New-York tribune., 1905-11-18
: MISS GOULD A PATRON.
Spends Money Lavishly at Home for Friend
less Bazaar.

Miss Helen NJ. Gould. always an interested
and faithful friend of the American Female
Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless
is a patron of the harvest fete and sale of the
organization, which opened yesterday at the
Waldorf-Astoria. 1t is Miss Gould who sup
ports the industrial work of the society in it's
thirteen schools and she is particularly inter
ested in the table Of rattan and rafTia baskets.
fretwork, etc, the work of her young proteges,
tables, among her purchases being an elegant
black Renaissance lace stole, for which she
gave S45 Miss Gould also had box.
The sale is the first one the society has given
in thirty years. so It expects it's friends will
come and buy lavishly, out Of gratitude at being
let alone long. There never sale that
offered more numerous or ingenious attrac-
tive reasons for parting with ones money.
Invitations to have ones silhouette cut in
black paper. to have a clever sketch Of ones
self made while one waits and to vote a
safe confront the visitor before he is fairly
inside This way to the elephanti'' Don't
fail to ring the bell of the house that Jack
built!" Have your palm readi" Your char
acter. vocation and talents read from hand
wrfting!" etc Although there is rafting
or selling on chances. there is a fine piano to
be voted away to School No. 6. at Morris-ave
and 14Sth-st or School No. H. No. 248 East
1O3d-st., whichever is lucky enough to get 1t.
In the Japanese tea room quartet of smiling
Japanese hand about transparent, white Japa-
tea in small handleless cups on little white
wood trays like solid embroidery frames. ac-
companied by fat, crisp, rather tasteless Japa-
waters. The little booth is an exact fac
simile of the wayside tea house in the Land of
the Rising Sun, and has been arranged-wis-
tarfa arbor. rug covered divans, charcoal stove,
stone lanterns and abby Miss Mary Averill,
who has been In Japan and knows all about it.
In the corridor back of the ballroom the little
children of the home on Woodycrest-ave. have
things all their own way, giving songs. dances
and recitation on stage amid Christmas trees
and the brOnzed leaves of autumn.
N. M Singer having offered to give s., 500 to-
ward the building fund of School No g. now at
No. 36S East Sth-st., provided similar amount
were raised, the managers holding this sale
hope, however, to make great deal more than
that One-haf the proceeds will go to the sup
port of the home Woodycrest-ave.. the other
half to the building fund of No 8. The
penses Of the sale have already been met
through the enterprise Of the younger women
the board. Among those who are actively
interested in the fair are: Mrs. Hugh ONeill,
Mrs. Charles II. Parkhurst, Mrs George P.
Slade. Mrs. Henry Dyer Tiffany, Mrs Washing
ton Wilson, Mrs. Charles C. Harrison, Mrs.
Mrs. Charles Hilton Brown Mrs. Alfred W.
Richardson, Mrs James P1erson, Mrs T. J.
Drurnmond, Mrs. Payson Merrill Mrs. A. T.
Day, Mrs. George Donaldson, Miss Laura T.
Worthington, Miss Estelle G. Smith, Mrs. David
McMunigle, Mrs. E. A Albright, MrsL A c.
Hencken and "the officers, Mrs. Francis NJ.
Weeks, Mrs. VIM. B. Silber, Mrs. L. D. White,
Mrs. 8. F. Hallock and Mrs. A P. Morewood.
bazaar, which will be open this afternoon and
evening.