Show CHARITY JfiNTEKTAlKMEHTS Noyel Features and Ideas Presented In a New Kind of Pie PieT T one of the Co > > IP lJ summer resorts IJ + z f this last season w was given an entertainment f 1111 m r en-tertainment for jlifllill t Iii i c some charity or 11m I III If II Cr 3 other which had r r III I II fP to me two novel I vJ features It I HlI I I W The first was a J Black bird Pie rFj The managers tt r r + gathered up four 3 > f Wk andtwenty little J 15 girls and gowned them in black paper pa-per cambric Mother Hubbards with van dykes that came down over black stock I inged knees Big sashes of coarse black torietan were caught up like wings to the little shoulders and black caps completed the costumes The pie was a large pan from the hotel kitchen filled with trifling gifts each daintily wrapped and tied with baby ribbon rib-bon leaving a long end to come through a masking in the brown paper crust of the pieThe The blackbirds sold a piece of pie for i 25 cents going through the audience It was a nard hearted man who escaped When all were sold the purchasers gathered gath-ered around the pie and each grasped a ribbon rib-bon The piano struck up and the children chil-dren joining bands circled around the pie and ito purchasers singing Sing a song o sixpence A pocket full a rve Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie etc At the words snapped off her nose the pie was opened and the gifts drawn forth by their ribbons These blackbirds sold seven large pies In one evening When the evening was almost over suddenly sud-denly the lights were lowered the curtains drawn back from the little stage and a young lady in eastern dress was discovered sitting amid gay cushions Hor lace except = ex-cept the eyes was disguised by a gause veil l and her hair was bound with sequins of the sort that ornament chair scarfs Without preliminary of any sort she began to tell a story It was a little tale that was published in a magazine long ago F J Stimsons tender little story of Mrs Knollys All who remembered it were glad to recognize an old friend and all who heard it saw the curtains draw to n gether with softer hearts Among the little objects sold at this entertainment was one pretty thing quite new to me Some genius had taken a half dozen common com-mon little round gourds and boiled ands and-s them and sawed a lid from the top and painted tnem in violets and clover and sweet peas and tied the lids on again with ribbon bows for binges and lock and there were not a half dozen sweeter bonbon bon-bon boxes to be found in all the shops of the town ANNA LEACU I |