The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-03-23
CHILDREN'S LIBRARY
SUCCESSFUL AFFAIR
Large Crowd Enjoyed Occasion -; Net
Receipts About $3.50, Which Will
Be Used for Missions.

1T is doubtful if ever before in Brat
tleboro more accuracy or wider vari-
ETY. in costumes was shown in a public
entertainment that was in evidence at
the fair of the Congregational Sunday
school in Festival hall Saturday after
noon. Styled The Children : Library.
it lent itself TO bringing living beings
before the delighted eyes of the
hundreds present and in the costumes
and habiliments of characters that
were so dear in childhood DAYS. The
range was wide, the costumes true to
tradition and the representations de-
lightful.
From the fairies of Fairyland to Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch was
far cry, but none the less pleasing as
the steps that led from the one extreme
to the other included each one that
youth has taken from the days of story
telling to the books that appeal
through their wholesomeness TO those
of maturer years.
Miss Laura i. Cragin of Newton.
Mass. faced a difficult situation in at
tempting story telling from the stage
while business activities were being
conducted at booths about the. hall.
That she succeeded in entertaining as
large a number as she did and that
her stories have been re-told many
times in homes in town since is proof
OF her ability
There was a very large attendance
and Mrs. c. III. Thompson. who was
chairman of the committee in charge,
expects that nj least $3.50 will be
cleared from the affair, which will be
used for missions.
The booths and those in charge
were as follows:
TOYS, the beginners department -
Mrs. v. T, Haigh and Miss Margaret
Root.
Fancy articles and aprons, the pri-
mary department-Mrs f. +. Perry,
Mrs. /. Il. Crosier, Miss Pauline Fisher.
Mrs. H. T. Jordan, Miss Jessie Ran,
som and Miss Maude Proutv.
The food table. known as the Liter
airy Digest, had in charge Mrs f. J.
Waterman and Mrs +. NJ. Stone. The
in charge of Mrs. l.. \. Whitney and
Miss Emily Glapp.
/ Ice cream cones were sold al Snow
Bound. which was in charge of mem
/ beers OF Mr. Fits 5 and Mr.. hughes :
Z
+ of Miss Florence NJ. IIemenway. assist
I Ell by members OF the intermediate de-
/ partment. This was The Lure OF the
+ Garden.
The grabs = were in charge Of Mrs.
". l.. Hunt, who, attired as Mrs Wigs
/ Of the Cabbage Patch, provided cab
bages that contained desirable
grabs.
Mrs F. ". Kuech and Miss Alice
Waterman had charge of the costuming
and their efforts were highly success
ful.
The entertainment opened with u
grand march at $50 in which all OF
those who were in costume partici
pated. They marched around the hal
to music provided by the high schoo
chestra, which organization plavc,
during the afternoon.
Miss Cragin, after the grand march
told stories that entertained both young
and old-all who couid get witbir
range Of her voice. The entertain
ment cloced at 6 clock and is rate,
as one of the most suffessful OF tn,
] kind ever held in town
The books ana characters and thos
who impersonated them were as fol
lows:
Beginners department-Ol Mothe
! Goose. Mrs. William I. Hai9h; Jack
E Hadley Shumway; Jill, Charlotte
! Thompson; The Milk Maid. Jean Al
: mold: Little Miss Muffet. Doris Bragg
t Little Bo- Peep. Marjorie Champaney
Mary Had Little Lamb. Evelyn Fl
G lis; The Lamb, Doris Wood; Little Bo
/ Blue. Lyman Baker; Mistress Mary
q Louise Pier: Woman Who Lived in
al ha
5 children, Ruth Howard, Carlton Bang
d Edith Lee. Reginald Johnson. Winsto
I Brasor. Gertrude Frost. Linn Hoadle,
e Fletcher Taft, Helen Russell. Morri
q Davenport, Eva Cook, Alfred Trip
} Donald Madden, Dorothy Tripp, Car
8 ton Shattuck, Mildred Waite. lrm
Shattuck Glenn Roberts, Floyd Smith
| Foster Roberts and Wendall Smith
!. children OF the shut eye train, Lesli
IL Billings, Eleanor Adams, Edna Wo
snop, Keziah Hamilton. Eva Benson
r Edwin Pratt, Ruth Russell, John Big
lie low and Gwendolyn Felch
$. Primary department - Jemima Pu,
he die Duck, Elizabeth Amidon: Tidy Al
a. gel, Marion A:lsworth; Little Da,
light, Lillian Ainsworth; Tonic. tt
. Drummer Boy, Tony Amato; The San,
man. Norris Bragg; Little Lord Foun
leroy, Truxton Britain; Brownie r.
= lieeman, Milton Dyke and Leland Mi
Ter: Rock-a-bye Lady. Betsey Crosby
Colonial Children. Marion Shattuck ar
Clyde Parsons; children at play in man
n lands, Indian Boy. Frank Schehe
- lands, Indian Boy. Frank Schere1
Il Chinese Sister, Ruth Reed; Little +
~ onimo, Percy Parsons; English Bo
l William Grundy; American Girl, Flo
II enee Baldwin, Old Grandfather Frog
Mother Westwind Stories), Osm
Fits; Fairy Queen, Mildred Hal
Johnny Jones, Clayton Haynes; NADIA
- Selma, Marion Hildreth; Cinderell
x Elizabeth Hamilton; The Prince, Ro
ert Billings; Happy Thought {Robe
S. Louis Stevenson), Marjorie Bond AZ
Mildred Mann and Ada Felch; Dot
a DimnIe. Doris Madden: Miss Sally