The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

Miss Virginia Hereford. president
and Lloyd Watts. second vice president
of the District Chapter of the Children
Of the Confederacy, dressed in the fash
ion OF the sixties; Fifty couples viii
of Louisa NJ. Alcott's Little Men ant
Little Women"
| Of the year by parades and tableaux IL
which thousands of children will tax,
part.
Hundreds of women, with a centra
committee Of the Drama League, abou
which they work, are training the thou
sands OF children. They are making &
success of 1t because their chief ally
aside from their zeal, is human nature
| a very potent factor for success.
Everybody Likes Pagcantry.
Everybody-man. woman, and child
likes pageantry. The man in a political
procession, with his high, white hat. and
long. white duster, and his banner; the
| woman in a stately tableau. or a pretty
| comedy; the child in simple march or
pose-they all like to be part Of a set
| ting of action or repose. The women in
charge OF Independence Day pageantry
expect that at least 1000 boys and girls,
impelled by this very amiable egoism.
will take part in the festivities
To every one of them. the safe and
sane Fourth will be a day lettered most
red. The daylight fireworks and the
nightlight fireworks, those communistic
explosions which in the judgment of the
tender Juvenile have wantonly destroyed
all individualistic effort. will be but in
cidental in the memories of this Fourth
Everybody will have a part in this, not
necessarily a speaking part, but a part
with plenty of stage business" of walk
ing. running, singing, and cheering. In
almost any costume that the young
actors fancy suggests.
Thousands of cards like this have been
sent to the schools and other gathering
places OF children by those women of
zeal and intuition encircling the central
committee:
! will march in the pageant procession. in the
group checked below.
Age.... Name.
Liberty Grrup ~ snd giri. bicb .chcoi 49,.
Camp Fire Girls MILDLY Boys
Indian Girls. Baseball Boys
MILDLY Girls CouboyS
Flower Girls. Indian Boys
That variety has not sufficed for all of
the nearly 5000 boys and girls who have
already signified that they will play in
pageantry all over the Mall and Monu-
ment Grounds.
Horrors and AntIcks" one small boy
asked to be allowed to impersonate. in
what dread way was left to the imagina-
ton Of the committee Aeronauts, cru
caders, anarchists. Old and Young King
Brady, Nick Carter. and several other
heroes Of boyland were selected for roles
to be portrayed.
Yet even those fastidious children could
be satisfied. IL they would have the same
character under other names
In the pageant procession. which will
form In the Mall east of Seventh Street
and march west to the Monument. there
will be twenty-five couples of cavaliers
and puritans, representing the period of
the seventeenth century: fifty couples q
colonial beaux and bellies. Of the time of
the eighteenth century; fifty couples in |
the fashions of civil war times, and 100 |
couples in the dress of the present day.
For the children, there will be fifty
George Washingtons, and a like number |
of Martha Washingtons; fifty James |
and fifty Dolly Madisons; fifty /
Little Men and fifty Little Women, such
Is Louisa NJ. Alcott wrote about. and an
unlimited number Of children in present.
lay dress. Some of these will wear the
Iirls, baseball players, cowboys, and
mildly boys and girls.
Somewhere along this line Of march of
he centuries a band Of Indian braves
will lie in ambush, and. a landing party
rom Capt. Kids treasure ship will be
amped for a day of boisterous. ROSTER
us shore leave under the shadow Of the
oily Roger.
Fifteen hundred boys and girls in Gre
ian costumes will make up the allegor-
cal group.
Hundreds in Chorus.
The choruses will be Of several hundred
'oices.
Yet all these costumes will cost very
title money. 1t would seem that the
tanners Of the pageantry have worked
nth two pet ideas, one. to prove that
atriotism Of the Fourth Of July kind
an-be expressed with entire satisfac-
lon to all concerned without barbaric
disc or the violence and hazard of gun
owder, and without great outlay of
honey. too. to keep this Fourth of July
within sucn gentle realms as
I'LL bespeak a serenity appropriate to |:
he centenary a serenity appropriate to
eace with Great Britain after the War
I 1872.
The reasons why the celebration OF the
18th anniversary Of our separation from
he mother country should be as har-
lonious as possible with the observance
the anniversary Of our last peace with
he mother country. are quite apparent
As to idea number one. II may be said [
rat the planners of the pageantry de-
red that the professions, plays, dances.
I'd games OF the Fourth Of July should