Maiden Manoeuvres at All Saints' Church.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 620, 15 November 1890, Page 9

Maiden Manoeuvres at All Saints' Church.

Church bazaars are going 1 ont of fashion, beoause the lotteries are condemned by worldly people as wicked and demoralising, and therefore the latest device is to have a sale of work, with various amusements to draw the money. The saint 3 among the Ponsonby Anglicans cannot have<the slightest objection to the three days' carnival now going on at All Saints' schoolroom, which is thus set forth in a circular.: — Sale of work and entertainments, tableaux, and dramatised songs. A large variety of useful and ornamental articles, priced with a view of nothing remaining on hand. Four misceiiaueous stalls, flowers, ferns, fruit and refreshments. No raffling, fortune-telling, lucky bags, &c ; nothing but honest sale and amußement. Extract from original circular : — ' Our church wants painting, wants it badly, too, But, being minus cash, we're minus paints ; And so, with all due deference to you, We think Ail Sinners should assist All Saints'. We hope to see you and other friends whom you c%n bring with you, and we do not hesitate to guarantee your perfect satisfaction and amusement. — Emma M. Hughes, Louie Oevore, Emily Henderson, Marion Kelly, managing maidens. r One of the maidens is ' managing ' very well, for though she does not paint, her father does, and what is more, is certain to get the job of painting the church, though the task of whitewashing the saints thereof is a trifle too big a contract even for the parson. Another of the manageresses is a sister of Mercy, and there jwill be a lot of Hughesful articles on her stall. Yet another si all will have something like ' unlimited Loo ' presiding over it, while a well-known jang, in alliance with the Boss of All Saints, will do their best to make the public ' stand and deliver !' This sacrilegious gang have, it is said, got the old pulpit of the church sawn into little bits and manufastured into paper knives and other small goods. As the young ladies in charge are advertising their own charms while they are thus serving the good cause, it seems to me that the show might more properly have been styled ' Matrons' Manoeuvres.'

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