Connecticut western news., 1911-05-04
Enthusiast" Rhapsodizes

canal over which the Camp Ross bridge tiows-I guess that's bit twisted-for spectacular spectacle-I hope that's correct-for the days ending of u @ great Bridge Celebration. Why not have 8 sort of Carnival of Venice affair in the evening. with the broad canal filled with gondolas, and the gon. dolas in their turn filled with brave women and fair men? With long rows of electrics on both sides of the noble could utilize the flowers used for the day, by turning the fire comp lny's hose OH them and that would freshen them up sufficiently for gondola d coration. Even if somewhat mussed they would not show it much at night. The ladies might go unveiled and all hop+ tD look fair by the witching beams of har lessed lightning. What is it Tom Moor- sings in Lalla Rookh? Something like this, l think, from the "Feast of Roses:" Yet did the maids and matrons leave Their veils at home, that brill liant eve; And there were glancing eveSabout, And cheeks that would not dare ShinA 1t In open day. but thought they migh. Look lovely then because twas night
 So we ladies will leave off our veiIs and let our eyes "glance ahn:E' aud cheeks "shine out"-that sounds kind of soapY, doesn't it?-on that brilliant Bridge night, for never dons woman look so dangerously beautiful as when sY1o l@1o Mr o11 members of the Wurra Wurra Club, where shall we get the gondolas? The town is full of boat builders isn't it !? There's MT. Molando; get him. Give him an order to build thirty or more first-cIass gondolas to be built on true Venetian lines. He's been all over the world and seen scads of gondolas, of course. I fancy Ed. Adams could build some good. strong, safe, reliable ones, too, suitable for such heavy men as Frank Stevens, Clarence Humphrey, Al. Hubbard and so on, while the lighter, more graceful style of boat would answer Lew Rhoades, Hen Ives and Clinton Roraback, men so emaciated that they with difficulty can cast a shadow on the brightest day, And now right here an. other brilliant thought has coruscated across my mental processes. Let's have the men take the veils for the night parade. Yelled men in flower garlanded gondolas gliding up and down the canal, lst mt Iaax bI,t To do it's best, in wtchery."
 What could bel more unique, uniquer or uniquest than that? Cheese. cloth will do. So the expense won't be great; just throw a couple :of yards over the head, cut hole for one eye to work havoc with the fair and there you are. We ladies will line up on the banks of the beautiful blue canal and wait our turn to be asked to gondola with these strange looking gentlemen. If any one of us sees that we are not going to be asked, we will just quietly fade into the crowd with nonchalant air as if we didn't care a cookie about men anyway.
 | Few will be able to resist the languish- ing glance of the fat members eye (whoever he isl and when an orb sparkles behind the veil of-say for in stance Joe Parsons, Jay Underwood, June Rhoades, Frank Hitchcock, Dav1d Whittlesey, Sam Camp and lots of others-I tell yon when those cheese cloth holes are leveled at at us we are going to fall for it. Every last girl and grandmother of us will take a flying leap for those gondolas. Won't it be great? Music and laughter and peanuts :; the soft sobbing of mellow lutes, tinkle of guitars, throbbing of banjos and Dan Sweeney polling us off the bank when we run amuck
 Hurrah for the Bridge Canal carnival, all in ye merry night time How about the Bridge colors? Strong and effective yet blending artistically are the rich carrot and paris green shades which can be procured in calico, at either store, ,and George Wilcox is a crackerjack at tying Frenchy bows for decorations.
 Enthusiastically yours,
 AN ENTHUSIAST. F.. s. Every little bit helps.