Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-07

GOCIETY maids and matrons will mo-
y tor out to Darby again this Saturday
afternoon, when the woman's Auxiliary
of ST. Francis Country House for Con-
valescents will repeat the alphabetical
country fair which was given last Sat-
urday in the house.
Nearly all the booths will be featured
again. The flag raising, the vaude-
Vile show and the Irish cottage life
withheld last week because of the in
clement weather. will be given this Sat
urday the first at $3.50 in the afternoon
and the latter every hour throughout the
afternoon. A baby show will also be
another OF the interesting features OF
the afternoon, when children from all
over Delaware County will be among the
youthful contestants.
While the principal shows will be held
after 1 o'clock, followed by afternoon
tea several of the booths Will be ar
ranged on the grounds as early as ~
o'clock. Among these will be the flower
stand, where, in a rose-laden bower,
with birds singing in rustic cages, MISS
Marguerite Eagan and her assistants
will sell all kinds of exquisite mowers
and plants; the little French booth, dec
GRATED with the arms and the haBs OF
France, where Mrs. A. N. Burke and
her aides will exhibit very Partisan nov
elites; the doll booth, where Miss DADDY
Long Legs and Miss Goose Girl dolls
will vie with character dolls and wooden
dolls, and the patients table, where USE
full and fancy articles made by the pa
tients will be sold under the direction
of Miss Brooke and Miss Dean.
Among other interesting tables Will be
the Red Cross booth, under the direction
of well-known hospital nurses. A now
elty at this table will have dolls dressed
in the uniforms of all the large hos
pitfalls.
A real little brown paper house with
the cutest of little green dc RS that actu-
ally open into the shop and window
shaded by a black-and-white awning
edged with red fringe forms the garden
shop. where the lady of the garden, in
the person of Mrs. Lytton Patterson,
and her aids will sell all kinds of hand
made baskets fashioned by an old viz
ginia darlky, and also every conceivable
garden novelty, from little colored racks,
garden buckets, watering pots to those
quaint little colored birds that stuck In
the ground are a help to tie up rose
bushes.
The baby booth, in charge of Mrs. A
!. Ball. Mrs H. BerlIley Hackett and Miss
Rosalia oliver, promises to attract much
attention The dearest little handmade
dresses with insets OF real lace. exquisite
baby sacques little quilts and all the
newest that a clever world brings out
each year In honor OF ''the baby" will
be exhibited and sold by young matrons
who know the value OF each new idea
which will enable baby to live more oom-
fortably.
They arc busy preparing dAfntios out In
BerWyn for the wonderful Harvest Homo
Fete That is to delight the entire Main
Line on October Il, and the Berwyn table
is 10 have no small share In the entertain
ment since at it's graceful board New
England dishes dear to the heart OF
any one who has been way down East"
are TO be dispensed.
one member of the COMMITTEES is 10
fry fshballs for consumption at once.
and Is also to prepare the same edible
for frying at home. and so noted is the
matron In the gentle art Of fishball fry
ing that great many families have
planned 10 have hshball breakfasts on
the day after the fete.
Also a number OF baked beans and
brown-bread breakfasts have been ar
ranged for the day after the fete, since