Connecticut western news., 1912-11-21
HARVEST SUPPER
Hawthorne Club Ladies Entertain Husbands, Brothers and Others"

Hawthorne Club Ladies Entertain
 Husbands, Brothers and Others"
 The ladies of the Hawthorne Club en. tertained their Husbands, brothers and others" in the social rooms of Pilgrim Church, Friday evening" This function, which seems to have become a fixed an nual event. took the form of harvest supper" and was fully as enjoyable as any of it's predecessors-whi is saying much.
 The guests, as we'll as the hostesses, were dressed in character costume be- fitting the harvest, time feature, and the whole company out-ruraled the most truly rural community ever depicted by Puck. The ladies appeared in becom- ing gowns and represented every phase of pastoral life, from the starched and rufhed matron of frigid dignity, to the coy and winsome milkmaid and the frisky school girl.
 Some of the ladies wore the dresses their grahdmothers wore, along toward
  woman's attire, were in marked contrast to the skimpy, hobble ''creations" of the present day. There were picnic dresses, and school dresses, and work a-day al esses, and yachting suits, and gowns embellished with pictures of punkin jack k-lanterns, and wedding dresses, which would require the delicate genius of Jenkins reporter" to describe
 The gentlemen evinced a rare apprecia- tion of the character of the festive af- fair, i'll the selection of their apparel, and from the rheumaticky old parson with his ever.ready and severe admoni- tion, as impersonated by the shepherd of the Pilgrim flock. down to the village cut-up, portrayed by H. E. Lyles, in cute little sailor suit, the cast of charac- ters was in fine keeping with the whole affair. School Principal Strayer was there in overalls and jumper; his pre- decessor, Eldridge, just stepped in on his way home from the hay field Henry B. Ives, in farmer rig, with dilapidated straw hat on his head and a luxuriant growth of "donegals" under his chin Fred Collin, the village dude Robert Peirce, the overgrown boy with some thing the matter with him Ed Nestell, in tenderfoot hunters rig; Clinton Barnes, arrayed in a loose fitting suit of rag-b bale material cut delicatessen-these are but d few samples of the fashions conspicuously in evidence. It was no less a success as a haberdashery display than as a social function.
 The feast itself was triumph of culinary art and good old New England service. The dining room was lighted with candles. Big pans of bedevlled oysters, cooked 'just right, were placed on the long table and generously ladled out by various hostesses {; big platters of carved roast turkey followed, and in be- tween and following after came other dishes of uelcaGies and substantials galore, with coffee and sweet cider to moisten the palate, and fruits and con- fectlonery and ice cream to top off the feast-and the good ladies had not for gotten the cigars, of which full box, of excellent brand, was provided and en- joyed by the guests.
 After the feast program of games, guessing contests, songs. recitations and funny stunts was enjoyed, which proved a source of the most hilarious merriment and protracted the festive session until we'll along toward the witching hour,
 The husbands, brothers and others auxiliary of the Hawthorne Club will doubtless take it upon themselves to re- ciprocate before the social season closes. If they hope to duplicate the success of the harvest supper they will be under the necessity of going some.