our girls
and the audiences were quiet and at
tentive. 1t really seemed wonderful
that we could hold so many people for
so many services. 1 think the men met
again in the evening. but we felt our
girls needed little rest and quiet TO
themselves.
Christmas morning we wakencd to
find the rain pouring. How thank
ful we were to have a good roof over
our heads. Tie contrast with our
Christmas of . year ago was so marked
that we could not help speaking of it
often. We had prepared our Christ
mas tree the night before. in the par
lor. We had dolls for, the entire
school and these with the tinsel and
candles and ornaments made it very
gay and well laden little tree Be
sides doll each girl had wash cloth,
a towel. Il bar of soap. handkerchief
a hair ribbon and beautiful picture.
You see where the Dow City box
worked it. The towels were a gift OF
Mrs. Sheldon, who used to be here in
Hal tang. There were not enough OF
the hemmed wash cloths to so around
so We cut up some of the hemmed
flour sacks to finish out the number,
others were given out as towels. The
calico this year went to our workers.
bible women, teachers and native pas.
tors wives. We do not want to sur
felt our girls with too many good
things. We kept out enough pieces OF
pretty blue prints for our even dozen
of seniors, but it is to be Il graduating
present and will probably be made up
into commencement gowns. The bags
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