The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-10
AT THE AUDITORIUM.
The Building Being Handsomely Decorated
for the Festival.
DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS NOW READY
For the Exhibits thnt VIII Pour In
Early Next WeeiS--A Place
of Rare Beauty.

The various committees on decoration
for the Fruit, Flower and Vegetable FEES
tival have been hard at work the past
week, as Is evidenced by tho wonderful
change wrought In the Auditorium Great
loads of living vines and palms have beou
used.
Bright bunting and teathery gray mosses
are much In evidence and the Auditorium
has taken on gay and festive appear
arcc. The winter woodlands have been
shorn OF their glory for the occasion.
Here ere graceful bamboo and rattan
vines, Wild jasmine and NOSES, with
here and there a branch OF the mystic mis-
iletoe. King Notice, perhaps. will smile
when he sees this for there is magic in
the raistleoe and no one knows the spell
better than this great king.
The natural colors are used to great
advantage in the decorations. There are
fve hundred United States and Texas tags
USED. beside numerous bolts OF trl-coloreJ
bunting. The massive columns supporting
the gallery are trimmed with red white
and blue bunting. All around the gallery
tho stars and stripes with evergreens,
have been used to great advantage.
Lengths of red, white and blue bunt-
ing, interviewer with vines and caught up
at intervals with small United States
flags. form vast arena for the display
of fruits, flowers and vegetables.
Tho yaulLed ceiling Is decorated In tho
same artistic manner Festoons of bam-
boo and yellow Jasamine vines grace
fully entwined with trl-colored ribbons,
are brought from the dome and caught
together with the Texas and United
States flags, and clusters OF tho mlstetoe.
The tobacco booth Is situated at the left
Of the stage and Is decorated In red and
yellow The entrance Us an immense arch,
covered with gray and wound with red
and yellow bunting; palmetto leaves being
used on tho sides of the arch. and the
pillars supporting II. To the right of the
entrance 10 q similar arch of smaller
dimensions. This Is the entrance TO the
reception room, and there is not prettler
nook In all the Auditorium The walls
OF the reception room are banked with
gray moss and draped with red and yellow
bunting, caught up with leaves OF the
beautiful palmetto plant. The tables for
the reception of the tobacco exhibit are
also covered and draped with red and
yellow, producing, upon the whole. a
wonderfully warm and glowing effect.
The fruit booth Is adjoining the tobacco
booth. and II is dream In green and
white. The reception room Is exquisitely
done In green and white bunting against
sombre background OF gray moss but
the browning glory Is an immense stand
for the display of the exhibits. II Is fash
: Toned like fower stand and the shelves
are draped alternately In white and green.
The fruit booth liz an Ideal spot for the
display OF lucious mellow fruits. 1t Is
Charming In It's freshness.
The vegetable department consists OF u
triangular reception room and four large
tables, The tables occupy the center OF
the space INSIDE the railing and are COW
ercd with crushed white paper and bam-
boo vines The decorations In this depart Z
ment are elegant In their simplicity.
The floral decorations are less elaborate
than any other, thore being only a sim-
pl0 background OF Spanish moss and
Southern smilax
The home cooking department Is a,
unique as " ~ pretty II IL a model kitch-
en- In every sense Of the word. The fioor
Is covered With dark wall paper. This
is yarnishcd over. making covering
very like liuoleum. and said to be able
70 stand the wear and tpre OF ten years
constant use, The walls arc papered
with solid white papering. The shelves
on either side arc covered with white
crppe paper md the rnchings are Of the
same, The reception room IL divided fivm
the maip part OF the Kitchen by an arch
Of eyerErHenb.
Y Tiers are eyorRreens around the ceiling,
forming ! pretty border against tho white
befkground. IN ope corner Of the room
thege - ~ eleHent range. and by the stove,
q htr post IL duty. stands Aunt Dlnab."
- negro cook The large double WIN