The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-10-24
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Fairfax FancieS.

Fairfax, Oct. 21-We knew we
had a wide-awake, up-to-date set OF
teachers, but they appeared before
us in a new light Friday evening
when they presented in the school
hall "Maidens all Forlorn' to large
crowd. The audience was ready to
appreciate and applaud the best of
it, being in perfect sympathy with
the fair actresses, but they were con-
stantly surprised at the great hits
and the applause was tremendous.
Miss Porter represented Mrs. NAL
lory, the landlady of the quiet re-
sort, Misses Margaret Youmans, Ruth
Kenney, and Mary Harrison were
cousins, who were sent by their
mammas to a quiet resort where they
could have no firtations, under the
care of their old maid aunt, so we'll
represented by Miss Albergotti. The
physician was we'll represented by
Miss Crumpler. The girls bemoaned
the dullness of the place, not man
to be seen, till Miss Harrison, on the
sly, writes to her chum, Teddy, do
to come or they'd die from ennui.
He writes that he cannot come, but
a young doctor friend of his wants
to rest at just such quiet place,
and he'll send the doctor there. The
girls skip for Joy, but how to tell
their rigid old maid aunt! At last
Miss, Harrison faces the music and
reads Ted's letter to her. At first
she's Mortified, then thinks that af-
ter all twill not be so bad to have
a gent visitor, and goes off to prlmp
herself to receive him. Miss Harri-
son gets the sympathy of Mrs. Nal
lory and begs her please to Tx a
room extra nice for her doctor
friend, and gets her to show her how
to make cake so she can appear to
him very domestic. She so wants to
please him. Miss Kenney embroiders
a, cigar case, pricking her fingers Till
they bleed, and hopes he smokes.
Miss Youmans studies so as to talk
medicine to him, but in her eager
ness falls. down stairs and spra1ns
her ankle. Comes limping in, but
hopes the doctor will appreciate that
it is all for him and will pet her well
again. Miss Harrison comes in with
a burned arm and -four all over her
face, but she was trying to make
such a nice cake for him, and hoped
he'd attend to her arm. Miss Ken
ney's fingers are bleeding from needle
work, but does hope he'll know she
did it for him. But when the old
maid aunt, Miss Porter, comes IN
with a fearful toothache, though
dressed ''to kill" the girls feared a
formidable rival. Mrs. Mallory
rushes in tc say: carriage at door;
must I bring him in?'' When the
traveller alights, suit case in hand,
she is lady! why, you are wo-
man. they exclaim! "Oh, my cake. y
"Oh my cigar case," etc. Il am very
sorry girls to cause you so much
disappointment but it is not my
fault" Auntie says: ''Oh, what a
deceiver is man! not worthy Of at
tention.' The curtain falls as the
girls laugh merrily over the situa-
ton.
Miss Lyl Parrish, of the N. Y.
conservatory of music, but now
teaching at st. Georges, kindly came
and assisted with the music. A duet
bv Miss Padgett and herself was
highly applauded. Miss Parrish
played when Mrs. Bowles sang two
songs very sweetly. Misses Harrison
and Parrish played a fine Duet, and
selections were rendered by the mu-
sic pupils.
The teachers were invited to a
dining at Mrs. Martin Lightsey's on
Saturday.
Prof. Coker announced that there
would be a series of lectures given
here in the school hall on the sub
iect of education by prominent
speakers, commencing on evening OF
the 25th. No admission will be
charged and we will expect a large
crowd.
Quite a number of visitors are in
town.
The new house of Miss Alice Sim
gleterry will soon be occupied. 1t
is a showy and roomy home, with
many conveniences.