, 1877-12-16
BOSTON
The Old South Fair---Aunt Tabi-
tha Receives Her Guests
---The Dial.
Mrs. Mother Goose, of Pudding Lane,
and Thomas Fleet, Her Son
in-Law.
In Adyantt LINK at The Atlantic for January
...Culture IS. Cakes and Ale.
Everybody Sat Down Upon
The Poet Whittier Again.

ne FO6L wv lllLLlCl fA9eA'AA'
Frnn, Our O,Er Corrfspondtnt.
Bosros, Dec. 1o.-Al social and sociah!e
Boston now dcyotcs itself to and diverts ltsctl Ill
the Old South Church Fair. From thc 11or"-
inE opening until 10 or IL O'Clock 1T night peo-
plc arc constantly coming and gong. ana
such swarm OF people! II it raffs OF IL IL
| SHOWS; if the nasty cast w!ud blows deaLnty
and destructive blasts round every cofile1' of
if the impatient sun, getting Tue test ol II iof
al hour or So. beams bcnlEnly, it scc'ils 10 maze
| no difference whatcver,-st1ll they coh'e' tne
swarm of people, to sec the Fair VI COURSE
the inferior Of the old mccting-housc is gay
sisht,-thc old walls covered. tho ugly pillars
dran.d and dcckcd with bunting, with ever
green aud all the pretty parapl'crna''a OF
Fairs bright sayctics: hut, all the same the
arrangement is 4 SURPRISE ana o'sapPo'n1"
mcnt. .--,
Rrunettu. turning upon me with amazed aud
wrati,iul eyes. ...,
.Ouitc beautiful enough, never saw prct-
+;ar Fair. e..eptin. always the French Fair III
the Boston Theatre: but it is not the kind Of
r,;r ~. hal right to expcct,-l mean, Of
coursc, in its external arrangements aud It's pre-
sentation."
:. .,.n echoes Brunetta: twill you be kind
cnourh to tell u,e what the royal NC did cx-
! pcctt"
"lt expectcd that the Did South meeting
| horse should present little different appear
| ance in IFS fai,ing from every other Fair; that
| #, should be unique and distinctive. iull oil
sassoc,a1ions and suggestions OF ye oIdcn time
Rut when stepped Within the inner door.
| onr or THAT DREADFUL DKAu0uFi LITTLE
| ENTRY
| saw the pink mud pattern OF forty other
! Fars,''
hid they have Mother Goosc's house in
pnl,ins Lane, 1T the forty other FairsF" III
diwnautly asks Brunctta.
admit that they did not; but that was 1he
only tfeature'' of originality. For the rest, IL
was of the regular Fair pattcrn,-prctty, *
Gnstclr nrctty, with the wavin: flags, anu the
embroidered tides, and gay afghans and bctt-
quilts, and endless articles OF "bigotry anu
virtue" ,,,. H., ,,,,,
want! 't-asks Brunctta
70 Br,,nctta! You can ask me this question:
-yur whose grcat-Grc1t-9reat-Erailula sas
within these 'sacrei walls, % nna ,, ;ta-r,nts
Rruuctta, saucily and slanSi}y. -"Jnst come 10
thc nnint and tell ,ne what you. or trr, expected
fnr I'm due at the Fair now with these toilet
scts.n~ ,.;,>. -, ox,ecto1-
| - wen, TO CQIC W to'HI3
VIC had right to cxpect-t!lat tue falt Si1o'l"
"Mcrcy! should think you were an under
taker." breaks in Br1lnetta fliprantly
stThat the Fair should be laid tut not entire
1v in 1l,s modern fashion OF tables, but with
snne attempt to recall and represent ye oloen
time which the Old South stands tor. Wy, III
thc name Of consistency, were all the OLD Ecl1es,
the John Hancock-Table, tue Anc1ent natcnen'
| and the 'Seltin'-Room,
HUSTLED OFF UP GALLERrF
Why weren't they left as background Tor the
pretty shopkeepifg Of the fa'T!" ,,, ,a,a
"A background: indeed, IL we conla i nave r;
nieced out the Old Soutn,and given ourselves ali
lie room VIC wanted, perhaps that would
have been possible; but, as it was.-whY, con-
sidcr the space" and Brnnetta lapsed into H.
lienant, disgustcd silence.
| considered the space, but also insisted that
there was no earthly reason Why, instead Of the
tables. or stalls, as the English people say nens
rauvrd souarcly off IN the usual mir fash'on,
tney shouldn't have been quantity set IN II
fitting frame OF some oiu osso'c su=se'sA'e'
ssWhat do you call Pudding Lane and Aunt
Tabitha's receptions, / should like to know "
| queries Brunctta.
VERY goul, as far as they 20, but they dent i,
! cover all the grouna. Lucy art Only Lltis
pieces stuck in.''
Kut there's the Dial. There now!" and
Brunrtta nodded triumpllantly.
ies, the dali very enpa, TO- o"e ,., tt'ais .h.
| %hNNb ~A'~
kitchen, aud the sScttin'-Roon'.' ANA other d
that old stuff of tho past, on the floor for d
picture and set-of, aud arrange these prosait
tables in the midst, and thus put llttse 1'lso
!, and character into the whole things'
Observation-Disclosures WASN'T NOQM!'
replied Rr,lnctta in very large capitals, and van
! ! shinc from my aggravatlng presence Will
bang Of the door. u>,.,-
dv,t't let your prciudiecs gel the better OF you
: If you are going to write to THE TRIBUNE ahou
, our Fair, tell iilc honest truth about lt-tha
! it's tic pretticst the very prcttlest' falr liza
Boston ever saw. ,, ..,,
paper correspondents arc entirely superior u
| MI prcludices, and they invariably tell Til
honest truth, Like the renowned IT, ""sa'n"
ton. they cannot tell lie"
= The door closes with another ctnp!'atl
I emphasis, put not before ! have heard IRON
Brunctta's lrs long.drawn "Oh-o1l-oh!'
And uow fur the rest of the story Of the t:.'I
the rest of the honest truth. as have saltl
r the Molhcr Goose house is Il very original an
pretty idea as one Of the three pieces oi yc oldc
4 lime We see it directly nc enter. Just bctor
- us aud above lis, in the enst gallcry;-thc ga
lcry where the Puritans listened to the solem
| preacher, and surg Waits hymns
G 10 THE nEsouSplS0 NOTES OF THE BASS v1o1
s 1t il quaint little house, erected by alr. Lul
i dy, stacc-,arpcnter Of the Globe Theatre. all
< PAINTED by Ar. Richards the scenic artist 1ro'
the design OF Mr. ". j. Emerson, me na, n5t1,l!ss
+ Goose: Her House,: Thomas Fleet, Print
o cr.'' and .'puddng Lane" At the LETT Is
: children's playground, where Mother loose
rlrsonated TO the life. and where little peep!
pcrso,latc the various characters III the Motne
Goose melodies, aud twice each day give cxhfb
| t;ons OF Mother Goose galRes such as Here "
In Round the Darbcry Bush,' "Bo-Pcep,
t.Tbe Old Woman in Her Shoe" and Il Din
Dong Belt Mother Goose. In the mea ant1nl'
sells prctty pane. boxes vi hon-bons Gale
'.Old South Bricks; and ii, the house hcr sof
in-Iaw, Thomas Fleet, sells old quaint edition
c oi tho Mother Goose melodies, which his type
c lirst gave to The world. Anirt:st has nalhte
le an ideal portrait Of Mother Goosc Inns II
is scrption is beneath: Elizabeth Foster, lsno"
Il | in her literature OF the Nursery as MothG
Is Goosc, was born i'll Charlestown. Mass, i'll los':
o married Isaac Goose in 1923; became amemht
T. Of the Old South Church III 169s. The f,r
edition of her melodies was published " III
son-n-]aw, Thomas Fleet. at ins pr1nsing"lo',s
Pudding Lane, Boston, in IT'S: Sne dicp
1857, AGED r. years, anu was buried III the VI
(;5allary Burying- Ground.'
Was there ever anything odIcr and funn!c
than oil this? Just think OF all these 'ol
Coings-on from the gallery wic'c once ifef
ble, yc sinners. and submit was once sung
tIoIeiui tuuc. From Mother Goosc's house II
-tetake ourselves TO -.-
AUNT TAD1TnAss KITCHEN,
first buying ticket Of 4 brght-eyeu damscl,
un,ob cap aud an ol,l-IaShionca h!ack-silS gov
with Il white kcrchicf pinned across the bosom
We ,inn.f find Aunt Tahitha III the Old Soul