mm r mm , , ssnnnnnnnnsnnnnnnnwn i r 111 iifni VOL. XIII, No. 20. SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1910. FIVE CENTS MOTHER GOOSE CHARADES Hursery Rhyme Pantomines Given by Children at Hawthorne Cottage. little Mis Julia Cutler Delightfully Entertain Her Youthful friend and Their Parent. HE season has been a banner one for the chil dren and as a natural consequence, owing; to the large number assem bled here, no year has provided more for their entertainment. The closing affair, and one of the pret tiest of the season, was Friday after noon's "Mother Goose" charades given by little Miss Julia Cutler, daughter of Mr. II. II. Cutler of Milwaukee, at the Hawthorne Cottage. The porch of the cottage was the stage, the lawn the au ditorium, the participants the children, and the guests their parents; the pro gram so delightfully carried out that onlookers once again lived the joys which even the name of the nursery favorite awakens in youthful hearts. The program opened with a life like presentation of "The House that Jack Built," with Julia Cutler as "The Maid en All Forlorn" and Henry Cummings as "The Man All Tattered and Torn." Even the animals (toys) of the story were there, and played their parts per fectly, guided by .Betty Fownes ;Charles Horton, in priestly robes, performing the marriage ceremony, just before the chanticleer's warning. Next came the familiar story of the old woman who having found a shilling, goes forth and buys a pig, which re fuses to be taken home. Esther Tufts was the "Old Woman" and Leverett Cummings the "Butcher," who killed the cow, and so started the various other animals, who had been vainly ap pealed to to assist the pig over the bridge. "Jack Spratt and his wife" were im personated by Eleanor Abbe and Hen ry Cummings, who created much merriment by very realistically "stuffing" themselves in the act of "licking the platter clean." "The Queen of Hearts" had the pret tiest costume of the afternoon, and as that character Frances Hammond baked some real tarts, which were promptly stolen by "The Knave of Hearts," (Gardner Hammond) from whom, how ever, they were rescued in time to be served with refreshments for the children. "Little lied Riding Hood" (Mary Hammond) was quite as charming as eer; with the wolf (an enormous Teddy Bear) in nightgown and cap, waiting in bed to devour her, killed by the hunter (Leverett Cummings) just in the nick Of time. - ' "Simple Simon and the Pieman," "Tom, Tom the Piper's Son," "Pussy's in the Well," "Jack and Jill," "Georgie Porgie" and "Little Miss Moffett," were included in other numbers in which Louise Fownes, Esther Hammond, Mary Hammond, Elizabeth Hammond, Cath erine Leach, Hannah and Lola King, Masters James Tufts, Albert Tufts and Donald Mackay took part. "I'm sure you overran the green," said one. "Nothing of the kind," said the other. "I pulled it a little. We'll find it here at the left." But they failed to find it, and finally appealed to the quiet watchers on the bench. "Did you see a ball?" they asked. "Yes," said Mr. Lard calmly; "it rolled into that little hole." Amazed, the men stared. "Well, why on earth did'nt you tell us?" they cried. "Why," said Mr. Lard, in a surprised tone, "I thought that was where you meant it to go." id t.- ' WMfSJ km K i ON THE WAY TO COLUMBIA : A picturesque bit of Capital Highway Association good road in Richmond County, just North of Rockingham, N. C. mai: the iioiii; in one And Chevy Chaie Expert Saw Nothing- Unusnal(f) in the Incident. An amusing story is told at Pinehurst about Allan Lard, the crack Chevy Chase golfer, and twice "North and South" champion, says the Arlington (Mass.) Advocate. Mr. Lard and a companion were sit ting beside a putting green, which a high bunker hides from the tee. Over the bunker came a ball. It trickled gently over the green, and plop dis appeared in the hole. Then two golfers and their caddies crossed the bunker and began to look for the ball. IlUTf 8UMM.EO. I"JLANNEI1. Work of Preparation tor Season of 1910.11 Already Under Way. The coming summer will be a busy one, with work of preparation already well under way. Great care will be be stowed upon the golf courses, the addi tional nine holes to the present nine hole or third course, to be completed, and important extension and improve ment in all departments made necessary by continued growth. As the centre of activity from which interest in the Capital Highway Associa tion automobile route radiates, the Vil lage will also continue to claim National attention. MR. MC MILLAN IS PLEASED Regards Good Roads Accomplishment As Little Short of Marvelous. Alio Dlicovera that Iloute Is Through. Country Beautiful, Varied and intensely Interesting-. TFLEASED?" said Mr. Gil- l$S$Qa& bert McMillan of Gor- ham, N. H,, long an an nual visitor here, while discussing good roads accomplisment with The Outlook. "Pleased? I should say I was. To te absolutely frank, I'm astonished. "When I recall that only last winter most of the roads about here were cart paths and poor ones at that, leading no where and connecting with nothing, and that today you have roads, good roads, everywhere forming trunk lines, its lit tle short of marvelous. . j "I recall one little township near at hand, where I went and talked good roads until I was hoarse and ;af ter it yeas all over some enthusiast (?) in the tack of the room, suggested an appropriation of twenty-five dollars and found few supporters at that ! I dragged myself out forlorn, discouraged and came back to Pinehurst to report 'hopeless,' abso lutely hopeless. ,4Well, this same township has just voted $25,000.00 bonds. What do you think of that? Twenty-five thousand dollars where one year ago twenty-five dollars couldn't be found, and that's typical of the entire situation. Every body has their shoulders to the wheel, everybody is working and that's what means success. "First of all they've discovered that good roads are for their own personal benefit ; that the benefit the automobil ists will derive are only incidental. They've been hauling loads over them and they find that one mule can do the work of four in one-fourth of the time. They find land values going up in jumps, in some cases ten to one and last and best of all, they have awakened to the fact that unless they get a decided move on they are going to be left out for plen ty and for good. "Further, I have been over some six ty miles of the road south of here with Mr. Leonard Tufts, president of the Capital Highway Association, and I am astonished at the beauty of the land scape and its varied character. I have ( Concluded on Page 6)

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