Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-21
AROUND THE CITY.
The Flower Festival Still
Drawing Crowds.
THE TABLEAUx FOR TOMORROW
Miss Minnie Jones Dies from Hel
Burns, Caused by a Coal Oil
Explosion.

The Flower Festival continues to at
tract large crowds of visitors, and to
morrow night enters upon its second
week, which it is expected will prove
more successful than the first. Last
night the crowd WAS unusually large,
and the booths did a big business, es
pecially those at which refreshments
are to be obtained. The programme Of
music was excellently rendered by the
Seventh Regiment Band, and opened
with the Flower Festival March by WE.
Mccoy. The ladies in charge of the
various booths were untiring in their eff
forts to make the evening pass pleas
antly, and if the Festival this year falls
short of that Of former years, it will not
be their fault.
The managers of the free Kindergarten
are taking an active part in the Flower
Festival, expecting to share in the sur.
plus after the pressing demands of the
Home are met.
The kindergarten children are brought
to the Pavilion every afternoon, where a
two hour session is held in the room in
the rear of the kindergarten Booth. It
was deemed wise to bring the work to
the notice of the people in this way, from
the fact that the school which is located
on Sansevain street, near the river, is
not easy of access, and only persons
already interested or who have some
understanding of the aims and methods
of the kindergarten, will take the trouble
to visit it.
Owing to lack of room and expense of
conveyance only part of the children are
brought to the Pavilion, but the school
enrolls regularly about fifty pupils, from
3 to 6 years of age, and these from the
needy classes. This work is not as is 30
often supposed, carried on just to keep
the children off the street and entertain
them part of the day. 1t does this to
be sure; but it goes much further; it
has an educational value which is being
recognized by the leading educators OF
the day, and statistics show that the
well trained kindergarten child enters
the primary school much better prepared
and does the first years work in q much
shorter time than that required by the
child. coming directly from the home.
TOMORROW NIGHTS TABLEAux.
Visitors to the Flower Festival to.mor-
row evening will witness the labors OF
many weeks of artistic preparation.
Picturesque living representations of
quaint historic legends will delight the
eye and please the imagination.
The first lifting of the curtain will dis
close scene of Oriental splendor. The
story goes that the lovely Princess Lalla
Rookh travels from her native Delhi,
undes charge Of the Chamberlain Fadla-
deem, to become the bride of the great
Burcharian King. To beguile the ted
iousness of the journey Feramorz, "a young
and handsome poet with whom Lalla
Rookh falls in love, and who by the way
is the great King himself in djsguise(,
recites several agreeable stories. The
main scene shows the parting of the
travellers by the banks of the
River of Stars, the imperial barge bear
ing Lalla Rookh and Faramorz and other
boats, with the chamberlain and ladies
of honor, as the handsome poet says.
Three successive inner tableaux appear,
each illustrating the most striking char
acter of one of the stories related.
First, ''The Yelled Prophet of Khor-
assam" with his Medusa-like face, de-
stroys the fair Zelica and her lovely
Aim. Next follows the "Death of
Hinda," and lastly, varying little the
order observed by Moore, comes "Para-
disc and the Peri"
The second withdrawal of the curtain
discovers familiar picture of German
chivalry. This legend is that as Elsa,
mistress of the castle and valley of
Schwanstein, was one day standing upon
the parapet OF the Schloss, gazing far
into the valley, she observed a snow
white swan gracefully sailing over the
water, drawing golden boat containing
a handsome knight fast asleep. The
knight awoke and greeted the princess
in such a friendly manner as to win her
confidence and regard, and she invokes
his protection against her enemies, in.
Guiding more especially her wicked uncle
Frederick. The Emperor commanded
the uncle to do battle with any champion
the young lady could procure. The day
of trial brings Lohengrin, "The
Swan Knight" who slays the
uncle and weds the neice. Lohen-
grin charges Elsa that any dis
closure of his identity or of whence he
came, will terminate their happiness,
for three pictures are reproduced. Lo-
hengrin's arrival in answer to Elsa's
prayer, the procession to the minister,
and scene where Elsa loses her knight.
Her curiosity proves fatal to her happi-
ness. The swan boat has come to carry
off the knight. Lohengrin bids his lady
farewell, and prays, as a reward for his
faithfulness, that Elsa's brother, who is
under an enchsntment, may be released.
His prayer is answered, and descend
ing dove delivers the magic chains to
Lohengrin, who casts them into the river
and restores the young Prince to his
father and sister.
The third tableau is taken frem Ten
nyson's "Idylls of the King" Only n
man of perfect life can acquire the gift OF
the Holy Grail. The picture is of Sir
Gslahad receiving conservation for his
pilgrimage. At the close appear the an
| gel guardians of the sacred cup. King
Arthur, Queen Guinevere, high church
dignitaries and courtiers, give courtly
grandeur and pomp, while q vespel
hymn, by chorus under the direction
of Professor Wilhsrtitz, adds the charm
of music.
I Picture number four is drawn from ths
lands of the north. Thor, the God O
Thunder and Darkness, attacks the hom,
of the Snow Maid, but happily succumb
to her weapons of song and light. Th,
giant, fur-c,ad form of the Norseman'
deity shows off in fine contrast with th,
snowy brightness of the lovely fairie
and maids.
The final view is Italian. Venice j
Qey with carnival reioicinQs. FIowa