A ROTARY CHRISTMAS

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 75, 21 December 1921, Page 2

A ROTARY CHRISTMAS

“THE HALF OF CHRISTMAS IS THE PLEASURE OF GIVING.”

To get the real spirit of Rotarians they should be met during the week preceding Christmas. All the year round the members of the Rotary Club are out to help movements and individuals who are worthy of help, but if the true 100 per cent. Rotarian is to be seen at his best it is when the spirit of Christmas is upon him. By the merest chance a reporter found the Rotarians at home yesterday at the Y.M.C.A and '«t\them as guests were the boys from the Sa va tion Army Home at Island Bay, and those from the Presbyterian Orphanage -about 60 all told. And what a time those neatly-dressed, well-behaved children had The Rotarians, under orders from Mr. A. F. Roberts, seated themselves at the heavily-laden table, each between two boys, and, after grace, laughter, and jokes, mixed with the merry golden treble of boys voices boys “t their happiest. And then when the mounds of ham and tongue, and beet and veal, with salad and potatoes, disappeared, great brown Christmas puddings, with a s many threepenny bits in Him as currants, were carved ui> and served luxuriously with whipped cream and custard. And whilst the feast was on the Chief Rdtarian called w-ith suddenness on this or th at 5 are all boys in the Rotary Club-te say something about Christmas, and »i die readiness of practised po iticM> and whilst the pudding rotated. >, t spree never was. be-fere—-at least not to lads and Commandant Brown and Mr MUIS two homes, were not s their gratitude to the Uiv ws ith The Rotarians aie not don Christinas yet. Not by a..j l ’ B , there men out there-well, loast turkey good to most pcopk • • g e j ng f ar - Christmas, persons of some ? ight^ oP the Rotarians knew that turknowledge, the winter, and keys are best wenWied iuonlhs «o ten were led to the b ever 6ince . *»■ “ F "- day night.