El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-23
A Seaside Fair.

| A Seaside Fair.
Lets have our fair in the old sail
boat!" said Genevieve.
That's a queer placer exclaimed
Pauline, whom the other children call
ed polly Prim" because she was so
afraid of doing anything new or differ
ent. "a fair in a sailboat! Nobody
would GOMEZ
That's the very reason they would
come,'' retorted Genevieve, who dearly
liked to carry out new ideas. They'd
come just to see what a fair in a boat
| is like
eve couldn't have any booths in the
sailboat," said Jessie.
Have the sailboat for a booth,
goosie! You don't expect the people
that come to our fair are going to walk
over the side of that little boat and get
into it, do you? Why, the fair will be
on the beach right by the boat-that Is,
If we can have the old boat" answered
| Genevieve.
The three girls, boarding at a hotel
| by the seashore, were planning a fair
for charity. They knew Of a sweet lit
tie girl, child Of a seamstress, who had
| been very sick, and couldn't seem to
get quite well because she needed the
bracing sea air.
"And here we are, well as can be, and
don't need sea air at ALI" declared
Pauline at their first meeting Things
seem awfully mixed up, don't they?"
''We can share the sea air with that
little girl, anyhow" said Genevfeve, de
DII
done, for she always carried out her
plans. At their first meeting they had
decided on a fair, instead OF begging
from people at the hotels. And at the
second Genevieve proposed the old sail
boat. She had noticed it the first day
she came to the shore, and thought
what delightful playhouse it would
make. Everybody helped. One papa
hunted up the owner of the stranded
old boat that would never sail again
and lay deep in the sand on the shore.
In summer the children played in 1t,
and in winter the winds played about
it. The old fisherman who once sailed
1t was dead, but his son said of course
1t might be used for a fair, and they
were welcome to put an awning over It, |
and do anything else they chose. So |
a carpenter fastened up an awning, |
flags and bunting were put up, and ia
panese lanterns hung. Then little no.
tees flew about like white birds: "a
sea lunch and sale for charity, at the
old sailboat, Wednesday afternoon.
Please come and buy something"
Wednesday afternoon was fine and
breezy. The flags tapped gaily, and
the lanterns threatened to lose their
hold and float away at times. The
boat looked very picturesque with its
trimmings, its piles Of nice things to
eat, and pretty things to sell The
and all the young ladies had
helped great deal, besides contribut-
ng many fancy things to SELL The
hree girls wore white sailor dresses,
md fancy, lace-trimmed caps They
lad made believe some of the goodies
we're sailor or sea food. There was a ,
'reat deal Of raisin cake, a good kind
When you have to stand up and eat,
nd perhaps a smart breeze blowing. =.
he piles of this cake were labeled
plum duff" and sold we'll Biscuit :
andwiches were marked sea biscuit"
Clam chowdsr" consisted of shelled
eanuts, almonds and little candies,
erved in clam shells. Everybody want
d some Of that. Had the girls been
'ss busy, they might have seen strange
oings on the part of the boys. When
yer group of people seemed about to
roll back to the hotel or to leave the
lir for walk along the beach, some
by would dart toward them and hand
ut white card printed with these .
ords: Rival show for same charity. g
"a curiOsities exhibited IN tent after II
upper. Small show, small price. Adj O.
ission, one cent (more will not be re- q
sed)." At last the seaside fair was II
yer, and the happy originators of it III
ere going home to the hotel with "
eir arms full of bundles and their u
'ckets full of silver. Then it was that III
e boys of the hotel arose in a body
18th their arms full Of bundles, and
cir pockets full of-not coins, but
ellis. AS if by magic, a small tent to
rang up on the beach, End great was al
e noise that could be heard inside be
ID all around it. Genevieve, Pauline bl
ID Jessie, busy getting rested and be
ting supper, saw nothing of all this Z,
/ they found a card that some one tn
ID dropped on the hall floor. 1.-THE co
ry ideal they said to each other. gi
leh they found out what was going fir
. Then they hurried to the tent and pl
Iked, Grossly at first, to their broth tn
5 and play-fellows inside. eve ha
int want you girls to think you were ga
e only ones that could get I'D a sa
ow," said one of the brothers. 'sWe're So
ing to have an exhibition. It's a he