Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-18

| the floor Is the booth gotten up by the
Philharmonic Society of Los Angeles. L
is in charge of Mrs. E. f. Kubel and
Mrs. Duey. The booth is surmounted
by a canopy with broad frieze on the
sides, and fiat roof from which springs
q pyramid of fine proportions and cover
ed with callas. The booth is in the
main trimmed with white marguerites
and geraniums. The posts that uphold
the canopy are trimmed in red gerani
ums. The letters that serve as initialE
for the society's name, "P. s. L. A" are
beautifully wrought in white letters, and
these twine around beautiful Tyre. In
other parts of the booth are other
musical instruments artistcally con-
structed by hands as fair as the
flowers that compose the pieces. In the
booth are for sale tickets to the next
musical performance of the society. II
is to be the Oratorio, The Creation, by
Haydn. The following sentence from
the work, Achieved is the glorious work.
The Lord beholds and is we'll pleased, )"
is wrought in flowers.
THE REGISTER BOOTH.
To the right of the hall, in front, is the
Register booth, where all visitors are ex-
pected TO record their names. 1t is a
handsome volume, which has done SER
vice for three years. When it was first
put to use, some liberal person from the
East paid $50 note for the first page.
He then handed its use back to the soci-
ETY. to sell at so much per name. All
that is left now to derive revenue from
privilege of adorning this first line it
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lines have been taken.
There is not much attempt made at a
display of flowers in this booth, yet it is
prettily adorned. The canopy is in the
form of parasol, the lining being of
some pretty pink fabric, the edge
trimmed with ivy and the interior hung
with baskets Of flowers and punches OF
orange blossoms. This is in charge of
Mrs. G. d. Howry, Mrs. J. E. Murray,
Miss Cora Mathews, Miss Maurice Mu-
mel and Miss Lena Winton.
THE CANDY BOOTH.
Passing down along the right side of
the hall, the next booth is devoted to
sweets. Sweet flowers adorn the booth,
and sweet candies are dispensed from
the inside by ladies more sweet, by far,
than the sweetest bonbons they sell,
serving all comers with hands more fair
and eyes more bright than the brightest
flowers and brightest buds that bloom.
1t ia most patriotic booth, too, withal
for the first object that arrests the eye is
the American flag and an American
eagle wrought in flowers. The canopy
is wrought in red and white, and so are
the pillars that uphold it. The effect is
that of a huge structure made of old
fashioned red and white stick candy.
There are pretty baskets of fine flowers
all about the booth, and bouquets of fine
buds so arranged as to produce a
most charming effect. A profusion of
leaves decorates the canopy and
sides of the booth, their wax-like gloss
making very marked and effective con-
trast with the flowers. 1t is presided
over by the following ladies: Mrs. Amy
Brown, Mrs. HI. T. Hazard, Mrs. Anne
E. Littleboy, Mrs. @. Ella Stirling. Mrs.
G. W. Hicks, Mrs. r. L. Hill, Mrs. Bessie
Belle Walsh, Mrs. Frank Owen, Mrs.
Frank Phillips, Miss Isabella Sepulveda,
Miss Elvira Sepulveda, Miss Clara Car
ran, Miss Cally Wise, Miss Ina Brown.
THE KAPPA, ALPHA, THETA BOOTH.
AS one passes along the hall to the
northward, or inwardly, the eye is sure
to be rivited by the unique character of
the next booth. 1t is fine imitation of
a Greek temple, and it is all black and
yellow. The roof, facade and all the
parts of the structure are in the severe
simplicity which characterize q Doric
temple. The heavy roof is upheld by
massive pillars as plain as pike staff.
The sombre black and the strong yellow
harmonize most admirably with the Sc
we're style of the architecture. And yet
there is one thing about the booth that
keeps one from dreaming he is in Greece.
The yellow on the pillars is not in rather
coarse textile, as in the drapery that de-
pends from the frieze. 1t is all of the
pretty marigolds which dispel the air of
severity at one blow, and lend softness
to the booth that the Greek simplicity
could not produce. These flowers in
California attain to an unusual size and
perfection. They irresistibly recall the
pretty song in Cymbeline, which runs:
Hark, bark, the lark at Heavens gate sings,
And Ph@bus gins arise
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced flowers that lies,
And bursting Marybuds begin to ope their
golden eyes.
The mystic letters of the Society,
s'Kappa, Alpha, Theta" are wrought
most appropriately in immortelles on the
facade of the temple. There are only
two chapters of the Society on this
Coast. One is at Santa Clara and the
other in the University of Southern Cali
fornia at West Los Angeles. Some of
the young lady members were busily en-
gagged in decorating their temple, nGos,
pr0naos and altar. By no means could
the reporter extract from these vestals
what the mystic letters stand for. He
suggested that the Kappa" is for
kalos, beautiful, but they shook their
heads in bashful denial of the alle-
CATION, as if the goddess whose
devotees they are, were one of the
severe order of divinities whose shrine
was near the Athenian Acropolis, rather
than by the shady defiles of Mount
Paphos. Thereporter suggested that the
letter stood for kakoS, bad, but this was
even less acceptable as solution than
the other. He offered to trade informa-
ton, and tell the ladies what "beta,
kappa, phi" signifies if they would re-
veal the secrets of their prison house,
but they were as obdurate to all over
lures as the devotees of Minerva are
usually reputed to be. For surely this
temple must be sacred to the goddess
Athena, who sprang armed cap-a-pie
from the brain of mighty Jove. 1t would
be we'll to select statuesque
Young lady of the Sorosis and
arm her with spear and helmet,