Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — For Sweet Charity’s Sake. [ARTICLE]

For Sweet Charity’s Sake.

What will be undoubtedly the great entertainment of the season will take place at the opera house oh the evening of Dec. 21st. It is the same entertainment for which preparations and announcements were made, for Thanksgiving week, under the name of “Smoked Pearls.” The performers will be 30 or 40 of Rensselaer’s most talented ladies. As the name “Smoked Pearls” indicates, the performers will be decorated with burnt corks. The The performance though amusing will, it is needless to say, be refined. It will be under the direction of Miss Anna Ward Foster, of Detroit Mich. There is one feature in the affair that should entitle it to favorable consideration, aside from the fact that it will be in itself a very meritorious entertairiment, is that the proceeds will be devoted to purposes of charity among the ne<?dy people of our city. Thus everyone who patronizes the entertainment, can do so with the full assurance that they will get their full money’s worth and a good deal more, in the way of entertainment, and at the same time be helping this good cause of charity.