The San Francisco call., 1908-08-16
ROSS VALLEY FFTE
A PRETTY AFFAIR
"Mother Goose" Show for the
Benefit of COnvaIescent
Home Is a Success
Little Jimmy Is Loved for His
Efforts to Entertain
Ladies in White
By Kathleen Thompson

Nobody knew what Jimmy's last
name was (Jimmy himself has only a
hazy ideal, but that didn't make any
difference. Very few people know
what Dante's last name was, for that
matter when you stop TO think of it,
vet how preposterous it would be to
assert that the fact is injurious TO
Dantei
1t certainly wasn't injurious to Jimmy.
lie is the youngest graduate dancer on
the Pacific coast and he labored under
the impression that he was the most
important person present at the Mother
Goose show given for the convalescent
home in Ross valley yesterday. So
ciety's most exclusive members aided
and abetued the impression Every one
loved him from the moment that Mrs.
William Hamilton simply announced
that the next number would be Jimmy s
dance, and Jimmy stumped beamingly
on TO the stage. His dance, which in
vOlved his heavy little feet, his per-
spring little forehead, his happing
shirt collar and his earnest, agonized
eyes in one mad whirl, was a perform
ance calculated 10 bring tears Of help
less JOY to the eyes of every one pres
ent
JIMHY'S EVENTFUL DAY
Jimmy is a grateful youth and he
had been told that these ladies had
been kind TO him and he must work
hard. He began life six years ago on
the top Of Telegraph hill and when he
goes back there next week, after his
vacation. he viii have glorious tales
10 recount. Every one wanted to get
hold Of him yesterday TO give him rides
on the donkey, TO seat him in motor
cars, to MI his hands with grabs and
his little tum with enough pink ice
cream to stagger 10 ordinary children.
There We're other star performers on
the program yesterday small black
eyed midgets, who did their best to
amuse the zoe or 3O0. persons who went
10 Ross valley for the fun. Irene Baci-
galupi and Natalie Aced, both in ma
tiOnal costumes, danced gracefully
All the little characters from Mother
Goose played their parts conscien-
tiOusly, ignoring the fact that crowns
viii slip sidewise on hot little fore
heads, tinsel does sometimes tickle
when close to small ears and throats
and tarleton skirts have a maddening
way Of tearing when one tries TO wedge
through the crowd TO mother.
ALL LADIES WEAR WHITE
For the rest the Mother Goose fete
was a delicious confusion of velvet
lawns, Of pink and blue hydrangeas. in
glorious bloom, OF small, clear voiced
people in spotless white, Of merry
groups around the grab bag and lem
onade table. Of laughing crowds forcing.
their way in or out of the warm dark
ness Of the little theater, OF motor cars
wheeling under the trees and, above all.
OF the maids and natrOns Of society.
Every one was there, the grand
mothers, the mothers. the debutantes
and the girls who viii be debutantes.
And every one was in white. Grand
mother wore white barred muslin.
decorously high. mother few about in
white duck cut short so that il might
not cucumber her busy feet. and all
the girls wore lingerie frocks and
lingerie hats and carried lingerie para
soils The effect in the hot, perfect
weather was wonderfully pretty and as
somehow In all the fun a very salts
factory sum was made for the home
every one went home happy.
Among those present We're: