Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Short Stories About Clever People Whom You Ought to Know
Two years ago, believing that Chicago was ready for the same experiment, this exchange was established. From the first it has been a suc cess, and now at the beginning of its third year, it comes before the public with a definite announcement of its purpose and ability. That such an agency is a necessary adjunct to social life in this city, there is no room for doubt, and that this Exchange can supply this need we beg the public to believe. Is some one required to direct the children's party which you are con templating? This bureau can send a charming young girl to plan the games, to make the bran pie, to arrange the menu, to receive the little guests, to sing and play and tell stories and take all the care upon her experienced shoulders. Does your church propose a Xmas entertainment for the Sunday school, or desire to give some concerts and lectures at intervals through the winter? We can furnish the first and plan theothers with the certainty of success that comes only through long experience. Lodge enter tainments, lawn-fetes, every kind of feast or festival can be arranged and carried to a suc cessinl conclusion by this exchange, whose busi ness it is to put people into the places where their work will bring the right results. We have a shadowgraph man, a ventriloquist, a Punch and Judy, and a magician. We have musicians who can play at weddings, at card parties and at receptions. We have splendid singers, who can shine in classical concerts in the great halls, and others who sing coon-songs to entertain at dinners, smokers and on vaudeville programs. Every artist whose name appears in this little book is of sterling merit in his or her especial line, and the management believes that their value will be recognized, that the Chicago public will be quick to respond to this sincere and earnest effort to establish a reliable and permanent bureau, which directly appeals to the large class who are able and willing to pay for satisfactory talent, to be employed as described.
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