SYDENHAM GIRL GUIDES.
On Saturday afternoon # children's fancy-dress party was held in St. Saviour's Schoolroom, in aid of the Sydenham Girl Guides, and the president (Mrs E. W. Anderson), captain (Mrs Odering), and secretary (Mrs Clayton), with their hard-working committee, are to bo congratulated on the success of the gathering. Mr Hobbs was convenor, and marshalled his large company of little people most successfully, A short but enjoyable concert, programme followed the grand march, and after delicious tea and cakes had been handod round, the children danced and played merrily. The prizes, which were presented K v tho Mayoress (iMrs J, K. Archer) went to the followingßest fancydress (girl or boy): Jean Hatherley (Early Victorian posy); best fancy dress (girls): Myrtle Smith (Eastern girl), Jean Calder (Pierrette), Syl« via Maino (Autumn); boys:—AUred Woolcock (Paddy Boy), Russell Bucknell (Little Lord Fauntloroy), Harry Bliss (Chinese market gardener); most original dresses (girls): Jean Pease (My Cottage Window), Betty Sturrock (Watering Can), Shirley Adams (Canary); boys: Eonny Sturrock (Big Ben), Jimmy Calder (Plum Pudding), Pillar Box (0. Nieolle); youngest girl in fancy dress: Audrey Langham, 1 s year 10 months (greenleaf" diet); youngest boy in fancy dress: Cleveland McGill, 1 year 7 months (greenleafer); prize for cheapest dresses: Lurline Cowper (paper bag), Peggy Gee (motor-car advertisements), John Slade (Chinese boy), Lisle Lester (Uncle Tom); special prizes: Ngaire Whitley and Georgina McFall (Darby and Joan), Doris Donnelly and Grace Nixon (Early Victorians), Eileen O'Connor (Eve), Norma Stone (Valentine), Joyco Wicks (Hawaiian girl), Phyllis Watson (Evening Star), Thelma Stacey (monkey), Edna Kennedy (fairy), Gladys Kerr (yellow and black butterfly), Hugh Tipler (Mexican boy); special prize for selling most tickets: Nellie Merran 1, Ethel Harris
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18675, 26 April 1926, Page 5
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