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Show BEAUTIFUL fill CITY'S GATES OPENED Attractive Affair at Auditorium Audi-torium Brings Good Patronage. BOOTHS ARE PRETTY Displays in Charge of Women Wo-men and Girls Good to Look Upon. "The City of Beautil'ul Nonsense," which opened its ;ites ut the Auditorium Audi-torium yesterday, with the Ladies' Literary Lit-erary ' club in charge, was thronged ail day with pleasure-seekers, who were rewarded re-warded by a day of delights. The adjective bcautiUil is an appropriate ap-propriate one for the city of charms. A succession of booths represent months of the year, and each idea, is artistically artistical-ly depicted. January is a cashier "s cai:c in a bank, in charge of Mrs. F. L. Oswald, with a number of fair assistants in charge of finances. February, the birth month of the club, is a huge" birthday cake, with thirty-nine thirty-nine caudles burning on it. Homemade Home-made ealte in sold there under the direction di-rection of Mrs. A. It. Peabody. The -March booth is decorated in shamrocks, in honor of St. Patrick, and haB fancy articles for sale, with Mrs. Thomas O'Connor in charge. April is a Japanese garden, with Japanese Japa-nese novelties for sale, presided over by Airs. I. O. Marioneaux. Mav is the. art booth, under the direction di-rection of Miss Myra Sawyer, where hand-painted china and other decorative articles are temptingly displaved, June, the bride's month, offers dainty accessories for the bridal trousseau. A huge wedding bell of pink and white Mowers is suspended above the fascinating fasci-nating wares. Mrs. Malcolm Keyser is in charge. July is a patriotic, booth, decorated in flags and firecrackers. Home-made can-dv can-dv in boxes decorated in red, white and blue, appeal to the eye as well as the palate. Mrs. A. D. Pierson in charge. Gypsies Tell Fortunes. August is the vacation booth, decorated deco-rated iu autumn leaves and equipped with easy chairs apparently out of doors. Cigars and cigarettes are sold under the direction of Mre. t W. P. Kiser. September offers jellies, preserves and pickles, appealing to the provident housekeeper. Mrs. Causten Brown is in charge. October is in the shape of a large pumpkin, decorated in witches and other mystic emblems. Fortunes are told by mysterious gypsy fortune tellers, and cider and doughnuts are served on the side. Mrs. L. H. Farnsworth is the pre-mding pre-mding priestess. She and ber assistants assist-ants are all in picturesque gypsy costumes. cos-tumes. November is a Puritan home filled with Thanksgiving goodies, presided over by charming PrisciUas, with Mrs. Fred Sands as the head of the household. house-hold. December offers Christmas novelties and is decorated In Christmas trees and mimic snow. In connection is a postoffice, where for the pavment, of postago due those who call for letters and packages receive some ort of unseen prize. Miss Pearl Savage has charge of the Christmas novelties and Mrs. Glen Miller of the postoffice. Following a successful bridge tea yesterday yes-terday afternoon a vaudeville performance perform-ance "closed the day of pleasure. The headline feature was a farce written by narrv McPherson, called "Suffering fcaudwiches. " It was a take-off on a woman's clnb meeting, in which a society so-ciety for "The Prevention of Infantile Paralvsis in the Sandwich Islands" was the purpose. Play Cleverly Given. Some clever taffe-offs were perpetrated perpe-trated and . some quotable lines were given. The members of the cast, all of whom acquitted themselves with credit, follow: Bridget. Kvp ry servant Irish maid of all work in the home of the Shortish Short-ish Aphluents. wher th meeting meet-ing is held Miss Linda Jessup Mrs. Shortleish Aphlue.nt Social climber, organizer of the society.. Mrs. R. S. Allison Mr. ' Short leigh Aphluent Who pays the bills ii nd smokes a pipe Farley Jenson Mrs. Jane Quimy Adams Srr.ugg One society leader Mrs. A. B. Irvine Mrs. June Duluth Arlington Another one Mrs. Raymond Ackerman Mies I ma 1 Mtt Who likes ragtime, both clothes and music . - Mrs. Freeman Bassett Mrs. Prvem I'pp Strong prohibitionist prohibition-ist Mrs. A. B. Greeson Mrs. 1 -ettom Bee Who's afraid prohibition pro-hibition will injure business Mrs. K. H. Dorman Mrs. Millie Tan t She's willing to flcht for the ballot. .Mrs. T. TV". Naylor Mrs. Stronglee Ante She's willing- to fight the ballot Mrs. L.ouise M. Gamett Mrs. Clinging Vine Who is as her name indicates. . .Mrs. W. J. Barrette Miss 'Lo;ie Culture A highbrow university uni-versity student Mrs. A. J. Brown MWs Piitricia Highbrow A university student Mrs. W. D. McAllister Amv Sironcarm -Sob sister for the newspapers Mrs. Elizabeth Coray Professor Marion Harold lioodness-nie--Teacher of literature and elocution elo-cution Carlyle Burrows Give Good Farce. Another bright fan-e, called the "International "In-ternational Cafeteria," a take-off on the Kord peace party, written by Miss Helen Greenwood, was well presented by a cast of voung societv women, directed bv Mrs. Charles" W. Meakin, with Miss Edna Farnsworth as the accompanist. The Al-liirc-Smith company furnished the properties. prop-erties. The cast included the following: France Mrs. Earl V. Francis Ttaly Miss Dorothy Bailey Fnclanrl Miss Rosamond Ritchie Germany Mrs. Theodore B. Parker llerry Ford Miss Ruth Cooper Other numbers on the programme, all of which wore well received were: "Childhood Days." Riley, Mrs. Mae C. Cutler. Old counli-y dances fin costume") Schot tische. by E. E. Bjorling and Mrs. Jane Meacham; ham bo waltz, by Bjorling Bjor-ling and Miss Lola Ash worth; vlngaker dance polygamy dance, Mr. Bjorling and t wo ladies. Harp solo. Spanish dance, by Fldesche, Mrs. Lydia White Booihby. Fad ies' FU erarv club chorus "De Cop-pah Cop-pah Moon." H. R. Shelly; "Ail Kinds of Women," F. v BrackotL Triu i selected.), Miss Fydia White 1 Roothbv. Miss Evelyn Crawford Richards, Miss Gladys YViekens. The Tyrant? Ila, Miss Florence Hallnran, Miss Gulia Dix, Miss Lillian Dos--her. Miss Gladys Savage, accompanied by Mrs. A. P. Stone. The receipts for the first day, exclusive of the sale at the booths, were about $500. The carnival will last through today, with a cabaret luncheon at noon and a ball this evening. The executive committee includes Mrs. V. H. Woodruff. Mrs. V. H. Knickerbocker, Knicker-bocker, Mrs. James L. Franken. Mrs W H. Hints. Mrs. F. L. Parker, Mrs. C. ( " Daily, Mrs. Wesley Kini. Mrs. J. A. Reeves and Mrs. F. L. Oswald. |
