Old Blue Ware Exhibit

The Fruit and Flower Mission, wliicli has since its organization been active in good works for the Uniyersity hospital sufferers, is preparing for a loan exhibit that will add another to its already long list of good deeds. The exhibit is to be one of old blue ware, for which there is at present a great craze. The exhibition will be held at the dence of Mrs. J. B. Angelí, on the afternoon and evening of Friday, April 5. There will be twelve hundred invitutions issued to the faculties, townspeople and students. The Mission is desirous of raaking the exhibit an elegant society affair in ever}' particular. To this end handsome invitations in blue and gray will be sent out. The house will be finely decorated, refreshments will be provided and an orchestra will furnish niusic both afternoon and evening. An admission fee 11 be charged. The exhibition will be not only novel but interesting. It will consist of very line pieces frotn this city and many frora other places, including Detroit and Chi-cago. Some of the pieces that will be exhibited have a history extendingbaek to early Chinese and English tiniss. None will be less than forty years old, except the modern blue delft ware, wbicli is very fine, and for which there is now such a fad. The exhibit will be catalogued. It is not necessary to recount tlie good done by the Fruit and Flower Mission, to get the people of Anu Arbor interested in this enterprise. In providing flowers and fruit for the hospital p;itients the mission has accömplished more than it is possible to express in words. Supt. Clark in bis annual hospital report, takes occasion to cali special attention to the good done. The immediate object of the ware exhibit is to start a fund for helping poor girls to get into the hospital, who could otberwise not be treated. With such a noble aim, the Mission cannot but be uccessful in tlieir present undertaking.