Show BIGGEST SI CHRISTMAS TREE TREEBY EVER IS PROVIDED I BY TEACHERS FOR FREE CHILDREN 3 x i r x MISS NELLIE SHERMER Two slop T 0 little towheaded boys stumbled grow th u the snow w and ice of ot Third West ties street yesterday afternoon following a aire arp aure ire ure w r so eo of other tots tota who were hiking A it ith a unusual ute haste toward the tl e Sixth ward Impel hapel hll l The TIle two little boys boya clearly dearly did ltd dida didt a t l t along but they the followed the crowd crowdu lito u t o the chapel And what do you e they found Thor Thur in the tM center of the room with witha a t of red rod chairs all about It was wag Hi tho the ingest Christmas tree u any anyone one ver 11 saw reaching from the floor clear in t 1 the ceiling Liling e and bending betiding with the ther r Ight of presents SunU Claua Claus had hadI I tn Fn there and gone gooe before the little ones onea an art ivied ived but hut even 1 his hl presence would not added add to the joy jO Nothing could You lou set see the th Free Kindergarten association tin tim whit has a school for tots tota at UZ Fourth West eat street prepared red a anee nee 11 and ar celebration c for the Ill The Thes TheIS si s IS pool hool was la too ton small and the Sixth ward I Lapel impel at It tt 44 H Souta Routh Third West Rest was wan used U ed stead instead U Hr re Miss Mies Nellie NelUe Shermer the kindergarten teacher and her two tO as an II j Miss Vera era Feuger and Mv Alice lice Gray planted Ilant d the tree imbedded its r is cotton snow and oranges OraD and apples and an bedecked bt its branches with I present i The I ildren were on hand early as an I ids vaa as ex aI d a and s really no one at all wa was late ate The little red chairs chrs were soon noon filled with eager expectant little littlen IMS n Ji and the happy circle about the big j Christmas tree was nearly ready to begin be n nI r I fun bun when the two towheaded tots vie II d seen at the door They really i tong long to the kindergarten but they are arere re tubers of the th school hool of humanity and andi i nurse they Wei t barred The cir dr i fr frI ar are e j x xi i I 1 j I t MISS ALICE GRAY j i cle I was swelled just a wee bit to lot let them themi i in and then the fun began In the bigger chairs chal around by the walte walla wal sat Bat lots lot of proud mothers mothen and many maRY of or orthe the women who have hae devoted days and days to making the free tree kindergarten a aj aI j I success Now No were all going to be very er quiet I said lilies Mias and we Wt are going ping to show how our mothers Just Juat how bow nicely we can act Were all going pine to sing iD SanU Claus she added and then they sang I map clap your our handa and sing with i j I glee lee I For Christina Chrt la 1 coming coral and happy arc arce I we e After the children had sung RUng some more songe and the mothers mother ranged gt about the walls walla had accumulated more happy pride Miss ales Shermer raid Fald Now listen The silence was magical m l land and only the noise of oC escaping breath broke the stillness silliness When your name is III called she ad admonished holding up a finger to show allow that she was in fearful tearful earnest t yon yin must come and get the tho present and take take it t to your mamma Now low I am sure mire none DOlle of oC us has told our mammas or 01 papas papal i x e a w vy ga gaa a 1 MISS VERA FEUGER liEU GER about this surprise and a score of heads hads shook vigorously and silently The Phe s cret had not leaked out aa as all aU really great newspaper r stories do doThen doThen doThen Then the three t Ii Ie teachers distributed dl many pretty things that had been ben made at kindergarten atlen by the children all by themselves for their Hf tr ir papas and mammas It was a tr surprise and when on one titer hI another Of the pretty things were wert dumped into the laps lapH of smiling i mothers rH the secret was wa out in all its de details d details tails Then when hen all of 01 the pretty things had hade hadean e ean n u given out the Christmas tree w we westill was still heavy hlay with presents present The 1 be children childrens a turn came Never was wan a Christmas tree tr t fro o bounteous in its Ita shower of toys and books book and dolls and things Some of ot the j children had two to or three thre presents present apiece plIN a and the two towheaded d tote tats to who were taken in and aDd charmed were laden with pretty things Little Sam Bam the Italian boy boyd had a me ftC mechanical i 11 bug that jumped from his hi hand handI I I and tried to hide bid among the oranges But Sam Bam understood the tINt discipline of the kindergarten and try to rescue the bu bug He Ht let t the teacher get lIet It be because cause had he be started after it h would have bave tramped on sacred creel and forbidden ground beneath the enchanted en branches of ot the tJ t o tree Th te e children sang ang the Goodbye Goodbe Dear Playmate song and went out Into a ft brighter blighter r happier more cheerful world than it had ever ben been be n before The music i for this thia rollicking recessional was pro provided vided by the hums barbs and the whistles and the clicking of the mechanical me bug buC be belonging belonging longing Ion ng to Sam Saak Away up Third West street attest at the bead head of the procession of ot children ch were two towheaded to beaded tots tota hastening homeward to display what Santa Clays Claux had h d left theta then the t |