"GOOD, BETTER, BEST"

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 148, 26 June 1925, Page 10

"GOOD, BETTER, BEST"

SPLENDID EFFOBT FOR THE

CHILDREN.

"We are doing very well, but not so well: that we can't do better," said Canon Pielden Taylor - at the Egyptian Market last evening. Indeed, the motto of those: connected with the fair seems to be the old schoolroom one of "Good, better, best. Never Jet it rest lill the good is better, and the better . best."-. -„. ; : : : ■■ . . ■ . ; If the crowd at the Town.Hall last night.is any criterion of the "good," it' would be difficult to imagine the "best." lor hardly another person could have been squeezed into the hall. There was not a vacant seat in the gallery the people in the aisles to view the scene below. ■ Everyone seemed intent" on enjoying themselves, and happy also that; they: were helping the children who so badly need it. A splendid programme was staged, "the music bein" supphed by.the Central Mission Band and' Miss Turner's orchestra Two !riri, ta^ le Q f x, r wel'? presented,-, and the girls of St. Mary's Homes sang with good effect. Mrs. Ginn had k^dly arranged some musical items,' a ,,d these (Banjo Song). "B.eshazzar's Feastwas .watched .with /g reat, interest; the o £de .Shows and competitions, and ioZ palmists were kept busy reading cliaiacters for ; their many,clientf g T a evening saw. easily the largest crowd thathas vet visited the fair? CoWl J SPpssa lors mghtly talk, and the graTd I naradh