The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-08
A BEAUTIFUL FAIR.
PROSPECTS OF A GREAT SUCCESS.
Harris Hall Exquisitely Decorated-Nany
Bright Faces Happily Engaged
and Their Names.

ALAIhA bAiLh NEWS. a 1alr under the
management and for the benefit of the
Sisters of st. Joseph was opened last
| night in Harris Hall. The fair has
started under good auspices, and iudg-
ing from the results of the first night.
has every prospect of being a success
| financially for the Sisters and socially for
those who participated in the work of
carrying it ON, as well as for those who
| assisted as visitors. The fair will be
continued tonight and tomorrow night,
and those who We're drawn away into
Vanity Fair, in the shape of circusses
and things of that sort, may still have an
opportunity of casting an anchor to the
windward" by visiting the Sisters Fair.
The hall was tastefully decorated with
green streamers and pretty girls. The
streamers hung in long festoons from the
ceiling, while the other decorations. ex-
ceeding the former by far, in beauty of
design and execution, We're confined to
the floor. While the streamers were en-
blematic of the mere passive beauty of
nature, the other was emphatically en-
blematic of the beauty of human nature
in its most active and vivacious form.
And again, the festoons hung cold, un-
symathetic and lifeiess, while the deco
rations below were full of a fiery
zeal for the cause, and were so far
from lifeless that they seemed to possess
an unaccountable share of that peculiar
form of particularly lively fluid, gem
orally known as magnetism. The young
and other gentlemen present realized this
better than the observer possibly could,
for no sooner did one of those batteries
form connection with its two poles.
situated just at the base of the forehead.
including the objective circuit. than the
said objective was impelled forward by
the mysterious current, and presently
fioated up to the battery, and great good
resulted to the Sisters treasury.
The center of the hall is occupied by
the fruit and flower stand, which
forms a hollow square, built in that
way, it is to be supposed, to protect the
fair batteries inside. The surrounding
breastwork was loaded down with
various and plentiful specimens of fruit
and of the flora of the country. These
Notifications were vigorously assaulted
and without doubt will be utterly de-
molished by the third night of the fair.
While the assaulting columns will have
carried the work, the curious result viii
be that the defenders will then have
1Nf ,F
doubt will be the real victors in the con-
test. These fruits and flowers We're dis
pensed by Misses Laura Teasdale, Hattie
D'Autrey and Annie Petermann.
In the upper left hand corner is located
the supper table, which is well sup
piled with the indispensables of good
supper, and the attendants are kept busy
supplying the lively mattresses with the
supplies called for by the customers.
These mattresses are misnamed, for not
one of then, can be said to do any wait
ing, being of lively and quick
motioned kind. In this department no
body seemed to do any waiting, differ
ing in that respect from the average
hotel, where the guests do the most of
that sort of thing. AT this table presided
Mrs. Neubec, Mrs. p. ]. Manucy, and
Miss Mary Mclean, while the lively
mattresses were Miss Ella Rogero, Miss
Irene Zehnbar, Miss Fannie Davis, Miss
Gertie Smith, and Miss Lulu Canova.
In the upper right hand corner is
situated the coffee table, presided
over by Mrs. NJ. Shelley, and this sooth-
ing beverage is kept constantly flowing
| to the delectation of the partakers.
Between the two tables and extending
down nearly to the fruit and flower
stand are the little supper tables, each
one just large enough for two couples to
sit comfortably and enjoy the pleasures
| of the table,
In the center of the right hand side of
the hall, the fancy table is placed,
piled high with all sorts of enticingly,
hright-colored work of various kinds,
the names of which are beyond the ken
of the observer. The attendants at this
bazar of fancy goods are Mrs. Shehan,
Mrs Darby and Miss Lou Russell.
The cake was sent out for the benefit
of the general treasury under the super
intendency of Mrs. Celia Rogero and
Miss Josephine Rogero.
The ice cream, as melting as the
glances of houri or of a fair attendant.
is dispensed by Mrs. Shea and Miss
McGill.
At the receipt of custom, with his
little table covered with checks, and his
large drawer nearly filed with the
dimes, quarters and halves continually
being brought in by the attendant, deco
rations hereinbefore mentioned, sits DIR.
w. III. Rosenberg, looking as happy and
contented as though he had just received
summons to extract the teeth of whole
family.
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