[LONGFELLOW’S BIRTHDAY.]
CELEBRATIONS BY THE LOCAL CIRCLES.
We have received many reports of the interesting celebrations held in honor of Longfellow, on February 27—his birthday. These memorial services are an excellent feature of the social work of the C. L. S. C., and circles would do well to make an effort to observe them.
A public memorial service was held in Franklin, Mass., and the Sentinel, of that place, expresses hearty commendation of its character.
A very neat, printed program has been sent us from Spencer, Mass. The exercises, held at the home of one of the members, consisted of essays, recitations, and music, and were followed by supper.
The “Longfellow” afternoon at Westfield, N. Y., must have been very pleasant. The society spent the time reading “Evangeline,” and talking of incidents in the life of the author, completing the entertainment with a supper.
The Lockport, N. Y., Daily Journal congratulates the C. L. S. C. of that town upon the success which attended their celebration, and expresses the wish that the society will have many more such gatherings.
At Hiawatha, Kansas, the circle carried out an excellent program of music, essays, and recitations.
At Media, Pa., an entertainment was given in honor of the poet. A pretty feature was the response by a sentiment from each of the guests, quotations having been written on cards and presented with their invitations, so that all might join in the exercises. A novel exercise was the reading of character sketches, the audience being permitted to guess who it was that was portrayed therein. The literary feast was followed by refreshments.
The C. L. S. C. of Westminster, Minn., held a celebration with appropriate exercises.