Helpers and staffs of the hospitals were rewarded for their strenuous Iabours of the past few days by the pleasure of their patients when the Christmas Day programmes were carried out. The General Hospitat had transformed its babiest ward into something resembling a children's paradise. The little patients woke up on Christmas morning to find themselves in a silver and white world. 'The plain celling over their heads' had disappeared and they fazed up at a star-spangled sky. while beautiful dolls, dressed as small angels, gazed down at them. Ina comer of the ward. a wax. statuette of the Baby Jesus lay in a Aecorated crib. The Sister Superior distributed toys in the morning.
There was carol-singing in all the wards in the Lester Hospital on. Christmas morning, followed by a special service in Tien An Dung for. ell the nurses and patients who were able to attend.
Every patient in this hospital was presented with a gift, and a most exciting ceremony took place in the children's ward. A large tree, the gift of the Cathedral Girls School, stood in the centre of the ward and Father Christmas tu the Mesh made the rounds after titan, with toys, sweets and words of cheer for each little invalid. The entire hospital had been decorated beautifully by the Sports, claimed the attention of thousands in the afternoon, the three main attractions being the Rugby the Canidrome, Soccer at the Stadium, and the' Christmas paper hunt, Those who went to the Canidrome—a bigger crowd than on Saturday saw Meiji University defeat the Shanghai Rugby Uston Football Club by a try scored in the last few minutes, and voted the afternoon well spent, Another tremendous crowd. gathered at the Stadium to watch the Soccer match for the Marine Engineers Charity Cup, a good game In which the for-eleven just Tost to the Chinese Cars in hundreds, belonging to riders and spectators of the paper hunt were lined up in the Rubicon district between 830 and 420, According to those who took part, the hunt was all that had been hoped for and there was obviously no need to wish Mr. H..D, Rodger and the other smiling riders who hi succeeded in getting "on the card,'
happy Christmas.
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