Phoenix tribune., 1922-08-12

crowd attended the same and all re
ported a wonderful time. Mrs. Page
a few weeks ago underwent a seriou.
operation, but is getting along fine
from the same.
| Tuesday, August 1st, promptly at {
O'Clock, Little Nettie May Lewis Hines
the little girl with four names cele
brated her fifth birthday to the de-
light of her many little friends. The
home was dainty decorated in Chin.
ese fashion with bright red, canary
yellow, Chinese blue and black. All
lights in the house were softtened
with a beautiful glare from Chinese
lanterns. The living room, dining
room and library were converted into
one large living room. In the win
dows of all of the rooms hung the
majestic scrolls with huge inscrip-
tions of Chinese characters In the
northwest corner of enc end of this
huge room hung large Chinese par
asol of blue and in the southwest cor
ner of the room hung huge parasol
of red. Streamers of red, yellow green
and Chinese blue hung from the cell
ing, touching the guests heads. The
bright glare from the majestic scrolls
of bright red made a beautiful reflec-
tion against the odd Chinese colors
from the different lights. At $3.50 p.
m. all of baby Nettie Mays guests had
gathered Mrs. Paul Corner had
charge of the music and helped to
entertain the little felix's. Singing,
marching and simple games were in
troduced, much to the merriment of
all present At $50 Mrs. Corner play
ed beautiful march and all gathered
around the table in dining room The
corated dining room formed artistic
ally against the yellow scroll in the
windows in dining room. Promptly
at all guests of little Nettie May de-
parted. All were dressed in Chinese
fashion which is the direct idea of the
Chinese. An hours intermission
passed and the guests of over 40 per-
sons began pouring in in all makes of
swell cars, dressed strictly in Chinese
fashion beautiful to behold. The ex-
act duplicate of the Chinese, many of
the suits worn were very beautiful
and very expensive silk and all quality
of goods. 1t was a real scream to see
ladies robed in Chinese pants and
jackets and men with cues hanging to
the waist line. Mr.. Station had one
of the Chinese cues of modern times
and a jacket of by gone days. The af-
fair kept the house in solid roar the
night through. Mrs. R. M. Garret was
one of the fair Hongkong ladies ,that
made the house scream at her appear
ance Mrs. Mary Scott entering be-
fore many of the guests gathered gave
the Chinese dance which would have
made dog laugh to look on. The
talk of the evening was strictly Chin
ese and the guests used the Chinese
walk. Mrs. Conner presided at the
piano and gave the audience the best
that was in her Many beautiful So
los, duets, talks and jokes were had
with many different features. An ex
temporanous program was rendered
and the Star Spangled Banner brought
all guests to their feet Little Nettie
May as goddess of China held the
American flag high while all joined in
two verses of the song. Rev. Taylor
gave a brilliant talk which brought
constant encores. He spoke beauti-
fully, stating that in all of his tralvels
he never had seen such a beautiful
number of our folks dressed as Chi
nese, and said it was the swellest he
had attended. Rev. Taylor is a
Grand Army soldier and has had
much travel. Rev. Draper spoke beau
tifully on race development and was
disturbed by constant applause. Mr..
Jacob Tull spoke beautifully on CO.
operation Bro. W. D. Alexander acted
as master of ceremonies; Mr.. Todd,
president of the U.N.I.A. spoke beau
tifully on unifying the Negro and sang
solo in connection; Mrs Burkhart,
Alexander, Hall Tull, Conner and
many others sang. Mrs. Station play
ed several saxaphone selections, ac-
companied by Mrs. Conner. Mrs.
White gave a reading Chicken chop
suey with rice and chop sticks was
the first course; Pinapple, peach
sherbert and ice cream and cake were
served last. The Chinese Joss Sticks
were burning in each ROOM A plenty
of refreshments were served. All en-
joyed the feast and at the 18th hour
the guests departed, wishing Nettie
and mother many birthdays Many
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