, 1906-03-28

The return of the immortal Spin
sters" last night was a success, the
seating capacity of the Opera House
being utilized to its utmost capacity
for the accommodation of those who
gathered to welcome them back. 1t
is true hat the Dream of Fair Wo-
men," strongly resembled a nightmare
in spots, for the play calls for gorgeous
costumes and the makeups were so di-
versiied that some were necessarily
dubious. Evidently the girls became
accustomed to all sorts of weather in
the far north, as every one was in evil
dence, in spite of the disagreeable
storm.
Convention Called to Order.
The convention was promptly called
to order at the appointed time by Pres
ident Josephine Jane Green Solferno
CMrs. Spafford). Secretary Priscilla
Abigail Hodge (Miss Mansfield) called
the roll, and the following spinsters re
sponded with accounts of their sue
cesses and, alas! failures:
Some of the Sp~insters.
Treasurer Calamity Jane Higgins
Wireless (Mrs. Kidd; Mrs. Ann Frad-
Ter Malaprop CMrs. Gardinier); Violet
Ann Ruggles CMrs. H. G. knight; So
phia Stuckup Bennett (Mrs. Swlgart);
Jerusha Matilda Sprigginos (Mrs. &.
A. CampbeD; Rebecca Rachel Sharp
Highfyer Mrs. Reed; Charity Long
face Puddyfoot Mrs. Atherly); Faith
Elizabeth Jones (Mrs. Houghton); Bet
sy Bobbett (Mrs. A. E. Miller; Polly
Jane Pratt Dolittle Mrs. TravelD; Be
linda Blue Grass Afraid-of-his-tace
Mrs. Grifhn); Frances Touchmenot
Mrs. Bellamy); Hannah Bickerstaff
Slocum (Mrs. FraZee); Cleopatra Belle
Higginson (Mrs. Merriam); Jul
liet Long Louderstadt CMrs. Clark;
Florence Lucretia GOOdhope Despair
miss Burke); Tiny Short Van Tassel
CMrs. CorthelD; Patience Desire Mann,
Countess Ketchum" (Mrs. Scoheld)
Comes With Whole Family.
Countess Ketchum exhibited her hus-
band, which was exciting, but the real
interest of the occasion centered in the
appearance of Mrs. Van Tassel with
her five sons and three daughters. Ma,
t,ro11.y fhn arCtuhiln SninCtprg wore
appalled, at the prospect, but were re-
assured by the fond step-mother, who
declared each and every n to be a
model. Soon the worst anticipations
were realized, for those children were
all of them just as bad as they could
be and some of them were worse. Mil,
lie Macintosh and Charlie Patched
were the ringleaders in the riot and
they demoralized even Johnnie Hea-
vey, who was brought up under the
strongest discipline by his Uncle Sam.
His Manners Gave Out.
Tommie Gibson began well, but his
pretty did not last. Artfe
Jones kept himself quite clean and
neat, and really seemed like a lad who
might be asked to play with your own
children, if he could be removed from
such demoralizing environment. Watch
your Fido while Johnnie Muckley is in
own for he is a dreadful boy, who
launts alleys just to tie ans to the
.ails of aristrocratic CANNES. 1t is
very depressing to see so young a child
rs Baby Lee so vain of her fine clothes
md her mirror should be taken away
her.
Jessie Was Well Liked.
Possibly motherly, sweet-voiced Jes-
sic Gibson was the general ~favorite,
she had the entire sympathy of
he audience when she was ordered to
AXE the family away and put them to
bed. Previously, however, these won
ierful infants were coaxed, and hired
by their fond parent to appear in rhe-
.orical and musical stunts, which
he audience as well as the
;pinsters.
Phone and Photo Needed.
Space prevents mention Of the pro.
,eedings in detail and nothing short
a monograph and a photograph
Gould do the convention full justice.
Mary Ann Fradler Malaprop has been
.aking vocal lessons since her previous
appearance, and sang better than ever.
One Of the hits of the evening was
made by Frances Touchmenot, who
'ead copious extracts from her famous
journal, "The Heart and
which Postmaster Beltz has
from the mail, since he took his
particular streak. The local squibs