The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-22
NJ CONFETTI AT
 COMING CARNIVAL Committee Also Places Return
 Ball Under Ban PUBLIC APPROVAL CERTAIN Plenty of Fun and Wholesome Enter tainment Without Permitting These Generally Obnoxious Features
 to Endaneer Pleasures.
PUBLIC APPROVAL CERTAIN

There will be fun and gaiety, light and laughter a-plenty at the Orphans Home carnival, which begins May ?, but con- fetti has been tabooed
 Last night at meeting of the carnival and street fair committee this decision was made, and 1t is felt certain that the better class of public citizens will heartily approve of the determination.
 Confetti at carnival Is always a source of much innocent run and hilarlty when properly used, but the trouble comes with the fact that not everybody knows how to throw the bits of vari-colored paper.
 What Often Happens.
 Hoodlums in good clothes and fine out ward appearance often resort to rowdy- ism at a street fair where confetti Is Tor sale, thus distroying an otherwise pleasant afternoon or evening for hum dreds of the gentler sex. Not infrequently boys and young men who ought to pos sess more manhood than to think of such things, gather up handfuls of confetti from the ground getting dust and dirt along with 1t, all of which is thrown full into the face of some visitor to the car nival, often resulting in pain and always anger.
 Because of the unnecessary danger thus engendered, it has been definitely deter mined to do away with confetti, and the sale of return rubber balls has fallen likewise under the ban.
 Life and Color.
 There will be life, color music, mirth and fun enough for all without these dangerous adjuncts and the fact that the committee has done away with their use is but another evidence that this Is to be in every respect a model street fair. No Turkish dancing girls, no snake eat CTS, no freaks, no monstrosies. no con fetti, no return balls, nor anything which might prove a discomfort to anyone, will serve to place the ideals of the Orphans Home carnival committee on a pedestal, sky-high in the public mind.
 The Mundy Amusement company will furnish enough attractions of the finest possible quality to satisfy, 1t is believed, every true lover of innocent fun, clean shows and wholesome entertainment.
 DlavoIo's Ride.
 Diavolos awful ride through the trap door loops on a bicycle, with everyone so seated as to witness the entire act in ev- cry detail is but a sample of the manner of attractions that will be on hand to en- tertain the crowds.
 outH S0OWS dS 1ItdllOH lHt ''The Lotta" show, dog and pony circus, the performing monkeys, the maze, the Johnstown flood, Old Plantation, glass blowers, the Foolish House. Care of the Wind and Hilarity Hall are sure to fur nish entertainment for the crowds, not to mention the presentation here of posi- lively the greatest show of trained and performing wild beasts ever organized.
 The Finest Specimens.
 This latter show will contain over fifty of the finest specimens of lions. partners, leopards, jaguars, hyenas, pumas, etc, that are now in captivity and the work through which the animals are sent at each performance cannot fail to result In royal entertainment for the public
 From all indications, every promise and the unqualified endorsement of the Nun dy Amusement company's attractions by press, public and pulpit in other cities, the rapidly approaching street fair and carnival for the benefit of the Or phans' home seem bound to prove the biggest. best and decidedly the cleanest that will have ever been seen in Birming- ham.