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Show Thanksgiving Day at Kearns-St. Ann's Orphanage A happier crowd of children could not be found anywhere than were those at the Kearns St. Ann's orphanage Thursday. From early morning till they retired at night their smiling faces indicated their peace, contentment and happiness. Friends, by, their presence, added to the pleasure of many of the little ones. - At an early hour' all assembled in the little chapel to give thanks to God for thp fflVflrs anrl hlnccino-D V.nc ,.-! them. Hymns of praise to the giver of all good things were sung by all. The praises and grateful acknowledgements of so many innocent little ones ascended ascend-ed like sweet incense before the throne of God. Father Kiely spoke to the children and told them how they should unite in spirit with children throughout the length and breadth of the land in returning thanks to God tor the many favors bestowed on them. He told them that the greatest favor of all was that they were all in good health; that as they were 150 children in the home and no one sick in bed, they should all thank God for that great favor; that they should pray to God every day to extend that blessing to them whilst they would be under the roof of St. Ann's. He told them what a good father they all had in Bishop Scanlan, who was so deeply concerned in their welfare, thanked God every day because they had a good home, plenty of everything and a good scnooi, wnere they could learn to be ! good and useful citizens, and that ail he wanted from them in return was that they be good children. He told them not to forget Mrs. Kearns, who gave them their nice home, and Pat Phelan, who gave all that he had to buy food, clothing, shoes and coal to make them happy; also Mrs. Keith, who remembers them on every Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day by sending them all the turkeys they needed, After the morning services the children chil-dren spent the day in preparing to entertain en-tertain their friends with a little programme pro-gramme which they had carefully prepared. pre-pared. PROGRAMME. Address to Right Rev. Bishop Scanlan, Scan-lan, Mrs. Kearns and Mrs. Keith, H. Townley, M. Glasset, C, Morgan, Mor-gan, M. Warner and C. Stevenson "My Old Kentucky Home," Large Children Accompanist, Rose Pergrosse. Instrumental ' H. and G. Pederson Recitation N. Jones Instrumental ..M. Young and K. Nigro Song, " November Party," Little Ones Accompanied by Rose Pergrosse. Instrumental F. McCallum and F. Andrews Recitation Little Ones Instrumental H. Johnson and M. Warner "The Effects of Candy". .E. McCallum Song, "Katie Did" Little Ones "The World Is What We Make It" G. McKay and E. McNulty Instrumental F. Pattinson and C. Stevenson "Girls Play" .'. C. Stevenson, E. Ginoli, F. Gassett, M. Warner, E. . McCallum, T. Swoape, E. Anakin, D. Mullen,. F. Andrew, M. King and M. Byrne. ' Instrumental Duet , , Alice and Helen Townley Boys' Play.. O. McDermott, G. Pederson, Peder-son, E. Pattinson, H. Townley, , L. Sullivan, H. Stevenson, M. Gassett, E. Ginoli, M. McDermott, E. McCallum, Mc-Callum, J. Egan, T. Swoape and T. Brocklebank. Instrumental Solo Rose Pergrosse Song, "Zephyr of Nightfall".. .... Large Children Closing Remarks .... Right Rev. Bishop Scanlan At 7 o'clock the large hall was filled. The stage was artistically decoratad with red, white and blue bunting. When all the little ones appeared on the stage, neatly dressed, they presented a picture like that of a fairy land. All, even little tots 3 and 4 years old, performed per-formed their part with precision and accuracy that would do. credit to older children. , The address was by three boys and two girls- H. Townley began by saying: say-ing: "This is Thanksgiving day, and w-e childreti are happy, content and unite ' with all children of the city and our beloved country in giving thanks to God for the great favors and blessings we enjoy." ' . . : . Next came M. Glassett, saying: ; "And why should not we be happy and give thanks , to God, who gives us all good health. So many of us little lit-tle ones have all we want plenty to eat, nice, cozy dormitories to sleep in, and can go to school every day, summer sum-mer and winter." . C. Morgan next spoke, saying: "I knew M. Glassett would spoil our little entertainment by being so selfish and forgetful. He tells about having' I all and never mentioned our good bish- . op's name, who got all these wants. Plenty to eat, yes; turkeys, too, and you forgot to say 'Thank you, Mrs. .j Keith, who sends . turkeys every-Thanksgiving every-Thanksgiving day.' Nice, cozy dormitories, dormi-tories, yes; but no nice boy, would forget for-get to thank Mrs. Kearns, who provided pro-vided a!! these for us. That Martin is always making blunders, except when he is eating and sleeping. M. Warner . enters as a peacemaker, saying: "Stop this quarreling, boys, on Thanksgiving day. Martin' did not forget for-get the bishop, or Mrs. Keith, or Mrs. Kearns. How couid he? Did we not all pray for them this morning? We do it each day. You saw how bashful and nervous Martin was whilst talking.-That talking.-That was his first speech. Now, I think he is good timber to make governor gov-ernor of the state out of him.' " C. Stevenson concluded the address by saying: "Indeed, Miss Warner, you need not lecture the boys.. Leave them to the sisters, and they" will tell them what to do. But how about yourself? Not one word about the bishop, Mrs. Keith or Mrs. Kearns, to whom we all are and ever will be grateful. How to express ex-press we do not know. I will say for all the boys and girls that they are thankful to you, dear bishop, dear Mrs. Keith and Dear Mrs. Kearns. The only way we can show our happy and grateful grate-ful feelings is by singing for you 'My Old Kentucky Home.' " At "the" conclusion,' Bishop Scanlan thanked the children for their nice and successful entertainment, and congratulated congrat-ulated them on their healthy and neat appearance. . He said if they did as well in all their other, studies as they did in their little entertainment tonight, to-night, he was satisfied that they were doing nicely. He told of the great advantages ad-vantages they had. .How a good lady came once a week and spent nearly two hours in teaching them calesthenics, physical culture and to be graceful in all their movements. "That is a big favor, ; children," he said, "and forms a part of education as well as reading, j figuring and writing," ' Then he spoke of another big advantage they had, namely, a good man, whose services-could services-could not be purchased for money, came once a week to teach them stenography ste-nography and typewriting. He has been doing that quietly for six years. and some of his pupils today are making mak-ing their own living, and their employers em-ployers speak highly of them. "You do not know, dear children," said the bishop, "how; highly, favored you are in having those good people come here and teach you. They love, you, for it , is only love that r could prompt them to come." V 'The bishop thanked-the large audience audi-ence for their presence. It was an" encouragement en-couragement to the-'children, and also to himself, to see that the public appreciated ap-preciated the work done. ' There could be no nobler or grander work than in raising children up to.be good and useful use-ful citizens. That was -the mission he proposed to himself" When he founded the old St. Ann's : home .God has blessed the work, and your presence lends enchantment to' its success, and I assure you a great encouragement to my feeble efforts. The! . bishop con- eluded his remarks 'by thanking God for the blessings bestowed cn the in- aLiiuuuir ami uie people lor tneir generous gen-erous support in carrying on the good work. AVhen all "was over,' the children, after aft-er a long day of successful festivities, retired-happy and content. Gifts from generous friends were: Mrs. Keith, sixty turkeys;- Mrs. Kervin, 100 pounds of candy ? Mrs. M. Fitzgerald, Fitzger-ald, apples and candy. The Salt Lake Soda works sent generous greetings to the orphanage. . : -i- |
