Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-20
NEW IDEA FOR A CHURCH.
Every Day In the Housewife's Week
Will BE Represented.


One of the late things in the way of a
| fair for charity is what the girls call
Household fair. lie girls call it so for the
reason that they intend to have table
| representing tie household work of every
| day in the week. The decorations of the
room and of all the tables will be in pink
! and white cheese cloth prettiIy festooned
and draped. The first table will be the
Monday table, with large pacard hung
over it on which that day of the week will
be written. Here several young girls will
preside, dressed washerwomen, with
large checked aprons and their sleeves
rolled up. They will have for sale every
thing pertaining to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
wringers. soap and starch, and washing
powders of all descriptions. The next table
will be Tuesday. The girls will be dressed
more as housemaids, with large aprons but
no caps. On their table they will sell irons,
ironing boards, shirt and skirt boards. iron
stands and holders, wax, borax and starch.
nuting irons and scissors.
Wednesday will come next. This table
will represent the day for silver cleaning
and mending. both house linen and body
clothes. stockings, etc. The girls at this
table will be dressed in pretty light calico
gowns. with small caps and aprons. They
tractive of all, and will offer for sale all
kinds of silver polish, brushes, chamois
skins, alcohol, work baskets with every
thing for darning and notwithstanding
cotton, thimbles, stocking darners. needles,
skeinS of thread for mending gloves, rolls
of different qualities of muslin for mending
house linen-in fact, everything for clean
ing silver and mending. The next table
will represent Thursday. which generally
being supposed in all well regulated house
holds ITO, be leisure day, will have its
''salesladies" more fancifully dressed. They
are to wear fine muslin gowns trimmed
with ribbons, and caps to correspond and
more elaborate gowns than the other girls.
Their goods for sale will consist entirely of
fancy work, both finished and unfinished
all sorts of soft cushions table covers, bu-
reau sets, pillow shams, besides aprons for
servants, nurses caps. afghans and covers.
Friday, sweeping and busting day, will be
| represented on the next table. The girls
will wear black gowns. white collars and
cuffs and caps with ribbon bows top,
and two ends which hang to just about the
shoulder They will wear long white aprons
with large bow tied at the back. The at
fractions at their table will be busters, dust
brooms and brushes of all descriptions,
wash cloths, brooms. whisks, pals, dust
pans. carpet sweepers and channels skins
for the windows. Last, but not least, will
be the Saturday table. Saturday being
baking day, the girls will have to wear
their kitchen gowns, which will consist of
calicoes of pretty colors, their sleeves rolled
cooks caps. white aprons coming to the
bottom of the skirts, with full bib and
straps over the shoulders. They will sell,
in the first place, all sorts of delicious
homemade cake and breads, mullins,
crumpets and biscuits. Then at the other
end of the table they will offer for sale
baking tins and pans, muffin rings, waffle
irons, pate pans and everything you can
think of in the way of useful articles for
baking. Two little boys dressed as chefs
will be at this table to assist, as the girls
expect to be buster here than in any other
part of the room. The fair will open at 2
p. m, and will continue all the afternoon
and evening. The girls have obtained all
their cooking utensils and household goods
on commission at large wholesale house
down town, which very kindly made a
great reduction on them, and will take
back any surplus stock II not spoiled But
they hope to sell all they have on hand.
Neat little cards have been sent out, both
in and out of town. announcing the day of
the opening of the fair which read thus:
A Household Fair
will be held on
Wednesday, November 10,
in the
Parish House of Christ Church.
from p. m. till 10 p m.
You are Cordially Invited to Attend.