The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-18
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The Herald's appeal for cor tribution,
to the fund for the Orphans Home and
] Day Nursery had a good effect yester-
day, nickles. dimes and quarters drop
ping in the boxes all day. 1t IS be-
lieved that by Christmas the fund VIII
be large one.
Professor SINNERS favorable Inn.
preston of the Salt Lake schools and
of the city in general will make him
an advocate of Salt Lakes claims foi
the National Educational convention II
1898. With the proper effort made now
there is little doubt but that this city
will carry off the prize, and in an edu-
cational. as we'll as a material way, II
is agreed that the convention Will De
a big thing for Utah Another meet
ing of those who have the project IN
charge will soon be held, when some
definite line of action will be agreed
upon.
The crush at the Kirmess last night
showed the wisdom of the MANAGERS
in putting the price of admission down
to % cents, a figure that suited the
times and contributed in no small de-
gree to packing the theater. Once the
PEOPLE were inside they caught the
spirit of the thing and it was easy 10
induce them to out their hands into
their pockets and spend a great many
times the amount they paid for ad-
mittance, for few could resist the Win
ming smiles and pretty Establishments
of the young ladies who presided at the
booths, and carried exquisite flowers
in dainty little baskets.
There was no undue pressure, how
ever. brought to bear on the visitors
to buy the pretty things offered, and
nobody was made to feel uncomfort-
able in declining to buy everything
that came along. Things. too. We're
sold ar a moderate price for an oc-
casion of the kind. and the ''extortion'
usually practiced at fairs. bazaars and
so forth was conspicuous by its abb
sence.
Something which struck the observer
was the cosmopolitan character-if it
is allowable to so distort the term-of
those attending. The Kirmess was
gotten up under Mormon auspices and
for the benefit of a strictly Mormon
institution, yet it's patrons were of all
shades of religious belief and some who
had no religious belief at all TO speak
of, which goes to show that the old
dividing line between Mormon and Cen
tile is fast becoming obliterated and the
sooner it is gone altogether will be the
better for everybody.
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A vast amount of work must have
been necessary to get up the character
of entertainment afforded by the Kir-
mess. The decorations, although not
extending to the galleries of the house,
were profuse and in excellent taste.
The tableaux vivants were of a varied,
instructive and interesting kind and
cost a world of patience and hard work
on the part OF the instructors as well
as of those who posed. The music was
good and at times the scene as whole
was gorgeous and enhancing. Tonight
the attendance ought to be as large
as it was last night, as the charm of the
dance will be added to the other attrac-
lions.
The streets. and especially the store
windows. are fast assuming Christ
mas aspect. There is something in the
air BIZ which people instinctively be-
come aware of the approach and pres
ence of Santa Claus or st. Nicholas. the
patron saint of the greatest festival
known to Christendom. People make
preparations for the celebration of the
festival long before it's arrival Those
with slender incomes hoard and garner
their spare dimes so that they can buy
presents and remembrances for their
friends and the charitablY inclined
and most people who are not hopeless
misanthropes have kindly thoughts and
generous impulses at this season-open
their purses in an endeavor to make
their less fortunate fellows, who have
no purses and no need for them, feel
glad that Christmas has come
The stores are full of things to make
big people and little people happy and
the storekeeoerS are making their
windows attractive in the expectation
of doing a large and lucrative trade in
all lines. In many of the windows
great deal of taste, ingenuity and ar
tistic talent is DEVELOPED and appre-
ciated. if the crowds who stop 10 in
spect are 70 be taken as a criterion.
and Notwithstanding the clOseness of
the times the merchants are hopeful of
an exceptionally large business next
week.