Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-03-15
cHILDREN's FAIR A SUCCESS.
sons Attended Entertainment by Con-
eregatlonaI Children Saturday.

The children of the Congregational
Sunday school had everything their own
way in Festival hall Saturday afternoon
from 2.30 to o'clock and during the
afternoon more than 700 persons visited
the hall The children's fair is an annual
occurrence in the social activities in the
school and always presents many at
tractve features. Booths at which
various articles were on sale were placed
about the hall and were centres of at
traction. The proceeds. which will go
toward the home and foreign missions
fund, will amount to about $175.
At a booth at which colored photo
graphs and bluebrd penwipers were for
sale Howard Ninton, Mildred Eddy and
Stewart Stearns presided. The food table
was in charge of Miss Florence Hemen-
way and Mrs. w. b. Vinton and was
decora ted with streamers of brown paper
held by Campbell kids" sitting on each
corner of the booth. Another kid" sat
high up in the air holding the streamers
where they Joined just under the balcony.
Food of all kinds was sold here and a
speciality was made of Lady Baltimore
cake. The fancy articles table was dec
Grated with pink crepe paper and ever
green trees and the articles were sold by
Mrs II. F. Jordan and Miss Pauline
Fisher. A boat held the aprons on sale
and Mrs l. G.. Crosier captaned the
craft. Iron holders and handkerchiefs
were sold by Mrs. w. T. Haigh and Miss
Margaret Root at a table decorated in
green. The candy table was in green
and yellow and Mrs. Louis A. Whitney
and Miss Emily Clapp dispensed the
sweets. The ice cream room was in
charge of Mrs. H. l.. Waterman and Miss
Alice Waterman.
The entertainment was known as 1.-THE
childrens year." and the dances and
marches were under the direction of E.
Wales. When the program began at 4
O'Clock the crowd was so large that only
small space was left in the middle OF
the floor for the children. The idea of
the seasons was carried out in the
dances, the first being the Snowflake
dance" in which 25 girls and one boy
took part, dressed in white. At signal
party of little girls ran upon the floor
and about the dancers and were shower
ed with snow and snowballs. Those who
| took part were Edith Adams, Eliza beth
Amidon, Leila Barber. Robert Lee Bill
lings, Eleanor Clay. Evelyn Ellis. Mildred
Elizabeth Hamilton, Maverette Hamilton,
Doris Madden, Eta Haynes, Mildred
Mann, Ethel Lawton, Alice Maynard,
Luella Metcalf, Louise Pier, Margaret
Nixon, Elizabeth Pratt. Maude Prouty.
Margaret Rice, Violet Rathbone. Doris
Russell. Dorothy schwenk and Irma
/ Thomas.
Closely following winter came the
March hares'-1s boys dressed in Co.'S
tune to represent hares. They jumped
about the hall, played and marched and
then because they were supposed to be
as mad as March hares," began ito
| quarrel. The finish was an exciting
scramble to the exit of the hall. The
hares were Lawrence Barker, Hugh
Bradley. Kinson Doak, Kenmore Emer-
son. Herman Emory, Hugh Freeman
Charlie Gay. Webster Cay Howard
Gilbert. Jack Guthrie, James Guthrie
Carl Haynes, James Irish, Floyd Mann
: Kenneth Micott and Francis Nichols.
Sixteen little girls carrying arches OF
green covered with yellow flowers pre-
scented the Sunshine dance" and exc
cuted difficult figures with grace and
abandon that was charming They rep
resented the warm sunshine of summer
Those in the dance were Leora Barker
Elizabeth Crane, Lou Eggleston Mildred
Greenwood. Jessie Guthrie. Mildred Hall
Emma Haynes, Marjorie Huntington
| Evelyn Mann, Elinor Manley, Virgi
Metcalf, Marjorie Pier, Dorothy Rice
Ruth Sanderson, Dorothy Shaw and
DOrothea Vanderveer.
The "Froic of the leaves" was giver
| by l6 girls. Their white dresses were
decorated with autumn leaves and the
dance was as pretty as any of the after
! noon. The girls entered into the spirit
of 1t and although of some length it was
| performed perfectly. Those who took
part were Dorothy Angler, Allethairt
Estey. Evelyn Fisher. Dorothy Graham
Susan Graham, Charlotte Hildreth
Gladys Holden, Mildred Proctor, Gladys
Rathbone. Noreen Richmond, Elizabeth
Spencer, Leila Thompson, Ruby Upham
Marjorie Waterman. Hazel Wentworth
and Gladys Yeaw.
Following this dance six sailor boys
sang "Merrily we sail along" which was
we'll received. They were Lyman Adams
Coburn Cushing. Milton Dyke, Johr
Manu. Francis Shaw and John Wander
veer. The entertainment closed with a
grand march in which all who were in
the other numbers participated. also a
few others, included in the following list
Holidays-New Years day. Ethel Irish
and Sidney Nixon; Candlemas day. Car
Farwell; Lincoln day, Cedric Emerson;
valentine day, Osmer Fits and Elizabeth
Schwenk; ,Washingtons birthday Rich
ard Martin; ST. Patrick's day, Donald
Wood; April FOOLS day. Edwin Frost and
Clarence Madden; Easter, Margaret
Dunklee; May day, Ruth Reed; Memorial
day, Florence Baldwin; flag day, Avery
Barrett; graduation day, Margaret Frost
Fourth of July, Leland Miller Labor day
Dora Bruno and Chester Haynes; Valley
| fair, Milton Dyke; Halloween, Ruth GAY
and Howard Rice; Thanksgiving, Paul
Freeman and Allan Rice; Christmas
Frank Shumway. Butterfiies-Alice Hal
laday, Esther Hoadley and Laura Hoad