Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-10
THE FESTIVAL.
Fruits. Flowers and Delicacies-A
Pleasant Entertainment,


The Methodist Church was filled
with a delighted throng last evening,
participating in the pleasures, and par
taking of the good things lavishly
spread by the ladies of Eureka in the
auditorium of that institution. The
fair ones had been busy for q week In
making preparations for the festival,
and the contributions were both nu-
merous and of a pleasing variety. The
benches had been removed, leaving
ample space for the stands; the lunch
table occupying the north side of the
church; the strawberry, ice cream and
fancy tables, the south side; and the
flower stand the platform usually
used by the lecturer. The graceful ar
rangement of the tables spoke vol
umes for the artistic taste and love of
the beautiful displayed by the ladies 10
charge, and the decorations we're in
keeping with the general effect. When
lovely woman appeals to the charita-
BILE instincts of her admirers, what
man can tighten his purse strings or
keep a tenacious grip on the slippery
coin that she would fain entice from
the remotest recesses of his pocket.
Add to the temptations the luscious
berry smothered with the gathered
richness of the dairy, ice cream flaw
ored with delicious extracts, triumphs
of culinary art in the shape of rich
pound, sponge and frosted cakes of a
dozen different varieties, and pastry of
every description, and mans grosser
appetite betrays him into a gratifica-
ton OF the palate and renders him
tractable to the behests of his fair cap
tors. Then the winning way in which
the perfumes and combination of COL
ors displayed at the flower stand, Ell.
riched with the spoils of sunny gar
dens in the Golden Land; the tiny bo-
quets pinned to the buttonholes Of the
gentlemen by bewitching maidens,
whose tender g~lances from downcast
eyelids make the adornments doubly
dear-all these, and many more atr
fractions, charm the reluctant dollars
and add TO the of the church.
THE FLOWER STAND
Was presided over by Miss Cora Fer
rell and Miss Jennie Bartholomew, and
the taste displayed was a tribute to
their artistic instincts. The hanging
basket was a beautiful floral decoration,
and the buds and blossoms SC lavishly
bestowed on those who had the coin to
pay for them, contained many lovely
sentiments. interpreted by the Ian
guage of flowers. The young ladies'
the posies in their loveliness,
and poor bewilder, man yielded at
and with good grace to the de-
mand on his finances. The ice cream
was looked after by Mesdames
and Tooney, and was well
the fair hands and bewitch-
ing smiles of the ladies' adding zest To
the cooling delicacy. At the straw
berry table Miss Helmar Swensson
and Miss Julia VANDERBILT piled the
luscious berries on the plate and PASSED
gratifying dish to their patrons,
who were by no means chary In their
The costumes of both of
the young ladies' were elegant, and ad.
inired accordingly. Atthe fancy table.
presided over 10y Mesdames Fred. Fisk
aud NJ. Johnson, and Miss Nettie Cor
bett, the throDg was immense, and we
presume the ladies disposed of their
wares without any trouble. Our i'm
condition forbade us ventur-
ing too closely, but we know that if We
had come within the reach of their en-
we would have yielded up our
last quarter. The lunch table was at
tended by Mrs. McKewen, Mrs. Swee-
ney, Mrs. Harmon and Mrs. Charles
Fisk, who seemed to be very busy
passing the various d~elicacies and cater
ing to the appetites of customers.
Mrs. Davenport seemed to have a gen.
sral direction of the entertainment,
and her cordial smile and pleasant
manner of welcoming the stray visitor
put the male biped at ease at once. We
are under many obligations to the lady
'or Information furnished the bashful
reporter. The evenings festivities
we're enlivened blythe songs and glees
the choir from Ruby Hill, a duet by
Mrs. j. G. Wilton and Orrin Miller.
and selections by others. Socially, the
was a success, and we pre-
it was the same financially. The
ABSENCE of the usual ring cake, rattle
md lottery business, vas a noticeable
cOmmen0abia faatura. |