Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-26
Unfortunate Shutins and Poor
OF the City Given an 0p-
portunity to Celebrate the
Birth of the Redeemer.
BUSINESS PREPARES TO
END PROSPEROUS YEAR
Big Holiday Sales Encourage
Interests in City to Prepare
For Bigger Activities During
Coming Season.

Omaha enjoyed merry Christ
mas yesterday.
The average home was the center
of Yuletide cheer, and it may be said
that every home, from the humble
cottage to the mansion on the hill.
had its quota of good things.
Santa Claus was the only person
who slept yesterday, after a hard
right, distributing toys and confec-
tons to 10000 good boys and girls
of Omaha. The little folks were
astir early in the morning to learn
what Santa had brought them, and
father and mother harked back to
the days when they, too, were on the
calling list of the merry old pur-
veyor of presents.
Weather Conditions Favorable.
Weather conditions were compare
lively favorable for the enjoyment
of the day.
All theaters and movie houses did
a capacity business in the afternoon
and evening and the Skaters thronged
'Hanscom, Riverview, Fontenelle and
Miller parks and also Carter lake.
One of the. most inspiring scenes
Christmas morning was observed at
the City Mission, where, the Omaha
Junior league, under the leadership
of Miss Erna Reed, Mayor Smith,
Leo G.. Kratz, Gould Dietz and Mary,
E. Anthony, gladdened the hearts
Of 400 boys and girls. This was the
happiest gathering of children in
Omaha. Each boy and girl was re-
membered aud those who assisted in
the celebration seemed to be as
happy as the kiddies.
The Young Women's Christian
Association Student club of the High
School of Commerce entertained the
residents at the county hospital with
a program consisting of carols and
school songs, reading. dance. vocal
solo and stunts. Mrs. Mary Horton,
Esther Stokes, Ellen Mattern and
Ida Joy Knapper assisted in this en-
tertainment.
A Christmas party was held yes
terday morning for the children at
Fort Omaha, under the supervision
of Mrs. Jacob w. S. Wuest.
Homeless Waits Remembered.
The little people of the Child Saw
ing institute were remembered by
the board of directors of the insti-
tuition, who trimmed two trees for
the occasion and filled every stock
ing with toys at ST. James Orphan
age by the Knights of Columbus.
who remembered 100 children in a
substantial manner.
Children and adults at the Uni
versity of Nebraska hospital we're
visited by Omaha women who made
each patient share the enjoyment
of the Christmas season
Omaha returns to business this
morning, ready to finish up pros
porous business year and to begin
the new year next week with re-
newed determination and loyalty.
Business men are pleased with the
holiday trade, a feature of which
was the almost complete sale of
Christmas cards. Cards of the bet
ter kinds we're all sold Wednes-
day night and increase in the mail
was evidence of that situation.
Remember Jail Prisoners.
Prisoners at the city and county
jails were remembered yesterday
and for the time being their hearts
were mellowed by the thought that
the world is not entirely against
them in their misfortune.
Shut-ins at the Old Peoples
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