The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-19
CHRISTMAS AT DAY NURSERIES
 FOR CHILDREN Weatogue Club to Have Christmas Dance De-
 cember 29 SIXTY ORPHANS
 %-' TAKEN FOR YEAR Kindergarten Scholars to Hold Exercises Friday Afternoon

This morning at the West End Day Nursery under the direction of young ladies from the Connecticut Froebel Normal school. the children had their Christmas exercises and a small tree Tomorrow morning the youngsters who go to the Kindergarten of Miss Mills on West avenue, will have a very interesting program of Christ mas songs, and games and will also have tree. On Friday morning Christmas chesr will be carried to the little folk at the Main street Day Nursery and according to the custom each year the children at the Connec- ticut Froebel Kindergarten make lit- tie gifts that are placed on the tree for the Day Nursery children. This year the children at the Connecticut Froebel Kindergarten made a half dozen fracture pillows and sent them down to the Red Cross headquarters in the Seaside Institute. Every Tues day all of the normal school girls go down to the Seaside Institute and work for the Red Cross for an hour and half. After the holidays it is planned to start a unit of the Girls Patriotic League at the Connecticut Froebe1 Normal school.
 At the Weatogue Country Club, this | afternoon, a social and knitting bee occupied the attention of the mem bers. The club will have it's annual Christmas dance on Saturday evening, December 29.
 Friday afternoon at o'clock the children of the Fannie A. Smith Froe bel Kindergarten are to have their usual Christmas party. The children have done quite little Red Cross work this year and have given up can- dy. A very attractive program has been arranged and there will be the usual tree with gifts.
 Sixty of the Fatherless Children of France were taken for a year as the result of Tag Day on Saturday last The exact amount of the money taken 1 in on this day was $2,225 and this amount will be sent to New York to- morrow By Charles G. Sanford, treas urer of the local branch of the So- ciety of the Fatherless Children ot France This will be added to the sum collected in the drive all over the country that is to be cabled to Joffre on Christmas Eve, so that he can make the. announcement of the grand total on Christmas Day. Mrs William D. Bishop has received mo- tice that Madamoiselle Lucis Pier rard who is a delegate to the French , Red Cross to this country. will come to this city and deliver an address on Saturday, Jan. 12. She has wis tied and worked in all of the devas- tated districts and will tell of condi- tions as she found them. As soon as the names of the 60 additional chil- dren taken are announced there will be a correspondence committee formed here that will keep in touch with the
 children. The total number of chil. dren being cared for now by people in, this city is 22o.
 Bridgeport is taking its stand in the Red Cross drive for the 8, 900, 600 ir the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals to fight tuberculosis President Will son has given emphatic endorsement for the sale of Christmas seals. He has written in a letter to Dr. Charles J.. Hatfield, executive chairman of tre National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis that he hoped the public would support the cause generously as they had re. lsponded to all other appeals made t,