aight from Japan. At
intervals, when their patrons had all been served, they sidled up to the
center of the shop and performed a quaint Oriental dance for the
entertainment of their guests.

[Illustration: The Emerson Twins Looked Realistically Japanese.]

Violet Darby had been asked to preside at the Shamrock booth instead of
Arline, as had first been suggested, Arline having been elected to
portray the world-renowned Alice. As an Irish colleen, Violet, however,
proved a distinct success, and thrilled her hearers with "Kathleen
Mavourneen" and "The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls." Her voice
held that peculiarly sweet, plaintive quality so necessary to bring out
the beauty of the old Irish melodies, and Grace and Anne both agreed
that there was only one who could surpass her. There was only one Nora
O'Malley.

Farther on four pretty sophomores, dressed as Norman peasant girls, were
dispensing cakes and ices to a steadily increasing patronage. There was
a postcard and souvenir booth, around which a crowd seemed perpetually
stationed. The souvenirs consisted mainly of small black and white or
water color sketches contributed by the artistic element of Overton.

Occupying one entire end of the room was the circus ring, and on this
public attention was centered. A gayly decorated poster at the door bore
the pleasing information that there would be four performances, at
two-thirty, four-thirty, eight-thirty, and nine-thirty, respectively, in
which would appear the "Celebrated Alice in Wonderland Animals."

The club had originally planned to keep the matter of the circus as a
surprise until the patrons of the bazaar should enter the gymnasium, but
in some mysterious manner the secret had leaked out. Even the identity
of certain animals was known, and when this unpleasant news had reached
the ears of the "animals" themselves a meeting was called, which almost
put an end to the circus then and there. After due consideration the
performers agreed to go on with the spectacle, but many and indignant
were the theories advanced as to the manner in which the news had
traveled abroad. That the information had gone forth through a member of
the club or any one taking part in the circus no one of them believed.
Complete ostracism threatened the offender or offenders provided she or
they, as the case might be, were discovered. Later the members of the
club were forced to admit that, although the principle of the act was
reprehe