The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-31

A TLSIT TO THEEAIR At ST. J0HN,s
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

The Months S%kslIruIly Portrayed in the
Dozen Booths That Thronged the
Chapel-A Dream That Was Not All
a Dream.
Let me tell you a dream / had last
night.
was tired and disgusted with the days
efforts inspecting mud holes, broken flag
stones and busted, sewers, vainly en-
deavoring to ascertain what is being done
with that 5000 900 license fund for street
improvements. Late in the evening /
turned from the darkened sidewalk Of
Summit avenue into the basement of st.
Johns Protestant Episcopal Church,
where the seventy ladies of the Guild of
the Holy Cross are holding an artistic fair
to raise funds to carry out their many
sweet and charitable d~esignssfor the COM
ing winter.
I had scarcely crossed the threshold
when the events of the day were lost as in
sleep, and / was Immediately transported
to Dreamland,
TITS WINTER NOW.
As though by THAT strange phenomenon
which permits one tarrying in that
mysterious region to pass days in seconds,
l found an hour after that | had travelled
twelve months through the realms of
beauty and art.
My travelling companion was the Rev.
E. i. Stoddard, whom | CHANGED to meet
at Asbury Park one evening last summer.
Together we pushed through the noisy,
jostling, yet elegantly behaved crowds
that seemed to have just arrived on the
incoming train, and journeyed to the far
end Of the land, where, in a cozy nook,
protected from the bleak. wintry winds,
stood a pretty, triangular shaped cottage
with snow capped roof, upon which was
displayed a huge gray card with New
Year" lettered in snowballs. Calendars
for the new year decorated the front of
| the cottage.
There we spent the month of January
with a gronp of the most charming candy
kitchen maidens that ever manufactured
home made candy, popcorn balls and
| taffy. Their pretty little white caps and
| aprons were as dainty as the toothsome
wares they sold to their many customers.
Our hostesses were Miss Clara Wingates,
Miss Emily Bloom, Miss Cora Quincy
and Miss Ami Laycraft.
1t may seem a little odd that February
should have been spent in a paper house;
but as the occupants with whom we
stopped were of a StudiOus turn of mind,
as was indicated not only by the cloaks
and mortar-boards which they habitually
wore, it is not surprising that the later
developments of science and art had
taught them how to construct a paper
dwelling.
The material of the sketches was com
mon, everyday newspapers. And yet it
was decidedly artistic, and the interior
would delight the eyes of even q Bohem-
ian student. The decorations were en-
tirely literary. The library was stored
with choicest volumes of literature. and
| costly and luxuriously bound albums
were among the pretty things that orna-
meDted the interior of the booth-like
z4~..ok-.~ T1>a a1l1ln-1- .-.-ksu 49,
entertained us during the month of
February were Oracle Dayton, Miss
| Emily Minard, Miss Lillian Pitcher, Miss
Annie Borden, Miss Hattie Godfrey, Miss
Mary Watson and Miss Dora Toffey.
AND NOW THE BIRDS CHIRP.
Thus two wintry months had swiftly
passed. The birds were beginning to
chirp and twitter in the 1eafless branches
of vines inst ready to shoot forth their
| sprouts, when, after q snort journey, my
| ministerial guide and companion halted
in front of one of the most poetic struct-
/ ures in that fairy-land in which we were
sojourning. 1t was a rustic bower of
Wisteria vines artistically woven and
decorated with pine cones.
The occupants We're three pretty
maidens in quaint but becoming cos
TUNES, who were always busy asserting
a collection of fancy baskets of every
conceivable shape and design, and who
luSlcltO tutb bnC tldfCll4lS HEM6I cPQTlcI
should not leave without taking one as a
souvenir of the call. Let's see, their
names were Misses Lille and Mamie
Gregory, and Miss Clara Fleming.
April was a decidedly showery month.
Even the house we stopped at was sur
mounted by a huge umbrella, and the
fair occupants were obliged TO cover their
pretty with waterproof cloaks
even indoors. The house was decorated
with umbrellas and gum shoes. A doll
street sweeper took refuge beneath a
flower bush and handed u a cup already
so full of nickels and pennies that / con
Guided it was a pocket sweeper as we'll.
The cloaked-wrapped ladies were Miss
Emma Hughes II Miss Georgia Collard.
NEW ENGLAND KITCHEN.
May, we spent in an Old-fashioned New
England kitchen. A fire threw out its
comfortable rays from a huge brick fire
place, and shining tin pie plates flashed
above the mantel.
The spruce aud pretty kitchen maidens
kept everything in apple pie order. Boxes
of Pearline and Octagon Oap were piled
neatly in one corner, and hams, sausage
links, red peppers and herbs ornamental
the ceiling. A poisoning trellised vine
peeped through the half-curtained win
dow n reminded the inmates that the
flowers that bloom in the spring ira la
were ira laing all over the garden just
outside.
For their hospitable entertainment l
shall ever hold them in kind remem-
brance. Their names? Ah-Miss Clara
Godfrey, Miss Matilda MacBride and the
Misses Lizzie and Nellie Woodward.
Summer had approached. 1t was green
everywhere. Flowers bloomed, birds
chirped tremendously among the green
branches, and pretty faces peeped forth
from open windows surrounded by green
creeping vines. In the course of our ram
BILE we passed in front Of a large bay win
dow shaped conservatory.
The framework of the exterior was fes-
TONED with smilax, and the top of the
structure was framed with evergreens.
Inside there bloomed flowers of every
scent and hue, which were plucked by
deft and jewelled fingers and converted
into boutonnierres and bouquets. The
fish in the little artificial lake had the
life scared out of them almost by the in
cessant padding of young ducks, who
swan the surface. A bouquet, composed
of a buttercup, a rose, a violet, a daffodil
and a forgetmenot, was admired by every
body.
w skipped the oceanic gutter in July
and spent that month in Japan among
the Acknowledged beauties in Mikado
dresses. The booth at which we stopped
to regale ourselves with a twenty-five
cent Ii of tea was rooted by a prodigious
Japanese parasol and decorated with
fans, etc. An interesting collection of
Japanese bric-a-brac was thoroughly in
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