Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-15
THE HARVEST FESTIVAL.
An Interesting Program Arranged
 for This Evening.


 Well" said a charming young lady to the writer, when she entered the hall of St Patrick's festival last night, "how charming the hall is; the persons wno trimmed it must be we'll up in aesthetics. Look," she said, "at those dear pumpkins and cabbages, and onions and tomatoes, and turnips and cornstalks; how sub lime, how beautiful they are! They are too awfully too for anything, v exclaimed the young lady, clasping her hands and rolling her eyes. AL though the writer did not understand her, yet he said, it is pretty too. "Yes," continued this charming young lady, there could not be any thing more crystally sublime than the tout ensemble of the hall. What a charming picture it would make! How sublimel How bucolic. How crystaline!" The writer here left her, as he was not well versed in aesthetism, and wandered off to an other part in the hall, where he took note of the great concern felt by one of the pretty waitresses for a man who had ordered lobster and cold milk. You want lobster and cold to get his supper. Yes The wait ress as she left the table repeated several times as though she feared she had not heard alright, "Lobstel and milk" Returning in few minutes she placed the lobster or the table, and left the milk on a side table, hoping, perhaps, that the mar would not miss the milk. At word though, from. the man she placed the milk on the table, saying as he dit so, Lobster and cold milk" Ther she stood off few steps and intentl! watched the man. The waitres; seemed much worried, and severa times made as though to speak tl the man. With a look of fOrebodins she watched the man mix dressing for the lobster, and this look grey to an expression of cOnSternatiOl when she saw the man taste th lobster and take a swallow of th milk. Her eyes seemed almost t start from her head and one coul' easily imagine the pretty waitres expecting to see the man fall for ward on the table and die. Finall the waitress could keep silence n longer, and bending over the ma she said in a frightened way, "I be your pardon, sir, but did you eve eat lobster and drink cold milk wit it before?" "Oh, yes, lots of times Why?" Well, sir, you will pleas excuse me, bu. there are lots of pee pie who cannot eat the combination and itkillssOme." ''Don't worry abOu me; I have eaten it ever since l wa big enough to know what lobste was" The waitress looked as thOug she hesitated to give full credence t the statement, but she was a littl treasured and retired few steps, a the time though keeping an anXior eye on the man, the lobster and tn milk. Nothing happened except th disappearance of the latter, and tn waitress said by way of furtht f apology as she took away u dishes: 'I knew man once, dow at Woodmont last summer, and I ate a lot of lobster, then drank glass of cold milk, then he went \ swimming, and his body has not bee recovered yet
 The boys of St Patrick's paris choir gave the concert last nigh and they excelled themselves, in ia the people have thought so well it that they nave asked that it . repeated again before the end of u harvest festival.
 The program for tonight is as fc lows:
 ! "O'Donnell Aboo" .... .... Che
 Iris the Last Rose of Summer" N ..... .... Miss Mary Shanah; Beautiful EriE". Miss Mary Mart o Killarney" ..... George Whi "The Minstrel Boy" .... II. Lezot
 Irish dances.
 Meeting of :he Waters" ....
 ..... ...... Miss Maud Delan
 Irish love song ...... p. r. Bo'
 Quartet-"Thc harp that once f through Tara's halr' ...
 NJ. Shanahan. K. Shanahan, Fr
 MathOn. H LiZotte.
 ''Mavourneen" .... Mrs P. J. Boy
 loft in the Silly Night" ..
 ............ Miss Eta Bagl
 Let Erin Remember the Days of
 Old ..... ...... ...... Ch'
 Miss Mary Martel and Miss Kat
 crime Malone will render selectiO