Morning journal and courier., 1890-06-20
STATE oonaEsPorDEroE.
EarmIngtOn Notes. crAL EVENTS AND PERSONAL. JoTTINGs-AN

ANCIENT DIVERSION.
 June 19.-The entertainment given by Mr. Leland T. Powers of characters from the play of David Garrick drew Q full house and was very enjoyable. The Village Improvement penses, and are deeply indebted to MT. A. D. Vorce for his efforts in bringing MT. Powers and wife to the village hall. Also $10 was received from the lecture of Professor Chapin on Wednesday evening last.
 Rev. .Ar. Coolidge of Oollinsvills exchanged with the Rev. George L. Clarke of the Con- greRational church here on Sunday.
 Every day from one to three and four young ladies at Miss Porter's and Mrs. Dow's school leave on the stage to join their home circle friends on their summer vacation, so that when the school ends July the original number will be somewhat diminished. Mir. Brandagee of Boston has purchased the Cook homestead on New Britain avenue and will occupy it during the summer. In fact, quite number of changes in the owner ship of real estate in these parts have taken place recently, and there are rumors of more ] to come.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry s. Woodruff left for their home in Brooklyn on Wednesday. The committee held their last meeting on Monday evening at the house of Mrs. Charles Whitman to perfect arrangements for the strawberry festival at the town hall on Wed- nesday evening. Miss Anna Klaussr, of the middle district committee, is in charge of l the affair, and undoubtedly will sec that the ! Village Improvement society reaps neat sum from the entertainment.
 The Yale Glee and Banjo clubs give their
 concert at the village hall this Friday even-
 ing. The street on Monday evening was well
 decorated with handbills. but long before the
 next morning they had been stripped from the trees and transferred to the walls of the young ladies' rooms in the school here, 30 it
 is almost impossible to discover the price ot
 tickets. The greenhouses here have more
 orders than they can supply for roses to be
 thrown to the studedts at the serenade after
 the cancert. and more than one costume will be wrecked in order to use the ribbon trim
 mings to tie them with.
 Professor Davidson and Dr. Moore are here in charge of the summer school of philoso.
 phy. Meetings are held twice g day, morn.
 ing and evening, in the town hall, and will
 are here thus far as last year, but the at Tendance at the lecture in the evening fl
 quite large.
 Professor E. Sheath of Mics Porter's schoo will be married in Middlstown to day to Mis- Camp, and later return to the Elm Tree I'm } and remain until the school closes.
 Il Arrivals at the Inn this week: Miss Lem
 Ives, daughter of Dr. R. 8. Ives of New Ha ven; Miss Reynolds and Mrs. Farnham, MT Ned Mitchell and Alfred Ives, New Haven. 3 The latest recreation of the 400 at Mis ? Porter's school is the old time earthly gam of "mumblety peg" Daring the leisur
 hour after tea the young ladies amuse them
 selves in accordance with their own ingenu a ty, in driving, walking, spooning ice cream
 soda, lawn tennis, etc. Groups of four ( T five assemble about the bald spots in th
 lawn, carefully selecting a novice who hs
 never played the game before to be one ( ,f the number, and who invariably in some UT 'A forseen way manages to secure the unfort' j. nate privilege of ''rooting for the peg.". h severe case happened recently whel ' the peg had been driven almo :. out of sight into the ground, by the othe Y in the game, and the viction, after val 't efforts, convulsions and contortions, failir 2r to reach 1t, was induced to try once nor Simultaneously, three little hands we as placed upon the back of her neck, not gent but with firm pressure, so that had tl peg been an inch deeper Psyche could ba'
 secured it easily. As she recovered her b.
 ance with the peg firm between her teet .. the tears were streaming down her cheek As and although her features were all there, tl accumulations of gravel, tufts of grass al r. pebbles, made facial picture that wou @. have filled a landscape artist with envy.