CHRISTMAS IN CAIRO

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2703, 24 February 1916, Page 3

CHRISTMAS IN CAIRO

THE WOUNDED MADE HAPPY. One of the New Zealand nurses writing from a Military Hospital in Cairo to a Wellington friend describes tho way in which Christina® was spent in the hospital in which she was stationed. "Wo have had a very pleaEant Christmas on the whole," she writes, "as happy as could ho at a time liko this. The wards were all decorated a little, and many of tlicm had Christmas trees laden with trirics and pretty things wliicli added brightness and colour to everything. It all pleased the patients, and the hospital was full—over 150 coming in on Christmas Day. There were Red Cross parcels and hospital parcels for them all, plenty , of -tobacco and cigarettes, and enough food to satisfy oven the most hungry of men. The sisters all gave tea in their respective wards. Non-commissioned officers, orderlies, and patients all came and appeared to enjoy themselves. Our tree was decorated in red, blue, and whito, and really looked rather nice. After tea all amused themselves fishing parcels out with a bent pin on the end of a piece of string, and great fun there was over it. There were concerns and many amusements for- the patients dur-' big Christmas week. On Christmas Eva, a proportion of the sisters, V.A.D.'s, and staff sang the carols. They started Crom the first block, carrying Chinese lanterns, and singing as the Processional 'Oh, Come All Ye Faithful." In each ward a carol was sung, and 'Hark the Herald Angels' was also sung.as a Processional. We had 'Good King Weneeslaus,' 'The First Noel,' ana 'While Shepherds Watched.' We were an hour and a half making the rounds of the hospital. Some of the men felt a bit homesick, but they said they enjoyed the singing of the carols as much as anything. It had rained a shower earlier in the evening, and it made the air clear and cold, to that the voices carried well. It was quite interesting to watch how we seemed to collect followers at every block, until by the time wo had finished we had quite a following. • "Our chaplain is most energetic. He seems to have a good deal to do, as he is busy at the other hospitals as well as this one. He worked up'a concert for the men on Christmas night. For Christmas morning there was a church parade at 11, Church of England and Presbyterian combined. ■ There is a church quite close to the hospital—St. Mary's—and it has a scliool for Egyptian boys.. Matins are said in Arabic, and tho building itself is a delightful quaint stone building,, so simply and strikingly well-built. It is a pleasure jest to sit inside and look about. "I paid a visit to the C.M.S. Hospital in Old Cairo. It is wonderful how the work there has increased, and how excellently it has been done. Over 15,000 patients were .treated there last year, and many become Christianised. As these patients come from over a thousand different villages, one can sec that the work does spread, though to us it seems to be so slowly increasing. This is a very wonderful old part of the world, hut how I should like to clean it, and start off again!" Akitio Qusen Carnival. Tho- Akitio County Carnival, in aid of tho Wounded Soldiers' Fund, closed oil Tuesday night. Miss Annie Burling (Pongaroa) was elected queen, and tho next in order were: Miss L. Burling (B.akatinui), Miss E. Crawford (Coast), Miss Holdem (Waihi), and Miss D. Leighton (Puketoi). The sum raised as a result of tho carnival was ■ ver £5700 (states our Pahiatua correspondent).

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