"A Galaxy of Pleasures."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 August 1911, Page 3

"A Galaxy of Pleasures."

(Contributed.)

It In-, been said that there is one niiestioii which, if you were to ask it of a variety of people up and down any public resort, would be bound to meet invariably with the same answer. That question is: 'Have you seen Smith?" and the ai.swvr: "What Smith?" But it may lie very confidently affirmed that there are. few residents in Levin who, if asked. '''Have you hea;rd of the Spring Fair?" would, need to reply, "What Fair?" For weeks past, through the columns of the daily paper, by moans of school children, post office missives, and minted .schedules, most of all through public conversation in shops and offices, on street corners «nd in the homes, the public eye and ear hare been repeatedly assailed, and nublic interest successfully challenged by intimations of the Spring F-ir which the local Presbyterian Church is holding next week' En-tr-i prise and originality are always to be commended, especially when " ovision is made, as in this case, f> , . devotees of self-improvement as w 11 as for lovers of pleasure. BULB SHOW. The primary intention from which t'.ns monster Fair has developed was to hold a .Spring Bulb Show as the main attraction, with a few accessories such as stalls for the sale of work. But when it was found that the Horticultural Society aro this year running a Spring Show, it was determined, while securing all the blooms ready for exhibition or competition at this early stage, lo adopt other features as the principal items of the Fair. The committee in c\vgo express confidence that their efforts to secure a show of spring flowers are breaking ground for and awakening interest in. the new venture of the Horticultural Society in September. COMPETITIONS. Everyone who knows anything i;f what the large competition societies arc doing m the bigger centres of Zealand will hail with acclamation the institution of public competitions in Levin. It ia sometimes said that we are singularly lacking ns a town at present in musical and clocutionan talent. Certainly there must he a great fund of ability of this kind lying dormant somewhere in our midst. And nothing is hotter ealciil.ited to stimulate and bring to private and' general consciousness suc'i sleep'ifi - talent ns these public competitions. Smaller towns can do in this respect what 'larger cities cannot : 7 i for them, inasmuch as b •ddirif ability in these remoter centrs will i:ot, in.lced cannot, in many cirs, travel far to compete lauuuig strangers, but mav be inducod to romrrnt'ee at home. In some cases " stars" of the finest magnitude, in many cases popular fingers and elocutionists, have been p uearth e<l hy means of these contests in Australia and Now Zealand. There is every promise of t l ii.s < exneriment being nbundiantlv i■i-'-tifiwl in Levin next week, for the fi v st fifty •entries have been receivc"! and at the present brisk rate, the ''•mdred mark will soon be attained. The Presbyterian authorities 'are detormjned to follow up this first essay in subserinont years on more rientifir> and elaborate, lines, if a I'easonnhle measiir" of success at'entlf; this effort.

BABY SHO-W. It is sometimes said, we will not attempt to decide with what measure of truth, that public interest in those sweet caskets of possibilities, is declining. At all events anything that draws attention to tlie nnrffunlled charms of a cradled , child. !Mrd indlices a greater pride and attention toward them, is' worthy of support. A baby show will be one of the attractions of the Faiir, and while prizes will l>e awarded accordii\7 to the a capricious public whose- taste is often ouixotic. often .an absent quantity in tliis splipre •ovorv mother will know in her own that lipj- (Li possesses tho cin'efest cirarms of all. SPRING FAIR A sm-a.ll ba.nd of carefully selected and well-trained artists 'will dispense music, song and story, mi,n:sled with gymnastic dexterity as a side show during; the Fair. Thr. items will all be novelties, and chiefly in cbaracter. .»ORK STAIiLS AND TEA ROOMS Nor must the stalls for the sale of articles both useful and ornainent.nl, sweets and dainties for the inner man with lesser -side-shows awl competitions,, all- in; the ■ hands - of jrctoisd-and .'competent -and _~Anf]oinniV> hnthljmiMM^lMbMMhTiMtT

sents an uniquo progranniK; an<l a pm'foefc galaxy of wholesome delights that no one «"ho cares tor 'Miality. variety and education in their pleasures sliouUl miss.