The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-12-25


his facea aud forehead. Misses Maggie
and Matte Brown and two young
sisters, also IL garments much the
worse for wear. Miss Saliie Brown
IN riding habit, hat and gauntlets, in
the act Of dropping sundry coin into
the hand of Miss Matte. GGreat ap-
plause. Notwithstanding the manifest
disposition of Mr.. Fuller and the
younger Browas TO break out into
loud laughter
TABLEAU ". The Parting! Miss
Fanny Parkins and Mr.. John Towns
end in the costume Of the period.
Mr. Townsend In the act Of pressing
kiss on Miss Parkins's hand, Miss
Parkins fearful, with business of
handkerchief, etc. Mr.. Falier ia the
BACKGROUND IN the character of the
faithful serVitor, pointing 10 the door
with the air.of one who says: You'd
better hurry, or you'll be late for the
train" Some applause. An exchange
of eIances between several Of the
matrons of the company.
TABLEAU V. THE curtain, evil
IDENTIFY tired of this sort of thing.
strikes work and esoluteiy refuses to
ensues and it is finally overpowered
Judith with the head of Holofernesl
Miss Fuller, with her eyes raised to
Heaven, and the family carving knife
in her right hand, grasps with the
| left the tangled locks of a wig on the
CORY head of Mr. Fox, which has
been thrust through a hole in the
table, which kindly conceals his body
aud legs with its long cloth. Tumul-
/ tuOUs applause. The curtain is raised
three times. The effect of the third
representation Is somewhat marred by
| the conduct Of the Head of Holofer-
nes, which is taken bysurprise at this
third appearance before the audience
and forgets to shut its eyes.
| TABLEAU VI. CONSERVATION A
| bright fash is seen through the cur
tain A cry Of g fire is heard, and
a rush of people to and fro behind
the scenes. The audience rise in a
panic Mrs. Brown faints Mrs.
PaTkins Tashes towards the stage,
and is met by Mr.. Parkins, VINO
emeTges from behind, clad in the
costume of Santa Claus with a pack
full of bon boDs. Mr.. Parkins, in a trem-
uious voice, informs the audience that
there has been an accident. but that
is fortunately all over DOW, aud begs
them 20 go quietly down stairs. The
audience, with the exception Of few
intimate friends, follow his advice in
sadness and wonder, and = the tab
leauX are over.
1t happened in this way. The foot
| lights had been forgotten until the
last moment and a substitute was
found In two great globe lamps, which
had been placed one on each side Of
the stage, Immediately behind the cur
tain. Miss Emily Parkins. with a
long heavy flowing white veil or scarf
of some hlmsy material pinned to her
hair-but fortunately with a less In
fammable dress-hsd approached too
near a lamp, aud instantly her head
was enveloped IN flames. At that in
slant. by good fortune, John Town
send happened to be coming on with a
shawl and with great presence Of mind
he threw 1t over her head and
smothered the fire. The veil being
on the back of her head, Miss Emily s
hair was burned very short IN some
places, but her injuries, although very
painful, were certainly not dangerous
John burned his hands rather badly
but they were nathed aud dressed SO
nicely By Miss Fanny, vino dropped a
tear Of sympathy on the bandages,
and said poor fellow; oh, I'm SO
sorry" that John weut to bed that
night 10 a state bordering on ecstacy
exclaiming, I'm deuced glad of it
by Georgei | IN deuced glad of i'll
OF course the party broke up. Every.
body went home In an unhapp frame
of mind, except the musicians, who
got several hours extra sleep. 1t {
az I'll wind. etc.
There is very little more to pc said
about the Parkinses. except that Mr..
John Townsend and Miss Fanny Par
kins were married last Fall-and this
Is not much to say, because the reader
of course guessed some time ago that
this would happen. Mr. Parkins at
first objected; be had set his heart on
Fapny's marrying a professional man
young Screed, for instance-and
then as Townsend had saved Emily 8
life, why didn't he fail in love with
her? Emily hadn't much time to
lose, and the match would not, all
things considered. have been such a
bad thing. To .aif these objections
Miss Pamela Parkins opposed such
cogent reasons that Mr.. Parkiss pres
emily succumbed Townsend has
been taken into the firm, and there
are no clouds yet in the future of the
young couple.