The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-03-25
The Experience Social.

SaliSbury's opera house was crowded even
to the gallery Monday night on the occasion
of the experience social given by the ladies
of the Congregational church. +. K. Kohler
had donated the use of the opera house and
the city band gratuitously offered their SER
vices. and when the money was counted the
Congregational church society had netted
over two hundred dollars Stanley Parkill
was master of ceremonies and introduced
the social by a grand march of ladies upon
the stage. There were ladies old and ladies
young, from grandmOthers down to wee
little tots who marched in that procession,
and as they passed by stand on the stage
dollar after was dropped into bright new
American dish-pan dollars earned by home
industry. And then the band played some
more, and Monday in pantOmime at the home
was introduced in the form of a laundry
scene with slow music, presumably little
drops of water and little grains OF sand,
the women having the latter. Tuesday was
baking day and the bread board and rolling
pin scene was enacted with the interruption
of church solicitors. Wednesday the wash
ing and baking was done, and the ladies
met in caucus at the sewing circle and hem
med shirts for the heather, and discussed
the continuation of the modus vivendi with
England and the probable effect on the flu
ture of the seal crop.
Thursday was not Thursday but repre-
scented women cultivating the arts of peace
in writing letters without postscripts and
cultivating a piece of art on an easel. This
scene was interluded with a little operate,
two ladies singing of their new church.
A demure hen cOrralled and Gagged was
carried on the stage, showing how this
chicken had laid the eggs which were sold
to put the blocks of granite into the new
church.
Friday represented the ''deestrick school"
probably the one that Sam Schmidt rules
over i'm the capacity of director general.
When the teacher rang the bell there was
gOodly number of urchns who seated them
selves i'm readiness before the idea-starter.
The old fashioned Friday afternoon 'speak-
in pieces" was carried out with vividness
that brought back the memories of those
times to participatOrs, who in chasing the
almighty dollar had long ago ceased to think
of the Friday afternoon free-fOr-alls when
we put on our Sunday clothes and pro-
claimed to the world, ''Friends, Romans,
and COuntrymen," etc. Alex Tawse and
Roy Osburn played their parts to perfection.
One pupil in the arithmetic class asked the
question: 'If DR.. Crum kills six patients
out of eight, DR.. Hume seven out of nine
and DIR. RObb eight out of ten, what would
be nay chances of living If 1 had all three
dOctors?" This question was referred to the
committee on rules. This scene was closed
by pretty little song which delighted the
audience. Miss TillOtson's gymnasium drill
was the next scene which was richly enjoy
ed.
The next scene was founded on fact, and
acted without variation from the original
scene. When the methods of the various
women for earning money were under con-
sideration, Supt. j. w. Simmons told Mrs.
Hume he would give her one dollar If she
would groom his horse, and the offer was
accepted. When the curtain went up there
sat T. j. Horsman in his shirt sleeves por-
ing over some abstruse hypothesis i'm Sully's
psychology. There was a knock at the
professors library door, followed by the en-
trance of Mrs. Hume and friends. The key
for the barn door was asked for. The
startled professor then realized that his
proposition had been accepted, but he sought
to detain by objectng to the use of a lantern
i'm his barn owing to the danger from Fried
lenders low test Illuminating fluid. The
next scene was in the barn, and the horse
which appeared on the stage was Wis
cious visaged brute with head on it like
the wild cat, the wild cat that used to reside
in Parkil q Sons drug store. Its general
character aside from the head was anaemic
caused by the buffalo robe hugging the
wooden frame work of this Pegasus. There
amid the gaze of the multitude and under
the direction of the Supt the animal was
groomed the dollar paid and amid the
glare of red light the closing sentence of the
act was repeated, 81 don't care IL all the
world sees 1t, l have earned my money for
the new church." The greatest of all socials
ever held In Owosso was the experience so ,
..al Ax.,tIl lxA told Ia 10
when Owosso Is a city of 25, ZOO inhabitants,
how the ladies of the Congregational church
raised money at social.