uch as a girls' camp or school,
this play can be given with gymnasium suits forming part of the
costumes for both Merrymount lads and Puritans. The girls can wear the
bloomers of their gymnasium suits fastened with a ribbon-garter, so as
to make the puffed seventeenth century garb. The ribbon should be gay
in color and fastened either with a rosette or a bow. White, soft loose
waists, with rather full long sleeves. The cloaks of cambric in bright
colors should come to the ankles, the glazed side worn outward, to give
a satiny look. The cloaks for the Puritans should be of the same
length, made of black cambric, with the glazed side turned in. They
should wear black cotton waists, and it will be easy and simple for the
girls to fashion the white cuffs and collars out of white lawn or
cheesecloth. The whole play can thus be costumed for a very small sum.
If a further touch of color is to be added to the costumes of the
Merrymount lads, their gay cloaks may be topped with white lace
collars. Their stockings can be gay in color, and here and there a
slashed jerkin will add variety. The maidens of Merrymount can wear
dresses of cambric, made on the simplest possible lines. The color
scheme of the foregoing costumes should, in the main, be adhered to.
The ribbon-garters and stockings may match in color. Pale-blue, orange,
purple, jade, corn-yellow, and hunter's green will prove effective. No
pink or old rose should be worn, as scarlet is the high note of color
in the play.

MUSIC: Any quaint old-time maypole dance will do for the maypole rout.
The words and music of "Fortune, My Foe" can be found in Chappell's
"Popular Musk of Antiquity," Vol. I, page 62.

PAGEANT DIRECTIONS

The Hawthorne Pageant can be produced either indoors or out of doors.
For the outdoor production there should be a level sward with trees
right, left, and background. It is suitable for any of the Spring,
Summer, or Autumn months, or for Hawthorne's birthday, July 4.

For an indoor production of the pageant if a green woodland set cannot
be had, green screens with pine branches fastened to them, a green or
brown floor-cloth, and forest-green hanging filling in the background
may be used. Pine trees in green stands around which green and brown
burlap is banked is another way of having an inexpensive and realistic
scene setting. _The setting for the whole pageant is the same_. It can
be given in an assembly hall, gymnasium, or armory.

The costumes