San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-07
Emulsion
Finery From All Nations.

New YORK, Dec. The Knights and
Ladies of the Round Table" which in
cludes in its circle children in almost
every country in the world, the mem ber-
ship in New York city and Brooklyn
numbering 1900, with about $50, 600 in
hold mammoth round table meeting at
Sherry'S, beginning today and contin-
uing until December 10 This event will
be as interesting as it will be unique, in
that 1t will combine the features of
falr and bazaar, a promenade concert, a
reception OF celebrated and noted au-
thors, literary and industrial prize con-
test flower show and Christmas tree
or festival: The affair has for its object
the replenShing OF ST. Mary'S Free Hos
pital Fund of this city, and the swelling
Of the building fund of Rev. &. W.
Hinckley'S Good Will Farm in Maine.
St. Mary'S Free Hospital is one of the
foremost charities of the great metropolis,
having for its object tie treatment and
cure OF diseased and crippled children,
and its work and influence are well
known. Good Will Farm, while quite as
important charity in its way, however,
is not so well known. The Good Will
hope will be left on the Round Table"
in place of the exhibits OF children'S
skill, will be used to build an industrial
school on the farm. The fair will have
many little patrOnesses who are wealthy
and even titled, but it is especially favor
ed in being able to number among them
the girl Queen of -Wilhemtna,
Queen Of the Netherlands, according to
her title. She has been for some years
member OF the order, having had her at
tentiOn called to it phen little chapter
at PlttSburg named their branch of the
Round Table for her. She has sent her
portrait, and will doubtless add some
81 Iof Lo F,;.,
opens. Princess Stephan Pallayincia, of
BOkocza, has contributed doll dressed
as Hungarian peasant. In almost every
State of the UniOn hundreds of childish
hands have been fashioning bits of work
of their own for the faiS. There are
children whose lives have been spent
among the palms of the Pacific Islands,
in the capitals of Southern Europe or in
sight Of the willow fringed canals OF
muSty Holland who hold in Imagination
as vivid picture of childish poverty as
misery in New York as those of our own
country, whose home Is in the mining
towns or on the huge farm-dotted prai-
whose windows look out over New York'S
own Central Park. Dolls, which invar-
iaby suggest to the little women of the
order the SureSt means OF giving pleas
ure, either directly or indirectly, to those
other girls, the very depth of whose
misery is measured by the lack so often
of even doll, to say nothing of the
paucty of wardrobe which affictS the
diminutive sharer OF her ambitions,
which occasionally blesSeS one of these
waits, are very numerous in the plan OF
the booths. This is Why the little maid
ems of other nations are represented in
facsimile and in crowds. A display of
OCO will be made, i'm 1t will be the famous
2O-cent st. Louis stamp, the rarest and
most valuable stamp i'm the world. lis
the property of Mr.. f. w. Aver, of Ban
gor, Mo, and is worth $50. Other
stamps TO be shown will be BrattleborO.
worth Sl.C00, and pot few worth from
$500 to 500 each. The feature of this
exhibit will be its distinctive American
charactp The great feature of the en-
terpriseg will be the reunion. whereby it
is proposed to give the children chance
to meet and greet the writer's of the sto-
during their youth, and the acceptanceS
thus far received indicate an unusual
gathering of writers of juvenile books
and assures the success of the enterprise
beyond all doubt. Among those who
have already sent letters of acceptance
Capt. Charles King, U. 5. A.; Hezekiah
ButterwOrth, Edward EgglestOn, Ellen
Douglas Leland, Mary E. wilkins, How
ard Pyle, Kirk MunrOe, Margaret r.
Sangster, John Kendrick RangS, w. d.
Howells, Will Carleton: Thomas w.
McEnery Stuart, Ernest Ingersoll, W.
A. Rogers, w. j. Henderson, r. X.
w o. Stoddard and Fred
erick Remington. Among those conf
IDENTIFY expected although as yet not
heard from, are James Barnes. John Gill
mer Speed, Capt. Howard Patterson,
Kate Epson Clark, w. Hamilton Gibson,
Casper w. Whitney, Culmer Barnes, DR..
A. Conan Doyle, Charles Castleton Coffin
and Gen. Lew Wallace.