The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-16
FETE FOR MOTHER GOOSE
THE FLOWER MISSION FAIR MORE
BRILLIANT THAN EVER.
Large First Night Audience-Tbe Ex-
tFavaGanza Moves on Very
Smoothly.

SnOOAnlSs
Mother Goose reigns supreme at Tomlin-
son Hall this week, and will give her serv-
/ ices in the interest of the twenty-frst an
nuai fair of the Flower Mission. The hall
represents street in an old English town,
with its rows of cottages and rustic hedges
and fences. Electric lights sparkle like
| stars overhead, and pretty maids in pic
| turesque costumes fiutter in and out of the
| booths and tempt the visitor with the pref
| ty and useful wares which they offer for
| sale for the cause of charity. The booths
are distinguished by Mother Goose rhymes,
which have been chosen to signify what the
contents may be. In "Rock-a-bye Baby
there is the treetop for the background,
with a small hammock swung in its
branches, and dolls, dolls, dolls everywhere.
| My Lady Elegant is a dainty doll gwen by
| Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, and it's costume
was created by Mrs Harrisons own
modiste in New York. There are dolls that
may be soaked in the bath tub, by small
mothers without injury to the doll or it's
| neat close-itting knit dress. There are doll
houses and furniture and all the miniature
doll articles that belong to the doll world.
| The young ladies in the booth wear nurse
girl dresses, with snowy caps and aprons.
! shakspeare's cottage, in quaint design.
| comes next, with all library articles. which
include the Mother Goose for All, the maya
zine of the fair this year, all the new stories
| of the day and a series of artistic blotters
decorated by Miss Woods and Miss Hassel-
man. The hostesses in the library wear the
Queen Anne dress. A special attraction
each evening is the illustration by living
! CT.
girls posing in picturesque costumes are
Miss Burford. Miss Helen Holman Miss
NcLain, Misses Julia and Ethel Fletcher,
Miss New Miss Taggart, Miss Holiday.
Miss Hayward and Miss Edith Wallick. The
| ''heroines' are shown after the entertain
ment. The pictures are in charge of Mrs.
Jameson, Miss Woods, Mr.. Harrington and
Mr.. Noble.
| "A brick wall separates the visitor from the
plum pie, and within the pie may be found
| the usual list of articles which have here
tofore been found in the grab-bag; The
| children. A tall apple tree with red fruit,
! shades the pie and lends itself to the deco
ration Of the booth, The young ladies IN
! the booth are dressed as cooks and attend
! to the filings of the pie after the plums
have been disposed of to the visitor 1t is
easy to know that Little Jack Horner sat
| in this corner Red ana white stick candy
embellishes the front of the next cottage,
where the rhyme is,
'sHippety-hop,
To the barber shop"
The girls are lemon sticks in yellow and
| white or peppermint sticks in req and white,
! and their costumes of the two colors, with
picturesque hats of crepe paper TO corre-
spond, are most becoming. OF course, there
| are sweets to be found in the barber
shop" and for further decoration there are
sets of water color pictures OF Mother
Goose rhymes, painted by MISS Bessie Hen
bricks There was an old woman tossed
up in a basket" and there are still baskets
. | m he and q varied lot of them are IN
| the next booth. There are Indian baskets
of sweet grass. some made in the shape ana
| color of fruits and others of flowers, ana
there is a large birch bark Swedish basket
brought from Stockholm. There is a rustic
The fancy dress Of short skirts. paniers,
| bodices and kerchiefs in gay colors is worn
| by the basket sellers.
and the product is frozen, cream After
passing the closely-cropped arbor vitae
! hedge one sees ''hollyhocks by garden
wall. many of them staid and TALL red,
| yellow and pink ON their long green stems.
| Milkmaids preside and deal their frozen
| dairy product out in dainty dishes.
THE ART BOOTH.
At the left of the stage, Bo-peep has
taken charge of the many rich, varied and
beautiful things to be found in the art
booth. The peaked cottage contains pretty
young women in shepherdess costumes
with Bo-peep caps and crooks. having clus-
ters of red peoples tied with blue ribbons
Bagdad portieres cover the inner walls and
form a background for the many handsome
pieces of fancy work. A special attraction
is the enameled jewelry brought from F1ori-
da. There are pictures and any number Of
lovely things suitable for Christmas ana
| wedding gifts The hoSteSSeS, in blue satin
skirts with panierS, laced bodlceS, RED SHOES
and white hats, are like moving pictures
amid the wealth of articles in the art
The garden, with the board fence and
trailing vines, is the home OF Mistress
Mary. and her garden has done exceedingly
well this season, for it has roses and
! chrysanthemunls, orange trees with 1rult,
Florida moss, laurel, violets, carnations to
sell and a beVy of pretty maids, all IN q
row, who are ready to dispose of the bios
SONS. The pretty maids have quaint gowns,
9 9uite IN ke en With the entire Booth.
Lucy Locket lost her pocket in the
rhyme, but by the time she got to the
found, not only it but many other things,
for she is in the household booth, with us
brick walls and dormer windows, with
things to eat, and things to wear, and still
more things for use in the house, and
aprons of every description and for every
occasion. The Lucys who dispose OF the
| households wares wear costumes OF green
and white, made with short skirts and IN
In the next garden beverages are to be
found and the dispensers of them wear the
Peek-a-boo dress, with frilled caps and
huge bows. IF all the world were apple
| piep is the rhyme which speaks for the
garden booth, with palms and roses grow
ing side by side At the Old Ship Inn, a
sailors tavern Of years ago, supper is to
be served each evening after $50 o'clock.
There is an outside chimney of brick a
rustic door, which is always invitingly open
and lattced windows, from which the fair
may be viewed, or, within, one may see
snowy-covered tables and the neatest of
| innkeepers who wear a uniform of q red
striped skirt a polka dot corsage, red
| paniers and white caps and aprons. Pat
| a-cake" is the rhyme for the booth and 1t
| ia for IFS oyster SteWS. Adjoining
the inn is the officers booth and cash
| desk.
| THE EXTRAVAGANZA.
| The entertainment last night was the
Mother Goose extravaganza, a musical
performance, arranged by Mr.. Karl Schnei-