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FANCY ARTICLES. 



The Marshfield Agricultural Society may justly be proud of 

 the Exhibition, held September 13, 14 and 15, 1888. Every 

 department was filled to overflowing, and only the best was 

 brought. There were 156 fancy articles contributed, and, had 

 the weather been more favorable the opening day, doubtless 

 many more would have been sent. Early the efficient Hall 

 Committee were on hand draping and looping, adding a bright 

 bit here and giving a more sombre effect there, touching and 

 retouching until there was nothing more to be desired and all 

 was pronounced perfect. 



There was on tlie tables this year some of the finest work 

 ever presented, and the Committee realized the meagreness of 

 the funds as never before. There was much knitting, crochet- 

 ting, and darned work, upon which, remembering the caution of 

 the Committee on Report !, we will not expatiate. Suffice it to 

 say much of this was well done, was new in design, and made 

 up into original and beautiful forms. 



Those friends who have not yet gotten over the craze for the 

 ancient and antique, were gratified by the sight of a tidy, shown 

 by Mrs. Holmgren, of Marshfield, which was made one hundred 

 and twenty-five years ago. The slumber pillow, made by Mrs. 

 Jane Oakman, of North Marshfield, who is eight-five years of 

 age, was as nicely done as the work of our young girls. 



Miss Carrie Arnold displayed a great variety of painting on 

 a sofa pillow which attracted much attention and was universal- 

 ly admired. 



The specimen of drawn work in the shape of a linen bureau 

 scarf, by Miss Mabel Fowle, of Duxbury, was lovely, and must 



