St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-05-07
Our Boston Letter.

dren connected with the Warren street
Chapel held their usual May Day Fes
tival in Music hall, Saturday afternoon
and evening. The music was furnished
by the GeTmania Band. The exhibit
bition opened with the entrance of the
May Queen, a pretty little child, in a
baby carriage drawn by eight little
children dressed in white, festooned
with garlauds of smilax and flowers,
followed by eight children a little larg-
er, carrying large bouquets of flowers,
and the rear of the procession brought
up by still larger girls, carrying great
wreaths of flowers. In dancing the
Flower Basket and Wreath Quadrilles,
they looked like little FAIRIES, they were
so gracefulin movement. And in weaving
the red, blue and yellow ribbons as they
danced around the French May-pole,
they showed great skill in not tangling
the skeins, by any mistake. But the
Farmers Rustic dance was received
with rounds of applause by the children
in the balconies, as the children one
after another appeared in their quaint,
Old-fashiOned costumes. The little old
farmer and wife sat watching the dane
ers, he dressed in plain, homespun
clothes, and she in her high crowned
cap and fill, and three-cOrnered hand
kerchief, while her cap and spectacles
seemed to bob up and down as they
kept time with hands and feet to the
music, until finally they could not re-
frain from joining in the dance, and as
usual, ended in bearing her out in a
faint.
The Shawmut Branch Sabbath school
gave an entertainment in the chapel OF
DR.. Webb's church, April %, in order
to raise funds to aid in sending out Miss
Wheeler, new missionary to Harpoot,
Turkey. The program consisted of a
Missionary Dialogue, "Showing Light, ,
by 20 girls of the Branch school, the
May-Pole, 1.-The Trades" by eleven
boys, etc, interspersed with music on
the Cornet by H. Wilder, little boy 6
years of age, violin and piano soles and
reading by L. Stanley.
Two weeks since the members of the
Young Mems Christian Association held
their annual Reception they had a
very pleasing program: music by the
Echberg Quartette, four young ladies,
playing finely on their violins Rev. DIR.
Withrow made an address to young
men: he had heard it said music had a
greater charm at distance it certain
ly was not so with musicians. and
young ladies were said to have great
trouble with their beaur, but from what
he had just heard, they seemed to man.
age them admirably. He proceeded to
give young men some practical and ex-
cellent advice about laying up money,
and not spending it in the loose and
extravagant manner, which was fash
iOnable at the present time, ending in
ruin and misery.
Last week Mr.. Allen, who has trav-
eled extensively everywhere in Europe.
gave lecture in free and converse
tional style at the Y. NJ. C. A. rooms.
His subject was Switzerland and the
Rhine" illustrated by many views. He
first showed a large map of the country,
stating the location and places where
he would take his audience. He gave
one a remarkably clear and lucid idea
of the dangers and perils incident to
making the ascent of any Alpine height,
He showed us the various stages of the
ascent made by Prof Lyndall and
Whimper few years since; the chasms
to bridge. the almost perpendicular
cliffs to scale, and an ice gorge where
one of Prof. LIS guides fell, and, honor
to his humanity, he, by almost super
human efforts, descended and rescued
him from so untimely an end. His au-
dienee in imagination visited many of
the most remarkable castles on the
Rhine, heard the favorite legends, and