New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-27
BROADWAY SEES MAY PARTY
Merry Day for Children of Grace
Church Nursery.

\ king and queen captured Broadway
yesterday-King Charles and Queen Ann
Their names when their mothers brought
them 10 the Grace Church Day Nursery
were put down Charlie Politarl ana
Annie Petriro, but yesterday they were
Naytime ROYALTIES. and they were crowned
with gorgeous gilt paper crowns and looken
on in dimpled dignity while their liliputian
subjects danced around a Maypoe on the
green in front Of Grace Church rectory.
Hurrying Broadway forgot its hurry for
little while First one man stopped, and
then another. and then group or women
shoppers, and in few minutes there was
no more standing room along that section
Of Broadway. while on the green inside the
fence the children danced as If they were
in the garden Of Eden and trouble and
hurry had never come near them.
In the afternoon there was more dancing,
but this was in the close on the other side
Of the church. and the audience could
gather not only on Broadway, but along
10th street. More than eighty-five chill
dren took part. all girls this time; group
of tiny ones from the day nursery. and
some bigger ones who sing in Grace Church
, chantry. and school girls who come TO the
nursery after school and have their sup
per there. remaining until their mothers get
home from work. For the Grace Church
crtche and day nursery takes all sizes. from
babies two weeks old to children almost
old enough To go to work.
Queen Mary was the afternoon sovereign
Mary Brill I'm private life. She didn't
have any consort, but she was glrteringly
apparelled IN "A muslin frock and a floating
blue veil which. she said. was her mothers
wedding veil. and so many shining orna-
ments and paper flowers that her black
o;rls were almost buried under them
All the children were decked in paper
flowers. strings of wonderful pink roses,
crowns and girdles Of yellow jonquis.
Most OF them wore the little dresses or
white cross-bar stuff which they wear in
the nursery. but one tiny blond thing who
said her name was 'des Marie had on an
exquisite handmade slip Of thin white mus
liz and lace.
lone of the working girls who lunches
here made that" said the deaconess IN
charge she is very fond Of Marie, and
she made every stitch of that in the even
irgs after her work.
And when the women who come to the
rCvels had watched "des Marie in the
nursery rhymes dance, waving her Fat little
hands to the tune OF Hickory dickery
dock. the mouse ran up the clock" and
burying Cock Robin with lowered head,
and all the rest of II. they didn't wonder
at that working girls devotion.
Another small child, named Agnes was
considerable Of a star because of her hair
q wonderful mop of frizzly hair standing
out in all directions. Visitors kept asking
her where she got it, but for all of them
Agnes had one answer:
II dot il when | a little baby
There were many dances, including the
sailors hornppe." by seven big girls, and
an extremely lively Jumping Jack dance"
All the revels were in charge of Miss Louise
Bechstein. a graduate of the dancing school
at ST Bartholomew's. who gives the Grace
Church Nursery children lessons twice a
week.
Besides the audience outside the fence
there was an invited one inside the close,
including friends OF the nursery, mothers
of the children-all who could get away
from their work-and "A group Of excited
children from st. Barnabas's Mission. in
Houston street