Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12
WOMEN WILL GIVE
ORIENTAL EVENING
JAPANESE ART WORK TO BE ON
DISPLAY
Foreign Missionary Society Plans
Event to Raise Funds for
American Hospital
and Schools

A bit of the orient will be seen In
the auditorium of the University OF
Southern California May 16, when a
score of women will entertain with an
Evening in Old Japan"
The affair is to be given under the
auspices Of the Young Women's For
eign Missionary society. and will be
benefit for the American hospital ana
schools of Aoyama 10 Gakuin, Japan
Miss Francis Whitlock and Mrs. An
drew P. West, 436 West Thirty-firs
street, have charge of the arrange
ments. .
Oriental booths, where everything IN
the nature of Japanese arts and cra1ts
will be on sale, will lend gorgeous
ness to the occasion, while a quaint
tea garden will be one Of the features
of the evening. Young ladies IN XII
monos, with high pompadoured nalr,
will serve the tea and dainty bon bons,
and preside at the various booths, Wnile
others will sell Japanese flags ana nick
nacks through the audience.
Among the booths will be a. straw
berry booth, where berries VIII be
served in Japanese style, presided over
by Mrs Kiser; Miss Curran, color
print booth; Mrs. Charles Brown, ice
cream booth, where Mrs. Brown Will
be assisted by a group OF pretty co, CO.
eds: Mrs. Andrew P. West, tea
booth, in which the ceremony OF the
| tea will be shown by real Japanese
girls, also demonstrations of flower ar
raneement will be given In this bootn
Mrs. John w. Wilmington and MRS
| CALENDER the "Meerut" booth; the for
tune teller's booth will be in charg'
| of Miss Lura Scheats, Miss van Vors
and William Schwartz. The costumes
worn will be those seen in the orien
on the weird men and women Wht
make their livelihood by doing ou'
plirnpses of the future at so much per
The tea garden will be in charge Of
Mrs. Schwartz, Miss Whitlock and
Miss Grow. Society women in the ma
tionsI costume Of Japan VIII give ID
fan drill and grand march.
Some of the cleverest Japanese en-
tertainers on the coast Will proVlde
the program, as follows: M. Ta1ro Ter
azawa will play the shakuhachi ana
Mrs. Ikeuchi the shamisen, Two OF the
most famous of Japanese musical IN
struments. M. Matsunaga will give an
exhibition of the ancient sword dance,
a iubilation of the triumph OF battle.
Chinese Music
Chinese music, furnished by two well
known Chinese musicians; M. t. va
suda. Japanese monologue, to be trans
lated by pretty Japanese woman
The koto, an instrument that corre--
spends with the harp, will be played
by two Japanese women. VINO PICK tne
strings with little gold thimbles on
their fingers.
An exhibition of ancient and modern
Japanese fencing will be given by two
men, clad in ancient armor. me pro
cram will close with the singing by a
Japanese chorus of the famed "Kimi-
gayo." the national anthem Of Japan,
that was sung by the japanese soldiers
at the fall of Port Arthur.
Japanese works Of art will be auc-
toned off by M. Bosley, the proceeds
to go to swell the relief fund. Several
persons have already contributed
money for the work, and the ladies' In
charge are confident of raising large
amount by the benefit. The price OF
admission has been placed at 20 cents