REPORTS. 



REPORT ON FANCY ARTICLES. 



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" Oft expectation fails and most oft there where most it 

 promises," has never been our experience at the Marshfield 

 Fair, and the nineteenth anniversary of the Society exceeded 

 our most sanguine hopes. 



Tlie exhibit of Fancy Articles was larger than ever before, 

 there being ninety-one exhibitors and one hundred and fifty- 

 one contributions. 



The tables were filled Avith work, showing much taste, 

 industry and talent. Year by year we, as a people, are 

 becoming to more thoroughly understand the theory of taste, 

 the science of the beautiful in nature and art ; and nowhere 

 is that fact more conspicuous than in an exhibition of this 

 sort. 



Miss Olive R. Sampson, of Duxbury, whose magnolia blos- 

 soms attracted attention last year, contributed two table 

 €Overs, — one of green felt, with orchids painted in one 

 corner. Lady Franklin geraniums in the opposite ; in a third 

 were tulips, while the ever beautiful golden rod embellished 

 the fourth; the second covering was of baltic blue, and was 

 decorated by a spray of crab apples, Jacminot and Marshall 

 Niel roses, and the Eose of Cassia, on which was perched a 

 dainty Virginia red bird ; these were copied from nature and 

 truthfullv delineated. 



