Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-02
Hundreds of Joyous Children
Join in Celebration at
Neighborhood House.
MRS. WOODROW WILSON
INTERESTED SPECTATOR
Affair Continues Today and Tomor-
row and Elaborate Program
Has Been Prepared.

Favored with ideal May day weather a
flower festival in celebration of the re-
turn of spring was opened Yesterday aft
ernoon at Neighborhood House, 40 y
street southwest, with hundreds of joyous
children taking part. and with Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, wife of The President,
and Miss Bones interested spectators in
part of the revels
The festival will continue this after
noon. beginning at o'clock. and tonight,
beginning at o'clock. and tomorrow aft
ernoon and tomorrow night at the same
hours. The program for this afternoon
will consist of ceremonials, professions,
pa geants and plays celebrating the return
| of spring, follows:
| England. decorating. setting up of the
| May pole. morris dances. Aztec and Blue
mont clubs; browning of the queen. May
pole dances. girls clubs; France, May
day custom. girls clubs, Germany, pro-
cession of girls with May baskets. girls
clubs: Sweden characteristic ceremony
! and folk dance. girls clubs; Holland,
| flower girls in dance, girls clubs; Amer
lea, boys going a-fishing. girls going pic
nicking. hanging of the May baskets.
To Give Play of "Merrymount."
| At 8 O'Clock this evening The Play of
Merymount' will be given by the Pleas
ure Club Girls, a synopsis Of which is
as follows:
| An open glade at Merrymount on.
summers day in 1925 In the center of
the open space a May pole decked with
ribbon streamers. somewhat faded. is
seen.
THE Merrymounters appear to dance
and sing so that the Puritans may be
disturbed by their unseemly conduct.
| I,;Ia "nG oil on oovc
and annonces that one of their women
has been taken by the Puritans. All Mer-
rymOunt goes to the rescue. While the
rescuing party searches for Bess she APP
pears at Merrymount and tells of the Ill
| trea tment received at the hands of the
PuritanS.
Unable to find Bess. the Merymount-
ers return from the chase. having in turn
stolen one of the Puritan maidens. She is
tainted at first, but turns fair hand
and brews an ale for an ill woman,
teaches spinning to another. and defends
the action of the Merrymounters. who are
about to engage in battle with party
of PLritans. who have entered the camp
to rescue the Puritan maid. All ends
happily, and the Merrymounters have
gained the privilege to be gay.
Following this production "A Midsum
mer Nights Dream will be produced by
the Wyvern Girls Society, and morris
dances will be shown by the Olympia
| Boys Club
| May Queen Is Crowned.
| Yesterday afternoon spring panto-
mime play and browning of the May
queen was the opening event, the kinder
garten children and other tiny folk of
| the Mount Vernon Seminary taking part.
| This was followed by masque of the
children of fairy land, by the Golden
Rule Club, and a May pole dance by Ing
1 Itch ch.Dt a
( ry makers Club. The children taking part
| in these events and the characters they
portrayed were as follows:
Cock, Joe Carpenter; May. Edna KEN
nett: Flowers of Spring-BLttercups,
Rosa Bowers and Ruth Skinner; Daisies,
| Milda Arkin and Lillian Young: Wind,
Marion Vernon: Milk Maids, Louise DAILY.
Ethel Owen and Helen Carragon; Angler.
Albert Miller: School Boy, Arthur Clarke;
Village Maid. Sarah Farrell; Gardener,
Clifford Gartrell; Radishes Pete Smith
and Raymond Trego; Rhubarb, Walter
Mills; Lettuce. Edgar Nudgeon: Cab
| bages. Ora Perkins and Arthur Clarke;
Gooseberries. Sarah Goldsten and Will
lie Foster; currants. Charles Green and
| Evelyn Hewitt: Bees. Raymond Vernon.
Margaret Diver. John Daily and Edward
| Diver; Frogs. Milton Self. Jean DAILY,
Cecil Smith and George Hoeft; Firef1ies.
Rhoda Mothershead and Grace Simms:
Brownies, Paul Evans. Harold Self. Hen
ry Vernon and Frances McManus; Night,
| Edna kennett: May Queen Marion Mof
fit; Fairies Helen Mills. Pearl Mothers
head Violet Utter and Ethel Green.
! English NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Esloff and
Mildred Jackson. Tessie Silverman and
! Sarah Silverman, Josephine Calhoun and
| Mildred Self, Thelma Wells and Alma
Reuling Katherine Barghausen and
! Margaret Stern. Pearl Wiltshire and
| Grace Utter and Dorothy Greenwich.
Masaue of Fairyland-Little Red Riding
! Hood and Wolf. Augusta Lawrence; Lit
! tie Bo Peep. Sarah Lewis; White Rabbit
| from Alice in Wonderland, William
Lerch: Old King Cole, George Mullen;
! Simple Simon Marion Smith: Little Boy
Blue Walter Harris; Ride Cock Horse.
Eiwood Clark, and Peter and the Magic
Goose, Isadore Rosenthal.
Robin Hood" Play Is Given.
| At the evening performance there
were May day revels by Robin Hood
and his band, consisting of Robin