The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-01
WIDOWS HOME FESTIVAL.
Continued Success Of the Great Fete..
New Attractions and In.
creased Crowds.

The enchantment of the enchanted
bazars at the festival continues, The orr
entail maidens with their costumes that
whisper of the tea gardens of the Flowery
Kingdom still serve the fragrant beverage
in cups as delicate as dream and the
dragon flames and the crescents CLEAN
above the portieres of rich stuffs OF Tur-
kish and Arabian and Persian looms. The
gorgeous embroideries Of the harems
swing in the air redolent of musk and
frankincense while the fair ladies who
preside leave no longing unsatisfed for the
beauty of Circassia or the almond-eyed
daughters of the East.
In the Oriental Bazars presided over by
Mrs. L. M. Dayton, before which flame tt Q
coats of arms of Tunis, China and Arabia,
the objects of interest are almost endless.
Above in festoons swing Chinese lanterns
in all the colors of the spectrum. Turkish
and Persian rugs and shawls from India
form the walls and alcoves where on butfets
and about as minute, whereinyou may take
tea poured from quaint oriental teapots
that charm in spite of their absurdity. A
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time that the feast awaits you in the en-
chanted gardens A magnificent skin from
a royal Bengal tiger is thrown upon the
side of one of the acoves and whispers OF
the jungles of the Indian forests.
On table are shown lot Of exquisite
Mexican ware, some in fantastic and beau.
urul FORMS Another table is devoted to
Spanish objects of art and virtu. The
portieres are of Assyrian stuffs On the
9th day of the 9th month Is the Chinese
Feast of Lanterns, and the scene here might
well simulate the brilliance of that celes
tial fete. The ladies who presided last
evening were Mrs. L. M. Dayton, Chair
man, assisted by Mrs. N. H. Mclean, Mrs.
J. J. Gest, Mrs. Mangold, Mrs. F. w.
Armstrong Mrs. McFadden and the Misses
West Nellie Barr, cambridge, Jewett,
Minnie Neff, Herun, Woolley, Ellison,
Keys, Hanna and Cove.
The Cap Bazaar Was filed with exquisitely
beautiful goods. One was hardly prepared
to see SO much that was ingenious and ele-
CANT in this description of goods. Here
were the plain English mob caps, severe in
their quiet vet superb simplicity; there,
magnificent lace e-trimmed devices for young
faces. with bows of ribbons of dainty colors
suited for the most girlish Of coquettes;
here, the magnificent turban caps, from
richest colors and stutfs fairly gorgeous in
their exquisite arrangement and blending
of silk and lace and embroidery; there were
children's caps and baby hoods and doll
head gear that would MAKE a dolls heart
ache @ go without
Amid this fair parterre of dainty fabrca-
tions were fans with the dainty concerts of
all the flowers that bloom: Pansies, with
their yellow and purple petals; sunfowers
with their aureole of golden rays; morning
glolies. with their convOluted disks; four
o'clocks, with alternate stripes of white and
red. Bats spread their wings like vam-
plres, until une was almost bewildered with
The variety. of interesting objects. The
receipts from this one booth yesterday
probably exceeded 500.
The Doll Booth was another attractive
place to inspect. Here the world at large
was ntly typitied i'll the creations of the Lii.
r putian world. Aristocratic dolls in satin
} and brocade, with waxen brows and super.
cilious eyes stared unsy alphabetically al
3 dollso rags with faces ugly as mud in calico
, and gingham. There were paper dolls in
paper founced dresses with trains. There
were rubber dolls and china dolls
and dolls OF papier-mache. There
were dolls Of cotton Wadding whose souls
and bodies were all of that feecy but uIl-
substantial material. There were Indian
dolls and Quaker dolls and rich dolls in
fashionable tuilettes and dolls in gingham
, gowns and sun bonnets evidently out of q
situation and nearly ready to cry from
very despair at being exposed to the criti
q cal remarks of such crowd of strangers
. There was everything to make a dol
happy or miserable, afghans, buggies
cribs. hammocks, combs, powder
. boxes. bibs, combs and brushes
! parasols aprons, shoes, jockey-caps fol
q horsey dolls, trunks for those dolls that e
to watering places-what wasn't there fol
dolls, even to house fully furnished thai
! is valued at SIS? There were even. littl,
t heather Japanese dolls, amid all this Babel
. without even ANYTHING but japanese
: fringe of hair upon their Mongolian heads
that we wonder the other dolls did no
turn in and break. The attractive ladie
lin charge of this forest of babies wer'
: courteous and withal persuasive and trade
Q was lively here.
e In the Yankee kitchen the same O.
, rather other fun continued, while the sun
I flowers and hollyhocks bloomed in splen
= dor in the door-yard as unfading as tn
8 roses in Aunt Jemimas bonnet Th'
cfurn, scrubbed to immaculate cleanness
, stood in the sun beside the long towel a
the end of the cottage. and the water
. bucket and gourd invited you to drink
q The old piano tinkled its wheezy music
. Sol. Slabsides took off his bell-crowned ha
q to the yielding Widow Bedott, who reall
;. did not intend to get married again; an
!. sweet Samantha Spriggins looked over t
= Ichabod Crane and sighed. And the sam
old story was told again as at O'Clock i
the morning.
To-day the attractions will be an apple
pairing and knitting party, with the fol
lowing ladies participating: Mrs. J. P. Ell
y ply, Mrs. C. O. Lockart Mrs. John Reese
Mrs J. w. Moore, Mrs. H. G. Schell, Mr.
J. NJ. H. Crane, Mrs. A. G. Donnelly and Mrs
Jas. Dalton.
THE GYMNASIUM ENTERTAINMENT
was great success. The following pre-
Il gramme was given:
, FLYING Rings-A f. Kelroy, w. II. Mer
zIes, Charles Baer, M. Coburn, Andrew Gu
o ter.
q Horizontal Bar-W. H. Wedgewood, I
r. Grady, W. H. Hersh (clownl Menzies an
Cutter.l
r Tumbling-Chris. Kramig, George Ha.
|. setback, Lou Steinbush, Lincoln Hall, CHI