who hadn't eaten anything since morning, had insisted that her share go to the traveller.
Mr. Heig said the closing of many manufacturing plants in the last year had set thousands of boys adrift. The Newsboys' Lodging House had become a haven, he said, for all the homeless and friendless lads in the city, and in the last year had sheltered 3,844 different boys.
Christmas and other holidays give occasion for accounts
of various forms of celebration, of which the
following story from the New York Evening Post is a
good example:
Just when the afternoon shadows
were beginning to lengthen in Trinity
churchyard, the snow-hedged paths
were filled with children hurrying to
the service known as the "Visit to
the Manger." By scores they surged
along, bearing banners, until the
church doors swallowed them up. It
was the day of one of Trinity's most
hallowed customs. Nobody knows
exactly when it was instituted, although
tradition says that it began
during the late Dr. Dix's incumbency.
With the passing years the "Visit to
the Manger" has become the recognized
prelude to the Sunday School
feast and Christmas tree, on the day
before Christmas.
In the church long streamers of greens twined the pillars, and here and there gleamed holly; above the rows of heads the banners with their inscriptions trembled. Shrill young voices joined in the carols. Notes of the processional rang clearly.
Once in royal David's city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother laid her Baby
In a manger for His bed;
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little Child.
