The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-28

a.e anu gay was the Spring Festival
neio Yesterday afternoon and evening.
10 add further effectiveness wandering
tilnslrels Misses Olympia and Calpur-
ma Suplette, Elizabeth Aiken. Jamie
reese, Dorothy Forbes, Lannie Pinney,
vera Keller as leader of the songs.
Messrs. McHenry Jones, Henry Hud-
son ana Harry Rowland played CAV
ana haunting airs during the hours of
.eiepratlon. A diversion to suit every
taste was found. There were booths
OF all kinds, a grab bag for the chill
oIeh, fancy dances, a country store,
eec' MyIlaus or electric lights twinkled
among the dark foliage, thick grass
iormins soft green carpet. The
GROUNDS We're thronged from the time
OF their opening at o'clock until
.neir close. The fashion display later
IN the evening was a clever finale to
the prIlilant affair and those in charge
Oh the days festivities were heartily
congratulated on their success. Nature
was IN harmony and perfect day pre-
Valied. Proceeds from the festival are
" De USED for new Sunday School
building for Christ church.
Earlier in the afternoon the following
tentative program was carried out:
from to O'Clock, refreshments were
served, the program beginning with
Maypole dance and browning of the
May queen by the children of the pri-
mary department of the Sunday School.
Ihe Maypole dance and Japanese
dance and fan drill were scenes of
lovely plcturesqueness. The children
taking part in the MaypoIe dance were
dressed as May Fairies. After the
winding Of the pole with gayly colored
streamers, they chose their queen, lit
tie Jean Yonge, daughter,of Mrs. Henry
Yonge. The queen was escorted to her
throne in chariot, by two of her
fairies, Mary Hayward and Mary Jane
Hutchinson, "A Merry Little Queen,
being sung by another little fairy, Eve
lyn Mobiles, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
l.. E. Mobiles, as the queen mounted
her throne.
Taking part in the Maypole dance
were: Evelyn Mobiles, Jean Yonge
Rorothy Born, Nellie Dunn, Mabel
Hannah, Eleanor Barkdull, Mary Jane
Hutchinson, Susanna Brown; Eliza
beth Jones, Polly Knowles, Betty Ross
zelius, Doris Quirk, Gertrude Smyt1s
Mary Katherine White, Muriel Mabry,
Elizabeth Briggs, Lorraine Everitt,
Margaret Louise Hoyt. Irene Emory,
Mary Radcliffe, May Claire Whidden,
Catherine Yonge, Leila Hyer, Eliza
beth Mount, Dorothy Swanson, Julia
Ceille Lamar, Hyer, Mary Morrison
ellis.
The Japanese dance was a charm
ing and colorful picture with more than
twenty children taking part dressed in
native Japanese COSTUME with Japan
csc fans and parasols. Just before the
dance, Barbara McAllister, little daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. MeAllister.
dressed in the Japanese costume sang
la Japanese song, "Chong" with the
children joining in the chorus. Little
Japanese dancers were: Eleanor Buck,
Bessie Johnson, John Hancock, Edith
Maura, Gretchen Hutchinson, lila Rad
cliffe, Dorothy Sweet, Evelyn Wrighton,
Katherine Willis, Edna Springfield,
Barbara McAllister, Ann Bullock, Lucy
Davis Yonge, Mary Morgan Holsberry,
Virginia Stansberry, Elizabeth Address,
Adine Zelius. Veda Mullen, Dottie
Everitt, Katherine Riera, Adeline Rob-
inson. From a gayly decorated jap
anese booth covered with a large jap
ianese parasol and large chrysanthe-
NUNS of all colors blooming every
where, delicious fruit punch was
Iserved.
Mrs. John v. Price was chairman OF
the committees in charge of the Jap
lanese and Maypole dance, her assist
ants being, for the Japanese dance,
Mrs. P. Amos Buck, Miss Margaret
Anderson, Miss Marjorie Yonge, Miss
Elizabeth Moreno, Miss Evelyn Thorn
ton, Miss Anne Pooley, Mrs. Stephen
Lee and for the Maypole, Miss Leila
Abercrombie, Miss Lille Mae Gibson,
Miss Ann Orr, Miss Elizabeth Moreno,
Mrs. Wallace Lamar. Mrs. Elmer White.
At a Gypsy tent, set among dense
foliage, with Gypsy children playing
around the heap of glowing Goals un-
der the big Gypsy kettle, one could
have their fortune told and also nave
the pleasure of seeing a rea! Gypsy
| Princess.
Mrs. w. K. Hyer was in charge OF
the tent, the Gypsy chIldrsn being
members of her Sunday School class,
Elizabeth Maura, Amante Semmes'
Emily Semmes, Rachael Carblne,
| charlotte Sweet, Emily Pourtless, Har-
riett Holt. The fortune-telling Gypsies
were Miss Maude Kendall, Miss Gladys
Densmore, Miss Alice Morrier and the
| lovely little princess was Mary Hyer.
Musical numbers by the wandering
Iminstrels, songs by Mrs. Charles B.
Hervey, Mrs. Henry Brown, Miss Vera
Keller and Mrs. Won Paulsen, coun-
trv store in charge of Mrs. D. F. Lowe,
the corps of clerks members OF her
Sunday School class: Misses LYDIA
Mary Bruce, Dorothy Yonge, Martha
n1arritt GLADYS Turner, Thelma Han
sen Frances Richards, Margaret Ba-
ter Isabelle Hancock, Evelyn Wrighton,
Miria m Graham, Rosa Davis, and a solo
dance by Miss Margaret Louise Yonge
occupied the time until 8 O'Clock when
Miss Fannie Kehoe's dancing class
n,ade its appearance, starting with
R ts.st Minuet in "G". Susie Eve
,vn saltmarsh, Evelyn Lee, Anne Eliza
bet Willis and Virginia a Sheppard ars1ei,
p,,++arflies. '-Thelma Hansen.
Snan;sh Dance Mi mi e Evelyn