Show ON THEIR HONOR A multitude of youngsters occupied the galleries of the theatre friday january during the entertainment provided by the old folks committee the veteran mr george goddard before the performance perform nce began placed this aggregation of human restlessness on its honor obtaining its pledge that yelling whistling and feet stamping would be eschewed people who are approaching the sere and yellow can scarcely estimate the degree of self denial necessary to be exercised in the effort to repress the tremendous desire that possessed pos essed the soul this lot of ex youngsters to let oft off the im high pressure p rem u ft of which they labored when anything in the performance particularly tickled them they wanted to open the valves and fill the air with shrieks whistles and stamping enough to have furnished an aa imitation of a tornado but they did not they confined their expressions pres of satisfaction to the to them more stale method of hand clapping because they had given their word on the subject the entertainment was a good one every participant doing well the palm being given however to mr phil margetts who acquitted himself excellently in the domestic character of peter probity the large audience presented a pleasing picture there being an immense gathering of veterans of both the old folks committee scored one more succession success suc cessin in their benevolent work of providing entertainment tain ment for classes of the community which are elsewhere too often treated with coldness and neglect |