THE OPPHANfrQE NEWS LETTER
accustomed fro use her eyes ami her
smile to the utter undoing of the hoys.
It war! quite amusing, though at fiist
somewhat disconcerting, to see our
boys one after another fall victims
to her vanipiugs. There is safty in
numbers, however and h«r smiles
being distributed impartially have
now lost much of their potency.
In December the Watson brought
u* the four motherless Peterson chil
dren from Kenai. All of them are
tow-headed with blue eyes aud very
light complections. As far as looks
goes they might just bare arrived
from Sweden. They are very nice
children and have had good home
care. Ida is twelve years old, Minnie
is ten, Harry is eight and fcdsie is
seven. Their first letter from home
made them all feel homesick, but
after they had had a good cry they
were all right again.
Our family now consists of 19 boys
and‘21 girls. All of them ace inter
esting, and like children in other
parts of the world have their good
points and failures. We solicit the
interest and help of every reader of
the News better in this work of car
ing for these children and in giviug
them a happy childhood and a good
home and Christian training.
Thanksgiving:
Thanksgiving services were
held in the Baptist church and a
goodly number of villagers and
“ radio ” folks were present.
Hymns of praise and thanksgiving
were sung and then seme pictures
were thrown on the screen by the
stereopticon. There were Kodiak
Baptist Mission scenes and others that
we e patriotic. Miss Hines recited
“ The Midnight Hide o,' Paul Revere”
as lire different vie»» illust > ating the
atory appeared and this closed with
the singing of “ America. ” Then
Kev. Q. A. Learn offered prayer.
Following this were beautifully col
ored pictures on the parable of the
Sower while Dr. A. W. Newhall gave
a discourse on God's great gift to the
world, the Savior, and the sowing of
the seed of gospel truth in the hearts
of men. The exercises were impress,
ive and enjoyed by all, closing with
the hymn “ Softly and tenderly Jesus
is calling. ”
The great event for the boys and
girls was the dinner. The dining
room was prettily decorated and the
five long tables with their snowy
white cloths with wide pink bands
down the middle of them, and laden
with an abundance of good thiugsdid
look fine. There was roast pork, po
tatoes, turnips, cabbage salad,
gravy, bread, butter, jelly, candy
coffee and blue- berry pie. Kev. Oh A.
Learn returned thanks and then the
feast began. Some of the children
laughed and chatted while others
were very quiet, attending strictly to
business. They were enjoying them
selves all right.
One boy had blue-berry pie well
plas'ered over bis face while another
little " feller ’’ had on a eery tight
suit and the button on the waist band
was undone. After dinner he was
heard crying in the assembly room,
and lohis tummy was like adrumand
he was crying because he couldat get
that buttou into the button hole.
The children were all hap{£r and
wished that Thanksgiving Day came
every day but it was more than sus
pected that more than one of them
had disturbing dream* that night.