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ORIOLE DAY.
There is a certain symmetry in the program
of arrangements for to-day's festivity and dis-
play which reminds one of some of those-great
and pompous occasions for which the Middle
Ages were famous. It smacks of court and
palace, of poursuivant and herald, of tapestry
and armor, tournament and minstrelsy. We
are holding a Field of the Cloth of Gold for
our French visitors, who are worthy to repre-
sent the land of that cavalier Francis I., who
sent messages from the fatal field of Pavia:
"Tout est perdu hors Chonneur." First the
public buildings, the centres of trade and
the harbor of our noble city are to be
shown our visitors, and then the overture
is to play and the athletic games are to be
held; the music is to be as good as the coun-
try affords, and in the muscular exhibitions
picked men from every section will contend in
games and exercises which have essentially a
national character. After that, when night
falls, the pageant and procession!
Of this we should be glad to refrain from
speaking in advance, since it is better for the
people to have a surprise. But there seems to
be a demand for information, as if, uninstructed,
somebody might miss some of the details of
the Aladdin's palace that will spring for a mo-
ment upon our sight to-night, "as down dark
tides the glory glides," and then vanish and
be gone. At least, however, there will be
more substance in the Oriole's stately flitting
than in that ghostly caravan of the Arab poet's
dream, with its spectral camels and hooded
skeletons driving by like the breath of the
simoon; and it is likely that the impression of
SO much form and color, so much grace and
beauty, will be as vivid and lasting as the
spectacle itself is transitory and brief. We
expect to see a panorama of lovely things, a
passing show of gracious groups and delicious
accessories, set like a cunning artist's most
elaborate work, upon the canvas and the back-
ground of the night.
There is everything to approve and com-
mend in the program of tableaux. They have
been studied out with thoughtful and intelli-
gent purpose, quite as much as they have been
elaborated with plastic propriety and artistic
conscientiousness. If the pictures turn out
CTS. TO $21.00 PER SET.
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